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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: 4evergemini on 9/04/2007 6:42PM
It's sad anytime there is black-on-black crime. We need to wake up as a community and stop the violence. Instead of making all of the negative comments that I have read we should be trying to pray for the people involved and help them to realize that there are other ways of solving conflict other than through violence. If Remy Ma is guilty of shooting Ms. Barnes-Joseph for money while she was unarmed then she needs to serve time in jail for her crime. Who really knows what went on in the vehicle that night? Only the ones in the car can give a true account of what happened that night. Choose your friends wisely.
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By: UPSET!!!!!!!! on 9/04/2007 7:10PM
W A K E UPPPPPPPPPPPPPP people, there is nothing ok about shooting someone. What is wrong with this generation????? And these are the YOUNG people who will be running our counrty, so does this mean should someone steal a roll of tissue from the White House will the president just shoot to kill. This generation scares me TAKE COVER PEOPLE, TAKE COVER AND GET RIGHT THE END IS SO NEAR.
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By: Dee Dee on 9/04/2007 7:59PM
Yo Remy! Don't drop the soap. I think it's slammervile for you boo.
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By: hope on 9/06/2007 10:06PM
I believe that is Remy Ma realy did shoot her friend, which she probably did then she should be ashamed of her self. Just because you play a bad girl on the video doesn't make you one in real life. You had a good thing going for you Ma. and now you have thrown it away for what. Absolutely nothing!!!!! Even if your girl did take the $3000, you still aren't getting it back. YOu just lost all that you worked so hard for. And it's chicks like you that make real lady's look bad.
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By: Felisha Maggitt on 9/05/2007 4:22PM
I think it's shameful for young beautiful talented african american women to act so violently. I think it's time we wise up and wake up. We should lift each other up not beat each other down. God Bless
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By: christy on 9/07/2007 1:32PM
wisdom and youth share no table
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By: Like Wa on 9/05/2007 10:34PM
I think it's a DAMN SHAME that another black figure, (one in the public eye) is giving these damn white folks one more thing to talk about. Don't these sisters know that these crackers are already looking for a reason to LOCK YOUR BLACK ASSES UP! Use some damn COMMON SENSE. And besides, if Remi did shoot her over 3k it just shows that she must really be a BROKE ASS BROKE DOWN BITCH, to be that petty to risk her name and potentially her fame over such a small allocation of funds. BITCH ! GET A REAL JOB.
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