Max B Confirms 2025 Prison Release Date: 'Coming Home Real Soon'

Max B is coming home in less than a year, and he’s only interested in working with A-list talent when he returns to the studio.

The newest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, available here and/or wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts, boasted a surprise call-in appearance from the Silver Surfer himself. During the brief chat, Max let fans know he’s in great spirits, especially in light of his newly confirmed prison release date of Nov. 9, 2025.

“I’m feeling righteous, man,” Max said when he called in to the show. “I’m doing alright. This is almost over. … Wavy Baby coming home real soon.”

As for his post-release plans, Max made it clear that he’s not interested in doing what may be expected given how long he’s been away. This means no “taking turtle steps,” with his eyes instead on an approach he summarized as, simply, “I’m diving in headfirst.” He’s also looking forward to having “a nice dinner” with his loved ones.

“We on divine time,” he said. “I’m working. I can’t wait to get re-acclimated. You already know I’m a musical genius myself, so n***as gotta get reacclimated with my shit. It’s a challenge. I love a good challenge. … I’m the trendsetter.”

As part of a concerted effort to, in his words, make “America wavy again,” Max is charged up about only working with the best of the best for his 2025 recording plans. In short, if you’re not of a certain caliber, your chances of landing a session with Max next November are nil.

“Listen, I’m not going to put myself in a box,” he explained of his forward-thinking creative strategy. “I can’t wait to get in the studio. There’s a lot of artists out there, too many to name. I’m looking forward to working with the big names, the head honchos. I’m not going to put myself in a box. I’m open for all that but they gotta be A-list. I’m fucking with A-list. If this shit ain’t A-list, I can’t fuck with it.”

In 2016, Max was re-sentenced after taking a plea deal. In a conversation with Grant Rindner for Complex three years later, Max, who at the time was fresh off the release of his House Money project, spoke with admirable candor about the prevalence of artists who get older and stop listening to new music.

Max has pushed back against such tendencies, he says, because that’s part of “the beauty” of being Max B.

“I’m going to bring them back to the shit, make ‘em appreciate and love it again, and I’m going to blend them in with the young boys, and we’re going to make it alright,” he said at the time, also noting in the same interview that he was indeed “rocking with” the then-new generation of artists.