In high school, he decided to focus on his rap career, later noting, "Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely. He first started rapping at the age of fourteen. While he and his brother were raised Jewish, he attended a Catholic grade school to "ensure a good education and a chance to play football and lacrosse." He later went to Winchester Thurston School, and graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School.Ī self-taught musician, Miller played piano, guitar, drums, and bass by the age of six. His mother is Jewish, and his father is Christian. He was the son of Karen Meyers, a photographer, and Mark McCormick, an architect, and had an older brother, Miller. Malcolm James McCormick was born on January 19, 1992, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. On September 7, 2018, Miller died from an accidental drug overdose of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol at his home, aged 26. Miller struggled with substance abuse, which was often referenced in his lyrics.
He also served as a record producer for various artists, including himself, under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. For Swimming, he was posthumously nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. With them, he released four studio albums: GO:OD AM (2015), The Divine Feminine (2016), Swimming (2018), and the posthumous Circles (2020). After his second studio album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), he left Rostrum and signed with the major label Warner Bros. In 2013, he founded the record label imprint REMember Music. Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. Miller began his career in Pittsburgh's hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of fifteen.
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Malcolm James McCormick (Janu– September 7, 2018), known professionally as Mac Miller, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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