{"id":486121,"date":"2019-05-20T22:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=837906"},"modified":"2019-05-20T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:01:25","slug":"max-b-returns-with-his-first-new-song-in-8-years-hold-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/max-b-returns-with-his-first-new-song-in-8-years-hold-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Max B Returns With His First New Song in 8 Years, \u2018Hold On\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rapper Max B \u2014 who has been in prison since 2009 but remains one of the most beloved figures in contemporary New York hip-hop \u2014 celebrated his 41st birthday by releasing \u201cHold On,\u201d an exhilarating dancefloor missile featuring French Montana<\/a>, on Tuesday. The single marks Max B\u2019s first<\/span> newly recorded solo offering since 2011\u2019s<\/span> Vigilante Season<\/span><\/em>, and it\u2019s a taste of more music to come later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHold On\u201d is relentlessly buoyant, with a pinging synthesizer melody reminiscent of classic Nineties house music, and a brittle funkiness that suggests early 2000s Pharrell productions. The gleaming beat comes courtesy of Paul Couture, and the melody interpolates Sade\u2019s \u201cNothing Can Come Between Us.\u201d Max B gives the classic track one of his trademark makeovers, singing with the unique, off-kilter tuning that boosted much of his late-2000s catalog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Max B has always had a knack for reimagining other artists\u2019 songs, whether it\u2019s Britney Spears\u2019 \u201cGimme More\u201d or Young Jeezy\u2019s \u201cTrap Star.\u201d And when working with French Montana in the past, Max B has remade several other R&B oldies: In \u201cI Warn You,\u201d the New York MCs took on Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cI Want You,\u201d and \u201cBeen Around\u201d offered a new approach to David Bowie\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Dance.\u201d By revisiting \u201cNothing Can Come Between Us,\u201d which was a Top Five R&B hit for Sade the year Max B turned 10, he extends this lineage.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare to get new music from Max B this decade. (\u201cWhen\u2019s the last time you heard one of these?\u201d he asks at the beginning of \u201cHold On.\u201d) He emerged as a key figure in New York hip-hop in the second half of the 2000s, contributing to radio hits like Jim Jones\u2019 \u201cWe Fly High\u201d and self-releasing a hurricane of alluringly idiosyncratic mixtapes full of boisterous rap and wild melodic choices. He has been acknowledged as a key influence by stars like Wiz Khalifa and, most notably, Kanye West, who paid homage to the New York rapper on<\/span> The Life of Pablo<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Max B was sentenced to 75 years in prison, accused of being an accomplice to a robbery in New Jersey that ended in murder. (The rapper was not in the state at the time.) The conviction was later vacated in 2016, after a new legal team argued that Max\u2019s original trial lawyer had a conflict of interest in the case, according to<\/span> Associated Press<\/span><\/a><\/em>. His sentence was subsequently reduced to 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHold On\u201d is one of multiple new songs that Max B is preparing to release later this year. Despite his time away from rap, much of the new music sounds remarkably up to date. Couture, the beat-maker behind \u201cHold On,\u201d has been working closely with Max B on his latest tracks, and their chemistry is clear: \u201cDouble it down, Paul,\u201d Max B says in the opening seconds of \u201cHold On.\u201d \u201cDo your magic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Max B with French Montana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rapper Max B \u2014 who has been in prison since 2009 but remains one of the most beloved figures in contemporary New York hip-hop \u2014 celebrated his 41st birthday by releasing \u201cHold On,\u201d an exhilarating dancefloor missile featuring French Montana, on Tuesday. The single marks Max B\u2019s first newly recorded solo offering since 2011\u2019s […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:30:47","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}