Most grooms just bring the ring. This one tried to bring a handcuff key, too.
Jailed bride-to-be Remy Ma was left standing at the altar at Rikers Island yesterday after her betrothed, fellow rapper Papoose, tried to sneak a small, universal handcuff key into the facility.
The contraband was quickly confiscated by eagle-eyed guards, according to city correction officials. Papoose was kicked off the island without ever seeing the woman to whose cuffs he once held the key.
The wedding was kaput.
“Get out of my face,” Papoose snarled at a reporter yesterday as he returned to his Cadillac SUV in the jail’s parking lot.
“I don’t want to talk,” said the still-single “Mix Tape King,” who had worn his Sunday-best Yankee cap for the occasion.
“You all write racist articles.”
Remy Ma, the mother of an 8-year-old boy, had hoped to be married before today, when she is scheduled for sentencing in Manhattan Supreme Court on her March conviction on felony assault.
She faces up to 25 years in a state prison for shooting her no-longer-good friend, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, in the stomach as they argued in the victim’s car outside a Meatpacking District nightclub last summer.
Now, Remy will have to wait until she is up in the maximum-security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County before trying to tie the knot once more.
Once hitched, she will eventually be eligible for conjugal visits.
“I look at it like this: There is a pattern of criminality and a pattern of thumbing their nose at the system that just continues here,” Barnes-Joseph’s lawyer, Lauren Raysor, said when told of the handcuff kerfuffle.
Prosecutors had accused Remy of gang assault and witness tampering for siccing Papoose – real name Shamele Mackie – and his posse on the boyfriend of one of the prosecution witnesses as they all partied at a Bronx nightclub weeks after the shooting.
But charges were never brought against Papoose, and a jury acquitted Remy of all charges related to the Bronx incident, which left the witness’ boyfriend with a fracture in his face and the boyfriend’s male buddy with a broken jaw.
Remy will make a “heartfelt” plea for mercy today, said her lawyer, Ivan Fisher.
But any courtroom contrition will run counter to statements Remy has made while incarcerated. In a jailhouse interview with DJ Kay Slay on Sirius Radio last week, Remy insisted she was “100 percent innocent,” and goofed on her jail guards.
“It’s not my fault that my commissary is more than their salary, you know what I’m saying?” she joked.