Swimming by Mac Miller

Swimming, Mac Miller's fifth studio album, came out on August 3, 2018, through his REMember Music imprint and Warner Bros. Records, and it turned out to be the last album he released in his lifetime: Miller died on September 7, barely a month later. He produced it himself with a deep bench of help behind the boards, from Jon Brion and Dev Hynes to J. Cole, Dâm-Funk and Flying Lotus.

There are no billed guests, yet the credits hide some serious company, with Snoop Dogg, Syd, Thundercat and JID all slipping their voices into the mix. The mood is soft-focus and warm, loose grooves drifting along while Miller sounds unhurried and unguarded, a rapper with nothing left to prove. "Small Worlds", "Self Care" and "What's the Use?" went out as singles, it opened at number three on the Billboard 200, and it brought him a posthumous Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album in 2019.

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