The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Celeb obsessed? Get a daily dose of showbiz gossip direct to your inbox Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Mac Miller shared what were to be his final social media posts just hours before he was found dead in his Los Angeles home around midday on Friday. The Swimming rapper, born Malcolm McCormick, had posted three videos to his Instagram stories in the early hours of Friday morning. With the camera pointed at his turntable and mixer, the rapper's track So It Goes is playing. It's the last song from his most recent studio album, Swimming, which was released on August 3. "Nine lives, never, die, f**k a heaven, I'm still gettin' high," the lyrics go. (Image: Instagram) Less than 24 hours before he was found dead, he also tweeted his excitement over starting his tour, which was due to kick off on October 27. "I just wanna go on tour," he wrote. "Go get tickets for tour. Thundercat J.I.D. I’m bringing a band," he added. "The show is going to be special every night. I wish it started tomorrow. It starts October 27th." Following his death, his family released a short statement paying tribute to a "bright light in this world". "Malcolm McCormick, known and adored by fans as Mac Miller, has tragically passed away at the age of 26. (Image: Getty Images North America) "He was a bright light in this world for his family, friends and fans. Thank you for your prayers. Please respect our privacy. There are no further details as to the cause of his death at this time." His record label also released a statement praising the rapper's "pioneering spirit" and incredible sense of humour. “All of us at Warner Bros. Records are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic news of Mac Miller’s untimely passing," Tom Corson, Co-Chairman & COO, of the label said. "Mac was a hugely gifted and inspiring artist, with a pioneering spirit and a sense of humor that touched everyone he met. Mac’s death is a devastating loss and cuts short a life and a talent of huge potential, where the possibilities felt limitless. "We join all of his fans across the globe in extending our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.”<doc-sep>Ariana Grande has disabled her comments on Instagram after internet trolls began to blame her for ex-boyfriend Mac Miller's death on Friday. Ariana Grande has disabled her comments on Instagram after some fans began to blame her for ex-boyfriend Mac Miller’s death on Friday. The “No Tears Left to Cry” singer, 25, has not spoken out about her ex’s death, but her last Instagram post was made on Thursday when she took a short video of her hotel room in the United Kingdom. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “Bye London,” she wrote in the caption. Miller, 26, was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. at his Studio City, California, home, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE. A cause of death is yet to be determined, but a source tells PEOPLE the rapper had gone into cardiac arrest after appearing to suffer a drug overdose. Grande and Miller, who struggled with drugs throughout his life, dated for two years before separating in May. The split came as a shock to fans as Miller raved about the singer on Twitter in April after she released her single “No Tears Left to Cry.” “Very proud of this girl right here. Welcome back. We missed You. One of a kind,” he tweeted at the time. Following their break-up, Grande dedicated an Instagram Story to the rapper in which she called him “one of my best friends in the whole world and favorite people on the planet.” “I respect and adore him endlessly and am grateful to have him in my life in any form, at all times regardless of how our relationship changes or what the universe holds for each of us!” the singer wrote. Grande’s fans came to her defense on Twitter writing it wasn’t the singer’s fault Miller had died. “Just noticed Ariana Grande disabled comments on her Instagram account after a barrage of Mac Miller-related comments,” one user tweeted. “Recognize the true problem here, rather than using someone else as a scapegoat & continuing the cycle. All so sad & nauseating.” Another shared the same sentiment, tweeting, “The amount of tweets blaming Ariana Grande for what happened to Mac Miller is disgusting, his addiction and lack of help is what drove this to happen, don’t point the finger and blame.” A different fan wrote, “Ariana Grande is not responsible for Mac Miller’s death. Stop hating her. She’s a person like you who also has feelings. I’m sure she’s having a hard time. I wish patience to her and his family.” Months before his death, Miller was arrested for drunk driving on May 14. Early that morning, the rapper was arrested for DUI and hit and run after he struck a power pole in the San Fernando Valley with his Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon and fled the scene; after law enforcement officers matched the vehicle’s license plates to Miller’s address, they arrested him at his home, a Los Angeles Police Department public information officer previously told PEOPLE. Following his arrest, a fan blamed Miller’s crash on Grande tweeted the rapper had “dumped him for another dude after he poured his heart out on a ten song album to her called the divine feminine” and called the album “the most heartbreaking thing happening in Hollywood.” Grande responded directly, tweeting, “how absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship because he wrote an album about them, which btw isn’t the case (just Cinderella is ab me).” Her Twitter statement continued: “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be. I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety & prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming / blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his s— together is a very major problem.” The rapper went on to open up about his arrest during a conversation with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 on Apple Music in July. “I made a stupid mistake. I’m a human being,” Miller explained. “But it was the best thing that could have happened. Best thing that could have happened. I needed that. I needed to run into that light pole and literally have the whole thing stop.” However, Miller went on to let all of his fans know that they shouldn’t worry about him, because he was doing fine. 2016 MTV Video Music Awards - Backstage & Audience Mac Miller and Ariana Grande | Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic “I have people that care about me and fans that love my music and it’s a beautiful relationship with them — people who have been with me through being a 19-year-old wide-eyed kid to being a self-destructive depressed drug user to making love music to all these different stages. Then they see something like that and they worry,” he explained. “So your first reaction is, ‘Let me tell them I’m cool.’ ” During the interview, Miller also explained that both he and Grande had moved on since their split — and that he wished her well. “I was in love with somebody. We were together for two years. We worked through good times, bad times, stress and everything else. And then it came to an end and we both moved on. And it’s that simple,” he said. “It’s all positive energy,” he added. “I am happy for her and [the fact that she’s] moving forward with her life, just as I’m sure she is with me.”<doc-sep>
So heartbreaking! Mac Miller’s final Instagram message featured him playing his song ‘So It Goes’ where he raps about how he’s ‘still getting high.’ We’ve got the video. The sudden death of rapper Mac Miller due to an apparent drug overdose at the age of 26 has fans and fellow rap stars reeling. He was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home on Sept. 7, yet he was alive and posting to social media on the eve of his passing. Late on Sept. 6, Mac posted a video to his Instagram stories showing a turntable playing his latest album Swimming, with the song “So It Goes” were he raps about getting high. “Nine lives, never die, f**k a heaven, I’m still gettin’ high//Never mind, did I mention I’m Fine,” he raps in the lyrics. Later in the song he talks about how he’s “been out” but that things are hopefully looking up for him. “Well, everybody gather around//I’m still standing, sit down Woah-oh// And I know been out (and I know I been out)//But now I’m back in town (but now I’m back in town) so I show you the ropes// So it goes, so it goes, so it goes.” Mac seemed to have been in a downward spiral since his two-year relationship with Ariana Grande ended in May. It didn’t help matters than within three weeks of their breakup she got engaged to Saturday Night Live Star Pete Davidson, 24. Just one week after Ari, 25, confirmed their split to fans, Mac ended up crashing his Mercedes G-Wagon into an electrical pole on May 17 and fled the scene. He was later arrested at his home after blowing twice the legal limit for alcohol and was charged with DUI. The Pittsburgh rapper didn’t seem too down in his final IG posts. He’s been doing press for Swimming and showed a photos of him taken for a New York magazine profile he’d recently done. “I had a conversation with Craig Jenkins for New York Mag about Swimming amongst other things. Link in bio,” he wrote on the eve of his death. “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” he told Jenkins about how he deals with hurt feelings and negativity. “And I don’t want just sadness either. I don’t want to be depressed. I want to be able to have good days and bad days … I can’t imagine not waking up sometimes and being like, ‘I don’t feel like doing sh*t.’ And then having days where you wake up and you feel on top of the world.”