The High Life is the third mixtape by Mac Miller. Released on December 16, 2009, This mixtape is executively produced by Mac’s Most Dope crew and ID Labs producer, Big Jerm. Even though Benjy Grinberg, the owner of Rostrum Records, had already noticed Mac, he had not considered signing him until 2010, when Mac was recording material for his break-out mixtape K.I.D.S. .