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Max B: Ride the Wave

Joli O'Shay
According to dictionary.com, one of the many definitions of Wave is any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea. Assuming, if you will, that Hip Hop is the movement and the rappers, beatmakers, DJ's and the like are the sea, going with this theory, Max Bigavel would be the wave frequency. After a very public break up with Byrdgang, the Silver Surfer is building a movement of his own. Whether a Jim Jones incarnation or his own, it's clear the Harlem star has goals of Iike proportions.
MR- So what's good with you?
MB-I'm on my way to go see my brother, you know. Cokewave mixtape DVD, coming, Vigilante Season on it's way, you know.
MR- The biggest thing with you being this new deal with Amalgam right?
MB-Amalgam digital, 3 album deal, that's done. About to be a free agent, Gain Green Boss, you know. Been in the studio, with the First Offenders the Cokewave, you know. Vigilante Season coming! Gain Green, you know.
MR- What's up with Al Pac?
MB-Al Pac should be home at the end of September, for those that don't know. He got knocked with some bud when he was on parole but the bud wasn't his. They tried to put it on him. He gonna beat this little weed case, then he was going to a program and they tried to say he wasn't going to the program but he got the paperwork for the program so he in good shape. He'll be out for the fourth quarter. Free Al Pac!
MR- What's up with your Dame Grease work?
MB- Me and Grease cool, we knew each other for a few years. I was familiar with the Vacant Lot movement. We all from Harlem, my brother used to always tell me, you gotta fuck with Grease, you gotta fuck with Grease. I always knew Grease had the joints, I just wasn't able to get up with him. Then one day I went to the studio with this cat, I went to write a song for dude and he was in there and he gave a joint to dude that I had actually picked. I stayed in the studio, wrote the little verse, the hook, and gave it to dude. It was called “30 Second Nut” the joint I had on the first Domain tape, he couldn't use it, said the rattle was too crazy. I wound up keeping the joint for myself and I threw it on a mixtape. That shit been working ever since. That shit was back in 2006 and ever since then it has a certain ride to it, it's been so wavy and me and Grease been riding ever since then.
MR- So who is on the album?
MB-Vigilante Season is done. It's not that many people on it. I like to keep it in the Unit. Al Pac is all over the album. Jadakiss supposed to be on the album. Grease, French Montana on the album. You might hear Uncle Murda.
MR- Are you trying to move on and re-release yourself to the public?
MB-It's just that when my situation gets squared away I'll do a big press conference to let the world know I'm a free man. So I don't have to do a bunch of interviews let the world know it's street business. After I get out this situation, I might let him survive, I might throw him a rope if everything gets squared away on time. I might throw Jim a little rope. I'm gon’ let him live. When I get out this contract everybody career is in jeopardy. It's gon’ be so spectacular, I can promise you.
MR- What are your thoughts on this swag splashing business? Money floating on water and all of that…
MB-I mean, you know I worship the wave baby I'm a child of God. Never was really with the puddles and stuff wetting up my money. At the end of the day, I'm gonna keep it real with you, I respect niggas' creativity if you want to get technical if you listen to my old songs from 05, splash was my shit. I was saying splash before them niggas even thought about it. You listen to my old songs and my old mixtapes, that's my shit. These niggas lip sing and everything….
MR- I think some would say that Jones and his movement is a Max B reincarnation.
MB- Yeah them niggas is on me so hard, them niggas is on me so hard this shit don't make no sense. It's like they just suck a nigga dry. They just keep using the person and trying to keep using and using. Because I got the power to make anything sound good, they want to start trying to throw me on tapes with a lot of artists that ain't going nowhere, ain't got nothing to do with nothing. This is the shit niggas is trying to put me down with, I'm a solo superstar. You got me on tracks with niggas like Gargamel and niggas that nobody even ever heard of. No skill, no talent, niggas look ugly, you got me on tracks with these niggas trying to fuck up my shit. I'm good, I ain't with all that.
MR- It doesn't seem like you're mad.
MB- Because niggas is not on my level. At the end of the day, niggas is regular; I'm trying to do another theme to the game. I think Hollywood, I think 10 Million records. I'm trying to do bigger and better things. I'm not even trying to be around, or affiliate myself with guys like that anymore. I'm trying to put my dick in Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and all that ya feel me.
MR- Did you just say you're trying to put your dick in Britney Spears?
B-Yeah, shit like that. These niggas is out here hard, I'm doing something different.
MR- What are you doing to stay relevant? Who are you making music with?
MB-I don't really like to make music with a whole lot of niggas unless they paying. If you trying to get Wavy man, holla at Julie O'Shay, Jolie Unique.
