{"id":280004,"date":"2026-09-06T01:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280004\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:26:23","slug":"mac-miller-fans-pay-tribute-at-blue-slide-park-8-years-after-the-rapper-pittsburgh-natives-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280004\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Miller fans pay tribute at Blue Slide Park, 8 years after the rapper &#038; Pittsburgh native\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Fans of the rapper and Pittsburgh native Mac Miller gathered Saturday to celebrate his life and legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The eighth annual \u201cCelebration of Mac\u201d began at the iconic \u201cBlue Slide Park\u201d in Squirrel Hill and continued with an afterparty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Mac Miller, who grew up in Point Breeze, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/pittsburgh-rapper-mac-miller-dead-at-age-26\/829242443\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/pittsburgh-rapper-mac-miller-dead-at-age-26\/829242443\/\" target=\"_blank\">died Sept. 7, 2018,<\/a> at the age of 26. The namesake of his debut album, \u201cBlue Slide Park\u201d has been a destination for fans ever since. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Organizers of Saturday\u2019s event say it\u2019s a heartfelt tribute to the artist \u2014 born Malcolm James McCormick \u2014 and demonstrates the unity his music created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s cool to see how much people still love him even though he\u2019s gone. So I just come to see the legacy,\u201d one fan, Rachel Wilber, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Attendees told us it speaks to Mac Miller\u2019s music and its impact that crowds still show up for the gathering each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Fans of the rapper and Pittsburgh native Mac Miller gathered Saturday to celebrate his life and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110100,65036,117136,139,859,73,75,74,10863,420,860],"class_list":["post-280004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-blue_slide_park","tag-mac","tag-mac_miller","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-squirrel_hill","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}