History YMMV / MacMiller

-->There's a whole lot more for me waitin' on the other side
-->I'm always wonderin' if it feel like summer
-->I know maybe I'm too late, I could make it there some other time
-->I'll finally discover
-->That there's a whole lot more for me waitin'

* PosthumousPopularityPotential: Although all of his albums made the top five of the Billboard 200 when he was alive, only one of them went gold. To the general public, he was known mainly for being Music/ArianaGrande's boyfriend until they broke up and, before that, writing a song about Donald Trump. He didn't get a top 40 hit until after he died. Since then, ''Swimming'', the last album released when he was alive, went platinum and both singles from his posthumous album ''Circles'' made the top 40 of the Hot 100, with "Good News" being his highest-charting song.

* GrowingTheBeard: Started to mature from pop-rap into a more psychedelic, mature sound with ''Macadelic'', only going further with ''Watching Movies With the Sound Off'' and his {{horrorcore}} mixtape ''Delusional Thomas''. He also, since around the release of ''Macadelic'', sometimes sported [[LiteralMinded an actual beard]].

--> Let us have a grand finale
--> The world will be just fine without me
--> The clown got a smile on his face
--> Slow it down, we goin' out with a bang.
** On "Brand Name," Mac raps "To everyone who sell me drugs, don't mix it with that bullshit -- I'm hoping not to join the 27 Club." Mac would later die of a drug overdose ''four months'' before his 27th birthday, and a year later, his dealer was indeed arrested for giving him tainted drugs.

* AwardSnub: Many were upset that Cardi B's ''Invasion of Privacy'' won over ''Swimming'' for Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammys, most vocally Music/ArianaGrande in a series of since-deleted tweets.

** On "Brand Name," Mac raps "To everyone who sell me drugs, don't mix it with that bullshit -- I'm hoping not to join the 27 club." Mac would later die of a drug overdose ''four months before his 27th birthday''. And a year later, his dealer was indeed arrested for giving him tainted drugs.

** "Self Care" has the lyric "like September I fall" -- September of that year, he died.
*** The music video also features him in a coffin, engraving the words "memento mori" ("remember you will die") onto the coffin.
*** The second part of the song can be pretty hard to listen to if you think of it as Mac speaking from beyond the grave, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "oblivion" being a stand-in for the afterlife]], and essentially giving a commentary on his own death.
** “Grand Finale” off ‘’Faces’’
--> Let us have a grand finale
--> The world will be just fine without me
--> The clown got a smile on his face
--> Slow it down, we goin' out with a bang.

* SignatureSong: Pre-''Macadelic'', "Donald Trump"; post ''Macadelic'', probably either "S.D.S.", "Avian" or "Diablo".

** The posthumous song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIHF7u9Wwiw Good News]], has many lines that read a lot different after his death. Even [[Webvideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]], who gave ''Swimming'' a 3, was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iJkI-45hk driven to tears by the song]].

-->That there's a whole lot more for me waitin'
** The majority of ''Circles'' is this, with many of the songs being somber, bleak, depressing, and self-reflecting. Being that it was the last album Miller made before his death, it adds more weight on what he was thinking of before his death.

*** The second part of the song can be pretty hard to listen to if you think of it as Mac speaking from beyond the grave with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "oblivion" being a stand-in for the afterlife]]
--> “I got all the time in the world...”