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(Interview) Mac Miller: Freshest Of ‘Em All

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Age is nothing but a number for Pittsburgh Rapper Mac Miller. His flow is timeless, he knows how to have fun and really, he doesn’t give a F. So, why does it matter if he’s only 19? That’s right, it doesn’t.

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The first  time I heard Mac Miller was on Facebook when I saw his video to “Another Night.” Ever since, I’ve been a fan. I watched this kid get to his 100k followers on Twitter, multiply his Facebook fans, being on the cover of XXL Mag, Ustream the release of his first album, and even his wacky adventures with his MOST DOPE crew on their Funisforeveryone videos. There’s really no telling how far he’s heading into the future but, for now, he’s on the other side of the phone.

Hey Mac! One of your singles is “Donald Trump.” Tell us a bit about that.

I was in the studio with SAP the producer, and he had a really cool sample and we kinda made the song from the scratch. The song just came together really well. We just partied in the studio and the song came from that.

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Mac Miller’s First UK Interview

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Checkout the interview Mac Miller did for a UK radio station the other day. I was listening live and it was awesome when the interview finished because they played “Knock, Knock” and “Black & Yellow” back to back.

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The Hot Seat: Mac Miller (MTVU Interview)

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mac xl The Hot Seat: Mac Miller (MTVU Interview)

1. Tell us about your craziest touring experience?
Adjusting to life on the road has been pretty crazy. It’s a completely different lifestyle and set of responsibilities to take on. The craziest experience was crowd surfing for the first time at Little 500 at Indiana University… It felt surreal.

2. What type of college class would you’d most want to take and why?
Spanish. I wanna speak another language.

3. What city in America is the most fun to visit and why?
Pittsburgh. If you asked me this last year I probably would have said another city. But going home for me is an incredible thing. I feel like I’m visiting cuz I don’t even feel like I live in Pittsburgh, I’m gone so much. Other than Pittsburgh I really enjoyed all the cities I went to in Texas.

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Mac Miller Interview With 24

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With the huge success of of Wiz Khalifa indie label Rostrum Records has been able to grab the attention of the music world and with that attention Rostrum Records is looking to take full advantage. Already creating a bit of a buzz for himself after releasing his project “K.I.D.S.”, Mac Miller is definitely that next big artist on the rise.  Mac Miller was also recently named to XXL Magazine 2011 Top 10 Freshmen Class and has followed that up with his latest mixtape “Best Day Ever” so it was only natural that I got together with Mac Miller for a sit down interview to talk about his rise to stardom.

24: Introduce yourself to the readers and let them know where your from?

Mac Miller: I go by the name of Mac Miller and I’m from Pittsburgh,PA.

24: Growing up who would you say were some of your biggest influences and who would you say was your most influential person that made you say to yourself “You know what I’m going to start rapping and become an artist”?

Mac Miller: Growing up I had all different type of influences like the Beatles to Bob Marley, A Tribe Called Quest and Outkast. But that artist that made me want to start writing and freestyling would definitely have to be Big L!

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The Come Up Show Interviews Mac Miller

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Mac Miller really is the hardest working kid in America. When I interviewed him he just graduated high school and since then he has toured internationally, dropped The Best Day Ever mixtape and is working on another project with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

In our interview he talked about the influence Old School Hip-Hop had on him; artists like Big L, Outkast, and Tribe Called Quest. Why he thinks it’s important to never get ahead of yourself and how shocked he is with his success.

-the come up show

The Flipside: Mac Miller

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Consider this the first of many installments of “The Flipside.” It’s a new series we are bringing here to KarenCivil.com bringing you interviews from some of the more talked about artists today. With only my handy Hello Kitty flip cam in tow, I traveled to Highline Ballroom to catch Mac Miller’s performance last week. Weather be damned, the Pittsburgh upstart performed to a packed house and the energy was insane from the moment he stepped on stage.

Afterwards, I manged to pull Mac away for a few minutes and ask him a few questions in regards to some recent events regarding his name and brand.

- If he puts any pressure on himself to captialize on the XXL nod in similar fashion as Wiz did last year.

- His upcoming role in the VH1 series Single Ladies, how that role came about and if he sees a long-term future in acting.

- His relationship with Just Blaze.

Mac Miller ready to take over world with ‘Best Day Ever’

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Mac Miller promised the kids that 3-11-11 would be the “Best Day Ever” and he delivered on that around 10 p.m. EST time, turning up on Ustream to release the new album by that title.

It’s a slightly different approach than just having the distributor ship the records to the store for the opening on a Tuesday.

Wearing a San Jose Sharks cap he copped from a fan, the 19-year-old Burgh rapper got in front of the camera before an audience of about 22,000 on Ustream to announce that the link for downloading was up on www.bestdayever.com.

All for free…

“I hope I don’t beak the Internet,” he joked, “I like the Internet.”

The Internet was OK, but his site did crash right away and needed to be revived and they had to re-up the album with a song that was missing. According to his Rostrum Records publicist, Arthur Pitt, they did more than 200,000 downloads over the weekend.

Too bad he couldn’t cash in a little on it, because “Best Day Ever” is free is too small a price for work this good.

The beats, mostly from ID Labs, glide along warm, smooth, soulful and old school (think the Roots?) with some nice, snaky basslines and synth play. Miller tops it with his fast, fluid and funny raps, “sweeter than a Krispy Kreme,” ranging from the rap life (“Get Up!”) to the party life (“Wake Up”) to the rare mother-son life (“Oy Vey,” “I’ll Be There”). Is there another rap song with a chorus like “oy vey, holy cow, oh my god, wow”?

The chamber-rap joint with Wiz Khalifa, “Keep Floatin’,” is so chill and hazy you might get a contact high just listening to it. “I bring some color to this world that’s filled with shades of gray,” Miller rightly declares.

The highlight still has to be “Donald Trump,” the thumping single with the sharpest hook that already has 1.5 million hits. “We gonna take over the world/while these haters gettin’ mad,” he raps on that one.

Mac Miller — a Jewish rapper from the Hill… Squirrel Hill — might not be a candidate for a world takeover, but he’s got a nice little chunk of the world right now, and it’s spreading fast.

-post gazette