{"id":973922,"date":"2019-12-06T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923163"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:44:06","slug":"max-b-continues-comeback-with-house-money-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/max-b-continues-comeback-with-house-money-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Max B Continues Comeback With \u2018House Money\u2019 EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190823-WA0004.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Beat-makers dream of instant success. But t<span>he first time the producer Paul Couture sent instrumentals to the veteran rapper Max B, the feedback he received was tepid. \u201cMax didn\u2019t like anything, none of it,\u201d Couture says. At the time, \u201cI was working on a reggae album, a pop album, and it was like, \u2018hey if you have some beats for Max, send \u2019em.\u2019 I just sent what I had without thinking about it.\u201d The rapper\u2019s reaction: \u201cYou know, Paul, that just ain\u2019t it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Couture asked for a second chance. \u201cI know you want it tomorrow, but give me a week,\u201d the producer remembers saying. \u201cI put together the next beat-pack of songs specifically made with Max in mind. The next call I got was, \u2018I see it now! I get it!&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several of those beats surfaced on Friday when Max B released <\/span><i><span>House Music<\/span><\/i><span>. While the rapper is 41, the new seven-track collection is just the second official project of his career \u2014 the majority of Max B\u2019s music came out via off-the-cuff mixtapes. The rapper\u2019s career was temporarily derailed by a 2009 prison sentence that prevented him from releasing music, but he recently started recording again, and he is quietly inching back into the mainstream. Max B has amassed nearly 20 million streams this year in the U.S., according to the analytics company Alpha Data, and the&nbsp;<em>House Money<\/em> track \u201cChampagne Wishes\u201d received a coveted placement on the Spotify playlist New Music Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><i><span>House Money <\/span><\/i><span>incorporates guest verses from a slew of New York rappers, youngsters (A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Dave East) as well as veterans (Cam\u2019Ron), plus an appearance from the longtime Max B supporter Wiz Khalifa. Couture worked to conjure the feel of \u201clate 1990s, early 2000s hip-hop\u201d in \u201cRide on Em.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t want to do anything trap-y, or sing-y,\u201d the producer explains. \u201cWhen Max did his verse, I just said, \u2018you know who I would love to feature on this song? Jadakiss would kill this.\u2019 They were like, \u2018say no more.&#8217;\u201d Jadakiss raps with his characteristic verve, adding hammering, gravelly lines.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the other end of the musical spectrum is \u201cNever Change,\u201d a breezy cut featuring Khalifa. \u201cMax loves live instruments as well,\u201d Couture says. \u201cEspecially today it can be a little difficult to incorporate that into hip-hop, with everything being so boomy from the 808s. I love that shit too, but on \u2018Never Change,\u2019 we wanted that Seventies vibe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Max B plans to release a sequel to&nbsp;<em>House Money&nbsp;<\/em>in the new year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/max-b-house-money-923163\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat-makers dream of instant success. But the first time the producer Paul Couture sent instrumentals to the veteran rapper Max B, the feedback he received was tepid. \u201cMax didn\u2019t like anything, none of it,\u201d Couture says. At the time, \u201cI was working on a reggae album, a pop album, and it was like, \u2018hey if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:07:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}