Reminisce Smith aka Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting her longtime friend Makeda Barnes-Joseph in the stomach back in 2007 over an alleged confrontation about stolen money. Back in March, she was found guilty of first-degree assault, criminal weapons charges and attempted coercion.
The 26-year-old rapper was facing 25 years so it looks like she got off kinda good. Here is what she said in court earlier today:
Throughout this unfortunate case, I was advised from my attorney to stay silent but now I want you all to see me for me and what I’ve gone through,” said Remy as tears fell. “Reporters and newspapers have called me a ‘hardcore rapper,’ a ‘hip-hop harlot’—Remy Ma is just a music industry name. A facade. I’m not a thug. I’m not a hardcore anything. I have feelings. I’m Remy Smith—No, I’m Remy Mackie. I’m a wife, mother, daughter and big sister.
Remy wept as she apologized to Barnes-Joseph, but the judge did not sympathize with the rapper. “This is somewhat of a pattern. This is not the first time she has been engaged in a violent act. She never took responsibility for her actions,” the judge said. “This has nothing to do with rap it’s about the actions of one person. Remy is an extremely angry young woman who feels the rules do not apply to her.”
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In related news, the rapper’s jail house wedding ceremony was called off on Monday when her fiance, rapper Papoose (aka Shamele Mackie), allegedly attempted to smuggle a handcuff key into the Rikers Island Correctional facility. Papoose was not charged, but the rapper was escorted out of the jail and will not be able to visit Remy for six months.
@79 if that is the case, then they are not your friends. And that was the case in this situation. Remy isn’t a “friend” type,so of course she hangs with her a likes. All that “street” dealings, will only get you in two places, jail and in a grave. Isn’t it always a “friend” or “girlfriend” that do a street nygger in? It kills me how people just like anyone into their circle just cause. Now look at the end results… I don’t have dealings with anyone that I have to second guess about anything. I guess that’s because I’m over 25, and my mom would have beat my azz for being a follower. Another thing, if Remy is so “paid”, $3,000 isn’t nothing. Jay Z spends that plus, before he takes his coat off and is seated… You give a nygger a little bit of money and they will always self destruct. That’s why it’s nothing to give a rapper a million dollar deal now days. Because the higher ups see the big picture. Too bad alot of rappers don’t.
people think a gun makes you tough it doesnt what it does do is get you time behind bars to wish you had rethunk you r action i honestly dont think she got enough time myself but at least she got something i do feel sorry for her son though i guess someone should since his mom didnt care enough to
I love that outfit!! Sorry Rem, I’m a fan, but I have no sympathy. Hope that lost $3,000.00 was worth the freedom. The true loser is her son.
I want to take a qoute and the name of the skit that Dave Chapelle did back in the day. It’s called ” when keepin’ it real goes wrong”. This is a prime example of that. SHE SHOT SOMEONE!!! Almost killed her, but she kept it real and gansta”. It’s one thing to rap and talk bout’ keeping it gangsta, but it’s another when you play it out in real life.
YO DATZ SOME WING SHYT…. BOTH OF YAUL DID SOME WING SHYT!!! IT LOOKS LIKE YAUL BOTH GOT WAT YAUL DESERVE!!! IM NOT A BAD PERSON TO WISH BAD THINGS ON PEOPLE BUT REMY U SHOULD GET A LIL MORE TIME N DAT SO CALL LONG TIME FRIEND SHOULD AT LEAST DO SOME TIME JUST 4 TAKING YAH MONEY!!! HOLD YAH HEAD UP BE STRONG!!
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I’m not a Remy Ma fan, but I feel the need to say this. Unfortuneatly (SP?), Remy doesn’t know anything but “hood” actions. Yes, she is grown and really should know better than to shoot someone, but being from the hood, she may be one of those that lives by that hood code: you don’t steal money from someone and that person get away with it. That makes you look like a punk. In my opinion, she did what she felt like she was supposed to do in order to keep her “hood”, “down ass chick” reputation because that’s what she knows to do. I am not justifying her actions at all, I just wanted to give a little insight. I do believe 8 years was DEFINETLY a blessing considering she was originally facing 25 years, but the 8 year sentence was a result of her having a record also, not just the shooting. I will go on to reiterate that Remy is basically a product of her environment, and me personally being someone from the same type of environment, I am able to say that with conviction. Some people rise above it and don’t stay in that lifestyle or mindset. Others decide to continue to live that way and keep that hood mentality. Even though Remy has money, money can only change your address, your clothes, and the cars you drive- not where you come from or how you think, and I think people should remember that before they go off and start calling her a bitch and dumb broad this and stupid ho that, or whatever terms they’re using for her. Whatever the reason for her actions, jail is jail and the shit is real, whether it’s a day, a month, 10 months or 10 years. Even though she did the crime and must “do the time”, my heart still goes out to her. And if Papoose is any kind of man, he’ll be standing at the gates of the jail on the exact day this 6 months is over, waiting to see her again. She should get out in about 7 1/2 for time served, maybe earlier than that for good behavior. Keep your head up, Remy. Regardless of the media playing this up, there are people that wish you well.