Mac Miller Was Trying to Tell a Survival Story
The absorbing posthumous album <em>Circles </em>shows the rapper considering his own fragility.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Jan 16, 2020
4 minutes
Mac Miller wanted to change the story. In the summer of 2018, the headlines about the rapper mainly regarded his DUI car crashand his ex Ariana Grande “toxic.” But on the first track of , the album he put out in early August of that year, the 26-year-old conveyed a tentative sense of recovery: “I was drowning, but now I’m swimming / Through stressful waters to relief.” On the day of that album’s release, featured Miller—in the same low-key, self-effacing manner that he rapped and sang in—denying having a serious drug problem. Its headline: “Mac Miller Wants You to Know He’s OK.”
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