In today’s episode the time has finally come Lou and I are going to be giving our official discography ranking for M Miller one of our favorite artists of all time and someone that has truly inspired the brand NFR so with that being said ladies and gentlemen we are
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Be doing more videos just like this on a weekly basis but for today’s episode it’s a very special one MC Miller is not only one of my favorite artists of all time but same for youu um we both believe that he has one of the best discographies that hip-hop has ever seen
The artist evolution is absolutely crazy so what went into your ranking today just revisiting all of these albums and sort of seeing you know tracking his artistic growth over the years what he implemented into certain projects how these albums have aged over time what they’ve inspired what they’ve sort of um
Been marked as in terms of like these Milestone moments within his career and honestly we waited until this day because it is January 18th at the time of this recording and January 19th is the birthday of Mac Miller so happy birthday to Mac and um we know how much
You guys love him as much as we do so we thought it was the best time to do an episode like this so what we decided to do was go through 10 of his most recognizable and known projects including mixtapes and albums yeah because if you were to do his entire
Discography it would be like 20 plus projects long at that point yeah like You’ have like the Easy Mac stuff and you would have like delusional Thomas um and a couple of other projects okay so you want to tell them the ones that were ranking for absolutely so uh in order of
Release kids Best Day Ever blue slide park macadelic watching movies with a SoundOff faces good am the divine feminine swimming and circles 10 projects yeah 10 projects as a whole what a discography incredible discography such a blast to revisit every time that that I do all right but
Let me ask you one thing before we actually get into this what’s your most played Mac album most played Mac Miller album it would probably it changes like from year to year but it’s always going to be swimming since it came out that’s one the one that’s been in rotation the
Most and then um probably faces I would say faces for me yeah is number one for you well most played so um all right let’s get into this so at the number 10 selection I have blue slide park is that the same thing for you I also have blue
Slide part came out in 2011 so what what kind of puts it at like the bottom of the ranking for you because you know not to say that it’s a bad project or anything uh but I do feel like like you know when you have to look at let’s say
Other uh projects that came around uh you know that came out around that time like maybe a Best Day Ever um or even something like a macadelic a kids like that pre you know Mac Miller era like where he just started popping off um this was an album that closed the door
On an old sound and kind of you know you got introduced to a whole different type of aesthetic from Mac Miller so why the bottom of the list the bottom of the list just because like you said this is the epit of that frat rap sound that Ma
Miller you know with time it took him a quite a few amounts of projects to actually grow past that sound and I like that this was sort of um the closing chapter on that and I think that when it comes down to this project it was a bit
Of a missed opportunity in the sense that he is making an album that’s a tribute to his hometown of Pittsburgh and he’s not really unraveling too much about what it was like to grow up there or how it shaped the man that he would become and I can’t blame him for that
Because he probably just wasn’t mature enough to give you that Viewpoint because I believe he was like 18 or 19 years old when he had actually recorded this album so um someone of that age is is thinking about partying and messing around with girls and just having a good
Time smoking weed and that’s really subject matter wise what makes up not only this album but also a Best Day Ever or a kids but with this one it lacks the memorable tracks I think the fact that there’s no features doesn’t help it either and not only that but the
Memorable tracks on here like example like a Party on Fifth AV or like yeah Frick Park Market or smile back like yes these are you know um let’s say massive songs that the community loves within Mac Miller’s discography but when you have to look at more of the iconic song
Starts projects like even let’s say you want to go into kids or um let’s say a Best Day Ever for example I do feel like the hires are much higher um on other Mac Miller projects and like you said the fact that there’s no features um
Just makes it feel like it’s maybe a bit bloated too um it’s not necessarily a project that I enjoy that much or that I go back to all that often honest absolutely and I think that um you know a lot of Mac Miller fans feel that way
But there is some replay value in it you know there’s still times I’ll go back and I’ll go get certain songs and I’ll have fun with them but for the most part I think that it’s definitely at the bottom of the ranking but okay let’s go
On to number n number nine is going to be for myself Best Day Ever Best Day Ever as well number okay let’s see if we’re on Pace to have the same ranking I feel like in the middle of our theog rankings we might disagree on a few
Things so let’s talk about Best Day Ever I do feel like when you look at that pre-mac ERA this is one of the best projects that came out of that era and I have to say that I really did enjoy going back to it um songs like B bonus
