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  Max B discusses who is in his "Top 5 Dead Or Alive" for AllHipHop.

Max B.: B.I.G. had them creepy stories. He made them vivid, he did everything vivid. He was a big nasty n**** but b*****s loved him at the same time. He had that wave. B.I.G. was wavy. The West Coast at the time was tough, they had the beats. They had the music; they had the hooks and all that so that’s why they were smashing the game. The east coast n****s gave them problems. Puff came with the different music, the hooks, the samples and B.I.G. had the street sh*t so they brought it back. That ’94, ’95 wave.

B.I.G. had a lot of joints. He had “N****s Bleed”, “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Kills You”; that was my joint. I’ll go with that one; that was my favorite. I liked the darker joints from B.I.G. I was never a big fan of “Gimme The Loot”; I don’t think that was his tempo. It was a little too angry and rowdy for me. I’m a smooth music type n****. I like the smooth hard stuff.



Max B.: 'Pac was a renegade; it was him against the world. He delivered that great music for the people. He spoke his peace and spoke for what he believed in. To me Pac’s best work was All Eyez On Me. He came home with that wolf wave; that hunger. Even when he was bombing on the east coast, the music was still good so I was still riding with it. All Eyez On Me was everywhere. More...

I saw a post yesterday the other day shouting out the allhiphop.com breeding ground at SOB's last night week.  Luckily, I had the oppurtunity to drop by (I'd never been to a Breeding Ground show before). 

My 2 main highlights for the night:

Joell Ortiz
I always thought dude was cool, but never really checked for his shit like that.  He got me though. Dude OWNED the crowd that night for his set.  Front to back. Killed it. He's a real talented dude, and it was nice to see him give his all to the crowd, and have the crowd give there all to him. He really deserved that shit.  I will now seriously be checking for his shit. That's the mark of a good performer.
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Dub MD presents the brand new exclusive mixtape project entitled "Hip Hop Renatus" with some of the most slept on and underrated emcees featuring the likes of Supastition, Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Mr. Live, 6th Sense, Sic Osyrus, Fred Knuxx, Karneige, Access Immortal, Donny Goines, Diablo Archer, Emilio Rojas, D.V. Alias Khryst, Wordsmith and many more, doing what they do best over some of the greatest producers in the Hip Hop's "New, Rare, Classic & Unreleased" instrumentals including J Dilla, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, ?uestlove, Large Professor, Oddisee, Illmind, Marley Marl, Madlib and 9th Wonder just to list a few.  More...