By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices
The young woman who was allegedly shot by hip-hop vixen Remy Ma has broken her silence.
Makeda Barnes-Joseph, a galpal of the former Terror Squad rapstress who was shot in her midsection on July 14, isn't mincing any words about her displeasure with the whole ordeal.
"I sit here and I try to think every day, 'Why is she doing that?' How can she deny that?'" the 23-year-old realty office administrative assistant told the New York Daily News. "I'm basically confined to the bed now. It's really hard. It really hurts."
Barnes-Joseph felt the wrath of true diva rage on that near fatal summer night during an altercation at a hotspot in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District.
Cops say that Remy Ma (legally known as Reminisce Smith) got into Barnes-Joseph's Nissan Maxima on W. 14th St. after they left the party about 3:40 a.m. and blasted her twice.
The award-winning rapstress then rifled through her purse after shooting her and then took off.
The dispute was reportedly over $3,000 which Barnes-Joseph was accused of stealing.
"Makeda would never steal money," Barnes-Jospeh's mother Christina Barnes previously told the daily tabloid. "She doesn't need it and I didn't raise her like that."
Remy Ma, who is due in court Nov. 29, pled not guilty to attempted murder, first-degree assault and weapons charges stemming. Released on $250,000 bail, she has maintained her innocence, once hollering at reporters, "I didn't shoot my friend ... I didn't shoot nobody!"
Meanwhile Barnes-Joseph -- in her bedridden state -- has had time to catch up on all of the antics of another prison-ready femme fatale, Foxy Brown (legally known as Inga Marchand).
"It's ridiculous, the stupid things she's doing," she said of the ex-Def Jam superstar who was thrown in jail last week for violating probation.
"They feel that hey can do whatever they want and get away with it," Barnes-Joseph fumed. "They think that because they're rappers that they need to make a name for themselves."
If Remy Ma did shoot her, homegirl is talking from first-hand experience.
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By: kevin ahmad on 8/29/2007 7:34PM
This is a sin and a shame! Females involved in the criminal justice system. Fastest growning prison population is guess who black women. These sisters need to resolves their differences peacefully and move on with their lives. It tragic for all parties involved. Ill tell you what our enemy with the willie lynch mentality is laughing. The niggers is self refueling for hundreds and maybe thousand of years. Sisters you are the mothers of our children stop this senseless abuse of each other. Peace
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By: Mai on 8/29/2007 7:55PM
I don't know these weomen but the one in the dress with the long hair looks like JJ from "Good times" in drag! lol
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By: Profnutz on 8/31/2007 5:40AM
Is it no wonder brothers r deferring
2 women from other racial groups?
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By: WYDEIA RICHARDS on 8/30/2007 9:26AM
YEAH,YEAH, WATZ DA DEAL? ALRIGHT REMY GOT INTO A LIL PROBLEM. OK SO... IT'S NOT LIKE SHORTY WENT AND TRIED 2 TAKE HER EX HOMEGIRL HEAD OFF RIGHT? WHO KNOWS MAYBE HOMEGIRL DESERVED WAT SHE GOT WHO KNOWS MAYBE REMY WENT A LIL 2 FAR,NOBODY WILL NEVER EXCEPT 4 DA POEPLE THAT Was present at the moment...BUT PERSONALLY MY OPINON IZ DAT REMY PUT SHORTY IN HER PLACE.WE DON'T KNO HOW HOMEGIRL WAS B4 DIS,SHE PROBABLY WAS MAD GRIMEY BUT WHO KNOWS? I SAY WE SHOULD LET REMY LEAN BACK 4 A WHILE AND LET HER ENJOY HER FREEDOM 4 A WHILE UNTIL NOVEMBER THEN WE GON KNO WATZ DA REAL DEAL.. I BET IF DAT SHIT HAPPENED 2 PARIS OR NICOLE THEY WOULDN'T EVEN BE IN CUFFS BUT ON A PLANE JET SOMEWHERE IN MEXICO SOMEWHERE.. SO EVERYBODY JUS NEED 2 GET OFF HER JOCK!!!!AS 4 DIS ONE FOXY THEY NEED 2 JUS THROW HER ASS IN JAIL AND GET IT OVER WIT. THIS WORLD ALREADY GOT 2MANY STUPID ASS PEOPLE IN IT DON'T REALLY NEED 2 ADD ANOTHER ONE.FOXY REALLY LOOKIN 4 SOME ATTENTION DATZ ALL. TAKE HER ASS TO RIKERS SHE WON'T BE PLAYIN NO SHIT LIKE DAT. LOL. BUT 4 REAL LEAVE REMY ALONE,THROW FOXY IN JAIL AND WE ALL GO HOME HAPPY. PEACE I'M OUT YA HOMEGURL MI$$ PR@DA!!
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By: ewok on 8/30/2007 12:12PM
Damn wydeia. Your illegible babble looks dumber than a box of Foxxy's hair and Remy's blonde bangs put together. Violence, unless it's self defense, is never justified. What happened to controlling one's self? You,Foxxy,and Remy need to sit down and shut up. Be a queen....if not, your're a waste.
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By: Lin on 8/30/2007 8:25PM
Profnutz, this is NOT the reason brothers are deferring to women of other races. Brothers go to other races because ususally white women are more submissive and do any damn thing they're told to do - i.e. they have no mind of their own, OR, the brothers are weak and can't deal with a strong sister, OR, it's the "in" thing to do, OR maybe, they just happen to fall for someone and they're not basing it on race at all. If you happen to step outside of your race because of the things that happen with celebrities in the media, then you must not have a mind of your own and you like to stereotype. I guess white men shouldn't date white women because they all must act like Britney, Paris and Lindsay. Doesn't make much sense, does it?
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By: VJ on 8/30/2007 8:40PM
A BROTHER MOST LIKELY STRAYS TO OTHER RACES SO HIS ASS DOES'NT GET SHOT BY ONE OF YOU.
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By: Rich Porter on 8/30/2007 9:12PM
True story I know Remy personally, and there is no justifying what she did(if she did it), but no one really knows the circumstances. Alot of us act out of rage before thinking all the time, unless your the type of person that get taken advantage of all the time, if so you can't relate. Having money changes your image, but doesn't always change your personality. Remy been a "Stand Up" kind of chick, and that's one of the reason why i have more love and respect for her then i do for alot of other people in this world. So real talk get off my girl G-string, and get facts before you judge. As for Foxy I feel bad, but dont care. I think people purposely fuck wit her, because she has a hot temper and they view her as an easy pay day.
P.S Leave Mike Vick Alone A Fuckin Dog Aint Worth 22 Million!!!!!!
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By: sweetpie on 8/30/2007 11:23PM
Most of these comments are idiotic. It's idiotic to think that anyone who breaks the law and commits violence is justified. It's idiotic to think that this somehow relates to inter-racial dating. How in the hell does what some stereotypical, mistrial-show behaving 'diva' have anything to do with who a man decides to date? People who would think that are either not black (i.e., buy into these stereotypes) or are stupid. And it's idiotic to think that "Sisters are Queens" BS really matters to people like Remy Ma and Foxy Brown. If they really wanted to be queens, they'd act like queens and not like clowns.
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By: Tavia on 8/31/2007 3:42AM
To the fool that said that is why brothers are going to other races.cut that noise not like brothers track records are clean when more brothers start raising they kids and stop leaving women to be daddy .then talk shi8.you lost your rabbit ass mind.and how many male rappers have done prison bids or shot at someone.the fug you thinking outta ya ass hole.
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