Top Dawg Entertainment’s REASON has found himself at the center of another controversy after name-dropped Mac Miller on his New Beginnings debut album. The TDE rapper ruffled the feathers of Mac Miller fans when he referenced his accidental drug overdose in September of 2018 on “Fall.”
“Look, you said you wanna be an artist/Well, we gon’ turn you to an addict/Get rid of the n*ggas that you got on with/Then give you the tools to dig your own shit/Surround you with some wack n*ggas/Some yes men that’s gon’ tell you that your raps iller/A couple cars, some jewelry, make your stacks bigger/Then one day you could become the next Mac Miller/Here’s your chance, n*gga, sign here,” REASON raps.
Mac fans took to Twitter to express their frustration with REASON’s jab.
“Reason dropped a great cautionary tale about yes men hurting people,” one fan pointed out. “The point would’ve been well received w/out mentioning Mac Miller Now that people’s attention is on ‘defending Mac,’ the yes men lesson will get lost in the dialogue Tact is crucial, he didn’t use enough of it.”
Another wrote, “Reason could’ve said all that without disrespecting Mac Miller.”
REASON’s New Beginnings album released on Friday (October 9) via Top Dawg Entertainment with features from ScHoolboy Q, Vince Staples, Rapsody, JID, Isaiah Rashad, Mereba and Ab-Soul.
TDE's REASON Snipes Logic On New Single 'The Soul - Pt. 2'
The Mac Miller outrage comes on the heels of REASON sniping the newly-retired Logic on “The Soul – Pt. 2.” Logic dismissed REASON and the knock altogether.
“Did REASON diss you on his new song?” Logic said during a Twitch stream, reading the screen. “I don’t know who that is.”
Check out more of the fan reactions defending Mac Miller below.
Lets be honest Mac Miller was a shiity rapper his whole career revolved around drugs all his music was made under the influence of drugs his fan base are a bunch of nerdy white surburban rejects that praise him like he was jesus. He ripped of Lord Finesse he couldnt play any instruments at all but tried all the time anyway he thought he was lyrical mircale whip and couldnt be “Mac Miller” without drugs thats why he died, from drugs.
you basically described any rappers career and life here lol….hiphop has always been for addicts, I know best, I am, and everyone I know of my friends, that listen to rap, theyre on some kind of drugs, drugs and rap is like rhyming and hiphop, you cant separate that
Not true. My life is 100% hip hop and 0% drugs. You are what you choose to be. Ad for Reason’s line, we could have live without it, it’s nit funny nir entertaining, but it is what it is
You are ignorant and a fool maybe the hip hop you listen to but not all hip hop music is for “addicts” yyou sould like a complete uneducated moron thats like saying country music is made for alcoholics. Your obvioulsy a Wack Miller fan gotta defend your ugly drug addict midget cornball rapper right? Well hopefully you get the same pills he did
What? lol. Hip hop isn’t specifically for addicts. You just hang around a bunch of junkies that happen to like hip hop.
You’re a salty ass hater. I bet the rappers on your Playlist can’t string a coherent sentence to save their lives. He wasn’t no Eminem, but saying he was wack is a big stretch. I can bet on it, that alot of suburban peeps are well grounded in hiphop, even more than people from the hood. You don’t have to be from the hood to enjoy gangsta rap. Even tough talking in raps gets stale after a while. It’s not everyday i wanna listen to somebody making threats and bragging about crime. Just STFU!
You are mad. Lol
Hahahaha you are pissed to the highest of pisstivity. Please leave the hood Out of this
Everybody loved Mac from Kendrick to JID. Stfu with your racist ass bullshit only white people like him. And he def didnt just talk bout drugs. You probably never heard his shit. No problem you are ignorant and dont know shit, but please just stfu if you dont know shit. Dont disrespect a beautiful artist and human
Everybody loved Mac? Lol ok.
Who? I didnt. I know alot of people that never paid any attention to that corn ball. People say black people dont listen to Eminem then why would they listen to Mac Miller? Because you like him? I would listen to Asher Roth before I ever bumped that druggie wanna bes music and thats on god!
basically fake news, reason never said Mac Millers name on that album, FAKE NEWS!
Analyze the lines before you get your panties in a bunch. He says “one day you could become the next Mac Miller”, meaning that you could die of drug overdose, despite being talented and successful.
Yeah I think this line could work as purely warning, but don’t you think that adding line: “Some yes men that’s gon’ tell you that your raps iller” suggests that Mac was wack? Nothing about being talented here rather the opposite.
these new fans’ heads would’ve exploded with hip-hop 20 years ago. smh
mac miller was a bohemian grove participant. no, this is true. it is usually a right wing thing a lot of the right wing politicians do so they go in to the forest with a clearing near by and worship a large tall wooden owl named mohegan. the problem is, they say they murder someone on site and it is generally just a bit creepy. R.I.P. MAC MILLER
Millennials are so fucking sensitive. You dont see Gen X fans crying online everytime someone name drops Pac or Biggie in a song. You trying to pick apart the verse and prove it was a subliminal diss. You putting too much thought into it, its a line that sounded good becaused it rhymed. Yall acting like it was some FBG Duck type verse. As fans, you should be happy your artist was successful enough to get name dropped. There are lots of deceased rappers that hip hop has forgotten.
because Gen X either died from gang violence or AIDS… mostly AIDS and Heroine.
