Is Mase making another comeback bid? Does anybody even remember who he is?
It appears so, because the former Bad Boy protege recently called up DJ Self's radio show to talk about the remix of Drake's hit "Best I Ever Had" that he's been working on. I swear, it's going to be a sad sight if all this Drake hype pans out to be all smoke and mirrors, because people are swarming to tag their names onto his right now.
Anyway, Mase spits new lines on the track, including "I said girl so beautiful, down to the cuticle. I can't explain it, everytime I take a picture with you, I wanna frame it...Please don't re-arrange it, I could be your prosecutor, you can be my plaintiff/You could be my coffee girl and I could be your danish/You already camera-ready, you ain't even famous...I'll move you out the 'hood for good/Not ask that brother if he would he could/Mase won't lie to you, when I say I'm good, I'm good/Strawberry or canary, tell me how you want your wrist/It's Mase and Drake, promise you'll remember this."
At one point in the interview with Self, the DJ asked Mase his thoughts on the beef between Cam'ron and Jim Jones, two artists the rapper has a long history with. As Mase was discussing his take on the Dipset members, the Byrd Gang leader himself, Jim Jones, called in to talk to the man one-on-one. What everyone expected to be a blowout (after all, if memory serves right Jones was talking all kinds of trash on Mase just a few weeks back) ended up being an apology session, with Jim telling Mase he was sorry for anything he might have said when he was young and more immature.
Cam'ron, Mase & Jim Jones in happier times:
"I just wanted to tell you I tip my hat to you," Jones said. "I apologize for everything I did when I was younger. You can get my number from Self and shit like that. Pardon my French. Pardon, pardon me it's monumental that's why I'ma get off it. You already know Betha, it's nothing but love. Self's got my number, I'm jumping off the line. I'll holla, Jones."
Listen for yourself right here:
He was likely referencing threats he'd made against the rapper years before, and accusations that Mase fled Harlem after the murders of his two friends (Pop Lotti & Baby Mane) because there was a bounty on his head. Cam'ron and Mase had a falling out back in '04 over $50,000 that Mase expected to be paid for being in one of Cam'ron's music videos.
Mase referenced the issue in an interview at Hot 97 in New York, during which Jones, Camron's label mate, called in and laid into Mase, accusing him of fabricating his autobiography and criticizing him for using real peoples names in his book. Jones went on to say "you wasn't giving us money, so we went out and got our money." He went on to say that they didn't need him anymore as they were extremely successful in their Diplomats Purple Sizzurp Liquor venture. Jones also claimed that Mase didn't leave Harlem and drop out of the scene by choice, but in fear of his life - and that's as deep into this soap opera madness as we're going tonight.
Just for the hell of it, here's a couple pics from about ten years ago, of Mase getting wayyy too close to a couple tigers.
Rawr.
