Mase Calls Out Diddy for His Horrible Business Ethic, Asks for Rights for His Publishing

Mase fired shots at Diddy via IG for conducting bad business on his behalf while he was signed to Bad Boy Records. He also asked for the rights to his publishing.

In a new Instagram post, Mase has taken issue with Diddy’s recent Pre-Grammys speech, which says that “hip-hop has never been respected by the Grammys.” Shifting the narrative a bit, Mase writes that he is aware that Diddy is now “for the artist” and “about how the artist must take back control.”

“Every year y’all be killing us man,” Diddy said at the Pre-Grammys event. “The amount of time it takes to make these records, to pour your heart into it, and you just want an even playing field.” Mase has taken issue with the speech via a lengthy Instagram post where he claimed that Diddy still owns his publishing rights despite attempts to buy them back.

“Your past business practices knowingly has continued purposely starved your artist and been extremely unfair to the very same artist that helped u obtain that Icon Award on the iconic Badboy label.”

Mase claims that 24 years ago, Diddy gave him $20k for his publishing rights, which he added, has made him “never want to work” with him again. The deal he signed with Diddy earned him “peanuts.”

Mase also quotes in the lengthy IG post that he attempted to buy back the publishing rights recently, but was met with a response that said he would only do so if he could match “what the EUROPEAN GUY OFFER him.”

He claimed his only other option is to wait until the rights revert back to him. “You bought it for about $20k & I offered you $2m in cash,” he wrote. “This is not black excellence at all. When our race is enslaving us. If it’s about us owning, it can’t be about us owning each other.”

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