The Estate of late American rapper and songwriter Mac Miller is gearing up to officially release his ‘Balloonerism’ studio album.
As reported earlier, Balloonerism was recorded around 2013-2014 between the releases of Watching Movies With the Sound Off and the mixtape Faces. Mac decided to move on to his Faces tape and ended up using some of the songs from the Balloonerism jam session on that project after using a week-long studio session to record ‘Balloonerism’ according to ID Labs’ E. Dan.
“[Mac] did make an actual track list (a few actually) [for Balloonerism] and pretty much all of the songs you all know as Balloonerism were made inside of a week stemming from what was basically jam sessions,” Dan commented on Reddit. “He did indeed move on from it, took a few of the songs for Faces and never got back to it. […] The project itself was a real thing in so far as Mac made a few iTunes playlists about it but it never got finished.”
A version of the forthcoming LP had earlier leaked in 2021. Producer Madlib had earlier announced during an interview on Sway in the Morning that he was putting the finishing touches on an upcoming Mac project. He made the announcement, keeping further details about the project in the wraps.
“Is that the same [Mac Miller] project that was mentioned years ago after he passed that was never released?” Sway asked. “So the estate is down now?”
“Yeah, they’re down,” Madlib replied.
During the final day of Tyler, The Creator‘s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival on the 17th of November, a trailer for Balloonerism was shown to concert attendees, revealing the album would get an official release soon. In the animated trailer, some kids and rodents embark on an epic journey with trippy visuals. The trailer is scored with the Balloonerism songs “5 Dollar Pony Rides,” and “The Song That Changed Everything” featuring SZA.
