When Ma$e came back to Hip Hop in 04' with his "Welcome Back" album, what did you think at the time?

[nose hair]

Of course the whole radio interview Ma$e had where Jim Jones and Cam'ron called in and interrupted was legendary

But at the time, when the "Welcome Back" single was out and the video was getting some play, what did you all think at the time?




And then he dropped the "Breathe, Stretch, Shake" single

 

[wingzboy]

I thought “I don’t fukk with this fakkit”

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[nose hair]

I thought “I don’t fukk with this fakkit”

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You didn't listen to Ma$e's music back in the late 90's?

 

[Professor K.]

I thought “I don’t fukk with this fakkit”

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[Anerdyblackguy]

I was excited. I was a huge mase fan from back in the day

 

[nose hair]

I was excited. I was a huge made fan from back in the day

Same here, bruh

I was like "bruh, really coming back?!!"

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

It was corny to me. Especially with how goody goody he was acting. Then a year later he's back to Muder Mase with G-Unit

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Waste of time

 

[GollyImGully]

everyone was like "mase is back!" then the singles and album dropped and shyt was garbage

we all wanted Murda Ma$e not mr rogers Ma$e...The Ma$e we got on G-unit was the one we wanted and I wish he would have gotten an official release during his short gunit run

 

[beenz]

once I found out it was basically a clean album, I had no interest. and of course the album was wack.

 

[beenz]

mase would have been so much better served if he put out the remix instead cuz that shyt was straight

 

[re'up]

Mase was my favorite rapper as a kid, and Harlem World the first album I bought at like 12 or 13 years old. The 04 comeback, I didn't pay it any attention, other than I had to hear it everywhere. Mase without the Bad Boy gloss and late 90's aesthetic wasn't ever going to work for me, musically Mase doesn't really exist to me outside of 1999. Part of that is childhood nostalgia, part is the high level of Bad Boy production, plus the hard to replicate feel of the late 90's, hearing Mase brings me back to teenage years, when i wanted a damn basketball jersey to look like that album cover.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

I loved Harlem World, but his second album wasn’t good, and that “Breathe Stretch Shake” single leading up to his comeback was ass. I enjoyed his G-Unit stint though

 

[WaveGang]

I was about 13/14 and was super hyped.. Welcome back was a banger but breathe stretch was a weak club banger attempt, still a got single just not for not where he was at in his career at the time.

 

[kt773]

Corny as fukk, I was 18 at the time and was a big Harlem world fan hell I even liked double up but coming back after that church shyt to that wack ass album…then got even more Corny when he went back to murder mase with g unit…..then went back to the church