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Double Up
These are the things you need to know about Double Up, Mase's sophomore effort. "Stay Out of My Way" samples Madonna and Public Enemy; "Get Ready" rides a interpolation of Shalamar's "Night to Remember" (curiously nothing is heard from the Temptations' classic "Get Ready"); "Make Me Cry" samples Fleetwood Mac and Natalie Cole. And so on. Yeah baby, Puff Daddy taught his protégé well. Like his mentor, Mase is not a preposessing rapper, and his monotone can become rather wearying since he rarely changes cadences. His rhymes are pedestrian at best--he rhymes "Lewinsky" with "convince me," but he's not talking politics. Still, this is a good party or hip-hop dance-class album; the production is razor sharp and the samples are well chosen. Unlike most hip-hop that demands to be foreground, Mase makes music that is perfectly content to be pleasant, lightly funky background music. --Martin Johnson
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Tracks| 1 | Intro | | 2 | Stay Out Of My Way | | 3 | Get Ready | | 4 | Make Me Cry | | 5 | Awards Show (Interlude) | | 6 | Same Niggas | | 7 | No Matter What | | 8 | If You Want To Party | | 9 | Jail Visit (Interlude) | | 10 | F#!* Me, F#!* You | | 11 | Do It Again | | 12 | Another Story To Tell | | 13 | Blood Is Thicker | | 14 | You Ain't Smart | | 15 | All I Ever Wanted | | 16 | Mad Rapper (Interlude) | | 17 | From Scratch | | 18 | Gettin' It |
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