Remembering Mac Miller, a young rapper who never stopped growing up
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Sep 10, 2018
3 minutes
Mac Miller was undeniably a child of the internet.
As a teenager in the early 2000s, he went online to study the hip-hop stars working hundreds or thousands of miles from his home in Pittsburgh. Later, after he started rapping himself, he used YouTube and social media to build a following with little institutional support - a following robust enough that his debut album, 2011's "Blue Slide Park," became the first independently released project to top the Billboard 200 in more
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