Hip-hop producer Polow Da Don has blasted the criminals who allegedly tried to rob him at gunpoint - branding them "weak".

The star, who worked on Usher’s new single Love In The Club, faced masked gunmen who broke into a recording studio on Tuesday. Reports claimed the star - real name Jamal Fincher Jones - along with others in the studio, had money and jewelry stolen.

However, Jones insists the perpetrators’ attempts failed - and has branded the robbers "too weak to be men".

Speaking to SOHH.com, he says, "They thought they came to rob me, but I have heart and I have God… These crack head ass n**gas I guess called themselves robbing me, but we robbed them. I wasn’t scared, I was mad.

"I was like, ‘These dumb ass, weak ass n**gas.’ N**gas don’t get it. You gone (sic) have to shoot me because until then, I don’t believe you. I am a man and nine times out of 10, a n**ga calling himself a robba (sic), a thug or a gangsta is a cover up for being too weak (whether it be physically, spiritually or mentally) to be a man. It’s hard to learn how to be a man…"