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Max B sat down with Billboard Hip-Hop Editor, Angel Diaz, in his first sit down interview since being released from prison in a conversation on a wide range of topics from his first day out and reuniting with French Montana, to how he’s readjusting to life and stepping back into his career, his friendship with the late Mac Miller and much more.
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00:00This is In Conversation with Max B, the boss on BiggVev.
00:25Welcome back home, man.
00:27Thank you, beloved.
00:28The one and only.
00:29So let's get started.
00:30You came home November 9th, right?
00:32French's birthday.
00:33And you went straight to the Jets game.
00:35Can you kind of talk about why you were at the, you were like on the field and everything?
00:38Well, that was kind of like one of the signs where I knew I was, I was like, the come out
00:43was going to be impactful.
00:44So it just so happens I'm a Jets fan anyway.
00:47Okay.
00:48All right.
00:49So, you know, we needed to win.
00:50You know, it all ran good coming that day.
00:52We wound up winning.
00:53I wound up, you know, finally meeting Shado.
00:55So it was love.
00:56That was one of the fun days I remember for a long time.
01:01Very long time.
01:02So how crazy was it though when you was on the field and you saw Method Man taking pictures?
01:07I thought he found some type of loophole.
01:09I said, I said, you know, found some loophole to the game.
01:12And I'm like, okay, do they let the guys take, you know, maybe you need some type of
01:16little photo to, you know, and they going to give you a job or volunteer doing some
01:21photo.
01:22You be caught sighted.
01:23I mean, you be sidelined at the game.
01:25You get to see all the players.
01:26You get that.
01:27That's some official shit.
01:28So it was good.
01:29Shout out to MeF, yo.
01:31You know, cause I've been a MeF fan forever.
01:33So to see him like that in that circumstance, it was just like, I knew the day was just beginning.
01:39I'm like, it's going to get more exciting.
01:40So when the video of him taking pictures of you was floating around on Twitter, his
01:45daughter was like, yeah, like he's like a big fan.
01:48He even has his own parking spot at the stadium.
01:51And he's like a, like a VIP for them.
01:53He probably a VIP, photographer, ambassador, all that.
01:57So yeah.
01:58Yeah.
01:59That's good.
02:00So they saying that you, you should go to every Jets game that you been good.
02:01You good luck for them.
02:02Listen, man.
02:03They need them a Max B mascot running around on the field, giving them that extra juice.
02:08We'll be there eight weeks supporting the team.
02:10You were in the studio too with French.
02:12Like what were you guys working on?
02:14We working on some new Coke Wave projects, some future endeavors, but yeah, shout to French.
02:19We working on some shit.
02:20We was cooking out.
02:21We took it more than surprise y'all.
02:22We just wait.
02:23Then we just going to come out.
02:24Anything going to just drop in town.
02:26You were locked up for about 15, 16 years, right?
02:29I did 18.
02:30I did 18 on this joint.
02:31Yeah.
02:32And the industry is like so different now.
02:34Is there anything that you noticed or, you know, like French kind of put you on game
02:40about how things have changed?
02:41I mean, a little bit, a little bit of anything.
02:44Been going a while.
02:45I'm still trying to figure things out, whether I know it or not.
02:48It just ain't, you know what I'm saying?
02:51Shit is crazy.
02:52I've been going a while.
02:53So I'm getting lost around my own crib.
02:55I'm in the building getting lost.
02:57All type of crap.
02:58So I just got to take my time, man.
03:01I know I did a long time, but it's going to take some time to get reacclimated.
03:04But I'm going to find my way.
03:06You know what I'm saying?
03:07I'm a New York guy.
03:08So I like to see the motion.
03:09I like the movement.
03:11The game is different, but it ain't too different.
03:14We kind of laid the groundwork for a lot of stuff that's being done today.
03:18I do now see it's certain necessities you need to have.
03:23You need to have your business in order.
03:24You need your lawyer.
03:25You need certain things now than before.
03:28Before it was more of a mom and pops way of doing things.
03:32You know, word of mouth.
03:33It's like a new world.
03:34Everything got to be on paper.
03:36Everything got to run concomers.
03:37So I mean, shit, I like the new game and the direction it took.
03:43It allowed people, the creators to get, you know, more leadership, more ownership over
03:50their creations.
03:51You know what I'm saying?
03:52So shout to the new game, man.
03:54Shout to the new game.
03:55It's love.
03:56Yeah, I was going to bring that up, man.
03:57I don't know.
03:58I think the internet has made it easier for independent artists to be able to do their
04:02thing.
04:03Because I remember like on a bunch of those interviews you used to do, like the come up
04:08DVDs.
04:09Like you were talking about you wanted to put your merch on like a website and stuff like
04:14that.
