The woozy anxiety of “Friends” captures the pride of winning with the people who've been there all along and the demons that have been there, too: “My grandma probably slap me for the drugs I got/I'm a crackhead but I bought her diamonds, we love rocks.” Such clever turns of phrase make the project a kind of choose-your-own-adventure odyssey. It's a collage of contrasting realities, a mind as capable of creation as it is annihilation. The declaration that he “might die before detox” on “Malibu” is haunting in hindsight, but in the moment, it was precisely that kind of rawness that made him so compelling.įaces captures Miller in transition. Its follow-up Faces, released the following year, continued down that path, with the Pittsburgh rapper both basking in his growing profile and respect-“did it all without a Drake feature” and “did it all without a Jay feature,” he quips on the triumphant “Here We Go”-and grappling with his mortality. The bright, chipper style that marked the earlier part of his career pivoted to darker moods.
When Mac Miller released Watching Movies With the Sound Off in 2013, he'd turned a corner personally and creatively.
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