For example um OG songs like Donald Trump for example um just so much fun and lightheartedness throughout it I I do feel like you know there are certain songs that I don’t go back to all that much but the reason why I have it let’s say just below let’s say a kids for
Example is that kids feels like a lot more of a concise project when you go through it um it also feels like Mac Miller is bringing a lot more of that fun energy throughout that one but nonetheless like songs for get up for example have a beautiful triumphant vibe
To it and I do revisit this project quite a bit and I do feel like there’s a clear Gap like there’s a clear gap between this and blue slide park if I’m being honest with you this for me definitely feels like MC Miller’s ultimate Victory lap because if you
Really think about like just his trajectory the big [ __ ] blow up and come up with kids right and then this came right after that and you could see that he is um in the highest of spirits I think that it’s his lightest and maybe brightest album it’s maybe his most
Positive as well in terms of him just being genuinely happy and Youthful and sort of just excited about this excited about this new found Fame and love and yeah love for his music um it’s crazy that it is considered a bottom tier project for Mac because it’s a pretty
Good mix tape I’m not going to say it’s it’s incredible it is one of my most uh my one of my most least replayed albums from Mac Miller to be honest with you so one of your least replay value yeah you said most least it’s kind of like least
Replay Mac Miller albums um the reason for that is that I feel like there is quite a few Productions that do sound dated like for example looking at o or wake up you have like this electronic dance production which sounded like it wasn’t really fulfilling MC Miller’s
Creative needs but rather like maybe his lifestyle or whatever he was trying to get into around that time personally but um apart from that you have so many major highlights on here like Donald Trump or the whis Khalifa assisted keep floating which is so dreamy and ethereal
Just a perfect Stoner Anthem um I’ll be there with font the bde bonus like there is highlights But ultimately as a full project there is filler and I do feel like already at that point you’re like okay well this is just sort of like a kids part two without the memorable
Samples and um kids part two no yes and no the content matters different no it’s not the cont yeah the like example like so example I’ll be there I’ll be there for example besides a few exceptions though or even something like similar subject matter it’s still the Frat WP
Stuff yeah but the categories it as fat rap yeah but like to say that like the content matter Falls exactly with suits with kids it’s a continuation of kids for me for sure it’s a continuation but to say that it’s exactly the same I think it’s a false I didn’t say it’s
Exactly the same I said it’s a continuation regardless though I do think that it ranks at number nine and like you said you do have extremely memorable tracks for Max career in here like a Best Day Ever a get up Donald Trump um I’ll be there um even keep
Floating BD bonus there’s just there’s a lot of memorable tracks on here that I personally revisit but it’s going to rank a number nine but let’s go on to number eight this is where I’m going to put the divine feminine where do you have it wow okay I have macadelic coming
In at number eight no well okay that’s not bad cuz I have it you don’t have it that much do you but you put the divine feminine over divine feminine over Madel in terms of in terms of an album experience and a listening experience anyways I don’t want to talk too much
About divine feminine now um but um what do you think makes it maybe lower Echelon tier for Mac Miller I feel like the rapping performances well no the rapping I was going to talk about in comparison from macadelic to the divine feminine but I think when that’s not the
Point of the divine feminine to be a rap heavy or rap Centric album necessarily never said it had to but it was theform it’s still a rapic like you can’t treat the same way it’s it’s not like a circle situation where singing on the album though you have a lot of more
Melodic MC Miller sung throughout his practically his entire career especially harmonizing on certain hooks yeah you have certain albums are but this was him transcending and trying out his T and new genres like this was really him flourishing as an artist going outside of hip-hop sure and you do see that on
Songs like example God is fair sexy nasty for example and you see that on songs like dang uh but but for the most part more and more you’re acting like I don’t like the project I love the project I think I really do but when I
Look at let’s say the upper leelon of like Max catalog and what’s above it um I I think for me clearly ranks at number eight well I do love the concept of the album and it being devoted to women and um even at that you know having his
Grandmother have the outro on the album and you know professing his love terana Grande and everything else that goes into it I do feel like there are stronger projects rapping wise and even conceptually within his albums um as far as discography goes I do feel like when
You look at the the highs on this album they’re incredible like I said a dank for example or a goddess Fair sexy nasty some of the best songs in Max catalog um but for me it’s like when I look at the macadelic the good M’s the kids circles
Now watching movies faces and the rest of the projects I mean I feel like it is below those types of standards for me just based on production wise that I could explain later on into the episode so that’s why I ranked it at number eight but what do you got number eight
