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Cam’ron and Mase are always roasting someone on It Is What It Is, and on the latest episode of their talk show, the pair of Harlem rappers playfully clowned each other’s wardrobe choices of the past.
Murda brought up Cam’s Epic Records debut album cover, Confessions of Fire, which finds a shirtless Cam in leather overalls holding a sledgehammer in front of a blaze. “Whose Idea was that?” Mase asked.
Cam’ron placed the blame on record executive Lance “Un” Rivera. “That was Un’s idea,” he said. “They tried to gas me, say it’s 5001 Flavors, just the look and all that.”
Cam fired back by bringing up a photoshoot from the early days of Mase’s career that saw Murda sitting with his legs out atop a pole of sorts in a pair of Air Jordan 4s. “But I wasn’t sitting on nobody pole either,” Cam quipped.
Mase returned fire: “You were naked in leather. That might be worse, I don’t know.” Cam then instructed the show’s producers to put up a side-by-side graphic of the questionable images to let the fans decide which is worse.
“Put them side by side. Let the audience take a vote,” Cam’ron added. “The leather or sitting on the pole. I don’t know, Murda, you look comfortable.”
Cam’ron released his Confessions of Fire debut album in July 1998. On the project, which reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200, Cam teamed up with Mase for “Horse & Carriage” and called for assists from Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Kelly Price and Noreaga.
Watch the full It Is What It Is episode below. Find Cam and Mase roasting each other around the 42-minute mark.
