I’m looking at my calendar right now, trying to figure it out. MCCORMICK: Yeah, I can’t believe it’s been so long. Last night, Miller, we released this thing that we’ve been working on together for what, six months? MILLER MCCORMICK: I feel like I’m going to throw up right now. SAM MASON: What’s up, Miller? How you doing? Late last month, the mixtape was made available on Spotify and Apple music, along with the music video for “Colors and Shapes.” Here, McCormick and Mason jump on the phone to reflect on the process -at times painful, at other times exciting - of honoring Mac’s memory. The connection between McCormick and Mason proved so fruitful that McCormick tapped Mason to orchestrate a suite of visualizers, in collaboration with an array of visual artists, to accompany the rest of the tracks on Faces. The video, which takes Mac’s childhood drawings, family photos, and even his beloved dog Ralph as its inspirational starting point, effortlessly channels the rapper’s youthful spirit.
Together, the pair created a music video for “Colors and Shapes,” - Karen’s favorite song from Faces - to accompany the release.
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“It’s this combination of looking forward and backward at once,” McCormick says of the first time he saw Mason’s short film, Little Things, “I don’t know… it made things feel okay, at a time when things really didn’t feel okay.” It wasn’t long before McCormick brought Mason inside the close-knit family of artists and musicians who had orbited Mac in life, and remained close after his passing. The answer came in the form of Sam Mason, a filmmaker whose work simultaneously evokes childhood wonderment and achy nostalgia. “Malcolm was like this atom bomb of pure light and energy,” McCormick recalls on a recent afternoon, “How do you even begin to encapsulate that?” But despite the intimate nature of the project, Mac’s family fretted over how best to honor the moment. The record, which Mac produced along with his cohort of friends including Thundercat and 9th Wonder, features the likes of ScHoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, and Da$h. In the spring of 2020, McCormick and his mother decided to bring the last of Mac’s mixtapes, 2014’s Faces, to streaming services. When Mac passed away in the fall of 2018, he left behind 13 mix tapes, many of them self-recorded, which trickled onto streaming services slowly over the course of his 11 year career. McCormick, the brother of the late rapper Mac Miller, is the artist behind the cover art for the majority of his brother’s records, from 2010’s Blue Slide Park, to 2016’s The Divine Feminine. Though Miller McCormick keeps a low profile online, his designs - colorful abstractions, both intimate and optimistic - are likely familiar to most contemporary rap fans.
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