04:15You were pressing your own mixtapes, right?
04:16Like you was going in the studio, making your own shit.
04:19So now instead of pressing a bunch of CDs, you just upload the shit and put it on streamers.
04:24You know what I'm saying?
04:25It's definitely a new world.
04:26That's another beautiful thing about this new world.
04:29You can order something and it come right to your doorstep.
04:32Yeah.
04:33And you can talk directly to the fans.
04:35I think it's easier than before.
04:37You definitely can tap into your followers more.
04:40I mean, look, there's a lot of benefits to the game right now.
04:44You know what I'm saying?
04:45It's a lot of benefits.
04:46Like you said, everybody got a platform.
04:47You know, Instagram is out there, TikTok, YouTube.
04:50It's a lot of ways for people to get their stuff out there.
04:54You know, it's a bigger purse, but it's more bigger access for everybody.
04:57So, you know, the world got to go around, man.
05:00I love it.
05:01I love it this way.
05:02Any other way, it'll be madness.
05:05Chaos.
05:06So, what plans do you have, man?
05:09I feel like you've been thinking a lot about how you will approach this second part of your career.
05:16Yeah, I've been thinking about it a lot.
05:18Listen, man, I'm just going in here and work hard, man.
05:20That's all I know how to do, man.
05:21I just know how to work.
05:23I know how to give it my all.
05:25And the people see it.
05:26When they want good stuff, when they want quality stuff, they've been around for a long time,
05:31they know to come to the bigger valve.
05:33You know what I'm saying?
05:34You know, you're going to get bang for your buck.
05:36So, you know, I just continue to work hard, man, and polish the craft.
05:40You know what I'm saying?
05:41I can't think about with everybody else, with a follower.
05:43I just go in there and do what I do.
05:45So, that keep it around for a long time.
05:47That's the formula.
05:49I ain't going to reinvent the wheel.
05:51I'm going to keep it the same way.
05:54Okay, yeah.
05:55I was going to say, man, the melodic rap has become popular the last maybe 10, 20 years.
06:03So, how did you come up with your style?
06:05Because I remember when you first came out, there were some people that didn't fuck with
06:09you because it was so different.
06:10It was like, oh, he can't sing and this and that.
06:13So, talk about how you came up with that style.
06:16I mean, I just developed it over the years, man.
06:19It's me.
06:20My style is me.
06:21Real.
06:22It's corky.
06:23It's unpredictable.
06:24It's fun, spontaneous.
06:25You know what I'm saying?
06:26I got the slick talk.
06:27I'm witty.
06:28You know what I'm saying?
06:29I had a way with the ladies.
06:31I bring that into the fold.
06:33We do that.
06:34You know what I'm saying?
06:35I'm from the streets.
06:36It's basically wisdom.
06:40I know how to groove it up and put it in the ball and give it to the people over a beat.
06:44You know what I'm saying?
06:45But it's wisdom at the end of the day.
06:47I've been here for a little minute, 47, so I've been around.
06:50I listen to a lot of music.
06:51I absorbed a lot of music.
06:52I'm able to turn and bounce and flip it.
06:56You know what I'm saying?
06:57Slow it up, speed it up.
06:58It's just patience.
06:59It's our patience.
07:00How long you want to be there listening to it.
07:02The longer you listen to it, the more you absorb it.
07:05The longer it marinate, the most chances probably you're going to come up with a better concept
07:12for the record.
07:14Yeah, and you grew up, is it true, you were in the boys' choir when you was growing up?
07:19Yeah, I went to the school, but I didn't sing in the actual choir.
07:22But even still, we took trips with them.
07:25You know what I'm saying?
07:26We used to see the structure in which they wore their suits and stuff like that.
07:31So we kind of took that from them.
07:34And just going out, it gives them a layout of what the road look like.
07:37They go to the road.
07:38They sleep in hotels and stuff like that.
07:40So it's all stuff you see early on.
07:42You know what I'm saying?
07:43At some point, you'll need it again for your life and it'll hit you and then you'll know
07:48what to do.
07:49But yeah, I went to just the school, not the choir.
07:52You never sang in a choir?
07:54Nah, I never sang in a church now.
07:56Nah, listen.
07:57I sang in the prison church choir for a couple of months.
08:00Okay, how was that?
08:01It was all right, man.
08:02It was refreshing, man.
08:03It was something different, you know?
08:05It ain't like I'm scared to go up there, you know?
08:08Just going up there, giving praise, doing what you do.
08:12It was groovy.
08:13I liked it.
08:14I would do it again.
08:15Okay, now what I was trying to get at too is, what made you start singing your hooks
08:20and stuff like that?
08:21Do you remember?
08:22I just always wanted my own songs.
