After all that he’s been through with his former label boss, Ma$e would still visit Diddy in jail.
During the latest episode of his It Is What It Is podcast, Ma$e mentioned that he attended Voletta Wallace’s funeral to his co-host Cam’ron and that the memorial felt like “the end of an era.” He also shared that he was too emotional to speak to some in attendance at the service. Cam then asked Ma$e if he felt uncomfortable sitting next to Diddy’s son.
“I wasn’t there. I was just wondering,” Cam joked. “I heard they put ya’ll by each other and the vibe wasn’t right.”
While not confirming his seating arrangement, Ma$e expressed that he would visit the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder behind bars.
I mean, if my name was on the list, I’d go visit Puff, you know?” Ma$e confirmed. “I would visit him, make sure that he’s good.”
“Why you ain’t do it when he was out?” Cam responded.
“These are the times you need people to check up and make sure you good. And not that I condone anything that they’re alleged to have done, just until they prove it, you kind of want to make sure that you don’t be like one of those people that, somebody did good for you…he didn’t do all bad, he did some good,” Ma$e answered.
I’m not talking about the tape stuff and all that, I’m talking about just the musical side, giving me an opportunity,” Ma$e clarified. “I think, as a person of class, you definitely got to show up and sit somewhere in the court, if they let you.”
Signing to the label in 1996, Ma$e released his classic debut album Harlem World, in 1997, followed by 1999’s Double Up. Following his tenure as a pastor of Saving a Nation Endangered Church he returned to the label to drop Welcome Back in 2024.
Tensions grew between the Ma$e and Diddy after he accused him of holding his publishing rights to all of his music.
Eventually, DIddy gave Ma$e back his publishing in 2023.
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