{interruption from Max's assistant Jolie O'Shay}
JO- Jolie.unique@gmail.com
MB-I got a joint with Tony Yayo called “Initiation”! I forgot about that.
MR- You forgot!? Well does it sound good? You excited about it?
MB-You know everything I'm on sound so wavy baby. The only time I got a fucked up song is when niggas is on it.
MR- And who could that be?
MB-Freekey Zeekey and them fucked my Haze song up; you know who else, the Byrdgang movement fucked my shit up. Trying to fuck up my whole shit like, just had me doing hooks, like I'm just a hook nigga when I was starting the whole songs off. I was bringing the beats and everything. That's why you hear my mixtapes now and they so wavy. You listen to old MOB Byrdgang and you hear me on like 17 songs and on each of the mixtapes they put out and I had all the shit. I was the talent!
MR- So what is the Gain Green movement looking like? How are you keeping it from being a replica of Byrdgang?
MB-Gain Green can never become what Byrd Gang was. My artists is hotter than all the artists. All of them! So, like at the end of the day the only nigga…. Al Pac, and he's in the street, he's hotter than all their artists. All of them! The only niggas they got is Jim Jones, and Juelz Santana, and we all know what just happened to him, over in London.
MR- Ah, and what did happen to Juelz? I mean, we got his side so we think we know but…
MB- Oh I know what happened. All I'm saying is it's a small world and what you do to others come back to you and then you get fucked. But you know, that's a whole other story. That shit ain’t going to happen to me. That's some other shit. Fuck all that, back to Bigavel.
MR- What should we look out for while waiting for Vigilante Season?
{Interruption from Jolie, Max's assistant)
JO- We ain't signing nobody to Gain Green! There are no A&Rs at Gain Green. Mike Bruno, Max B, Jolie O'Shay, that's about it.
JO- Tommy Krome is NOT an A&R. We are not signing nobody!
MB- There's only one Gain Green boss.
MR- So you've been getting mad requests?
JO- Oh yeah, we get over 100 myspace hits a day saying how can they be down, they'll pay us to be down, but we're not signing nobody though. It's official, it's a wrap. We don't know any A&R's out there taking your money. There's some pretend Gain Green A&R's out there taking money for demos and all this, signing people.
MR- Are you calling anybody out by name?
MB- I'm not co-signing that man, there's only one Gain Green boss man.
JO- No Tommy Krome!
MB- Vigilante Season on its way. Shout out to Amalgam Digital, look out for that Cokewave coming out.
MR- So what's good with you?
MB-I'm on my way to go see my brother, you know. Cokewave mixtape DVD, coming, Vigilante Season on it's way, you know.
MR- The biggest thing with you being this new deal with Amalgam right?
MB-Amalgam digital, 3 album deal, that's done. About to be a free agent, Gain Green Boss, you know. Been in the studio, with the First Offenders the Cokewave, you know. Vigilante Season coming! Gain Green, you know.
MR- What's up with Al Pac?
MB-Al Pac should be home at the end of September, for those that don't know. He got knocked with some bud when he was on parole but the bud wasn't his. They tried to put it on him. He gonna beat this little weed case, then he was going to a program and they tried to say he wasn't going to the program but he got the paperwork for the program so he in good shape. He'll be out for the fourth quarter. Free Al Pac!
MR- What's up with your Dame Grease work?
MB- Me and Grease cool, we knew each other for a few years. I was familiar with the Vacant Lot movement. We all from Harlem, my brother used to always tell me, you gotta fuck with Grease, you gotta fuck with Grease. I always knew Grease had the joints, I just wasn't able to get up with him. Then one day I went to the studio with this cat, I went to write a song for dude and he was in there and he gave a joint to dude that I had actually picked. I stayed in the studio, wrote the little verse, the hook, and gave it to dude. It was called “30 Second Nut” the joint I had on the first Domain tape, he couldn't use it, said the rattle was too crazy. I wound up keeping the joint for myself and I threw it on a mixtape. That shit been working ever since. That shit was back in 2006 and ever since then it has a certain ride to it, it's been so wavy and me and Grease been riding ever since then.
MR- So who is on the album?
MB-Vigilante Season is done. It's not that many people on it. I like to keep it in the Unit. Al Pac is all over the album. Jadakiss supposed to be on the album. Grease, French Montana on the album. You might hear Uncle Murda.
MR- Are you trying to move on and re-release yourself to the public?
