Carey swears 'wiggy' hip-hop star threatened to shoot her on set of 'American Idol.' Remy Ma, serving prison sentence for shooting woman in stomach, says she and Minaj were never an item
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Mariah Carey (l.) may not be the first singer Nicki Minaj (c.) has allegedly threatened to shoot - Remy Ma believes she was targeted by Minaj in a menacing 2008 freestyle rap.
Maybe the producers of “American Idol” were so dazzled by Nicki Minaj’s vast wig collection that they forgot to do a background check — because it looks like Mariah Carey isn’t the first singer she’s supposedly threatened to shoot.
While Carey swears that Minaj threatened to kill her following a brawl on the set of “Idol” last week, it turns out the talented, wild-wigged wacko has a history of threatening rivals with gun violence — including her alleged ex-lover, gangsta lady rapper Remy Ma.
Minaj was on the brink of stardom in 2008 when a freestyle rap she taped in a studio began making the rounds.
In it, she blasted another female rapper, presumed to be Remy — who at the time was the reigning, chart-topping queen of rap. The rap went:
“Tell that bitch with the crown to run it like Chris Brown/you won three rounds, gonna need to hunt you down/like ‘Chinatown’ — bitch better bow down/oh you ain’t know, betcha bitch is no nail/f— I got a gun — let her know that I’m the one.”
Minaj has never admitted she was rapping about Remy (real name Reminisce Smith), and both have denied having an affair.
“I haven’t been with a girl ever in my life,” Remy told Hartford hip-hop DJ Jenny Boom Boom in a live radio interview.
And yet while Remy has had nothing but praise for Minaj — something she’s never easily heaped on any rival female rappers — in a 2010 jailhouse interview with a rap website, she wondered if the diss was something Minaj had been put up to by record producers.
Smith explained how up-and-coming rappers are encouraged to challenge the genre’s biggest stars, even occasionally with violence, as a way to make a splash.
“I feel like it’s the industry, there’s a thousand dudes out here [selling records] ... but when it comes to the females, they make it seem like there can only be one and they try to put us against each other.”
Smith is currently serving an eight-year sentence at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester for shooting another woman in the gut outside a Manhattan nightclub during a 4 a.m. brawl over money.
Reps for Minaj declined to comment.
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While Carey swears that Minaj threatened to kill her following a brawl on the set of “Idol” last week, it turns out the talented, wild-wigged wacko has a history of threatening rivals with gun violence — including her alleged ex-lover, gangsta lady rapper Remy Ma.
Minaj was on the brink of stardom in 2008 when a freestyle rap she taped in a studio began making the rounds.
In it, she blasted another female rapper, presumed to be Remy — who at the time was the reigning, chart-topping queen of rap. The rap went:
“Tell that bitch with the crown to run it like Chris Brown/you won three rounds, gonna need to hunt you down/like ‘Chinatown’ — bitch better bow down/oh you ain’t know, betcha bitch is no nail/f— I got a gun — let her know that I’m the one.”
Minaj has never admitted she was rapping about Remy (real name Reminisce Smith), and both have denied having an affair.
“I haven’t been with a girl ever in my life,” Remy told Hartford hip-hop DJ Jenny Boom Boom in a live radio interview.
And yet while Remy has had nothing but praise for Minaj — something she’s never easily heaped on any rival female rappers — in a 2010 jailhouse interview with a rap website, she wondered if the diss was something Minaj had been put up to by record producers.
Smith explained how up-and-coming rappers are encouraged to challenge the genre’s biggest stars, even occasionally with violence, as a way to make a splash.
“I feel like it’s the industry, there’s a thousand dudes out here [selling records] ... but when it comes to the females, they make it seem like there can only be one and they try to put us against each other.”
Smith is currently serving an eight-year sentence at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester for shooting another woman in the gut outside a Manhattan nightclub during a 4 a.m. brawl over money.
Reps for Minaj declined to comment.
Em-Berry-sing
Halle Berry confessed to a roomful of fellow Hollywood royalty Friday that her arrest for a hit-and-run accident 12 years ago was the “most embarrassing moment of my life.”
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Halle Berry arrives at Variety's Power of Women presented by Lifetime at Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Friday.
And one that, through her community service sentence, got her involved with the Jenesse Center, a domestic-violence intervention program, she revealed at Variety’s 4th Annual Power of Women in Beverly Hills. She told the likes of Jessica Biel, Queen Latifah, Katherine Heigl and Jennifer Garner: “It was God’s way of saying, ‘You are not doing enough.’ ”
The Mayor and the showgirl
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani doubled his pleasure at the Guild Hall in East Hampton’s screening of “Love, Marilyn,” a film commemorating the 50-year anniversary of Monroe’s death.
“I’ve always been a big fan of Marilyn Monroe, and I am also a big fan of Joe DiMaggio,” said Giuliani, who’s almost as well-known for his turn as Marilyn at 1997’s Inner Circle costumes as he is for his love of the Yankees.
“I grew up with her, so I came out of curiosity about this new film.” “Love, Marilyn,” opened the 20th Annual Hamptons Film Festival Thursday.
You’re honored!
In case seeing their names stamped across half the buildings in New York isn’t proof enough the Trumps know money, the Wharton School of Finance just gave Ivanka Trump the 2012 Young Leadership Award at a ceremony in Midtown. The Donald, who couldn’t make it (he was in Scotland
Thursday), typed out a congratulatory boast so long he had to use twitlonger.com. Not even The Donald gets more than 140characters on Twitter.
Big pants to fill
The Kardashian sisters’ are known for their killer curves, but Kim, Khloe and Kourtney have chosen L.A. model Briana Harrington, 19, the face of their plus-size Kurves denim line. “I’m so excited, I can’t wait to meet them,” she told Confideni@l. “And I love jeans!” Khloe posted on her blog, “I know she’s going to look amazing!” The Kardashians had been conducting a model search since July. 
