Mase Net Worth: How Rich is the Rapper Actually in 2023?

Mase is an American rapper, songwriter, and urban minister. He is best known for his Grammy-nominated album, Harlen World released in 1997. Mase claimed prominence in the late 1990s through Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs’ music imprint, Bad Boy Records. The rapper announced in August 2022 that he is signing a deal with Death Row Records. As of 2023, Mase net worth is roughly around $8 million.

Career Highlights

Best known for: Working with Sean “Diddy” combs on the Bad Boy Records to receive mainstream success. 

Accomplishments:

• His hit song “Mo Money Mo Problems” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• His other hit songs like “Been Around the World”, “Feel So Good”, and “What You Want”
• Has a total of five platinum singles

Popularity: Over 83.3K subscribers on YouTube, 345K followers on Instagram, and 2.43 million monthly listeners on Spotify. (stats as of February 2023)

Early Life 

Mase was born Mason Durell Betha on the 27th of August, 1975 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born to parents, Mason and P. K. Betha. He has a fraternal twin sister named Station Betha and four other siblings. Mase was 3 when his dad left the family. After that, his mom took him and his siblings to Harlem, New York. He had spent all his childhood living in Harlem.

Mase was sent back to Jacksonville by his mother when he was 13. At that time, he started getting in trouble. Then, he stayed in Florida with his relatives for two years. While living in Jacksonville, he started attending church. At 15 years of age, he returned to Harlem and started taking interest in basketball. He eventually became the lead point guard for the Manhattan Center High School team during the 1993 season.

Early on, he had hoped that he would join the National Basketball Association (NBA). However, his dream shattered after he couldn’t make a place in a Division I College because of poor academic scores. Then, he joined the State University of New York at Purchase where he started focusing more on writing music, performing, and producing demo tapes. At that time, he used to regularly perform at local nightclubs. In the end, he dropped out of college and began focusing on music full-time.

Mase Net Worth & Career in Rapping

Mase began his music career by forming a group with his childhood friend, Cam’ron under the stage names, Murda Mase and Killa Cam. After a while in 1996, his sister took him to a road manager of The Notorious B.I.G. Through a road manager, he got to meet Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and Jermaine Dupri during a rap convention. He eventually rapped for Sean Combs at the Hard Rock Cafe. Following that, he was signed to Bad Boy Records for $250,000.

Mase was then featured in the video of R&B group, 112’s song “Only You”. He continued to appear on many other hit songs with other music artists of Bad Boy including Puff Daddy and the Notorious B.I.G. In October 1997, he dropped his debut studio album “Harlem World”. The album turned out to be a big hit and peaked at a top spot on the Billboard Pop and R&B LP charts. Within the first week of release, the album sold over 270,000 copies in the United States.

Mase’s debut album includes hit songs such as Lookin’ at Me and Feel So Good. Both songs peaked at the top spot on the Rap Billboard charts. In 1997, he appeared on many songs with Puff Daddy, Mariah Carey, Brian McKnight, and Brandy. Mase founded his own record label titled All Out Records in 1998. Mase released his second album titled Double Up in 1999. The album debuted at 11 on the US Top 200 chart.

Mase retired from music in April 1999. He announced the retirement news during an interview with New York City’s host, Funkmaster Flex. At that time, he said that he left music to find God in his heart. Mase also enrolled as a freshman at Clark Atlanta University that same year and started attending classes on August 19. Mase had become an ordained minister at that time. However, after 5 years, he returned to music with his third album “Welcome Back”.

Mase announced that he is no longer signed to Bad Boy and would not be signing to any major label soon. On August 3, 2022, Mase revealed the announcement days of his signing a deal with Death Row Records. Through an Instagram video, he mentioned Snoop Dogg and announced that he was signing a deal with Death Row Records.

Personal Life

Mase was married to Twyla Betha. He tied the knot with Twyla in August 2001. The pair spent over a decade together before separating with divorce in 2014. Together, they shared one child. According to several news outlets, Mase proceeded with a divorce procedure first as he was fed up with his wife’s alcohol drinking habits.

What is Mase’s Net Worth?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Mase’s personal wealth is estimated to be around $8 million as of 2023. In addition to his music career, he released a book titled “Revelations: There’s a Light After the Lime” in 2010. Mase is also the founder of S.A.N.E. Church in Atlanta Georgia. His net worth will grow further as he announced he is signing a deal with Death Row Records.