French Montana and Max B released Wave Gods 2: Cosmos Brothers on Friday, May 22 — a 26-track project that marks Max B's first full collaborative album with French since his 16-year prison sentence ended in 2024. The album drops through Coke Boys Records in partnership with Defiant Records and EMG, and continues the long-running Coke Wave series the two started in 2009.
Why this album matters
The original Wave Gods mixtape in 2016 was a single-side release: French wearing Max B's sonic template publicly while Max sat in Fort Dix federal prison. Cosmos Brothers is the actual reunion. Max is on every track, building the kind of melodic, slurred, half-sung verses that originated the Wavy sound — the template that Travis Scott, Future at his most melodic, and a long shelf of post-2015 New York rap built their entire vocal approach on.
The features list is also the catalog. Kanye West (credited as Ye), Rick Ross, Ron Isley, Ty Dolla $ign, and unreleased Chinx material — Max B's longtime Coke Boys protégé who was killed in 2015. Putting a Chinx verse on the first Max B-and-French full-length in 16 years is the kind of legacy choice that the project's title implies. It is not a casual mixtape. It is the closing parenthesis on a sound's origin story.
What it sounds like
26 tracks at 1 hour 14 minutes means the project moves at a mixtape's loose pacing — no compression, room for full skits and ad-libs, the original Coke Wave-era runtime philosophy. Max's voice has weathered into a darker version of itself; French is still doing French. The combination is, surprisingly, intact. Both rappers know exactly what record they are making, and the album sounds like neither one of them is performing for a 2026 streaming audience. That is the appeal.
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