He has really helped me in so many ways and reached out that I am really coming into my own now and carving my own path which is something important to the both of us."Īs news of his death spread, entertainers and celebrities shared their condolences on social media: He really is just my homie, whether I will be making music or not. "Wiz has been a big brother to me with this music thing so far," he told digital magazine HipHopDX in 2010. Wiz Khalifa, who attended the same high school as Miller, tweeted that he was "praying for Mac's family and that he rest easy." Early in his career, Miller cited Khalifa as a mentor. "I used to rap super openly about really dark" things, Miller told Jenkins, "because that's what I was experiencing at the time. In the profile, Jenkins writes that despite the frankness of Miller's music about his struggles with drugs, and the perception that he constantly parties and is depressive, "really, he spends his days relatively upbeat and preoccupied with music, and also with working out and balancing his diet" and "he's not above mistakes and indulgences," including a DUI in May. Just the day before his death, Vulture published a profile of Miller, and its author, Craig Jenkins, tweeted that he had spoken with Miller as recently as Thursday. The rapper also recently collaborated with celebrated artists such as Thundercat and announced a joint tour scheduled to start in October.
Club noting that on it he sounds "great when he's whining, croaking, stretching syllables like warm mozzarella." Pitchfork described his voice as "expressive in ways his plainspoken prose could never be, capturing his resignation without turning sadness into a performative spectacle." 3 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart and received generally favorable reviews, with the A.V. Miller released his fifth studio album, "Swimming," last month. You're 19, you're so excited to put out your first album, you put it out – and no one has any respect for you or for what you did." "A lot of the reviews were more on me as a person," he told Complex in 2013. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2011.īut that early commercial success brought critical pans, which he later said caused him to turn to drugs. Miller's death was first reported by TMZ.īorn Malcolm James McCormick in Pittsburgh, Miller began his career on a high note when his first studio album, "Blue Side Park," debuted at No. for a death investigation, a department spokeswoman said. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a home in the 11600 block of Valleycrest Road around 11:50 a.m.
Now, they're best friends.Rapper Mac Miller has died at the age of 26, according to his attorney David Byrnes. Charlie and Justin hardly knew each other, but they bonded over having lost friends in motorcycle accidents. He and his songwriter friend Justin Franks, who goes by DJ Frank E, ended up writing "See You Again" in about 15 minutes.
Turns out Charlie Puth's old friend was a little psychic? His loss was heartbreaking for Charlie, but now he has a guardian angel looking after him and his music. "Wait a second, this song is gonna go in the movie…just like he said!" Charlie said.
So in 2014 while Charlie was writing a song for Paul Walker, who similarly died in an automobile accident, he couldn't help but think of his friend.
In fact, he accurately predicted that Charlie's big song would be for a movie and that he'd sing on it. The singer just thought he would end up writing songs for " Justin Bieber and real superstars." But his friend never let him give up. "I've never lost anybody like that…"īefore his motorcycling accident, that friend would always tell Charlie, "By the way, you're going to write a huge song one day." Charlie never believed him. "My friend, who got me through a lot of hard times, suddenly passes away and it's a really, really sad moment for me," Charlie confessed. The pop singer revealed to Dan Wootton in the Bizarre Life podcast that the inspiration for the song came from a piece of his past. What many people don't know is that "See You Again" has a deeply special meaning to Charlie outside of Fast and the Furious. Charlie's hopeful song helped millions of people mourn a beloved actor. Fans, cast, and crew were all devastated. The seventh movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise came out just after the untimely death of Paul Walker, one of the main stars. Charlie Puth's song "See You Again" (with Wiz Khalifa) came out in 2015, along with the premiere of Furious 7.