Cam’ron acknowledges that he played a role in the rift with Ma$e.
Cam’ron appeared as a guest on an episode of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All the Smoke podcast, released on Thursday. During the discussion about his longstanding relationship with Ma$e, whom he has known since elementary school, Cam admitted responsibility for their past issues. He also shared insights into how they managed to reconcile and mend their relationship.
“Ma$e gave me an opportunity to get my first record deal,” he began. “He did a video for me – my first video ‘357,’ which was dope. And then I had another single with him, ‘Horse & Carriage,’ and he didn’t do that video so my label started gassing me like, ‘Yo why your man ain’t doing the video? He want $50,000 to do the video.’”
Cam elaborated on how the initial fallout occurred when Ma$e declined to participate in the video. He also confirmed that another rift emerged when Ma$e underwent a spiritual transformation and embraced a more religious lifestyle.
“So I started feeding into that sh*t. I’m like, ‘Word this n-gga acting funny charging me for the video?’ So we kind of fell out over that, got cool again. Then you know, he went to church. I kinda didn’t understand it at the time because that’s my man all day and I’m like, where church come from?”
He continued, “So I started bugging out on him because of that. So to be honest with you, the whole sh*t was my fault and just not understanding the kind of path he was on at the time. So I kinda was going at him on records and sh*t and he was ignoring me and sh*t, then one day he made ‘The Oracle’ and kinda flushed me one day. I was like, ‘That was pretty tough.’”
Last month, Cam acknowledged that Million Dollaz Worth of Game hosts Gillie Da Kid and Wallo played a crucial role in facilitating the reconciliation between him and Ma$e in 2022.
“Thank you guys also for helping connect me and Ma$e, and putting this shit together for us,” Cam wrote in an Instagram post. “To be honest with you, and we talked about this on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, we may not even still be speaking right now without you guys’ platform.”
Cam and Ma$e shared a history of playing high school basketball together in Harlem before joining forces in the rap crew Children of the Corn alongside Big L, Herb McGruff, and Bloodshed. However, their paths started to diverge in 1999 when Ma$e departed New York to pursue a pastoral role in Atlanta.
