Goldlink Is Under Fire For A Controversial Letter About His Friendship With Mac Miller
Goldlink tried to pay tribute to Miller while also accusing him of ripping off his work.
Rapper Goldlink and the sorely-missed Mac Miller were colleagues, fellow game-changers who played together on the latter’s GO:OD AM tour. Now, Goldlink has tried to address friction between the two in an open letter posted to his Instagram page.
In the letter, Goldlink goes long on his friendship with the deceased Miller, making them out to be allies and sometimes competitors that both loved and envied each other.
“I’d be lying if I said I was surprised to hear you died on us,” Goldlink begins. “Not because you were necessarily troubled, but because you were special, and because of that, because you were troubled.”
Goldlink opens up about his complicated relationship with Mac Miller in an open letter ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/WKP45mewME
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) November 27, 2019
From there, Goldlink begins to outline the pair’s squabbles. “I think what made you and I special was that we weren’t always on the best terms. So I didn’t always have great things to say about you.”
In particular, the rapper reveals he took issue with what he saw as Miller’s plagiarism of his own work. In the letter, he alleges Miller’s Divine Feminine was modelled off his own And After That, We Didn’t Talk, and that Miller’s ‘Dang!’ was a carbon copy of Goldlink’s ‘Unique’, both featuring Anderson Paak.
“I was so proud of you and what you created for yourself,” Goldlink ends the letter.
Since being posted, the letter hasn’t exactly gone down well, with the rapper being criticised as self-involved and petty.
Goldlink used a picture from the last day I ever saw Mac Miller, I think from his last photo shoot in life, to kick up some questionable shit over a year after the kid passed and can't respond, and I can't even wrap my head around the logic that would tell someone to do this.
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) November 27, 2019
Goldlink really wrote that whole ass letter to Mac Miller to pretty much let him know he wants to argue when he gets up there
— d (@YungMermaid) November 27, 2019
Particularly irate is Paak himself, who has now been dragged into the controversy and seems to resent simply being muddled up in this whole thing.
In a now deleted Instagram post responding to the whole mess, he has described the letter as “disrespectful, narcissistic, jealous, grossly unnecessary.”
Anderson .Paak let the choppa sing on this post cause i aint NEVER seen him like this???????? Goldlink shouldve left his shit in the drafts. pic.twitter.com/kRoOCsL9o3
— Mugen’s Baby Momma (@OhHeyCassidy) November 27, 2019
“I’m not a tough guy,” Paak wrote. “I’m not about negativity. But this bugged me bad bro … I pray you get back to the music and spreading good energy, ima do the same. Mac Miller forever.”