08:24I didn't want to, so if I made them or not, I'm like, alright, if I'm going to make my
08:29own songs, who going to make the music better than the way I want to hear it?
08:36That's kind of like what made me start doing music.
08:38I didn't want to hear what I was hearing.
08:40I wanted to hear a certain type of music, so I made it.
08:44Okay.
08:45I learned how to make it.
08:47Nah, yeah.
08:48I was going to ask if you're aware of how influential that style has become.
08:53I mean, I'm aware of it.
08:55I don't think I was the first guy to sing rap on the song.
09:00I might be the first one to really go for it.
09:03Yeah.
09:04I feel like I influenced people.
09:05It just start working.
09:06You know what I'm saying?
09:07But, I mean, listen, when you go, and there's no disrespect, the rawness of how I do it,
09:15I kind of like don't, I'm not using no chemicals.
09:18It's just me going out.
09:20You know what I'm saying?
09:21And you mean chemicals, you mean like auto-tune?
09:23I like how you use chemicals.
09:24Whatever you use.
09:25Any chemicals you use.
09:26You know what I'm saying?
09:27Whatever you do to bring out the part of your voice that-
09:31It's like raw vocals.
09:32Yeah, it's raw.
09:33You got to do it with that.
09:35Then it's not really singing.
09:36It's just you kind of cheating.
09:38You might as well just rap and put some of my R&B on the chorus.
09:43You know what I'm saying?
09:44If you want to do it like that.
09:46So instead of getting an R&B singer, you just sing the shit yourself?
09:50I just sing the shit myself.
09:52It just so happened my shit sound buttery.
09:54I can't help it.
09:56Like, your voice is crazy.
09:58I'm like, what?
09:59This is my voice?
10:00Me?
10:01Yeah, this shit's crazy.
10:03You know, just kept taking it, going with it, and believing it.
10:08Yeah, because Wiz Khalifa has talked about how influential you've been.
10:13And you guys have been able to kind of cultivate a relationship.
10:16Can you talk about how-
10:18Well, let's go a little bit further back.
10:21Like, people don't really know that you and Mac Miller were cool too.
10:24Like, Mac Miller was like a big fan of yours.
10:26He's from Pittsburgh.
10:27Wiz is from Pittsburgh.
10:28So can you kind of just talk about your relationship with Mac Miller and your relationship with Wiz?
10:33They a little younger, so they like younger older bros and shit.
10:36But I ain't know Mac too well personally, but we spoke a couple of times before he passed
10:42away.
10:43Rest in peace.
10:44And I know he was a big fan.
10:45I'm a fan of his as well.
10:46And he was a new artist or a newer artist at that time.
10:55It really inspired me.
10:56It was like, this is a new guy with new sound.
10:59You know, these guys is music guys.
11:01They love music.
11:02They was kind of coming on the same way I was thinking.
11:06Wiz was thinking the same way.
11:07I was thinking like, I can make this.
11:10You know what I'm saying?
11:11I can make this sound like this.
11:13And they gave it a shot and, you know, if you hear both of them on their songs, they
11:17either like, you can tell Wiz be always happy, Mac going through his shit or whatever, but
11:23you can hear it.
11:24You know what I'm saying?
11:25You hear the music incorporated with the pain or whatever.
11:27So these is like musical guys that I kind of feel like the musical guys adapt to my style.
11:34You know what I'm saying?
11:35Yeah.
11:36And then you got even the younger cats like A Boogie and Cash Cobain, right?
11:39They reached out, showed love to you too.
11:40So kind of talk about the relationship you have with the younger New York guys now.
11:44Yeah.
11:45Listen, I'm kind of blessed to be in between and, you know, all the genres it feel like.
11:50You know what I'm saying?
11:51It feel like the older kids my age, you know, they missed the moment, but then you had their
11:56kids or whatever.
11:57Them like the kids today that's older, they said, you know, my dad used to listen to your
12:02music, man.
12:03And you know, just to still be able to do it at a nice level, still come out, still be
12:09relevant and do what you do for the people, you know, it's some good shit.
12:15It's some humbling shit.
12:16And it's the internet really, man, because like I was telling you before, it's like the
12:21Come Up, DVD, Cocaine City shit.
12:23It's all over YouTube.
12:24People use you as GIF reactions and like you're like a meme and shit, like certain things.
12:30What do you say to people that aren't super familiar with your music?
12:34Because when you came home, everybody was like, who's Max B?
12:37Well, all of a sudden everybody's a Max B fan.
12:40Like there was like a little, some haters or whatever.
12:42So how do you, not win those people over, but what do you say to people that aren't
12:47super familiar with your shit?
12:48I mean, I can't worry about what the people think.
12:51I just go out there and do me.
12:53I'm unapologetic, you know what I'm saying?
