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More information is here.Rostrum Records dropped a deluxe edition of Mac Miller's breakout mixtape K.I.D.S on Thursday, adding two new songs in honor of its 10-year anniversary. She’ll be in conversation with fellow hip-hop journalist Grant Rindner. “But to know that he really did enrich every single person’s life, that was really wonderful.”Ĭhesman’s Pittsburgh book event is at 7:30 p.m. Because I knew that he made my life better,” she says. “There was such a love and reverence that everyone I spoke to had for him. Even his music career abides, after a fashion, with the recent re-release of his 2014 mixtape “Faces."Ĭhesman says her big lesson from researching the book was just how much people were drawn to Miller. In Pittsburgh, Miller’s legacy lives on, partly through the Mac Miller Fund. "It's like a gut punch, but it's still a reminder that regardless of any kind of darkness in his themes, there was this prevailing light that he brought to himself and to other," she says. The book embraces the troubled sides of his personality, she says, up to and including his demise. But other than Miller’s mother supplying the book’s cover photo, the estate was not involved in the research and writing, she says. The biography is “authorized” in that it was approved by Miller’s estate, says Chesman. Him inviting a guy like me into his life, finding a place where I existed in his reality … We shared a lot of different things, but as a man he struck me as my kind of guy.” He wasn’t scared of the unknown, a majority of the time. “He was creative, and he exuded a lot of creative energy. “He was a character, but it was so real,” bassist and composer Thundercat, a Miller collaborator, told her.

In 2014, Miller signed to major label Warner Bros.Ĭhesman, now editorial director of music-streaming platform Audiomack, explored Miller’s life through interviews with those who worked with him most closely. While the Taylor Allderdice High School graduate’s first album got mixed reviews, he quickly developed a musical style that drew on psychedelia, and lyrically began exploring his own demons, including depression and substance abuse. He turned to hip hop at 15, and by 18 was signed to Grinberg’s independent label Rostrum Records, then still based in Pittsburgh. Miller grew up in Point Breeze, and famously honored his neighborhood with the song and album both titled “Blue Slide Park”. “The evolution is mind-boggling, it’s astounding, it’s arresting.” “It’s such a massive achievement to go from ‘Nikes On My Feet’ to ‘Woods,’” Chesman says, citing two songs that bracketed Miller’s output during that era. The New Jersey native, who now lives in Philadelphia, calls Miller “my one artist that I feel represents me as a person, all the emotional twists and turns that I’ve gone through.” Chesman, who refers to Miller by his given name, Malcolm, says she intends the book to encourage appreciation of the rapper’s artistic growth during his brief career - from his 2010 mixtape “Kids” to the five studio albums released during his lifetime and 2020’s “Circles,” a posthumous release that went gold and was perhaps Miller’s most critically acclaimed work.ĭonna-Claire Chesman is author of a new biography of Mac Miller. The result is “The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller” (Permuted Press), a biography that blends Chesman’s writing on Miller’s music with oral histories she gathered from more than 30 of his friends and collaborators, including musicians Wiz Khalifa and Thundercat, and record-label owner Benjy Grinberg.Ĭhesman visits Pittsburgh for a live-streamed book event Thursday. “Once that ended, I realized I didn’t want to stop.”

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But even her “Year of Mac” - a series of weekly online articles she wrote about Miller - didn’t suffice. “I realized the only way I personally was going to feel better about this tragedy was to write through it,” she says. But that wasn’t enough, either, in the case of a still-rising music star whose life had ended at age 26, following an accidental drug overdose. Her eulogy “Thank You, Mac Miller” was posted on DJ Booth, the website she worked for at the time.

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But Chesman, who’d loved the top-selling rapper’s music since first hearing it years earlier, knew that as a professional hip-hop writer, she had more to give.