If anybody knows Mac Miller, call him and tell him you love him.’” If anyone knows him, please go check on him right now. “I think after Faces a lot of people were like, ‘This is great. “I wanted to go talk and let people know I’m good,” he says of the TV and radio lightning round. A tour of the states is underway now, his first, he notes incredulously, in two years. He throws the first pitch at a Pittsburgh Pirates game, coolly avoiding a 50 Cent errant pitch debacle. He roasts his nemesis Donald Trump on Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show. He sees both of New York City’s rival rap stations, Hot 97 and Power 105.
He keeps a deliberately regimented day schedule. He’s given himself over fully to the process of promoting GO:OD AM and reconnecting with fans. But I have a lot of shit to do, and that takes priority.” The change in him is evident not just in the breakfast-time scheduling of our meets or his poise at a late summer Brooklyn bar night where we randomly run into each other again, and he spends a good portion of the night slightly out of view of a sizable crowd that's come to send the bar off on its final weekend, enjoying quality time with his girlfriend. “I drink… duh!” Miller snickers when prodded. The bottles are from a Fourth of July party doubtlessly rendered extravagant by the apartment’s breathtaking view of the waters adjoining Brooklyn and Manhattan, but they’re an early indication that Mac’s not living a monastic life post- Faces.
His interviewers latch onto a heroic sobriety narrative, so I’m struck upon entering the residence by the sight of a wall of liquor bottles in back of the living room. Miller's just thundered through a press run for his major label debut GO:OD AM, the first release in a lucrative new deal with Warner Bros. He's still getting settled, geeked to finally have cable and WiFi set up and intrigued by his on-demand channel's deep selection of hip-hop movies. “There’s a few times I went to sleep not sure I was gonna wake up,” Mac says of the dark times that birthed Faces, relaxed now in the morning calm of his new Brooklyn apartment, where he currently lives with his girlfriend when he’s not on the West Coast sharing a space with his brother. I'm expecting the reckless, darkly funny studio rat of the mixtape, but the Mac Miller that greets me is an affable, coffee-loving morning person.
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