Prefix: I have been a long-time lurker on this sub and I love seeing everyone's collections and all the stories and photos from a community who I feel have had a similar relationship to Mac and his music as I have. As a philosophy student I try to carve out some time each day just to think, but last night, for some reason, I was thinking a lot about Mac. Such is to say that this is my first post on this subreddit and new to posting in general, please go easy on me, with that being said:

I think one of the most fascinating elements of Mac's discography is the way that it evolves and matures as the later albums develop. I don't think this is really groundbreaking observation, but I wanted to at least talk about it and hopefully, other fans can relate. But I think in a way, your favorite album says a lot about you, and what time in your life you are in. I remember when I was younger (I'm 20 now), one day I saw Party on Fifth Ave playing on TV and loved the sound and energy it carried. I didn't know it at the time but this would later become one of my favorite artists of all time. In middle school, I remember listening to Donald Trump, which as a name has not aged well, but I listened to just that one song as it was like one of five songs I bought on my iPod at the time (Don't you love technology), but at the time it was fun to be a young teen hearing about some of the less pg bars and wonder what that was like, what drugs or sex were like. By High school, I started to become more relaxed, less uptight, even tried oui'd once or twice, but somewhere along the line, GO:OD AM became my favorite album, I just enjoyed the combination of some of the more tongue-in-cheek bars that seem to be more prevalent on earlier albums, as well as the more deep, nuanced conversations that Mac begins to engage in. Now that I'm in college, I feel like I'm getting more into his ethereal, introspective material and I love it, just found out about Larry Lovestein thanks to this sub. I feel like even though I came late to the party, I got to experience bits and pieces of it. Even after death, R.I.P. to the legend, I still feel like Mac's music is able to capture the human experience well enough that no matter how varied we as fans are, there is a wave that strikes all of us on a personal cord.

If you've made it this far, thank you for reading what I have to say, I hope others have their own stories to share in the comments.