When did Max B go to jail? Rapper reveals his official prison release date during Joe Budden podcast

Max B revealed in a recent phone interview on The Joe Budden Podcast that he would return home from prison next year. The rapper was sentenced to 75 years for several charges including murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery, and kidnapping on September 3, 2009. He is currently incarcerated at the Northern State Prison in New Jersey.

The rapper made the announcement on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast uploaded on December 11. Max B disclosed that he will be released from prison on November 9, 2025, saying:

"Walking this thing down one day at a time. I've been grinding. Everything's good. Wavy Baby coming back soon. Wavy Baby coming home real soon. We got a date. I've got November 9th, 2025. We just months away. This is the first definitive answer y'all got from me. You can look it up. It's on the computer. It's in the system."

Max B promised fans he would dive "head first" into music once he got out of prison, adding he was looking to collaborate with A-list artists. Vowing to give his fans "some real s**t," the rapper said:

"I'm give you some real s**t. Normally, a n***a in my circumstances, with the amount of time I did, would be taking his time, taking turtle steps, but not the boss don. I'm diving in head-first. We on divine time. We working. I can't wait to get reaclimated. I'm a musical genius myself so n****s gotta get reaclimated with my s**t. It's always gonna be a challenge. I love a good challenge."

Max B also said he looked forward to enjoying time with his family as a free man and having meals with them.

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Exploring Max B's crime and subsequent incarceration

Hailing from Harlem, Max B, whose real name is Charly Wingate, was involved in a botched robbery that resulted in the death of one person in 2006. The rapper reportedly hatched a plot with his stepbrother Kelvin Lerrdam and his ex-girlfriend Gina Conway to rob Allan “Jay” Plowden.

The robbery occurred at a Holiday Inn hotel in New Jersey in September 2006. During the incident, Leerdam fatally shot David Taylor, Plowden's associate. According to HipHop DX, Conway, who was arrested in connection to the murder, implicated her two associates, leading to their arrest.

During their trial in 2009, both men were convicted of nine charges, including murder. While Leerdam was sentenced to life plus 35 years, Max B received a 75-year sentence. Conway was sentenced to 15 years. The rapper filed for an appeal in 2010 but was denied in 2012.

In 2016, his conviction was vacated and his sentence was re-examined after the rapper pled guilty to aggravated manslaughter. His sentence was reduced to 20 years, with his release date set for November 2025.

While in prison, Max B maintained contact with the outside world through his friends like French Montana. He also spoke about life behind bars in a 2022 interview with AllHipHop, while working on his second appeal.

"It ain’t really nothing to glorify, it aint hip. Everyday is the same in the system. I’m just trying to go home. I’m working on my case, I’m reading case-law and I am in the library," he said.

He continued:

"I don’t really keep up with the prison politics or what's going on around here, I ain’t into that, my thing is getting back to the streets doing what I do. It ain’t nothing going on in here, just so you all know. This ain’t nothing sweet it's real up in here, they trying to keep me, they trying to kill a n****a. They trying to kill me in here."

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Max B is best known for his work like the Million Dollar Baby mixtape series. The rapper released two albums while in prison, Vigilante Season (2011) and N*gro Spirits (2021).