So crazy because he had already, you know been nominated for the Grammy, he
had already went double platinum, and he was Big Pun.
It wasn't a question of what it is.
He wasn't Moon Dawg no more. Nah.
Everybody knew what it was when I met him.
They knew what it was.
He lived around the corner from my mom.
First of all, see I have my reasons for why I have to be at certain places, I'm still on
papers, they make sure that I stay in areas.
There was no reason why he was living around the corner from my mother at that point and
time.
Like at all, besides the fact that he's that crazy and didn't care how much money he had
and how successful he was, like he was a hood dude through and through.
He lived around the corner from my mom, and one of his friends, and one of my friends
and one day I was walking home from school, and he was just like, “Yo what you doin?"
Oh I'm over here at Pun crib,’ da-da-da, whatever, whatever.
He's like, “Yo that's ill my peoples and she rap.”
He was like, “oh word, let me hear something, I'm going to tell him.”
I'm like get the fuck out of here, like no I'm not rapping for ... who are you?
I'm not rapping for you, like you talk about Pun that's different, I'm not just going to
rap for you, I'm not a fucking human jukebox.
So he like, “nah, I'm serious, I'm going to call him.”
So he calls him, like just randomly like he never heard me, or nothing.
Yo I'm around the corner, I got this chick here, she's saying that she can rap.
Pun like, “Yo bring her over.”
So I'm still not jacking it, like I'm not going with you to some random person house
like no, I don't care if it's ... you say this Big Pun.
How do I know who they are.
Like nah.
Y'all wilding, like all the way around, it's not valid.
So I went and got my mom, and I took my mother with me, like if anything happen like at least
I got my mom with me, and I went with my mother.
We went over there and it was mad like ... you know the dogs, I think they're called Shar Pei's.
The wrinkled dogs, they're really expensive dogs, he had like mad of them running around
outside, all type of cars parked in the front.
It's like 40, 50 dudes in the crib, mad deep.
He like, yo so they telling me this, that, and the third, you know how to rap.
I'm like, alright yeah.
He's like, fine let me hear something.
So I never, ever been shy in my life so I start rapping, I say my shit, like this
is before I knew anything about the format of the songs.
Like I never even realized that people was doing doubles, I never realized that every
song had a 16 bar verse.
So my verse and my whatever that I spit was a gazillion bars long.
I'm rapping for like three, four minutes straight.
He's like, alright that's dope, he looked me dead in my face and was like, “But that
could be your only hot rap, so let me hear another one.”
So I went again, like alright this is what I do, whatever, whatever.
Then my friend, she's like, so who writing your shit?
I'm like what do you mean?
I was so confused, I had never heard of a ghost writer, nothing.
That was so unheard of, so I was like, what do you mean who writes it?
Like I write it, like your brother, you got a cousin?
Your man or something?
Like no, I write.
He was like, oh that's dope, that's dope.
I'm asking him, why would you ask me that?
He was like, no most of the girls don't write.
He was like maybe people like you know, so and so.
She don't write.
So and so, this person write for her.
I'm like, no.
So I was sitting there crushed, like I can't even hear nothing else he's saying like my
heart is breaking right now.
Rob: You're going to go home and tear posters off
your wall.
Remy Ma: Like what, are you kidding me?
So he was like give me your number, whatever, whatever and I'm going to call you.
So I'm like alright cool, whatever.
I left, I didn't pay no mind, well it wasn't I didn't pay it no mind, I just didn't believe
that he was going to do ... well that he was going to call me, or I wasn't even thinking
about rap as a career, or anything like that.
I knew that I knew how to rap, and I knew it was nice, but I just never thought of it
like that.
I was just happy to tell my friends, yo I rapped for Pun, da, da, da.
The next day I had came home from school, and I'm in the crib with my grandmother, and
she's on the phone.
I just hear her like, “What?
Do you have something in your mouth?
I can't understand anything you're saying.”
Because if you don't know Pun you really can't understand what he's saying.
He talks really, really fast and he jumbles all his words together.
It might kind of sound like he's got something in his mouth.
So she's like, I think this is for you, or whatever.
So I get on the phone, so he's like, “You say you live in Castle Hill right?”
So I'm like, “yeah.”
He like “what's your building?”
So I'm like “2245.”
He was like “come downstairs.”
I'm like downstairs in front of my building downstairs?
He like, yo you stupid like, yeah come downstairs.
I'm like, alright.
So I go downstairs and he's in front of my building, he's in his car, he's signing autographs
and shit, so I'm like what are you doing here?
Like get out of here, you're making me hot.
What's wrong with you?
He's like, you know how to braid?
So I'm like, what?
Of course you know how to braid, all black girls know how to braid.
Get in the car.
Rob: Oh no.
Remy Ma: But I do know how to braid, like actually
I'm dumb nice, so...
He's like “I got a video shoot, and I want braids in my hair,” so I'm like, alright
cool.
This video shoot happens to be the video shoot with him and Fat Joe, and Jennifer Lopez.
So like the second day that I met Big Pun I'm on a video shoot with him, Jennifer Lopez
and Fat Joe, three of the biggest people that came out of the Bronx at that time.