To take one example, five years ago - which is to say, the summer before Macklemore "robbed" (his words) Kendrick Lamar of all those Grammys, the summer of the "Control" verse, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Nothing Was The Same and Run The Jewels - Mac Miller's Watching Movies With The Sound Off went up against Kanye West's Yeezus and J. I went to that concert on Halloween, at the Greek in Hollywood, because I wanted to write about Mac Miller's legacy, which I'm pretty sure isn't, in the end, going to be the music he made, but instead the realized potential and the art of the musicians he knew and loved and supported. The show benefited the foundation his family started after his death, which means to encourage underserved kids in his hometown to make art. Instead, the band that he'd been rehearsing with, one that fellow musicians had been saying they're jealous of, backed many musicians Mac had collaborated with and befriended as they put on a tribute concert. Miller, who put out his fifth album, Swimming, in August, had been scheduled to start a national tour this week. His death landed hard with the community of musicians he'd tended as he toured the world in his teenage years and made a home in Los Angeles in his 20s. Mac Miller made it out of Pittsburgh on the wings of a rap career, a craft he studied and devoted his creative energies to until he died suddenly this September, at age 26.
An image of Mac Miller, who died suddenly in September, projected on the rear of the stage at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., before a benefit concert organized in Miller's honor.
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