Songs like REMember, explored the loss of significant people in his life and the immense lows he suffered and how they influenced his abuse of substances. Lines like, "im not real, i think i never was" from the song I'm Not Real, show the intense amount of doubts he succumbed to. Mac was depressed and it was obvious that he was struggling. Watching Movies with the Sound Off was a complete u-turn. Blue Slide Park represented him having fun and doing things teenagers are known for including, having lots of sex, experimenting with drugs, and just partying. What separates Mac Miller from the others is his growth as an artist. He was part of a generation that included Sam Adams, Chris Webby, and Asher Roth, because of this he was constantly looked down as goofy and for the stereotypical music that college white boys all over the country would listen too. For starters, he didn't have the initial buzz of many rappers. For starters, he didn't have the initial buzz of Malcolm James McCormick, who raps by the stage name Mac Miller, is not your typical rapper. We might not learn a lot of specifics about him, but there’s a lot of honesty in his music if you look for it.Malcolm James McCormick, who raps by the stage name Mac Miller, is not your typical rapper. He’s a corny white rapper (meant as a compliment) who loves his family, friends, and hometown. There’s a kind of authenticity to him that has been there since the beginning, if you look for it: He doesn’t rap about breaking the law, because he’s not about that life. "I know niggas think you white and you not about to go in with these bars," chimes in Domo Genesis on "In the Bag".
Many songs here reference his status as a white rapper, signaling his awareness of the rap game’s perception of him: "I’m a white rapper/ They always call me shady," he says on "Brand Name", just a few minutes into the album. He’s never preachy, though: He sounds refreshed and rejuvenated, like someone who has been going for daily walks, eating veggies and drinking fruit smoothies every day. "Everybody saying I need rehab/ So I’m speeding with a blindfold on/ It won’t be long before they watching me crash/ And they don’t wanna see that," he raps, thanking the people that got him through the toughest time of his life. On "God Speed", the album’s standout track, he pays tribute to the close friends in his Most Dope Family, especially his right hand man Q, and it’s genuinely touching.
The interlude before "God Speed" includes a voicemail from his brother, checking in on him at a low point in his life, and later on in the song, he admits: "White lines be numbing them dark times/ Them pills that I’m popping, I need to man up/ Admit it’s a problem, I need a wake up/ Before one morning, I don’t wake up." It’s funny to hear a 23-year-old who just kicked his habit and could be considered a kid himself refer regretfully to "all the kids doing drugs" on "In the Bag", but Mac has enough of his sense of humor intact to keep the album from playing like a D.A.R.E. "I’ve seen some motherfucking shit," he warns on "Two Matches". Lyrically, Mac offers a music industry "Scared Straight". Miller said he recorded 400 songs for Watching, and sometimes you couldn’t help but wonder about the selection process ( "Objects in the Mirror"?) but on GO:OD AM, he’s learned to self-edit. The beats on GO:OD AM have a New York, boom-bap feel, with lots of jazz samples and harder drums, and it’s both more varied and more upbeat, from the trap-sounding beats of "When in Rome" or the Chief Keef-featuring "Cut the Check" to love songs like "ROS" or the Miguel collaboration "The Weekend". Getting through the 16 tracks on Blue Slide Park was like an endurance test, and even the deeper and much-improved Watching Movies started to sound interchangeable before it ended. And on the transparent, relaxed GO:OD AM, he sounds like someone’s troubled little brother made good: from the album’s opening horns, you can sense that this is a victory lap for Mac, a homecoming.įrom start to finish, this is his most refined and well put-together project. Who is Mac Miller? On Blue Slide Park, he was a childish "frat rapper" who made dumb jokes about smoking weed and referred to the vagina as a "cooter." On the claustrophobic Watching Movies With the Sound Off, he was rapping in a pitched-down voice alongside Earl Sweatshirt and Ab-Soul about friends lost, drugs consumed, depression, and the trappings of success.
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