Songoftheday 11/21/24 - I see the girls in the club they gettin' wild for me, and all the pretty chicks all wanna smile at me...
" Welcome Back " - Ma$e from the album Welcome Back (2004) Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week) Weeks in the Top-40: 4 Today's song comes from rapper Mason Betha, who performs under the nickname Ma$e , who was one of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' most successful protege's on his Bad Boy Records label, topping the Billboard 200 sales tally with his debut album Harlem World , which also spun off three top ten hit singles on the Hot 100 chart with " Feel So Good ", " What You Want ", and " Lookin' At Me " in 1997 through 1998. However when he quickly returned the next year with the harder-hitting sophomore effort Double Up , Ma$e had a change of heart renouncing this path, and announcing his retirement from music to pursue college studies, tanking the promotion of the album, which started at #11 on the Billboard 200 but only sold a half million, a fraction of his first set. The lead single from the record, the Shalam