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Ariana Grande tak mampu menyelesaikan lagu 'Thank U, Next' ketika sampai di bagian di mana dia harusnya menyebut nama mendiang Mac Miller. (dok. Ariana Grande via YouTube)
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Ariana Grande paid special tribute to her late ex Mac Miller during her concert in his hometown of Pittsburgh Wednesday night.
According to concertgoers, she played the rapper’s music over the speakers at PPG Paints Arena before she took the stage. She also reportedly had an empty seat reserved for him.
“At the Ariana Grande concert in pburgh and Mac’s album is playing throughout the stadium before the show
At the Ariana Grande concert in pburgh and Mac’s album is playing throughout the stadium before the show — Mal (@malloryvey) June 12, 2019
Another wrote, “Ariana really had a Mac Miller playlist for the music before the show and she had an empty seat reserved for him. she’s so strong.”
Ariana really had a Mac Miller playlist for the music before the show and she has an empty seat reserved for him 😩😭 she’s so strong 🥺 — Juan (@FJuanmanuel) June 13, 2019
It was an emotional show for Grande. During her opening performance of “Raindrops (An Angel Cried),” which is said to be about the end of her relationship with Mac, birth name Malcolm McCormick, she broke down and was unable to finish the song.
if @arianagrande crying during & not being able to finish raindrops at her #SWTPittsburgh show doesn’t break your heart i don’t know what will. we all miss you @macmiller 🥺💔💙 pic.twitter.com/fVr8piNsxI — ♔Alexa Rae (@lexadee22) June 13, 2019
She choked up again when she tried to sing the line "Wish I could say thank you to Malcolm/'cause he was an angel" in “thank u, next.” With the help of the crowd, she made it through the song.
Mac died last September at age 26 of an accidental overdose. The two had dated from 2016 to the spring of 2018.
In the United States this week, things have been pretty par for the course: the president continues to misuse punctuation, Taylor Swift continues to release songs directed at her haters, et cetera. But outside of our borders, we’re seeing both celebration and turmoil. Directly north of us, Canada is basking in a historic sports moment, as the Raptors celebrate their first ever NBA championship. In a nail-biter of a Game 6, Toronto earned their country’s first NBA title and dethroned the Steph Curry-led Golden State Warriors, who were going for a three-peat. Drake will allegedly release new music, presumably celebrating the win, at some point today, along with a second song whose subject matter remains to be seen—that hidden child, perhaps? Finally?
Meanwhile, across the globe, the people of Sudan are in the midst of a political uprising as they attempt to prevent a military-led government from replacing recently ousted president Omar al-Bashir, who in 2009 was indicted for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur. The death toll for the recent crackdown of the government on protesters and civilians is over 100, and hundreds of others have bejiden beaten, raped, and arrested. Additionally, internet access has been all but entirely cut off, leaving it up to us to share the Sudanese peoples’ stories. So as your Twitter feed clogs with Drake/Toronto/Raptors memes, don’t forget to check out explainers on the crisis Sudan and ways to help.
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These are the best new songs of the week.
JID, Bas, J. Cole, EarthGang, & Young Nudy, “Down Bad”
Dreamville has blessed us with two completely opposing energies to make for a confusing (or exciting?) weekend. “Got Me” combines the languid flows of Ari Lennox and Ty Dolla $ign, among others, for a horny anthem, while “Down Bad” is a rowdy, kick-in-the-door anthem ready-made for summer mischief. Dreamville’s finest (and a very special guest in Young Nudy) manage to pack a ridiculous amount of energy into less than three minutes, beginning with a tragically short verse from the aforementioned Nudy. From there, it’s a Dreamville extravaganza, with everything from of-the-minute references to Fader’s summer music series to the NBA Finals (that one is slightly less impactful after last night’s events) and Bas doing his best Ariana-Grande-on-”Thank U, Next” impression with a quick “yee!” EarthGang’s Johnny Venus closes things out with a rapid-fire verse, rounding out a fantastic sort-of-posse-cut.
The Free Nationals, Mac Miller, & Kali Uchis, “Time”
Trust me: When Kali Uchis said, “I just wanna be your girl and not your mom/Is that so wrong?” women around the world felt it in their bones. On the real though, this collaboration between Kali, The Free Nationals, and the late, great Mac Miller is a dreamy but honest look at the perils of time, and the ways it can affect a relationship. The Free Nationals’ smooth production makes the somewhat somber subject matter sunnier, as does hearing Mac’s voice again.
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Anna of the North, “Thank Me Later”
Anna of the North’s “Thank Me Later” is lyrically reminiscent of a Rex Orange County-type ditty: tongue-in-cheek, confident but still a little dizzy with infatuation. The Norwegian’s vocals are full electropop enchantment—the sonic equivalent of laying on a blanket in the park. Synthy and bass-heavy, the heady track just might ruin your plans of a hot girl (or hot boy) summer, and instead have you locking things down with your springtime crush. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
GoldLink, “More”
The best parts of GoldLink’s Diaspora are the Caribbean-sounding jams you want to hear on a boat this summer, and “More” is no exception. The lyrics tell a story that sounds just about as messy as any summer romance, with talk of sidebar flirtations and mentions of his mom. It’s yearning but not yet mournful, with the bubbly P2J production helping to underscore those last few bits of hope. Time to find a friend with a boat.
