I remember feeling so immersed in the horns and the layering of piano on Watching Movies with the Sound Off and The Divine Feminine.
Sidney Madden: I think the fact that he was so ready to get into the space and start rehearsing with the string players shows his commitment to his musicality and respect for live instrumentation - aside from his raps, that's always something that piqued my interest when I'd give any of his new records a first spin. Placing Thundercat on the shaker for the first song was a game-time decision that came from one of those jokes - if you look closely at the piano player, Javad Day and Mac during "Small Worlds," you'll catch them snickering as Thundercat opens up on that shaker! We literally had to hit 'pause' on the antics in order to get the instrumentation situated. There was a very endearing dynamic between Mac and Thundercat on- and off-camera they were constantly trying to one-up each other with the jokes. Thundercat and Mac Miller after their Tiny Desk Concert performance. He told me that he was a little nervous - this was the first time they would perform these songs live. He wanted to get to the desk, and that's where they stayed.
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I carved out some extra space for Mac to get situated, but he wasn't interested. I showed them to the green room, where he met the four string players for the first time, greeting them graciously.
Thundercat, who joined him on bass, had performed solo at the Desk just a few months prior, so he was able to brief Mac on what was to come and totally break the ice.
They all arrived as a unit and exited their Sprinter giggling like high schoolers. I understand and respect that approach, but Mac Miller was the polar opposite. I've produced plenty of acts at the Tiny Desk where the artist wants to get into the green room, relax, or get into a zone right up until performance time. The conversation below is a reflection on Miller's legacy from two NPR Music staffers: Sidney Madden, who covers hip-hop for the site, and Bobby Carter, who produced Miller's August Tiny Desk Concert, which would turn out to be one of the artist's final performances.īobby Carter: Mac and his team had just hopped off of a coast-to-coast flight, but were really eager to see the desk and to play. Nightfall Records is inviting visual artists "to come and paint, create draw live tribute art," and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the playground's namesake slide has gotten a fresh coat of blue paint for the occasion. Miller's music will be played chronologically, interspersed with tributes from those whose lives he affected. Tonight, a public vigil organized by Pittsburgh label Nightfall Records will be held at the city's Blue Slide Playground inside Frick Park, a frequent childhood hangout spot of Miller's that inspired the title and content of his debut album, 2011's Blue Slide Park. But as he matured, on albums such as Watching Movies with the Sound Off, The Divine Feminine and this summer's Swimming, Miller experimented in R&B and funk and explored love, depression and candid honesty when it came to his own battles. Above all else, his early work represented the fumbling freedom of adolescence - skipping school, finding a first love and dreams of getting rich through rap. on the Pittsburgh indie Rostrum Records, belied an appreciation for '90s boom-bap and an endearing, infectious and, at times, naive outlook on life. His earliest releases, especially his breakthrough 2010 mixtape K.I.D.S. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Mac Miller was trained in piano from the age of 6 and went on to teach himself drums, guitar and beat production.
Cole, relative newcomers like Ugly God and Lil Xan and titans from outside hip-hop like Elton John and Solange - were echoes of one another, invariably describing him as a sweet, easygoing individual with an innate gift for music. Reactions to the news - from peers like Drake, Childish Gambino and J. His fans, who had heard Miller openly address drug use in interviews and in his music for years, immediately speculated that the cause was an overdose, though postmortem toxicology tests have not been released. Last Friday, rapper and producer Mac Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick, was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home. An illustration of Mac Miller, drawn during his Tiny Desk Concert performance in Aug.
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