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By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices
Remy Ma, who reported to police Saturday evening and was arrested on charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon, pleaded not guilty on Sunday to attempted murder and other counts in the shooting of 23-year-old galpal Makeda Barnes-Joseph.
At her arraignment, a judge granted the prosecution's request for bail to be set at $250,000 for the Grammy Award nominated hardcore rap vixen, who was reportedly in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island on Sunday morning.
According to the 'New York Daily News,' she was released on Sunday after her manager, who identified himself as Big Joe of New Era Management, put up his home as collateral to satisfy a $250,000 bond.
Several other reports indicated that Smith and Barnes-Joseph had a violent altercation - resulting in the latter being shot twice in the midsection - after a pizza party early Saturday in which the thick-thighed lyricist accused the young woman of stealing $3000 from her purse.
"What hurts me is that when she shot me she went over and dumped the bag," Barnes-Joseph told the paper from her St. Vincen'ts Hospital bed. "She didn't even say, 'Oh, my God, I just shot her.' That's what hurt me so much."
She said she had been a close friend of the rapper's for more than a decade.
"The fact she would think I would steal from her," said Barnes-Joseph, "it hurts me because I thought she was a friend of mine."
The former Terror Squad frontwoman is expected in court next month.
Yesterday, the bleached-blonde bang rapper, maintained her innocence. "I didn't shoot my friend!" she reportedly hollered at reporters from the second-floor window of her "modest Cliffside Park, N.J., home," the 'Daily News' reported. "I didn't shoot nobody!"
And now her criminal past is coming to light.
In 2003, the Grammy Award nominated vixen was charged with threatening Alvin Lewis with a gun in the Bronx building where she used to live. Accusing him of abusing women, she reportedly fired the gun close to his head, but missed.
She pleaded guilty in that case to misdemeanor assault, court papers show.
Last month, she was arrested in Queens for driving without a license. She has until next month to pay the $75 fine.
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By: Sassythang2 on 7/17/2007 2:15PM
Why would anyone put their house up to get her out of Jail she should have sat in that cell until reality slapped her in the face, or at least until her natural hair color made a comeback.
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By: msrose on 7/17/2007 2:47PM
She is a crazy ghetto bitch and her fame has cost her paranoia....she can't have anyone around her for long because whatever she is smoking, snorting or drinking has her thinking everybody is hating on her even her long-time friends.........she is losing her mind.....
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By: msrose on 7/17/2007 2:48PM
thats what happens when you give ghetto people money and not train them how to act with the public...she still a ghetto woman with money that is all
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By: Vee on 7/17/2007 2:54PM
Do we really have to live up to this rap image? Rap has nothing to do with being a thug. No matter how much rappers want to pretend like they're hard. Place a gun in one of their faces and they will piss their pants just like the next man. What we should be focusing on is once a ghetto hood rat, always a ghetto hood rat. These people have been acting the fool before they hit the rap scene. They just make a couple of records, get money and move the ghetto mess into the suburbs. Like someone stated previously. You can take the person out of the Ghetto, but you can't take the Ghetto out of them.
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By: Lady L on 7/17/2007 3:08PM
Ummm...excuse me. Everyone is jumping all over Remy. Let's not deny the responsibility that this other female has if she did, in fact, steal $3,000 from her "friend".
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By: Nina on 7/17/2007 3:06PM
When will we learn that we as a black people are destroying one another through the violence, the things that we say and the things that we do, ( the way we act ).I remember a time when we were a proud people and we had gotten to the point where we were no longer looked upon as uncivilized, ignorant and a violent people, a time when we started looking after and taking care of our own. I believe that the best time to be the best example is when you are at the top, a better place to uplift, encourage,be an example and a better role model, but we get just the opposite from some of those that reach the top and topple. But I say cheers to the few that are the examples to and for our people.
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By: Nina on 7/17/2007 3:08PM
Another sign of the times ... tsk ... tsk.
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By: Pammie on 7/17/2007 3:12PM
These are the rappers/ young black kids look up to and try to dress and be like them. Is this where the generation and the generations to come leading to? When are we going to take a stand and say, Enough is Enough! We don't to blame our failures on whites any longer, we are truly messing up on our own.
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By: Lisa on 7/17/2007 3:14PM
To bad Johnny Cochran is no longer with us... Because that what it would take for Remy to win this case. I advise her to enjoy whatever freedom she has left cause she doesn't stand a chance.
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By: Ablackwomanonfire on 7/17/2007 3:19PM
There use to be a thing called "Artist Development" where if a record company was interested in signing you, you as an artist would go through these extremely important classes where you were taught how to act, how to dress, how to walk, how to interview and how to be glamorous in the public eye. If you didn't pass the classes your album would be held until you went through because the record companies was afraid to lose money. That's why when you seee older artist like Ms. Labelle, Mr. Gaye, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Vandross and Ms. Ross they would seem bigger than life you know? That's why when you seen them or listen to them talk or watch them perform fans would cry, pass out and would aspire to be like them. Artist these days are like wild dogs on a old thin leash they are dangerous and uninformed. Finally when they are set free with this money and they go nuts. Remy is perfect example of this theory and so is Foxy Brown. These women call themselves ladies but they are so unlady like, they want to be respected so bad it hurts and they have a short fuse. Three stacks to me is not worth my freedom I think you all will agree on that. She needs to admit her wrong doings and do her time just like Foxy needs to go to jail for jumping on people. I advise these women to go seek counseling for their anger issues. Another son being raise by their grandmother while his mother serves time sad
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