{"id":366300,"date":"2025-12-23T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366300\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:32:07","slug":"max-b-drops-first-mixtape-since-prison-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366300\/","title":{"rendered":"Max B Drops First Mixtape Since Prison Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over a month after he was released from prison<\/a> following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B<\/a> is back with his first new full-length in four years. The rapper has surprise-released Public Domain 7: The Purge, the seventh installment of his ongoing Public Domain mixtape series. You can listen to it below.<\/p>\n

Public Domain 7: The Purge follows Max B\u2019s 2021 album Negro Spirituals. The 25-song mixtape features contributions by A$AP Rocky<\/a>, Kehlani<\/a>, French Montana<\/a>, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie<\/a>, and others, as well as a posthumous contribution from the late<\/a> New York rapper Chinx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Max B teased the mixtape in a Billboard<\/a> interview last month, sharing his plans to get into the studio to record new music now that he was out of prison. \u201cIt never went nowhere; that\u2019s why we\u2019re on seven,\u201d he said about the forthcoming Public Domain mixtape. \u201cIt may have taken a little minute, but we on seven.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2009, Max B was sentenced to 75 years in prison for helping orchestrate a 2006 armed robbery in New Jersey that went awry, resulting in a man\u2019s death. The 47-year-old Harlem rapper was found guilty of numerous charges, including felony murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery. However, Max B was in another state at the time of the robbery, and eventually had his sentence reduced<\/a> to 20 years due to a conflict of interest in the original case and a subsequent plea deal on the aggravated manslaughter charge. He finally walked free<\/a> on November 9, 2025, and will remain on parole for five years.<\/p>\n

Revisit Alphonse Pierre\u2019s column \u201cThe Return of Max B<\/a>\u201d and read about Max B\u2019s Public Domain 3: Domain Pain at No. 26 in \u201cThe 50 Best Rap Mixtapes of the Millennium<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just over a month after he was released from prison following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,4803],"class_list":{"0":"post-366300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}