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Remy Ma There's Something About Remy Free Download Remy Ma There's Something About Remy Free Download remy ma there's something about remy free download Remy ma there's something about remy free download. Universal / February 7, 2006 Size: 64,9 MB. Tracklisting: 01. Pun's Words [00:18] 02. She's Gone [03:18] 03. Lights, Camera, Action [03:24] 04. Tight Feat. Fat Joe [02:14] 05. Whuteva [03:46] 06. Conceited Messages (Skit) [01:46] 07. Conceited (Theres Something About Remy) [03:40] 08. Feels So Good Feat Ne-Yo [04:02] 09. I'm [04:07] 10. Thug Love Feat. Big Pun [03:58] 11. Secret Location [03:38] 12. In Da Street (Skit) [00:19] 13. Bilingual Feat. Ivy Queen [04:03] 14. Conscience (Skit) [00:58] 15. Guilty [02:00] 16. Crazy [04:03] 17. What's Going on Feat. Keyshia Cole [03:55] 18. Still [04:18] Please support our site - click on banners. Thank You. Remy Ma, the Bronx diva who is the female voice of the rap group Terror Squad (TS), hails from the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. Her talents were discovered and she was mentored by the late, great Big Pun. Her solo debut, There's Something About Remy, is released February 7, 2006. Remy Ma Hip Hop Jewelry. From being discovered by Big Pun, to Grammy nominations and ALL the Love and Hip Hop, Remy Ma, or Reminisce Mackie has had a full and fulfilling career so far in hip hop. The Bronx OG had been sculpted for greatness from the moment she entered the game, and has been slaying ever since. Her smooth hip hop jewelry style is enviable, and as far as the women in Hip Hop go, her fashion is straight on point. Between hitting timeless verses on Ante Up and Lean Back, Remy Ma is one of the only 3 winners of the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist, as well as being only one of the 5 female rappers to top the Billboard 100 charts. As part of Fat Joe’s Terror Squad, she’s been instrumental in shaping the flow of the group, and hip hop as a whole- especially through her current day commentary on love and Hip Hop. Joining the cast of L&HH in their 6 th season, and shortly thereafter dropping her now plat certified Plata O Plomo. Remy Ma’s hip hop style is cool and refined, in opposition to many of her beats- see her out in a massive gold bling bling chains and iced out tennis necklaces. Her hip hop earrings are on point, big and flashy just like her personality. If you’re about that high quality hip hop style but you cash is spread thin, make sure you hit up Hip Hop Bling for all your iced out jewelry choices. From releasing music with French Montana to opening her own women’s clothing store, there’s plenty to keep Remy busy these days. Today she’s a business woman, a prominent personality and rapper all in one go- eyes up for what Remy will put out next, because there’s no stopping her. Remy Ma: There’s Something About Remy: Based on a True Story. She wants to make sure you know that There’s Something About Remy , and she’s going to pound it into your big, fat head. Here’s what that something is: she’s better than you, she’s richer than you, she’s a better rapper than you, she’s sexier than you, she’s better in bed than you, and if you disagree she will beat you, kill you, or cut off parts of you. She’s got some skill to back up the claims (at least the rhyming ones — I can’t speak to the other ones), but her insistence on the reminder, the telling over the showing, eventually wears down what could be an impressive solo debut. Remy Ma sets the tone early on “She’s Gone” that she’s hard, ripping off an early string of profane suggestions of how real she truly is, with the attitude that matches and a hint of commentary, as when she acknowledges that sex sells, but that she’ll leave the stripping to those who can’t flow like her (although she’ll reverse this idea a few tracks later, claiming pride in having matched her thong to her shoes and saying she needs “a room with a pole in it” and “I was never too proud to show it”). But cut to the chase: she’s “the bitch of all bitches”, and that’s the main thing to remember. The obssessive self-aggrandizing peaks with “Conceited (There’s Something About Remy)”, which has lyrics ranging from clever put-downs to trite one-liners. She puts it all bluntly, losing the beat to draw attention on the second half of “Who’s that peeking in my window? / No one ’cause I live in a penthouse.” Considering she’s on the top, she continues coming down to taunt, even going “face down, ass up” to tease; she’d be better off keeping her head about her, because lines like “Your name’s ‘Q’ — I only see you when I see ‘U'” don’t cut it. It doesn’t matter, though, because Remy’s going to work the hottness: “See, I look too good to be fucking you”. The important thing isn’t that Remy’s doing well, it’s that you know she’s doing better than you. Too bad that doing better doesn’t mean better rhymes. The single “Whuteva” nearly drops the whole album with its absurdity, despite having the biggest party-moving beat on the album (produced by Swizz Beatz and utilizing a sped-up “Night on Disco Mountain”). The problem is obvious: dismissing someone with a “Whuteva” shows an astonishing disregard for expiration date, especially for someone in a field where word play and cutting-edge language are so valued. The bottoming out moment comes when Remy declares, “My spit’s so butter, they should call me margarine”. It would be easy enough to just set this in the line of rap focused on partying or bragging, but Remy Ma has more on her mind, and just hasn’t made the album that deals with it. “What’s Going On” nods to Marvin Gaye’s social concerns with its title, but hits on a personal level as she explores the turmoil of an unwanted pregnancy. The production by Che Harris and Joe Davi isn’t the album’s best, but Remy’s openness does it all. In the context of an aggressive, hard album, this song stands out as the product of a complex person, rather than a blunted persona. Other late tracks carry meat, too, like “Guilty, in which her narrator hits someone with her car and reflects on the pool of causes as well as the exacerbating factors (her weed and her gun), without denying her own complicity in the situation. “Still” closes the album with a basic piano loop and meditations on domestic relationships spinning off sadly. With zero melodrama and the same verve that carries the boasts (but with half the ego), Remy Ma delivers a vivid and memorable picture. Most of those kind of tracks are buried late in the album, as if she could only reveal herself after convincing us how “real” she is (through a mean facade, of course). I’ve got no interest in hearing Remy make a “conscious” album, but she’s got the thoughts to make an album that says something — that goes for real controversy rather trying to shock with banal lines about sex and gratuitious (and therefore ineffective) language. When Remy learns to put her impressive vocal abilities behind something worth saying, she’s going to be a force. A Comprehensive Guide to the Feud Between Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma. W hen Terror Squad rapper Remy Ma dropped a blistering diss track directed explicitly at Nicki Minaj, the music world not only took notice but grabbed popcorn to watch what’s now being touted as one of the most significant rap beefs ever. What’s important to remember, however, is that this feud between two of rap’s most talented female emcees is actually several years in the making. Here’s what you need to know. February 2006 : Remy releases her first studio album, There’s Something About Remy: Based on a True Story , which raises her profile as the first lady of Big Pun’s Terror Squad and a dexterous rapper in her own right. On the track “I’m,” she declares, “I’m the queen of rap and there is none higher.” July 2007 : Minaj releases her mixtape Playtime Is Over which includes the freestyle “Dirty Money.” There are a few bars on the track that could be interpreted as a diss against Remy’s claim that she is “the queen of rap.” One of the lines in question reads: “Tell that b—h with the crown to run it like Chris Brown/She won three rounds, I’mma need a hundred thou/Oh, y’all ain’t know? Bet y’all b—hes know now.” August 2007 : Remy releases Shesus Khryst , a mixtape where she continues to rap about her title as “queen,” especially on tracks like “Queen of NY” and “Banned From NY.” May 13, 2008 : Remy is found guilty of first-degree assault and sentenced to eight years in jail for shooting a friend who allegedly stole $3,000 from Remy’s purse, according to the New York Times . Feb.
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