Reminisce Smith, better known by her stage name Remy Ma, formerly known as Remy Martin, was sentenced to 8 years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and hurting an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan in 2007.

Grammy-nominated rapper was sentenced by criminal court judge Rena Uviller, who said, “Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was an extremely angry young woman whose anger is completely out of control." The New York jury found Smith guilty of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion in March.

According to Smith's lawyer, Ivan Fisher, the shooting in the early hours of July 14, 2007, was accidental, but the victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, was exaggerating the facts to win a large sum in a separate civil suit. Actually, her friend had taken $3,000 from her and that her gun went off as the pair struggled over her purse. The bullet pierced Barnes-Joseph's colon and hit her rectum and sent her to a hospital for three weeks.

In appealing for leniency, Smith, who was nominated for a 2004 Grammy for her part in Terror Squad's song "Lean Back, tearfully described how she had grown up in homeless shelters, "surrounded by poverty and drugs and violence and failure."

"Remy Ma is not even close to who I really am. I'm not a thug. I'm not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer," she said in sobbing tone.

But prosecutor Michael McIntosh said that Smith had a habit of traveling with a loaded weapon and said something like this "was bound to happen one day."