(CNN) It's a bittersweet moment for the friends, family and fans of the late rapper Mac Miller.
Nine months after his death, R&B group Free Nationals released the single "Time" featuring Miller.
He dated Ariana Grande for two years before the couple split in 2018.
As a teenager, Miller started his career in music by putting out mixtapes in his native Pittsburgh.
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Mac Miller’s first posthumous song will be released this Wednesday, June 12. Miller will appear alongside Kali Uchis on a new single by Anderson .Paak’s live band Free Nationals titled “Time.” .Paak, a frequent Miller collaborator, announced the news today on Twitter.
It’s a fitting choice by Miller’s family and team. Free Nationals served as the backing band for the late rapper’s tribute concert in October, playing behind such friends and collaborators as Vince Staples, Thundercat, Chance the Rapper, Schoolboy Q, and others. .Paak himself charted for the first time as a guest on Miller’s 2016 single “Dang,” the story behind which the singer tearfully recounted during his own set at Mac’s tribute show. This blogger may or may not have shed a few tears watching that moment at home.
Miller died of a drug overdose last September, one month after the release of his final album Swimming. He was 26. Elton John, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Fiona Apple were among the many artists to dedicate performances to the rapper and producer in the days following his death.
The first official Mac Miller release since his untimely passing in 2018 is set to arrive on Wednesday (June 12), Anderson .Paak announced this week.
In a post shared to Twitter on Monday (June 10), Anderson revealed the artwork for a single named "Time," with Mac and Anderson's band, The Free Nationals, on it as well as singer Kali Uchis. "6/12 be ready," Anderson wrote with a heart.
Anderson and Mac were close before Mac's passing and they even collaborated on tracks like The Divine Feminine cut, " Dang! " Upon Mac's passing, Anderson eulogized the rapper during the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards and later performed at a benefit concert for Mac at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles that October.
Though this will be the first official release from Mac since his passing, there have been a few songs featuring the late rapper that have appeared online since then. Mac contributed a verse and hook on Seth Hirsch’s song “Say Goodbye,” which Seth released earlier this year before the song was promptly taken down because Miller's appearance wasn't authorized. Meanwhile, Madlib played an unreleased track from Miller that the pair had worked on before his passing. Thelonious Martin actually claimed that Mac had recorded a full album's worth of material with Madlib, so there is a large possibility that even more music will be coming from that.
You can view Anderson .Paak's original post below.
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“Hello, my name’s Mac Miller. That’s my introduction.” —Mac Miller
Mac Miller may not have realized it, but his cheeky intro to a forgotten, three-minute interview about his seminal Watching Movies with the Sound Off, carries with it the ethos of the album. Where Macadelic was the start of Mac’s second creative renaissance, bringing with it more matured and experimental content, Watching Movies was Mac at the height of the creative process.
If hip-hop thought Blue Slide Park was their reasoning for ignoring Mac Miller, Watching Movies was their reason to pay attention once again. At the time of its release in 2013, the album was his best body of work to date, with lurid soundscapes that mimic Mac’s own demons slipping out, taking hold, and being beaten back by ballads and beautiful piano motifs. And, of course, a pack of motherfucking raps.
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Last year, I wrote about Mac Miller’s pursuit of forms on Watching Movies. Rather than rehash my thoughts on the record, I thought we could have a little fun and traipse through Malcolm’s old interviews on the matter, piecing together a retrospective on the album in Mac’s own words from a collection of under-appreciated interviews given around the release of the album.
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If Most Dope is forever, then we can consider this building legacy in real-time. So without further ado, let’s dive in.
The year is 2013, and Mac Miller’s sophomore album has big shoes to fill. Two years prior, in 2011, Blue Slide Park went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“The first album went number one, and I thought for a while that that’s what I have to aim for the second one, but I realized that it doesn’t matter. Each album is its own story,” Mac says.
Watching Movies is not about breaking records or following trends, it's about the pursuit of self and making music from the heart.
“I had a clear idea of just what I needed to do next, which was, just make music, you know?” Mac explains. “And bring it back to that, just for me, you know? Not necessarily for success, but for my own peace of mind.”
For Mac, peace of mind looks like 17 tracks of deranged production and bare lyricism. The music is as of-the-soul as it's ever sounded. Whereas his earlier works were fun and reaching, Watching Movies has a shape and a purpose.
“You don’t make it about good songs and bad songs, you know?” he says. “What you do is, you give every song a purpose. You’re putting a thought, a complete thought out there and every separate song should have its own purpose in the grand scheme of things.”
That pursuit of purpose lends itself to the most focused Mac Miller album to date. The most “him” album in Mac’s catalog.
“It’s the most me,” Mac details. “It’s the most true to who I am as a person, and anyone that’s known me since I was a little kid, known me for a long time, that’s what they’d say. That this project is the most like Malcolm that they could hear. That’s what I aspired to do with this one… I can say that this one, personally, is my favorite for sure.”
