About Mase
Mason Durell Betha, known professionally as Mase, is an American rapper. Best known for his work with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records, he signed with the label in 1996 and quickly found mainstream recognition as Combs' hype man. He guest appeared on the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 single "Mo Money Mo Problems", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, while his first two singles as a lead artist, "Feel So Good" and "What You Want", both peaked within the chart's top ten. Released in October of that year, his debut studio album, Harlem World (1997), peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart, received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and spawned his third top ten single as a lead artist, "Lookin' at Me". Furthermore, his guest performances on Combs' 1997 singles "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "Been Around the World", peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, that same year. In his other ventures, Mase has founded the record label RichFish Records, through which he signed rapper Fivio Foreign in 2019. Two years later, he founded the hip hop group Harlem World, who signed with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings.
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