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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead

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Creator, Editor, Writer At-Large, Hip Hop Isn’t Dead / Hip Hop Is Done | Content Curator, RandoMax Radio: m.mixcloud.com/RandoMaxRadio | patreon.com/hiphopisdone | hiphopisntdead.blogspot.com

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 DJ Khaled organizes a Young Money reunion (before they were ever really their own thing to begin with, mind you) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today - for $3 USD per month, you get instant access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 DJ Khaled organizes a Young Money reunion (before they were ever really their own thing to begin with, mind you) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today - for $3 USD per month, you get instant access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Today’s DJ Khaled entry features Akon and B.O.B. and all feels like buildup toward a single punchline, if we’re being honest www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon today! $3 USD gets you exclusive access to over 300 posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Today’s DJ Khaled entry features Akon and B.O.B. and all feels like buildup toward a single punchline, if we’re being honest www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon today! $3 USD gets you exclusive access to over 300 posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 I wanted to get back to Spanish Ran’s production, so here’s a few words about his first collab with Al-Doe, Doña Blanca, free for all members! www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... $3 USD per month gets you every exclusive post instantly - sign up today!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 I wanted to get back to Spanish Ram’s production, so here’s a few words about his first collab with Al-Doe, Doña Blanca, free for all members! www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... $3 USD per month gets you every exclusive post instantly - sign up today!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Getting back into my DJ Khaled bag with a posse cut featuring all of the biggest rap stars of 2013 (who were all rookies when this song dropped) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today! $3 USD per month gets you exclusive access to over 300 posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Getting back into my DJ Khaled bag with a posse cut featuring all of the biggest rap stars of 2013 (who were all rookies when this song dropped) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today! $3 USD per month gets you exclusive access to over 300 posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 The grand finale of last month’s Apollo Brown spotlight focuses on his collaboration with Joell Ortiz, 2018’s Mona Lisa www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for instant access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 The grand finale of this month’s Apollo Brown spotlight focuses on his collaboration with Joell Ortiz, 2018’s Mona Lisa www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for instant access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

grim reaper’s just trolling us now

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

grim reaper must be reading off the wrong list because seriously, what the fuck

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

what the fuck R.I.P. Dolly Parton the world was a better place with her in it

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Roughly 15 years ago, newbie producer Apollo Brown teamed up with Rochester, NY rapper Hassaan Mackey for the latter’s debut album, Daily Bread www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts just like this!

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 Roughly 15 years ago, newbie producer Apollo Brown teamed up with Rochester, NY rapper Hassaan Mackey for the latter’s debut album, Daily Bread www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts just like this!

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

hearing major lazer’s “pon de floor” while grocery shopping this morning has kinda got me fucked up a little, tbh

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 In keeping with the Apollo Brown celebration this month, today we’re running a little-seen write up for The Left’s Gas Mask from the original blog, and what’s more, it’s free for members at all levels!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

what, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the actual hell

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 In keeping with the Apollo Brown celebration this month, today we’re running a little-seen write up for The Left’s Gas Mask from the original blog, and what’s more, it’s free for members at all levels!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 My August with Apollo (Brown) series continues with a look at No Question, his collaborative EP with Bay Area rapper Locksmith www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

can’t name your song “OMG” without a pusha t feature, I don’t make the rules

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 My August with Apollo (Brown) series continues with a look at No Question, his collaborative EP with Bay Area rapper Locksmith www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ok, the fact that the new inspectah deck album features a 7L-produced song called “czariana grande” got a chuckle out of me

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes, easily. If you answer “no,” that really says more about you and your lack of skills than it does anyone else and their issues with your beloved AI

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW POST ALERT 🚨 A new limited series focused on reviewing Apollo Brown-produced projects begins today with his Bronze Nazareth collaboration, Funeral for a Dream www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🚨 NEW POST ALERT 🚨 A new limited series focused on reviewing Apollo Brown-produced projects begins today with his Bronze Nazareth collaboration, Funeral for a Dream www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ The grand finale of this holiday revisits that weird La the Darkman and Cilvaringz project from last Christmas, except now Only Built 4 Wu-Tang Purists is actually finished www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ The grand finale of this holiday revisits that weird La the Darkman and Cilvaringz project from last Christmas, except now Only Built 4 Wu-Tang Purists is actually finished www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Trife Diesel (of T.M.F. and Theodore Unit) teams up with Buffalo producer DJ M80 for 780, which functionally serves as Trife’s sophomore album, kinda www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Unless this tells some fantastical story about how a white man grew up to become a wealthy Scottish duck, I don’t understand that tagline, he was *always* Ebenezer, that’s the character’s fucking name Also, why is this movie?

