'We just really wanted to stick with our home team,' Mac Miller tells 'RapFix Live' of Blue Slide Park.
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway
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What's the first thing an artist does when he snags the #1 spot on the Billboard albums chart? Well, if he's Mac Miller, he plays James Brown's "I Feel Good" — and why wouldn't he?
On Wednesday (November 16), the 19-year-old Pittsburgh MC landed the #1 album with his independent debut, Blue Slide Park. It's the first time an indie artist has obtained the top spot with a debut since Tha Dogg Pound did it in 1995.
To mark the occasion, Mac — who is currently out on tour — appeared on "RapFix Live" via Skype. "It's crazy. I've been trying to take it all in," Miller told Sway. "I've just been in constant motion, so I haven't gotten a chance to really stop and realize how crazy this is that we got the first #1 in 16 years. It's nuts, man."
Mac broke out in 2010 when he signed to Rostrum Records and then dropped his K.I.D.S. mixtape. Rostrum, which is most noted for signing Wiz Khalifa, is an independent label. Even though Wiz is distributed through Atlantic Records, Mac has no major-label affiliation — not that the majors haven't been interested. But Team Miller wanted to do things on their own.
"I never really got far enough to see an offer for real," Mac said. "I got no hatred towards major labels or anything. I never got a chance to hear what they had to say. We just really wanted to stick with our home team and keep it in the family."
Miller's manager and Rostrum Records founder Benjy Grinberg has been fending off offers for Mac. "They called Benjy and wanted to talk, but Benjy was just on some 'We're not trying to talk right now, we're doin' this independently.' And we just left it at that."
The move paid off. Since Blue Slide Park was released November 8, fans have been snatching up copies both digitally and physically. "The numbers are cool — 144,000, that's crazy. But whatever it is, the fact that I got a #1 album on my first try independently is just something that no one could ever take away from me," Mac said. "I had fans tweeting me with pictures of nine albums that they bought."
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