Mac Miller was an American rapper. He died on September 7, 2018. He was struggling with substance abuse.
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- His full name was Malcolm James McCormick
- He was born on January 19, 1992
- He died on September 7, 2018
- He was known professionally as Mac Miller
- He was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer
- He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mac Miller began his career in the city’s hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of fifteen
- In 2010, he signed a record deal with Pittsburgh-based independent label Rostrum Records
- With whom he had his breakthrough with the mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011)
- Miller’s debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995
- In 2013, he founded the record label imprint REMember Music
- After his second studio album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), he left Rostrum
- Then, he signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records in 2014
- With them, he released three studio albums: GO:OD AM (2015), The Divine Feminine (2016), and Swimming (2018)
- For Swimming, he was posthumously nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
- He also served as a record producer for various artists
- Including himself, under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman
- Miller struggled with substance abuse
- It was often referenced in his lyrics
- He was a son of Karen Meyers, a photographer
- And Mark McCormick, an architect
- He had an older brother, Miller
- His mother is Jewish, and his father is Christian
- He and his brother were raised Jewish
- He attended a Catholic grade school to “ensure a good education and a chance to play football and lacrosse”
- He later went to Winchester Thurston School
- He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School
- A self-taught musician, Miller played piano, guitar, drums, and bass by the age of six
- He first started rapping at the age of fourteen
- Before that, he wanted to be a singer
- In high school, he decided to focus on his hip hop career
- He originally went by the name Easy Mac
- And released the mixtape But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy in 2007 at the age of fifteen
- By 2009, he established himself as Mac Miller
- He, then, released two mixtapes: The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown and The High Life
- At the 2010 Pittsburgh Hip Hop Awards, Miller won 21 & Under of the Year
- And Best Hip Hop Video for “Live Free”
- Miller’s estate began approving posthumous music releases in June 2019
- With the collaborative singles “Time” with Free Nationals and Kali Uchis, and “That’s Life” with 88-Keys and Sia
- Miller included Big L, Lauryn Hill, Beastie Boys, Outkast, and A Tribe Called Quest among his influences
- He had a close relationship with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa
- Miller spoke openly about his struggle with substance abuse and depression
- To manage stress during his Macadelic Tour in 2012, Miller began taking promethazine
- He later became addicted to purple drank, also known as “lean”
- He quit taking promethazine in November 2012
- Before shooting his reality show Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family
- In 2014, Miller was taking drugs daily
- Aand felt that the final track on Faces, “Grand Finale”, was “supposed to be the last song [he] made on Earth”
- Recounting that period to Billboard in August 2015, Miller was “definitely way healthier” but not “completely” sober
- He stated he “hated” being sober in a February 2016 documentary
- Miller had become sober for three months by October 2016
- Noting his better mood and maintained creativity
- However, when asked about his sobriety in April 2017, Miller said he was now “living regularly”
- Miller was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Nomi Leasure
- Whom he met in middle school, for seven years until 2016
- Many of the songs on his mixtape Macadelic were about their relationship
- Miller dated singer Ariana Grande from August 2016 to May 2018
- On September 7, 2018, Miller was found unresponsive in his Studio City home by his personal assistant
- Who called 911 and performed CPR until paramedics arrived
- Miller was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:51 a.m. (PDT), from a suspected drug overdose
- He had been scheduled for a video shoot on the day of his death
- In his will, Miller named his mother, father, and brother as beneficiaries
- He was buried at Homewood Cemetery in his hometown of Pittsburgh, in a Jewish funeral
- On November 5, 2018, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office determined that Miller died from an accidental drug overdose
- Due to a “mixed drug toxicity” of fentanyl, alcohol, and cocaine
- Thousands of fans held a vigil in Miller’s honor on September 11, 2018, at Pittsburgh’s Blue Slide Park
- In respect to his 2011 debut album of the same name
- A tribute concert, Mac Miller: A Celebration of Life, was held on October 31, 2018, in Los Angeles
- Many of his friends and collaborators performed or provided messages at the concert
- Proceeds raised benefited the newly-established Mac Miller Circles Fun
- Which aims to support youth arts and community-building programs in his memory
- The charity had raised over $700,000 by January 2019
- In May 2019, the renamed Mac Miller Fund issued its first grants, including $50,000 to MusiCares
- Which was used to launch their Mac Miller Legacy Fund to help young musicians with substance abuse issues
- On September 4, 2019, 23-year-old Cameron James Pettit was charged with distribution of a controlled substance
- For allegedly supplying Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl two days before his death
- According to court documents, Miller had asked to be given Percocet
- A prescribed painkiller containing oxycodone
- In addition to cocaine and Xanax
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