What the Pitchfork review got wrong, however, was its choice of antecedent. Mac sounded stiff and anonymous, like he was straining to capture the adolescent verve of K.I.D.S.The numbers were the numbers, but what was meant to be his coming-out party seemed like a regression.
Mac was a soft target, and a 1 on a ten-point scale is an obvious exaggeration, but the album was genuinely bad ”” musically thin and, at a few embarrassing points, indebted to the EDM that was beginning to dominate American pop. But it was panned by most critics, including an infamous 1.0 review from Pitchfork. A year and a half after K.I.D.S., Mac released his first retail album, Blue Slide Park, which became the first independent LP to top Billboard in 16 years. is particularly original, but virtually all of it is charming in its way.Īt the time, there was a lane wide open. came out, Mac, born Malcolm McCormick, should have been buying sheets and Bob Marley posters for his freshman dorm room, and that’s more or less what his music sounded like: free and carefree and endearingly beholden to the true-school ethics that are worshipped and wielded unconvincingly in high school lunchroom cyphers. (Today, “Kool Aid” and “ Nikes On My Feet” have more than 100 million views between them.) When K.I.D.S. (Kickin’ Incredibly Dope Shit), which was low-stakes and low-concept and became incredibly popular incredibly fast. “Kool Aid” appeared on a mixtape called K.I.D.S.
The funny thing about that lawsuit is that, until the court filing, Miller seemed poised for a long, lucrative career that might intersect in only superficial ways with the hip-hop that Lord Finesse made. The internet can be a strange, flat loop. And so, for several years after the fact, the YouTube page for “Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza” was dominated by Finesse defenders the way the “Hip 2 Da Game” comments spent much more time hand-wringing about Mac Miller than they did talking about the original song in question. In 2012, Lord Finesse sued a few months later, he and Miller settled. and produced the climactic song on Ready to Die he’s the kind of person who could call KRS-One for a personal favor. (An incredibly brief primer: Lord Finesse signed his first record deal nearly 30 years ago, in 1989 he founded D.I.T.C. The scolds pointed to a Lord Finesse song called “ Hip 2 Da Game” ”” the beat for which Mac had ripped and repurposed for “Kool Aid.” As recently as 36 hours ago, the comments section for “ Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza,” Mac Miller’s fratty breakthrough hit from 2010, was filled with people chastising the Pittsburgh native (“Wack Miller,” etc.) and his fans.
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