Rapper Remy Ma is ready for her comeback. After serving a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for assault, the former Terror Squad member made her reality TV debut when the season six premiere of VH1's hit series "Love & Hip Hop New York" aired on Monday night, as previously reported by HNGN. Now, the female emcee is opening up about why she decided to join the cast.
Remy Ma said that show producer Mona Scott-Young was the one who convinced her to consider starring in the show along with her husband, 37-year-old rapper Papoose.
"I had never seen the show before, but once I saw it, I was like, 'No, no, no,'" Remy Ma, 35, told Us Weekly about being approached by Scott-Young. But she said she had a change of heart when Scott-Young said, "she wanted to get back to what the show was originally about," says Remy. "Love and hip hop!"
"She wanted something that personified and reflected the title 'Love & Hip Hop,'" Remy Ma elaborated in an interview with Billboard magazine. "She was like, 'I feel like you guys are that.'"
The show is just one of the ways Remy Ma is making her way back into the spotlight. Her storyline will follow her as she attempts to reclaim her career in hip-hop; she's been hard at work on new material. She dropped a new track on the day of the "LHHNY" season premiere, "Hands Down" featuring Rick Ross and Yo Gotti.
Remy Ma has her sights set on her career goals and she said doesn't plan on getting too involved with her "LHHNY" co-stars or any of the drama that's synonymous with the show.
"There's some people who I feel do things so that they can be more famous - I'm not there for that," Remy Ma told Billboard. "I feel like I didn't wanna be around anyone that represented that or that was their goal so and I think the producers and the people working the show, they understood that."
Be sure catch Remy Ma on season six of VH1's "Love & Hip Hop: New York," airing Mondays at 8 p.m. on VH1.