As I said macadelic the 2012 mixtape and this was really a pivotal project for Mac just because I feel like it sort of served as the bridge between the MC Miller youth era where he’s making these fun party bangers and the bridge to the Psychedelic and Abstract era of MC
Miller that would really really take form on watching movies with the sound off and then continue all the way up to good am. um when it comes to this mixtape I love it just because literally right off the bat from the intro you’re like what the [ __ ] am I listening to
Because you have a girl speaking French asking you if you love her then you have this creepy whistling and the whistle is sort of The Melody of of roll your boat which as soon as you hear that I’m like holy [ __ ] I’m sold this is going to be
Um a Mac Miller listening experience unlike anything I’ve ever heard before so I feel like it was was a major step up not only for those reasons but also because Mac Miller is getting way more introspective on this project in comparison to anything else he had done
Before you get MC Miller sort of adjusting to the fame and um having Thoughts From A Balcony sort of reflecting on um the state of mind that’s that he’s in and um just how dark the industry could be so that was really good apart from that I love the rock
Influence in a lot of songs like Desperado I like the fact that he is getting sort of more mature with the writing in terms of giving you bars like I’m going to start gambling with Ambi and all and Eminem type of bar um and it really does feel like his Coming of Age
Project where again you get the introspection you get the Psychedelic sound and it’s very memorable so many songs on here um the question um Desperado loud endless bangers place at number eight for me but let’s get into our number seven all right number seven that’s where I’m going to have macadelic
That’s where I’m going to have the divine feminine okay so we just did a little Swap aroni and cheese right there so um the reason why have macadelic over the divine feminine is I think the rapping performances are much better as far as like let’s say a MC Miller
Project goes um you know you spoke about it perfectly talking about all the types of different influences and I also think that yes divine feminine was a pivotal project within let’s say MC Miller’s career but macadelic is arguably one of the most important projects within ma like Ma’s career because it was that
Bridge from like okay let’s get out of the Frat roling and let’s start making some psychedelic hip hop and let’s kind of be you know genres in the way that we actually approach these projects and Mac Miller was actually you know not necessarily the most happy about the
Reception of blue slide park and he wanted to prove that he could go beyond and above let’s say the criticism that he received for blue slide park so he came back with macadelic and when talking about The Inspirations for this album for me had said you know bands
Like the Beatles and going back to old songs and getting into like that psychedelic and grooviness I’m really inspired for the soundscape on here and like you said I do feel like you are offered one of the most unique soundscapes out of any other Mac album for macadelic um example like you had
Said the guitars on Desperado or even the boombat production on Thoughts From A Balcony I’m getting into the question and The Groovy Baseline on there there’s just so much that went into this project I also think that it’s arguably the project with some of the best ever
Features on a Mac Miller album you look at songs like America with Joey Badass you look at Lil Wayne on the question um you look at Kendrick Lamar and fight the feeling you can’t argue those features and I think that from a collaborative process it was really a step up from
Everything else that he had done before in his career and you’re getting some of the most memorable songs in his catalog within this project itself so I could even argue that the yeah this is Loki a top three MC Miller like mixtape of all time you know so that’s why too that I
Wanted to put it at that number seven position but talking me about the divine feminine absolutely I mean yeah just a big turning point for M Miller the decision to trust himself in giving you more of these Sun performances and taking that big leap was essential to getting albums like a swimming like
Getting a circle so for me of course just like macadelic was a big stepping Point into a new Direction divine feminine was just as important apart from that I feel like this is MC Miller’s Flower Boy in the sense of him really going after these jazzier chords and focusing more on progression of
Instrumentals and letting those instrumentals have time to build and um to be patient with them I feel like it’s the most relaxed and slow tempo soundscapes you’ll get out of a Mac Miller album A lot of the songs are hitting a five minute plus Mark um you have beautiful tracks and collaborations
Like Cinderella with ta dollis sign goddess Fair sexy nasty with Kendrick Lamar um you also have um the beautiful collaboration her favorite part with Ariana Grande where you have a beautiful um duet and them sharing lyrics together and just getting Mac Miller also tapping into Funk and infusing Hip-Hop with funk
Was beautiful on a song like dang so to me that was really like the biggest shock up to that point in MA Miller’s career where I’m like I can’t believe that he went for this and pulled it off as well as he did and coming in I think
