Mac Miller’s “Channel 13” Steps Out of the Vault

For six weeks it sat on the tracklist as “Track 12.” On October 2, a song from Mac Miller’s Divine Feminine sessions finally arrived under its real name.

When the Mac Miller Estate announced the anniversary edition on August 21, only one of its three new songs came with a name. “Butterflies,” produced by Taylor Graves with Thundercat on bass, reached streaming services that day after years as a leak passed between fans. The other two showed up on the published tracklist, and on the vinyl edition’s bonus side, as plain “Track 11” and “Track 12.” Their titles only began circulating in the final weeks before rel, and on October 2 the second placeholder became “Channel 13,” a 4:24 song wedged between “Grand” and “Butterflies” at the tail of the expanded album.

Signal. What happened: Mac Miller’s estate rel The Divine Feminine (10th Anniversary) on October 2, 2026, adding three songs from the album’s original recording sessions, two of which were list only by track number when the reissue was announced. Exact object: “Channel 13,” track 12 of 13 on the expanded edition, running 4:24. When and where: Out now on streaming services through Warner Records, and on a three-LP vinyl set where all three bonus songs share Side E. Source: The estate’s August announcement, the live streaming tracklist, and same-day release reporting from Complex. Why it matters: The estate is using each ten-year mark to reopen Mac’s session archive, and “Channel 13” is one of only two songs on this reissue that arrived without an advance single or a title in the original announcement.

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The credits carry the most intrigue. Songwriting credits that appeared with the release list Mac alongside Channel Tresand guitarist Wes Singerman, though neither the estate nor Warner had issued a full credit sheet for the bonus material at the time of writing. If that listing holds, the session predates Channel Tres’s own public arrival by at least two years: the Compton-raised artist released his debut single, “Controller,” in 2018, setting a deep baritone over classic Detroit house. The overlap between his stage name and the song’s title is hard to miss, though nothing in the release materials addresses it, and no production credit for “Channel 13” had been published either.

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The Divine Feminine first arrived on September 16, 2016, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 equivalent units. Its ten songs leaned on a guest list of Bilal, Anderson .Paak, Ty Dolla $ign, Njomza, CeeLo Green, Ariana Grande, and Kendrick Lamar, and on Mac’s growing confidence as a singer, the same instinct that carried into Swimming two years later.

The reissue follows the estate’s tenth anniversary treatment of GO:OD AM last October. This time the physical edition is a three-LP pressing with printed inner sleeves and updated cover art by Chloe Scheffe, plus an Amazon-exclusive variant in baby pink and fruit punch. A new interactive Mac Miller website went live alongside the August announcement, built around archival media donated by friends and convincer. On release night, Mac’s YouTube channel premiered The Divine Feminine Live, a special cut from the 2016 television series that originally aired only on DirecTV, produced, directed, and edited by Sam Balaban.

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The timing lands in a busy year for the catalog. “Cinderella,” the eight-minute Ty Dolla $ign collision from the original tracklist, has enjoyed a major streaming resurgence in 2026, and Thundercat’s “She Knows Too Much,” built on posthumous Mac vocals, arrived in February. With “Grand” and “Channel 13” now named, an album that closed at ten songs in 2016 runs to thirteen, and Swimming reaches its own tenth anniversary in 2028.