Over the weekend, at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival in LA, a two-and-a-half minute trailer went live between sets from Sampha and Alchemist & Friends which teased the release of a new album by… Mac Miller.
Titled Balloonerism, the album is apparently a lost project created by the American rapper before he passed away in 2018, said to have been recorded before Miller’s 2014 mixtape Faces, over the duration of a week.
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In the teaser video that aired at Camp Flog Gnaw over the weekend, the trailer teased audio of two tracks: “The Song That Changed Everything,” which has been speculated to feature SZA, and “5 Dollar Pony Rides.”
With rumours that Thundercat was involved in the production of the album, and SZA and Dylan Reynolds apparently featuring on it, there’s a lot of speculation around Balloonerism, and has been for years.
In 2020, tracks including “Do You Have a Destination,” “Uber” and “The Song That Changed Everything” appeared online in apparent leaks. In 2021, the book titled The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller mentioned Balloonerism, commenting that it was being worked on before he passed.
The teaser trailer for the album ended with one simple word: “soon,” so we’re holding our breaths for Balloonerism to drop.
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