{"id":18870,"date":"2025-04-29T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/maxo-human-maxo-announces-mars-is-electric-album-shares-rap-video\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:39:44","slug":"maxo-human-maxo-announces-mars-is-electric-album-shares-rap-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/maxo-human-maxo-announces-mars-is-electric-album-shares-rap-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxo \u2013 Human ? &#8211; Maxo announces &#8216;Mars Is Electric&#8217; album + shares rap video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maxo announces his new album, Mars Is Electric, and releases the first single from the project with \u201cHuman ?\u201d now available on all platforms. Mars Is Electric is Maxo\u2019s first official release since he dropped two critically acclaimed albums in 2023 with Even God Has A Sense of Humor and Debbie\u2019s Son. \u201cHuman ?\u201d was produced by Maxo\u2019s longtime collaborator lastnamedavid along with Jacob Rochester and arrives with a music video directed by Vincent Haycock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Maxo - Human ?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_seKGn4vzbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Maxo - Human ?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_seKGn4vzbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His fifth full-length album, Mars Is Electric, finds the Southern Californian artist self-aware and mature. Having lived the last decade of his musical life intentionally creating specific bodies of work rooted in imagery, observation, and capturing moments, Maxo spent this previous year freely creating without a specific plan, relieved from all obligations and restrictions. \u201cThis is the first time that I really didn\u2019t care, I didn\u2019t approach things so seriously,\u201d the artist shrugs off, meaning that without expectations or specific goals, his creativity flourished. This opening finds the artist having conversations he\u2019s been avoiding, having lived silently in the pain of those topics for the past few years. Exploring uncomfortable themes about personal life, relationships, and family fractures, life before and after the loss of innocence, and an abundance of existential spirals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not only was the exploration thematic, but musically as well. During the creation process, Maxo was immersed in a wide array of music from past to present \u2013 France Joli, $amaad, Steve Spacek, Cherelle, DJ Quik, Lisha G \u2013 influences that seeped their way into these songs. The album opens in a loose, dreamlike state\u2014experimental and searching, mirroring the emotional fog of someone looking for something real to hold onto. But as it progresses, so does Maxo\u2019s energy as he fiercely rides and weaves on songs with a contagious confidence, producing some of his most kinetic and lyrically impressive music to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the work and vision started to coalesce into a body of work, Maxo found that he was unlocking a creative language with his collaborators that felt wholly new \u2013 a new understanding of why and how he was making art for this world. What emerged from this year-long process was a new musical journey and a future where Maxo refuses to be another bad example of what could be, refusing to mind the blueprint set down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maxo | Mars Is Electric <\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">June 20th, 2025\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SMILEFORME<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. All Of Everything<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Saturday Love (Cherry)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. Sweet N Sour<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Donahoo\u2019s Chicken<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. Human ?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. Idk<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. Matt\u2019s Studio<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8. Ludacris<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9. 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