“White rapper from upper Rust Belt conquers world – sound familiar? Pittsburgh’s Mac Miller, the Wiz Khalifa labelmate whose debut LP has already topped the album charts, is no Marshall Mathers. But when his themes stick close to Steeltown, he’s likable enough. When his rhymes turn celebratory – in the old-school "Party on Fifth Ave." and frat-drunk "Up All Night," say – he can be propulsive, too. […]”
“After a series of mixtapes I casually enjoyed, Mac Miller's sound gets sweeter on his full-length debut, Blue Slide Park.”
“Mac Miller's debut is the first independently distributed debut album to go to No. 1 in 16 years, but the Pittsburgh rapper is mostly just a crushingly bland and intolerable version of Wiz Khalifa.”
