Biography
Raised within Harlem, New York, Mason Betha began his music career as a hardcore gangsta rapper named Murder Mase, a member of Big L's hip-hop group "Children of the Corn". Murder Mase was signed to P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records in 1996, and P. Diddy placed all about getting the marketable popular rapper away from an creative person once known for violent imaging within his lyrics.

Inside 1997, the freshly pop-friendly rapper, at present called "Ma$e" recorded & freed his foremost album, Harlem Globe, which became a multiplatinum profits, & featured the hit lone "Feel So Good", which involved the prominet sample of Kool & the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" and the chorus from Miami Sound Machine's "Bad Boys". More successful Harlem Globe singles involved "What You Want" (featuring Total), "Lookin' At Me" (featuring Puff Daddy, by The Neptunes), and "24 Hours To Live" (featuring The Lox, Black Rob, & DMX). Notably popular among mainstream audiences, Mase became one of Bad Son's premier acts.

Retirement
When you took a promotional time period for his 2nd album, Double Higher, & its only "Get Ready" (featuring Blackstreet), Mthe$e announced that he had be a born-again Christian and was retiring from music. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia and studied at Clark Atlanta University, eventually earning an honorary Ph.D in theology in 2002 from St. Paul's Bible Institute in New York City and becoming Reverend Mason Betha. Revolutions per minute. Betha was a pastor & founder of each a S.The.North.E. Church International & a Mason Betha Ministries inside Atlanta. Beththe besides became a member of World Changers Church International in the Atlanta suburb of College Park. These are rumoured that Mthe$e retired due to the execution of deuce of his friends all over a extortion treat involving Ma$e around Harlem.

Return
When a 5-month absence from either a industry, Ma$e returned to music & Bad Son Records sustaining the Welcome Back album, & a lone of a equivalent title (sampled from either the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song). Despite giving to lay amusement, Mthe$e however claims a status of a pastor.

Leaving Bad Boy
Ma$e manufactured a suprise appearance at the Anger Management Tour at Madison Square Garden with Young Buck of G-Unit. Ma$e, or even "Murda Mase", has left Bad Boy Entertainment and joined G-Unit Records and has returned to his former hardcore "Murda Mase" persona & style. , in his fresh mixtape singles like "Return of The Murda", "300 Bars" dissin previous G-Unit member The Game, and "Check Cleared" everthing in DJ Whoo Children mixtapes "G-Unit Radio Part 13: Return Of The Mixtape Millionaire" & "G-Unit Radio Part 14: Back To Business" tons of his songs by having profanity filled content.

Discography
Albums
1997: Harlem World 1999: Double Up 2004: Welcome Back

Singles