Mac Miller’s experimental Faces mixtape made its way onto streaming services Friday (October 15) which comes more than seven years after its initial Mother’s Day 2014 release.
Around that same time, the late rapper was looking to partner with a major label and while fielding offers around the industry, he reportedly wanted to make the jump from being an independent artist without the help of a JAY-Z feature or signing to Roc-A-Fella Records.
“[Mac Miller] didn’t sign to Roc-A-Fella because he was like, ‘I’m not gonna have it be that I needed the Jay-Z feature to get famous, for people to validate me and then people think it’s about that validation,’” Mac’s engineer Josh Berg told GQ while detailing the making of Faces.
On Faces standout “Here We Go,” Mac even boasts about his rise to stardom happening without the help of a JAY-Z or Drake feature.
Mac Miller ended up signing with Warner Bros. Records for a reported $10 million in October 2014. All of his subsequent albums were released via REMember/Warner Bros.
“Warner is the most independent thinking company I met with,” the Pittsburgh native told The FADER at the time. “It is a partnership and now I can focus on building my label Remember through music and let them handle everything I don’t like doing. Nothing will change in how I do things. They have Prince.”
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Mac also makes a posthumous guest appearance on Young Thug’s Punk album. The pair intertwine for soothing album closer “Day Before.”
Mac Miller tragically passed away from an accidental overdose on September 7, 2018. Revisit his critically-acclaimed Faces mixtape on streaming below.
That’s pretty cool actually. His level of popularity would of made a label like that dump a bunch of money into him, and they would of treated him as the face of roc nation for a bit. Good on him for wanting to be seen as self-made.
Thats three jayz articles in one day. Give the shady bastard a rest already.
Oh I’m sorry, let’s see what Nas has been up to that’s newsworthy over the past couple of days. Hmm, nothing. Stay mad.
Lol why does it have to be one or the other? Not exactly of nas’ music lately either. But jayz – the guys music is greed, greed, greed. In the era of the pandemic and the great resignation that message is just not resonating well.
No offense to Mac, but saying Warner had Prince was a bad example. Prince was not happy with how WB handled him and even went as far to changing his name to a symbol in protest. Maybe Warner has changed for the better over the years but just wanted to point that out.
Roc a fella didn’t even exist in 2014. Wtf y’all talking about man
Shows how much ya dumbass knows..
Think he’s tryna be technical because Roc a fella folded in the early 2010s…the article meant to say Roc Nation which for sure existed in 2014 and year prior
Without even googeling nothing i can credit ether for letting me know roc a fella has been a thing since the early 2000’s atleast
cuz every time i rock the mic to show jamar intellectual girls wanna get sexual
By 2009 it was Roc Nation with roster of Jay, Kanye, Beyonce, Rihanna and J Cole