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At Metacritic, a site that calculates an aggregate score based on a number of professional reviews, the album has received a score of 58/100 (based on 12 articles) which indicates "mixed or average reviews". Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresīlue Slide Park received generally mixed reviews from music critics. The song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. "Up All Night" was released as the third single digitally via iTunes on November 15, 2011. The song debuted at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single, " Party on Fifth Ave.", also produced by ID Labs, was released on October 28, 2011, with an accompanying music video. At the time, it was Miller's highest charting single, surpassing " Donald Trump", which charted at number 75. The song peaked at number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album's first single, " Frick Park Market", was produced by ID Labs, and released alongside an accompanying music video on August 18, 2011. Blue Slide Park was released by Rostrum Records on November 8, 2011.

The album cover art was designed by his older brother, Miller McCormick. The latter track was released to commemorate the album surpassing 25,000 pre-orders. The tracks "Smile Back" and "Blue Slide Park" were released as non-singles on September 23 and October 13, respectively.

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On July 5, 2011, Mac Miller announced Blue Slide Park on his YouTube channel.

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Miller has real talent beneath his spring break soundtrack, and with some life experience and some dictionary time, he could yet step up out of the park and start playing with the big boys. It’s the contrast of the serious and the funny that lifts ‘Blue Slide Park’ from the tedious American Pie humour for which Mac Miller is often criticised, and the album as a whole saunters and bounces along. Or the ‘did he just say that?’ line on ‘Of The Soul’, one of the prettiest songs on the album, where fused with a lulling piano line, we hear his delightful take on oral sex: “ Put it in her mouth/Orthodontist”. Take his upfront reference to his Jewish heritage in ‘PA Nights’: “ We just tryna work so we can blow up like a Molotov/Thinkin’ bout my people who was murdered in the Holocaust”. Alongside this, his ability to disorientate the listener is admirable, as he tackles important and playful subjects.

There are a few questionable deviations along the way – namely ‘Up All Night’ which sounds like a bad Ramones cover – but generally the production is so good you rarely notice Miller’s exhausting overuse of the words “ dope” and “ ill”. He raps lazily to laidback hooks, then attacks the bassier, sped-up moments with cocky wordplay. It’s layered with interesting sonic textures throughout, be they jolting injections of electronica or stoned-sounding, warped beats that lay the foundation for Miller’s drawl.

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Negatives aside, ‘Blue Slide Park’ is full of surprises, mostly in the production (helmed in the main by ID Labs, but also by A$AP Rocky favourite Clams Casino on ‘One Last Thing’). His choice of cultural references – “ Donkey Kong”, “ Scott Pilgrim”, “ hashtags” and the like – hint at horizons that have remained so far unbroadened, as does ‘Party On 5th Ave’, which includes the obligatory anthemic ‘fun’ sample from Marva Whitney’s ‘Unwind Yourself’. The album’s second weakness is Miller’s ‘frat rap’, a style that occasionally rears its ugly, snapback cap-adorned head. Strangely this running theme forms one of the album’s weaknesses, as he labours the suggestion that he’s entering a new phase of life, a point clunkily illustrated on ‘Loitering’: “ I’m too old to be chilling at the playground”. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that ‘Blue Slide Park’ (named after a favourite childhood hangout of Miller’s in Pittsburgh) is undercut with reflections on where Mac’s been. He’s come a long way since he released ‘But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy’ at just 16 years old. Then he was featured as part of a wet dream of hip-hop hopefuls alongside Yelawolf and Lil B on hip-hop magazine XXL’s Freshman list of 2011, certifying him as a baby-faced one to watch. He’s released one album and seven mixtapes since 2007. In hip-hop years, 20-year-old Malcolm ‘Mac Miller’ McCormick is practically old school.