13 Essential Mac Miller Songs

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There was always a new Mac Miller song.

Below, some of his catalogues essentials.

The key cut from Millers 2010 mixtapeK.I.D.S.

But, perhaps inevitably, the track took on a life of its own.

One Last Thing (2011)

Though Millers studio debut went No.

1 and yielded three Hot 100 singles, critics maligned it.

What am I doing here?

Lil Wayne stops by with a similarly blue verse.

But Sweatshirts album from the same year,Doris, contains their best collaboration.

(That was the only way to get him to fucking rap, Miller onceexplained.)

But the stylistic about-face on the single from 2015s richly texturedGO:OD AMrepresents the rappers broader career shift.

Here, he chronicles the ubiquitous struggle of when to exorcise demons and when to tamp them down.

Try stifling a smile as Miller earnestly quips, Know my shit get old when I act so young.

(For particularly moving renditions of Whats the Use?

and fellowSwimmingcuts Small Worlds and 2009, revisit MillersTiny Desk Concertfrom last month.)

Somehow we gotta find a way.