Nearly three years removed from her homecoming, Remy Ma tells Complex that the industry of 2017 has left her with a level of distaste, the bureaucracy of it all frustrating at best. “It’s a popularity contest,” she says. “I don’t really care about Rap the way I used to because there is so much politics. I just do what I do. I write, I talk my sh*t, say what I want to say, bounce around on the beat, and I keep it moving.” It seems that, despite (or perhaps because of) the frustrations she’s experienced, she has only come back sharper — or maybe it’s just that people are only now starting to give credit where it’s due.
Remy burst on the scene working with hardcore Hip-Hop acts like her mentor Big Pun, the late Big L, and M.O.P. The Mash Out Posse’s Lil Fame and Billy Danze enlisted Remy Martin (as she was then known) for their “Ante Up (Remix)” music video, alongside Busta Rhymes and Teflon:
Soon enough, fans and critics will have material from Remy Ma as a standalone artist. She will be following up her collaborative album with Fat Joe, Plato O Pomo, with Seven Winters and Six Summers, “said to be a more intimate project that’ll delve into her experiences in prison.” Perhaps now, after proving time and again that she can launch a successful career for the second time, she’ll be able to make the music she wants.
Elsewhere in the interview, collaborators speak to Remy Ma’s talent, she shares her rich history with Big Pun, and more.
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