Last year, Maxo took a trip that changed his outlook. It was an ayahuasca ritual, which his mother had recommended as a way of unpacking the intergenerational trauma that forms a backdrop to his music ...

This Friday, November 15, Maxo Kream will release his fourth (or eighth, if you were to ask him) studio album, Personification. The rollout for the album has included the release of his singles ...

On Personification, Maxo reflects on the various personas he has had in his life: Emekwanem, his real name; Punken, this contemplative, reflective version of himself; and Trigga Maxo, the gangbanger ...

A couple of weeks before Tyler, The Creator kicked off the abbreviated rollout for his new blockbuster Chromakopia, we got the throat-clearing. Tyler produced and rapped on "Cracc Era," a single from ...

LA rapper Maxo has already announced a followup to this year’s great Even God Has A Sense of Humor. His second album of 2023 is called Debbie’s Son and it’s due September 28 via Maxo’s own SMILEFORME ...

Los Angeles underground rapper Maxo makes his UPROXX Sessions debut with a performance of his song “Face Of Stone,” which appears on his February album Even God Has A Sense of Humor. The song, ...

Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making for decades. “I done experienced the most — every feeling,” Maxo recently ...

Maxo's melancholic hip-hop elicits a familiar vibrant warmth. In a low drawl much clearer than those of other rappers in his orbit, the Los Angeles rapper spends his new album Even God Has A Sense Of ...

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Maxo’s fifth full-length comes after a gentle 2024 hiatus, though he didn’t leave fans entirely ...