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Ariana Grande said that she credits Mac Miller with helping her find her sound during the early days of her career

The two first collaborated on the singer’s 2013 breakthrough hit “The Way,” a pop song with R&B undertones

Miller died in 2018 of an accidental overdose at the age of 26

Arianators have Mac Miller to thank for Ariana Grande ’s pop-R&B sound.

During her master class at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., the pop superstar opened up about the late rapper’s influence on her music at the start of her career in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter for the outlet’s Awards Chatter podcast.

In footage from the conversation shared on TikTok, Grande, 32, noted that Miller, whose real name is Malcolm James McCormick, paved the way for her to make R&B-insp

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