At just 10 songs it’s such a fluid cohesive experience and for that reason I have it over macadelic where on macadelic there’s maybe a couple of songs that I won’t return to um okay let’s go on to number six number six selection that’s where I’m going to have
Good am good am wow I have kids I have kids at number six I have above it okay wow that’s interesting absolutely um so I was debating this I was like between kids and good am and you guys are going to hear my kids pick very soon um and
They’re honestly interchangeable for me you know this is arguably um one of his best studio albums I just I love the the person feeling of this also mixed with the accessibility Factor just because um you get Mac Miller kind of like in a in a state of mind where you know he’s
Accepted all his flaws as a human being he’s battling let’s say his addictions um talking about the pitfalls of Fame and just what that brings to him but there’s also a sort of like Triumph a triumphant feeling example um to uh the tracklist on songs example like Brad
Name for example and the whole MC Miller brand and what he did with him and his boys and then even getting into a 100 grandkids talking about how you know the first time he made $100,000 he felt like a g talking about how he’s going to give
His mother Grand his mother grandkids um and then after that in the second part it’s just one of the best beat switches um in MC Miller’s career I [ __ ] love that production then you go on to songs like Perfect Circle for example and it’s a heart-wrenching song you know because
Ma Miller kind of calls his own demise and it goes into a whole different section as far as the second half of the song goes so you just you look at everything that this track list provides you and there is so much to like about it even rapping performances like
Example Rush Hour where it kind of feels like an older macadelic but in a 2015 setting for example where you know he’s talking about smoking weed in the Attic talking about taking the uppers and feeling like Chris Tucker um but now you’re getting a different type of
Production from Mac Miller that feels a bit more advanced so I like that as well about it let me ask you this you think this that’s the toughest part of like revisiting Max catalog is hearing songs Like A Perfect Circle hearing songs like a funeral where like cuz that happened
Quite often throughout his career and catalog where he would sort of like call his own the eyes or like sort of predict his own pass it feels like cries for help you know and it just felt like he had a very hard time uh dealing with
That sort of stuff and obviously the fan base loves him and you know just um the attention to care that he always put into his projects I feel like that’s why um he has such a close connection with his fans so going through projects like good am it was just it was interesting
Too because there was a sense of hope throughout that album you know and it felt like there was going to be this sort of evolution um of him going into a different direction with his life like he was saying on certain songs then obviously once you get swimming and then
The tragic passing of of his life happened in 2018 things played out that way so overall I do think that you’re getting even songs like Ascension for example you know that those songs are heart-wrenching to listen to um in 2024 at this point and for us too like we
Grew up listening to MC Miller and him being so youthful and him being such a a big Staple in our rotation like an album like good am reminds you of why you love MC Miller so much and like why you want to revisit his music so much even songs
Like weekend for example um massive popit for him and and it was a massive um song to be able to bring his career to a whole different level but it didn’t sacrifice quality you know that was that that’s what I like about good am is that there’s so much accessibility and it
Could speak to so many different Mac Miller fans whether you like more of the youthful and playful sort of Mac Miller or you like more of that deep and profound and meditative MC Miller and there’s a great middle point between that so that’s why I wanted to put it at
Number six absolutely so my number six is going to be kids came out in 2010 this is the most nostalgic MC Miller project for me out of his catalog I mean you know we were listening to it in high school I feel like a lot of people um
Grew up and found ma Miller through this project because you know when he put out this project he got his first sold out tour across the country like this was really his rise to fame and when you look at it it’s just it’s sweet it’s innocent it’s him having fun um you have
Amazing songs on here like Nike’s on my feet where he’s paying homage um to Nas and he’s kicking just these fly Rhymes over um this sample that’s flipped in such a hypnotic way so there’s Timeless Mac Miller songs on this tape that he made at such a young age and that has
Aged so well for me over time and what’s also really cool again is just how free he was to pick samples and to choose some really unique samples that you wouldn’t expect to hear on a frat rap album or from someone um that was making the type of music that Mac Miller was
Making for example you know him sampling Empire of the Sun and one song and then on Don’t Mind If I Do the one that comes right after you get Fireflies by Al City being sampled and you’re like this is genius like I would never expect this to
Work but um he’s making his own versions of like these pop and synth pop hits and executing them perfectly so I love the Charisma from MC Miller I love the playfulness I think that yes you’re not getting um bars as good as we getting on good am or maybe later projects um the
