The rapper’s new full-length features collaborations with A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, and more
Max B has revived his Public Domain mixtape series for his first release after serving 16 years is prison.
Public Domain 7: The Purge arrives with appearances from A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Lola Brooke, Chinx, and more. It marks his first mixtape in nine years and his first full-length in four years, following 2016’s Wave Gods and 2021’s Negro Spirituals, respectively.
The rapper, who popularized the term “wavy,” is making up for lost time with the record. The mixtape has already been expanded into a deluxe edition, titled Public Domain 7: The Purge (Patient Zero Deluxe). The extended version features five additional tracks bringing the total listing to 29 songs with a run time clocking in at just under an hour and a half. That original release also features Max B’s remix of Kehlani’s “Folded” and his single “No More Tricks.” On one cut, he freestyles over SZA’s “Snooze.”
Max B sees his post-prison era as a continuation of the work he started prior to his 2007 arrest on manslaughter and armed robbery charges. While incarcerated, the rapper recorded music in a makeshift studio set up in his cell.
“I use what I always use — my experience and my imagination. What God gave me. God gave me a melodic gift, so I use that. Producers send me tracks and I do what I do. When I really want to put something down, I sit and get it right. But for the most part, shit just be coming to me,” Max B recently told Okayplayer. “I can still make it sound good. Still got that buttery, milky voice for the ladies. That’s my inspiration right there — knowing I’m about to come back out here and get a chance to do it all over again.”
Max B was originally sentenced to 75 years in prison in 2009, accused of being an accomplice to a robbery in New Jersey that ended in murder. (The rapper was not in the state at the time.) In 2016, Max’s conviction was vacated after his legal argued that his original trial lawyer had a conflict of interest in the case. His sentence was reduced to 20 years, and he wound up serving 16, securing his release from prison on Nov. 9.
