Mac Miller Interview
Category: Interviews Created on Thursday - 09.16.10 @ 1:00 AM Written by Ozone Magazine
With all respect to Drake, at 18-years-old, we have to shout out to the fact that Mac Miller is now the youngest (rapper) doing it. After a shitload of viral videos and a highly anticipated and downloaded mixtape, K.I.D.S., (downloaded 46,000-plus times on Datpiff.com alone, as this is typed), this Pittsburgh emcee finds himself as one of the most talked about rappers on the internet today. Just a recent high school graduate, and newly signed to Rostrum Records (same label home as budding rap star Wiz Khalifa), Mac may just be a kid, but he’s at the forefront of rap’s ’90’s babies movement.
Just weeks after the release of K.I.D.S., Ozonemag.com called up the new kid on the block to talk about his rise on the worldwide web, rap’s new generation, mixtape success and just being a muthafuckin’ kid.
You’re only 18, so how long have you been rapping?
I’ve been into music since I was 6-years-old, played piano, guitars, drummers, all the instruments. I used to write little raps as a kid. When I was 14 in high school, I started taking it a little more serious. I used to just freestyle non-stop, 24-7. And then when I got to 15, my homie told me I should record some of [my music]. So I recorded it and put out a mixtape by myself in three weeks. And since then, I’ve been working every single day. Music has been my passion from the earliest I can remember, that’s been my favorite thing to do.