12:56And I would say, if you was starting to get into Max or who Max B, you know, judge him
13:03by his music.
13:04That's it.
13:05And then work your way past that point.
13:07But listen to the music first, get involved.
13:11Then you can make, you know, other determinations or whatever, whatever you think of me.
13:18You know what I'm saying?
13:19But at least listen to the music first and then go from there.
13:21You'll be alright.
13:22So I wanted to also ask if you remember like when it was that you learned how to write
13:26songs and melodies, like when did you kind of start gaining interest in becoming a rapper?
13:32When I was locked up, I was young, probably like 98, 99, probably like 19.
13:38And just to be in the cell with nothing in there with a pen in the pad.
13:41You know what I'm saying?
13:42And just write.
13:43Start writing off the head, writing off the, you know what I'm saying?
13:46And that was kind of like where the passion came in from that moment on.
13:50It was like the time had passed.
13:52A couple hours had went up, I didn't even know.
13:55And then I would have like a whole song on the page.
13:58I didn't know how to count bars or nothing.
13:59I was just writing, just writing.
14:02And I just kept doing it, kept doing it.
14:04Whenever I wrote, I made sure I wrote like a chorus.
14:07Always wrote like a full fledged song, you know what I'm saying?
14:11And that's just how I got better.
14:13I just spent time with it over the years.
14:16Yeah, because after that first bid, you did about eight years, something like that, that first bid.
14:21Because I remember you coming home.
14:24Well, I didn't, you kind of were unknown.
14:27You came out of nowhere, right?
14:28Like I feel like all of a sudden there's this dude, Max B, with like this fucking super fly hair and glasses, singing and shit.
14:37So who did you first link up with?
14:39Was it Young Los that you first linked up with when you came home?
14:43Nah, my Grease.
14:44Grease was my-
14:45That was Grease?
14:46Because I thought Grease, I thought Los, you worked with Los first.
14:48Los was my boy, but I had got Los through like when I was down with the group or whatever.
14:55And now I used to bring different beats through.
14:57So one of the CDs I used to always pick the beats off was the Los Kid.
15:02So when I tapped in and went dolo, I grabbed him up.
15:07You know what I'm saying?
15:08So he kind of stayed in touch.
15:09Like, yo, that's me.
15:10Went to my beats.
15:11Boom.
15:12I brought him over, built my own thing, put him over.
15:14And that was it.
15:15Grease my dude too though.
15:17He was like one of the first dudes where I was like in the studio with him working dolo.
15:23You know what I'm saying?
15:24Like, so he's like one of my guys as well.
15:26And he's from the hood.
15:27He's from Harlem.
15:28He's from Harlem, man.
15:29He's from downtown, but he from around the way.
15:31So how did you link with Grease then?
15:33Like how did you first link with him?
15:34Grease just one of them dudes, like one of them dudes from the hood or just one of them
15:38dudes that been in my life for like 30 years.
15:41You always knew him?
15:42Yeah, but never spoke to him.
15:44Okay.
15:45Until, you know what I'm saying?
15:46Until I started doing this.
15:48So he know like my brothers.
15:49He know my family.
15:50Everybody know everybody.
15:51You had called into Drink Champs and Norrie asked you if you had to make a song to save
15:57humanity.
15:58What producer would you work with?
16:00And you mentioned Dame Grease.
16:01Grease just know how to make his sound, man.
16:03He not the big name no more, but he still got that sound.
16:07Still got that talent.
16:08Still got that know-how, that wisdom.
16:10You know what I'm saying?
16:12That musical insight.
16:14That musical genius.
16:15And it's just a flow there.
16:17We feed off each other.
16:18You know, he give me a track.
16:20And it's weird.
16:21It's Corky.
16:22One of the weird Corky ones, he know that'd be the one I'd be like, yeah, right there.
16:27Right there.
16:28We get there.
16:29So yeah, it's been a chemistry since day one with bro.
16:31We always make good music.
16:33There's always love.
16:35That's bro.
16:36How did you and French first link up?
16:38Because you guys are like, in terms of New York rap, you guys are a legendary duo.
16:42Especially for that era.
16:43He came to see me for like, for a feature when I came on like 2006.
16:48Right before Bale.
16:49Right after Bale.
16:50I had got out for like two years.
16:52And then that's when I had met French.
16:53And we just, that's been just my bro ever since.
16:56He stayed supporting you, keeping your name alive.
17:00Why do you think you guys are still close?
17:02To me, like I guess he first probably feel like, you know, before anybody had anything,
17:10we was like this.
17:11So it's kind of like, you know what I'm saying?
17:13And then you got like me, first been around a lot of people.
17:16So it's good when you, to have people around that you, you know what I'm saying?
17:21That be on, y'all kind of leveled up as far as personality.
