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I think I'm at a stage now where it just doesn't bother me. But I was talking to Earl about it, and I was like, 'yo, did you ever see this review of Blue Slide Park by Pitchfork?' He asked what they gave it. I was 19 years old, I put an album out, and I was like, 'damn, this dude hates me'. I mean, when I read it, it hurt my feelings. The Pitchfork review was fuckin' awesome, dude. Obviously there was the Pitchfork review, for instance. You topped the Billboard chart with your first album, but it didn't get fantastic reviews. That shows you right there that it's more about the music than it is about the business. What are you going to say to a 21-year-old kid who's been independent, who's been offered millions of dollars by majors in the States and hasn't taken a meeting? You can't really say anything. It's been great to do that, because people can't knock the hustle, in the words of some very famous rappers. One thing about your story that people have latched onto is that you're not on a major label. It was just like, 'here's this dude', and then people just think what they want to think.
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It wasn't like, 'here's this mythological creature, Mac Miller'. Their perception of who Mac Miller is is always off, because we never got the chance to build that brand or that story. But it made people have a lot of misconceptions about me. Hurt me? I can't say, because I've been blessed with a lot of success. You don't have a rags-to-riches story people can latch on to.ĭo you think that's hurt you, in a sense?
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On the other hand, you didn't get to come out of nowhere and build up a fake mythology around yourself. Because of that, your fans feel like they know the 'real' Mac Miller. There are always going to be people who love me because I'm young, or hate me because I'm young, and when I get older there'll be people who hate me because I'm old. It's never 100 percent unanimous in any direction. If there's a bar and a random 16-year-old walks in, everyone's gonna be like, 'what's this little 16-year-old kid doing here?' It's the same thing. You've gotta look at it as it would be in regular social life. On the flip side of that, do you think your age has stopped people from taking you seriously? you know, that's probably why I'm where I'm at. To be 21 and to have been putting together mix tapes for six years already is.
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Yeah, fuck yeah, dude! I mean, think about it, I'm 21 now and I've been considering myself a professional rapper slash musician for six years already. You're not going to get anywhere without working hard.ĭo you think figuring that out at such an early age gave you a leg-up on other guys? So when I was 15, I thought, 'alright, if this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to start now and I'm going to work my ass off'. If I'm not making beats or rapping I'm thinking about music, you know? It consumes everything. You can either look at it as a hobby or it can really be your life. You figured out hip hop was your job when you were 15.
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We're two for two, and I'm hearing great things about tonight. The Auckland show was incredible, the Sydney show was incredible. My dream was always to travel far and have people know the lyrics to my music, and so far Australia has been A+, man. Is this the sort of thing - touring and selling out shows overseas - you thought you'd be doing when you got into hip hop? They don't know you can travel 15 hours to this incredible place in the world. The thing about travelling is that a lot of people never leave their hometown, and they don't realise there are places to go. You're in Australia at the moment, how's that been so far? In the country for his first Australian tour, Miller opens up about bad reviews, his drug use, and why he doesn't regret sipping an industrial amount of promethazine.
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Not many people are.Ī 21-year-old Billboard chart topper with over 400 million YouTube views (and countless sold out shows) to his name, Mac's both a bona fide pop star and an independent hip hop artist, both a "frat rapper" and an MC who has the respect of his peers. Mac Miller is an honest dude, but he's rarely this honest.