MAC MILLER THE AMERICAN RAPPER AMERICAN TOURMENTE DEATH AT HIM AT 26

"In addition to helping launch my career, he was one of the nicest guys I've ever met," Chance the Rapper wrote among many other tweets.

Ariana Grande's former boyfriend is said to have succumbed to an overdose at her home in San Fernando, California on Friday, Sept. 7, police sources report to several media outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter. An untimely death at the age of only 26 years old.

The singer had gained a worldwide celebrity in the headlines with his drug problems, his affair with pop star Ariana Grande, and several hits, including one dedicated to Donald Trump, before he became president.

As the sites TMZ and Variety indicate, the interpreter of Donald Trump had drug problems and had opened, especially since his break with the singer Ariana Grande last May. In a documentary released in 2016, Mac Miller made no secret of his addictions, recalls the Hollywood Reporter : "I get high, let's be clear. I get high to death, again, all the time. It will never stop. But I control my life. ". Mac Miller, whose real name was Malcolm James McCormick, had problems with drug addiction , "Have I used drugs? Yes. But am I an addict? No, " he told Rolling Stone magazine .

The young man has never hidden from his addictions to drugs and alcohol, admitting to Complex magazine an addiction to a drug mix of codeine and promethazine that rappers call "lean " or "purple drank"

The rapper was also arrested at this time for drunk driving after a traffic accident. Her ex-girlfriend tweeted, "Please, take care of yourself . "

But this dependence had consumed the rupture of her relationship with Ariana Grande as she had not hidden it. On Twitter, she said last May that she had "tried to support her sobriety and prayed for her balance for years," adding , "I'm not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that she must be. In duet with her, he had signed a worldwide success, "My Favorite Part"

He was above all an atypical rapper with his retro and sometimes psychedelic hip-hop and his social background, a photographer mother and an architect father. He had grown up in a middle-class neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Even if Mac Miller uses all the gansta hardware, for example using the word "bitch" galore, he describes himself as "a son to mom" , who found his balance thanks to the love of women. "I do not know the story of other rappers' relationships with women, but with my grandmother, my mother, my girlfriends, I can be vulnerable, just myself. "

And it was at the age of 14 that he started rapping, according to the Complex website. A gifted, self-taught and versatile musician, he plays several instruments and in 2011, his debut album, Blue Side Park, rose to the top of hip-hop album sales. His songs offer a minimalist sound with a powerful rhythm reminiscent of the rap of the 80s His song about Donald Trump, seen tens of millions of times, made him known to all Americans, when he was not even 20 years old. His latest album Swimming was released last August when he reached # 3 on the US Billboard charts.

Mac Miller was preparing to go on tour in the United States after the release of his most recent album, Swimming.

A tour that was to start at the end of October.

It was scheduled to begin October 27 in San Francisco. "I just want to go on tour, " he tweeted Thursday. The show is going to be special every night. I wish it starts tomorrow. "