So Mase ("the luckiest no-talent sidekick since Ed McMahon") is coming out with a new album. I guess dropping out of the rap game, becoming a reverend, and being an "in-demand" inspirational speaker on the youth religious circuit wasn't bringing in the dough. Go figure? Well, I've listened to the new single, "Welcome Back" and I must say that I like it, perhaps it's the Welcome Back Cotter theme but I find the song catchy. I do however have some reservations about the coming album since, at least according to lyrics in "Welcome Back" Ma$e no longer drinks, smokes, or gangsterizes. Apparently he's still keeping up the reverend façade. Unfortunately, while I think a rapper can do one song about how cool it was being rich, eating country food, and playing with kids I don't think a whole album of that shit will work out on the charts. Seriously, if a rapper isn't talking about bitches, slapping bitches, fags, being fly, playing it cool, pimping, dealing crack/heroine/pot/cocaine, smoking pot, stealing, praying, vandalizing, being in prison, killing someone, eating fried chicken, driving a Hummer/Escalade/Mercedes, 21"-26" rims, being drunk, fucking, or gangsterizing then what the fuck are they going to rap about? Loving the Lord and playing with kids? Shit, fool, aint no body want to bounce to that! Let's see what you've got M - A - dollar sign - E, I for one don't think there's much potential left.

"Livin' La Vida without the Loca"... Jesus P Christ that's a terrible thing to here from a rapper.