Cyrus Langhorne
Top Dawg Entertainment‘s Kendrick Lamar is reportedly going to contribute to fellow rapper Mac Miller‘s newly announced The Divine Feminine album.
According to reports, Miller’s follow-up to 2015’s GO:OD AM is slated to arrive September 16 with contributions from a slew of hip-hop artists like K. Dot.
He’s also shared the first single from the record, “Dang!,” which features Anderson .Paak. It premiered today on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Speaking with Lowe, Mac revealed that The Divine Feminine has contributions from Kendrick Lamar, Cee-Lo, and Robert Glasper. (Mac’s song with Kendrick will be their second collaboration, following the 2012 Macadelic track “Fight the Feeling.”) (Pitchfork)
Last September, Miller’s GO:OD AM made a Top 5 debut on the sales chart.
Drake & Future’s collaborative mixtape, What a Time to Be Alive (YMCMB/Republic/Epic), has topped the HITS Album Sales Chart with 340k and the Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) Chart with 379k. Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey’s highly anticipated Honeymoon (Interscope) debuted at #2 with 111k in sales and 121k at SPS. Warner Bros.’ Mac Miller follows at #3 with 78k for GO:OD AM and Columbia’s David Gilmour debuts at #4 with 68k for Rattle That Lock, while WMG’s Shinedown rounds out the Top 5 with 61k for Threat to Survival. (HITS Daily Double)
In July 2015, Miller broke big news about the album’s completion.
In 2014, Miller talked about leaving the independent hustle to sign a deal with Warner Bros. Records.
“I’m trying to not let [the deal] factor in. I’ve held on and been independent and done my own thing long enough that they trust me and are going to let me make what I want to make. I think that the second I let that affect the creation, it’s horrible.” (The FADER)
