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Reminisce Smith (born May 30, 1980), better known by her stage name Remy Ma, formerly Remy Martin, is a Grammy-nominated American rapper and former member of Fat Joe's rap crew, Terror Squad. Ma was featured on the group's hit song "Lean Back" from their second album ''True Story'' and M.O.P.'s "Ante Up (Remix)." Her debut solo album, ''There's Something about Remy: Based on a True Story,'' was released on February 7, 2006. She is one of only four female rappers to ever have a number one single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, with Terror Squad's number one single "Lean Back." She has also won two Vibe awards, two Source awards, an ASCAP pop award and a BET award for "Best Female Hip Hop", as well as two other nominations. Remy cites Big Punisher and Roxanne Shante as her biggest influences. Smith served a six-year jail term of her eight-year sentence in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women for shooting Makeeda Barnes-Joseph in the abdomen over a missing sum of $3,000. She was released on August 1, 2014 and began recording new music with DJ/Producer DJ Khaled immediately after her release.〔http://www.sohh.com/2011/06/remy_mas_suffers_major_setback_in_jail_r.html〕 In 2011, Remy Ma's music was featured and discussed in a documentary, ''Black Lifestyle in Japan'', where she was praised for looking "stylish" and "beautiful" and outlined as one of the most frequently listened to hip-hop musicians in Japan, amongst younger women. In 2015 Remy Ma joined the cast of VH1's ''Love & Hip Hop'' for its sixth season. ==Biography== Remy Ma and sister Kristin Devereaux grew up in Castle Hill Projects in the Bronx, New York and often saw the consequences and terrors of her family's drug abuse with her own eyes. She was forced to take care of her little brothers and sisters at a young age and retreated from her home issues by writing poetry. She learned about how hard society was on women and minorities. She then took out her anger by framing her poetry into raps that she would use against her schoolmates during lunch. Her reputation quickly grew around the Bronx and word eventually got to the late MC, Big Pun of her and her work. After one meeting and a freestyle session, Pun immediately became her mentor.〔 Remy made her first appearances in the music industry on Big Pun's album "Yeeeah Baby" (under the name Remi Martin) on the tracks "Ms. Martin" and "You Was Wrong". After the death of Big Pun, rapper Fat Joe signed Smith to his imprint label under SRC and Universal and made her a member of Terror Squad. Following the success of ''Lean Back'', which garnered Remy a Grammy nomination, Remy Ma released two singles from her debut album ''There's Something About Remy'', the club-anthems "Whuteva" and "Conceited". The album moved 37,000 units in its opening week and 158,000 units within the first year, low due to Universal Records' poor promotion. On the other hand, the album received outstanding reviews from ''XXL'' Magazine with XL to ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Vibe'' Magazine. Remy was frustrated at the way the album was being promoted by Universal and how the label wasn't releasing the right singles. With the solo albums lackluster debut, Smith decided to end her relationship with Fat Joe and the Terror Squad, breaking her deal with SRC/Universal in the process. Remy currently writes updates and posts it via her official Twitter and MySpace pages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remy Ma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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