Jimmy Ness talks with Maxo Kream about growing up with police violence, joining a gang at a young age, and his constantly shifting flow.
The new video from Maxo Kream and Joey Bada$$
With flickers from the perma-lit flame of Screw’s legacy, Maxo Kream illuminates almost every corner of Houston’s dark, violent Southwest in 2015.
Alex Piyevsky used to play the corners for dough I am currently stuck in California, enjoying extra vacation time as the snow storm pummels New York and destroys all chances of flying home.  There are worse predicaments to be in, but I do feel a little out of touch.  I’ve spent the past 10 days […]
Torii MacAdams puts his two arms up, touchdown I’m not convinced rappers are cognizant of the fact that stacks of money do not double as cell phones. In the video for Maxo Kream and Le$’ “End Zone,” Kream appears unaware that the phrase “money talks” is a figure of speech, and that speaking into a […]
Torii MacAdams is too cold wit it While pubescent Swedish rappers are struggling to figure out how to preserve their non-existent waves under a durag, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Labarthe has been releasing his Southern Gatorz mixes. The premise of the Southern Gatorz mixes is (unsurprisingly) largely unknown contemporary Southern rap. Labarthe has clearly been doing his […]
A picture is worth at least a thousand dollars worth of codeine. If you have paid attention to the previous two posts on Maxo Kream or are merely tuning in now for the release of Quiccstrikes, the image above gives you the idea. His eyes are glowing purple, he’s wearing a blue rag around his […]
Maxo Kream, Trap Duke September 11, 2013
We’re probably somewhere in the third trap revival. The days of TI and Jeezy gave way to Gucci and Flocka and now the kids who grew up on all four of them are making music. From A$AP Ferg to Houston Maxo Kream, the sound is less a regional preference as much as it’s a way […]