Three Songs He Never Released. Now They Are Here.
The Mac Miller Estate released The Divine Feminine (10th Anniversary) on October 2, 2026 via Warner Records. The original album came out on September 16, 2016. Mac Miller passed on September 7, 2018. He was 26. The anniversary edition adds three previously unreleased songs recorded during the original sessions: “Grand,” “Channel 13,” and “Butterflies,” a track produced by Taylor Graves featuring Thundercat on bass. The estate also released The Divine Feminine Live, a concert special directed by Sam Balaban based on a television performance originally filmed in 2016. Eight years after his death, there is still more Mac Miller to hear.
Who Mac Miller Was and What This Album Was
Malcolm James McCormick was born January 19, 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He built his early audience through mixtapes released between 2010 and 2012, reaching the mainstream with Blue Slide Park in 2011, the first independent debut album to hit number one on the Billboard 200 in over a decade. Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), GO:OD AM (2015), and then The Divine Feminine (2016) marked a gradual but decisive evolution. The Divine Feminine was his fourth studio album. It moved away from the harder production of GO:OD AM and into jazz, funk, soul, and R&B, exploring love, femininity, and intimacy in a way that hip hop rarely attempted at the time. Swimming (2018), his most critically acclaimed album, arrived one month before his death. Circles, completed posthumously, was released in January 2020.
The Original Album and the Three New Songs
The Divine Feminine (2016) ran ten tracks: Congratulations ft. Bilal. Dang! ft. Anderson .Paak. Stay ft. Ariana Grande. Skin. My Favorite Part ft. Ariana Grande. Cinderella ft. Ty Dolla $ign. We ft. CeeLo Green. Planet God Damn ft. Njomza. God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty ft. Kendrick Lamar. Soulmate. The 10th Anniversary edition adds three tracks from those same sessions: Grand. Channel 13. Butterflies ft. Thundercat. “Butterflies” was the first released ahead of the album in August 2026, arriving with Thundercat’s bass holding the same warm, jazz-adjacent center that defined the original record. The estate also launched a new interactive Mac Miller website featuring archival media donated by friends and colleagues.
The Collaborators That Made the Album What It Is
The Divine Feminine exists inside a specific ecosystem of Los Angeles creativity that defined 2016. Anderson .Paak appears on “Dang!,” the album’s most celebrated track, recorded at a time when both artists were building toward the biggest creative periods of their careers. Kendrick Lamar closes the album on “God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty,” a collaboration that connected two Pittsburgh-to-LA narratives within the same generation. Ariana Grande appears twice, on “Stay” and “My Favourite Part,” during the period she and Mac Miller were together. Now Thundercat joins that conversation on “Butterflies,” a musician whose own catalog of emotional precision and jazz fluency fits so naturally into the Divine Feminine universe that the track does not sound like a 2026 addition. It sounds like it was always there.
Why the Anniversary Matters in 2026
The Divine Feminine changed what people expected Mac Miller to sound like. Before it, he was the Blue Slide Park kid, a popular but underestimated rapper from Pittsburgh. After it, he was an artist who could sit comfortably next to Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak on the same record without any of the three pulling the sound in the wrong direction. That repositioning lasted. Swimming and Circles confirmed it. His streaming numbers have continued to grow every year since his death. The Divine Feminine at ten still sounds like it belongs in the present, not the past.
HIPHOPADELLIC Perspective
Mac Miller made The Divine Feminine at 24. He was asking questions about love and tenderness and what it means to be soft in a genre that spends most of its time performing hardness. Most people in hip hop were not ready for that in 2016. They are more ready now. Part of what makes the 10-year anniversary feel significant is not the three unreleased songs, even though “Butterflies” with Thundercat is exactly what you would hope for. It is the distance between where the conversation was in 2016 and where it is in 2026. Hip hop spent a decade slowly moving toward the emotional territory Mac Miller was already standing in. He did not live to see how far it would go. But the map was his.
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