Basically, God is everything.
— Mase
I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.
I try to help everybody that I can.
Once I get to a certain level, I don't want to rap all my life.
Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.
I don't want to be a rap star. I want you to see me and just say, 'That's Mase,' not 'That's Puff Daddy and Mase,' you know.
I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.
I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.
Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.
Atlanta has always been my favorite place to go, even when I was 'in the world.' When I came down here, people used to show me a lot of love.
I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.
I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.
Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.
Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.
Rap has always been about using your talents for doing more.
I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.
I actually would say when it comes to something like a person's spiritual walk, it's not really about what I think.
God is able. God is real.
I just always said I'm going to work my hardest and whatever God has meant is going to happen when God lets it.
I'm not the kind of person to put all my eggs in one basket.
I'm not just a rapper; I'm an intelligent young man. But being able to give my mother everything she's ever wanted, I could care less about being famous or the money; that's my dream. That's all that matters to me.
I like to be around people that's not afraid to be different.
It takes a great person to walk away from money.
I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, 'Well, you talk too slow,' or, 'You rap too slow,' when in reality, that was my uniqueness.
Nobody gets as many chances as I got.
I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.
What I have is a personal relationship with God.
I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.
A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.
I think I overachieved.
I see different artists making clothing lines and people respected it.
There are a lot of styles out there and, basically, people make a choice.
Puff always does great collaborations, it's just you need that flair to make it work.
I don't get into record beef. That's the wackest beef. That's not even a beef; that's entertainment. Might as well be a wrestler or something.
God's word is for everyone.
I'm not really into all this trying to be No. 1, trying to be King of New York. I'm not with that, I'm just trying to do the best I can and know at the end of the day I gave it my best.
I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.
With me, I always try to give my all to my hood, put my hood on my skin, man. I love it.
I love Kanye, I love what he does musically, I love his ability to push the envelope.
I think a lot of rappers limit themselves by doing the gangster movies and that's stereotypical for a rapper.
I don't want to do music in a box, like everybody say what I can't do, 'he can't say this.'
I don't do the Mohawk thing. I thought about it and said, 'Nah. I'm too cute for the Mohawk.'
I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.
My biggest fear was, who would I be without music?
It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.
God called me to be rich.
What I have inside of me is more powerful than anything the world could ever offer me.
I thought I could do more than rap and I just so happen to be right.
Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.
That's the one thing you never judge, another man's spiritual walk. I wish more people knew that, because when you begin to talk about a person spiritually, you invite all types of bad things to happen to you. That's the worst thing you could do, because when you do that you're actually saying that you don't respect anything that's of substance.
