*Remy Ma cracked jokes about life as an inmate in New York's Rikers Island prison during an interview with Eminem’s Shade 45 channel on Sirius satellite radio.
“It's nothing. I’m in here chillin’ – eating mad mackerel,” said the rapper, who was convicted in March on four counts of assault and weapon possession for shooting a former friend.
A New York judge delayed sentencing in late April so that Remy's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, would have time to build an argument against the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. She's due back in court on May 13.
“I’m in the cell 23 hours a day – max security. It’s real crazy over here," she told DJ Kay Slay and his Streetsweeper Radio team. You got certain officers that are extra nice and you got the ones that are extra not nice. I be telling them it’s not my fault that my commissary is more than their salary.”
Remy Ma still says she is innocent of the charges against her. She stated: “Just because 12 people say something, who weren’t there, does not mean nothing. I’m not even mad at people. I’m mad at money or what lack of it does to people. It's really sad. Ain’t nothing changed, because I’m on the Island…[I'm] still the Queen of NY.”
“Don’t be mistaken about a jury that was not my peers," she continues. "There was no tan [or] dark brown, black – nothing - on that jury. It’s a whole conspiracy against rappers right now so I already knew what it was."