Mase Roasts Cam’ron for ‘Confessions of Fire’ Album Cover

Cam’ron and Mase took a hilarious stroll down memory lane on the latest episode of It Is What It Is, revisiting their questionable fashion choices in a pair of photoshoots.

The roasting did not disappoint.

The discussion kicked off when Cam’ron was asked about the cover of his 1998 debut album Confessions of Fire, which famously shows him wearing a leather jumpsuit while holding a sledgehammer in front of a blazing fire.

According to Cam, the idea didn’t come from him at all.

“That was [Lance ‘Un’ Rivera’s] idea,” he recalled. “They tried to gas me, say it’s 5001 Flavors, just the look and all that.”

Cam’ron said he was so early in his career that he trusted the vision. He recalled that he later confronted Rivera about the fiery aesthetic, and the former label exec jokingly blamed Cam for him starting to smoke weed.

“He blamed me for the shit … I wasn’t happy, man,” Cam admitted, before taking a playful shot at Mase. “But I wasn’t sitting on nobody pole either.”

Mase’s early promo imagery included a photo of him sitting on a pole with his legs stretched out, a visual Cam never forgot.

“You were naked in leather,” Mase shot back. “That might be worse, I don’t know.”

Cam immediately doubled down on the comparison.

“Put them side by side. Let the audience take a vote,” he said. “The leather or sitting on the pole. I don’t know, Murda, you look comfortable.”

Mase joked that even he wasn’t sure what was going through his mind during that shoot before saying he didn’t know who Cam was “working for” at the time.

Cam’ron, meanwhile, reminded him that the flaming photoshoot situation traced back to Mase helping guide him early in his career.

“Murda, you put me with them n***as. You might have lined me up,” Cam said. Mase fired back instantly: “Yeah, I ain’t tell you to do all that.”