There’s doubtlessly extra Mac Miller music on the best way. On Monday (March 28), revered hip-hop producer Madlib informed Sway within the Morning that he’s ending a number of initiatives, together with a posthumous launch with the late rapper.
“Proper now, I’m ending up the Mac Miller album, the Planet Asia album, and the Erykah Badu album,” he mentioned whereas discussing his newly launched joint mission Liberation 2 with Talib Kweli. Sway then requested if Mac’s property agreed to the completion of the mission, which Madlib confirmed.
For years, rumors have swirled relating to the potential launch of the collaborative effort between Miller and Madlib. In a 2019 interview with DJ Sales space, Miller’s producer Theolonious Martin mentioned the 2 recorded a whole mission collectively and dubbed it Maclib. He additionally revealed that he had a track of theirs throughout Madlib’s set on the Pitchfork Music Pageant in Chicago that very same yr.
“[Madlib] simply randomly performs a Mac Miller joint. And I flip to him, I’m like, ‘There’s extra of those, proper?’ He’s mentioned, ‘Oh, yeah, there’s a complete album. Maclib,’” Martin mentioned on the time. “If Madlib decides to bless the world with that mission, he ought to.”
Clips of an unreleased track between Miller — who died in September 2018 — and Madlib titled “Shut the Entrance Door” surfaced in 2019, however had been later scrubbed off the web. The final Mac Miller album to be launched was 2020’s Circles, meant to be the companion to his August 2018 Grammy-nominated effort, Swimming. Producer Jon Brion helmed the manufacturing for Circles; the album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 164,000 album-equivalent models, the best opening week of Miller’s profession.
Billboard has reached out to Miller’s reps for remark. Try the clip of Madlib’s interview beneath.
