The Divine Feminine at 10, and the three Mac Miller songs that finally came out

Ten years ago, on 16 September 2016, Mac Miller put out a record about love. Not a breakup album and not a list of conquests, but a whole project built around romance, intimacy and what he had learned from the women in his life. On 2 October 2026, his estate released The Divine Feminine (10th Anniversary), with three songs from those sessions that fans had never heard.

This is a factual guide, not a review of the new tracks. Here is what arrived and the context around it.

What is new

The anniversary edition, out through Warner Records, keeps all ten original songs and adds three from the album's recording sessions:

• "Grand"
• "Channel 13"
• "Butterflies"

"Butterflies" came first. The estate shared it on 21 August 2026, the day it announced the reissue. It was produced by Taylor Graves and features Thundercat on bass, a longtime friend and collaborator of Miller's. The other two titles were held back until release day. The full edition now runs 13 tracks and just over an hour.

On vinyl there is a standard three LP version and a deluxe three LP set. Per Mac Miller's official store, the deluxe comes with a 40 page miniature booklet and a 12 inch art print, and a portion of net proceeds goes to the Mac Miller Fund. Alongside the reissue, the estate also launched a new Mac Miller website with archival photos and video from friends and colleagues.

What The Divine Feminine was

The context matters. Miller's previous album, GO:OD AM (2015), was a rap record that showed off his technical side. The Divine Feminine went somewhere else entirely, leaning into R&B, funk, soul and jazz. The estate's own description, quoted in the anniversary announcement, calls it an "audacious pivot" into a concept album about love and the energy of women.

Miller said at the time that the project started life as an EP and grew into a full album once he let himself be more vulnerable on it. He also made clear it was not only about romantic love but about the women who shaped him.

The guest list tells you how wide he cast the net:

• Bilal on the opener "Congratulations"
• Anderson .Paak on "Dang!"
• Ty Dolla $ign on "Cinderella"
• Njomza on "Planet God Damn"
• CeeLo Green on "We"
• Ariana Grande on "My Favorite Part"
• Kendrick Lamar on "God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty"

Behind the boards were names including Aja Grant, DâM-FunK, DJ Dahi, Frank Dukes, ID Labs, JMSN, Tae Beast and Vinylz.

How it landed

"Dang!" came out as the lead single on 28 July 2016, followed by "We" on 19 August and "My Favorite Part" on 9 September, a week before the album. The Divine Feminine debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 equivalent units and went to No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It has since gone platinum in the US.

More than the numbers, it marked a turn. In our view you can draw a straight line from this record to the two albums that followed, Swimming (2018) and the posthumous Circles (2020), both of which kept moving away from straight rap. For many fans, this was the point where Miller stopped being the Pittsburgh party rapper from Blue Slide Park and became a musician who could go anywhere.

The estate's careful approach

Miller died on 7 September 2018, at 26. Since then his family and team have been slow and deliberate with what comes out of the archive. Circles was finished by producer Jon Brion. Balloonerism, a long-bootlegged project, got an official release in January 2025. As Consequence noted, this anniversary edition follows a similar 10th anniversary treatment for GO:OD AM in October 2025.

The pattern is consistent: unreleased songs are tied to the albums they were made for, rather than stitched together into new projects. Three songs on a ten year anniversary edition is a modest haul, and that restraint is probably the point.

Where to start

To us, The Divine Feminine is the album where Miller dropped the armour, and it is the one we would hand to anyone who only knows him from the singles. If you are new to it, play the original ten in order first, from "Congratulations" to "God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty." Then go to the three new ones and hear what was left on the table in 2016.

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