Ma$e opened up about his “disdain” for Diddy on the latest episode of the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast.
Sitting down with co-hosts Wallo and Gillie Da Kid on Sunday (July 31), the former Bad Boy Records rapper said he never got the credit or money he deserved from his time on the label, while claiming Puff Daddy never wanted to elevate him to the next level.
“Let me take my shades off for that,” Ma$e began. “Now, I can say this because it wasn’t something I didn’t say to him. Puff – how do I wanna say this – me and Puff was like, I felt like I did more than I got credit for, more than I got paid for.
“Okay, let’s clear that up then ’cause I’m tryna be nice. I never got paid what I was worth and I never got the respect I was worth. So the disdain is like, ‘You’re tryna keep me here, n-gga? I’m not here. All my peers is up here. All my peers are bosses.’
He continued: “When it’s time, just like somebody raise somebody up, they did work with you, they go from your lawman to maybe A&R to something else – he just kept tryna keep me right here, like he didn’t want me to grow at anything.”
Ma$e claimed he was behind a lot of the music coming out of Bad Boy Records, including Biggie’s 1997 Life After Death hit “Mo Money Mo Problems.”
“Puff would go out and party and I would be in the studio writing the records,” he said. “And then I’d just come back and say, he’ll say this is his part or this is that part, but I was the person creating it all. I mean, from the lyrical standpoint, whether somebody did the beats, and even ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ – I came up with that.
“I came up with the beat, too. I said, ‘Stevie [J], we need to do this beat and do it like this.’ So just imagine all of these moments that are taken from you, the records, the beats, you ain’t getting the money, you ain’t getting the publishing, you ain’t getting the respect.”
He added: “And I don’t think you’re like that to be pulling with you’re pulling. You know what comes with doing that, but everybody is letting you get away with it. Everybody. So me quitting after one album, it didn’t take long for me to figure it out, like I’m not gon’ be here with this. I don’t care who’s here, ’cause you’re not paying me and you’re not respecting me.”
Ma$e also revealed he didn’t get paid for the first leg of Puff Daddy and The Family’s No Way Out Tour in 1997. Even after that, though, he wasn’t making much in terms of his role and how much money he believed the tour was making.
“So my beginning of my career, what I was doing was, when I would go out on my own, I would come to Philly, D.C., all those places, that would be where I made my money,” he explained. “When I did the No Way Out Tour at the beginning, it was promotional for me.
“So the second leg I started getting like $15,000, but the first couple of shows I really do believe they were all promotional. Because I remember the people at Bad Boy asking me, ‘Do you wanna get in a van and go state to state and go radio to radio and do promo, or do you wanna do the No Way Out Tour?’ And common sense, we did the No Way Out Tour.”
He continued: “Now, looking back, I kid you not, this was one of the greatest things that ever happened for me. Getting the deal, getting the fame and being able to take care of my family, but it was a lot of the worst experiences, and that’s just my understanding.”
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When asked about how much the tour was bringing in, Ma$e said, “I can’t count another man’s pocket. I know Budweiser was involved, I know a lot of other people. According to the day’s term, it could be a million or north, but I just know what I was getting. And now that I look back, I was the headliner, but I didn’t know I was the headliner.
“I’m cool with that – I’m cool with putting in at the beginning. And that’s what made me so upset at the end, because I felt like I was putting equity in the house, and at some point you gotta be able to pull the equity out.”
THESE PODCASTS ARE MESSING UP THE GAME. TOO MUCH NEGATIVITY AND WASHED UP RAPPERS GOSSIPING LIKE OLD LADIES. I FEEL PEOPLE TALK MORE ABOUT THESE SIDE NZ OVER ACTUAL MUSIC.
Mase still complaining about Diddy after turning “Christian” and raping the new generation on their contracts? Tell this man to simmer down
Mase fkd himself by becoming a preacher. Absolute wrong move. As for him writing all the records – I believe that. To me Mase joined bad boy with Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down. That track was just a vibe and they rode that vibe for the next 3-4 years. Makes sense that Mase was the mastermind. Double Up was great too if you check it out now. Lots of great songs not sure what happpened. Maybe Mase has legit beef. Maybe Diddy buried Double Up because he knew Mase was the real Kanye. But no one told mase to gain 50 pounds and become a preacher for their slave scheme. that’s on him
He even had the man (BIG) he pretended was his best friend in a bad contract. This should tell you everything you need to know about that snake.
Puff is not to be trusted by any means: He had Big in a messed up contract; Mase, The Lox, Black Rob, Craig Mack, 112, etc. He did Shyne dirty and Shyne was defending Puff in the club that not, didn’t pay for his lawyers switched lawyers to get separate from Shyne, just a snake-rat azz person.
And so the saying became true for them “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.”