Kapanlagi.com - Rapper Mac Miller ditemukan tewas dengan dugaan over dosis pada Jumat (7/9). Mantan Ariana Grande  ini ditemukan di rumahnya di kawasan Studio City, Kalifornia. Kini sejumlah media AS sedang mengejar beritanya, dilansir dari Variety.
Pria 26 tahun bernama asli James McCormik ini memang tengah berjuang melawan kecanduannya. Bulan lalu ia baru saja dinyatakan bersalah atas kasus kecelakaan yang menimpanya pada bulan Mei . Kecelakaan tunggal ini terjadi karena Mac berkendara dalam pengaruh obat-obatan.
Secara jujur ia juga mengaku tentag kecanduannya. Mulai dari penyalahgunaan narkoba hingga 'kematian' karir bermusik. Semua ia rekam dan bagikan dalam Faces pada 2014 lalu.
Sejumlah seleb mengutarakan bela sungkawa lewat unggahan, salah satunnya Ed Sheeran. (instagram.com/teddysphoto)
"Dulu aku nge-rap secara terbuka tentang hal tergelap. Karena itu yang aku rasakan pada masa itu. Tak masalah, itulah hidup. Hidup memang penuh masalah," ungkap Mac pada Vulture kala itu.
Mac sendiri pernah menjalani hubungan asmara yang cukup lama dengan Ariana Grande. Namun keduanya putus pada bulan Mei 2018. Ariana memberi ucapan perpisahannya melalui sosial media dengan menuliskan, "Tolong jaga dirimu."
Tak lama berselang setelah kabar keduanya putus, Mac mengalami tabrakan itu. Ariana sendiri mengakui salah satu alasan keduanya putus karena masalah kecanduan Mac. "Aku bukan baby sitter atau ibu Mac. Dan aku rasa seorang wanita tak boleh merasa seperti itu. Aku sudah memberi perhatian dan dukungan untuk kesembuhannya. Tentunya aku akan terus berharap untuk kesembuhannya," ungkap Ariana melalui twitter setelah putus.
Mac Miller. (Rich Fury/Getty Images/AFP) Mac Miller. (Rich Fury/Getty Images/AFP)
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia --disebut amat sedih ketika mantannya,disebut meninggal dunia karena overdosis. Meski sudah tak lagi bersama dengan Miller, Grande disebut masih memiliki perhatian terhadap mantannya itu."Walaupun keduanya telah mengakhiri hubungan mereka, Ariana selalau memiliki perhatian mendalam dengan Mac dan menginginkan yang terbaik baginya," kata seorang sumber dekat Grande kepada ET."Ariana amat sedih dengan berita itu," lanjut sumber tersebut.Mac Miller dikabarkan meninggal dunia pada Jumat (7/9) waktu Amerika Serikat di usia 26 tahun akibat overdosis. Media TMZ melaporkan bahwa Miller ditemukan tak bernyawa akibat overdosis di rumahnya di Los Angeles dan majalah US Weekly telah mengonfirmasi kabar tersebut.Sumber kedua juga mengatakan kepada ET bahwa Ariana amat 'patah hati' dengan kabar mengejutkan tersebut. Sumber itu mengatakan, "Terlepas dari perpisahan mereka, Ariana selalu mendukung bebasnya ia dari kecanduan,"Grande dan Miller yang bernama asli Malcolm James McCormick diketahui mulai menjalin hubungan asmara pada Agustus 2016 dan selama masa berpacaran, keduanya sempat merilis sejumlah lagu duet seperti 'The Way' dan 'My Favorite Part'.Keduanya mengumumkan berpisah pada Mei lalu, namun Grande sempat mengunggah sebuah kesan akan Miller pada awal tahun ini."Ini merupakan salah satu teman terbaik saya di seluruh dunia dan orang favorit saya di planet ini, Malcolm MacCormick," kata pelantun 'Sweetener' tersebut, kala itu."Saya menghargai dan mengaguminya tanpa henti dan bersyukur memiliki dia dalam hidup saya dalam bentuk apa pun, setiap saat terlepas dari bagaimana hubungan kami berubah atau apa yang disiapkan semesta untuk kami," lanjutnya."Cinta tak bersyarat itu tidak egois," kata Ariana, dikutip dari ET . "Ini menginginkan yang terbaik dari orang tersebut bahkan bila saat ini, ini bukan kamu. Saya tak sabar mengetahui dan mendukungmu selamanya dan saya amat bangga atas dirimu,"Di sisi lain, ketika kabar Mac Miller meninggal muncul, sejumlah netizen menyerbu akun Instagram Ariana Grande dan menyalahkannya atas tragedi yang terjadi dengan Miller.Beberapa komentar netizen tersebut menuduh Grande adalah penyebab frustasi yang terjadi pada Miller dan mendorongnya untuk terus mengonsumsi obat-obatan terlarang.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Miller (pictured) was due to go on tour next month. His friend, rapper Pittsburgh Slim, was among those paying tribute
US rapper Mac Miller has been found dead at his California home, a Los Angeles coroner has confirmed.
