Charley Wingate (born May 21, 1978), better known by his stage name Max B (short for Max Biggaveli), is an American rapper, singer, and convicted criminal. He is best known for his solo Public Domain and Million Dollar Baby series of mixtapes. He introduced the term "wavy" as a slang in popular lexicon.
He made his mixtape debut in 2006, and signed a recording deal with fellow Harlem-based rapper Jim Jones' label/group ByrdGang. Following a streak of financial and ethical grievances, Max B parted ways with Jones in 2008. The two became embroiled in a bitter feud which pitted Jones and his associates on one side, and Max B and his affiliates on the other. Max B is closely associated with producer Dame Grease, and fellow rapper French Montana where the two collaborated on the Coke Wave mixtape series.
In mid-2009, he was sentenced to 75 years in prison on conspiracy charges pertaining to armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault and felony murder. He secured a 3-album deal with Amalgam Digital which published his debut album Vigilante Season in 2011. On September 16, 2016, it was announced that Max B took a 20-year plea bargain for aggravated manslaughter. He was released from prison on November 9, 2025.
Read more...The May 21, 1978 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 140 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 21 May 1978
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Article on move to bring cameras back into courtrooms gaining momentum among judges and state bar assns; 13 states recently adopted rules that, with various restrictions, authorize televising, broadcasting and photographing of judicial proceedings on either experimental or permanent basis; Amer Bar Assn is espected to take up question at its summer meeting (M)
Date: 21 May 1978
Rafshoon apptmt revd (S)
Date: 21 May 1978
By JOSEPH COLLINS Special to The New York Times
Joseph Special
Reporters and editors, members of Brit Inst of Journalists, take their employers, London Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to official arbitration com to force them to disclose pay scales for production workers; Telegraph mgt says such disclosure would be breach of confidence between individual unions and mgt; journalists also want to know about undisclosed 'productivity' deals between mgt and mechanical workers that, they say, grossly violates voluntary but generally observed pay guidelines set by Govt to combat inflation; hold that printers are receiving as much as $26,000 a yr (S)
Date: 21 May 1978
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker on Rafshoon apptmt
Date: 22 May 1978
By RICHARD F. SHEPARD
Richard SHEPARD
PBS consultant Richard C Wald says public TV should emphasize live coverage of news events (M)
Date: 21 May 1978
terrorist raid on El Al jet at Orly airport revd (S)
Date: 21 May 1978
Irvin Molotsky
Irvin Molotsky
Repr Thomas J Downey (NYS 2d Cong Dist) is bringing in Dem 'big guns' in his re-election bid; HEW Dept Sec Joseph A Califano has appeared for him and Vice Pres Mondale is scheduled to appear; Dems vying for nomination to succeed Repr Otis G Pike in 1st Dist include Brookhaven Supervisor John F Randolph and Suffolk County Legislator Floyd S Linton (S)
Date: 21 May 1978
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
follow-up on move by Mayor Holland into biracial block that seemed in '64 about to become slum; Hollands still live on block and price of home has gone from $7,000 to $45,000 (S)