When Malcolm McCormick first introduced himself to the world, he was a 15-year-old kid

rapping under the moniker Easy Mac, while showing incredible ambition at this young age,

the content of his first mixtape, but my Mac in A easy, is what you might expect from a high schooler.

He's partying, chasing girls, and looking ahead, talking big about how bright his future is.

Good fam. I love money. I will marry cake get a rich bitch like Ashley and Mary Kate and I ain't talking about one of them

Nope I'm getting votes. I grab him get a loaf and take the money in the coke me that I blow through him.

Malcolm would soon outgrow his Easy Mac moniker, choosing the more sustainable but equally

catchy Mac Miller. In a 10-year span, Mac would release six studio albums, nine mixtapes,

and a live album, plus a handful of experimental

projects under various pseudonyms. With each release, we witnessed an incremental step in the continued

evolution of Malcolm McCormick. He shared with us his rises and

falls, his wins and losses, each project exhibiting a little more nuanced,

musicality, introspection, and wisdom. But sometimes witnessing evolution incrementally can blind us to the larger

progression taking place. For Malcolm McCormick, it takes no more than a simple back-to-back

comparison to get a sense of the astonishing artistic leaps he achieved across his career.

Because in just 10 years, Malcolm went for making youthful anthems like bars for days,

that first song on his first project, to make his first project, to making introspective eternal ballads like once a day,

the final song on Malcolm's final project. like Once a Day a Day I'll

a Day I'll rise once a day I fall asleep with you the juxtaposition is staggering, a sonic snapshot of the enormous yet

wholly organic strides of Mac Miller the artist which merely reflected

the continued evolution of Malcolm McCormick, the human being.

I could try and evolve as an artist all I want, but if I'm not evolving as a human being first it's going to be a disconnect. You know I mean like I have to I have to grow as a and become a better person and become a more well-rounded individual before I can like evolve as any type of artist or whatever.

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