Mase Denies Giving Fivio Foreign A Minuscule $5,000 Advance

The 20-year feud among semi-retired Harlem World rapper Mase and his former mentor Diddy took an unpredicted twist past 7 days when it was unveiled that the two males might have much more in prevalent than formerly imagined by lovers. Mase was dubbed “Diddy 2.0” after burgeoning Brooklyn artist Fivio International appeared on the Million Dollaz Really worth Of Game podcast and claimed that he’d only gained a paltry pittance of $5,000 to signal to Mase’s RichFish imprint early in his career.

Mase, who claimed that Diddy only gave him a $20,000 greenback advance in the ’90s in trade for signing absent his publishing, must have thought that he looked lousy in gentle of passing on the misfortune to a different artist. So this 7 days, he went on Million Dollaz Worth Of Match himself to distinct the air and demonstrate that the problem wasn’t as terrible as Fivio designed it out to be. According to Mase, the actual quantity he provided was truly substantially larger — about $745,000 greater, in actuality.

“I experienced to set a file collectively of all the historical past that was remaining out,” Mase states in the movie previously mentioned. “At one time I gave him $5,000, but I gave him $750,000.” He elaborates that he structured Fivio’s RichFish offer so that he could continue being included as Fivio negotiated contracts with big labels these kinds of as Def Jam and Columbia. Mase then proceeds to present hosts Gillie Da Kid and Wallo267 files on his mobile phone — even going as considerably as contacting execs at Columbia on the air — that exhibit that he experimented with to be good to Fivio and give him 50/50 on all their splits.

Of program, what with Fivio admitting he didn’t know the business properly at the time, it’s completely probable that he misunderstood how items labored (it’s transpired just before and will probable transpire yet again). It’s also doable that Mase is flimflamming in purchase to make himself out to be the hero of the narrative. As with any of these situations, the info are possible somewhere in the middle and the information are remaining muddled in the retelling. In the close, I consider the big takeaway is that the music business desires some severe overhauls to be certain transparency and fairness for artists and the business people who aid make them stars.