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Mac Miller Free Boston Concerts
Katherine Duffey, Social and Communites Manager
September 9, 2011
MacDonald-Miller is the premier mechanical contractor in the Northwest. And a huge reason for that is our people. Here, nothing is higher priority than creating an environment where employees can craft their own path, embrace technology, expand their skills, and, just as important, be themselves. We are a Finalist for “Best Places to Work in. Organizers of 'Mac Miller: A Celebration of Life' have announced that the star-studded concert will be streamed via Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and several other platforms. LP - Boston (Vinyl) $56.60. Save to My Likes. 1979 US Tour Long Sleeve Tee. Save to My Likes.
This year, the Boston Urban Music Festival held their annual free concert on August 6th, 2011. The free concert is traditionally geared towards the young adult audience- last year the headliner was Wiz Khalifa. Khalifa ended up being chased from the stage by fans because of a lack of crowd control, so this year, the Festival decided to use a less known artist- Mac Miller. Miller is Khalifa’s fellow Pittsburgh native who shares the same Rostrum Records label. However, it doesn’t seem like this solved the problem. No, Miller wasn’t chased from the stage, but he threatened to leave it at least three times…
The concert was scheduled to be from 5:00-8:00 p.m., but fans started lining up at Boston’s City Hall Plaza as early as one o’ clock. The concert was free- so there were about 30,000 people in attendance. Bodies were packed together, and the most crowd members could see of Mac was a small glimpse here and there, unless you were one of the lucky few who found unobstructed views. The crowd was restless, and the hot and humid summer air combined with the body heat of everyone around you made you feel like you were suffocating. The opening acts had a tough job trying to please such a restless, rowdy audience, but beat boxer Phunk Phenomenon and MC Flem, who performed a Bruins remix version of Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow” successfully entertained the crowd. Next, Moe Pope, a hip hop artist from Boston, performed. Unfortunately, the crowd had gotten so rowdy that Moe Pope was forced to stop in the middle of his act. Crowd members were throwing bottles at each other and at the stage, and multiple fights broke out. People attempted to crowd surf, and most ended up on the pavement. No authority stepped in- but concert-goers were warned not to do it again.
Then, the final opener, a young female vocalist called Goapele, performed. Not a person in the crowd could hear her over the booing. She was basically ignored as the crowd hollered and chanted for the headliner, Mac Miller. Bottles, most of them filled, continued to be thrown in the air, to the point where people were breaking out the umbrellas on the clear summer night. The crowd was too big to control- and only about five police officers could be seen at one time, unable to really do anything about the riot-like situation.
When Mac Miller finally came onstage, it was about 7:00 pm. The crowd had long awaited the moment, but it wasn’t all that satisfying listening to Miller’s biggest hit “Donald Trump” when you’re covered in orange soda that someone tossed on you, standing in a crowd of 30,000 rowdy, disrespectful, and intoxicated teenagers.
Yes, Mac Miller might have only been legally allowed to drink in his home country for a single year, but he’s had one of the most comprehensive and prolific music careers of anyone from his generation. This might come from the fact that he might only be 22 years of age, but he’s been rapping since the age of fourteen, released his first mixtape (2007’s “But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy”) at fifteen.
However, even before then music was a big part of his life. Miller was playing the guitar nonstop with the intention of being a singer/songwriter, but gave that up when people were, in the words of his friend Jimmy Mourton “people were hating on his voice.”
Well. If you’re going to show up the haters, one way of doing that is having the first independently released debut album to hit number one on the billboard charts since 1995. So Miller did just thatm and his debut album, 2011’s “Blue Slide Park” sold 145’000 copies in its first week. Despite that, Miller still admirably considers himself an underground rapper.
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2013 saw the release of his second effort “Watching Movies With The Sound Off”. A record made with the cream of young rap talent, like Tyler The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future, Action Bronson and Ab-Soul all making guest appearances.
Mac Miller is an alpha example of why it’s great to be a music fan today.IIn him and many others, we have talented, unique young artists with years of experience already under their belts, and they’re only going to get better with age. One to watch, for sure.