Lines like “Life’s so good, please enjoy it!” are haunting when compared to some lines off of Faces where he explicitly talks about suicide and how he thinks the final song on that mixtape would be the last song he ever put out. Of course Swimming is a lot more refined, but this was the start of his career and I think shows a more untainted Mac Miller. It’s very interesting to look back at where he was in 2011 and see how changed all the way up to his final album Swimming. None of the songs sound the same yet there’s a sense of wholeness. I think this is an incredible debut album and really shows his versatility within this album itself, and as an artist as a whole. It’s not a grand master work like TPAB, but it’s not trying to be something like that, he’s just trying to have fun with it and I found that it was done very successfully. A lot of the songs are very fun and infectious, it almost feels like 2011’s Die Lit if that makes sense because it’s all about having fun and you don’t have to focus on the lyrics too hard. I thought it had a good concept where you start off on English Lane and you’re taken through a geographic music experience as you make your way around town and see what Mac sees. While it’s not a lyrical masterpiece, there wasn’t a single song on here that wasn’t enjoyable to me. I can easily see this being an album that I can return to in the future and enjoy. Blue Slide Park is the debut studio album by Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, released on November 8, 2011, by Rostrum Records.Īpparently this album had pretty mixed and generally poor reception from critics and fans alike when it was first released in 2011, and that honestly shocks me because I found this album to be incredibly enjoyable.

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