Talent was there you were able to see what kind of rapper he would have been able to turn into just with that project so yeah it’s my number six to me it’s like it’s the album that has the most personal memories and feelings attached
To it I would say all right so let’s go on to number five I’m guessing uh that’s where you have good am right that’s where I have good am and that’s kids yeah so there’s a little bit of interchange on that one so I I was really torn between this ranking because
I’m like well I I can kind of understand what you mean that the rapping is above kids but at the same time I do feel like kids was like the building block to M Miller’s career and that’s where I was like well even going back to the track
List you alltime great songs Just Like You Do let’s say on good am but um there was a different type of vibe from good a um from good am in comparison to kids like there’s an untangle factor in Magic to kids that only if you’ve listened to
It and only if you’ve lived with it that you’ll truly understand and I feel like this was like this was the project that hit me the most when it comes to like my childhood and having that youthfulness throughout it and the reason why I think
It is in the upper eel on of Mac Miller’s projects is that even at the time that it came out at yeah you had people like asheran for example that were making frat rap um and other types of rappers for that matter but no one was crafting mixtapes like this and it’s
A very important mixtape for the 2010’s decade because if you don’t have this then what happens to MC Miller’s career like what what what goes down if this is taken out and plucked out of MC Miller’s discography so that was another thing that I kind of looked at and then when I
Was talking about the rapping performances I’m like okay you could kind of say that yeah good am has better rapping performance because you look at songs like example um you know 100 grandkids or you look at example songs for example like a rush hour but still you’re you’re getting top tier rapping
Performances from Kool-Aid and frozen pizza and even Nikes on my feet and yes I about Kool-Aid and frozen pizza but yeah Nike’s on my feet no Kool-Aid and frozen pizza is a classic Mac Miller it’s no rush hour or brand name because it doesn’t have to be aggressive like
It’s about aggressive I’m looking at bars I’m looking at rhyme schemes like there’s a different we’re talking about we’re talking about L lyrical performances koola and frozen pizza is one of those like you know loose party good like there doesn’t always have to be like this crazy lyrical exercise for
Me we’re talking about lyricism in that context obviously you can’t put that up finish my to finish my thought of course you can absolutely you can CU it’s a different type of lyricism it’s a different type of relatability factor and I’m not always going to artists for let’s say these crazy lyrical exercises
And saying that’s automatically better because he went through hoops of fire no like I like this project because of the relatability factor of it and how good it makes you feel while you listen to it there’s a different type of magic when you’re listening to those bars about him
Being a kid and like the relatability factor of it that’s why I think it is a better project overall like yes maybe you do get him doing better lyrical exercise songs like 100 grandkids but there’s a different value to kids’s lyrics even about that for me for me
It’s the subject matter and just the terrains that he was going into on something like a good am so yeah it is that for you then it’s a subject matter it’s also the lyrical um EXC Excellence of the project soundscape is also an upgrade for me without a
Doubt beat switches like Perfect Circle Gods speed um getting triumphant beat switches again on 100 grand kids but um did you have any other final thoughts for kids before I go into good am and why uh no why have it that number five yeah number five I think that if you’re
A fan of the Mac Miller who likes to beat up the microphone someone um who is spitting at F at some of the highest levels this is the album for you and I also feel like this is ma Miller at his most confident like moving after watching movies in macadelic he was sort
Of like questioning life and pondering and looking for answers on good am it’s almost as if he feels like he has his life together and that he’s in a in a place in a position where he is ready and comfortable to seek help for whatever substance abuse issues he has
And also get back to a healthy position to move forward apart from that um I love the fact that this album is sort of like a balancing act for Mac Miller where you’re really seeing the light and dark elements of his life for example looking at 100 grandkids or looking at
The weekend in comparison to like him facing the harsh reality of his lifestyle on Perfect Circle godspeed um and there’s also too many bangers for me to put this any lower on my list there’s hype songs there’s deep there’s deep inward looking songs a cohesive theme throughout it contemporary trap
Instrumentals Jazz sample sprinkled all throughout it I don’t know what more you could expect out of a studio album for Mac Miller um just incredible music from beginning to end so that’s number five let’s get into the top four all right top four and number four I have watching
Movies with the sound off what do you guys I have watching movies with the sound off very interesting so I think we’re going to have a very similar top three it might be from four to one all the same from four to one all the same I was debating putting uh watching movies
