But once I found out hip-hop is almost like a job, that’s all I did.” He originally went by the name Easy Mac and released the mixtape But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy in 2007 at the age of fifteen.By 2009, he established himself as Mac Miller, and released two mixtapes: The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown and The High Life.At the 2010 Pittsburgh Hip Hop Awards, Miller won 21 & Under of the Year, and Best Hip Hop Video for “Live Free”.Ģ010–2013:Breakthrough and Blue Slide Park I used to be into sports, play all the sports, go to all the high school parties. Malcolm James McCormick was born on January 19, 1992,in Point Breeze, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He was the son of Karen Meyers, a photographer, and Mark McCormick, an architect,and had an older brother, Miller.His mother is Jewish, and his father is Christian.While he and his brother were raised Jewish,he attended a Catholic grade school to “ensure a good education and a chance to play football and lacrosse.”He later went to Winchester Thurston School, and graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School.Ī self-taught musician, Miller played piano, guitar, drums, and bass by the age of six.He first started rapping at the age of fourteen.Before that, he wanted to be a singer.In high school, he decided to focus on his hip hop career, later noting, “Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely.

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