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Mase - Welcome Back (CD)

Welcome Back
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Album Details: Welcome Back

Release Date:08/24/2004
Label:Bad Boy
UPC:602498631225

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    Better than Double by a long shot

    By goodfella2920  Aug 26, 2004 | 9 out of 11 found this Welcome Back review helpful

    Pros: Finally all Ma$e

    Cons: Not long enough

    Ma$e is back and Welcome Back the album is way better than his last effort Double Up by a long shot and just as good if not a little better then his debut Harlem World. My favorite 5 tracks on the album in order were track #9 Money Comes and Goes, tr...ack #3 Keep It On, track #7 Gotta Survive, track #1 Welcome Back, and finally his latest single track #2 Breathe, Strech, Shake. Anyway pick it up if you love east coast rap or if you liked the Kanye West album or just because your a Ma$e fan. Read more Less

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    Classic Mase

    By mar2090  Aug 26, 2004 | 5 out of 8 found this Welcome Back review helpful

    Pros: Good all around; classic mase

    Cons: Too clean lyrics

    Very clean, this album will make you smile. you know classic mase. Most MCs talk about the money, cars, havin sex, all the girls, this is just laid back, make you wanna get up and start dancing. Welcome Back Mase! Bad boy baby......

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  • All Music Guide

    After five years of leading his own ministry and rap retirement, Mase is back with the same skills and the same lazy yet on point delivery, but lyrically it's a whole new ballgame. Yes, he raps about Jesus, but no more than some thugs do. No, he doesn't want your drugs, booze, or loose women, but living the good life rarely sounds this fun, this hip. Don't think Mase is going to be joining the Partridge Family anytime soon; he's not naïve enough and his portrayal of daytoday life on Welcome Back is real. Rather than going the "it says in the Good Book" route, Mase focuses on the consequences of a thug lifestyle throughout the album, without a cuss but with plenty of street smarts. The title track is the bouncy, sticksinyourhead reminder of everything great about Mase. Like his past hits it's lyricfilled, driven but effortless, and has a crafty interpolation of a pop tune, this time the Welcome Back Kotter theme. Producers Rick Rock and the Movement take the Bad Boy Records way of borro...wing from the pop world and pump new life into the tired technique more than once. "My Harlem Lullaby" uses Madonna's "La Isle Bonita" as a springboard, while "Keep It On" does some brilliant digging and uses Jermaine Stewart's cautionary chestnut "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" for its beat (the liner notes claim the sample is from "We Don't Have to Keep Our Clothes On" for some bizarre reason). Unfortunate, but Welcome Back runs out of steam toward the end, and spreading out some of the "don't sleep on this" material from the beginning would've worked wonders. It makes this the least necessary Mase album, but half the tracks point to a future that is brighter than ever. - David Jeffries, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Mase

Best known as Puff Daddy's favorite sidekick, Mase secured his place as a Bad Boy label favorite through a series of guest appearances on hit singles by other artists. By the time he issued his debut album, the Bad Boy promotional machine had effectively already made him a star. His flow was slow and relaxed, and his raps often unabashedly simple, which helped make him ... Read more