The Ill Spoken
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Miller performing at the NYC Governor's Ball, June 18, 2011
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| Birth name | Malcolm James McCormick |
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January 19, 1992 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Website | macmillerofficial |
Malcolm James McCormick (born January 19, 1992), best known by his stage name Mac Miller, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a noted record producer under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. Miller is also known for taking on multiple alter-egos, under the aliases Delusional Thomas, Larry Lovestein and The Velvet Revival.
In early 2010, Miller signed a record deal with Pittsburgh-based indie record label Rostrum Records. He subsequently began recording his debut studio album Blue Slide Park, and released it on November 8, 2011. The album went on to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, making it the first independently distributed debut album to top the chart since Tha Dogg Pound's 1995 album, Dogg Food.
In early 2013, Miller launched REMember Music, his own record label imprint, named after a friend who died. Miller's second album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off, was released on June 18, 2013. In January 2014, Miller announced he was no longer signed to Rostrum Records. In October 2014, it was reported Miller signed a record deal for him and his label REMember, with Warner Bros. Records.
Malcolm James McCormick was born on January 19, 1992, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Karen Meyers, a photographer, and Mark McCormick, an architect. His father is Christian, and his mother is Jewish; Miller was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah. He celebrates the Jewish High Holy Days. As a result of his religion, he describes himself as “the coolest Jewish rapper,” in a rival response to Drake's own claim to be “the best Jew in the Rap game". He was raised in the Point Breeze part of Pittsburgh. Miller attended Winchester Thurston School and Taylor Allderdice High School. In high school, Miller 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 ... I used to be into sports, play all the sports, go to all the high school parties. But once I found out hip-hop is almost like a job, that's all I did." Miller, a self-taught musician, plays piano, guitar, drums, and bass.
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