When his record label scheduled a vigil, the park was the obvious choice, and thousands of mourners gathered at the top of the slide. In addition to the park’s role in his early career, the blue slide has provided mourning fans a tangible connection to Miller’s story. ‘Blue Slide Park’ is an ode to youth, but also a cautionary tale. TLDR: Found a cheap copy of Blue Slide Park, played it, low key blown away by it. Miller, born Malcolm McCormick, died on Friday, Sept. 10th Anniversary Deluxe Colored Vinyl 2LP Edition with Die-Cut Gatefold Jacket and Recreation of the Blue Slide Park U.S. For week two of our Year of Mac series, we tackle Mac Millers ‘Blue Slide Park’ and not taking happiness for granted. It reminded me of some of the 90s rap albums that weren’t just a collection of songs, but songs that told a story across the album.Īnyway, I loved it, and just wanted to share my experience on this Friday evening. In short, Mac knew who he wanted to be, and this was the first of his thematic albums that were to become, I guess, his hallmark. I don’t care what you call it, I guess some people would call it a “concept” album, but I prefer to look at it as Mac telling a story with his songs, and I think meticulous care went into the placement of the order of them. However, in retrospect, you could see exactly where Mac was headed as an artist. I guess I can understand where the critics were coming from, but only if you look at the time at which the album was released and where Mac was at that time as an artist, and what the “sound” was at the time. Admittedly, some of the songs I was like, “ehhh…”, but I’m also smart enough to realize they can’t all be bangers. More than once I said to myself, “I didn’t know that song was from this album…”, and some of the songs I didn’t know, I was nodding my head. I made a trip to the storage facility, got the player, went back to the house, got it set up and dialed in and put on the album. We moved not too long ago, and while I have my stereo hooked up, I didn’t have the record player even at the house. I’ve never heard this album, but I’ve heard the controversy around it, so I was like fuck it, let’s see what this is all about. Today I was shopping for some video games for my nephew’s birthday and the shop had a copy of Blue Slide Park for $15. My wife and I were recently in Pittsburgh, and while we were there we hit up a couple of spots MAC’s fans visit while in town, one of course being Blue Slide Park. Titled Blue Slide Park: The Game, after his recently released album, the colorful game’s premise is as simple. Sorry for the long post - TLDR at th bottom. Toke up, jam out, and now slide down with rapper Mac Miller in his new video game.
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