![]() ![]() His words were usually intelligible and studiously crafted, but he thrived less on content than on form and deep feeling. But Miller, who died last Friday of a suspected overdose at age 26, might have brokered peace between the two sides. Mumbling is a contested thing in rap nowadays, seen alternately as a sign of pretension-busting futurism or dull-minded meaninglessness. “Feel like I do this in my sleep / Literally, I do this in my sleep,” Miller bragged over boom-bap and piano on 2013’s “Avian.” “Yeah, yeah, whoawhoawhoa,” he murmured, as if to an alarm clock, in this year’s “Hurt Feelings.” The cover of 2015’s GO:OD AM showed him mid-yawn, which seemed like his usual state. His words trailed off, blended, and arrived in a parched-throat croak.
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