REMY MA rose to fame as a member of Fat Joe’s group Terror Squad and later launched a successful solo career.
While she’s known for her platinum-selling hits, the Grammy Award nominee is also half of one of hip-hop’s most storied romances.
Who is rapper Papoose?
Since 2008, Remy Ma has been married to Shamele Mackie, known professionally as Papoose.
Like Remy, Papoose is also a rapper known for his freestyles and for the song Alphabetical Slaughter.
Papoose rose to fame in the late 1990s and has since released four studio albums and 29 mixtapes.
He has also worked with several stars including Russ, Fat Joe, 2Pac, DJ Kay Slay, Waka Flocka Flame, and Wiz Khalifa, among others.
Because of Papoose’s successful career in the entertainment industry, he has amassed a fortune over the years.
As of June 2024, his net worth is an estimated $500,000 according to Celebrity Net Worth.
This estimate comes from album sales and other business ventures.
When did Papoose and Remy Ma get married?
Papoose and Remy Ma were rumored to be dating as early as 2004.
Four years later, Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison. Per Pop Culture, they exchanged vows over a jailhouse call in May 2008.
Remy was released in 2014 after serving six years in prison and the couple subsequently signed on to star in Love & Hip Hop: New York.
They first starred in the show’s sixth season, where Remy’s re-assimilation into society while under parole restrictions was a central focus.
The couple celebrated their wedding on the show and even renewed their vows during their tenth anniversary.
While the couple is still married, they are believed to be separated as of 2024.
The rumors of the split began when Remy Ma was seen with battle rapper Eazy The Block Captain.
In a leaked audio call obtained by TMZ, Eazy The Block Captain can be heard confirming his affair with Remy.
He continues to say he was sworn to secrecy by Remy and accuses Papoose of confronting him and assaulting him.
Do Papoose and Remy Ma have kids?
Since tying the knot, Remy and Papoose have welcomed one child together, daughter Reminisce Smith in 2018.
Reminisce was born via IVF after Remy suffered a miscarriage the year before.
“In some ways, I had to open up publicly about my miscarriage, because we had already started filming Love & Hip Hop when I found out I was pregnant,” Remy wrote in an Oprah Daily op-ed.
“So the show had footage of me with the pregnancy test, telling my husband we were having a child, and the two of us shopping for baby stuff. And then I experienced an ectopic pregnancy, which meant that the egg had attached itself to my fallopian tube.
“I needed an emergency surgery and to have my tubes removed. Suddenly, there was no baby.
“After the miscarriage, I was like, ‘I’m calling Love and Hip Hop, I’m telling them to take all of that out of the show. I just don’t want to talk about it,'” she added.
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While Remy might have wanted the clips removed from the show, her husband encouraged her to open up about the experience to be a voice for others in the same situation.
“My husband was the one who encouraged me to open up,” Remy explained.
“‘Babe, the reason why people love you and relate to you is because you’re real and you’re honest,’ he said. ‘If you say how you really feel, there’s some women out there that you’re really gonna help. And you’ll realize that it’s not just you,’ he said. I was scared, and I was embarrassed. But he was 150 percent right.”
Remy revealed that the love and support she received after opening up about her miscarriage helped encourage her to try IVF.
Alongside Reminisce, Remy also has a son, Jayson, from a previous relationship and is the stepmom to Papoose’s two kids from his previous relationship with Yvetta Lashley.
On June 19, 2024, Remy’s son Jayson was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, according to Fox 5.
He, and another man named Richard Swygert, were also charged with weapons possession and reckless endangerment, according to Fox reporter Lisa Evers.
The charges are reportedly in connection with a June 7, 2021 murder of 47-year-old Darius Guillebeaux in the Queens borough of New York.