Mase and Cam’Ron are daring Skip Bayless to change up his formula.
As Bayless looks for a new debate opponent — or opponents — after Shannon Sharpe left FS1’s “Undisputed,” the two rappers spoke on their “It Is What It Is” podcast about wanting to see Bayless pitted against white partners.
“He always tries to get someone to bring ‘the culture’ to him, where he can pay them less, and benefit off the culture. I don’t think anybody should go on there. I want to see him to do it with Todd McShay, or Ashley Brewer. She’s good-looking,” Mase said.
“I don’t think anybody who’s got any kind of culture should go up there with Skip. He’s not gonna pay them, and there’s gonna be a token black guy where he can make some cash off them.”
Bayless is close friends with a number of rappers, including Nelly and Lil Wayne.
Cam’Ron gave Bayless more credit than Mase did, but also wanted to see intra-racial debates.
“I’m not saying you don’t give people opportunity, we dig it, but I would love to see Skip Bayless do that s–t with somebody white,” Cam’Ron said.
Mase disagreed, saying that Bayless has only given opportunity to people who “help him.”
Cam’Ron continued, “Skip’s not dumb. He sees what the black dynamic does for the show … I don’t want to act like Skip is not a historian who doesn’t know the business or do his homework. Skip’s been reporting the Cowboys [since] the 1970s.”
Mase interjected that Bayless should do the show with Max Kellerman, Steve Young or Tony Romo.
The five people cited by the rappers were all laid off by ESPN last week.
In fairness to Bayless, he was very helpful to the careers of Shannon Sharpe and Stephen A. Smith.
Smith had been forced out of ESPN in 2009, and Bayless had to grovel with ESPN brass to get them to allow Smith back into the network as Bayless’ debate partner on “First Take”.
As The Post first reported in breaking the news of Sharpe’s exit from the program, Sharpe had wanted to be considered on equal footing with Bayless, who drove the topic selection for the show.
Nevertheless, Sharpe credited Bayless with helping his stature in the sports media business in their emotional final episode together.
“I’ll never forget what you did for me,” Sharpe said. “All I ask is when you lay your head on your pillow at night, know I gave you everything I had.”
Of course, Smith and Sharpe are both enormous stars in their own right, and deserve a lot of credit for their hard work and talent in getting there, but they also both benefitted from their years of debating Bayless.
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