*When it comes to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Ma$e, it’s been some goodwill and a lot of bad bad blood. Yet despite the beef, the “Breathe, Stretch, Shake” MC would not be above taking time to visit his embattled former collaborator behind bars.
“I mean, if my name was on the list, I’d go visit Puff, you know?” Ma$e confirmed to his “It Is What It Is” podcast co-host Cam’ron. “I would visit him, make sure that he’s good.”
“Why you ain’t do it when he was out?” a laughing Cam wondered.
“These are the times you need people to check up and make sure you good,” Ma$e answered. “And not that I condone anything that they’re alleged to have done, just until they prove it, you kind of want to make sure that you don’t be like one of those people that, somebody did good for you…he didn’t do all bad, he did some good.”
“I’m not talking about the tape stuff and all that,” he continued. “I’m talking about just the musical side, giving me an opportunity, I think, as a person of class, you definitely got to show up and sit somewhere in the court, if they let you.”
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Before imagining his jailhouse visit, Ma$e spoke about his time attending the funeral of Voletta Wallace, a moment he labeled as “the end of an era.”
As the conversation continued, the “Tell Me What You Want” hitmaker cleared up of the rumor of him being seated uncomfortably next to one of Diddy’s sons.
“I wasn’t there. I was just wondering,” Cam chuckled while bringing up the topic. “I heard they put ya’ll by each other and the vibe wasn’t right.”
Although Ma$e offered no confirmation of being seated with one of Diddy’s sons, he did express that he thinks he and Diddy saw each other from a distance, but didn’t speak.
Ma$e’s encounter during Voletta Wallace’s funeral as well as his thoughts on visiting Diddy come as the hip-hop mogul waits to stand trial (starting this Monday/05-05-25) for years of scandalous behavior, he had a part in over the years. Currently, Combs is at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on charges of racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution.
After signing to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records in 1996, Ma$e emerged with his 1997 debut album “Harlem World” in 1997. Two years later, the hitmaker followed up the effort in 1999 with “Double Up” before retiring to go into the ministry.
After 2004’s “Welcome Back,” which continued his track record of releasing material via Bad Boy, Ma$e and Combs’ alliance took a downturn when Ma$e confronted the “Come To Me” hitmaker for holding on to the publishing rights to all of his music, even after Ma$e separated himself from the label and offered Combs $2 million to pay for it.
Chronicling the bad blood, Vibe referenced an October 2022 Breakfast Club interview, where Diddy called Ma$e a “fake pastor” who actually owed him money to the tune of $3M.
“Ma$e owes me $3 million,” Combs said at the time. “That’s facts, I got the receipts. And I’m not gon’ go back-and-forth with Ma$e. I’m not going back-and-forth with nobody. I’m just gonna speak up for myself now.” Ma$e responded by claiming Puff swindled almost every Bad Boy artist, but most have died or were forced to sign NDAs.
Combs did give Ma$e his publishing officially in 2023, the year the duo had what Combs claimed was a “real conversation.” From there, the pair’s status was one of “brothers” who may bicker, but still have love for one another.
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