{"id":48206,"date":"2025-11-22T02:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48206\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:33:22","slug":"max-b-performs-at-brandy-monicas-nyc-show-days-after-prison-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48206\/","title":{"rendered":"Max B Performs at Brandy, Monica&#8217;s NYC Show, Days After Prison Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHarlem rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/max-b\/\" id=\"auto-tag_max-b\" data-tag=\"max-b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max B<\/a> wasted no time getting back onstage after being released from prison earlier this month. On Thursday night, the Wave God joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brandy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brandy\" data-tag=\"brandy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/monica\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monica\" data-tag=\"monica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monica<\/a>\u2018s New York City show to perform his 2008 classic \u201cSexy Love\u201d as a surprise for fans at Barclays Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWelcome home, my brother,\u201d Monica said, before Max engaged the crowd: \u201cNew York, stand up! He\u2019s baaaaack. Where my ladies at, Barclays?\u201d Max then walked around the stage and danced with Monica before starting to rap along to \u201cSexy Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/brandy-monica-max-b-surprise-performance-nyc-show-1236119480\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard<\/a>, Monica and Brandy also brought out Fabolous, Fat Joe, Ciara for \u201cLevel Up,\u201d and Tyrese for \u201cSweet Lady\u201d as special guests during Thursday\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMax B was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/max-b-released-prison-1235462541\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> released from prison<\/a> on Nov. 9 after serving 16 years for his role in a botched armed robbery that resulted in a man\u2019s death.\u201cI\u2019m feeling righteous, man,\u201d Max told\u00a0The Joe Budden Podcast\u00a0earlier this year. \u201cI\u2019m doing all right. This is almost over.\u2026 Wavy Baby coming home real soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 2009, Max B was originally sentenced to 75 years in prison, accused of being an accomplice to a robbery in New Jersey that ended in murder. The conviction was vacated in 2016, after a new legal team argued that Max\u2019s original trial lawyer had a conflict of interest in the case. His sentence was reduced to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMax B is set to drop his The First Purge (Patient Zero) project next Friday. Even from behind bars, he released several projects over the years, including \u201cHold On\u201d with French Montana in 2019. He also released an album called Negro Spirituals in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMeanwhile, Brandy and Monica will continue their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brandy-and-monica-the-boy-is-mine-tour-dates-1235370706\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Boy Is Mine Tour <\/a>on Friday in Newark, before heading to Detroit, D.C, Atlanta, New Orleans, Tampa, and Miami through the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlem rapper Max B wasted no time getting back onstage after being released from prison earlier this month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27232,27233,27234,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-48206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brandy","9":"tag-max-b","10":"tag-monica","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}