Rapping for the majority of this six-and-a-half-minute track, Miller calmly throws ad-lib after ad-lib at the listener, while still delivering some of his best punchlines and rhymes that he’s released. The third track on Faces, “Friends,” shows Miller at his rapping peak. Even with an upbeat track, these dark themes on Faces are still present throughout. With lines like “I did it all without a Drake feature,” and “If I ain’t in your top ten, then you a racist,” this track sees Miller trade these braggadocious bars with sentiments about the kids who he grew up getting murdered. However, the next track, “Here We Go,” is a direct contrast to “Inside Outside,” as Miller spits triumphant bars over another jazzy instrumental. įaces begins with the song “Inside Outside,” and features one of the most powerful opening lines I’ve ever heard on an album, “Shoulda died already, I shoulda died already.” Over an instrumental featuring a saxophone sample and many different vocal samples throughout, as well as what sounds like ScHoolboy Q repeating “Faces” over and over, Miller delivers a solid verse setting the dark tones that will continue to pop up throughout the album.

Mac Miller also produces 14 of the 25 tracks under his production alias, Larry Fisherman, and this project feels like an extension of themes and ideas explored in his 2013 release, Watching Movies with the Sound Off. Nowhere close.” This mixtape is filled to the brim with some of Miller’s best rapping and a wide range of guest features, from frequent collaborators like Earl Sweatshirt (twice) and ScHoolboy Q to new faces like Rick Ross and Mike Jones. Sitting at a whopping 91 minutes in length (Miller’s longest project on streaming services by a good margin), Faces was made at a time where Miller was dealing with heavy drug use, which Miller himself confirmed in interviews and with his tweet, “I was not on planet earth when I made Faces. Over seven years after its official release, Mac Miller’s legendary mixtape Faces hit streaming services on October 15th, 2021.

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