This album isn't without its moments of happiness, though. It almost feels that, throughout the album, he's missing opportunities left and right to bring back that kiddish feeling of doing things you weren't supposed to, but instead, he's skating all over the cliche lines, all of which we've heard many times before in many other more intriguing ways. Sure, his flow is smooth and soft, yet encapsulating over the right production, but there lies the problem the right production.
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Mac Miller is all about being a fun-loving kid and giving off that impression, and with such a debut as "Blue Slide Park," you truly would Mac Miller is all about being a fun-loving kid and giving off that impression, and with such a debut as "Blue Slide Park," you truly would hope he keeps that image going. (This doesn't mean that I dislike other albums that do question the deeper meaning of things in life and life itself, but rather that I enjoy some variety) … Expand Living an easy life instead of always craving the deeper meaning, that is what this album reflects to me and I don't see anything bad in that. Him rapping about being young, partying, smoking weed, skipping school on occasion including maybe some sad times in-between represents this youthfulness and joy that is once so ever nice to see in music. But how much can you dive into the topic of youth anyways? The relatability of the lyrics semms like one of the key things in my eyes. His lyrics circle somewhat around the same stuff all the time though, making it lack a bit of creativity, couple tracks on this album also being pretty much nothing mindblowing instrumentally-wise either. His lyrics circle somewhat around the same stuff all the time though, making it lack a bit of It's a very decent album regarding his age. Miller has real talent beneath his spring break soundtrack, and with some life experience and some dictionary time, he could yet step up out of the park and start playing with the big boys.It's a very decent album regarding his age. It’s the contrast of the serious and the funny that lifts ‘Blue Slide Park’ from the tedious American Pie humour for which Mac Miller is often criticised, and the album as a whole saunters and bounces along. Or the ‘did he just say that?’ line on ‘Of The Soul’, one of the prettiest songs on the album, where fused with a lulling piano line, we hear his delightful take on oral sex: “ Put it in her mouth/Orthodontist”. Take his upfront reference to his Jewish heritage in ‘PA Nights’: “ We just tryna work so we can blow up like a Molotov/Thinkin’ bout my people who was murdered in the Holocaust”. Alongside this, his ability to disorientate the listener is admirable, as he tackles important and playful subjects. There are a few questionable deviations along the way – namely ‘Up All Night’ which sounds like a bad Ramones cover – but generally the production is so good you rarely notice Miller’s exhausting overuse of the words “ dope” and “ ill”. He raps lazily to laidback hooks, then attacks the bassier, sped-up moments with cocky wordplay. It’s layered with interesting sonic textures throughout, be they jolting injections of electronica or stoned-sounding, warped beats that lay the foundation for Miller’s drawl.
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Negatives aside, ‘Blue Slide Park’ is full of surprises, mostly in the production (helmed in the main by ID Labs, but also by A$AP Rocky favourite Clams Casino on ‘One Last Thing’). His choice of cultural references – “ Donkey Kong”, “ Scott Pilgrim”, “ hashtags” and the like – hint at horizons that have remained so far unbroadened, as does ‘Party On 5th Ave’, which includes the obligatory anthemic ‘fun’ sample from Marva Whitney’s ‘Unwind Yourself’. The album’s second weakness is Miller’s ‘frat rap’, a style that occasionally rears its ugly, snapback cap-adorned head. Strangely this running theme forms one of the album’s weaknesses, as he labours the suggestion that he’s entering a new phase of life, a point clunkily illustrated on ‘Loitering’: “ I’m too old to be chilling at the playground”. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that ‘Blue Slide Park’ (named after a favourite childhood hangout of Miller’s in Pittsburgh) is undercut with reflections on where Mac’s been. He’s come a long way since he released ‘But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy’ at just 16 years old. Then he was featured as part of a wet dream of hip-hop hopefuls alongside Yelawolf and Lil B on hip-hop magazine XXL’s Freshman list of 2011, certifying him as a baby-faced one to watch. He’s released one album and seven mixtapes since 2007. In hip-hop years, 20-year-old Malcolm ‘Mac Miller’ McCormick is practically old school.
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