Ma$e

With his new clean image, Mase is currently attempting to regain his place as a player in the rap industry, while being a positive role model to his young audience. The second single "Whatever U Want", features Joe Budden and once again reached the top 10 in the UK as well as charting in the Billboard Hot 100. Diddy as his first hit in seven years. It has also been slowly climbing the Billboard Hot 100. The song's chorus directly lifts from the Welcome Back Kotter theme song, and was heavily promoted by P. As of May 2004, the first single has reached number one on a world composite dance chart (compiled on data from the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy and Australia) reached the top 3 in the UK and the top 40 in Australia. Entitled "Welcome Back", the song caught on quickly despite Mase's 'one-hit wonder' reputation. The first single "Dip It Low" was written by Polli Paul, who has also written songs for the Black Eyed Peas.

In May 2004, Mase released his first single since becoming a preacher. During 2003, Christina Milian recorded songs for her first US album It's About Time which is a reference to how long it has taken for an album to be released in the US. He has since published Revelations: There's a Light After the Lime. She will be in significant roles in a further two films to come out within a year of May 2004 - Man of the House opposite Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring in Be Cool with John Travolta and Uma Thurman. Mase's second album, Double Up, was released, despite Mase's stated misgivings considering his newfound religious convictions as he became a born-again Christian. Her audition was successful leading in turn to a lead role in Love Don't Cost a Thing in 2003. In 1998, Mase was featured on Brandy's second album's second single, "Top Of The World". She met director Joseph Kahn on an episode of Wannabes who suggested she audition for a lead role in Torque opposite Ice Cube.

Diddy), and "24 Hours To Live" (featuring The Lox, Black Rob, & DMX). Milian was appointed to host the Wannabes program on MTV in 2002. Harlem World also spawned several singles that became successful on urban radio and BET, but did not "cross over" to the pop charts or enjoy high rotation on MTV; for example: "What You Want" (featuring Total), "Lookin' At Me" (featuring P. She also wrote and sang the theme song for the Disney series Kim Possible "Call Me Beep Me" in the same year. Diddy, as well as a very obvious sampling of Miami Sound Machine's 1980's hit, "Bad Boys". It was another UK top ten hit single in 2002. Though critics despised his blatant pop leanings, Harlem World was a huge hit thanks to its massive lead single, "Feel So Good", which featured guest rhymes from Mase's mentor, P. She also featured on "It's All Gravy", a duet with Romeo of the garage group So Solid Crew.

Though his first album, Harlem World, appealed strongly to a mostly new demographic for rap, younger children and pre-adolescents due to its simple rhymes and beats, Mase retired in order to become a preacher just before his second album was due for release. The single "When You Look At Me" was another international hit going top 5 in the UK, Netherlands, and Ireland and making the top 40 in Denmark, Australia and France. He originally went under the persona "Murder Mase" and was part of Big L's group, Children of the Corn. The success of From AM To PM sparked the international release of the Christina Milian album although not in the US. Diddy (then Puff Daddy) for a brief period before he began a solo career. It became a worldwide hit reaching top 5 in the UK and Denmark, Top 10 in the Netherlands, and top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in Australia. Ma$e or Mason Betha; born August 27, 1978) is an American rapper, best known as sidekick to P. In 2001, Milian released her first single of her own "AM To PM", off her self-titled debut album.

Mase (a.k.a. Lo album of 2001 which became another big hit as well as the song "Same Ol' Same Ol", the first single for girl group PYT's album Down With Me. She also co-wrote the track "Play" for Jennifer Lopez's J. In 2000, Christina Milian performed vocals on Ja Rule's song "Between You And Me" from his Rule 3:36 album - the song became a hit building a reputation. While in this role she also started appearing in minor roles in A Bug's Life and American Pie and in guest appearances on television shows Charmed, Clueless and Get Real.