Mac Miller – K.I.D.S. (Mixtape)
Mac Miller – Don’t Mind if I Do Freestyle over Owl City’s “Fireflies”
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The City of Champ’s emcee Mac Miller is on the rise. Last month, he became the newest signee of Rostrum Records, a label whose flagship artist is another Pittsburgh native: Wiz Khalifa. Today he dropped a new mixtape, K.I.D.S., and after just three hours he already had 3,665 downloads on DatPiff. Not bad for an 18-year-old kid.
Don’t sleep on him – he may be young, he may have that goofy, high-all-the-time look, but his music speaks for itself: it’s fun and lighthearted, a style that’s severely lacking in the game today.
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His ’09 mixtape The High Life reminds you of your high school days: baking before school, running for class prez, crazy parties spent trying not to piss off the parents, and even those lonely nights kicking it at home. Mac spits the kind of shit that, if you’re past the sigh School age, you wanna bump in your car as you cruise through your old neighborhood reminiscing and, if you’re still of HS age, you wanna bump on the way to a house party.
Check these tracks:
Mac Miller – Class President
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Mac Miller – Finer Things
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Mac MIller – One of a Kind
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The one downfall of High Life however is that it leaves you wondering where this dude is gunna go from here. He has collabos with Pittsburgh dudes like Wiz Khalifa and Boaz,
Mac Miller featuring Wiz Khalifa – Cruise Control
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Mac Miller featuring Boaz – 5 O’Clock
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And his sound and content are tight. But he lacks the experimentation that you’d want to see in a young rapper if he really wants to make it big. On K.I.D.S., Mac meets these criticisms head on; branching out and testing his music skills far more than he has in the past. Where as on the The High Life, tracks at times blend together, K.I.D.S. has a series of different sounds. Mac kicks it slow in the Pittsburgh style at the opening of the tape. Then he takes the mic low on “Nikes on My Feet” to match the ambient, echoing beat.
Mac Miller – Nikes on My Feet
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Then on “Senior Skip Day,” he picks up the pace over a light, sunny beat.
Mac Miller – Senior Skip Day
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Faster on “The Spins,” slow on “Traffic in The Sky.” Mac sounds far more mature on K.I.D.S. than he has before.
Mac Miller – The Spins
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Mac Miller – Traffic in The Sky
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Last thing: check Mac Miller’s videos. If you fucks with the kinda stuff Wiz Khalifa puts out – just him and his boys kicking it, feeling good, sound tracking it with one of his songs – you’ll love Mac Miller’s brand of video. For the most part, it’s him flanked by the crew, living it up and enjoying the music.
Mac Miller – Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza; I like the four banging girls filling up the swing set at 1:57
Mac Miller – La La La La; homies chillen hard
Mac Miller – Nikes on My Feet
Last but not least; Mac Miller – Another Night, off The High Life, straight sounds like a lonely night.
Download: Mac Miller – K.I.D.S.
Download: Mac Miller – The High Life
Throwback Download: Mac Miller – The Jukebox
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I was just talkin to SeanerMc about this kid…i got his mixtape and while I’m not 100% sold on him yet, I do like his flow and the old school sound of some of the beats…you’re right, not bad for an 18 year old haha
hes a beast
the nikes on my feet is a nice joint.. so is traffic in the sky. makes sense that he rolls w taylor gang tho.. sounds a lot like wiz on “all i want is you.” rostrum records makes nice beats
Chyeah brotha, most of his music is on that slow Pittsburgh tip, I like it better when he speed it up… check Knock Knock (also fucks with the knock knock sound effect on the hook) and Senior Skip Day. Don’t sleep on The High Life tho, def some good tracks as well.
NIKES ON MY FEET is hot. I heard some funny info from the Evans sisters about Mac Miller. Apparently he used to go by Easy Mac, ha!
i think that this is a prime example of how good beats and good production and trick people into thinking your nice. im not that big of a believer in giving rappers points because their young, i mean i understand he’s 18, but nas was 18 when he wrote illmatic. and ontop of it after seeing that video of this kid gettin punked out over not crediting those producers for the beat kinda set a bad tone for me about this kid. i know i must sound like a hardcore hater right now but its how i feel lol
seanermc likes dave matthews band
hahaha i wonder who swingtown 413 could possible be…
Mac Miller…. The best rapper alive!
Not bad. Not the best.