Years After His Death, I Finally Get What Mac Miller Was Saying

Years After His Death, I Finally Get What Mac Miller Was Saying

I didn’t sit down to write this. I sat down to listen. I put Mac Miller on shuffle with no plan or angle, and somewhere between K.I.D.S. and Swimming, it hit me: I had been underestimating just how much he carried. Years after his passing, the records don’t feel archived; they feel present, as if they’ve grown up alongside me and now speak back with renewed patience and clarity. That’s why I’m writing this — because revisiting his catalog tonigh…