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Summary: EXCELLENT READING
Review: I Absolutely fell in love with this book! I recommended it to everyone I new. This book touch my heart and my spirit. God truly had a plan for him the minute he was born, but let him do his thing(the rapping)until God was ready to change his life. It is such a great example of life's journey, that everthing that we experience has a purpose. I would give this book to every high school kid if I could. Everyone that I let read this book was touched in the same way. ENJOY!
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Summary: Amen
Review: Anything thats hepls the kingdon is always good. I give Mason a big congradulations in is new decision in his life and his book a 2 thumbs up.
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Summary: Get it at the Library...don't waste your money
Review: This book is definately not worth the money and I suspected that so I got it at the libary. It is only 200 pages long with large print. I finished it in a day. I'm an emcee myself so I was interested in why Mase would leave rap so suddenly to follow God. I respect him for that no doubt but he spends most of this book preaching and the rest completely trashing hip-hop as a product of the devil. He rambles on saying things like "What if Tupac and Biggie had been pastors" and so on. The book doesn't deserve to be called a biography/autobiography because if you take away the preaching and the anti-hiphop rants the book would be about 10 pages long. Don't waste your money...if you're like me and were just interested in why he made the move from music to the church then get it at the libary.
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Summary: R.I.P MA$E... & GOD Bless Pastor Mason Betha
Review: This book that Pastor Mason Betha has written for the world to read, felt more like a personal blessing that was given to me.
I was one of those lost saints who did not want MA$E to leave the music industry, because I enjoyed his music and his persona so much. In April 99 when I first heard MA$E was leaving indefinietly, I wanted to know what was his next step, was he going to succeed, did he really give up everything and was he going on this path alone. I was fortunate enough to speak with Pastor Betha over the phone for about an hour, and he began to tell me things that helped me to understand his decision and also that helped me to look deeper within my own spiritual being. At that point, most of my questions became answered and I felt relieved because I knew that Pastor Betha was in wonderful hands, he's in GOD's hands. He is painfully honest yet his words are powerful and very inspirational. He is straight forward, yet very easy to talk to. He appeals to our younger generation and relates to what we are going thru without compromising his committment and beliefs. After reading "Revelations", I realized that this man is focused and his heart is sincere and GOD has prepared him to captivate the world again, but not as MA$E. This time as a man of faith, obedience, and strength; As a man of GOD. R.I.P MA$E and GOD Bless Pastor Mason Betha.
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I read this and i was amazed.Pastor mason is the best and most inspiring person to me. I loved this book.I am 12 yrs. old and i thought this book was incredible.It tells about his whole life through a journey of sex,drugs,money, and more.He made a great decision, even though i miss his music since of my childhood friend Dorian CHristian. but i remain here in peace. i luved this book. hope u do 2!
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Summary: Murder Ma$e?
Review: As soon as I heard that Mason Betha had decided to co-write a book describing his journey to becoming his "new" self, I knew I had to check it out. A few years ago when Ma$e revealed that he was leaving the rap game to become a preacher, I was astonished. What would make him leave all that he had gained, to lead a pious, modest lifestyle? What was the catalyst? Would he eventually return to his more secular lifestyle? The book answers these questions, although not entirely. The answers are simple and shallow, leaving the reader to continue to ask "why" after each explanation. It is a quick and easy read, and while it does answer some questions, it also makes you want to go deeper. After reading the book, I was eager for one of those "read and response" sessions that authors sometimes hold. (The ones where you get to ask questions as they're signing autographs and stuff) Anyway, highly recommended because Mason Betha's story displays Man's capacity to change. And, not to be too sappy, but I believe that offers us all a little hope.
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Summary: I never would have thought....
Review: that the same cat who said "I don't understand language of people with short money", would be able to come up with such insightful, interesting, and spiritual messages. Mason Betha's Revelations is a read that includes the story of a young man of my generation who gives up Man's kingdom to seek "The" kingdom. Mason was able to include the trials and tribulations it took for him to accomplish that goal, which is what made the book inspiring.
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Summary: God's Power
Review: All I have to say is that book is a real testimony of God's power. I used to be a big big fan of the "late" (to recall his expression)MA$E. In France, he was a big star and all my friends were shocked when they heard he had given up the business. But as a Christian, I was really impressed and was looking forward to reading his book.
