Apparently, Jay-Z dissed Mase in one of his songs back in the day. On Jay-Z’s song, “Imaginary Players,” he mentions how there isn’t Rolex diamonds on that Rolex watch. The lyrics go:
“When I see them in the street, I don’t see none of that/Damn playboy, where the fuck is the Hummer at?/Where’s all the ice with all the platinum under that?/Those ain’t Rolex diamonds, what the fuck you done to that?/Y’all rapping-ass niggas, y’all funny to me/You’re selling records being you, but you still wanna be me.”
Mase vs. Hov
Mase appeared on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo’s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. The former Bad Boy rapper claims those lines were meant for him. Mase reminisces on how he was one of the first ones rocking big and flashy pieces. He told the hosts that Jacob the Jeweler made a custom watch for the Notorious B.I.G. The watch Jacob made for Biggie had diamonds in the middle and Mase asked the jeweler to make the same watch, but with diamonds all over it. The Harlem rapper said those lines from “Imaginary Players” had to be about him because no one else had a Rolex watch like that. Since he has never seen it before, the Brooklyn rapper probably thought it was fake, but Mase reaffirms that the watch had real diamonds, just not factory diamonds.
Mase actually responded to Jay-Z on 112’s song, “Love Me.” Mase raps,
“All we hear is platinum that, platinum this/Platinum whips, nobody got no platinum hits/Cats know with me, platinum always wrap my wrist/I come to the awards, quadruple platinum chicks.”
According to Mase, a woman is what made Jay-Z diss him. The woman was allegedly involved with a member of Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella label. During that time, Mase put the woman on his debut album, Harlem World and also had relations with her. Mase confirmed that he and Jay-Z never really had a problem.
“I think I said something on a record and people kind of put it towards Hov, when really I was just trying to be the best. And after my joint sold, I was just talking crazy everywhere, so I might’ve got out of pocket.”
Written by: Brandon Simmons
