Remy Ma Blames Bias Jury On Guilty Verdict, "There Was No Tan, Dark Brown, Black, Nothing"

Incarcerated Bronx rapper Remy Ma phoned into DJ Kay Slay's Shade 45 radio from Rikers Island to give her first interview from behind bars.

As previously reported, the rapper (born Reminisce Smith) is currently locked up and awaiting sentencing after being convicted of first degree assault, among other charges, for shooting her former friend, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, in the abdomen over the rapper's missing $3,000. Her sentencing hearing, which was originally scheduled for last month, was pushed back to May 13.

During the interview, a jovial Remy blamed the guilty verdict on a bias jury and stuck to her plea of innocence.

"Don't be mistaken by a jury that was not my peers," she said. "There was no tan, dark brown, black, nothing on that jury," she said. "It's a whole conspiracy against rappers right now, so I already knew what it was." [Listen here]

Rem's defense attorney Ivan Fisher feared the same thing.

"I was concerned throughout the case that there is a substantial part of the population who correlate rap with violence," Fisher told. "And I always had a concern that that worked to our disadvantage and would make it difficult to be fair to Remy at the trial."

Although Remy seemed upset by the verdict, she was in good spirits throughout the call, joking around with the self proclaimed Drama King.

"It's nothin'," she said about her current situation. "I'm in here chillin', eatin' mad mackerel."

Spending most of her time alone in a cell, Remy says she has more contact with guards than anyone else.

"It's real crazy over here," she explained. "You got certain officers that are extra nice and then you got certain officers that are extra not nice. It's not my fault that my commissary is more than they salaries."

Rem chatted on the line with Slay for about five and a half minutes and promised she'd call up again.

"I got wild phone time, son!" She boasted. "They ain't built bars yet that can stop my flow."

She said her new mixtape, "Six Minutes Remy Ma You're On" - which she recorded behind bars - is coming soon and asked that her fans come out and support her on May 13th, when the rapper is due back in court to hear her fate. She faces up to 25 years.