In 1996, he traveled to Atlanta for a music conference, hoping to hook up with Jermaine Dupri instead, he met Sean "Puffy" Combs, who signed him to Bad Boy after hearing him rap.br /br /Mase debuted on Combs' remix of the 112 single "Only You," and quickly became a near-ubiquitous guest rapper on Bad Boy releases and other Combs-related projects. Mase went solo and started making connections around New York's hip-hop club scene.
He was a good enough basketball player to win a scholarship to SUNY, but hip-hop soon grew to be more important under the name Mase Murder, he joined a rap group called Children of the Corn, which disbanded when one of its members died in a car accident.
He returned to New York two years later, and began rapping to entertain the other members of his school basketball team. His family moved to Harlem when he was five, but at age 13, he was sent back to Florida amid concerns that he was falling in with the wrong crowd. Of course, he was never much of a critical favorite for exactly the same reason, but that became a moot point when, just before the release of his second album, he announced his retirement from rap to pursue a career in the ministry.br /br /Mase was born Mason Durrell Betha in Jacksonville, FL, on August 27, 1977. His flow was slow and relaxed, and his raps often unabashedly simple, which helped make him especially popular with the younger segment of Puff Daddy's pop-rap audience (they could understand him and rap along). By the time he issued his debut album, the Bad Boy promotional machine had effectively already made him a star.
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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.
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