Just over a month after he was released from prison following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B is back with his first new full-length in four years. The rapper has surprise-released Public Domain 7: The Purge, the seventh installment of his ongoing Public Domain mixtape series. You can listen to it below.
Public Domain 7: The Purge follows Max B’s 2021 album Negro Spirituals. The 25-song mixtape features contributions by A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, and others, as well as a posthumous contribution from the late New York rapper Chinx.
Max B teased the mixtape in a Billboard interview last month, sharing his plans to get into the studio to record new music now that he was out of prison. “It never went nowhere; that’s why we’re on seven,” he said about the forthcoming Public Domain mixtape. “It may have taken a little minute, but we on seven.”
In 2009, Max B was sentenced to 75 years in prison for helping orchestrate a 2006 armed robbery in New Jersey that went awry, resulting in a man’s death. The 47-year-old Harlem rapper was found guilty of numerous charges, including felony murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery. However, Max B was in another state at the time of the robbery, and eventually had his sentence reduced to 20 years due to a conflict of interest in the original case and a subsequent plea deal on the aggravated manslaughter charge. He finally walked free on November 9, 2025, and will remain on parole for five years.
Revisit Alphonse Pierre’s column “The Return of Max B” and read about Max B’s Public Domain 3: Domain Pain at No. 26 in “The 50 Best Rap Mixtapes of the Millennium.”