In front of circles I’m being honest really wow uh yeah just because of how much I value watching movies so let’s talk about it as a whole like what’s your favorite part um you know of watching movies as a whole like what do you remember like watching movies for is
It maybe like the slick and like abstract lyricism is it the Stacked feature list is it the abstract production um like what do you really love about watching movies everything man just the big leap that he took starting all the way from like the star
Room and the way that he started to play with um shifting his vocal pitches like right away I’m like okay like he’s really going to experiment um to the most on this album and and executed on it really well um apart from that what I really enjoy about the album is the
Soundscape I mean the fact that you’re not only getting ID Labs you’re getting ID Labs but you’re also getting The Alchemist and you’re getting clam’s casino and you’re getting people that are really providing this psychedelic soundscape that has you know these dissonant chords and has these sort of
Warped guitars and trippy sins and it’s just in terms of World building it’s perfect because MC Miller on a song like Aven for example he’s wondering why birds fly and then on the next song I’m not real he’s expressing not feeling human or not feeling like the people
Around it’s a bit of an offsetting album as it is an off Alum where it feels like you’re literally like because the whole thing of watching movies with the sound off is that that’s how we like to create this album he would have football games and like nature movies on the background
On his TV without any sound on it and it was also it was also a massive step for him as Larry fisherman because he did produce a bunch of tracks on here um whether it was aquarium um whether was remember as well um he also produced suplexes inside of complexes and
Duplexes with jron that’s a fantastic song as well but also I like the variety of different tracks that going to get on here because yes you do get lyrical Excellence on songs like red dot music G’s watching movies but you’re also going to get some beautiful ballots like
Objects in the mirror um extremely heartfelt song and one of the most um iconic songs in MC Miller’s career so also The Duality of what he was able to provide I feel like was a massive stepping stone into what he was able to explore into the future like without
Watching movies you know you don’t get a lot of other projects and I feel like that’s maybe a narrative for a lot of the Ys cuz that’s how Evolution Works without one project you don’t have to but this was a massive stepping point in 2013 it was because his mic presence
Completely changed on this album like he wasn’t afraid to um have more disjointed flows if he needed to he wasn’t afraid to change the way his voice sounded like he really took all the risk that he needed to and I feel like um the maturity level was raised as well
Because you’re getting this philosophical MC Miller where he’s having like an existential crisis throughout the album and it’s just really well written really well produced um one of my one of my favorites to go back to absolutely um but okay let’s go on to number three now so number three
That’s where I’m going to have circles that’s where I’m going to have circles I think we’re going to have the same order from this point on yeah so uh what’s there not to say about circles we’ve spoken about this album at length this is obviously MC Miller’s only postumus
Release um but what’s interesting about this album is that um it was actually almost completed there was only a couple of different finishing touches that John Bryan who also worked on movie scores and albums like let registration help help finish after the passing of Mac
Miller and um it’s just like it’s one of those Mac Miller albums where like what the [ __ ] going on here you know it was so hard because when I was doing my notes and I was going back and I’m like what type of rap album is this is it
Even a rap album is it is it an alternative rock album you know you get elements of folk in here you get all elements of funk in here you get elements of R&B you get singing performan you get rapping performances it’s just it’s all over the place as far
As a Sonic sound ske but yet it feels so cohesive it feels so pure and what’s interesting is that as a companion album to swimming this could have not been more fitting if I’m being honest with you and it perfectly describes the perfect evolution of Mac Miller’s
Artistry all the way until the end of his career so if this would have been able to like maybe see a bit more development or who knows what would have happened if MC Miller was still alive maybe the track list would have changed but for the most part what was released
Is one of his best albums ever the replay value on this album is absolutely perfect there is not a single Mediocre song on this album there’s not a single one I’m being completely honest with you this is an album where you have to play it from from start to finish and get
Everything you could out of it yeah I I said earlier how like I feel like divine feminine was sort of um comparable to Tyler’s Flower Boy and I feel like circles is comparable to Tyler’s eagor in the sense that there is no boundaries there is no limits to the genres just
That if anything MC Miller goes into even more genres than Tyler did on this album and it just showed you like wow like he reached his Peak form here like he reached the the Superman level where he could have made a funk album if he
Wanted to he could have made a soft rock album if he chose to in the future like it was always tragic for me to re listen to this album not because it was poisly released but just because it showed you that he had reached that peak level of
