How Mac Miller Went From Frat-Rap Bro to Critical Darling
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“You’re probably a cool guy. I don’t feel violent in any way, but I really hate you. I hate your music, man. It’s just bad.”
That’s how Danny Brown addressed Mac Miller in a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone, shortly after Mac dropped his debut album, Blue Slide Park. Brown wasn’t alone in feeling this way. The album—which turns five today—remains Mac’s most commercially successful project, but the critical savaging it received upon release is hard to forget. Most notable was Pitchfork’s infamous review, which gave Blue Slide Park a one out of ten and eviscerated Mac as the talentless face of the much-maligned “frat rap” subgenre.
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