I was in the camp of people that never fucked with Travis Scott, his social media presence was something that I was never down with, and his music seemed like people had already done it before.Mac Miller latest new mixtapes for free streaming and download. That being said, I hadn’t really gotten into Swimming until about two weeks before Mac died. Nevertheless, I took plenty of long showers as I struggled to adjust to my Emerson dorm. Several of these were set to the sound of his Tiny Desk Concert, the set list of which contained only songs off of Swimming.įrom Swimming, I launched into a much deeper listen through Mac Miller’s music. Before he passed, I had really only listened to Faces, his mixtape from 2014, all the way through. Macadelic, the mixtape dropped the two years before, was a bit too much for me.

The sex noises that transitioned between tracks were not what I was looking for. Because it’s such a weird and versatile album, I got something different each time I listened.įaces, however, was something I really got into because it was all I had to listen to on planes.īlue Side Park (2011), Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), and GO:OD AM (2015), his first three studio albums, were all released years before I was into the kind of rap music he was putting out. There are jazz-based piano rap tracks like “Ave Maria” or “Diablo”, mixed with harder tracks like “Insomniak” or “Malibu”. It ends in an optimistic place with “New Faces”, an upbeat song, with good bars, and a solid Earl Sweatshirt feature that brings the record to a close.

For the musical diversity and association with travel, Faces will always be close to my heart.Īnyways, after his death, I re-upped myself on his music.

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