“Funeral”, for example, is a highly-popular track by Miller. Though that’s not to say they aren’t catchy in their own ways.
“Happy Birthday”, “Wedding” and “Funeral” tend to blend together with their paces and beginnings. “Therapy” is more of a dance mix that has less rap but features a higher-quality chorus. The pace for both songs is fast and catchy, but “Polo Jeans” is a one-verse-after-another type of rap that’s hard to catch onto consisting of a basic chorus. “Therapy” with a typical pop beat is followed by the heavy rap song “Polo Jeans”, featuring Earl Sweatshirt. Although the transition from the speech into a slow-rising beat in Miller’s song is magnificent, the lyrics come up a bit dry in this one.
Not only is it surreal that Miller rapped a lot about death only a few years before his own untimely passing, but the deep message behind the idea of everyone being bound to die tends to shake people up.Īt the beginning of the next song, “It Just Doesn’t Matter”, Miller includes the famous comical speech by Bill Murray in the movie “Meatballs”. Obviously, some of the lyrics are basic rapper cliches involving a lot of cuss words and stories of drugs and sex however, the verse when Miller raps “Mirror mirror on the wall, I’m staring at a dead man” drives a sense of reality into the listener’s soul.
“What Do You Do”, featuring Sir Michael Rocks, surrounds a deeper background of interpretation. The steady rhythm and jam you feel when you listen to “Friends”, “Angel Dust” and “Malibu” back to back is an angelic creation which you can feel throughout your entire being.
Miller is not known for creating monumental lyrics-they are purely random most of the time-rather he is more known for the actual sounds and flow of the music in each track which always grabs the listeners’ attention. The song’s lyrics are a bit odd though, surrounding random moments of Miller’s life before and during the drugs. “Friends”, which features rapper ScHoolboy Q, is the third most streamed song on the re-released album. Miller’s confidence in this song goes along with the catchy tune as he chants about being “the greatest” and the “hardest working person in the universe.” It is even quite comical when he ends a verse by saying “I did it all without a Drake feature.” The second starter song, “Here We Go”, starts off with a quote, “Be without fear in the face of your enemies …”, which really sets the scene for what this album’s target message will be based on.
However, the lyrics “I shoulda died already” did seem to hurt the fans a bit, thinking about Mac Miller’s death in 2018. “Inside Out” hits the listeners with a steady drum beat and a catchy jazz backtrack that will rock your world. Start your journey with “Inside Outside” as you enter into the mind of the Pittsburgh-originated rapper and record-producer. Stick your headphones in, dim the lights, close your eyes and click play. It was a freak-out fest for any Miller fans out there, almost as iconic as Kanye’s release of the highly-anticipated “Donda” album this year. Fans were surprised with its sudden placement on Spotify, Apple Music and its availability to be bought in vinyl formats. That was until more than seven years later, with its posthumous revival on Oct. The album was independently released by Miller under his alias, Larry Fisherman, but due to it being composed of mixtapes mostly, there was a lot of red tape preventing him from releasing it on streaming platforms. Miller’s “Faces” was originally released on May 11, 2014, but had not been available on vinyl or streaming platforms.
The official album cover for Mac Miller’s album “Faces”.