Ma$e called out Shannon Sharpe after the Pro Football Hall of Famer took a shot at the rapper-turned-sports talking head on the Nightcap podcast. The former Bad Boy Records artist addressed Sharpe’s comments on the February 19 episode of It Is What It Is.
The former pastor did not appreciate being labeled a “gangster pastor” by Sharpe, who told Ma$e to sit his “rollie pollie ass down” for joking about Sharpe’s feud with Mike Epps.
“He called me a fake pastor,” Ma$e told his co-host Cam’ron. “Somebody sent it to me … Listen Shannon, I’m not the one to play with … You started out being very aggressive with Ja Morant’s pops at a Lakers game. If you are for Black people, this is not the way to carry yourself. And let me go further than that. You wanted to be tough with Mike Epps and you settled quicker than Diddy and Cassie.”
He added, “You wanna be aggressive with me, right? Listen, you showed poised, respect, wherewithal, resolve, compassion [and] reverence for Skip Bayless. Why are you so aggressive any time somebody Black say something?”
Ma$e believed Sharpe’s remarks were “ignorant.” He questioned why Sharpe singled him out since Cam’ron laughed about the ESPN employee’s beef with Epps too.
“I thought it was very classless because if we’re all joking, I looked at it like I was really giving some good advice,” Ma$e said. “Even though we joke, I’m giving good advice … You don’t really wanna run up on people or tell people you gonna run down on them because they don’t know if you’re serious or not … We both were laughing and I took it a way because he singled me out. Like you think Cam is tough and I’m not? I’m really like that.”
Ma$e claimed he respected Sharpe and did not want to clash with the ex-NFL star. Cam’ron was amused by the situation as he listened to his co-host run down Sharpe for several minutes.
Listen to everything Ma$e had to say below.