“He had everybody in the room dying laughing.” Miller also met Fifth Harmony member Dinah Jane for the first time that day, “and she was talking about how nice he was,” Ty remembers. “He was in good spirits,” says Ty, who first met the rapper through the pair’s mutual friendship with Miller’s onetime Rostrum labelmate Wiz Khalifa. Two weeks before Miller’s death, Ty Dolla $ign, who was in the midst of working with him on a joint project, spent the day with Miller at Chalice Recording Studios in L.A. Miller had been working with his sober coach since 2016, and was working out at an L.A. By all accounts, he was in his best mental and physical condition in years when he died. I had never been that close to somebody who had issues like that.”īut for those closest to him, Miller’s death still came as a shock. “He had sort of made a turn after the making of Blue Slide Park, where I think he got a little bit deeper into drugs and was talking about it,” says Benjy Grinberg, the founder of independent Pittsburgh record label, Rostrum Records, who signed Miller to his first record deal in 2010 and served as his de facto manager for several years afterward. It peaked around the time he was making his 2012 mixtape, Macadelic. Miller openly discussed his dependence on lean, a combination of codeine and promethazine. The last such incident before the night of his death, according to his assistant, had been on September 4th, just three days before his death. While he was attempting sobriety, he had frequent “slip-ups,” according to a statement in the autopsy report, that could be excessive. Miller had long struggled with addiction. and discovered Miller’s body that anyone close to him knew anything was wrong. It was only when the assistant arrived the next morning - he typically woke Miller at 11:30 a.m. on September 6th, and spoke to his mother on the phone that night. Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.According to witness statements in the autopsy report, Miller was last seen by his assistant around 10:30 p.m. Writer/s: Miguel Jontel Pimentel, Malcolm James McCormick, Jamil Chammas, Rupert Jr. When I get faded you hate it but, baby, it's gon' be alright, ha, alright 'Cause Fridays are always the start of the time of my life, alright These bitches don't know me, this shit is so lonely until she get naked Get it over the counter, I'm stuck on the browsers like how did I make it I'm poppin' them dollars and drinkin' them powders, faded Wondering well, wonderin' how I got this highįell and asleep and forgot to die, god damn Never will I walk in line, I cross the T's and dot the I's See in God's desire make water wine, pause in time, it's common they often hate me Only time we fall behind, bitches in the concubine, callin' mine crazy I been thinking about the places that I frequent
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