I’m probably going to cry a few times during
the course of this thing
I’m an emotional guy
Funny though because I always get the question
of like
You’re white? How did you start rapping?
And to me it was never like a weird thing
I guess
I just never really thought about it
Like I obviously like knew most rappers aren’t
white
But I wasn’t like should I be doing this?
On the other side I think I get a benefit
From being white
I think that white kids can see me and see
themselves like
That could be me
So I mean I think that was a huge boost for
me
And a guilty thing when I was coming up
Like ah fuck am I only here because I’m
white
Is that the only reason
So yeah I think I had to prove to myself that I
was more than just
A white guy that is lucky because he’s white
Damn Mac Miller is super lonely in New York
Nobody lives with him
Just him and his two cats
See in my old days I would hire somebody for
this
But I’m trying to get some real life experiences
Drove my own UHaul
Everybody’s got to grow up some time
But I was an easy target
I admit that like
I don’t know what changed I think
I think I just got more conceptual with what
I was doing
People just started maybe getting how real
everything was to me I’d say
I think I just kinda started giving more of
myself and who like
Who I actually am
Could you give me like a little bit of reverb
And I think like it also became one of those
things
Where I got like so much negativity
That it almost became like okay
There’s no point to overly hate on this
dude
When we actually see what he’s doing
Then when you look in there there’s some
good music there
You know what’s a lot of it I always have
respect for my peers
It almost becomes like if the people you love
fuck with me
Maybe you might not be correct in your assumptions you know
Fuck
Probably should've woke up went to work but I didn't
I probably shouldv'e saved a little money
I didn't
Probably shouldn't be high everyday but
It’s my hats off to all the people that
did like champion me
And did say you know what we fuck with him
And it’s real
I think for me I just wanted to get as far
away from home as I could
Like I went out there I started recording
Macadelic
And I just loved the environment and I was
like I’m staying
Certain energy out there that’s beautiful
and unmatched anywhere else
So I think I just you know I caught the vibes
you know like
And just wanted to ride it out and see where
it went
And it went to places I could never imagine
To have all that space is a pro and a con
Depending on how you look at it
But it’s really just something within myself
That was the thing that initially
That I liked for a while
But that’s more dangerous than actually
LA is
Just kind of sitting there by myself all the
time
You know it just becomes like
It becomes toxic
It started by me just sitting inside all day
And then it’s like then you get bored
Then you’re like well I could just be high
And I could have a whole adventure in this
room
I’m always like if somebody like you wanna
try this
And I’m like yeah sure
And then it just kind of fucks you up when
you have a bunch of money
Cause like you try a drug and you like it
Then you can buy a lot of it you know so I
went through about everything
Let me clear a couple of things here
There’s a lot of people talking about me
being on drugs
Look at me
Do I like I’m on drugs to you?
Not on drugs
Drugs are on me, alright?
That was a fucking quote
That was a quote
At one point weed didn’t relax me from everything
It made me more paranoid about all the shit
happening
Right so like
I needed to get a drug that was a little more
numbing if you will
And less like in your head
So yeah that’s I think that’s what really
sparked me doing drugs
Is because I hate being sober
I wanted a drug to do
Nah this is too much though nah like this
is the pure
No no no I’m saying I’m saying that’s
how pure the ocean
No you’re not listening to me this is not
This is not even the one that you think is it
This is the one that's really it
Listen to me I’m your brother this right
here
I’ll taste I’ll let you know
You’re gonna miss a couple of shows
No way
This is perfect this is mud
I rather be the corny white rapper than the
drugged out mess
Who can’t even get out of his house
Overdosing is just not cool
There’s no legendary romance
You don’t go down in history because you
overdosed
You just die
When you stop making excuses for myself that’s
really when it was
When it’s like I step out and look at how
this looks to someone
Who doesn’t have any idea that I’m famous
or whatever
Just like walks in and looks at the situation
They’re gonna be this is fucked up you know
Being able to admit that that’s not the
way to live
And you can still have fun I mean I’m not
fucking sober
I get fucked up like let’s keep it real
I get super fucked up
Still all the time that will never stop
But I am just in control of my life
I am not fucked up right now
I am chilling
I spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh towards
around finishing the album
Just like hanging out with my friends that
I grew up with
And everyone and going out and drinking
Being around people that I’ve known for
a long time and that just
That feels nice
It’s great to drive around without a GPS
It’s great to fucking know where to go to
get anything at any time
It’s great to go back to places you ran
around as a kid in as an adult
I don’t know man there’s no better thing
than having
Your hometown love you I think the love me
I hope they do
I love them
Please welcome international recording artist
and Pittsburgh native
Mac Miller
Steeler’s nation wave those terrible towels
I wanna be positive as a human being
And through music but I also want to have
low points it’s like an ascension
There’s moments when they get dark
Because it’s not
Nothing is all good
Are these albums not having the cut all highly drug induced albums
Definitely
Are they great definitely
You know I’m not gonna take anything away
from the shit that I went through
To make these albums
I’m not going to write them off just because
I was on drugs
Because I went through too much emotionally
and mentally
and negative against me physically to act
like it was for nothing
I went all over
Performing right
But there’s special there’s something
that’s the most important
There’s something that’s my favorite thing
in the motherfucking world
To perform is Pittsburgh you feel me
When I come home I want to see shit be the
craziest that I’ve ever seen
In my motherfucking life
Yeah am I real rapper? Yeah that’s what
I am I’m out here
I have complete confidence in my ability
I’m not tripping on having to overflex or
anything
I have accomplishments and they speak for
themselves
And I have music and it speaks for itself
Man I must be a real rapper
