September 9, 2018
"You never told me being rich was so lonely/Nobody know me, oh well/Hard to complain from this five star hotel..."
"Mac Miller, the Pittsburgh-born rapper who developed a ravenous following over the course of five successful albums, died Friday of an apparent overdose in his Los Angeles home, multiple outlets have reported. He was 26 years old." (NPR).
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They were hungry for more?
Or so I garner.
-XC
Whatever.
I can usually figure out our hostesses interest in her choice of topics. This eludes me.
Sad but that music is unlistenable.
Never knew of. Unique sound. Sorry about the apparent overdose. Sounds like apparent overdoses are nearly as bad as actual overdoses.
...but while both apparent and actual overdoses are bad, prosecuting crimes like drug dealing are far worse, according to our future betters...
Maybe he was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
What is the ethical difference between dying from an "apparent overdose" and committing actual suicide?
Does the piano / keyboard player have some neurological condition that causes constant head bobbing?
He's hunkered over the keys like he's playing a lively version of "Rhapsody In Blue" instead of, basically, the same repetitive chords.
Our celebrities are incredibly dull.
"died Friday of an apparent overdose"
Okay, someone has to say it. So, cue it,
He died doing what he loved most.
I thought 27 was the preferred age for music stars to die? Oh well, close.
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
Ann’s tags are especially apt. Rap is the death of music.
should White Boys be ALLOWED to STEAL from other cultures ?
Shouldn't we all be GLAD that this thief is gone?
Heroin Overdoses are the property of The Black Man
Tragic. What did you say his name was?
I texted my son in college to see if he had heard of the guy. My son was devastated, he had become a big fan and was looking forward to seeing the guy in concert.
I find these "so what" comments disturbing. This was a talented kid and no doubt had people and family who loved him.
Drugs have no compassion for the weak-minded.
rehalam points out that:
Suffolk District Attorney candidate Rachael Rollins’ “decline to prosecute” list
lists 15 criminal offenses on her campaign website that she says she won’t prosecute if elected — including resisting arrest, drug dealing, larceny under $250 and trespassing.
hmmm, if we make it LEGAL (unprosecutable) to resist arrest;
will that increase the number of people resisting?
will that increase the number of people shot by cops (while resisting)?
the Good News is! apparently, you'll be able to steal hundreds of dollars worth of drugs from the dealer that is trespassing on your property (?)
seriously, is she saying that if you go into a store, and steal $249 worth of Mac Miller CD's, while SELLING drugs IN the store; that the police WON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
seriously, is she saying that if you go into a store, and steal $249 worth of Mac Miller CD's, while SELLING drugs IN the store; that the police WON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
The cops might/will still arrest you but the DAs office won't prosecute you.
May be off subject, but what happens to the tattoos? Does he retain sole rights to the art or does the tat artist now also have a claim, particularly if the art would be destroyed during cremation? Would such cremation represent a crime against humanity like the ISIS destruction of Palmyra? Or was his music the greater crime?
I dunno.
Sure, his family probably loved him, but his drug dealer loved him more.
He's no Mitch!
tomaig said...
"Does the piano / keyboard player have some neurological condition that causes constant head bobbing?"
Yes, it's called "rhythm", and it's known to elude some to such an extent those who possess it find shocking.
Jimmy said...
"I texted my son in college to see if he had heard of the guy. My son was devastated, he had become a big fan and was looking forward to seeing the guy in concert.
I find these "so what" comments disturbing. This was a talented kid and no doubt had people and family who loved him."
My nephew is crushed, so I'm watching him close (I liked Mac Miller the way white Boomers like Foreigner: Ok, but no Zeppelin, right?). You've got to remember: Many in the Althouse crowd are old white guys who have NO IDEA what they're talking about, in regards to rap or music, so take what they say with a grain of salt. The fact, they thought this was rap, should tell you all you need to know about their opinions.
Rob said...
"Ann’s tags are especially apt. Rap is the death of music."
White guys have been saying this since Rap began taking over the world. To which I reply?
HEARD ANY GOOD GUITAR SOLOS LATELY, BOYS? BWAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
"My son was devastated..."
Poor little snowflake. Sounds like he needs a big hug and a hot cup o' cocoa.
His hat says “ Don’t trip.”
That’s some irony right there.
The cops might/will still arrest you but the DAs office won't prosecute you.
She doesn't say it explicitly but I suspect if big pharma and the MBAs were to move in to take advantage of this recreational drug selling opportunity she might selectively alter her policy.
Sad news.
I listen to a lot of the tiny desk concerts. I hadn't run across this one.
I’ll stick with KUSC. No acting black for me. Heading out for bagels in an hour.
The GOP health care plan to replace Obama Care is a morphine overdose for old people. Brett M. Kavanaugh will bring his little league right-wing brain to the Supreme Court, and overturn Roe v. Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams, Ltd. Robin Leach is turning over in his recently dug grave specially designed for the Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. Bon Voyage!
