There’s still a lemon here and there (“I spit the shit that leave a diaper brown” on the otherwise promising lead single “S.D.S.” and “Gees”, with its chorus of “Suck my dick before I slap you with it”), but the Mac Miller of Watching Movies, who feels comfortable trading verses with rap nerd favorites like Jay Electronica and Action Bronson, largely succeeds in distancing himself from the guy peddling kiddie-pool deep rhymes about drinking 40s in front of the police just two years prior. Turns you into a junkie” on “Someone Like You”). In their place we get a batch of songs that break the surface with snarling, self-deprecating wit (“I don’t act hard/ Still read Babar” from opener “The Star Room”) and musings on mortality (“Probably be dead soon inhaling cigarette fumes” on “Avian”) and drugs (“That fetanyl, it numbs me/. Gone are the undercooked shaggy dog stories of Blue Slide Park and mixtapes like Best Day Ever. Watching Movies with the Sound Off reintroduces Mac Miller as a druggy philosopher on the mic and a left field talent behind the boards. It’s the wide-eyed kid brother of Blue Slide Park home from college extolling the virtues of meditation and salvia.
Watching Movies with the Sound Off is steeped in the pathos of Mac’s bad year and the musical influence, both direct and indirect, of his new rap friends. Miller kicked the promethazine habit, settled with Finesse out of court (although Trump still taunts him), and then summarily ditched his native Pittsburgh for Los Angeles, where he’s been palling around with members of Odd Future and Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment collective ever since. Miller also ran into threats of litigation from hip-hop producer Lord Finesse, who says his production was used without permission on a popular mixtape cut, and Donald Trump, who came calling after a 2011 single named after him racked up millions of views on YouTube. Beset by detractors and disillusioned with his career path (and the ever-present “frat-rap” association), he turned to promethazine to cope during 2012’s rigorous Macadelic tour.
It should be all the emotions.Things got knotty for Mac just as quickly as he took off, though. He rapped about his struggles with addiction on his 2014 mixtape "Faces," speaking about that time in his life to Vulture in an interview published days before his death. “I used to rap super openly about really dark (expletive), because that’s what I was experiencing at the time," he said. "That’s fine, that’s good, that’s life. Miller struggled with substance abuse, revealing his ups and downs with drug addiction in interviews and song lyrics. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:51 a.m. 7, 2018 by his assistant, who called 911 and was instructed to perform CPR until paramedics arrived. More: Man charged in connection with Mac Miller's death allegedly sold rapper counterfeit drugsĪccording to the toxicology report, Miller was found unresponsive, kneeling on his bed in a "praying position" at his Los Angeles-area home Sept. The three men were initially charged by a federal grand jury in 2019 after authorities said they were responsible for giving the 26-year-old rapper several drugs including fentanyl-laced oxycodone, Xanax and cocaine, almost two days before Miller's overdose. Pettit has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case.Ĭoroner: Rapper Mac Miller died from accidental overdose on fentanyl, cocaine, alcohol Prosecutors suggest Walter serve a 17-year prison sentence with an additional 5-year "supervised release" in the plea agreement. had received from Pettit on September 4, 2018."
would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills that M.M. "Defendant knew that the pills that he directed Reavis to give to Pettit contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance," the agreement read. Passages: Mac Miller dead from a suspected overdose at 26 Reavis, formerly of West Los Angeles, moved to Lake Havasu, Arizona, in 2019. In the document, which refers to the "Weekend" rapper as "M.M.," attorneys say Walter instructed Reavis to distribute fentanyl that was presented as oxycodone pills to Miller's dealer Pettit.
22 admitting Walter "knowingly" distributed the narcotic to others which then made it to the hands of Miller, whose legal name is Malcolm James McCormick. Walter and his attorney William Harris signed the agreement Oct.