The results appear to deepen the story of how Miller was doing when he died, and how he viewed his own life story. Brion had shaped the aqueous, richly textured sound of Swimming, and after Miller’s death, he completed the songs they had started on for Circles. It was to be titled Circles-“Swimming in Circles was the concept,” his family recently explained in an Instagram post-and it was being made in collaboration with Jon Brion, the composer famous for scoring popular art films and making albums with Fiona Apple and Kanye West. Miller was also working on a companion album to Swimming. “Miller had been working with his sober coach since 2016, and was working out at an L.A. “By all accounts, he was in his best mental and physical condition in years when he died,” Rolling Stone reported.
The jazz musician Thundercat spoke of hanging out with Miller a week before his overdose, noting how happy he was.
His death came as a shock, and not only because it arrived amid a string of tragedies in hip-hop. The coroner ruled that he’d had an accidental drug overdose, and police have since arrested three men on suspicion of dealing him counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl. Its headline: “Mac Miller Wants You to Know He’s OK.”Ī little more than a month later, Miller was dead.
In the summer of 2018, the headlines about the rapper mainly regarded his DUI car crash and his ex Ariana Grande calling her relationship with him “toxic.” But on the first track of Swimming, the album he put out in early August of that year, the 26-year-old conveyed a tentative sense of recovery: “I was drowning, but now I’m swimming / Through stressful waters to relief.” On the day of that album’s release, a Rolling Stone article featured Miller-in the same low-key, self-effacing manner that he rapped and sang in-denying having a serious drug problem.
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