Ma$e stirred controversy with his recent comments about gang culture on Instagram, writing, "I know what I’m about to say is unpopular but it still needs to be said. The weakest thing a black man can do today is join a street gang. The person who you’re riding for today ends up getting a bag to kill you or sending you to jail. Think about it what type of person would ask you to hurt your own people and take an oath to be there for your gang only to end up not being there for your children and family. I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT."
Glasses Malone responded to Ma$e, telling HipHopDX, "Over the years I’ve noticed different things with Ma$e. Being critical of people that come from the kind of background that he comes from and him to act totally clueless and ignorant to it, it’s kind of ridiculous. I kind of feel bad for him for even saying that.
"Ma$e is f**king tripping. He knows why [kids join gangs]. This is not new. Especially since everybody’s reason for joining is different. Most of the time, you from where you from before you claim. Everybody else is going to tell you where you from, for the most part. And if people are your friends, like gangbanging ain’t nothing but a bunch of players who are trying to survive."
Glasses Malone went on to detail his own experience in a gang, stating, "But real gangbanging in its essence, or the one I participated in is really a bunch of friends trying to survive in the place having a different franchise and it completely lacks opportunity altogether. That’s all a gang is where I’m from. And representing the gang is representing your friends, representing y’all background, y’all struggle, y’all cultural togetherness. That’s all it is."
He then added that he would like to sit down with Ma$e to have a conversation, because he believes Ma$e is "too f**king educated to be so stupid and f**king ignorant." Glasses Malone closed by saying, "Like, it makes no sense. He’s too in the know to speak like he doesn’t know. So I think maybe just somebody needs to jar his f**king memory back so he can remember exactly what’s going on and then if he really wanted to help with it, but he still and the problem is, he can actually help instead of just sitting back there on his brass throne at that church, criticizing somebody."
Source: HipHopDX
