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Philippians 3:10

MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Ain't all that hard to imagine the Lord Jesus sayin' something like this:
"Would that hearts would seek My face, as much as they seek Mase!"

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 * While surprised by the "conversion" of Mason Betha, please be aware that YUBM 
  Ministries stands unequivocally opposed to his "total life prosperity" perspective.  

 Click here for the "why." 

Ma$e's G-Unit 2006 mixtape front cover "Crucified 4 the Hood"

  Like most people, I too am a bit baffled by the mixed messages being sent by Mason Betha in 
 deciding to return to rapping, especially after indicating he wanted to do ministry so he could  
 "undo the damage" he had done while in the world as a secular artist. The jury is still out, and 
  I guess time will tell where he's trying to go with this.  Meanwhile the hip-hop industry is lit up 
  with delight and expectation, wondering what this former Bad Boy's next move is gonna be.   
 Turns out it wouldn't be Bad Boy, but the G-Unit show which Ma$e has thrown his lot in with.  

NOTES MASON BETHA: "GOD SAVED ME FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS" ???

August 27, 1975 - Mason Derelle Betha born in Jacksonville, FL 
      - he and his twin sister, Stason are the youngest of 6 children (3 boys, 3 girls)

His family moved to New York when he was about 3 or 4 years old

1987 or 1988 - at age 12 he was told by the late Pastor Lawrence C. Callahan
     that one day God would use him in a very powerful way

Started rapping sometime during his senior year in high school

1994 - met and rapped for Puff Daddy at the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta, GA 
     at an after-hours party in conjunction with a rap convention - signed with Puff's
     Bad Boy label shortly thereafter up in NYC and was known as Ma$e Murder

September 13, 1996 - Tupac died from his gunshot wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada

March 9, 1997 - Bad Boy label-mate Biggie Smalls shot to death in Los Angeles, CA

October 28, 1997 - "Harlem World" sophomore album released

April 4, 1999 - Ma$e announced his decision to follow God on the air on N.Y.C.'s Hot 97 

April 9, 1999 - Old Ma$e "pronounced dead" - converted to Christ

June 15, 1999 - "Double Up" album released

Fall 1999 - enrolled in Clark University of Atlanta for a year studying for a math degree

May 20, 2000 - Mason Betha delivered his first sermon

June - December 2000 - "Hell Is Not Full" Crusade (16-17 cities around the country)

December 10, 2000 - ordained by Pastor Jonathan Carter (Siloam Baptist Church) in
    Atlanta, GA

January 7, 2001 - started a church / S.A.N.E. Ministries at a Day's Inn in the Atlanta area 
     - church eventually moved to meeting in an elementary school

May 20, 2001 - becomes a Pastor

May 20, 2001 - announced his engagement to Twyla McInnis, a Mississippian

August 2001 - married Twyla McInnis 

November 2001 - his autobiography "Revelations" is released

2002 - received an Honorary Doctorate of Theology from St. Paul's Bible Institute in New York, N.Y.

2001-2003 (?) - Somewhere along the way Creflo Dollar becomes Pastor Mason Betha's pastor.  Mason Betha's wife becomes Pastor Twyla Betha.

2003-2004 (?) - P. Diddy makes a $1,000,000 contribution to Ma$e's church in Atlanta  (according to Hot97 radio interview).

April - May 2004 - Pastor Mason Betha returns to rapping after a 5-year absence, releasing a single, "Welcome Back." 

August 24, 2004 - Ma$e's album "Welcome Back" (Bad Boy Records) drops

September 2004 - Twyla Betha gives birth to a son - Ma$e cancels several engagements to be there when he's born

mid-October 2004 - "Welcome Back" sells 413,000 units (according to SoundScan)

August 8, 2005 - Ma$e makes a surprise onstage guest appearance during the Anger Management 3 Tour at Madison Square Garden to support fellow New York rapper 50 Cent and his G Unit crew during their set.  Within a month he's heard on "300 Shots," trading verses with 50, Young Buck, Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks.  ( Ma$e: "Put guns in n----s' mouths like, 'Who you dissing?' /  Be a year before they know you was missing / I pop n----s in the chest, they never breathe again." )  He eventually signs with G-Unit.

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