YMMV / Mac Miller

• Award Snub: Many were upset that Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy won over Swimming for Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammy Awards, most vocally Ariana Grande in a series of since-deleted tweets.
• Growing the Beard: 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 an actual beard.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Since his death, a lot of examples of this have popped up.
  • From “Grand Finale”:
    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.
  • In his 2016 Fader documentary Stopped Making Excuses, he ended up articulating how much he wanted to break from his glamorized, drug-enabled lifestyle by speaking on his worst-case scenario; the fact that this scenario ultimately came to pass is tragic.
    "I’d rather be the corny white rapper than the drugged-out mess who can’t even get out of his house. Overdosing is just not cool. There’s no legendary romance. You don’t go down in history because you overdosed. You just die."
  • Swimming, the last album he released while he was alive, had a cover that featured him sitting on the floor with an open casket behind him.
    • "Self Care" has the lyric "like September, I fall" — he died in September of 2018.
    • The music video also starts with him in a coffin, engraving the words "memento mori" ("remember you will die") on the underside of the lid.
    • 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 "oblivion" being a stand-in for the afterlife, and essentially giving a commentary on his own death.
• One-Scene Wonder: Joey Bada$$ on "America", Jay Electronica on "Suplexes in Complexes and Duplexes", Kendrick Lamar on "Fight the Feeling", Mac himself on Ab-Soul's "The End is Near".
• Posthumous Popularity Potential: 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 Ariana Grande's boyfriend until they broke up and, before that, writing a song about Donald Trump. Aside from his guest appearance on Grande's Breakthrough Hit "The Way", 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.
• Signature Song: Pre-Macadelic, "Donald Trump"; post-Macadelic, probably either "S.D.S.", "Avian" or "Diablo".
• Tear Jerker: For those who found something to relate to in the central theme of self-acceptance that Swimming embodies, the album was already this. Now that Mac's dead, it's only amplified.
  • 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.
    • "Good News", his first posthumous single, has many lines that read a lot different after his death. Even Anthony Fantano, who infamously gave Swimming a 3/10, was driven to tears upon first listening to the song.
      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'