{"id":551511,"date":"2023-02-13T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-still-maxos-time\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:33:15","slug":"its-still-maxos-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-still-maxos-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d4635f0a3f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-still-maxos-time\/#%E2%80%9CIts_still_Maxos_time%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CIts_still_Maxos_time%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242637\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Maxo announces his new album, <i>Even God Has a Sense of Humor<\/i>, with a conversation on moments  of uncertainty and leaps of faith.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"photographer\">Photographer <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Hodor-Lee<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310360007_jbmwej\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310360007_jbmwej\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310360007_jbmwej\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310360007_jbmwej\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 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man cave. Squished into the walk-up\u2019s living room is a bed, a massive TV, a lonely dog bed, a smoke detector that won\u2019t stop beeping, a few bar stools, and a set of leather chairs that look like they were lifted from an AMC Dine-In. Nearly every piece of furniture has red highlights. And then there\u2019s Maxo \u2014 tall, lanky, and hunched over in a chair in the corner, still recovering from a late-night, cross-country flight. His inconspicuous aura brings a strange tranquility to the otherwise cluttered room. <\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s slightly warmer than it should be on a December afternoon in Brooklyn, but still chilly enough for him to throw on a few layers before stepping out to get smoothies. \u201cI\u2019m good,\u201d  he says, laughing off the cold. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m jacketed up. I got a thermal, a sweater\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            Maxo is in New York for <i>Pigeons &amp; Planes<\/i>\u2019 rising talent showcase, No Ceilings, where he\u2019ll perform a medley of unreleased songs from his forthcoming album, <i>Even God Has a Sense of Humor<\/i>, out February 22. Next to the other acts on the bill \u2014 Atlanta\u2019s Kenny Mason (the headliner), <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/savebenreilly\/?hl=en\">Ben Reilly<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/al_doms\/\">Al-Doms<\/a> \u2014 the Southern California-raised r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er is a little out of place. His patient flows and meditative, often self-reflective raps don\u2019t have a chance of caving in Market Hotel\u2019s floor like the moshpit-ready anthems the others have in their catalogs. But when the show\u2019s mentioned in passing, he doesn\u2019t seem nervous about it. I\u2019m not even sure he\u2019s thought about the clashing energies.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242659\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-242646 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-242646,  #content_block-242646 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242646 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #e6543b;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242646\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cA lot of the time, the music is there for conversations I can\u2019t even have with the person in real life [because] I haven\u2019t built up the courage. So I talk to a mirror.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242640\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            There isn\u2019t an exact moment when our conversation shifts from small talk to interview, but when <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing comes up, his words grow taut. I gesture to my recorder, and he gives a knowing nod, taking a moment to gather his thoughts. \u201cIt\u2019s something about the West Coast that has us stuck in that place,\u201d the 27-year-old, who split his formative years between Ladera Heights and the Inland Empire, says. \u201cI remember the first time I decided to get up and go somewhere. I just quit my job and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m finna go to New York and sleep on these niggas\u2019 floor.\u2019 I was feeling that shit in my stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Maxo doesn\u2019t like to feel \u201cstuck.\u201d If he starts to feel physically bound to a location, he isn\u2019t afraid to get up and book a ticket elsewhere. He took a \u201clife-changing\u201d trip to Senegal with his mother in 2017, where they journeyed around the country for three weeks with a guide who \u2014 when his mom complained about the heat \u2014 plainly answered, \u201cI\u2019m not God.\u201d Years later, there\u2019s still a sense of awe in his voice as he speaks of a spiritual experience his mother had while overseas. The trip\u2019s enduring scene comes from the airport, where a gate separating arriving passengers and aggressive taxi drivers, seemingly on the verge of collapse from the number of humans pushing against the wiry structure, transformed from mayhem to mundane after three weeks. <\/p>\n<p>            His approach to moving on from something emotionally can take a bit more time. \u201cA lot of the time, the music is there for conversations I can\u2019t even have with the person in real life [because] I haven\u2019t built up the courage,\u201d he admits. \u201cSo I talk to a mirror.