Obama Care will be replaced with a more Modest Proposal to deal with the massive poverty and overpopulation problem facing us, i.e., A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Sounds like a fusion of progressive jazz and rap. Apparently he made a living out of it. Go figure.......Look at the life Mick Jagger has lived vs Brian Jones. Jones missed out on a lot.
What’s the Millennial motto? “Live fast, die young, lleave a beautiful corpse”? Or was that the motto for departed Gen-X people?
The top rapper in the world is currently a white guy who spits words y'all probably can't understand.
It's a beautiful thing.
Rehajm said (in our continuing efforts to hijack this thread):
The cops might/will still arrest you but the DAs office won't prosecute you.
Good thing we won't be charged for resisting arrest!
He didn't die in a drive by shooting. That's a true Valhalla death for a rap star, but this demonstrates the progressive jazz influence on his body of work.
Maybe he was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Hah hah hah hah!
Now that's funny!
@Anthony: He was 26.63 years old, rounds to 27. On the other hand, Hendrix was 27.81, closer to 28.
His ex-girlfriend was the new item at Taco Bell.
William said...
"He didn't die in a drive by shooting. That's a true Valhalla death for a rap star, but this demonstrates the progressive jazz influence on his body of work."
You guys are morons and I say that as not even a fan of the kid. He was getting over heartbreak. I can't wait for someone here to die so I can pile on. I might invite friends over to make it a group activity:
That would be new here,....
"Hendrix was 27.81, closer to 28."
But it's rap that kills music, remember, that's why Rock is dead.
When I was a kid, listening to Rock and lamenting how awful the drummers were, I never imagined improving rhythm in music would get us this evil white guy backlash that would result in them - almost 40 years after rap's emergence - still throwing your bodies on the throne of agony. You guys are worse than the Democrats after losing to Trump.
That's only lasted 2 years - so far.
BTW - another song is being added to the "UnMastered" series, as I write this, and should be up shortly.
Also NOT a rap song.
Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, experts say
Yes we’re morons yet you hang out here with us. Your supposed talents are wasted here. And just because you can type doesn’t make you profound or interesting.
My son cried over this as well. We listened to his music doing errands yesterday and to my untrained ears he really had more talent and creativity than others in that genre. As my son said, he would actually sing in many instances. That, and eclectic arrangements with horns and piano, drew him in. RIP
It's best to quit while you're still at the top of your game. This guy just lived about 25 years too long.
Gotta like that "ravenous following". Drugs will do that.
Trumpit said...
The GOP health care plan to replace Obama Care is a morphine overdose for old people.
Why would old people like myself need Obama Care when I (we) have Medicare?
Rap is not music. Tag needs to be changed.
SteveR said...
"Yes we’re morons yet you hang out here with us."
I have my reasons.
"Your supposed talents are wasted here."
That depends on which ones I'm developing while here.
"And just because you can type doesn’t make you profound or interesting."
I'll compare the number of references I get to the number you do and let's see who's the most "profound or interesting" between us.
I hardly know you exist as it is.
Breezy said...
"My son cried over this as well. We listened to his music doing errands yesterday and to my untrained ears he really had more talent and creativity than others in that genre. As my son said, he would actually sing in many instances. That, and eclectic arrangements with horns and piano, drew him in. RIP"
He had something. He broke out of that movie "Kids" and then ran with it until he was somebody. Pretty amazing.
He'll be missed.
Rap is "a form of expression for people incapable of making music."
Rap is "not music but vociferations, eructations."
Pierre Delanoë
Miller did have an interesting jazz/rap sound, and this...
Donald Trump" is a song by American rapper/singer Mac Miller... The song was dedicated to real estate personality Donald Trump, who, five years after the song's release, was elected as the 45th President of the United States. During Trump's 2016 campaign, the song regained popularity, hitting #28 on the iTunes Charts on November 9, 2016, the day after Trump was elected president. Miller stated in an interview that he was not a supporter of Trump.
The money-inspired hip-hop song refers to business magnate and politician Donald Trump, particularly Mac Miller's ambitions to become wealthy and successful like him ("Take over the world when I'm on my Donald Trump shit/Look at all this money, ain't that some shit?").
The many references to Trump in lyrics have not gone unnoticed by the billionaire. When the song became a Billboard hit, Trump released a YouTube video congratulating the rapper...
In August 2011, shortly after the music video to the song reached 20 million views on YouTube, Donald Trump himself praised the song and branded the young Pittsburgh rapper as "the next Eminem". Mac Miller responded appreciatively, but played down any comparisons between himself and Eminem.
