Following the highly-anticipated official release of , Mac Miller fans are curious about what other unreleased projects could be revealed from the rapper/musician's expansive vault. According to Genius, even after the official release of Balloonerism, which was released by Mac Miller's estate and Warner Bros. on January 17, 2025. While listeners are still taking their time to dissect all 14 new Mac Miller tracks on Balloonerism, his most dedicated fans know and hope that it could lead to more posthumous releases by the late artist.
While an unofficial leak of Balloonerism has circled the Internet since 2020, the official release offers a more polished and immersive soundscape. Some leaked songs are not featured on the official release, such as early versions of "Colors and Shapes" and a Mike Jones-less "Uber", both Faces tracks, "Bob's Dementia", "He Finally Sleeps" and "Smile". , currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Balloonerism is now the seventh studio album and second posthumous release after 2020's Circles.
. Additionally, there are also several released projects and mixtapes that could get the Faces and Balloonerism treatment by getting officially released with accompanying streaming, vinyl, and merch drops. These include Delusional Thomas, Run-On Sentences 1 & 2, and early mixtapes such as The High Life and On and On and Beyond. Balloonerism was primarily released because it was important to Mac, and that surely fits other unreleased projects, many of which are completed or near-finished collaborations with other incredible artists and producers.
A collab project between legendary hip-hop producer and DJ Madlib and Mac Miller has been on the radar for years but has yet to be released. Within the last few years, Madlib announced that the project was gearing up to be released but as of January 2025, there have been no updates on that front. Hopefully, the project still exists in some capacity after . Some of the known tracks on Maclib include "Pay Me Money", "English Breakfast", "Nosy Neighbor", and "Lightning Dog". Madlib announced on Sway in the Morning that he completed Maclib in March 2023. The album was recorded between 2015 and 2017 but was shelved ahead of 2018's Swimming.
Another well-known Miller collab project is Pink Slime produced by acclaimed rapper/musician Pharrell Williams. Word of Pink Slime originated back in 2012 ahead of Mac's 2013 release Watching Movies with the Sound Off following the popularity of 2012's Macadelic. Apparently, Mac and Pharrell completed the project but with his music.
Given Pharrell's track record, Pink Slime was expected to be a more upbeat project for Miller, which wouldn't necessarily fit with the trip-hop-infused sound of Macadelic, Watching Movies, and Faces. Mac Miller released a Pink Slime single "Onaroll" on YouTube, which in its description. Another single "Glow" was also released. Nearly 10 years later, the project remains unreleased.
Mac Miller collaborated with Ty Dolla $ign on his hit song "Cinderella" off The Divine Feminine. According to a Rolling Stone article, he and Ty Dolla $ign were collaborating on a joint project just weeks before Mac's death in September 2018. Since then, by performing "Cinderella" and released the track "I Believed It" featuring Mac Miller, but no project has surfaced. Recently, Ty Dolla $ign has been frequently collaborating with Kanye West on two Vultures albums and hasn't spoken on his unrealized Mac project in some time.
Legendary rapper . Miller annoucned that he planned on putting out a Christmas album with Cam'ron. According to Complex in 2015, Mac said, "It's funny because we were going to do a project for Christmas, we were going to do a Christmas album. It was like around the same time I was gonna do the Pharrell EP. I was also gonna do a Cam'ron Christmas album". Mac added, "He wanted to do it like Step Brothers-themed. Looking back, I wish I [put it out]. But I've made, like, nine albums before putting this one [GOOD:AM] out." While this one may not be the first on anyone's list of unreleased Mac albums, the project sounds hilarious and would be awesome to listen to, especially around the holidays.
Mac Miller first announced '92 til Infinity back in March 2011, a collaboration project with DJ Jazzy Jeff of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air acclaim. After all this time, there have been no updates on the project, making it one of Mac Miller's most elusive unreleased projects. , which hints that the project is completed, but it has yet to see the light of day.
"It's still happening," Miller said in an exclusive interview with TheWellVersed and 2DopeBoyz. "We have a date for it and everything." The . It appears that several of his anticipated projects from that era were left behind following the release of Watching Movies with the Sound Off.
Go Fish! is a collection of Larry Fisherman beats that Mac created mostly for other artists. Perhaps the most unlikely of Mac's unreleased works to get an official release, that is worth mentioning. Rapper Conway the Machine released "Go Fish Vol. 1" on YouTube in 2021, featuring new production by Fisherman/Miller.
According to The Fader in 2016, "Mac Miller started "!GO FISH!," a series of singles crafted under his producer alias Larry Fisherman and featuring different rappers. So far we've had tracks with Conway and Your Old Droog, and the most recent addition features massive bars from Michael Christmas, the Boston rapper whose album What A Weird Day dropped in October." These songs are also available on YouTube as well.
The Basement Tapes are a compilation of singles and features that Mac Miller . While it's uncertain who exactly would be on these recordings, some likely candidates include TDE's ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, Long Beach-based rapper Vince Staples, and potentially some OddFuture members such as Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator. A few known songs considered to be part of The Basement Tapes include "All The Time" featuring Ab-Soul, "Dog Pound" featuring Waka Flocka Flame, and "Cold" featuring Curren$y.
Miller had initially intended to release a companion project to 2016's The Divine Feminine which was considered to be an unreleased B-side completely produced by Metro Boomin. Mac revealed in an interview, "I had this joint that I did with Metro Boomin that’s like some real hard stuff,” Mac said. “There was a love album and there was a really hard album that I was gonna release as a double album. It was going to be a one-person Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, but I decided to focus a little more [on The Divine Feminine]." , but the B-side remains untitled and unreleased.
Mac Miller states that he and frequent collaborator Thundercat have hundreds if not thousands of unreleased music. , although he did not reveal when or if he would ever release it. As it turns out, both Thundercat and Rick Rubin would become a part of the 2025 Balloonerism release. Thundercat produced and provided bass on several Balloonerism tracks while at least two songs, "Shangri-La" and "Rick's Piano", are directly linked to Miller's time at Rubin's house while in recovery, which supposedly spawned even more unreleased tracks.
A screenshot from Mac Miller's MTV reality show Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family (2013-2014) revealed the unreleased project Your Shoes Are Untied, a collaboration with dance/electronic band BADBADNOTGOOD. While Mac has teased the project on social media, the project has not been officially released and it's unclear if it ever will be. At least . Some have been able to find the complete EP in the depths of the Internet, which would only prolong or potentially eliminate the chance for an official release.
The most ambiguous of Mac Miller's unreleased projects, The Adventures of Superweirdo was also discovered by a screenshot from Miller's MTV reality show Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family. There's virtually nothing known about this album/project although at least three leaked songs are implied to have been a part of it, including off of Faces. The Adventures of Superweirdo may have been scrapped by Miller himself while making Faces and Balloonerism and is the most unlikely to become an official release.
: Genius, Rolling Stone, Complex, TheWellVersed
