

Miller had a platinum-selling single with “Donald Trump” - “take over the world when I’m on my Donald Trump” - invoking the real-estate developer before his turn to politics. As a rapper, he landed hard in the pocket as a producer, he gave himself deep pockets to land in.Įarly in his career, Mr. He was a producer as well, sometimes under the alias Larry Fisherman, and his beats were lush and jazz-and-soul-inflected with flashes of sparkle. With his 2013 record, “Watching Movies With the Sound Off,” his music was becoming more serious and more technically accomplished. “Blue Slide Park,” bounced from one jubilant song to the next in the party-rap tradition of the late 1980s and early ’90s. He was an astute, intricate rapper as a lyricist he was a classicist in an era that had largely turned away from that style.īut he was also lighthearted. Miller began rapping as a teenager and released several mixtapes before signing with Rostrum, a local independent label. They and a brother are among his survivors. His mother is a photographer and his father an architect. “I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety,” she wrote. Miller as “toxic” and criticized those who attributed the accident to the breakup. Grande referred to her relationship with Mr.

“I needed to run into that light pole and literally, like, have the whole thing stop.”ĭays later, in a statement, Ms. “I needed that,” he said in a radio interview this summer. He was charged in August with two counts of driving under the influence.

Miller was arrested in Los Angeles after his Mercedes G-Wagon hit a utility pole. Grande announced this year that the couple had broken up. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest-charting single. He appeared on “The Way,” a 2013 collaboration with Ms. Miller found a more extreme form of fame through a romantic relationship with the pop star Ariana Grande. I want to be able to have good days and bad days.” Miller said in an interview this week in Vulture, addressing his mental health. “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” Mr.
