#Mac miller blue slide park clothes skin

In about five years, Mac Miller went from one of the lowest brow and groaned about artists in rap’s ecosystem, to one of the most celebrated and appreciated. Subsequent albums GO:OD AM and The Divine Feminine were lauded, especially the latter, as signals of true growth and expansions of his artistry. His endeavors as alter egos Larry Fisherman and Delusional Thomas were celebrated as intriguing experimentation from an artist once believed to be as shallow as a kiddie pool. His sophomore album Watching Movies With The Sound Off was the evolution and the largest fruit of all of his labor during his marathon sessions. The 2012 mixtape Macadelic was as psychedelic as the title implied. Suddenly, Mac was musically inclined, and with the mixtapes and albums that followed the commercially successful but critically-panned Blue Side Park, he’d finally garnered the respect for his artistry that he’d always craved. This also lead to an artistic breakthrough, as Mac began toying with production and holed himself up in his Los Angeles in-home studio for months at a time. The criticism hit him hard, and he sunk into a depression that saw his weight fluctuate as he turned to drugs.

#Mac miller blue slide park clothes skin

He was slammed by both critics and his fellow rappers as a sham, a try hard and worst of all, a talentless opportunist feasting off of his skin color. He quickly became an internet sensation, and eventually, as his Blue Slide Park debut became the first independent album to top Billboard’s album charts, a commercial success as well.īut one thing that eluded Mac was critical acclaim. He fell right into the niche he was born to fill, as a white kid who spoke to the frat houses, stoners and slacker kids right in his age group. Mac broke out as a teenager in Wiz Khalifa’s shadow as a Pittsburgh native who seemed to mimic Wiz’s aesthetics, down to the clothing brands he chose and the way he wore his hats.

Though this video is meant to parallel his mind state, it also could apply to his career, and is cyclical.