Why Mase come back album wasn't more succesful?

[ClemenzaSupreme]

If I remember correctly Mase brought an almost complete album to Puff.

 

[Eza]

"Keep It On" was a guilty pleasure song of mine, actually I still play that shyt.

Corny as all hell, but I liked it

 

[JustCKing]

The game had moved on from Ma$e in 99 so by 2004 he really had no chance.

Think about how many iterations of rap we've seen since his peak in 97. DMX had changed the game in 98 so no one was with that shiny suit shyt anymore. The game went super street, then super commercial, down south was taking over, then you had the Roc/Dipset/G-unit. Where was Ma$e even going to fit in? His 2nd album was a dud, he finds God and comes back in 2004 but what does he have to offer really?

Mase in 1999 was still stuck in 1997. Mase and even Puff could've been on fire in 1999, but they were still doing what was hot in 1997 in 1999.

Hip Hop had changed sonically. Had Mase in 1999 had returned with an album featuring production from Mannie Fresh, T-Mix, Timbaland, The Neptunes, Nashiem Myric, and Carlos "6 July" Broady with features from Eightball & MJG, Cash Money Millionaires, Eminem, Black Rob, Lil' Kim, and Too $hort, it could've been flames.

 

[re'up]

Right. Mase a my favorite rapper in his time, but by 2004, I barely checked that album. He also had no real identity as a rapper/artist. And he was in the hyper gangster G-Unit era doing little kid raps.

 

[Braman]

“Hot here, ask Mase he ran to Atlanta”

I just wanna know what happened to mase
I just want him to know,
Rock dem jewels flash that chrome
Its all good you can come back home (If you want to)



Nah Cam was on Mase ass pause he couldn’t be taken seriously again.

Something funny is that in hindsight Cam never really crossed the line with Mase. In real time you’d think he hated him, but it was moreso just taunting. I reminder being confused af when in the middle of all the disses there was a random vid on them hooping together in the middle of Harlem

 

[Sccit]

SINGLE WAS BIG THO

 

[Damnshow]

Mase in 1999 was still stuck in 1997. Mase and even Puff could've been on fire in 1999, but they were still doing what was hot in 1997 in 1999.

Hip Hop had changed sonically. Had Mase in 1999 had returned with an album featuring production from Mannie Fresh, T-Mix, Timbaland, The Neptunes, Nashiem Myric, and Carlos "6 July" Broady with features from Eightball & MJG, Cash Money Millionaires, Eminem, Black Rob, Lil' Kim, and Too $hort, it could've been flames.

I get what you're saying, but you named a whole bunch of major names. Any album with those kind of names back in 99 would have been big.

 

[Mac Ten]

It’s 2004…

1. You had the Mini Mase aka Fabolous. Cats were bumping more Fab anyways.

2. Only Nas could drop a positive song during that era.

3. Ma$e came back at the wrong time. If anything, he should have came back during the The Saga Continues era. Loon would have just did background vocals.

4. Jim and Cam aired him out during that interview with Miss Jones.


Jimmy was a comedian. He played like he was on point with what Mase was speaking about it

“Betha, is that you??? You already knew why u left.


Juelz was like “Everyone is like “Welcoming this and welcoming that, he wasn’t welcome in the first place, how we welcome him back and Un Kasa ended that bar with him blowing Mase’s brains out on trolley track.

 

[Mac Ten]

The Fat Albert movie made me wanna listen to this album…


It had a couple songs off that album playing in random scenes.


Did Bill Cosby cut Pastor Mase a check???

 

[88m3]

wrong timing

the album sold and the single was huge though

 

[Mac Ten]

Harlem world was wack too

Hell nah…

That album had some bangers.

Take What’s Yours

Nikkas Wanna Act

The Player Way

 

[Reality Check]

Dude came out all happy and giddy during a time where Murda Ma$e would have been platinum.

No chance that would have ever happened.

People forget it, but when Ma$e came out, mainstream took him in as a Pop, Shiny Suit rapper that TRL loved. Outside of NYC, no one in 1997 cared about him once upon a time being Murda Ma$e after "Can't nobody hold me down" and "Mo Money, Mo Problems" dropped. Him going from Shiny Suit Pop Rapper to Southern Preacher to Murda Ma$e the gangsta would have made him look like a jackass in 2004 when

a)

1. You had the Mini Mase aka Fabolous. Cats were bumping more Fab anyways.

b) Cam'ron and Jim Jones (who came up with Ma$e), airing him out publicly
c) 50 Cent and G-Unit taking over

If Mase tried that, it would have gone over worse than MC Hammer's attempt in 1994. At least in Hammer's case, he went the God route afterwards.

 

[JustCKing]

I get what you're saying, but you named a whole bunch of major names. Any album with those kind of names back in 99 would have been big.

Which is why I don't understand why they didn't go all out on that album. Mase was huge name himself. If executed right, a spiritual type Hip Hop track produced by Organized Noize featuring Cee Lo Green on the chorus with a verse from DMX would've been fire. It could've been a flip of "24 Hrs. To Live" especially in 1999 with all the December 31, 1999 going into January 1, 2000 hysterics.

 

[King Poetic]

People moved on

 

[African Peasant]

You cats are talking about the gansta landscape of that time, but Kanye went 4 times platinum in the same year