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American rapper (born 1975)

For other uses, see Mase (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1975), better known by his mononymMase (formerly Murda Mase and stylized as Ma$e), is an American rapper. Best known for his work with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records, he signed with the label in 1996 and quickly found mainstream recognition. He guest appeared on Combs' 1997 single "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, while his singles as a lead artist, "Feel So Good" (featuring Kelly Price) and "What You Want" (featuring Total) both peaked within the top ten of the chart. Released in October of that year, his debut studio album, Harlem World (1997) peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart, received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and spawned his third top ten single as a lead artist, "Lookin' at Me" (featuring Puff Daddy). Furthermore, his guest performances on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "Mo Money Mo Problems" and Puff Daddy's "Been Around the World" peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, that same year.

Prior, Mase performed as a member of the hip hop group Children of the Corn, which he formed in 1993 with fellow New York City-based rappers including Cam'ron and Big L. Two years later, he discovered and formed the hip hop group Harlem World, who signed with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings to release their only album, The Movement (1999). Following this, Mase released his second album, Double Up (1999), which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and foresaw his five-year recording hiatus to focus on Christianministry, after which he released his third album, Welcome Back (2004). It peaked at number four on the chart and was led by the top 40 singles "Welcome Back" and "Breathe, Stretch, Shake" (featuring Puff Daddy).

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Mason Durell Betha (born August 27, 1975), better known by his mononym Mase (formerly Murda Mase and stylized as Ma$e), is a rapper and minister. In the late 1990s, he recorded on the Bad Boy Records label alongside its founder Sean "Diddy" Combs. From 1996 to 1999, as a lead or featured artist, Mase had six Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles and five US Rap No. 1 singles.

Mase's 1997 album Harlem World was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. His other two albums, Double Up (1999) and Welcome Back (2004), have been certified double platinum and gold, respectively.

Early Life

Mase was born Mason Durell Betha in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1975, as a fraternal twin born almost two months premature, to P. K. Betha and Mason Betha. He grew up with two brothers and three sisters, including his twin sister, Stason, born a few minutes after him. The father left the family when Mase was just three years old. In 1982 his mother moved herself and her children to Harlem, New York, where Mase spent the majority of his childhood. During his early teenage years, Betha began getting into trouble on the streets of Harlem, and when he was 13 his mother sent him back to Jacksonville to live with relatives. While living in Jacksonville, Betha first began attending church. After returning to live in Harlem at age 15, Betha began showing promise as a basketball player, becoming the leading point guard for his team at Manhattan Center high school during the 1993 season, where he played alongside Cameron Giles, who went on to be the rapper known as Cam'ron. He had hopes of joining the National Basketball Association (NBA), but was unable to make it into a Division I College due to his poor academic scores. He attended State University of New York at Purchase, where he grew to realize he was unlikely to make the NBA and instead began focusing more on writing music, producing demo tapes and regularly performing at local nightclubs. Betha eventually d

American rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress from Michigan

Musical artist

Teairra Marí Thomas (born December 2, 1987) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress from Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 16, she signed with Def Jam Recordings and Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records to release her debut studio album, Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Marí (2005). It peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and was supported by the Billboard Hot 100-top 40 single, "Make Her Feel Good".

In 2008, she returned to the music scene with her single "Hunt 4 U" (featuring Pleasure P). After constant leaks, she re-recorded a second attempt at her second album, At That Point, which was later shelved. In 2010, she starred in the film Lottery Ticket alongside rappers Bow Wow and Ice Cube.

Career

Early life and career beginnings

Born in Detroit, Marí sung in church and she was influenced by the music of Motown acts and Aaliyah, Monica, and Brandy Norwood. Her grandmother was a background singer for Aretha Franklin. Marí attended Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts. After Antonio "L.A." Reid heard Marí perform live, he offered her a contract. According to VP A&R at Island Def Jam Music GroupShakir Stewart, in an interview with HitQuarters, "Teairra was a star when she walked into the room. She captured the room when she did her audition. We fell in love with her from day one."

2004–2006: Teairra Marí

Marí worked with Jay-Z in his first collaboration project since becoming president of Def Jam Records, to create "Make Her Feel Good" along with producer Sean Garrett, the lead single from her debut album on Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam that reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the R&B charts. It was heavily played on BET but barely on MTV. The second single "No Daddy" had a video that led to commercial succe

October 28, 1997. If you asked me where I was or what I was doing I'd tell you absolute zero idea. But when you tell me that today is the 23rd anniversary of Harlem World dropping I know exactly. I got a ride after school to the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough, MA, took the elevator upstairs to the 2nd Strawberry's, headed over the rap section in the back and grabbed one of the last few copies of this cd still on the shelf.

What followed was one of the best car rides home I could ever imagine. Back then when you got a new album it was new. You had heard a debut single, maybe 2 TOPS, before a band or artist released an album. Nowadays you hear half the "album" as singles before it's released.

But when you'd dive in you'd do so by popping the cd in and letting it play. It would take you on a journey, as the tracks were listed in order with an artistic strategy to them. 

Every pause between tracks gave way to something totally new. A completely virgin sound. There was no twitter filled with people racing to vomit their opinions on every fragment of every track contaminating your opinion before you even got to listen for yourself.

Nope. Instead you'd get on the phone, usually in your kitchen, and call up your friends house, pray their mom or dad didn't answer, and dissect the album like a QB and his coordinator break down gametape on Tuesday mornings. Then you'd head to school the next day and partake in Crossfire-like debates at the lunch table. 

It was the fucking best. 

You kids today might scoff but you are really missing out.

Harlem World was special because of not only it's place in hip-hop history but because it was also a watershed moment in the entire East Coast/Bad Boy movement.

Ma$e followed in the long line of acclaimed Harlem rappers - Big L, Doug E Fresh, Rob Base, Kool Moe Dee, and of course Kurtis Blow. 

Ma$e had become somewhat of a household name only a few months earlier with his