They were more viscous MC’s back then, when they were in COTC they had that hunger & fresh off the block style, the were heavily influenced by Big L & mainly rapped that hardcore aggressive style to impress their crew from 139th st.
People just mainly know Ma$e from his Bad Boy days when Puffy made him slow down his flow & relax his rhyming cadence, it helped him become more appealing from a commercial standpoint, but if you listen to old school 1993 Murda Mase he was significantly a better rapper back then.
Killa Cam’s best part of his career was between 02-06 with the Come Home With me, Purple Haze & Killa Season albums.