Remy Ma Sentenced to 8 years

Just minutes ago, incarcerated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to 8 years in Manhattan Criminal Court for weapons and coercion charges. SOHH was on the scene as the sentence was handed down.

As SOHH previously reported, on March 27 a Manhattan jury convicted Remy of first-degree assault, criminal weapons charges and attempted coercion, for shooting her former friend, Makeda Barnes-Jospeh, in the abdomen last July. The two were in a dispute over the rapper's missing $3,000 that Remy accused the victim of stealing.

Remy (born Reminisce Smith) was initially scheduled to be sentenced on April 23, however, Judge Rena Uviller postponed the trial until today, granting the Grammy nominated rapper's attorney, Ivan Fisher, additional time to properly prepare for the date.

Today, Remy wept as she pleaded to the judge.

"I stand here today as Remy Mackie," she said with tears in her eyes as she asked for leniency. "I'm a loving wife, mother and loving daughter and loving sister to my brothers and sisters."

Remy also addressed Barnes-Joseph. "I apologize for not saving you from your physical and mental scars."

Before delivering the sentence of 8 years, the judge gave a statement.

"I've learned Remy is an intelligent and charitable young woman," the judge said. "She's overcome a difficult childhood. Her music has inspired people in need. She's loved and has support from her family."

After the complementary remarks, the judge turned her remarks to accountability.

"This is somewhat of a pattern. This is not the first time she has been engaged in a violent act. She never took responsibility for her actions. This has nothing to do with rap it's about the actions of one person. Remy is an extremely angry young woman who feels the rules do not apply to her."

After the sentencing, Papoose got into a shoving match with a court officer. "All y'all want is f*cking money," he yelled. "This is bullsh*t."

Remy's mother and others, who had painted Remy on their faces in red, had to restrain Pap.

As SOHH previously reported, Remy and her fiancé Papoose were scheduled to wed at Rikers Island yesterday, but after Pap allegedly attempted to smuggle a handcuff key into the jail the ceremony was called off.

http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/15082

Sprewell Loses Homes

Former NBA player Latrell Sprewell officially lost his house Monday. From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

A River Hills home belonging to former NBA star Latrell Sprewell was foreclosed on today when he failed to show up in court to contest the action brought by a bank that held his mortgage.

The holder of the mortgage, RBS Citizens Bank, told Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Hansher that Sprewell owes $320,284. According to River Hills records, the house is assessed at $610,000 and has an estimated fair market value of $667,980. Spreewell bought the house in 1994 for $405,000.

I know the automatic reaction among fans is to point and laugh at the silly athlete who didn't know how to manage his money, but there's nothing funny about foreclosure. I'm in the process of buying a house, and over half of the houses I walked through were both empty and in a sad state of disrepair as a result of frustrated owners taking it out on their property before losing it to foreclosure, which is becoming a sad trend in my state. After awhile, it's just depressing.

Money mismanagement affects people of all stripes and income levels, and it's sad when it's entirely self-inflicted by somebody who seemingly had it all before letting it slip away. So while some may crack jokes about Spree's regrettable "I've got a family to feed" quote he made while turning down millions of dollars toward the end of his career, I've lost my sense of humor about people losing their homes. Wherever Sprewell is, I feel for him.

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/05/12/latrell-sprewells-home-was-foreclosed-today/?icid=100214839x1201925097x1200073451

Mariah & Nick having dinner

Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were ambushed coming out of Gyu-Kaku Restaurant in Hollywood yesterday. This we stir up the fact that Mariah and Nick are married or they are not married. What do you think?

Wanna Battle Sheek Louch

Supposedly this is being posted all over the Yonkers area, but 1 thing I noticed is there is no CONTACT INFO. I wonder if J Hood is putting these fliers up about Sheek Louch. Also why did they pick Sheek, I mean I like Sheek(Pause) but why not Styles or Kiss. I would say Kiss because he is the more popular one out of the team. But whoever is posting this obviously feels the way I do and that’s Sheek seems to be more in the streets and has a better chance of battling him.

Silver Back Gorilla in Stores Now

Nicole Scherzinger showing her goodies

Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls was showing her goodies by mistake when she arrived at the Villa, Sunday night. Nicole has recently be said to become a spokesperson for Caress body soap.

Game records 911 is a joke(Cop Killa)

Game records a this new track with samples from Ice-T Cop Killer. This track was recorded in regard to the most devastating and controversial event in Queens, NY which cause the life of the innocent Sean Bell. Very Good Track!!!

R.I.P. Sean Bell


http://www.rapbasement.com/media/audio/the-game-ft.-clyde-carson-911-is-a-joke-cop-killa.html

Rihanna in Elle Magazine

There are those hits that climb to the top of the music charts, live in our iPods for a couple months, morph into ring tones, do a cameo on Grey’s Anatomy, and eventually reach their shelf life and disappear into the pop-music ether. And then there are hits, addictive sonic pleasures that burrow deep inside our brains. Songs that seduce not only the Sidekick-packing teens but also the snobby music critics: Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”; George Michael’s “Freedom 90.” Songs that stick.



