“Good news-that’s all they want to hear” Miller sings in his glum, relatable mumble on “Good News,” the first single for the new album. It’s like much of the music from the later parts of Miller’s career, but even softer and more plaintive. Circles is a pretty and lived-in amalgam of hip-hop, atmospheric folk, and funk. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it.” Brion had been working closely with Miller, and he presumably understood Miller’s creative vision. “This is a complicated process that has no right answer,” reads the note announcing the album, which is the only bit of promotion Circles has received on Miller’s official social-media channels. The rollout of Circles has been a careful one, though. Posthumous albums are always morally ambiguous objects, as it’s not clear whether the artist would have wanted this music, in this form, to be released. The results appear to deepen the story of how Miller was doing when he died, and how he viewed his own life story. Brion had shaped the aqueous, richly textured sound of Swimming, and after Miller’s death, he completed the songs they had started on for Circles. It was to be titled Circles-“Swimming in Circles was the concept,” his family recently explained in an Instagram post-and it was being made in collaboration with Jon Brion, the composer famous for scoring popular art films and making albums with Fiona Apple and Kanye West. Miller was also working on a companion album to Swimming. “Miller had been working with his sober coach since 2016, and was working out at an L.A. “By all accounts, he was in his best mental and physical condition in years when he died,” Rolling Stone reported. The jazz musician Thundercat spoke of hanging out with Miller a week before his overdose, noting how happy he was. His death came as a shock, and not only because it arrived amid a string of tragedies in hip-hop. The coroner ruled that he’d had an accidental drug overdose, and police have since arrested three men on suspicion of dealing him counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl. Its headline: “Mac Miller Wants You to Know He’s OK.”Ī little more than a month later, Miller was dead. In the summer of 2018, the headlines about the rapper mainly regarded his DUI car crash and his ex Ariana Grande calling her relationship with him “toxic.” But on the first track of Swimming, the album he put out in early August of that year, the 26-year-old conveyed a tentative sense of recovery: “I was drowning, but now I’m swimming / Through stressful waters to relief.” On the day of that album’s release, a Rolling Stone article featured Miller-in the same low-key, self-effacing manner that he rapped and sang in-denying having a serious drug problem.
The cases for the other two involved, Pettit and Walter, are still pending.Mac Miller wanted to change the story.
The hole in my heart will always be there." Reavis was first arrested in Arizona back in 2019, where authorities said they found a fake doctor's notepad, firearms, and drugs including prescription-only pills and marijuana. He wanted to live and was excited about the future. Mac Miller's mother, Karen Meyers, read a statement in court before the sentencing: "He would never knowingly take a pill with fentanyl, ever. In court on Monday, Reavis claimed that he was just a middle man and that he had "no idea" that the pills were counterfeit, per TMZ. The authorities said that Reavis supplied the fatal oxycodone pills to Mac's alleged drug dealer, Cameron Pettit, on orders from Stephen Walter - who also recently pled guilty to distributing fentanyl. He was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months. Reavis had asked for 5 years while prosecutors originally wanted to put him away for 12.5 years. The dealer, named Ryan Reavis, plead guilty back in November to one count of distributing fentanyl. One of the drug dealers that supplied fentanyl-laced pills to Mac Miller has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, according to TMZ.