Mac Miller Estate Shares Two Previously Unreleased Songs From 'K.I.D.S.' Mixtape Sessions [Audio]

The estate of Mac Miller has shared two previously unreleased songs entitled “Ayye” and “Back In The Day” that were cut from the late rapper’s K.I.D.S. mixtape. The two new songs released on Friday look to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Miller’s debut album.

Earlier this year, Miller’s family posthumously released Circles, which was meant to be a companion record to 2018’s Swimming. The Pittsburgh-born rapper, real name Malcolm McCormick, died of a drug overdose on September 7th, 2018 before Circles was completed.

These two “new” tracks feature a vastly different-sounding Mac Miller than on Circles, or any of his recent work. The songs find an 18-year-old Miller who is much less introspective at this early stage of his career. Yet, even through heavy layers of indulgent boastfulness that came with 2010 hip-hop, glimmers of the introspective lyricism that would later become his calling card still shine through.

“Ayye” finds the stereotypical party-boy persona that got him on so many playlists for the drive to high school at the start of the 2010s. Opening up with the line, “I’m so drunk its a bad idea to talk/Because I’m not making any sense/I’m just here to rock,” the song is an almost painful reminder of that fun-loving kid who, little known to us at the time, would go on using substances as a crutch for his demons until they eventually destroyed him. On the surface though, “Ayye” is a reminder of the fun kind of music Miller used to make.

Meanwhile on “Back In The Day” Miller reminisces on a time when he was even more unknown than he already was at that point. Despite this being his first release on a record label, albeit one that would go on to put him on the map for years to come, he is already nostalgic about when nobody believed in him and he was in it entirely for himself. Much more than “Ayye”, which is the prototypical front-porch banger, “Back In The Day” allows the presence of the emotions of alienation that would be found in Miller’s work for years to come.

Listen to “Ayye” and “Back In The Day” by Mac Miller from the 10th-anniversary edition of K.I.D.S., available now digitally and on vinyl.

Mac Miller – “Ayye” (Produced by E. Dan for ID Labs Music)

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Mac Miller – “Back In The Day” (Produced by Will Brown)

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