Remy Ma is a rapper, songwriter, and one of the few female rappers to have made it big in the American hip-hop industry. Her raw talent was originally spotted by Big Pun, but she later joined Fat Joe’s label after Big Pun’s death and became a member of the Terror Squad.
Her work as a member of the troupe shot her to fame and today the rapper has two Vibe Awards, two Source Awards, three Grammy nominations and is one of three multiple winners of the BET Award for Best Hip-Hop Artist, which she has won three times.
Remy Ma’s Bio
Remember Mackie (née Smith), known in the trade as Remy Ma, born May 30, 1980, grew up in Castle Hill Projects, Bronx, New York. As a child, Ma suffered from the problem of drug addiction in her family and was given the responsibility of taking care of her younger ones. Writing poetry was her only escape from the troubles in her family and she soon became popular in her neighborhood.
She also began fighting rap with her schoolmates inculcating her poetry into her raps. Soon after, she was battling professional rappers and later became a popular freestyle rapper in her neighborhood. With her growing popularity in the Bronx, the late MC Big Pun heard about her work and after meeting and freestyle session with her, became her mentor.
Her first appearance in the music industry was on Big Pun’s album Yes, Baby, under the name Remy Martin, on the tracks of Mrs. Martin and You Were Wrong . After the death of her mentor, Big Pun, Ma signed to Fat Joe’s label and became a member of the Terror Squad. As a member of the group, they produced a song, Lean Back.
Among her many songs, the most successful are Ma Ante Up (Remix), Sit Back, Conceited , and All the Way Up.
In 2008, Ma was found guilty of shooting a woman named Makeeda Barnes-Joseph outside of New York City’s hot spot pizza bar and was consequently sentenced to 8 years in prison at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
The Sit Back singer accused the victim of stealing $3,000 from her purse. After a verbal altercation, Ma shot her in the abdomen while she was searching in Makeeda’s purse for the money and later drove off in a nearby waiting car, leaving Makeeda to die. She was later sentenced to six years in prison and was released on August 1, 2014.
Since 2015, she has appeared on VH1’s reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York alongside her husband Papoose, and has also released many singles.
Wealth (income and earnings)
Remy Ma’s music is widely popularearned a lot of money before she was sent to prison. However, she lost a good chunk of that money due to her legal troubles, which caused her to pay compensation, civil suit, and attorney’s fees. To climb the financial ladder again, the rap queen has been working hard on her career, signing deals with many record labels and reality TV shows.
Currently, Ma makes $350,000 every year. Besides her TV shows, she also makes a ton of money from her commercials for big companies like Gucci, Moschino, Fashion Nova Remy & Papoose: Meet the Mackies and Love & Hip Hop. Remy’s recent ventures and songs have made some waves in the music industry, and she has several Grammy nominations and more cash to prove it.
As of 2014, the rapper has caught a nose dive and is landing around $500,000, but now the tides are in her favor. With a median annual income of $3 million, the rap queen has an estimated net worth of $4 million as of 2018. This number is sure to increase in no time as the unstoppable lady burns her fire.
Remy Ma: husband, son
Remy Ma is married to Shamele Mackie, an American rapper and songwriter better known by his stage name Papoose. They are in the same industry, but while Ma is a rapper, her husband is a mixtape rapper who produced and distributed his own mixtapes in the early 2000s. Though Liberian-born Papoose rose to fame in 1998 when he appeared on Kool G Rap Roots of Evil album, he rose to widespread fame when he and Remy Ma were featured on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop: New York sequel to their release from prison .
The couple was supposed to be married on a yacht in 2008, but unfortunately Ma’s legal troubles with a pending prison sentence caused her to change plans. As a result, Papoose decided to marry her while in prison on March 27, 2008.
On the planned wedding anniversary, just a day before Ma’s sentence was due to begin, the lovestruck rapper, to whom she was engaged, attempted to smuggle a universal handcuff key into the Rikers Island jail. Contrary to what the feisty Papoose would expect, prison guards searched him, uncovered the key, and subsequently sent him out of prison.
However, the following day, the duo married in the courtroom just before she was sentenced to prison. Meanwhile, Papoose was not allowed to visit his wife for six months.
While she was in prison, Papoose was always for her. According to the ‘All the Way Up’ star, he was so ‘bad’ that she had to tell him to stop visiting her. Although the maximum-security prison in Bedford, NY where she was held was about an hour and a half’s drive from Papoose, who was living in Brooklyn at the time, he still visited her every day of her first year in prison.
In February 2016, the lovebirds had a more On July 3, 2018, they celebrated their tenth anniversary and decided to mark this milestone with an intimate vow renewal ceremony.
Shortly after renewing their vows, the couple announced they were expecting their first child together. In an Instagram post on July 3, 2018, Remy revealed she was gone for four months. The news was special for the hip-hop megacouple as Ma had suffered an ectopic pregnancy that ended in miscarriage in 2017. The excited father-to-be tattooed the baby’s sonogram on his inner arm.
Meanwhile, the rap queen “Shether” has a son named Jayson. The young man who was born in 2000 is the product of a previous relationship. He graduated from high school half a year at the beginning of 2018. Jayson has a simple, cursive inscription of his first lady, Remy, on his arm. Ma also has three stepchildren with her husband.
In a relationship with Nicki Minaj
In 2007, Nicki Minaj released her first mixtape, Season’s Up. The mixtape had a freestyle album nicknamed “Dirty Money” which Ma believed the verses were a stab at her, although Minaj never confirmed or denied this. That was the beginning of their feud.
Though the two rappers shared words of encouragement over the past few years, their friendship soon grew cold and they began releasing songs with verses and lyrics aimed at each other. These include Minaj ‘s lovemaking with Gucci Mane and Ma’s money shower with Fat Joe.
On February 25, 2017, Ma was released on Shether , a diss track on Minaj in which Remy suggested that Minaj was happy when she (her biggest competitor) was sent to prison. The track was also filled with thrusts targeting Minaj’s body, her sexual history, her past relationship with Meek Mill, and more. Remy Ma followed that up with another title aimed at her colleague titled Another.
During an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show on March 3, 2017, Ma accused Niki Minaj of keeping her off the red carpets and making sure she doesn’t receive awards. In an interview with Buzzfeed a week later, Ma seemed sorry that she had offended Minaj and said she wouldn’t condone or recommend tearing down another woman, especially if it’s someone she likes, from below comes and has managed to make something of itself.
She added, “However, if you upset me and we become sworn enemies, run for cover.” Responding with the song No Scams, Minaj accused Ma of spreading lies. On June 12, 2017, Ma performed at Hot 97’s Summer Jam and repeatedly shot f*ck bullets into Minaj throughout the course of the stage performance.
When Remy and her husband Papoose stopped by The Wendy Williams Show on September 28, 2018 to promote their upcoming VH1 special Meet the Mackies, Wendy Williams asked Remy about her present’s situation with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B and the Terror Squad Femcee said there was no beef. In her words: “It’s not a relationship”. Ma further said that she has no bad feelings or wishes towards Minaj.