Media reports say the 26-year-old, who was open about his substance abuse, died from an apparent overdose.
The rapper, whose real name was Malcolm James McCormick, rose to fame after topping US charts with his debut album in 2011.
He released his latest record, Swimming, earlier this year and was due to go on tour.
"The music artist known as Mac Miller died today in his Studio City home," the LA County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said in a statement.
"In the late morning of September 7, Malcolm McCormick was found unresponsive.... authorities were called and Miller was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:51 (18:51 GMT).
"At this time, an autopsy is pending and a cause of death has not been determined."
Miller went through a well-publicised break-up with singer and girlfriend Ariana Grande earlier this year.
The pair, who met in 2012, collaborated on a number of songs and performed together at the One Love Manchester concert in 2017.
Charges were filed against the rapper last month after he was arrested in May for driving under the influence and hit and run.
Grande spoke out publicly about ending their "toxic relationship" after fans blamed her for his arrest.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Grande suspended comments on her Instagram account on Friday shortly after Miller's death
"I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be," she said in a typed message posted on social media.
Grande said she had "tried to support his sobriety" for years, and was praying that he "figures it all out".
An early beginning
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miller began to focus on his music while still at school and released his first mixtape under the name EZ Mac at just 15.
Maturing in the public eye, he starred in a MTV reality series in 2013 which followed him and a group of friends after he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career.
He released a series of albums and EPs across the last decade, collaborating with high-profile artists like Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams.
In his final tweets posted on Thursday, the rapper promoted the North American tour he was set to embark on next month.
He was "a bright light in this world for his family, friends and fans." his family said, in a statement confirming his death.
Artists including Snoop Dog, Wiz Khalifa and Shawn Mendes paid tribute to Miller after news of his death broke on Friday.
In a moving tweet, Chance the Rapper said he was "completely broken" after hearing the news and described Miller as "one of the sweetest guys I ever knew".
Skip Twitter post by @chancetherapper I dont know what to say Mac Miller took me on my second tour ever. But beyond helping me launch my career he was one of the sweetest guys I ever knew. Great man. I loved him for real. Im completely broken. God bless him. — Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) September 7, 2018 Report
Skip Twitter post by @charlieputh I can’t keep losing friends like this...I wish I spent more time with you these past weeks...I’m so sorry... rip MAC...you wrote the soundtrack to my college years and I’m so happy I got to know you...this sucks this really really sucks. — CHARLIE PUTH (@charlieputh) September 7, 2018 Report
Skip Twitter post by @SnoopDogg So sad u gone home young Mac I had to post this to smile and think about the good Time we had on the set of this movie man god bless ya family. Pittsburg we lost a real one today 🌟 @macmiller 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/AZkqUlhm1V — Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) September 7, 2018 Report
'Mac Miller could do it all'
Analysis by BBC Music Reporter Mark Savage
A lot of rappers don't make beats. A lot of beat-makers can't rap. Mac Miller could do it all, lending an uncommon intimacy to his best songs.
He started piano lessons at the age of six, later picking up drums, bass and keyboards. By the age of 15, he'd released his first mixtape, But My Mackin' Ain't Easy, but it was his fourth release, 2010's KIDS - a playful, freewheeling collection of party tunes that won him a recording contract.
Over the years, he shed his frivolous, frat-boy reputation, making increasingly mature, introspective records that dealt with his personal demons; as well as 2016's The Divine Feminine, a naive but affecting (and occasionally too-graphic) concept album about what he called "the feminine energy of the planet," but which many took to be a tribute to his partner, Ariana Grande.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The rapper had more than eight million followers on Twitter
In music, and in his interviews, he was open about his addictions - which eventually prompted Grande to end their relationship, describing it as a "toxic relationship". But Miller refused to exploit their break-up on his latest album, Swimming. "Everybody wants a headline / I don't got nothin' to say," he rapped on Programs, released in May, just weeks after their split was confirmed.
Instead, the album documented his ongoing struggles with substance abuse. "Got my head underwater, but I ain't in the shower, and I ain't getting baptised," he confessed on Jet Fuel. The halting vocals and fractured, subdued production made it clear he was suffering but there was always a sense of optimism - a promise that those demons could be beaten.
Tragically, it appears he lost the battle.
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