Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller by Paul Canto
by Parker · 18 things on Twos
- The Mac Miller fund is a charity that "supports programming, resources and opportunities to youth from underserved communities, helping them recognize their full potential through exploration in the arts and community building."
- He started smoking cigarettes in the third grade and smoking weed when was ten.
- The first hip hop album he listened to was Aquemini by Outcast.
- His favorite feeling was being in water.
- A rostrum is a raised platform—a podium, so to speak- where someone stands and gives a speech, delivering a message.
- I think that's what's most important—authenticity. As long as you're being real with yourself and who you are. It's all about being authentic to who you are.
- You’re never as excited about a verse as when you first write it.
- The Incredibly Dope Tour started on January 13, 2011, at the Epicentre concert hall in San Diego
- That's the worst thing you can do," he said. "If you expect something and it's not what you expected, then it's going to make you not enjoy it as much... Don't expect anything.
- Casey Veggies was the opening act.
- Turtle: the incredible journey syncs with watching movies with the sound off
- "It's therapeutic," Malcolm said. "I'm not a violent person at all. But have I had violent, evil thoughts? Yeah, doesn't everybody? I think it's kind of therapeutic to just take yourself there. Take a trip. It's all about the ride. And you go, and you just fucking become this psychopathic murderer, demented person. And then you live in that for a little bit. It's a subject. I don't want to stray away from any subject."26
- "We're all complex and we're all made up of more than one dimension," he said. "And the thing about this place that art lives in is that people get these labels. You brand yourself and have to stick to one brand, which I fucking hate. Like, human beings are more complex than just one simple brand."29
- "I was not on planet earth when I made Faces," he wrote in a tweet. "Nowhere close."
- But that was addiction in a nutshell: a little voice inside that said all you needed was a little bit; then you needed more, and more, until nothing was ever enough.
- "We should call it Most Dope," Q said. "Because everything we do is more dope than everything else, and we're just the most dope out of everybody else."26
- The happiest little kids are the saddest little kids when they’re alone
- "If you spend your whole life preparing, then you're never going to do anything," he recalled Hedberg once saying. "Just jump in and do it. That's the best way to get better at something. Do it while you suck at it."3