Rihanna, the Barbados-born singer who landed on our shores only three years ago, launched her career by perfecting the formula for the first kind. There was “Pon de Replay,” a reggae-tinged dance-hall theme from her inaugural album, Music of the Sun, which stormed the radio in summer 2005. Then came her second record, A Girl Like Me, with “SOS,” a hook-driven club phenomenon that heavily sampled the ’80s cover of “Tainted Love” by new-wavers Soft Cell, and “Unfaithful,” a darkish ballad mostly memorable for its video, featuring the barely legal, emerald-eyed heartbreaker writhing atop a grand piano. They were all decent songs, just not unforgettable.

For more click link below:


http://www.elle.com/coverfullstory/13912/rihanna-elle-magazine-june-2008.html

Earthquake kills nearly 9,000 people

CHONGQING, China - One of the worst earthquakes in decades struck central China on Monday, killing nearly 9,000 people, trapping about 900 students under the rubble of their school and causing a toxic chemical leak, state media reported.

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated a hilly region of small cities and towns in Sichuan and nearby provinces. The official Xinhua News Agency said 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone and dozens of other deaths were reported in surrounding areas.

Xinhua said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Sichuan province's Beichuan county after the quake, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply.

State media said a chemical plant in Shifang city had cratered, burying hundreds of people and spilling more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia from the site.

The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand.

It posed a challenge to a government already grappling with discontent over high inflation and a widespread uprising among Tibetans in western China while trying to prepare for the Beijing Olympics this August.

The quake hit about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu — a city of 3.75 million — in the middle of the afternoon when classrooms and office towers were full. There were several smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

The temblor struck hilly country leading up to the Tibetan highlands, toppling buildings in small cities and towns in the largely rural area. About 1,200 pandas — 80 percent of the surviving wild population in China — live in several mountainous areas of Sichuan.

The earthquake, China's deadliest since 1976, occurred in an area with numerous fault lines that have triggered destructive temblors before. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Diexi, Sichuan that hit on August 25, 1933 killed more than 9,300 people.

Xinhua said 50 bodies had been pulled from the debris of the school building in Juyuan town but did not say if the children were alive. Students also were buried under five other toppled schools in Deyang city, Xinhua reported.

Its reporters saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building in Juyuan "while others were crying out for help." Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."

Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Other photos posted on the Internet and found on the Chinese search engine Baidu showed arms and a torso sticking out of the rubble of the school as dozens of people worked to free them, using their hands to move concrete slabs.

Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system and the quake also affected power networks.

Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.

"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.

The road to Wenchuan from Chendu was cut off by landslides, state media said, slowing the rescue efforts.

Though news trickled out in the first hours after the quake, the government and its media quickly mobilized, with nearly 8,000 soldiers and police sent to the area. China Central Television ran non-stop coverage, with phone reports from reporters and a few isolated camera shots from the scene.

Disasters always pose a test to the communist government, whose mandate in part rests on providing relief to those in need. In recent years, the government has improved emergency planning and rapid response training for the military.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.

Li Jiulin, a top engineer on the 91,000-seat National Stadium — known as the Bird's Nest and the jewel of the Olympics — was conducting an inspection at the venue when the quake occurred. He told reporters the building was designed to withstand a 8.0 quake.

"The Olympic venues were not affected by the earthquake," said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee.

Skyscrapers swayed in Shanghai and in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.

The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.

China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/...ina_earthquake

Remy Ma & Papoose wedding canceled

Words from Kay Slay

Apparently, Papoose was going through the usual security checks at Rikers, on his way to him and Remy’s wedding ceremony today. At one point, a corrections officer was inspecting his keychain and pointed out an old skeleton key that Pap had on the chain. Pap has apparently had all the keys for a long time, and he’s visited Rikers on numerous occasions with the same keychain and never had a problem. But once the CO says he can’t enter with the keys, he gladly gives them up.

But as Pap is about to get on the bus to Rikers, along with Remy’s mom and their other 3 guests. The CO’s pull Papoose and tell him he needs to see the Warden. Papoose is throw into a jailcell, and when he finally sees the Warden, he is accused of….(you ready?)…trying to pass Remy the skeleton key so she can pick the lock on her handcuffs and…..then….somehow….break out of Rikers Island on some Shawshank Redemption/Andy Dufraine shit. WTF?

The Warden not only cancels Papoose and Remy’s wedding, and to throw more salt in the wound, they ban Pap from visiting his fiancee for the next 6 months. And she gets sentenced tomorrow morning.

Cruel.

Well Eskay already posted the tabloid frenzy that’s cooking up. And Slay already knew it was going down because paparazzi caught Papoose after the fiasco, rushing his mom to her car to keep her out of the rain….you can guess how those photos are gonna look tomorrow morning.

Jennifer Hudson “All Dressed Up In Love” (Sex And The City Movie)

Jennifer Hudson will be recording "All Dressed Up In Love" for the highly anticipated "Sex And the City" movie. And apparently will be in the movie for clips click below


http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=160822

Remy Ma & Papoose Married at Rikers(Gossip)

Wedding bells will be ringing Monday for jailed hip-hop star Remy Ma, who plans to marry her boyfriend, rapper Papoose, on Rikers Island, a source close to the rapper said.

The jailhouse ceremony will take place just a day before Ma is sentenced for shooting an ex-friend during a heated word exchange over money in the Meatpacking District last year.

Remy Ma, 26, whose real name is Remy Smith, and the Brooklyn rapper Papoose, named Shamele Mackie, will each be allowed two guests for the wedding.

Less than 24 hours later, Grammy-nominated rapper Ma will face up to 25 years in prison for shooting Makeda Barnes in the stomach last July.