Evolution like now he’s ready to spread his wings and almost graduate from Hip Hop if that makes sense and go wherever he needed to go ex and if you listen to the sound on this album I’ve spoken about this to you before like you look at certain artists right now that have
Great careers example like a m DeMarco for example or whoever the case may be that attacks kind of a similar soundscape to what Mac Miller was doing on circles like think about where MC Miller’s career would be you know like after this project if he was able to
Live it out and see it out who knows what type of projects he would have been able to release after this and where he would have gone with it then who knows what type of other genres he would bring into the future projects and what he was
Going to be able to do with the Sonic soundscapes and how he was going to be able to bend it all together that that’s what I love about this project is that it’s sort of like um it’s the it’s the sad ending to a movie not because like
Of anything in particular it’s just like what could have been like it it it makes like it constantly Ponders your mind like geez like he would have had like one of the greatest careers he did have one of the greatest careers in hip-hop but just like where else could have it
Gone you know being at such a young age and I I just I think that like you said the Artistry is at an all-time high on this project it’s really something speci it really is the mus the musicality the bright colorful texture the synth pads the uh the dreamy strings all of that
You know Mac Miller and John Bryan brought to the table was incredible and it sounded like MC Miller recorded it in heaven and I’m not saying that again because it was prous released but because of how Angelic and tender the vocals are throughout it and the fact
That it sounded like he found inner peace that’s why it’s a perfect companion piece to swimming is that all of like the self-doubt and insecurities and heartbreak he was facing on swimming it felt like on cir for the most part he was understanding how to cope with a lot
Of the pain so um circles is a beautiful beautiful album and um no recency bias with it it’s been four years at this point we could safely put it at number three all right you want to go on number two number two faces the best Mac Miller
Mixtape of all time and one of his best rap albums like pure rapping albums of all uh this album’s scary low key um I listened to this album under the influence of psychedelics and like it completely changed my pers perspective that is something you have to try one
Day you have probably like I imagine it being the Perfect album to listen to when you’re it’s very it depends how you are with psychedelics you can get very dark and it could like there’s so many for you oh yeah like because there’s so many light and dark I’m assuming right
Yes absolutely because you have so many little different twists and turns and crevices in this track list and like even MC Miller admitted it he was like I was not here like while I made this project it’s completely different than anything I’ve ever made and you know what’s [ __ ] crazy this song this
Album is like well should I say mixtape it’s 20 songs plus MH and there’s no skips yep SK mixe skipless mixtape but the amount of value that you get out of this project is like at an all-time high you know what do you want to talk you
Want to talk about funeral you want to talk about wedding uh you want to talk about therapy you want to talk about Diablo like there’s just there’s some rain Uber uh you know faces V oh my goodness just and Insomniac what a what a crazy [ __ ] track list and that’s
What I like about it is that like it it’s so so unique to MC Miller’s discography that a project like this can never even be recreated it is so [ __ ] up to listen all like the movie samples he’s bringing in there like the Bill Murray one um what I love about this
This project too is that there’s so many different ways you can interpret um what the faces mean you can interpret it as like this is like what the types of Faces Mac Miller needs to put on while he’s in public masking him being [ __ ] up off of drugs you could also look at
It too like a different way that I heard it like this was a cool interpretation is like M Miller like talks about all the faces that he’s met in his life and like how they all coincide into like one emotion and one track list which really
[ __ ] up to think about and all the types of different things and like energies he’s taken from people around him good or bad into one track list how nuts is that it is it is and um yeah even if you look at like the different song titles and the way that the track
List actually flows it’s almost like he put an entire life span into the project in terms of you having like happy birthday wedding funeral Grand Finale like it’s almost like um Life Death afterlife throughout that track and like how tragic or how triumphant it could be and that’s the beautifulity of the track
List is that yeah like that that’s what I was talking about being on psychedelics and listening to this there’s so many little crevices and you have to listen to it try it one day I’m telling you I can only imagine like I feel like I’m on a [ __ ] sick drug
Trip just listening to it sober I can only imagine imag of uh anything you want to take to psychedelic stuff nothing more than that but that’s what I’m trying to tell you is that and I’m not promoting drugs whatsoever on this you please you know be cautious with
