Malcolm James McCormick, known professionally as Mac Miller, was born in 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to parents of mixed Christian and Jewish faith. He became interested in hip hop at age 15 and became a self-taught musician, learning multiple instruments. Miller began his rap career at 14 under the names EZ Mac and Mac Miller, releasing several mixtapes. He was influenced by artists like Big L, Lauryn Hill, and A Tribe Called Quest. Miller later struggled with addiction to codeine and promethazine but was able to quit in 2012.

1. ‘Malcolm James McCormick’

3. Malcolm James McCormick was born on January
19th 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His mum
was a photographer by the name of Karen Meyers,
his father was an architect by the name of Mark
McCormick. His father was Christian and his mum
was Jewish. He himself stated that from the age of
15 when he found out that he could get a career in
hip hop that’s all he ever wanted to do. Since that
point Mac Miller became self-taught musician. He
learnt how to play the guitar, piano, drums and
bass.

4. Miller first started rapping at the age of fourteen.
Originally he wanted to be a singer-songwriter.
Prior to changing his name to Mac Miller, he was
known as EZ Mac and released the mixtape But
My Mackin' Ain't Easy in 2007 at the age of fifteen.
In 2009 Mac Miller released two mixtapes The
Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown and The High Life
before getting signed to Rostrum Records. In 2009
at age 17, he made it to the final four in Rhyme
Calisthenics, the MC competition at Shadow
Lounge.

5. Mac Miller includes Big L, Lauryn Hill, the
Beastie Boys, Outkast, and A Tribe Called Quest
among his influences. He also has a close
relationship with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz
Khalifa, saying "Wiz has been a big brother to me
with this music thing so far. Our relationship is
beyond music. He really is just my homie,
whether I will be making music or not."

6. Miller has said that he became addicted to combination of
promethazine and codeine known as "purple drank" or "lean."
which he began taking to manage the stress he was enduring
during his Macadelic Tour in 2012. In January 2013, Miller told
Complex: I love lean; it’s great. I was not happy and I was on
lean very heavy. I was so fucked up all the time it was bad. My
friends couldn’t even look at me the same. I was lost. At the
time of Miller's addiction, his childhood friend, Jimmy Murton,
said: "I saw him in that mentality I remember being in—you’re
getting fucked up because you feel like you need to. You’re
trying to get away from everything. For how much he was
drinking, it’s unbelievable that he stopped. It’s definitely one of
the most impressive things he’s ever done." Miller quit taking
promethazine in November 2012, before he started the shooting
of his upcoming reality show, Mac Miller and the Most Dope
Family. Miller was in a long term relationship with a girl he met
in middle school for four years until April 2013. Many of the
songs on his mixtape Macadelic were about their relationship.