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

[chitownpimp]

never was a huge mase fan but was mildly interested in the beginning mainly due to kanye's involvement. it seemed like he was running back to rap because preaching wasn't working out for him.

this was a goat moment in rap

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

i thought he was a clown

i felt insulted that he thought he could get that off. especially when he was trying to make creased fitteds a thing

 

[JustCKing]

I was excited that he was back, but didn't like the "Welcome Back" single. The remix was crazy though:

 

[valet]

I like Welcome Back", the video and all. But I was skeptical he would be accepted with a non cussing, non misogynist album. He didn't have to do Christian rap but it just wasn't a place for him.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Thought it was some rap politic bullshyt.

Didn't have 50 have beef with Cam at the time?

 

[L. Deezy]

I thought he was bout to blow again.. thennnn the lead song dropped..

Lead song was trash...

 

[SwagKingKong]

I was 16 and I liked the album. The Welcome back remix with Kanye should've been on the album though, its one of my favorite songs.

 

[madness]

I thought he was jumpin in the lane of non-gangster rap that Kanye opened with College Dropout

 

[kt773]

I was excited that he was back, but didn't like the "Welcome Back" single. The remix was crazy though:

Never heard this before

 

[Tflasha]

Breathe, stretch, shake let it go

 

[tremonthustler1]

Everybody welcoming this, welcoming that
he wasn't welcome in the first place, how we welcome him back

 

[JQ Legend]

I thought the album was dope

Didn’t even know he dropped a mixtape on G Unit till years after it happened, might eventually go back and listen to it.

Somebody post something dope from it

 

[Why-Fi]

I didn't like it

 

[Womb Raider]

I was a kid, had no idea y’all hated that album so much

I liked the single tho

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

fukked wit Mase heavy, but that shyt was insulting to the culture.


That bubble-gum shyt, went trashcan. By that point, the rap game had passed him by. He was clearly out of touch, w/ the times. Diddy wit the monologue, in the "Welcome Back" video...Mase bopping around, attempting to restore the feelin...

shyt was horrible. He played himself, w/ that BS effort. Ngga couldn't even shoot the video in the hood. Shyt looked like he had to make a Harlem mock set.