This season includes discussion of substance misuse.

Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how, and when you'll listen.

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On July 12th 2018, Mac Miller posted a 30 second video on Twitter.

At the time, Miller had been on a brief hiatus from social media and really the world at large.

Just a few months prior he and his superstar girlfriend had broken off their two-year relationship

and just a few days after that Matt crashed his car into a power pole while under the influence.

For morally bankrupt tabloids,

Mac's life became click-bait fodder.

And given his open history with substance abuse,

fans were naturally worried.

But Max's Twitter post was not an official statement or a selfie video attempting to explain

himself. It was art. Scored by a new song, the animated song,

scored by a new song, the animated video finds a diver and scuba gear submerged underwater.

Dubbed the abyss of the psyche

the diver sinks deeper and deeper as different images from Max passed

appear in the seabed behind him,

illuminated by the diver's headlights.

The first image we see is the car he crashed,

and in the full video we see his piano, a Buddha statue,

alcohol bottles, and even an aerial view of his hometown Pittsburgh.

It's a moving portrait and Mack the diver inspects it all with mindful

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