A new episode featuring Ma$e and on Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast included him discussing his “disdain” towards Diddy.
During an interview with co-hosts Wallo and Gillie Da Kid on Sunday (July 31), the former Bad Boy Records rapper said that Puff Daddy never wanted to promote him to the next level.
“Let me take my shades off for that,” Ma$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.
“OK, so let’s get this out of the way now, since I’m trying to be kind. I was never treated with respect or paid what I was worth. ‘Is this how you want to keep me from leaving, ngga?’ I’m out of town. Everyone from my class is gathered up here. ‘I’m the boss of all my peers.’
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.”
Biggie’s 1997 Life After Death smash “Mo Money Mo Problems” was reportedly written by Ma$e, according to the rapper.
“Puff would go out and party and I would be in the studio writing the records,” he said. “And then I’d just come back and say, he’ll say this is his part or this is that part, but I was the person creating it all. I mean, from the lyrical standpoint, whether somebody did the beats, and even ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ – I came up with that.
“I came up with the beat, too. I said, ‘Stevie [J], we need to do this beat and do it like this.’ So just imagine all of these moments that are taken from you, the records, the beats, you ain’t getting the money, you ain’t getting the publishing, you ain’t getting the respect.”
A few minutes later, “And I don’t think you’re like that to be pulling with you’re pulling. You know what comes with doing that, but everybody is letting you get away with it. Everybody. So me quitting after one album, it didn’t take long for me to figure it out, like I’m not gon’ be here with this. I don’t care who’s here, ’cause you’re not paying me and you’re not respecting me.”
Puff Daddy and The Family’s 1997 No Way Out Tour included a stop in Ma$e’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. However, he wasn’t making much in terms of his role and how much money he thought the tour was making.
The areas he went to make money when he first started his work as a freelancer were places like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. “The No Way Out Tour was mostly for commercial purposes for me when I first embarked on it.
“So the second leg I started getting like $15,000, but the first couple of shows I really do believe they were all promotional. Because I remember the people at Bad Boy asking me, ‘Do you wanna get in a van and go state to state and go radio to radio and do promo, or do you wanna do the No Way Out Tour?’ And common sense, we did the No Way Out Tour.”
In retrospect, I kid you not, this was one of the greatest things that ever happened for me. Getting the deal, getting the fame and being able to take care of my family, but it was a lot of the worst experiences, and that’s just my understanding.”
In response to a question regarding the tour’s revenue, Ma$e replied, “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.”
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