Pink Slime (2012) - Mac Miller & Pharrell Williams torrent

Pharrell Williams and Mac Miller first linked up in 2012 for “Onaroll,” the lead single from an ultimately unreleased collaborative EP titled Pink Slime. In a new interview with Vulture, Pharrell reminisced on his experience working with Mac on the project, and revealed the advice he gave the young rapper.

" I just remember him being a fan of music and wanting to go deeper and challenge himself,” Pharrell said. “He was really independent in the rap game, but he liked Tribe and all the jazzy shit, and he liked a lot of the stuff we did that’s jazz-influenced, rap records that had those kinds of colors and chords. And he wanted to know more about it. He wanted people to know that there was way more to him than his indie-rap success. He wanted people to know the layers and the depth of his potential.”


According to Pharrell, he encouraged Mac to find that satisfaction within himself rather than looking for external validation:

"I would always tell him, ‘Who cares that they know? Why is it not an amazing gift that you know this about yourself so much so that you do these things?’ And that was the question he could never answer. It was the question I don’t think he was gonna be able to answer. He was so focused on that quest that he really didn’t have time to answer. He wanted people to know and I think people knew, but there was no way of saying it in a really unified, loud way that would make him go, ‘Oh, okay, so you guys get who I am. Okay, cool, great.’ The albums did well. It’s not like they weren’t telling him then, but I don’t know if he was ever gonna hear it."


Pharrell worked with Mac at a pivotal time in the rapper’s career. Blue Slide Park had become the first independent album to top the Billboard 200 chart in over 15 years in 2011, but the project was critically savaged in a way that left Mac depressed and eager to prove he was more than the public’s perception of him.

“A lot of the reviews were more on me as a person,“ Miller told Complex in 2013. "To be honest, that was even worse. You’re 19, you’re so excited to put out your first album, you put it out—and no one has any respect for you or for what you did.”


Although Pink Slime never materialized in its entirety (they also dropped the song “Glow”), Pharrell did go on to produce “Objects in the Mirror” from Mac’s sophomore album, Watching Movies With the Sound Off. That album jumpstarted Mac’s creative renaissance, which would find him moving in a more experimental direction with his music.


https://genius.com/a/pharrell-recalls-working-with-mac-miller-on-the-unreleased-pink-slime-ep