MB-It's just that when my situation gets squared away I'll do a big press conference to let the world know I'm a free man. So I don't have to do a bunch of interviews let the world know it's street business. After I get out this situation, I might let him survive, I might throw him a rope if everything gets squared away on time. I might throw Jim a little rope. I'm gon’ let him live. When I get out this contract everybody career is in jeopardy. It's gon’ be so spectacular, I can promise you.
MR- What are your thoughts on this swag splashing business? Money floating on water and all of that…
MB-I mean, you know I worship the wave baby I'm a child of God. Never was really with the puddles and stuff wetting up my money. At the end of the day, I'm gonna keep it real with you, I respect niggas' creativity if you want to get technical if you listen to my old songs from 05, splash was my shit. I was saying splash before them niggas even thought about it. You listen to my old songs and my old mixtapes, that's my shit. These niggas lip sing and everything….
MR- I think some would say that Jones and his movement is a Max B reincarnation.
MB- Yeah them niggas is on me so hard, them niggas is on me so hard this shit don't make no sense. It's like they just suck a nigga dry. They just keep using the person and trying to keep using and using. Because I got the power to make anything sound good, they want to start trying to throw me on tapes with a lot of artists that ain't going nowhere, ain't got nothing to do with nothing. This is the shit niggas is trying to put me down with, I'm a solo superstar. You got me on tracks with niggas like Gargamel and niggas that nobody even ever heard of. No skill, no talent, niggas look ugly, you got me on tracks with these niggas trying to fuck up my shit. I'm good, I ain't with all that.
MR- It doesn't seem like you're mad.
MB- Because niggas is not on my level. At the end of the day, niggas is regular; I'm trying to do another theme to the game. I think Hollywood, I think 10 Million records. I'm trying to do bigger and better things. I'm not even trying to be around, or affiliate myself with guys like that anymore. I'm trying to put my dick in Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and all that ya feel me.
MR- Did you just say you're trying to put your dick in Britney Spears?
B-Yeah, shit like that. These niggas is out here hard, I'm doing something different.
MR- What are you doing to stay relevant? Who are you making music with?
MB-I don't really like to make music with a whole lot of niggas unless they paying. If you trying to get Wavy man, holla at Julie O'Shay, Jolie Unique.
{interruption from Max's assistant Jolie O'Shay}
JO- Jolie.unique@gmail.com
MB-I got a joint with Tony Yayo called “Initiation”! I forgot about that.
MR- You forgot!? Well does it sound good? You excited about it?
MB-You know everything I'm on sound so wavy baby. The only time I got a fucked up song is when niggas is on it.
MR- And who could that be?
MB-Freekey Zeekey and them fucked my Haze song up; you know who else, the Byrdgang movement fucked my shit up. Trying to fuck up my whole shit like, just had me doing hooks, like I'm just a hook nigga when I was starting the whole songs off. I was bringing the beats and everything. That's why you hear my mixtapes now and they so wavy. You listen to old MOB Byrdgang and you hear me on like 17 songs and on each of the mixtapes they put out and I had all the shit. I was the talent!
MR- So what is the Gain Green movement looking like? How are you keeping it from being a replica of Byrdgang?
MB-Gain Green can never become what Byrd Gang was. My artists is hotter than all the artists. All of them! So, like at the end of the day the only nigga…. Al Pac, and he's in the street, he's hotter than all their artists. All of them! The only niggas they got is Jim Jones, and Juelz Santana, and we all know what just happened to him, over in London.
MR- Ah, and what did happen to Juelz? I mean, we got his side so we think we know but…
MB- Oh I know what happened. All I'm saying is it's a small world and what you do to others come back to you and then you get fucked. But you know, that's a whole other story. That shit ain’t going to happen to me. That's some other shit. Fuck all that, back to Bigavel.
MR- What should we look out for while waiting for Vigilante Season?
{Interruption from Jolie, Max's assistant)
JO- We ain't signing nobody to Gain Green! There are no A&Rs at Gain Green. Mike Bruno, Max B, Jolie O'Shay, that's about it.
JO- Tommy Krome is NOT an A&R. We are not signing nobody!
MB- There's only one Gain Green boss.
MR- So you've been getting mad requests?
JO- Oh yeah, we get over 100 myspace hits a day saying how can they be down, they'll pay us to be down, but we're not signing nobody though. It's official, it's a wrap. We don't know any A&R's out there taking your money. There's some pretend Gain Green A&R's out there taking money for demos and all this, signing people.
MR- Are you calling anybody out by name?
MB- I'm not co-signing that man, there's only one Gain Green boss man.
JO- No Tommy Krome!
MB- Vigilante Season on its way. Shout out to Amalgam Digital, look out for that Cokewave coming out.








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