Double Up [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Mase

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 15, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Bad Boy
• ASIN: B00000J69W
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,959 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Double Out, April 14, 2000

By	Alexis Malone (NY BABY) - See all my reviews

Sophmore year can be tough for artists and Ma$e is no different. After having a strong first set with Harlem World, Ma$e rushes into making this follow up. The cd is okay at best and compared to his first it it isn't worth listening to. The songs on this one are not as good. Ma$e samples some decent songs from the 80s and seemingly forgets how to rap over them like he did on Harlem World. Get Ready and All I Ever Wanted are the top tracks and Scratch is also pretty good. But the rest feel to capture Ma$e's true rap ability and sets him self up for having trouble on the solo rap tracks. Mase clearly rushed into this album and tried to put something out before Bad Boy collapsed. But he rushed to fast and depended too much on puff daddy to put blazin beats and tracks like on the first one. The end result of all that is repative beats and weak lyrics. In all I hope Mase either stays in retirement or should he come back gets away from PD and uses his true ability. Mase can rap, unfortunatly he has yet to really show us, and this album fails at even coming close. My best advice do DOUBLE time PAST this cd.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, October 13, 1999

By	Latoia Richardson (Warwick, Bermuda) - See all my reviews

After buying his first CD, Harlem World, I became an instant Mase fan. This CD, Double Up, fell way short of my expectations. It was rushed and no thought went into production. To sum it up-HORRIBLE. Thank goodness he's retiring to find the Lord. Maybe the Lord will help him find his talent.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars FORGET THIS CRAP! GO GET A WU-TANG ALBUM!, July 17, 1999

By A Customer

SINCE 1996, MASE HAS BEEN GIVING US WAYS "HOW NOT TO MAKE AN ALBUM". WEAK LYRICS, WEAK BEATS, AND EVEN WEAK VOCALS MADE THIS LP, UM... WEAK! I HATE TO ADMIT IT, BUT HARLEM WORLD WAS A LITTLE BETTER THAN DOUBLE-UP. GO GET A WU-TANG ALBUM FAST! THIS LP DOES'NT TEACH, IT DECEIVES THE LISTENER ABOUT BUYING EXPENSIVE CARS, JEWELS, AND CLOTHES. TOO BAD I COULD GIVE HIM -2 STARS. THANK GOD THIS IS HIS LAST ALBUM, BECAUSE HIP-HOP WAS DEFINATELY NOT HIS TRUE CALLING.