With a balanced new perspective comes a well-balanced variety of sounds. On GO:OD AM, he's a young man who ruminates on life and its contradictions ('Perfect Circle/ God Speed') but is finally comfortable enough to revel in his success instead of lamenting its drawbacks ('100 Grandkids').

He's not the dark, drug-addled Mac Miller of his 2014 mixtape Faces, but he's also not the wide-eyed kid who made the platinum hit ' Donald Trump' anymore. The album starts off with the dreamy calm of the Tyler, The Creator-produced 'Doors.' Over sleepy strings and playful piano Miller sings instead of raps: 'Ain't sayin' that I'm sober, I'm just in a better place.' And throughout the album it seems true. Now, emerging from a dark period-a long night if you will-he presents GO:OD AM (a stylized play on the greeting 'good morning'), his major label debut, and evidence that he has entered the next phase in his life and career. In that time he's learned that the byproducts of fortune and fame at a young age can be depression and addiction.

In just a few years the 23-year-old rapper from Pittsburgh has gone from teenage Internet sensation to top-selling-albeit critically-maligned-indie artist to accepted and respected oddity.