This is a lesson I learned from Mac Miller time and again, but most crucially from his 2014 opus, Faces. My favorite Mac project, it was the soundtrack to my self-harm, the darkest period of my life, and the consequential soundtrack to my recovery. Decipher: The first song appears to be a Celine Dion crossover, but Ariana Grande often mimics the Canadian pop icon’s vocals during her SNL and Tonight Show appearances. It may well have taught me that the purpose of great writing is to elevate the person receiving it. Mac Miller - What’s the Use (Lyrics) Watch on It’s never too much, you don’t know it when you leave the juice. The mixtape is a paranoid stumbling through the cocaine ether, the perceived fragility of mortality, and the anxiety of only knowing how to create, not necessarily how to live. Diablo Lyrics Intro Yeah, yeah, yeah Rap diablo Yeah, yeah Verse 1 It's the rap diablo, macho when I drop flows The bar gets raised up, it's me and Petey Pablo Colder than gazpacho. Across the 24 tracks, Mac covers damn near everything within the scope of the human condition, resulting in his most expansive, challenging, esoteric, flawed, and affecting offering to his career at this point. ![]() In a swirl of jazz, Mac begins by proclaiming that he should have died already, establishing Faces as a confession. He’s getting higher than we’ve previously heard about, celebrating his success with a variety of drugs while documenting the difficult descents from riding so high. Mac vacillates between emotional peaks but his rapping is at its best. In the storm of this mixtape, he never lets us forget that, at the time, he is just a 22-year-old guy trying to get his mind right. ![]() As listeners, there’s a natural concern for Malcolm, but there’s also a natural attraction to such brink-of-life music. Miller often referred to music as a religion consider Faces the inside of a church, with the heat of the devil filling the air. We hear ourselves in it fighting our battles as best as we can, putting on our personas so no one worries. On “Diablo,” we hear the humor and hysteria of a depressive episode (“I been poppin’ like a kernel, readin’ Justin Bieber’s journal / Treat you like a urinal”) and the nervous jitter of unraveling (“Look at what you did to me, look at what you did to me”).
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