Ma$e Admits He Preferred 2Pac To Biggie When He Joined Bad Boy

Ma$e has revealed that back when he first signed to Bad Boy Records, he had a heretical opinion: he preferred listening to 2Pac, rather than the label’s star artist The Notorious B.I.G.

On the Wednesday (March 5) episode of his show with Cam’ron, It Is What It Is, the Harlem rapper and host looked back at his relationship with Biggie. He said in particular that Big bringing him onstage during a show at Harlem’s Apollo Theater was a key moment in his career.

Leading up to signing with Bad Boy, Ma$e mentioned that he spent time “working on my flow, working on my bars, working on my delivery.”

“I worked on it for like six months,” he explained. “I studied people like Method Man, I studied people like LL. I got my waves from Nas, I got my bounce from Method Man, I got my songwriting from LL.”

During this period, he laughed: “I wasn’t at first listening to Big. I was more like a 2Pac fan. So when I got signed to Bad Boy, it was like, now I’m with Bad Boy, but I was really a 2Pac fan.”

But, he continued: “Biggie was letting me hear his raps… And I learned so much about rap like that. And then one day, he was performing at the Apollo, and he brought me out, and that was the part that just changed everything.”

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