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Trife Diesel (of T.M.F. and Theodore Unit) teams up with Buffalo producer DJ M80 for 780, which functionally serves as Trife’s sophomore album, kinda www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Over the course of three years, RZA worked with Japanese rapper Awich, the end result being the album Okinawan Wuman, which he fully produced (!) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts such as these!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Over the course of three years, RZA worked with Japanese rapper Awich, the end result being the album Okinawan Wuman, which he fully produced (!) www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts such as these!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Even the most online Wu stan may not be aware that Housegang affiliate Carlton Fisk dropped a solo EP three years ago, but don’t worry, I got you www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to hundreds of exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Even the most online Wu stan may not be aware that Housegang affiliate Carlton Fisk dropped a solo EP three years ago, but don’t worry, I got you www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to hundreds of exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Today’s treat isn’t really a Wu-Tang project, but Hus Kingpin obviously has an affection for the group, so I took a look at Wavo Forever www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Things haven’t been the same since that Whole Foods opened where the 24 Hour Karate School used to be

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ Today’s treat isn’t really a Wu-Tang project, but Hus Kingpin obviously has an affection for the group, so I took a look at Wavo Forever www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ICYMI: ❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ It’s hot outside (above the equator, anyway), so I’m bringing some Wu-Mas cheer to help cool off First up: Criminals in the Army, by Kinetic 9 and Shogun Assason www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive reviews!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

❄️ WU-MAS IN JULY ❄️ It’s hot outside (above the equator, anyway), so I’m bringing some Wu-Mas cheer to help cool off First up: Criminals in the Army, by Kinetic 9 and Shogun Assason www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up today for access to over 300 exclusive reviews!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 HIP HOP ANNIVERSARY POST 🚨 Big Sean’s major label debut, Finally Famous, reached its 15th anniversary last weekend, and I had some thoughts, if you dare www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon today, and gain access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🚨 HIP HOP ANNIVERSARY POST 🚨 Big Sean’s major label debut, Finally Famous, reaches its 15th anniversary this weekend, and I had some thoughts, if you dare www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon today, and gain access to over 300 exclusive posts!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

nothing against tom hardy as a rapper, but I’m more intrigued by the czarface and busta rhymes collab featured on that album tbh

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 DJ Khaled calls upon his boss, Birdman, to get that mandatory collaboration over with already www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon for less than a cup of coffee every month, and you’ll gain access to over 300 exclusive posts like this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

finally listened to that Aubrey song that hit number one recently, and why didn’t anyone warn me about the high amounts of auto tune as though he recorded it in 2008? No wonder nobody takes him seriously the beat is low key fire though

Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨 DJ Khaled calls upon his boss, Birdman, to get that mandatory collaboration over with already www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon for less than a cup of coffee every month, and you’ll gain access to over 300 exclusive posts like this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

ICYMI: 🚨 HIP HOP ANNIVERSARY POST 🚨 Last weekend marked the 35th anniversary of the final album from 3rd Bass, Derelicts of Dialect, and I had some belated thoughts www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon and gain access to over 300 exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

is this the beginning of a ransom note

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

🚨 HIP HOP ANNIVERSARY POST 🚨 This weekend marks the 35th anniversary of the final album from 3rd Bass, Derelicts of Dialect, and I had some belated thoughts www.patreon.com/hiphopisdone... Sign up for the Patreon and gain access to over 300 exclusive posts such as this!

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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

if the valuation of that fuckshit made him officially a trillionaire, then you can’t convince me that money has actual value anymore