They finally freed the wave.

Harlem’s Max B was sentenced to 75 years in 2009 for his role in a robbery gone wrong. However, in 2016, his sentence was reduced to 20 years after he struck a plea deal with prosecutors, and he finally came home on Nov. 9 to much fanfare, and was greeted outside the gates of Northern State Prison in Newark, N.J., by his longtime friend and collaborator French Montana.

In his first sit-down video interview since being released, Max B caught up with Billboard to talk about his influence, how he spent his time inside and his plans for the future.

A couple of rappers who were influenced by Max are two widely popular ones out of Pittsburgh. He and Mac Miller struck up a relationship before Miller’s 2018 death, and Wiz Khalifa has mentioned Max’s influence on his

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