It's a normal rap album, sure, but as listeners we should strive for more than a no-stakes work by a guy wearing the same streetwear brands and snapbacks as everyone else, who has merely found a niche and exploited it. Miller's world is a hermetic one, and unless it's one you inhabit, the album holds no appeal.

Before you consider that to be a noble pursuit, the album could've used somebody, anybody, to break up the monotony of Miller on the mic. 1 rap album, that is basically unheard-of. For a contemporary rap album, let alone a No. Consider the fact that Blue Slide Park has not one feature- not a guest verse or chorus. If that fanbase is interacting less with rap music, then maybe they've rallied around Miller because he also barely engages with the wider rap world. The pop world has left rap behind, save four or five rappers, and it's opened a door for someone like Mac Miller to seize the college-aged, white-male fanbase.

That interaction may have involved an unhealthy appreciation for Jurassic 5, but it also involved rocking YoungbloodZ and Ying Yang Twins songs at parties. Mac Miller is beloved in his home city of Pittsburgh, immortalized by his timeless music and memorial in his 2011 debut albumвЂ™s namesake, Blue Slide Park. Mac Miller has been called 'frat rap,' and while there's a slight truth to that, the term leaves unacknowledged the fact that frat guys used to engage with the rap world writ large. Unless you buy into Miller's persona- and why would you?- Blue Slide Park offers you nothing that you can't find done more much artfully by, say, Curren$y. But it does raise the question of why Miller is so popular, because despite his claim of being a cross between John Lennon and UGK, he's mostly just a crushingly bland, more intolerable version of Wiz Khalifa without the chops, desire, or pocketbook for enjoyable singles. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with that it is rap music, of course. He lusts after fame, money, and women, and he smokes weed and parties. Forget Eminem, Miller's point of view is less unique than Asher Roth's or Childish Gambino's. He is an outsider, but he brings no outsider's perspective to his music. #vigil 's a presumptive conclusion, but it's hard to find much, if anything, in Miller's music that suggests otherwise. Mac Miller's grandmother speaks at a vigil held for him at Blue Slide Park.'He loves you all, he loves Pittsburgh and everything you have done for him.' /XqysxmRr5JДЇans of rapper Mac Miller, who died of an apparent overdose at the age of 26, gather for a vigil at Blue Slide Park in Frick Park Tuesday, Sept. Support Ukraine, support Ukrainian artists. I used only 6 colors to create the image. a minimalist take on Mac Millers blue slide park album cover. #PressPlay to stream more from the Mac Miller tribute at Pittsburgh Blue Slide Park Buy 'Blue Slide Park' by BagelStudios as a Pullover Hoodie. RELATED: Fans & Celebrities Remember Mac Miller On His 27th Birthday GUYS THEY CHANGED BLUE SLIDE PARK TO BLUE SLIDE PARK рџрџ™ЏрџЏјрџ’™ /asY36eev0y 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first independently-distributed debut album to do so this century. IвЂ™ll be taking photos the entire time YouвЂ™ll have so many memories of the lovely city. In addition to the playground hosting his vigil, the late rapper also dedicated his 2011 album to the site a record-setting album that hit No. Pittsburgh - We will meet at the blue slide playground and get started Who wouldnвЂ™t want to slide down that blue slide while getting your picture taken for a life long memory of Frick Park We can continue walking through the park talking and remembering Mac Miller as we take in the hillside scenery. RELATED: Mac MillerвЂ™s Grandmother Speaks To Fans At Vigil: вЂHe Loves You All, He Loves PittsburghвЂ™

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