17:26You know what I'm saying?
17:27You ain't, you ain't one of them around them asking for shit.
17:30And you can pay your own tab or whatever.
17:32Shit like that, that shit count.
17:33You know what I'm saying?
17:34A lot of people don't be liking, celebs don't like people around them like that, you know?
17:39You was eating with him and his fiancee, the princess of Dubai, man.
17:42Yeah, that's bro, man.
17:43You know, I dance with the stars, man.
17:46That's what I do.
17:47The moment is never too big for the dawn.
17:49You know me.
17:50You can bring the president out.
17:51How you doing?
17:52I'm gonna keep it regular, girl.
17:55Yeah, so speaking of French, man, like it's funny, but people have to be reminded of how
18:01he came up, right?
18:02Like he started doing the Cool King City DVDs around like that Smack DVD era.
18:07And we spoke, we were, you know, when we were prepping earlier, I brought up the rants
18:13that you used to go on.
18:14I'm a boss.
18:15I'm not with that.
18:17It's never, it's never nothing no more.
18:19Like I look like a boss.
18:20I feel like a boss.
18:21Were you always like that?
18:23Like, or did you like create this character?
18:26Because it reminds me of like wrestling promos or like how Ali or Floyd Mayweather will promote
18:31a fight.
18:32Yeah.
18:33I'm, I'm, everybody know I'm a big wrestling fan.
18:36So even when I was little, like I was big on wrestling, but my favorite wrestlers for
18:41those don't know is the bad guys.
18:44The ones that talk and do all the, all the theatrics outside the ring.
18:48That was always like my favorite wrestlers.
18:50You know what I'm saying?
18:51So yeah, I kind of like I subconsciously adapted that whole style and just, you know, threw
18:57it in there.
18:58You know, that's how you got to do it, man.
19:00You got to sell it, man.
19:01You got to promote it.
19:02Yeah.
19:03So do you remember who some of your favorite wrestlers are from back then?
19:07You talking about back in our day?
19:08Yeah.
19:09Back in your day.
19:10Yeah.
19:11Man.
19:12Hitman.
19:13Hitman.
19:14Stone Cold.
19:15You know what I'm saying?
19:16I used to love the rock.
19:17Rock was rock.
19:18These old guys with the talk game, man.
19:19You know what I'm saying?
19:20Yeah.
19:21They was nice.
19:22I don't make.
19:23So let's talk about, um, you were inside for a while.
19:26How did you spend your time?
19:28It was productive, man.
19:29I was able to, you know, I had some pieces of equipment in there, so I took like a workstation
19:34and a few other pieces of equipment.
19:36Proton made a little studio and shit.
19:38Okay.
19:39I got my hands on the mic.
19:41You know, and just, it was productive, man.
19:43You know, a lot of people spend their time, it could be, it's a lot of non-productive ways
19:48you could spend your time in prison.
19:50I chose to keep up with the music and polish my craft.
19:54You know what I'm saying?
19:55So they allowed you to have, to have like a little makeshift studio, like they didn't
19:59give you-
20:00Nah, you got, depending on where you at.
20:02You know what I'm saying?
20:03So you can't have it everywhere, but spots like Jersey, they got shit.
20:08You could, you know, all you need is a workstation.
20:11You already know, you need a workstation.
20:12I don't know if you know.
20:13So if you get you a workstation and a microphone, which would probably be the hardest part to
20:19grab, but you know, where there's a will, there's a way.
20:22Nah, yeah.
20:23Cause you put out a couple of records while you was inside.
20:26So do you ever think about how your career would have been if you had never gotten locked
20:31up?
20:32Listen, I went through a lot to become the person I am now.
20:35You know what I'm saying?
20:36I can't say the streets would have taught me that or the business it took where I had
20:41to go and go through what I had to go through to be through where I'm at now.
20:45So I can't, you know, can't question that.
20:49It is what it is.
20:50We on God's time.
20:51He wanted me to go through that.
20:53I went through it.
20:54I ain't complain.
20:55You know what I'm saying?
20:56I worked hard.
20:57I got back, kept my mind right.
20:59And here we are.
21:00You know what I'm saying?
21:01So you feel like you're a different person now from before you got locked up?
21:06I'm a whole another 360.
21:08I am the same person.
21:10I just don't do the same things that I did when I was out.
21:14So I think it's resonating to the people, man.
21:16I'm an inspiration.
21:17You're going to see brothers getting married, stuff like that.
21:20You know what I'm saying?
21:21You're probably going to see dudes stepping up, man.
21:25You know, hopefully I can give these guys a blueprint to, you know, running a smooth ship.
21:34You heard?
21:35Smooth ship.
21:36So there was an OK Player interview that went up a couple of days ago.
