Mario is straight up denying a hefty allegation -- that he's the sultry-voiced "Wasp" on this season of "The Masked Singer" who's been bringing the house down!!!
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07Mm-hmm.
00:08It was a rapper that we all know.
00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13We're just grateful to have made it out.
00:17They found you out, dog.
00:19They think they found you out.
00:21What you mean?
00:22They said 100%.
00:24Like, there's literally like 30 articles saying you are the wasp.
00:29Bro, I've been hearing that everywhere.
00:32Listen, man, I gotta go listen to this, man.
00:34This is crazy.
00:35I seen the clip.
00:36I was like, okay, I can hear what they're saying, but it's not me.
00:40You see where I'm at.
00:41I just came from Atlanta.
00:43I'm not that single.
00:44Glad you came yourself.
00:45Well, they do film here in L.A.
00:48I live here.
00:49Ah, okay.
00:50It's so crazy.
00:51Imagine everywhere you go, people accusing you of something.
00:54It is not me.
00:55What's wrong with y'all?
00:56Y'all know me.
00:57Y'all know.
00:59Mario.
01:00Do you sing better than the wasp?
01:02Because you heard the clips now.
01:04I gotta listen again.
01:05What song did I hear?
01:06I heard something on Instagram.
01:08Do I sing?
01:10Are you like, come on now?
01:11I would say yes, because I would say yes, yeah.
01:15The hype though.
01:16They're like, man, the hype is right.
01:18This, the that.
01:19This is crazy.
01:20Does it make you want to be on the Masked Singer?
01:22You know what, low key, I'm interested now.
01:24I'm like, this might be a cool opportunity, man.
01:27TMZ is with Fox Entertainment now, so we can make this happen.
01:30TMZ, put a good word in for me, man.
01:32I'm down.
01:33The Queen Bee, right?
01:35Getting nominated.
01:36She's now the Grammy Darling for her country album, right?
01:40Even like R&B, classic R&B acts, King Michelle, you know?
01:44People are moving in that direction.
01:47And I wonder, you know, is part of you like, yo, let me do a country album too?
01:54You know what?
01:55I've had those thoughts of trying all different types of music, and country has definitely
01:59been on my list just because I grew up listening to all types of music.
02:03My voice is very versatile.
02:05And I feel like country music is one of those genres where you can talk about stories that
02:11you've never talked about in ways you've never talked about it.
02:14Use your voice in different ways.
02:17I don't feel like there's any limit to it, so I would definitely try it.
02:20So is this on your list of like, you know, things maybe you're going to do soon?
02:24I wouldn't say soon, but maybe in the future, for sure.
02:26Why not?
02:27You can do it all, baby.
02:28You can do it all.
02:29And there was people like, yo, like, hey, there was, you know, there's this animosity
02:34that was going on about like, oh, Beyonce, da, da, da.
02:36But it's like, yo, if Beyonce called me to do a feature on a country record and she was
02:43on the other side of the world, I would spend my own money to take a jet there to meet her
02:48to do it.
02:50Of course, man.
02:51For sure.
02:52Yeah, I feel like there's a new space.
02:53Even Shaboosie, like all the biggest country acts right now, they're black.
02:57They're black, for sure.
02:58I mean, I think that's just a testament to the fact that we, as black artists, as creators,
03:04in anything that we do, we can dominate it and we can do it well and unapologetically.
03:11Right, yeah.
03:12And inspire people in general.
03:14You know, the conversation about the color, the skin of your color is like, oh, the color
03:18of your skin is like.
03:20I mean, I think at this point, it's kind of typical for people, when they see black people
03:25doing things that they don't expect us to do, to kind of like bring that up.
03:29Not everybody.
03:30Yeah, yeah.
03:31There's certain political, the politics of it, right?
03:33Sure, sure.
03:34But we're going to keep doing what we do, man.
03:35So congratulations to Shaboosie, congratulations to Queen B. You know, and all y'all that love
03:39country music, man, enjoy it.
03:41You know, study the history of it.
03:43Yeah, and you might be doing something.
03:45Maybe one day.