The deal for Mase to be officially signed to 50 Cent's G-Unit Records isn't done yet, but the first recording from the new alliance surfaced on mixtapes last week. It's a record called "300 Shots" that finds 50, Mase, Young Buck, Mobb Deep, M.O.P.,
Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks trading verses for more than seven minutes.
So when will the Mase deal be signed, sealed and delivered? After all, he is walking around wearing a G-Unit spinner.
"We're working on it," 50 said during VMA weekend in Miami. "We're in the studio now" (see "Mase Joining G-Unit? Diddy All For It").
Yes, Mase is great songwriter like 50, and he has history of platinum success. Still, everyone is bewildered by the partnership, considering that Mase is a reverend and the G-Unit are anything but choir boys. That, 50 says, is what makes it an ideal allegiance.
"Mase is perfect," Fif said. "[The doubters] don't understand: I don't want to turn my company into something that's just on the top of the FBI [most-wanted] list."
50 also confirmed what we heard on "300 Shots": The new Mase music is going to sound like the old Mase music