Fresh off receiving an 8-year sentence for shooting her friend in the stomach, Remy Ma was heard arguing with her victim in a radio interview Wednesday on New York's Hot 97. The victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, first called the station to challenge the DJs assessment that Remy's sentence was too harsh.
Barnes-Joseph, who took two bullets to the stomach last July, doesn't think the sentence was too much. "This thing makes me cry every time I talk about it," she complained. "I have these ugly scars. ... My stomach is crazy."
"She's got a kid. She'll come out in eight years and see her kid," she said. "I might not be able to have kids."
Remy Ma, born Remy Smith, heard Barnes-Joseph on the radio and called in to join the conversation from her Rikers Island jail cell.
"I was there. I'm not agreeing with y'all and telling you I'm wrong and I'm sorry for something I didn't do," said the rapper.
"I don't care if 12 million say 'guilty.' The same way she was there, I was there," an unremorseful Remy said. "[She's] bending the truth. She's stretching it to make it seem like she did nothing wrong. ... I don't got to shoot no girls."
Remy explained to the listening audience that she was offered a plea deal that carried a three-year sentence but turned it down because she believed she would be acquitted.
"You think I would jeopardize being away from my child for five to 25 years if I even had an inkling that I was guilty of something?" she asked the radio DJ.
Barnes-Joseph rebutted, pointing out that Remy carelessy fled the scene after the shooting and didn't bother to check on her friend.
"This whole 10 months, my life has been like a roller coaster," Barnes-Joseph said in a quote to the New York Daily News. "Everyone blames me like I'm a bad person and I did nothing. I did nothing at all."