That type of stuff but that’s what really made me change my perspective on this project and it’s been a main state for me and there’s like uh going back to songs Like Rain like the pain you’re able to feel uh through MC Miller’s voice like it’s so genuine it’s so Ron
Like he just doesn’t give a [ __ ] throughout the entire project literally does not a f the enti there’s so many dualities to it there’s so many little things to it that you only pick up with each and every single listen and that’s what I want to say about it
Especially for this discography ranking it’s the project in his in like in his Arsenal that I feel like it grows more and more with every single listen you find something new there’s almost a little Easter egg at very layer it’s a very layered and nuanced album um would you say would you
Say it’s the most layered and nuanced out of every Mac Miller it proba is there’s the most Easter eggs that you could find within it in terms of again production sample choices um lyricism itself um and all the features bro like him getting that cast of Rick Ross the
Real sweatshirt of Vince Staples like these are all the guys that he he raps best with alongside like you you couldn’t draw up an album being better like this for MC Miller like you can’t absolutely but yeah let’s go into our number one which no surprise swimming swimming by Mac Miller 2018
Release um devastating to listen to in the aftermath of his passing of course but um to me this was MC Miller really um getting deeper than he ever had before obviously you had introspective songs all across his career on good am on watching movies macadelic Etc but on
This album it really felt like he had reached um the lowest of the lows and that he was doing everything in his power to keep his head above above water and to keep so we’ve spoken about this project yeah so many different times um but let me ask you this one last
Question maybe to end off like the segment with swimming because it’s obviously number one and you guys know why we enjoy it so much what sets it apart from every other album for you that you’re like well this is the clear number one and it’s going to stay like
This forever you know um yeah again just the fact that it’s uh it serves as like a therapy session for M Miller like it just so unique in the experience that um he takes us through without it but what about you what makes it stand out I I
Love the like how profound the writing is that’s something that I’ve always really appreciated and like you said you could find that on a good am you could find that on a macadelic you’ll find it on faces um but just the emotional depth that he’s able to dive into for this
Project is absolutely incredible the production choices all the way throughout um the elements of funk and you know all the baselines throughout it you know the beautiful drum patterns it’s really one of the best produced Mac Miller albums as well so that duality of personality and also profoundness with
The project throughout his writing mixed in with the fact that it’s one of his best produced albums ever because it’s a companion album to circles which is arguably his best produced album ever it’s like a perfect like that is a perfect Mac Miller album you can’t get
Better than that and not only that but you’re getting so many different types of varieties from like Mac Miller on this you want more rap Centric focused you know songs you get hurt feelings you get self-care you want more ballades type of performances you’ll get a 2009
So it just it shows the complete the range and Artistry of like what MC Miller could do with a studio what I love about it too is that it’s like he didn’t want to make a mainam pop album and get like massive features on it cuz realistically there’s only like hidden
Features and there’s like two of them on the album but he was really selective in the producers that brought in maybe it was just one instrument for a song that made the world of a difference looking at what Thundercat did with the Epic Baseline on what’s the use or looking at
What John Mayer did for the beautiful guitar strings on Small World so I love that he almost prioritized the soundscape being so impressive and all he had to do was sort of sing or rap about his pain and his current state of mind and um again MC Miller really
Brought it to another level of depth and of nuance lyrically that we didn’t know was possible and um yeah it’s just uh Unforgettable Mac Miller album experience and we could that goes for any single one of these projects guys if you have not gone through spes watching
Movies with a sound off good am no matter what the project is there is value um in every single one of these even go through delusional Thomas delusional Thomas is a fun listen it’s a fun listen it’s just that like it was hard to absolutely include everything or
Else this episode would be three hours long but um yeah we went through his multi iconic projects and uh and albums I think it was fitting to do this especially that you guys have been asking for this you know episode for such a long time I think it’s like two
Years in the making that we’re promising you this episode so we’re finally happy to deliver it with that being said guys we are going to be doing more episodes just like this on the plus channel so with that being said subscribe and hit the notification Bell to keep up with
All of our uploads um we are Mass Mac Miller fan so to be able to do this episode 2 feels really good you know I always love going through Max discography it’s one of my favorite cataloges to go through so I hope you guys enjoyed this episode so this Lou we
Appreciate you guys and we’ll catch you in the next one peace
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