Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend

[kilroy69 1,268]

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."

 

In March, a New York jury found Smith, nominated for a 2004 Grammy for her part in Terror Squad's song "Lean Back," guilty of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion.

 

Smith's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, called the shooting in the early hours of July 14, 2007, accidental and suggested the victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, was exaggerating the facts to win a large sum in a separate civil suit.

 

Smith believed her friend had taken $3,000 from her and that her gun went off as the pair struggled over her purse. The bullet pierced Barnes-Joseph's colon and hit her rectum and sent her to a hospital for three weeks.

 

In appealing for leniency, Smith tearfully described how she had grown up in homeless shelters, "surrounded by poverty and drugs and violence and failure."

 

"Remy Ma is not even close to who I really am. I'm not a thug," she said. "I'm not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer."

 

But prosecutor Michael McIntosh said that Smith had a habit of traveling with a loaded weapon and said something like this "was bound to happen one day."

 

The sentence was read aloud to a packed courtroom, including the rapper's fiance, the rapper Papoose.

 

Smith and Papoose had planned to marry yesterday at New York's Rikers Island jail, but the ceremony was canceled after a handcuff key was discovered on Papoose, officials said.

 

After the sentencing, as Smith's friends and family gathered outside the courtroom, Papoose had to be restrained as he lurched at one of the 15 court officers who had been stationed in the courtroom.

 

In a phone interview from prison last week on the satellite radio show with New York DJ Kay Slay, Smith said she was innocent and that there is a "whole conspiracy against rappers right now."

"Don't be mistaken by a jury that was not my peers. Like, there was not tan, dark brown, black, nothin' on that jury," she said.

 

 

 

 

 

Uh yea. Its a conspiracy against rappers right now because YOU shot someone and went to jail. Good luck with proving that in your appeal.

[kutulu 1,707]

[KSB2424 3,174]

I could care less about Remy Ma, but it just occurred to me: Why in the hell do the Grammy's even acknowledge Rap Music? I almost peed myself a year or two ago when Three Six Mafia walked on stage and got a freakin' Grammy.

[KingofBeer 0]

"I'm not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer."

 

yeeeaaahhh....I'd say shooting someone twice in the stomach for thinking they stole some money and then leaving them there to die as you speed away would make you a threat to society...but what do I know

[BigDog 0]

Why is violence committed by some fringe rapper newsworthy? Don't we have bigger fish to fry?

[LOD01 199]

Who? These losers career's usually span 3 years max anyway so this is like a death sentence. They have absolutely ZERO skills.

[patweisers44 865]

The sentence was read aloud to a packed courtroom, including the rapper's fiance, the rapper Papoose

 

Wow...that name must give him a lot of street cred.

[edjr 6,898]

Wow...that name must give him a lot of street cred.

 

Remy Ma isn't a dude.

[KingofBeer 0]

Remy Ma isn't a dude.

 

No, but Papoose is.

 

 

Although his birth name is Shamele

[kutulu 1,707]

Who? These losers career's usually span 3 years max anyway so this is like a death sentence. They have absolutely ZERO skills.

 

<Remy Ma>I got 99 problems but a b1tch ain't one<Remy Ma>

[kilroy69 1,268]

No, but Papoose is.

Although his birth name is Shamele

Funny. I would change my name tp papoose too if my real name was shamele.

[peenie 1,966]

Why is violence committed by some fringe rapper newsworthy? Don't we have bigger fish to fry?

yup, rr-rah kelly.

[Saturday Night Beaver 2]

I could care less about Remy Ma, but it just occurred to me: Why in the hell do the Grammy's even acknowledge Rap Music? I almost peed myself a year or two ago when Three Six Mafia walked on stage and got a freakin' Grammy.

 

 

they won an Oscar too.

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Smith and Papoose had planned to marry yesterday at New York's Rikers Island jail, but the ceremony was canceled after a handcuff key was discovered on Papoose, officials said

 

Classy

 

Also, wtf kind of name is "Papoose?"

[kilroy69 1,268]

Classy

 

Also, wtf kind of name is "Papoose?"

He meant to call himself Pap smear but could not spell very well. So he settled for papoose.