“When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.” – Mac Miller

About Mac

One week before his death, Mac Miller was happy. On August 31st, the rapper invited the bassist Thundercat — a close friend and collaborator — and his daughter, Sanaa, over to his Studio City, California, home to spend the entire day celebrating the girl’s 12th birthday. “He refused not to celebrate it with us,” Thundercat recalls with a laugh. “He was like, ‘What do I get her?’ ‘I dunno, some Gucci flip-flops?’ ” Miller treated his guests to dinner, sang “Happy Birthday” twice, and then retired to the couch, where the three friends spent the rest of the night watching Sanaa’s favorite TV shows — with Miller periodically stealing her phone and trolling her Instagram and Snapchat feed. “The happiness was there, man,” Thundercat says. “I could see it in him. And it wasn’t fake.” shortly before noon, police officers responded to a frantic 911 call placed by Miller’s personal assistant and longtime sober coach, who discovered Miller’s lifeless body in a bedroom in his sprawling, compound-like home moments earlier. The 26-year-old rapper — who topped the charts as an independent teenage artist and championed and befriended many of hip-hop’s biggest talents, and whose career was defined by a relentless desire to improve his craft — was pronounced dead at the scene. According to an autopsy report released by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office on November 5th, Miller died of an accidental overdose. Fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol were all present in his system. A bottle of alcohol and prescription pills were found in his home, and a powdery white substance was found on his person.


Albums

He made music, and was from pitsburgh, pa.


A self-taught musician.



Mac and Friends

He played piano,guitar, and drums.



Post Death

Mac Miller died age 26 on Sept. 7, 2018, and his passing left a profound impact on the music industry. Many expressed their shock at his death, and his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande was among those hit particularly hard. Earlier this year, she reflected on his life and legacy in an interview with Zane Lowe. "Nothing mattered more to him than music ever," she said. "He was a person who gave literally every single second of his thoughts and time and life to music. And I think that is so evident in what he has left us with."
Mac died just over a month after the release of his fifth album, Swimming. His first posthumous LP Circles arrived earlier this year to critical and commercial acclaim, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.