Reported from HipHopWired.com…
With Harvard Professor and Black scholar, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., being arrested last week, it seems that the media has put a spotlight back on racism and corrupt police officers running wild since the election of President Barack Obama. Brooklyn MC, Maino, recently spoke to HipHopWired about police brutality increasing as well as his recent dealings with the “rogue squad” when this May, his best friend “80,” was shot in the back by NYPD. Maino revealed, “Yo man, it’s disgusting. It’s something that we’ve been enduring all our lives and before we were born. In the situation with my peoples we got the money and the means to make sure that they don’t get away with it but what about the families that don’t have…
Read the full HipHopWired.com interview with Maino now. Maino’s debut IF TOMORROW COMES… – now available in stores and online everywhere!
When asked about his debut IF TOMORROW COMES…, Maino said “My album is based on the portion of my life after I got out of prison and I wanted to do music. So I was going through some trials and tribulations, just had a baby, I was on parole, still in the streets, I was going through all this stuff in the streets and I was trying to be an artist at the same time so that’s what my album is based on, all the stuff I was going through.”
Along with the album, he is releasing a DVD called The Best of the Block/ Hustle Hard about the reality of his life which he dubs “unstoppable”.
“It’s unstoppable man, it’s unstoppable. It’s about me, it’s about Maino. It’s about my ride so far. You know what I’ve been through and how I was able to turn that around and get to this point that I am right now. Even if it all ends today I feel like I’ve done something I feel like I beat expectations, I already won… For me to be at this point right here it’s a blessing.” Click HERE to check out the full HipHopWired.com article.
