What is it with female rappers we've never really heard of and jail these days?
Lady rapper Remy Ma – of hits like Guilty, Crazy, Everyday I'm Fucking Him and several other songs you're equally unlikely to have heard of that have less amusing titles – has been convicted of shooting a woman in the belly last year.
So with Remy Ma facing a 25-year jail term, Foxy Brown still locked up and Lil' Kim's record as an ex-con, that means the only rapping female without a criminal past is now Natasha Bedingfield. And that'll only last until the police finally nail her for all those ivory tombstones she's been embezzling in her teeth.
Typical. Since its creation, hip-hop has always been negatively stereotyped as a music that constantly glamorises excessive street violence, and it's been a label that's been hard to shift. Then yesterday we reported that the LA Times had to apologise to Diddy for blaming him for a shooting he played no part in. Finally, with this high-profile backtracking by a noted newspaper it seemed like hip-hop was starting to turn the tide on its own self-image.
Then Remy Ma got convicted of shooting a woman in the stomach during an argument about money. Nice timing, moron.
Prior to last year, Remy Ma was best known for being the only female rapper to have a name equally inspired by the cooking rat from Ratatouille and your mother. But all that changed last July when, during an argument with over some money in New York, Remy Ma shot Makeda Barnes-Joseph in the abdomen, piercing her colon and hitting her in the rectum.
Remy Ma had claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle – but yesterday a jury decided that it didn't, and Remy Ma was convicted of the shooting. And, as a tough, street-smart rapper, Remy Ma took the news on the chin. The New York Post reports:
"Oh, my God! My son! My son!" she screamed, referring to her 8-year-old, as she was hauled out of court to jail, where she faces the possibility of spending the next 25 years behind bars. Remy, 26, was found guilty of assault, weapons-possession and coercion charges for blasting Makeda Barnes Joseph, 24, with a .45-caliber handgun outside a club in the Meatpacking District on July 14, 2007… Remy initially took the verdict stoically. But after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller ruled that she should be remanded to jail until her sentencing next month, one of Joseph's supporters sarcastically waved at her and said, "Bye, bye" – after which the rapper broke into tears.
It's unfortunate that Remy Ma's eight-year-old son won't be able to see his mother properly until he's about 33 years old now, but it's probably even more unfortunate that Remy Ma didn't even tell him that she was even going to court in the first place. We look forward to seeing what horrible emotional scars he'll be left to cope with from all of this.
But, as harrowing as this conviction sounds, it wasn't all bad news for Remy Ma yesterday. Her charges of gang assault, witness tampering, witness intimidation and assault in a separate incident were all dropped, which means that the next eight to 25 years that Remy Ma spends in jail for shooting a woman through the arse will pretty much be a non-stop party.
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Shawn Lindseth says
Is it me or does she only have one arm?
gir says
If you are Rick Allen, it’s you.
Jim Williams says
Dats how we keeps it real….Real stupid like most of the hip hop community…
I guess selling records about violent crime seems appealing to the young black community,,,
Therefore you get a big attaboy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lauren says
What the Fuc* is ur problem! Ur saying all this shit about these girl rappers going to jail but who the fuc( cares its their life stay out of it. Im sure she knows what she did was fuc(ed up but there is nothing she can do about it now, all she can do is move on and deal with the day at hand. So if u dont like what happened then just shut up and get out of her business! Things happen…and did they ever find out if that chick really did steal her money b/c if so then u know what she should have expected something 2 happen b/c bad things happen when u fuc( with people’s money.
gir says
I never thought of it that way. Who are we to judge the innocence or guilt of defendants, simply because we sit on a jury? All questions of law or morality aside, are we not hypocrites to criticize the actions of a woman simply trying to shoot another woman over some money?
Anyway, I think Remy Ma was just trying to serve the cause of justice. They give the death penalty for theft, right? No? Well, they should.