- Larry Lovestein is the same person as Mac Miller
- The Self Care singer was an American rapper, record producer, and actor who had a net worth of $9 million
- The artist who dated singer Ariana Grande suffered substance abuse and died of a drug overdose in 2018
Larry Lovestein “Mac Miller” rose to stardom as one of America’s versatile and entertaining rappers and musicians with Circles (2020) and Blue Slide Park (2011) albums to him name. He was also an actor known for films such as Single Ladies (2011), Punk’d (2012), and Loiter Squad (2014) which have contributed to his estimated net worth $9 million. After making his mark, he died on September 7, 2018, at the age of 26 due to accidental drug overdose.
Is Larry Lovestein Really Mac Miller?
Mac Miller was also known as Larry Lovestein. Under the latter pseudonym, he released quite a number of works. These earliest musical works help in shaping his career.
As Larry Lovestein & The Velvet Revival, the artist released songs such as You, Love Affaiir, Life Can Wait, and Suspicions.
Larry Lovestein is not the only name that the rapper used. Apart from Mac Miller, a name he got from his grandfather and brother, he was also known as Delutional Thomas, Easy Mac, Larry Fisherman, and The Velvet Revival.
All Other Things to Know About The Sad Life And Death of the Rapper
His Family and Life Before Fame
He was born Malcolm James McCormick on January 19, 1992, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Looking into his family, his father is an architect named Mark McCormick and practice the Christian religion. He also had a photographer mother, Karen Meyers who practiced the Jewish religion.
More into his family, he had an older brother, Miller McCormick whom the rapper later adopted his first name as his stage name.
Mac was raised a Jewish but attended a Catholic grade school before heading to an independent coeducational preparatory school, Winchester Thurson School as well as a public school, Taylor Allderdice High School.
Career of Mac Miller in Music
Growing up, Lovestein who was also athletic fell in love with music and by the time he was 6, he had learnt on his own to play the piano, guitar, drums, and bass.
At 14, he began to rap and was called Easy Mac (also spelt EZ Mac). Later in his career, he adopted the name Mac Miller which would see him to the rest of his professional music career years.
With the beginning of his professional career in 2007 when he was 15, and the release of a number of Mixtapes that include The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown, and The High Life.
At the age of 18 in 2010 at the Pittsburgh Hip Hop Awards, Mac won 21 & Under of the Year and Best Hip Hop Awards for ‘Live Free’.
In his career that lasted a little more than a decade, Miller was signed to different record labels. In 2010, he was signed to Rostrum Records, the same label Wiz Khalifa was signed to. As part of the label, he released mixtapes “K.I.D.S” in 2010, and “Best Day Ever” in 2011.
Miller made bigger of his music career when he started his own label, REMember Music in 2013 and in 2014, became signed to Warner Bros. Records where he released other studio albums: “GO: OD AM” (2015), “The Divine Feminine” (2016), and “Swimming” (2018).
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How His Career in the Movie Industry Contributed to His Fame
In the movie industry, Mac Miller served as an actor and producer, and also worked in the music department of some movies.
As an actor, he is credited for playing Dave in Loiter Squad (2014), Rolanda & Richard (2013), and as D’Andre on Scary Movie (2013).
He also produced the Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family TV series documentary (2013), and a short film, Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston (2015).
As regards soundtracks in movies, Lovestein performed in films such as Tall Girl (2019), Insecure (2018), Lethal Weapon (2016), HellFish (2015), and video game, Grand Theft Auto V (2013).
How Much was Mac Miller’s Net Worth at the Time of His Death?
Mac Miller had an estimated net worth of $9 million at the time of his death in 2018.
Primarily, music was his source of income. Through the career, he was able to release 5 successful albums from 2011 to 2018 while another was released in 2020, 2 years after his death.
More to this, he added his fortune through his career in the movie industry.
At his death, he was said to have left $11.3 million to his friends and family.
What to Know About Larry Lovestein’s Struggle With Substance Abuse and Depression
Music became the avenue for Mac Miller to put across his struggle with substance abuse which took a large part of him. Many lyrics of his songs portrayed his battle in different ways.
In ‘Faces’, his independently-released mixtape, Miller aired his thoughts about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman who died as a result of drug intoxication. Larry in his lyrics proclaimed:
a drug habit like Philip Hoffman will probably put me in a coffin.
He also went ahead to talk about his own use of cocaine, codeine cough syrup as well as angel dust.
As a result of his dealing with drugs, Miller would go on to say how he’s been eaten up day after day, and how he felt closer to death.
It was apparent, Miller was never proud of his problem with drugs but he mostly couldn’t stay at the far end of it. Still, he said he wasn’t an addict. Also, he was able to deal with some part of it before his death – well, at least according to some of his lyrics.
While this may seem to be all, it wasn’t just drugs issues he had to deal with. He also had to fight the demons that came with depression. He told Larry King that his depression and drug use were intertwined.
He Had a Number of Legal Issues
First, he alongside friends were arrested for the possession of marijuana in 2011. A year after, he was dragged to court by Lord Finesse who claimed Miller and Rostrum used Finesse’s song ‘‘Hip 2 Da Game in Miller’s 2010 mixtape in one of his songs.
In 2015, he was again dragged to court by Aquarian Dream for sampling their song Yesterday (Was So Nice Today)’ in his song ‘Therapy’.
In 2018 following an arrest, Mac was charged with two counts that include driving under the influence of alcohol and was later released on $15,000 bail.
Love Life of Larry Lovestein
Mac Miller had 2 most notable relationships with writer Nomi Leasure and Ariana Grande, a musician who dated Pete Davidson.
With Nomi, the late singer had a love life for about 7 years from 2009 to 2016.
Following that, the artist started dating Ariana Grande in 2016 and remained together until a few months before his death.
How Mac Miller Died
From an accidental drug overdose, Mac Miller who was 26 years old was found dead in his Studio City home, Los Angeles, California on September 7, 2018.
A year after he passed, three men – Cameron James Pettit, Ryan Michael Reavis, and Stephen Andrew Walter were arrested in relation to his death.
Cameron James Pettit was said to have sold fake oxycodone pills that had in it fentanyl two days before his death. It was also stated that Miller could have used the drugs before his death. Also, Pettit and the other men involved in the drugs were indicted on charges of conspiracy and drugs resulting in death.
Quick Facts About the Late Rapper
- He was a huge fan of John Lennon and had multiple tattoos of the music legend
- In July 2022, his I Love Life, Thank You was re-released
- According to Lil Xan, Mac’s last words to him were “Be Safe” and the words inspired his project’s title, “Be Safe” instead of the initial tile, “Baby Blue Subaru”
- In 2021, Arian Grande shared that she still adored him even at death
- His family started the Mac Miller Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation to honor him