Likely, the album is a favorite because it ignores all manner of material success in favor of communicating what is in the recesses of his mind.
“I wanted to be a professional musician, I wanted to make a living off of this,” Mac remembers. “I achieved that. Then I wanted to be successful at something different, which was just pushing myself and trying to get the things in my head into music. I think this album was successful at that.”
And successful it is. Watching Movies finds Mac Miller opening up about his struggles, his loss, and the demons he will battle across his discography. While Macadelic alludes to these demons, Mac steps into the arena with what ailed him on Watching Movies—and comes out on top.
Mostly, Mac's victory derives from making this album under the pretense no one would listen. He gives himself the freedom to be himself. And it works.
“You gotta pretend that no one listens. You gotta pretend that you’re just making music for yourself, because when you do something for yourself and only for yourself and it translates to everybody else, that’s like what I think true genius takes its form.” —Mac Miller
Another reason Watching Movies is a personal favorite and Mac’s most sprawling work to date: his colleagues are all on it. “It’s interesting to hear music that I made with my friends,” he remarks.
As he says, each album has its own story and the story of Watching Movies is one of mutual creative spirits coming together for the greater good of music.
“There’s a story behind every single song on the album, behind every single feature on the album,” Mac continues. “These are people that have spent nights at my house, passed out on my studio floor. You have ScHoolboy Q, comes to the house, falls asleep, then wakes up at eight in the morning, then leaves.”
Armed with his friends, the leaps he makes from Blue Slide Park to Macadelic, to his alter-ego EPs, to Watching Movies are massive. “I think I’m just in a period of transition as far as what I’m known for,” Mac elaborates. “This album, to me, is just really going out there and it’s unexpected… It’s a risk, and I think to do important things in music, you have to take risks.”
One of those risks was Mac’s singing. He dabbles on Blue Slide Park, but on Watching Movies, we're treated to ballads and the full force of his singing voice. Not the most technically sound singer, Mac’s voice is recognizable and endearing. According to him, that’s all he was aiming for.
“There’s singing on the album. There’s actually two songs on the album that are no rap, straight singing. There’s songs where I sing the hook. I always wanted to sing, but when I was younger, my voice was too awkward. Voice cracked, sounded like a little kid. As you get older and more experienced making music, you get more comfortable with yourself and with your voice, you decide to take it there and trust yourself. This album is a lot of that. I’m excited for that, man. Melody is one of my favorite things in the world… I realized that it’s not about singing it the best, because I may never have a voice that’s as good as Michael Jackson’s voice, or as good as all these other voices, but it’s mine. It’s unique.” —Mac Miller
Really, Mac’s carefree and heartfelt approach to singing encompasses the wellspring of soul on the record. He describes the album as a surrealist expression.
“It’s whatever you want it to be,” he says. “It could be anything. You could look at it in a million different ways, but it’s surrealism. It’s a Salvador Dali painting. It’s, uh, it’s throw a bunch of stuff on a canvas and see what happens.”
DJBooth: Talk to me about making the album.
Mac Miller: A lot of sleepless nights, a lot of locking myself in the studio for weeks at a time. I got bad hygiene, beard was really bad, didn’t see a lot of sunlight, but then I got out like “Ah!” Appreciate the beauties of the world, man. You spend so much time inside of a room and then you finally leave and that fucking grass is the awesomest shit ever, man. Those fucking yellow flowers, and the grass and the wind, is very awesome. You appreciate those things.
Where were you at mentally when making the album?
Maybe this album was made during more bad days than good days, but now I’m having good days. Sun’s shining. I think that this album is different than the last one. The last one was about a playground and that’s what it sounds like… This album just has a different purpose… The purpose of the new album is to just expand your mind. Don’t believe anything you hear and trust in your own vision.
How do you want fans to receive the record?
I want people to take my album, take different movies, play ‘em with the sound off, and then play the music to accompany the movie. Then you see how they compliment each other. This scene might be different now that you’re playing this song, or this song might sound different now that you’re watching that visual. It’s a lot about the information, how things appear to be, and how they are.
If this all sounds revolutionary for Mac Miller, that’s because it is. He looks at Watching Movies and music, in general, as the new religion for his fans, for the youth, and for himself. It is religion; it is rebellion; it is awe-inspiring.
“The revolution is young people doing whatever the fuck they want to do. I think that that’s important, for kids to believe that their vision could be real, and that… We’re a lot of people that are young and we’re changing the way that things happen. For us, it’s the music industry and all different types of things, we’re kinda just creating our own rules. For me, the revolution is inspiring kids to feel that they do have a voice; inspiring kids to feel like they’re important and they can do whatever they want. They don’t have to follow any rules that society has laid out for them.” —Mac Miller
DJBooth: What’s next?
Mac Miller: A lot of people are scared to get old. I think whenever you get old, it’s gonna be awesome. I feel like being an old person is the illest shit ever. I feel like you finally have an understanding of the world around you, and then you could just take your time to just sit there.
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