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 … mehrwearying 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 weniger
CD 1
01 - Intro
02 - Stay Out Of My Way
03 - Get Ready
04 - Make Me Cry… mehr
05 - Awards Show
06 - Same Niggas
07 - No Matter What
08 - If You Want To Party
09 - Jail Visit
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
17 - From Scratch
18 - Gettin' It weniger