Gina Conway was an ex-girlfriend of Max, who had recently returned to New York after spending time in North Carolina.
Instead, Jones was focused on forming his ByrdGang collective-headlined by Max and the late Far Rockaway, Queens rapper Stack Bundles-and having them work on his third album, 2006’s Hustler’s P.O.M.E.” Max’s exasperation led him down a path that played out like an inept crook subplot in a Quentin Tarantino script. “Not be working for a nigga in the studio, writing songs, while he the only nigga lookin’ hot, he the only nigga.spendin’ $5,000 on his bitch.” His requests to release solo material of his own were continuously pushed aside by Jones. In a later Doggie Diamonds video interview, as Max counts wads of cash wearing dark shades and jeans held up by a designer belt, and repeats his signature Maxisms like “wavy” and “oHe unleashed his cartoon character-like persona, clearly tipsy from the brown liquor he usually sipped like apple juice, his Katt Williams-like perm swaying in the wind. Max’s two other credited features on the album use a rough melody that elevates typical street braggadocio into absurdist hood poetry: “Max B look like Derek Jeter on the shortstop/I’ll put the heater to ya’ soft spot,” he says smoothly on “Confront Ya Babe.”īut while Max B’s songwriting was elevating Jones’ career, Max was relegated to the shadows. On “G’s Up,” Max is a star, with a memorable hook that outshines Jones’ stiff verses. He shifted Jones’ style to a midpoint between the soulful chipmunk samples synonymous with Dipset and the menacing gutter raps of 50 Cent’s G-Unit crew. Released that August, Max’s contributions to the album are undeniable. Jones put Max to work on Jones’ second studio album, Harlem: Diary of a Summer. He introduced Max to Jim Jones, who was looking to form his own clique under the Dipset umbrella. Bruno saw it all in Max: the charisma, the swag, the endlessly quotable way he spoke.
“Let’s get this shit clickin’ like Dorothy’s heels.” Cam laughed him off, so Max met up with Mike Bruno, a hungry individual from the same block. “Yo flee, you know I rap now,” Max said to Cam. When Max was released in 2005, he met up with his childhood friend from the same building in Harlem, Cam’ron, who’d become immortal two years earlier, the moment he revealed his all-pink outfit in the “ Dipset Anthem” music video. and 2Pac, called Biggavelli-Max B for short. He spent his time locked up working on a character that he described as a combination of The Notorious B.I.G.
But while Jones was on BET’s 106 & Park with a chain around his neck and diamonds in his ears, the song’s co-writer, Max B, was sitting behind bars.Ī decade earlier, a teenage Max B, born Charly Wingate, had been sentenced to eight years in prison for robbery. Jones did just that with “We Fly High,” and the result was country-wide recognition and a guaranteed spot in New York rap lore. Before “We Fly High,” Jones was surely Dipset’s third in command, behind people’s champ Juelz Santana and their leader Cam’ron, who mentored Jones by convincing him that if he rapped about the hard life he lived, the money would come. In New York City public schools, on television, and even on the Giants’ roster, reenacting the jump-shot motion from the music video while shouting the song’s signature Ballin’! ad-lib from the top of your lungs was common practice. It was the winter of 2007 and New York rapper Jim Jones had the biggest single of his career with “ We Fly High,” a defining moment of an era where nearly everyone across the five boroughs wanted to ride around in pink Range Rovers and wear durags under their MLB fitted caps like a lost member of Dipset, the irreverent Harlem rap crew.
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