Remy Ma Recalls Prison Being the 'Worst' Thing She's Ever Endured
In 2008, Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison for assault with a weapon, although she spent six years behind bars.
Being in prison was one of the more regrettable moments in Remy Ma's life.
The Terror Squad member discussed spending six years in prison during a guest appearance on Nick Cannon and Courtney Bee's We Playin' Spades podcast, which was posted on Monday (Sept. 16).
In 2008, Remy was sentenced to eight years in prison for assault with a weapon, having been arrested the year before for shooting a friend over $3,000 being stolen from her purse. The "Conceited" rapper would ultimately spend six years behind bars, being released in 2014 and having post-release supervision until 2019.
Around the 20-minute mark of the video below, the We Playin' Spades crew reached a segment on "reneging," where Cannon asked if there was a moment in life that Remy would take back if possible.
"I'm not going to prison, ever. The fuck?" she said.
She continued, "Before that, it used to be the worst thing that ever happened was, I got cut in my face...It used to really bother me a lot, and I used to say, this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me."
"And then there was the penitentiary. And I was like, this shit not cool. It was the worst thing that I’ve ever endured in my life, ever."
Cannon shared that Remy's fans and peers respected her for "holding it down" doing the six-year bid, but the Bronx native acknowledged that she never spoke about what she went through.
"That's because nobody really knows what happened. I never talked about it, ever," she told Cannon. "I'm not supposed to. That's just how I grew up. Even though, in a lot of ways, the things I feel like they taught us in the hood was ass backwards, it's not real life."
"I felt like once I came home, I already was in jail. I can't change it; it already happened," she added.
Similarly, around the 37-minute mark of a 2022 episode of Drink Champs, Remy spoke about her son, Jayson Scott, being seven when she went to prison. Scott, who's now facing legal troubles of his own, was 14 when his mother returned home.
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