No clear path,” they wrote in a statement on his Instagram page when they announced the forthcoming album. Because he envisioned Circles as a companion to his previous album Swimming, released in August 2018, his family was left with an agonizing decision about whether to finish and release it: “This is a complicated process that has no right answer. Miller was well into the recording process of Circles when he died in September 2018 of an accidental overdose. Mac Miller nice too though.”īut there’s not much rapping at all on Circles, his sixth (and presumably last) studio album released posthumously on Friday. Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick in 1992, rapped with a restless determination: to outrun his initial reputation as a white frat rapper to distract from his anxieties and addictions to amuse himself and his friends and to gain the respect of his idols, which he did: as Jay-Z admitted on Twitter, “Black people really magic. These verses were volleyed off onto grandiose Billboard-topping studio albums, knotty mixtapes scavenged by backpack rap nerds, or the projects of his countless collaborators at a breathtaking rate. At his peak, he was an indefatigable creative force who wrote and recorded hundreds of verses stuffed with cocksure bravado, unending internal rhyme schemes and sly double entendres. There were times when it seemed like Mac Miller would never stop rapping.
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