21:41And you expressed maybe feeling a little anxiety before you came out.
21:46So do you still feel a little anxiety or like, are you overwhelmed by everything?
21:51I'm not going to say I'm overwhelmed.
21:55Anxiety.
21:56I'm not even really anxious no more for nothing.
21:58I'm just taking my time.
21:59I'm out here.
22:00It's real.
22:01I done woke up in my bed a couple of days straight.
22:05So I can't complain, man.
22:07You know what I'm saying?
22:08Eating good food.
22:09Got my wife.
22:10Got my kids.
22:11I'm seeing my kids every day.
22:12Got my electronics in this more.
22:15I started moving.
22:16Started trying to hook my shit up.
22:17I couldn't.
22:18I didn't know what the fuck I was doing with that.
22:19But I'm going to keep trying.
22:21You heard?
22:22It's mine.
22:23I ain't got nothing.
22:24I'm going to figure that shit out.
22:26So you have four kids now.
22:29Yeah.
22:30What are their ages?
22:3118 and the rest is 16 going on 17.
22:34Damn.
22:35You know what I'm saying?
22:36So how that's been kicking it with them?
22:39Nah, it's fire.
22:40I be wanting them all at one time, but for some reason I can't get them.
22:44I can't seem to get all four of them, but I might have three of them or two of them or
22:49I had my daughter with me the other day.
22:51You know what I'm saying?
22:52Shout out to Mikayla.
22:53That's my baby.
22:54Had her with me the whole day.
22:55We was in the studio.
22:57She watched me make records.
22:58You know what I'm saying?
22:59She watched me do business.
23:00So it was good having them around.
23:02She really didn't want to leave.
23:04You know what I'm saying?
23:05She had to go to school tomorrow.
23:06I got my oldest son, he coming through today.
23:10I'm going to take him through.
23:12Let him see the stew.
23:13Let him meet.
23:14You know what I'm saying?
23:15Meet people.
23:16Meet friends.
23:17He going to be alright too.
23:18So that's what we going to do later on.
23:19You know what I'm saying?
23:20Don't stop.
23:21You just got to rotate.
23:22Try to find time for everybody you can.
23:24You know what I'm saying?
23:25Find time for yourself.
23:27Enjoy your perch.
23:28You know what I'm saying?
23:29And then just work, man.
23:31Don't complain.
23:32Go about your business.
23:33Yeah.
23:34In the Drinks Champs interview, you also told Nori that you felt that you elevated when
23:39it came to your songwriting and shit.
23:42You put out a couple of tracks here and there, but can you talk about how you feel just musically,
23:48songwriting wise and stuff like that?
23:50I mean, look, I feel good.
23:51It's going to take me a little second to shake the rust off.
23:55I went into the studio yesterday and the mic was sounding too perfect.
24:02So it was a little throwing me off a little bit, but I had the shit loud the whole time.
24:07I didn't even know.
24:08So it was, once we got that right, we wound up doing like two joints or something.
24:13Know what I'm saying?
24:14Just to get the feel.
24:15And we going in there today.
24:17I'm a wild out.
24:18Okay.
24:19So I'm going in there and put some shit together.
24:21Boom.
24:22And then go from there.
24:23Know what I'm saying?
24:24But it's ready.
24:25Ain't got to do much.
24:26Yeah, I don't know that.
24:30So are you planning to put out a tape soon?
24:33Like, what's the word?
24:34The music coming.
24:35Yeah, it's coming.
24:36I'm in the lab.
24:37So Domain Diego may make a comeback.
24:39It's coming.
24:40Domain's coming back.
24:41It never went nowhere.
24:42That's why it's seven.
24:43That's why we on seven.
24:46Took a little minute, but we on seven.
24:48So yeah, so you had a homecoming dinner, right?
24:53Your kids were there at the homecoming dinner?
24:56Yeah, three of them.
24:57Two of them were there.
24:58So you couldn't get all four there.
25:00Couldn't get all four.
25:01How was that though?
25:02How was the homecoming dinner?
25:03The dinner was nice, man.
25:05It was nice.
25:06Everybody came out for us.
25:08It was nice, man.
25:10I went out there.
25:11I seen a lot of people I grew up with.
25:13I actually did a nice little outfit change.
25:16I was chilling for a minute.
25:17You had like a bow tie.
25:18Went back.
25:19Went back.
25:20Went back.
25:21Went back.
25:22Turned the bow tie bigger.
25:23You know what I'm saying?
25:24You know what I mean?
25:25Whole different.
25:26Look.
25:27You feel me?
25:28You feel what I'm saying?
25:29Just switching up.
25:30It's the new grown and gorgeous big of ours.
25:31It's the new improved.
25:32Grown and gorgeous.
