Mac Miller’s hometown honored the late rapper with a touching public vigil on Tuesday night time (Sept. 11). Fans flooded to Frick Blue Slide Park in Pittsburgh, which impressed the title of Miller’s 2011 debut album, Blue Slide Park.
The four-hour memorial allowed attendees to embellish the park’s attribute blue slides with artwork, flowers, candles and Pittsburgh Steelers-themed colours as a nod to the late rapper’s selection NFL workforce. The slide additionally obtained a recent coat of blue paint earlier within the day.
Blue Slide Park gave the hip-hop world a few of Miller’s most beloved hits, together with “Party on Fifth Ave.,” and one in every of his hottest songs, his neighborhood-inspired “Frick Park Market.” The file debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 26, 2011).
Miller handed away on Sept. 7 of a reported overdose and was pronounced useless at his Studio City, California residence. He was 26 years outdated. See footage from the vigil through Pittsburgh’s native CBS information station under.