\u201d His music is enamored with the past and future, earnestly pondering countless \u201cwhat ifs?\u201d with sobering optimism. Following Maxo\u2019s discography, you\u2019ll hear him capture his in-the-moment thoughts and attempt to figure out where his heart\u2019s leading him in the moment. It\u2019s a coming-of-age story without an ending; Maxo comes back to revise the manuscript whenever it\u2019s no longer recognizable to him.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242660\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242639\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310370001_meithb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242643\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            The very first project that Max Allen put out, 2015\u2019s <i>After Hours<\/i>, was a 7-track tape recorded alongside VIK, a beat-making friend he met while attending Chaffey College (\u201cStraight to cassette; sock on the mic, like it was the \u201990s\u201d). Released on the Alaska-based cassette label Burnt Tapes, it\u2019s the grainy, hungry-for-the-world project that every teenager who\u2019s spent hours listening to way too many L.A. beat scene mixtapes to count dreams of making. <i>After Hours<\/i> would be the start of Maxo seriously considering rapping \u2014 viewing music as a way to process the turmoil of his personal life, the stresses of growing up Black in America, and seeing his older brother grapple with mental health issues. <\/p>\n<p>            A collection of singles and an EP, <i>gold in the mud<\/i>, would pad out the space between <i>After Hours<\/i> and Maxo\u2019s next milestone: 2017\u2019s <i>Smile<\/i>, made with Inland Empire producer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lastnamedavid\/?hl=en\">LastNameDavid<\/a> and with Maxo\u2019s older brother \u2014 and main inspiration \u2014 Sharp rapping his first verse in years on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gOf37Rjzjf8\">AppleTree<\/a>\u201d as the tape\u2019s sole feature. At times, Maxo sounds like an even scrappier <i>Below the Heavens<\/i>-era Blu, lashing out at the world and retreating into himself in the same breath: \u201cNow I don\u2019t think y\u2019all heard me, man, I need every dime \/ Cover up my scars with a check, I do this every time,\u201d he rasps on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3S-v4mdxRfY\">Same Hoodie Since \u201905<\/a>.\u201d His voice is noticeably haggard on a few tracks, but LastNameDavid\u2019s submerged and jazzy production softens his blows, infusing the project with downplayed tenderness.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cMaybe my approach with things in real life was a little more abrasive,\u201d he says. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m way calmer than I was then. I\u2019m not letting shit get to me like that. But at the time, I was too sensitive and I didn\u2019t even see the cycles of that to know how to deal with it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-242647 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-242647,  #content_block-242647 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242647 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #e6543b;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242647\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cI done experienced the most \u2014 every feeling \u2014 to just get to this point and be present for it\u2026 Honestly, I don\u2019t regret nothing because it really is life aside from new music. I\u2019m a different person right now than I was when I started this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242661\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242645\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            On his 2019 Def Jam debut, <i>Lil Big Man<\/i>, the gaze of his writing turned inward and his delivery mellowed out as he meditated on his early 20s. His plainspoken reflections garnered buzz from publications. But even after that release, and joining the label he once <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rundatbacc\/only-niggas-in-coach\">rapped about hoping to sign with<\/a>, it felt like he was still working in his own quiet corner of the world, occasionally popping up on a song with one of his peers. There\u2019s a version of this profile that starts with the proverbial Bat Signal of \u201cWhere\u2019s Maxo?\u201d and details the four years between albums, wondering \u2014 as many have online \u2014 if Def Jam fumbled his career. For Maxo, the reality isn\u2019t quite black and white.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cI just use [the label] so I could make the music I imagined making, so I could almost connect history a little bit,\u201d he explains, \u201cand connect pieces that wouldn\u2019t have connected if I wouldn\u2019t have made a move to connect that shit. When I was doing shows for nine people, 10 people\u2026 going to San Diego with [Pink] Siifu and lojii, and we was just mobbing together and it wasn\u2019t nobody there, I was like, \u2018We hard, though. What is something we could do to bring another light to what we doing?