25:33New distinguished big of ours.
25:34This ain't the old big of ours from before.
25:36So you gotta love it.
25:37This is what I think was attracting the people.
25:39Hey, Dad, we thought this nigga was gonna come out and do the same shit.
25:42He's a prime example of what you supposed to do when you come out.
25:46This is re-entry in his purest form.
25:49This man right here.
25:50Man, you speak of that.
25:51Listen, it's not that scene in Carlito's ways.
25:55They reinvigorated, rehabilitated.
25:56Yeah.
25:57All this fancy.
25:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:59All right, so November 20th, you're gonna have a Turkey Drive.
26:02The Waves Giving Turkey Drive.
26:04Where that's gonna be at?
26:05I'm assuming it's gonna be in Harlem?
26:07Yeah, we supposed to be, I think we have it on the Lincoln Projects.
26:10That's on the east side.
26:11135th.
26:125th Avenue, Madison.
26:14Okay.
26:15In the east side of Harlem.
26:16Yeah.
26:17It's local though.
26:18We know it.
26:19Yeah, you said you was gonna dress like Nino Brown for it?
26:22All right.
26:23Yeah, man.
26:24That's the plan, man.
26:25I wanna go in there like Nino, man, with the crew, man.
26:27The CMB brothers, man.
26:28My man Black gonna come up and be like, pookie, pookie.
26:32Look at your funky black ass.
26:35I'm dying to do that scene.
26:42Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
26:49That nigga Nino was hard, boy.
27:04He was a hard dude.
27:11Yeah, I'm ready though.
27:12We here.
27:13My bad.
27:14So you gotta watch New Jack City now.
27:17Nah, I watched that shit already like three times.
27:19Since you came home?
27:20You just have it on?
27:22I was just watching it last night.
27:25It's my shit.
27:26So we're here at Brooklyn Paramount.
27:28Their lounge called Ella's.
27:29It has a Harlem Renaissance kind of feel to it.
27:32And you're doing your first headlining show here on January 18th.
27:36Tell us what can we expect?
27:38Listen, y'all gonna get nostalgia.
27:40Those my age gonna get the nostalgia.
27:43The youth, y'all gonna get a taste of the OGs.
27:46The real OGs.
27:47The Biggavelle.
27:48They gonna come out.
27:49Your moms and pops gonna come out.
27:51Cause we old enough to tap in on that era.
27:53Even the grandparents gonna ask about it.
27:55They all gonna come out.
27:56They gonna want to witness.
27:58The boss Don Biggavelle in the flex.
28:00Back.
28:01First show.
28:02Giving it up.
28:03Doing what I do.
28:04It's what we do.
28:05It's what we love to do.
28:06It's what we was made to do.
28:07I can't wait.
28:08So be ready.
28:09It's gonna be a Bonanza.
28:11January 18th, Bonanza.
28:13Brooklyn Paramount.
28:15Max Biggavelle.
28:16I'm coming out.
28:17I'm grabbing the mic.
28:19And we doing what it do.
28:20You call yourself Biggavelle, right?
28:22It's a mix of Biggie, Jay-Z, Reg Jigga, and Tupac Machiavelle.
28:27So were you aware that when Justin Bieber gets in his R&B bag, they've been calling him
28:35Biebervelle?
28:36Have you been aware of that?
28:37Shout to the Biebs, man.
28:38That's my guy.
28:39He soulful.
28:40When I hear stuff like that, I get flattered.
28:42I go back in there and I get some work done, man, and keep it going so the game could love
28:47us.
28:48So the game could do what it do.
28:49This thing gotta recycle itself.
28:51The love spread out all over.
28:53Everybody's spreading the love.
28:54It's recycled.
28:55It's all love.
28:56We recycling love.
28:58So shout out to Biebervelle, man.
29:01I look forward to it.
29:03We gonna get it done.
29:04We'll be up in there.
29:05There's also no more Grand Cru.
29:07The Grand Cru cake is in the building.
29:10I mean, you know, I'm just doing with you right here.
29:14Nah, that's cool.
29:15I can't drink anywhere.
29:16I'm on parole, man.
29:17I been drinking water.
29:18So, you know, I mean, listen, I like my new energy.
29:21You know, I'm an older guy anyway.
29:23So liquor, you know, that's a whole different thing when I'm into that.
29:27Yeah.
29:28So it's good.
29:29I actually kind of been feeling good not drinking, just going by my business.
29:32Nice.
29:33So sober, big eval right now.
29:34Yeah.
29:35I mean, shit, we illegal.
29:36You know what I'm saying?
29:37So I got a ton of that.
29:40Smoke that shit all day.
29:41That shit legal.
29:42They can't do nothing with that.
29:44I'm like, man, and New Jersey.
