Mac Miller has died from an apparent overdose, reports Associated Press.

"He was a bright light in this world for his family, his friends and his fans," said his family in a statement to AP.

Miller's label, Warner Bros. Records, also published a statement"Mac was an extremely talented and inspiring artist, with a pioneering spirit and a sense of humor that touched everyone he met." Mac's death is a devastating loss and ends a life and death. to a talent with unlimited potential. "

The rapper and former boyfriend of Ariana Grande would have had problems of addiction.

The Los Angeles fire department confirmed that first responders had been dispatched Friday after a 11:42 call about a medical complaint in a Studio City, California, residence in the Miller neighborhood. They did not transport anyone from the scene. USA TODAY sought additional information from representatives of Miller and the County of Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

Miller released his album ""Swimming" in August, which debuted at # 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, and it seemed to rebound.

The musicians and fans were stunned by the news of his death, which arrived a few weeks before the start of the US tour to promote the album.

"I just want to go on tour," he tweeted Thursday. "The show is going to be special every night. I wish it starts tomorrow. "

Miller, born Malcolm James McCormick and raised in Pittsburgh, released his first mixtape "But My Mackin's Ain 't Easy" at the age of 15 in 2007. At that time he was going under the name of Easy Mac. He signed with Rostrum Records in 2010, eventually separating from the label in 2014.

He enjoyed fame with his "Best Day Ever" mixtape in 2011, landing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the single "Donald Trump".

Miller was then featured on the 2013 "The Way" title of Grande, starting a successful working relationship. The two took things to the next level and began a relationship in 2016, with Grande appearing on Miller's single "The Divine Feminine" "My Favorite Part" in the same year.

Grande talked about their two-year "toxic" relationship, which ended in May, in response to a Twitter user who had accused him of breaking up with him.

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"Mac Miller toting his car G and getting a DUI after Ariana Grande threw him for another guy after he poured his heart on a ten-song album called the Divine Feminine is just the most heartbreaking thing that is happening in Hollywood, "said the user.

"I took care of him and I tried to support his sobriety and prayed for his balance for years (and always of course), but shoving / blaming women for inability a man to stay together is a major problem, stop doing that, "she wrote.

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Miller was open about his highs and lows with the addition of drugs and often addressed him in interviews and lyrics.

In an interview with Billboard in 2015, Miller talked about drug use patterns that began after his debut in 2010. "I was doing a lot of drugs at that time, which is another difference: I do not do as much drug addicts. Eat in your mind, take medicine every day, every second. It's hard for your body. "

"I have to make sure to do all that music when I die there, the albums and the albums," Miller said in the same interview.

He also spoke of his difficulties with the addiction on his 2014 mixtape "Faces", speaking of this period of his life at Vulture in an interview published Thursday. "I used to rap very openly about really exploding, because that was what I was living at the time," he said. "It's good, it's good, it's life, it should be all emotions."

Miller spoke of the image that people had of him as a "depressed addict" in an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 of Apple Music in July.

"I have people who care about me and fans who love my music and it's a nice relationship with them – people who have been with me as a 19-year-old boy to become a depressed and self-destructive drug addict. to make love music at all these different stages, "said Miller. So they see something like that and they worry about it. "

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