Mac Mill – Run Of The Mill

Recorded in Berkeley CA, he may have been a Live Oak Park regular based on the oxford st reference

The closest thing to classic Mac Mill available until someone rips the old tapes.
In 1985 Mac Mill was east coast hard but with West Coast/East Oakland swagger while LA was still bumping Egypt Egypt for another 3 years.
Interestingly a few of the tricks he used back then in high school such as "Z talking" and redoing a popular rap song with the lyrics changed would both show up 6 years later on Snoops debut album.
I say interesting because he did attempt to sign to an LA label (there not really being any Oakland rap labels back then), but they didn't think he was good enough.
I assume not yet suitable for aerobecize class.
I've always figured that Snoop or someone he knew heard those demos.
Anywho,
on straight Dangler he redoes Ice T's pusherman from the point of view of a dopefiend.
The B-side is 2 more nice west coast raps over east coast style sample beats.
Mac Mill was past his prime by then, hounded by legal trouble and the studio pretty much sounds like a 4-track. But this is still the best available evidence of the best mid 80's west coast Rapper IMO.

Hopefully one day Turntable T will make his classic tapes available.