The popular rapper Mac Miller had just released a new album Swimming and was one month away from starting a scheduled tour when police found him dead in his Los Angeles home Friday. The official cause of death will not be determined until after an autopsy is performed, authorities say, but it has been widely reported as a drug overdose. Miller was 26.
Born Malcolm James McCormick in Pittsburgh to a Christian father and Jewish mother, the hip-hop artist started recording music in his early teens and took the name, Mac Miller. “I’m raised Jewish; I had a bar mitzvah … I celebrate the High Holidays. That’s like my family … like how I was raised,” Miller said in a 2011 interview.
