Rapper Mac Miller’s posthumous album, ‘Circles,’ released

PITTSBURGH — Rapper Mac Miller’s posthumous album, “Circles,” is now available.

The music newly released on Friday was recorded as a companion album to “Swimming,” which was released in August 2018 and received a Grammy nomination for best rap album.

Miller’s family wrote in a Jan. 8 Instagram post that the two different styles were meant to complement each other to complete a circle. The overall concept of the project was “Swimming in Circles.”

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“We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it,” the Instagram post said, in part.

There are 12 tracks on “Circles.”

Miller, a Pittsburgh native, died on Sept. 7, 2018, at the age of 26 of a drug overdose at his home in Studio City, California.