As the song garnered more plays, Trump took a more aggressive tone and demanded royalties for using his name, thereby starting a feud with Miller. In early 2013, Trump threatened the rapper via a series of exchanges on Twitter:
Little @MacMiller, you illegally used my name for your song “Donald Trump” which now has over 75 million hits.
I want the money not the plaque you gave me! I’m now going to teach you a big boy lesson about lawsuits and finance. You ungrateful dog! I have more hair than you do and there’s a slight age difference.
In 2015 Trump changed his attitude toward Miller again when he ended an interview with The Hill by praising Miller's song as it approached 100 million hits.
During Trump's campaign for president in 2016, Mac Miller said on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore that Trump was "such an egomaniacal, attention-thirsty, psychopathic, power-hungry, delusional waste of skin and bones".
Plus, Miller said...
"I'm not going anywhere"
Well, Miller got that one wrong. RIP.
Poor little guy. If only the danger of drug use was well known...
I hope you all know that it isn't the music that is killing people, it is the Fentanyl, Heroin, and other opioids. My son knows many who have died, some whom I had met. It is hard for me to understand, because when I was young in the '70s, everyone knew that heroin could/would kill you. People tried all sorts of things, including opium, but heroin was not big in the suburbs. Now it is here and people are dying.
What I see by way of reaction is a lot of needle-exchange-Narcan-rehab-for-all adjustments. Now I see stories of people dying on their third overdose of the day, after Narcan "saved" them twice. What I do not see is cultural revulsion. I will go to church today and hear about compassion for the homeless (who are largely addicts in the area), but I won't hear a word about the danger to kids in the congregation. People sometimes think that talent and brains can save you from addiction, when all they can do is keep you from starting.
Thousands of talented people die everyday, to little notice. Especially those who's talents are in areas that aren't considered art. Death at a young age is always a tragedy, why we pick out some that aren't particularly special is always a mystery to me.
This artist seems to want to get rich like our President, but doesn't respect the President. But he was young, and lived in an extremely cloistered environment, so self awareness was not something he had developed. Millions of artist toil for little monetary reward, but for the joy of doing. Those are the people I admire, and I haven't even known their work.
Oso Negro alluded to it above, but here is some thread music.
I liked his material. It is sad that there won't be more of it. I hope his death is an object lesson about drug use in this day and age, but I know it won't be.
What I do not see is cultural revulsion.
Lol. This culture has had more chances than it knows or could ever deserve to revolt over the way it lets powerful companies looking to make a buck push every dangerous product on it known to man. It has had more chances to revolt over the lack of any professional or political or personal responsibility when it comes to preventing these things and holding the people who have the most power of them to account.
And it has decided to watch Game of Thrones, tune out, and vote Republican instead.
The natural-born racist Republicans in this comments section apparently didn't listen past the first few minutes. It gets pretty groovy at least by about nine minutes in, where I'm at now. I love that guy's sunburst, hollow-bodied, guitar-shaped six-string bass. That's awesome.
Rap is certainly not (and never was) the death of music but Republicanism is certainly the death of artistry, expression, human relations, compassion, and all sorts of other things that no culture can survive without.
Once Republicans achieve their wet dream of ruling America with an iron fist with their own Minister of Culture and everything, the only songs that will be allowed on the radio will be advertiser jingles, the Lollipop song, and other safe/lame '50s standards.
Once Republicans achieve their wet dream of ruling America with an iron fist with their own Minister of Culture and everything, the only songs that will be allowed on the radio will be advertiser jingles, the Lollipop song, and other safe/lame '50s standards.
Come on, Ritmo, you're a much better writer than that. I'm seeing stale and dead metaphors there. Think of Orwell.
Poor soul..he was just too high strung.
So sad. I wish he could have gotten the help he obviously needed.
Gone but forgotten.
“Rich”
Jesus these people have no idea. Move to New York and work in the finance industry. I have a very good annual income but nowhere near where some of my friends’ are. You get totally inured to the money - it doesn’t even matter anymore.
Remember that scene in Wall Street where Gekko shreds his first class plane tickets? I just had a friend who was given a free, all expense paid cruise on the line’s new luxury liner in one of the top staterooms (he invests in recreation stocks and the company was trying to show how nice its new liner was).
When he and his wife arrived and after the porters had taken their bags to the room, he decided he couldn’t be around all the other people on the ship and disembarked and they just stayed at the Faena in Miami for a week instead.
He tells this story laughingly. Expecting his audience to appreciate his distaste for the hoi polloi.
Point being that this 26yo rapper who made a few million bucks only to OD on fake xanny bars pressed with fent isn’t living any kind of “rich” lifestyle.
Can’t even get good drugs.
Sad that he died and worse to die so young and ignorant.
I'm sort of an old Tea Party white dude who sings a mostly Sensitive Singer Songwriter set list at open mics and small gigs, and this is not my favorite style of music. But that guy was talented (and so is the band). I didn't follow him but this is sad news.
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