I read it in a single day and got the impression Pastor Mason was just in front of me in Paris, preaching his "Hell is not full" words!Believe me, it woke me up in my spiritual life.
I do believe all young boys or men wanting to enter the music industry should read this. God bless Pastor Mason's ministry!THis book is just amazing and very very very interesting! A acheter et lire tout de suite!
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Summary: IN MA$E'S WAKE: EX-RAPPER'S SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
Review: You've heard it, I've heard it, likely we've all said it at some time--"There's more to life.." Meaning, there's got to be something better, some greater intention, something more in the way of the world than the behavior or situation we find beneath us, unworthy of our disdain and despair. "There's more to life than the hip-hop lifestyle!" fledgeling youth pastor Mason Betha declaims throughout this slim volume-- part-memoir (not quite enough life story detail to qualify as autobiography), part-testimony, mostly extended sermon. Ironically, what gives his anthem credibility - his former persona as Ma$e, Puff Daddy protege & rising rap star - is what seems to pain him most. After all, it's his former celebrity that gives the book currency. (Why else the full color portraits on both covers, as if the publisher recognizes that without his familiar face, few are likely to pick up a book by "Pastor Mason Betha," largely unknown evangelist?) Yet, inside the covers, he repeats "Ma$e is dead!" What you'll find here are anecdotes of his young life: hanging out with his Harlem homies; his frustrated efforts as street hustler and NBA aspirant; finding his niche as a freestyling rapper. His sudden, dizzying success as star of the Bad Boy Entertainment stable, indulging in the hedonistic perks, and then the growing disgust with his own behavior and disillusion as he sees friends and rap contemporaries fall by the wayside or under the gun. His cry, "I can't do this no more!" in the wake of Biggy Small's death seems to signal his journey to a different life, eventually in Atlanta, in the folds of the fundamentalist Christian church, completely apart from the hip-hop scene and its trappings. Mason/Ma$e's book, at once a rebuke of his past and a beacon of redemption, is apparently aimed at his own generation, as his budding ministry, SANE (for "Saving a Nation Endangered") seeks to reach and embrace the baggy-geared and loose-booted "untouchable" youth who are disaffected with conventional churches. But there's an appeal to a wider readership as well, for the principles that this young apostle professes (such as "God is in Control" - "Count All Things Joy" - and, "It's Not All About You") can be found at the core of practically any great faith. His quest for durable, fulfilling values is admirable, and the narrative voice is one of earnest, energetic sincerity. Yet, there is a caution, the proverbial grain of salt to be taken with the reading: this book should be digested as a statement of where he is contrasted to whence he's come; it's a landmark, not the destination. Mr. Betha says himself that he's on a journey to wisdom. And while the road he's on may be suitable for him, it's A PATH, not necessarily THE PATH. I've known people of the same evangelical zeal and praise after converting to Islam, for instance, and witnessed them turning their lives around; this is not about stacking up one faith as better than any other. That instigates wars, not human perfection. And faith exhibits tolerance. (Note that in dissing other music, such as R&B, blues, and jazz, Mason appears unaware that even his now preferred gospel was once scorned by the church as "too lowdown, too worldly." Witness the testimony of the father of gospel music, former blues musician and composer and Bessie Smith sideman Thomas E. Dorsey - who said, "Why should the devil have all the best tunes?" - in that excellent documentary, "Say Amen, Somebody.") So Mason Betha's REVELATIONS attempts to be spiritually nourishing, if not quite a feast for the mind and soul. As it is, I don't feel it provided sufficient answers to my own questions about why he quit the business and just what, exactly, he's been up to in the interim. However, it passes as one contemporary young man's account of becoming and awakening to the hollow reality of being a star, and what he now figures to be a righteous stairway to heaven.
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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: I just bought this book in may before my birthday with my own birthday money and the first night i read 70 pages. Now let me tell you I'm a 17 year old white kid that lives in the suburbs and i appreciate Mason "ma$e" Betha just as much as anyone else. I loved reading this book cause it told me how his child hood started back when he had the dream of being in the nba, to rapping and then his transformation to being one with god and i think it's darn good. I really love his music, the few hits he had and i respect him now as a person, cause it's truly incredible to see mase - the laughable "shiny suit man" rapper that he was transforming into an honest christian man (leaving all his sins behind. Ill tell you this, this is one amazing book. Eventually in the future im going to visit mase in Atlanta and attend one of his preachings.
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