The only feature that was made together was with Ab-Soul. Sha Money XL did a joint Sounwave did a couple Frank Dukes did a bunch of shit on it because he’s fucking crazy with it. I didn’t do any of the beats on this one. I went back home and worked with the home team. MM: As far as production ID Labs did six of them. HT: So tell us about the people you worked with on this album. A lot of people are like “Having fun is corny.” Nah dude, having fun is tight and it’s way better than being depressed. So I wanted this album to be more upbeat and fun. I had to get myself in a state of mind that was comfortable with myself and what my life is. MM: It’s been in the process of being created for a long time, and I wanted my next statement to come from a place of confidence. HT: What sparked you to do music again during those two years?
To come out and do the first major and have all of these really big players a part of it - maybe at some point, like maybe at some point I’ll sit and work with Timbo and shit - but it’s not time for that yet. It’s just me doing the same shit I’ve always done and that was really important to me. There’s nothing different in the way that things are done. MM: No we set everything up so I’d have complete creative control.
GOOD AM MAC MILLER WALLPAPER FULL
How’s transition been like? Sometimes with a major you don’t have full creative control – HT: So this is obviously your first project being signed to a major. The full interview can be read on HYPETRAK. Recently, the 23 year-old Pittsburgh native was able to sit down with HYPETRAK to discuss his two year hiatus, the transition between moving from an independent to a major label and his growth as an artist. He’s never preachy, though: He sounds refreshed and rejuvenated, like someone who has been going for daily walks, eating veggies and drinking fruit smoothies every day.Coming off of his latest album drop GO:OD AM, Mac Miller has been on an interesting journey as of late. "Everybody saying I need rehab/ So I’m speeding with a blindfold on/ It won’t be long before they watching me crash/ And they don’t wanna see that," he raps, thanking the people that got him through the toughest time of his life. On "God Speed", the album’s standout track, he pays tribute to the close friends in his Most Dope Family, especially his right hand man Q, and it’s genuinely touching. The interlude before "God Speed" includes a voicemail from his brother, checking in on him at a low point in his life, and later on in the song, he admits: "White lines be numbing them dark times/ Them pills that I’m popping, I need to man up/ Admit it’s a problem, I need a wake up/ Before one morning, I don’t wake up." It’s funny to hear a 23-year-old who just kicked his habit and could be considered a kid himself refer regretfully to "all the kids doing drugs" on "In the Bag", but Mac has enough of his sense of humor intact to keep the album from playing like a D.A.R.E. "I’ve seen some motherfucking shit," he warns on "Two Matches". Lyrically, Mac offers a music industry "Scared Straight". Miller said he recorded 400 songs for Watching, and sometimes you couldn’t help but wonder about the selection process ( "Objects in the Mirror"?) but on GO:OD AM, he’s learned to self-edit. The beats on GO:OD AM have a New York, boom-bap feel, with lots of jazz samples and harder drums, and it’s both more varied and more upbeat, from the trap-sounding beats of "When in Rome" or the Chief Keef-featuring "Cut the Check" to love songs like "ROS" or the Miguel collaboration "The Weekend". Getting through the 16 tracks on Blue Slide Park was like an endurance test, and even the deeper and much-improved Watching Movies started to sound interchangeable before it ended. From start to finish, this is his most refined and well put-together project.
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