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Shortly beforeattacking Nicki Minajat a party on Friday night,Cardi Bshared a heartfelt message aboutMac Miller, who was pronounced dead from an apparent overdose hours earlier.
“It’s very sad,” the “I Like It” rapper, 25, toldBillboardwhile attending theHarper’s BazaarICONS party during New York Fashion Week, where she would later get into a physical altercation with Minaj.
She went on to share that she hoped that at the end of his life, Miller, 26, wasn’t struggling with “the pressure that fame brings you.”
“I feel like people don’t know that fame brings you a lot of sadness, a lot of pressure,” she remarked. “I just hope that now he’s in a better place.”
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When asked whether she had a message for the late rapper’s family, Cardi replied, “Stay strong, look in the sky, look for messages — he will be sending some.”
“They always send messages in the weirdest way. Maybe in a dream, maybe something. You’ll find it,” she added.
Miller, whose real name was Malcolm McCormick, was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. at his Studio City, California, home on Friday, 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 told PEOPLE that Miller had gone into cardiac arrest after appearing to suffer a drug overdose.
In an interview with the rapper that was released just one day before his death, Miller toldVulturethat he did experience “pressure” growing up in the public eye, especially as he’s been very open about hisstruggles with drugs and sobriety.
“A lot of times in my life I’ve put this pressure to hold myself to the standard of whatever I thought I was supposed to be, or how I was supposed to be perceived. And that creates pressure,” he explained.
“It’s annoying to be out and have someone come up to me and think they know. They’re like, ‘Yo, man, are you okay?’ I’m like ‘Yeah, I’m f— at the grocery store.’ You know?,” he added. “It’s the job. This is what I signed up for.”
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“I love lean; it’s great… I was not happy and I was on lean very heavy,” Miller toldComplexin 2013. “I was so f—ed up all the time it was bad. My friends couldn’t even look at me the same. I was lost.”
While Miller attempted to turn his life around within the past couple of years, he wasarrested for DUIin May, shortly after news broke that Miller andAriana Grandehadsplit.
Last month he toldRolling Stonehe doesn’t classify himself as a drug addict. “If a bunch of people think I am a huge drug addict, Okay. Cool,” he said. “What can I really do? Go talk to all those people and be like, ‘Naw man, it’s really not that simple?’ Have I done drugs? Yeah. But am I a drug addict? No.”
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source: people.com
