Harlem World: Best Ma$e Features Post Retirement
The rapper-turned-pastor's bars are still in high demand.
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Harlem World: Best Ma$e Features Post Retirement - Is Drake looking to sign Ma$e to his OVO Sound? M-A Dollar revealed in 2012 that he'd sign to a Drizzy deal. "I think he is the closest to what I believe I would've been if I didn't leave music," he said. Then Drake invited him as a special invited performer at his 2013 OVO Fest and said that "he'd love to work" with the Harlem World rapper. Now, whilst you ponder how good of a look that would be for both their fan bases (and hip hop at large), check out these post-retirement Ma$e features — some of his best since he became a pastor — starting with that unapologetic L.E.P. Bogus Boys banger "Commas," which he finally blessed with a verse for the remix.(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)
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Terror Squad "Lean Back" (Remix) Featuring Lil Jon, Eminem, Ma$e - Just before his comeback album, Welcome Back, dropped, Ma$e re-appeared on a remix to one of the biggest songs of 2004. The original placed on Terror Squad's True Story, and several remixes were spawned. The official remix, however, was with Ma$e and placed on Fat Joe's 2005 album, All or Nothing.(Photos from left: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images, Eyeworks Production/WENN.com)
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Kanye West "Jesus Walks" remix featuring Common, Ma$e - Also in 2004, Ma$e took on "Jesus Walks," an olive branch between mainstream rap and religious music delivered by Kanye — the only other MC in the game Pastor Mason Betha said he'd be willing to sign with.(Photos from left: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images, Maxppp /Landov)
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Wale "Slight Work" Remix Featuring French Montana, Diddy, Ma$e - There's no bad blood between Ma$e and the Bad Boy roster. He jumped on a remix to the Diplo-produced "Slight Work" (a notable hit for MMG-signee Wale featuring G.O.O.D. Music's Big Sean on the original) with his old Bad Boy boss, Diddy, and Diddy's latest NY signee, French Montana.(Photos from left: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images, Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images for Moet Rose)
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50 Cent "I Don't Know Officer" Remix Featuring Lloyd Banks, Prodigy, Spider Loc, Ma$e - In the mid-2000s, Ma$e also spent some time rockin' with the G-Unit, but never signed with them (50 Cent wasn't sure that a Ma$e album would sell enough for the contract buyout that Diddy was demanding — a reported $2 million). Meanwhile, Ma$e landed on the soundtrack for 50's autobiographical film, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Despite the mixed reception to the movie, the album has sold over 3 million copies.(Photo: Jason Squires/WireImage)
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50 Cent "Window Shopper" Remix Featuring Llody Banks, Ma$e - Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future, so the saying goes. Murda Ma$e was resurrected for this "Window Shopper" remix. The original was the second single for the Get Rich or Die Tryin' soundtrack, and M-A Dolla got picked up for the remix.(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Drake "Best I Ever Had" Remix Featuring Ma$e - In his first sampling of what it would be like to work with Drake, Ma$e was added to a street-mix of Drizzy's mainstream breakthrough hit 2009's "Best I Ever Had." On it, Ma$e got flirtatious like a throwback to "Love U So."(Photos from left: Arnold Turner/WireImage, Robin Marchant/Getty Images for ESPN)
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French Montana "New York Minute" featuring Jadakiss, Ma$e - On a mixtape song that samples Don Henley's "New York Minute," French said, "Pray that 'New York Minute' 'll bring Ma$e back." And that it did — maybe not to Bad Boy, where French was prepping his debut, Excuse My French, but definitely for a collaboration that only Ma$e could handle.(Photos from left: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images, John Ricard / BET)
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"Higher" Featuring The-Dream, Pusha T, Cocaine 80s, Ma$e - Ma$e gave that Kanye shrug on G.O.O.D. Music's first compilation album, Cruel Summer, via the song "Higher." The album debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's 200 and even landed in the headlines of the Christian Post, "Pastor Mason Betha Shocks Rap Fans on Kanye West's Cruel Summer."(Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
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French Montana "Grown Ups" Featuring Rico Love, Ma$e - After announcing his signing to Bad Boy and Maybach Music, French released a collection called Mac & Cheese 3. Among those 20 was this track featuring French, Ma$e and singer/songwriter/producer Rico Love. (Photo: Brenda Chase/Online USA, Inc/Getty Images)