Masta Ace - Mixtape (feat. Buckshot, Special Ed, Evidence, Marco Polo, Edo G, Pete Rock, MF Doom)
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1. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Masta Polo 0:00
2. Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn (feat. Buckshot, Masta Ace, Special Ed) 2:49
3. Evidence - E.A.T (feat. Masta Ace & Marco Polo) 7:15
4. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - American Me 10:58
5. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Get Shot 14:08
6. M-Dot & DJ Jean Maron - You Don't Know About It (feat. Masta Ace) 17:11
7. Masta Ace - Acknowledge 21:13
8. Masta Ace - Alphabet Soup 25:26
9. Masta Ace - No Regrets 27:23
10. CunninLynguists (feat. Masta Ace) - Seasons 30:25
11. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Man Law (feat. Styles P) 33:59
12. DJ JS-1 & Dub-L - What Am I? (feat. Masta Ace) 37:59
13. Edo G (feat. Pete Rock) - Wishing (feat. Masta Ace) 40:08
14. Masta Ace & MF Doom - Think I Am (feat. Big Daddy Kane & MF Doom) 43:52
15. Apollo Brown, Masta Ace, Wordsworth - Money 46:48
16. Marco Polo - Nostalgia 49:36
17. Masta Ace - Nineteen Seventy Something 53:49
18. Masta Ace - Son of Yvonne 56:41
19. Masta Ace - Crush Hour 59:55
20. Masta Ace & MF Doom - I Did It 1:02:37
21. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Sunken Place (feat. Pav Bundy) 1:05:57
22. Masta Ace & Marco Polo - Fight Song (feat. Pharoahe Monch) 1:09:49

Duval Clear (born December 4, 1966), known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is an American rapper and record producer from New York City. He appeared on the classic 1988 Juice Crew posse cut "The Symphony". He is noted for his distinct voice and rapping proficiency, and has influenced several MCs.

Clear graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1988, after meeting Marley Marl in 1987 during his summer break. Ace made his recording debut on the Juice Crew posse-cut "The Symphony", along with fellow Juice Crew members Craig G, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane, released on Marley Marl's In Control album. The album also featured two additional Ace tracks, "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" and "Simon Says".

In 1989, he released his first solo single, "Together" b/w "Letter to the Better". A year later, his debut album, Take a Look Around was released through Marl's Cold Chillin' label, featuring production from Marl and DJ Mister Cee. The album featured two minor hit singles in "Music Man" and "Me & The Biz", the latter track including Ace impersonating Biz Markie who did not reach the studio for the planned duet.

In the years following his debut, Ace developed bitter feelings toward the commercial state of hip hop music and the prominence of Gangsta rap. Released in 1993, SlaughtaHouse saw Ace express these feelings through a loose concept of the album lampooning a Gangsta rap persona that Ace portrayed as cartoonish and inauthentic. The album featured Ace's new crew, Masta Ace Incorporated, which included members Eyceurokk, Lord Digga, Paula Perry and R&B vocalist Leschea.

The singles "SlaughtaHouse", "Saturday Nite Live", "Style Wars" and "Jeep Ass Niguh" were taken from the album. A remix of the later - titled "Born to Roll" - became a crossover single in 1994, peaking at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the same year, Ace became a member of a temporary crew Crooklyn Dodgers, formed for the release of Spike Lee's movie, Crooklyn, along with MC's Special Ed and Buckshot of Black Moon, and recorded the title track of the album soundtrack. The song became Ace's second Hot 100 hit in 1994, peaking at No. 60 on the chart.

Ace furthered his mainstream appeal in 1995, with his radio-friendly Sittin' on Chrome album. This effort was also released with the Masta Ace Incorporated crew, now also known as The I.N.C. The album was Ace's most commercially successful release, breaking into the Top 20 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Sittin' On Chrome included "Born to Roll", as well as two other Hot 100 hit singles, "The I.N.C. Ride" and "Sittin' on Chrome". By this time, Ace had become fully involved in his music on the production end as well, usually under the name Ase One. Following the album's success, Ace had a falling out with I.N.C. members Lord Digga and Paula Perry, leading to the breakup of the crew.

After the split, Ace was largely missing from the hip hop scene over the next five years, save for a number of random vinyl singles. During his vinyl days, he bounced from a number of labels, releasing his "Cars" single on Tape Kingz Records, his "Yeah Yeah Yeah" and "NFL" singles on the Union Label, his "NY Confidential" single on Replay Records, his "Express Delivery" single on Three Sixty Records, his "Spread It Out/Hellbound" single on Yosumi Records, his "Conflict" single on Mona Records, his "Ghetto Like" single on Fat Beats, his "So Now U A MC" single on Bad Magic Records, and his "Brooklyn Blocks" single on Buckshot's Duck Down Records.

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