RAPPER after RAPPER after RAPPER
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan.
In sentencing the rapper, criminal court judge Rena Uviller said Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was "an extremely angry young woman whose anger is completely out of control."
May 5, 2008
Incarcerated Bronx rapper Remy Ma phoned into DJ Kay Slay's Shade 45 radio from Rikers Island to give her first interview from behind bars.
As SOHH previously reported, the rapper (born Reminisce Smith) is currently locked up and awaiting sentencing after being convicted of first degree assault, among other charges, for shooting her former friend, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, in the abdomen over the rapper's missing $3,000. Her sentencing hearing, which was originally scheduled for last month, was pushed back to May 13.
During the interview, a jovial Remy blamed the guilty verdict on a bias jury and stuck to her plea of innocence.
"Don't be mistaken by a jury that was not my peers," she said. "There was no tan, dark brown, black, nothing on that jury," she said. "It's a whole conspiracy against rappers right now, so I already knew what it was." [Listen here]
Rem's defense attorney Ivan Fisher feared the same thing.
"I was concerned throughout the case that there is a substantial part of the population who correlate rap with violence," Fisher told SOHH. "And I always had a concern that that worked to our disadvantage and would make it difficult to be fair to Remy at the trial."
Although Remy seemed upset by the verdict, she was in good spirits throughout the call, joking around with the self proclaimed Drama King.
"It's nothin'," she said about her current situation. "I'm in here chillin', eatin' mad mackerel."
Spending most of her time alone in a cell, Remy says she has more contact with guards than anyone else.
"It's real crazy over here," she explained. "You got certain officers that are extra nice and then you got certain officers that are extra not nice. It's not my fault that my commissary is more than they salaries."
Rem chatted on the line with Slay for about five and a half minutes and promised she'd call up again.
"I got wild phone time, son!" She boasted. "They ain't built bars yet that can stop my flow."
She said her new mixtape, "Six Minutes Remy Ma You're On" - which she recorded behind bars - is coming soon and asked that her fans come out and support her on May 13th, when the rapper is due back in court to hear her fate. She faces up to 25 years.
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May 13, 2008
NYC judge gives rapper Remy Ma 8 years in prison
By SAMUEL MAULL – 1 day ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub.
The state Supreme Court sentence was handed Tuesday to the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Remy Smith, for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion.
Remy Ma, who could have faced up to 25 years in prison, was teary-eyed as she heard the sentence.
She says last summer's shooting was an accident; an appeal is planned.
Correction officials say they called off her weekend wedding at the Rikers Island jail after the groom — fellow rapper Papoose — showed up with a handcuff key.
Remy Ma's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, denies the key could be used to unlock handcuffs. Papoose isn't charged.
Fisher says the two still plan to wed.
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Now she has eight years to dream up a new conspiracy, read, stare at the ceiling, and do whatever else she can do - maybe stab someone who tries to steal her bed sheets.
Good riddance to bad trash.
A conspiracy. Yeah, EVERY rapper.
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