“There’s no restriction in genre for me,” he said. Miller has recently been working with Grammy-winning jazz pianist Robert Glasper, and recording on and off with producer of the moment Pharrell Williams. If you can connect on another level, then you’re able to really make a song.” If you just jump in and get to work it becomes this superficial thing where we’re just here to rap and see who has the better verse or whatever. That conversation is the most important part of the process for me personally. Before I ever jump into trying to work with someone, it’s important to me to have a conversation. “I don’t like to work with people that I can’t hang out with,” he said. Collaboration, Miller said, needs to be personal. Miller’s 2014 mixtape “Faces,” featured guest spots from Earl Sweatshirt, Rick Ross, Ab-Soul and others. He’s embraced collaboration as a means of growing creatively. “So I just want to make sure I’m in the position to grow.” “Who knows who I’ll be when I’m 27 – how I’ll see the world and see myself,” he said. Having grown up a bit over his rap career, Miller, who turns 23 this month, said he’s trying to set himself up for long-term success and creative evolution. He is currently at work on a new rap album, due out sometime this year. “So if I want to do a weird instrumental album or make whatever album I want, they’re in it.” “It was apparent they were down to let me do whatever,” he said of the record company. But he says the move into the mainstream side of the music business won’t water down the creative output or bad boy lyricism of the rapper behind “Smile Back,” “Donald Trump” and “Loud.” Last year, Miller finally signed to a major record label – inking a deal with Warner Brothers. 1 Billboard hit – the first independent hip-hop album in 20 years to reach that commercial milestone. His 2011 debut album, “Blue Slide Park” became a no. ![]() ![]() Miller began releasing songs online at 15, and grew into an underground and online rhyming legend a few years later.
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