\u2019 You can\u2019t just live off potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <i>Even God Has a Sense of Humor<\/i> is a realization of that dream, combining his most focused rapping to date with an even more ambitious scale of production than on <i>Lil Big Man<\/i>. Scattered across the album are contributions from long-time collaborators like LastNameDavid and Siifu, as well as tender performances from keiyaA, Liv.e, and Melanie Charles that are like celestial gut checks. Maxo began piecing the album together about a year ago with help from Mount Kimbie\u2019s Dom Maker. (They connected after meeting at a studio session where Maxo mistook someone who sent him music for someone Maker had collaborated with.) Maker assisted with arranging the pile of tracks Maxo had accumulated over the last few years into a collection of 14 songs that explore anxiety, faith, and family. The result, Maxo says, is a collection of \u201cfeelings that I need to leave behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cI done experienced the most \u2014 every feeling,\u201d he says with an exhausted laugh, &#8220;to just get to this point and be present for it\u2026 Honestly, I don\u2019t regret nothing because it really is life aside from new music. I\u2019m a different person right now than I was when I started this.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242662\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242641\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310380006_1_jfn96r\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242650\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Listening to the record, you can detect Maxo\u2019s desire for control of his fate surging through each song. It\u2019s the most direct he\u2019s ever been with himself on an album, no longer satisfied with letting life wash over him. The blend of jazz, buttery sample-based production, and sandy atmospheric pieces underscoring the project give it a defiant glow, like a bronze statue still standing after an intense tornado. Maxo\u2019s favorite song is \u201cNuri\u201d \u2014 a winding, three-minute odyssey that takes him from Senegal to toasting Clicquot to fumbling opportunities he dreamed of. It\u2019s the closest thing to a thesis statement on the album, condensing years of fuck-ups into a single sheet of ink-smudged loose-leaf.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201c48,\u201d last year\u2019s Pink Siifu-featuring single, captures the album\u2019s im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>cy and sense of purpose. The video\u2019s first half reveals a gauzy, LastNameDavid-produced track from the album where Maxo\u2019s eerie singing voice sounds like radio transmissions from the astral plane. In the video\u2019s second half, a blossoming Syreeta flip from Madlib \u2014 who is, expectedly, the only producer on the album he wasn\u2019t able to work with in person \u2014 caresses their verses. \u201cShootin\u2019 for the moon, landin\u2019 on a star \/ Knowin\u2019 if it\u2019s true, then it\u2019s gon\u2019 lead to what I need\u2019,\u201d Maxo raps. <\/p>\n<p>            Growing up, Maxo would spend a lot of his free time at the park playing basketball. Between <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, he found himself watching everything that went on from the benches: fights, almost fights, broken arms, and \u201cniggas in the parking lot bullshitting.\u201d It\u2019s a fitting origin story for his observant and pragmatic writing style. On Maxo\u2019s past albums, the conversations he has with family members and stories of his friends behind bars are filtered through his strained con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, presented without commentary as if he were handing advice off to anyone listening. The worldly anxieties he expressed back then aren\u2019t exactly gone on <i>Even God Has a Sense of Humor<\/i>, but it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s ready to move into something different, embracing uncertainty in the hope of getting unstuck once again. He\u2019ll deal with whatever comes next as it happens.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242663\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242658\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maxo - Free!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aim6Ur57ZMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('242658');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242651\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: What was it like when you came back from Senegal?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Maxo:<\/b> I was trying to share this experience that changed my life. I was so eager to share, and I noticed for some people it made them uncomfortable, \u2019cause they never experienced it. And I wasn\u2019t coming at it like that. I was just coming at it like, \u201cBro, we have to go, we have to figure out how to go together.\u201d But it\u2019s like some people are so simple minded in how they thinking that the first thing they gonna react to that is, \u201cDon\u2019t nobody want to hear about that.\u201d Then I realized how simple-minded we was out here. That shit really fucked me up, bro.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You think it\u2019s a fear?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know what that is, man. A fear, maybe. Insecurity, maybe. But it\u2019s like, \u201cWhy can\u2019t we just think of that? Let\u2019s all go. We need to experience [this] together. That\u2019s always how I\u2019m approaching shit: \u201cYo, let\u2019s do it.