![]() He said he wished it didn't have to happen under these circumstances. ![]() There were dissonant moments, like when Domo Genesis nearly apologized between his song with Mac and his solo song. The crowd was all tenderized by home videos of Mac as a little kid or being funny, or playing the piano. In the show's front half, the acts did the song they had made with Mac, then one or two of their own, then said a few words about him and walked off. It was kinda cold but the production had that Summer Jam feel: After one act had vacated the stage, the opening strains of the on-deck song heralded the next artist's arrival, the crowd picking up the cues and and appropriately demonstrative as he or she strode out. And all four of those acts showed up on Wednesday night in L.A. Some people would've thought it would be smarter if the lineup was whiter.īut Mac and his team booked the Space Migration Tour the way they did, which also included dates with Earl Sweatshirt and Action Bronson. Some people would've wanted more hooks or more fashion. Some people would have tried to disperse some of that pressure to sell tickets. Some people wouldn't have thought that was fun. ![]() Some people wouldn't have been able to handle the artistic competition that bill set up. But he did surround himself on that tour with acts so deft and complicated and singular that it wasn't guaranteed they would one day earn crossover sales, evangelizing merch-sporters who couldn't name three other contemporary rappers, or rapt Twitter followings, eager to get told and/or clowned. So it wasn't like Mac was shepherding them through their artistic infancy or anything close to that. They had already found their voices and locked in with strong teams. It was abundantly clear that Vince and Chance were insanely talented (in different ways, hip-hop being a very big tent) and focused. People who paid a lot of attention to hip-hop knew they would. Mac put them in front of a vocal audience, kids with exponential reach and money to spend, before they'd built national fanbases. Each of their 2013 tapes had performed well, especially Chance's Acid Rap, but they hadn't toured and they didn't yet have that corporate money behind them. At the time Vince had released three mixtapes, the most recent of which Mac had produced. That summer, in that climate, Mac - playing in the big leagues - took Vince Staples and Chance the Rapper on the road with him. But staying small isn't the big dream of any creator the big dream is to grow into a colossus while staying who you are. Some people like it like that: it makes them feel good, as a consumer, to be in the minority. It felt like maybe the gap between well-received music and popular music was becoming unbridgeable. The majors were throwing their weight around while over on Soundcloud musicians were unassumingly rewriting the playbook. He lost that particular battle but he still sold more than 100,000 copies in that seven-day period, making it the 10th highest opening week of any hip-hop album that year.Ģ013 was a weird transitional time, with phenomenal albums appearing every month and mediocre songs dominating every form of airwave. ![]() To take one example, five years ago - which is to say, the summer before Macklemore "robbed" (his words) Kendrick Lamar of all those Grammys, the summer of the "Control" verse, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Nothing Was The Same and Run The Jewels - Mac Miller's Watching Movies With The Sound Off went up against Kanye West's Yeezus and J. The show benefited the foundation his family started after his death, which means to encourage underserved kids in his hometown to make art. Instead, the band that he'd been rehearsing with, one that fellow musicians had been saying they're jealous of, backed many musicians Mac had collaborated with and befriended as they put on a tribute concert. Miller, who put out his fifth album, Swimming, in August, had been scheduled to start a national tour this week. His death landed hard with the community of musicians he'd tended as he toured the world in his teenage years and made a home in Los Angeles in his 20s. Mac Miller made it out of Pittsburgh on the wings of a rap career, a craft he studied and devoted his creative energies to until he died suddenly this September, at age 26. ![]() An image of Mac Miller, who died suddenly in September, projected on the rear of the stage at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., before a benefit concert organized in Miller's honor. ![]()
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