If you’ve gotta purposely put in some mad disrespectful, controversial shit to get people to listen to your music then you’re a clown, this fools career has got a 9 month expiry date on it
Mans got no flow so ofc he has to say some shit to get attention. This man will never blow up
Wow. Emo rap fans are some over sensitive ass bitches? Who would have thunk it? LOL. Era talk, if Mack could somehow communicate from the grave, he would be cool with that line as a warning of what could come to pass with fame.
Mac* and Mac wasn’t an emo rapper at all
Sure he wasn’t dork. Self care? LOL. You obviously didn’t listen to his depressing ass shit. Jackass.
the mac miller line was a double entendre. he was biggin him up but its also a cautionary tale. he used mac miller’s name cuz it fit with the rhyme but you could substitute him with any other artists that fell victim to the same thing. the 1st verse btw was about Rapsody.
But Mac was a heavy drug user before he was famous or signed. So the lines weren’t on point
REASON? Never heard of her.
Who gives a fuck about some dead joo?
Same amount of people that care about a dead nig … racism …. ignorant isn’t it?
So zero then?
I get the whole yes men and don’t become a addict thing, but at the same time that’s far from the real rap consequence, should warn more about record label debt then if someone is “wack” . They were gonna be wack regardless but at least have ya biz str8
Be ripped off or end up dead…
Both are inevitable
But did he lie?
it was the context he built up before dropping Mac’s name that makes it personal. does he even know people from Mac’s camp or is he just bringing up the dead to get a headline?
Exactly, if he just talked about him overdosing is fine IMO, cause that’s what actually. happened. But putting this in context of his narrative and lines that came before the Mac reference makes it kinda disrespectful I guess.
Hes on TDE…. Schoolboy Q and Ab Soul were both close with Miller so it’s safe to assume he knows some people from Macs camp.
What a weak ass way to get some attention. Nobody still won’t listen to your album
First he was dissing Logic, now Mac. This guy is just racist af
100% he said it for the rhyme scheme
Not a fan a name dropping dead ones if it isn’t in a positive light. However, it could’ve just been the rhyme scheme or just simply his opinion from the outside looking in, cause one could argue did he state anything untrue? The album isn’t half bad but it’s clear that amongst Rashad, Ab, and Q he’s the least talented or better put he has a ways to go.
Reason just said the truth and y’all are hurt because what he said about Mac was truth….
I wonder what the f*ck schoolboy thinks about this new signee dissing his dead homeboy?? F*cking loser, this is the only Reason anyone will talk about this trash album, clout chasing mfer
Coulda said the same thing about Tupac but he chose a soft target this makes him a phaggit on more levels than one … smh the next-gen just keep on fucking up even when they trying to do right
That’s Hip Hop. Deal with it.
Album fire though
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Actually one of the best albums out
Reason sucks so he’s gotta be controversial to be noticed. Hip hop is so wack anyway unless it’s about Jesus!!
20 years ago if a rapper was doing drugs other than weed, he got clowned for being a junkie.
Today, when a rapper dies from an overdose, fans call them legends.
20 years ago salty bitches had to show up in person to say something. Now they can safely do it from behind a screen and act like a critic who’s worth listening to.
People are too damn soft these days.
That REASON album is ?
Reason is rascist against white people
Dope MC but not feeling the album…
Mac Miller was just a dope kid who could rap and sing.. he made great music.. too bad he died too soon..but alas this obvious
Very interesting
Reason seems like he’s just name dropping for clout. But he’s not even name dropping someone who can respond.. So far you have a corny retired white rapper. And a dead one. Them being white aside.. there are plenty of active wack rappers he can go after.
Does anyone remember Mac’s record Donald Trump?? An ode to Trump. 90% of the lyrics to it are fitting for Trump. Where’s all the outrage with that? And save me the speech about how it was before he was president. Ya’ll need to figure out if your sensitive or not.
I mean no… like i understand the sentiment but donald trump by mac miller is a straight up horrible example of an offensive song. Its about getting money and is a super thin highschool party song (Mac knew that, it was a reflection of what he could do at the time) and the lines relating to donald trump are about him way before he was a politician and quite literally only refers to him in one repeated line (remember late 2000’s rap?). Choosing to be offended by that song would be the most insane thing ever and has nothing to do with people being upset about people talking about there dead favorite rapper…
This bothers you!? Talk about sensitivity. Lol bitch
Y’all are stans and don’t follow stories and timelines..they didn’t just say Mac Miller as a reference to his overdose, (although he did do that ) all the bars previous to that line were referencing the Mac Miller and Goldlink relationship
Goldlink saw it in front of his eyes, it’s not a diss if it’s true