\u201d [You] can\u2019t control how people react to things. That\u2019s one thing I had to learn the hard way, by just being me and not even doing nothing to nobody, fucking up because I\u2019m learning, adapting as I learn, growing as I go. Niggas don\u2019t even give you the chance to experience life and learn and live and grow anymore. You gotta be perfect when you born. That ain\u2019t how it is. If you ain\u2019t fucked up a few times by the time you 30, you doing something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>It feels like existing in the public eye can get to be too much.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            You feel me? I do appreciate the times when there was not as many vessels to know publicly and [ways] to perceive a motherfucker. Like, just eat what that nigga put on the table. Everything\u2019s so invasive, bro. But with music, what I\u2019ve noticed is that [it\u2019s] something I could really only be transparent with in a certain way. That\u2019s also the root of this shit, to why it saved a nigga life. I\u2019m excited to drop this shit, man. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242664\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242652\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/000310390005_galhdb\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242653\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>\u201cBoth Handed\u201d has a back-and-forth to it, a feeling of uncertainty where you\u2019re being called to act but you don\u2019t know if you should.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            The indecisiveness of the decision \u2014 of being certain on what could happen or making that leap and not knowing, and the fact that you\u2019ll never know, and that making you feel nervous and scared. People don\u2019t acknowledge fear, especially men. I don\u2019t give a fuck, bro; I be scared sometimes. I don\u2019t give a fuck what anybody gotta say, and that\u2019s okay. Sometimes, as a man, I don\u2019t know what to do. That song is like real life, like in the decision of things: What\u2019s going on in your head in the midst of a decision, making decisions and then realizing that it was a moment where you could\u2019ve reacted differently [and] that could\u2019ve changed things.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I heard that you mainly record with only a few people in the room.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t do the most, bro. If not that, I\u2019ll record myself. That\u2019s what I did on this album. I recorded a few joints myself. I recorded  \u201cWhat4\u201d myself, slowed it down, and then me and Dom went back and retouched it and added shit, like reversing them parts on the beat. That\u2019s the beginning song of \u201c48,\u201d where I\u2019m singing. I feel like this time was when I learned how to do that and I was confident in doing that. I\u2019m really not a computer-ass nigga like that [<i>laughs<\/i>]. I honestly like being at the studio, having an engineer.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242665\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242644\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC_5281_copy_e48384\/its-still-maxos-time.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s still Maxo\u2019s time\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242654\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>\u201cWhat4\u201d reminds me of the intro to <i>Smile<\/i>, where you\u2019re having a conversation about Trayvon Martin and police brutality.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Mind you, that\u2019s me and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#e6543b\" href=\"https:\/\/vktrstn.bandcamp.com\/\">VIK<\/a> talking when we was cutting <i>After Hours<\/i>, damn near. We was talking about a mall in Rancho called Victoria Gardens. Niggas was doing the most, and I was like, \u201cDamn, this shit is worldwide.\u201d Being a young black man at that time especially and just growing up, you see how people\u2019s psyche be\u2026 what be throwing a motherfucker psyche off and making niggas go crazy, bro. It subconsciously affects you, even if you don\u2019t acknowledge it. The fact that I know, as a black man, if I move a little bit wrong, somebody could really project the law in they favor for themselves and crucify me? Even if they know they wrong or lying? Knowing that, you automatically move different.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When I spend time with your music, I start to get familiar with the people you bring up. Even though I don\u2019t know them, I\u2019m listening to the songs wondering about their stories.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Growing up, I used to be at the park a lot. Not on no bullshit, just playing ball, and then just happening to be there all day and seeing everything. I like to think of my shit as just like sitting at the park, park bench raps. From 10 a.m. to 6, just seeing the whole day happen.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>That\u2019s the Nas style, you know, just sitting at your window and telling stories.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Nas walk around more than me, though.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242666\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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