*From rapper to pastor, back to rapper, Mase has gone through some changes. But he regrets making his way to the pulpit.
He retired from the hip hop industry 13 years ago to preach the gospel and eased his way back.
Also known as Mason Betha, the 34 year old shared on a TBN interview that some were worried about him going back to rap, afraid his commitment to the church would waiver.
“Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me,” Betha questions. “What I have inside of me is more powerful than anything the world could ever offer me.”
Instead of going the entrepreneurial route, Mase went Christian and opened up El Elyon International Church and Mason Betha Ministries in Atlanta.
Despite his success, he said in an interview last month that he regrets making such a sudden transition.
“I didn’t give myself any room to grow, I went from one extreme to another extreme, I was just so gung ho about what I was learning, that’s all I wanted.
“I went so hard in one direction that people had things to say and rightfully so,” Betha said. “I don’t blame them for that [but] it’s been 13 years, let’s move on.”
All he’s asking of his fans and fellow worshippers is a word of prayer as he ventures back into a seemingly godless world.
Whatever Mase! Stop playing with God with all this phony pimp on the pulpit action. You going back because you are broke as a joke.
Please don’t post on something you know nothing about! Mase is a powerful man of God who has been preaching nonstop since 2000. I have truly been blessed by his ministry and grown closer to God over the last 10 years
MannaGawd? Wasn’t Mase caught with a tranny in Atlanta a few years ago? Or was it another ATL based rapper? Let me google this.
Mase is a Creflo Dollar wannabe.
@Truth, stop drinking all the kool laid. You’ve been bamboozled like the others who flock go him. If he is real with the Gospel,he wouldn’t sell out to go back to rapping for the almighty dollar. You guys didn’t pay enough tithes and offerings for him to stay!! People need to stop playing in the pulpit and be real with it.
This is the 2nd or 3rd time that Mase had left the church from preaching to make an come back to hip-hop for the almighty dollar. All men & woman are powerful to God, not just Mase. LOL, it does not matter how long Mase has been preaching either. I have never been blessed or impressed with Mase’s ministry in and out of the church every time he encounters financial set backs and problems. As of April 12, 2012, it is no secret that Mase is in tax trouble. And owes nearly $125000 to IRS in back taxes. So as you can clearly see that his sorry slow rapping a.. has a good reason return. In 1999 Mase is the very one that said hip-hop was incompatible with his new ministry. This damn clown is a jokey joke all the way. Back in 2004 he released the following LP “Welcome Back”. In 2006 he released 2 lps such as “Minister to Sinister”, and “Crucified for the Hood” after he collected a check from these two whack as LPs, he then ran right back to the church business as usual preaching the word of God. Now this punk is back again for 2012.