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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Stay Out of My Way - (featuring Total)
3. Get Ready - (featuring Blackstreet)
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#!* U - (featuring Mysonne)
11. Do It Again - (featuring Puff Daddy)
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 - (featuring Shyne/Harlem World/Mysonne)
18. Gettin It - (featuring Funkmaster Flex)
Album Notes
Personnel: Mase, Puff Daddy, Total, Blackstreet, Carl Thomas, Cheri Dennis, Mysonne, Harve "Joe Hooker" Pierre, Shyne, Harlem World, Funkmaster Flex (vocals); Mario "Yellow Man" Winans (keyboards, drums, programming); Tim McKasty (keyboards); Chucky Thompson (programming).
Producers include: Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mario "Yellow Man" Winans, Nashiem Myrick, Mase, Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool.
Engineers include: Paul Logus, Roger Che, Jim Janick.
After scoring at platinum levels with 1996's HARLEM WORLD and its impossible-to-avoid hit single "Feels So Good," Mase continued to wax poetic about girls, glam, and his own fame on his 1999 sophomore effort. Bad Boy's most upbeat MC switches up the landscape a bit on DOUBLE UP, perhaps an attempt to emerge from Puffy's significant shadow, providing a sort of electronic worldbeat backdrop on "Stay Out of My Way" and a space-rock Gary Numan interpolation on "No Matter What." However, his wide-eyed, unadorned rhymestyle delivered in a careless, languorious drawl remains, making DOUBLE UP a fitting follow-up.
Industry Reviews
...showcases the 22-year-old star at the peak of his powers....Mase cannily packs his tracks with can't-miss samples....But it's his words, delivered with chilling, methodical clarity, that cut deepest... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (06/18/1999)
3 out of 5 stars - ...A finely-tuned commercial proposition...
Q (04/01/2002)
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