maybe something like the Care Package that drake dropped. That's the only way I'd want it. A posthumous compilation of songs. I still feel semi uneasy about circles not being 100% macs vision. Even ID Labs interview he said he decided to be completely uninvolved in the process. That says a lot for someone who pretty much helped build Mac's career. When reflecting on the album he said that there has been a moment where he thought "don't think mac would like that drum"

Circles also sits weirdly in his disco with me bc I can tell he didn’t truly have his hand in it, something is missing despite how much I liked the album. Idk I’d rather a polished loose album than endless leaks but I’ll take what I can get. I appreciate that the family is treating his music and legacy with respect unlike X’s. Hope pop smokes fam does the same

but for what its worth, i think like 9 of the songs were just about complete. I'm sure there was a lot of deliberation between Jon and the family about whether or not this was authentic enough. Jon seemed to really have encouraged and enabled Mac so he might really be intuitive on some of the additions he's added to some of the songs.

I can't imagine the album would have been released and given the greenlight if mac didnt have tons of direction on the project. No one besides people who use KTT even knew circles existed, so its not like they felt obligated to complete the project for release.

You kinda perfectly articulated how I feel about Circles

Kinda feel like you’re obfuscating the actual content of what Edan had to say about it

genius.com/a/id-labs-e-dan-reflects-on-recording-mac-miller-s-woods-the-late-rapper-s-life-legacy

Were you otherwise involved in putting Circles together or collaborating with Jon?

E. Dan: No. Decidedly, no. I talked to both of his parents and his brother all the time, and they mentioned at some point pretty early on in the decision to do the album that they were going to have Jon do it. Which, frankly, made total sense to me, after we had done Swimming, and just the direction that the material was in.

Circles was basically a playlist on Mac’s laptop that they pulled from to put this together, and I knew what was on that playlist. Had anyone asked, I would have said Jon is probably the best for this. And he was. I think he did a great job. But no, I really didn’t have any involvement outside of “Woods.”

— E. DAN
What are your thoughts on the album, hearing it now? Is it kind of surreal to hear posthumously?

E. Dan: It’s not weird to hear it so much as it’s just weird to watch the process unfold of an album release and him not be here for it. It’s a little weird hearing the tracks because I was familiar with the demo versions of a lot of them. So just to hear some of the direction that Jon went, it’s just a different experience. Different for me to not be involved with an album, but just to have heard the really rough demos.

What was different about this album overall, just from a production standpoint, was most of these songs, minus “Woods” and maybe one or two others, they started with Mac in the studio on guitar and keyboard by himself or with an engineer. As opposed to being in the room directly with a producer that had a track prepared or was putting together a track at the same time. So there was a lot of room for these songs to be produced, which wasn’t the case in the past. So this stuff was a lot more raw. So it had to be finished in some way or another.

So for me, obviously, as somebody that’s been involved with Mac’s music from day one, it’s definitely a little strange just to hear these songs being finished and knowing, “Oh man, he wasn’t there for the process.” But I think that said, Jon probably did as good a job as anybody could do to have done it tastefully, beautifully, and thoughtfully.”

I was really struck by how it did seem to be very consistent with his vision and his career. I know that some of the artists that have passed recently, the fans have been kind of like, “Well this feels exploitative, or this feels like something they wouldn’t have done.” And Circles didn’t really feel like this at all.

E. Dan: No, it doesn’t. I think it’s impossible to not be left with questions. Like for me again personally, I hear things with drum sounds or something and I’m like, “I don’t know if Mac would have gone with that.”

But I also know that we don’t know. We don’t know where this project would have ended up, and not even Malcolm would have known until it was done. So I think that Jon did the best possible job of putting it together in a way that just didn’t distract from the songs themselves, because that’s the part that was Mac, and the important part. And ultimately Jon is pretty much a genius, so he made it sound beautiful. I’m a big fan of his, so I love what he did.

Yeah I was just basing it off of what I remembered reading a couple weeks ago. Thanks for posting for clarity. I should have mentioned that he thought Jon was best for the job and highly respects his art.

Yeah I was gonna chime in and said I remember E. Dan more so saying he didn’t think he was right for the job considering he wasn’t with Mac through the process of recording Circles. Only for Woods

I also feel like based of Brions Apple Music interview that Circles is almost fully realized by Mac. Almost enough that it’s able to be compared to with the rest of his discography. Yeah he didn’t do the last minute touches but Brion made it seem like he had basically gave us what we got. And I feel pretty confident in saying it’s Mac Miller’s best album

possible. been confirmed mac has finished projects in the vault.

@Based_Mac yo what did u think of these recent leaks?

Remember that story of mac bringing in random label execs when he was considering signing before he went with warners and he would just play the most out there weird crazy s*** just to see there reaction? Bet Tomorrow Will Never Know is one of them lol

Deff on the higher quality end of the leaks. 11 min song was.. interesting

Stoned was dope, the other one with sleep in the title was really good

Uber OG didn’t have much to say about but the Weekend OG definitely was interesting to hear. I’m not a huge fan of the actual song, but it was interesting to hear Mac do the hook. It’s a whole different tone with him doing the hook. I don’t know how I feel about this version either

Tomorrow Will Never Know is amazing......

Transformation feat Delusional Thomas out now
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Damn so much leaking this week

you took a plane out to Cali' to see me
You didn't see me though
So gone, haven't seen myself in like a week or so

seen a couple posts of people having the Circles CD....expecting those two bonus tracks today

I checked my emails and I received an email the album is on the way
Can't wait to see the artwork

did you get the CD or vinyl?

CD. I don't own a vinyl player.
What about you?

jersey spring with mac on very rare back in faces era god damn what a time

mac really was a breed of his own. imagine how many f***ing songs he made during that era

Give me everything please I'm kLip on KTT1 if its easier to do it through there

You have a DM on KTT1