Sitting in the back of the screening of director Samuel Jerome Mason’s Balloonerism: A Film Based on the Album by Mac Miller, I thought about how Malcolm would’ve loved this animated companion piece soundtracked by his not-quite-lost 2014 album,

Mac Miller's second posthumous album, Balloonerism, arrived on Friday (Jan. 17). The project lands exactly five years to the day Circles was released in 2020 and just two days shy of what would have been Mac's 33rd birthday.

T he impetus for posthumous releases often feels dicey, especially for rappers. Even if they are presented as a post-life artistic celebration, it's hard to ignore the feeling tha