29:46That shit legal all over.
29:47Yeah.
29:48That shit crazy, man.
29:49Like you could just go fucking-
29:50I'm smelling that shit, man.
29:51I smelled that shit-
29:52Everywhere.
29:53Man, I smelled that shit by the department store in Midtown the day before yesterday.
29:58I was like, what the hell?
30:00So it's everywhere, man.
30:01It's just everywhere.
30:02It's good though.
30:03I think it's making the world a better place, man.
30:07Keeping everybody all right.
30:08Oh, yeah.
30:09So one thing I want to say, so I mentioned Kat wearing the Supreme thing.
30:13Kat?
30:14Yeah.
30:15So I heard you a big Knicks fan.
30:17Were you able to watch the run they've been on while you was inside?
30:21Come on.
30:22Everyone kept us afloat, man.
30:23Right?
30:24Kept you experienced.
30:25Everyone kept us afloat.
30:26That last year playoff, we was up.
30:28We was up again.
30:29I mean, we blew the first game.
30:31You asked me if we win that first game, we win that series.
30:34You asked me.
30:35So that would have been a different conversation.
30:37Oh, win that shit.
30:38Fucking Tyrese Halliburton.
30:39Yeah.
30:40I was in a bar watching that shit.
30:42That shit ruined my name.
30:43But not saying we would have beat OKC.
30:46I'm just saying-
30:47Yeah, we would have beat the Pacers.
30:49Just saying.
30:50You know what I'm saying?
30:51You just never fucking know.
30:53So with that being said, shout to my Knicks.
30:55Shout to my Knicks.
30:56Shout to Big Cat.
30:58It was a big play.
31:00That was love.
31:01How do you feel about Tibbs getting fired?
31:03And how do you feel about Mike Brown right now?
31:06The job he's doing?
31:07Listen, man.
31:08Tibbs is an old way.
31:09It's a new way.
31:10New regime.
31:11I'm used to the new way.
31:12I want to see the new way implemented.
31:14I love the new way.
31:15The new flow of the ball.
31:16I love the pace.
31:17It's been looking better.
31:18I love the Mike Brown system.
31:20Let's ride it out.
31:21Let's just get better.
31:22Let's use these first 20 games to just get better.
31:24We don't care about Cena.
31:25We don't care about All Star.
31:27Let's just use this to get better.
31:30I also heard that you want them to get Sabonis somehow.
31:35Listen, I think I was a little juiced up last night when I was saying that.
31:39But I'm with this shit.
31:40What?
31:41If we can grab some boat.
31:42That was some shit me and my celly was just talking about like five days ago.
31:46I'm like, if you can have a big man.
31:48I'm talking about a big athletic.
31:50Like a bruiser.
31:51Listen, man.
31:52They was talking about ...
31:53Ben Simmons.
31:54Ben Simmons.
31:55They had said something about Ben Simmons like around preseason.
31:59And I was like, what?
32:01And then I thought about that shit.
32:03I said, hold on.
32:04That shit sound like a good pick.
32:07I said, we could whip him right in the shape.
32:10He had a decent load there.
32:11That's type.
32:12You know.
32:13But Sabonis came up in the conversation.
32:15I was like, Sabonis?
32:16He was like, I said, Sabon, give me Sabon.
32:19He was like, nah, that's a good pick.
32:21So that was like me and my celly.
32:24We was both Nick fans.
32:25I was like talking about the team.
32:27Yeah, that shit kept ours in the room.
32:29Even though we barely was in there.
32:31When we did get a chance to chill out later on and shit, whatever.
32:35We came back.
32:36We watched the end of the game together.
32:37We could talk our shit.
32:38You know, a little fantasy talk, but it kept the time.
32:43We gotta call Spike, man.
32:44We gotta get you courtside, man.
32:45Man, give me 90 with Spike, man.
32:48Listen, man.
32:49Shout out to Spike, man.
32:50If you need a road dog down there, Spike.
32:53I'll bring it down.
32:55They'll love me in the building.
32:57I think we're good, man.
32:59Is there anything that you want to add that you want to tell the people before we get out of here?
33:03Listen, man.
33:04Just thank you for the love and support.
33:06Y'all been great.
33:07I can't complain.
33:08Now we in here working on this music.
33:10We about to get y'all this new stuff.
33:12Just be patient.
33:13We out here.
33:14I'm up every day early.
33:16I'm up.
33:17We out here.
33:18Yeah.
33:19That's it, man.
33:20Thank you for coming through.
33:21All right, big fella.
33:22Appreciate it.
33:23Appreciate it, man.
33:24It was fun here.
33:25I look forward to seeing the night that I'm going to bring out here to Brooklyn.
33:28So it's going to be awesome.
33:30Can't wait.
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