Throughout the tape, Mac Miller just comes across as disinterested and bored. Even worse than his flow’s tendency to switch into monotony is his bland delivery. Sometimes he does bring a slight variant to the style (like on the hilariously ignorant Goosebumpz), but for the most part his flow doesn’t change. Miller relies almost entirely on a laid back and collected flow. But he constantly puts himself with musicians that only accent how mediocre Miller is as a rapper. I can’t deny that he has some taste (Which I’ll get to).

My biggest problem with this album, just like every other Miller project I’ve bothered to look into, is Miller himself. I was hoping, with all these features from proven lyricists, that he’d improve a bit as a rapper on Watching Movies With the Sound Off.

He also has a tendency to play with words sporadically, but what he’s saying never carries any weight. The production was OK, but Miller himself tends to stick to a monotone delivery that just kind of aggravates me. I gave Blue Side Park a listen when it came out, and I found myself rather unimpressed. Now (perhaps out of nowhere, or perhaps because I’ve just kind of ignored the guy) he drops an album featuring Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson…basically a ton of really talented and somewhat underground rappers. Back then I probably associated him with that idiotic Donald Trump song. He was an act that teen girls always got really excited about. I mean, just a few years ago, It was pretty easy to just ignore him.

Mac Miller is one of several rappers that deeply confound me.

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