Remy Ma has addressed the time Mike Tyson offered her a car in exchange for sex, admitting the ordeal still “scares” her to this day.
The story first came to light last September when Fat Joe appeared on the boxing legend’s Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson podcast, where he recalled Tyson attempting to persuade Remy to spend the night with him by promising her a brand new Mercedes-Benz.
“Mike invites me to the house and he says bring Remy Ma with you,” the Bronx rapper remembered. “This is around ‘Lean Back’ or some shit like that. We go to the house, he opens the door butt naked … I’m like, ‘What the fuck is up, bro?’
Tyson added: “I said, ‘Joe, just leave Remy Ma.’ She was upstairs and I was blocking her. She was, ‘No, no.’”
Joe continued: “He wanted to keep Remy Ma. He made her offers. He showed this convertible Benz new shit. He was like, ‘You can keep this, all you gotta do is spend one night.’
“She looked at me like, ‘Joe, if you don’t get me the fuck out this house.’ I was like, ‘Mike, we can’t do that. This is my sister’ … He offered her some fucking 500 Benz. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ Hey, yo. That was a great time, Mike [laughs].”
“I just liked busting her chops,” Tyson replied with a laugh.
For Remy Ma, however, it’s no laughing matter. The Terror Squad MC was asked about the story during an interview with Jason Lee, and while she initially played coy and tried to change the subject, she later said Tyson’s advances “scared” her.
“Listen, I just feel like in 2023, why are we discussing this?” asked an uncomfortable Remy, who revealed she was just a teenager — albeit a sexually active one — at the time and it was before she started dating her husband Papoose.
“Actually, it’s different now. I feel like women get way more now than then. It’s actually an accolade for you to set your chick out. You don’t even gotta let ’em hit! It is what it is.”
She added: “It was just weird. I’m mad that that story even came out. I was just like … I was scared. I’m scared now. I don’t even know what to say now. I just don’t like it.”
Despite her lingering fear, Remy said she wasn’t offended by Tyson’s offer, pointing out that “muthafuckas ask to hit it for free all the time.”
Remy Ma isn’t the only rapper to have been pursued by Mike Tyson. Eve also caught the feared boxer’s eye back in the day, as Styles P revealed during his own appearance on Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson last October.
The Yonkers native recalled Tyson approaching Eve at an awards show and expressing an interest in her. Given his 1992 rape conviction — for which he served three years in prison — Styles and his LOX brethren felt compelled to protect their Ruff Ryders labelmate.
Styles P even had a knife on him and debated using it to avoid catching a severe beatdown from the former heavyweight champ.
“Vegas or L.A., it’s one of them awards,” he remembered. “We see Mike, we’re chilling. Eve is with us, though — us three, there’s nobody else there. And [Mike’s] on his bully and we decided, ‘We gotta protect Eve.’ We was deciding who was gonna get knocked out. I was like, ‘I got a knife. Mike’s gonna kill us!’
“He just liked Eve for how she was looking. Eve was nervous; we with Eve so gotta be the protectors, so now we in a fucked up position. Now we deciding who’s gonna take the Mike blow. We decided Louch. Louch was like, ‘Fuck no!’ I’m like, ‘I’ma die! I’m little!’ Nobody can take this blow. We trying to come up with a strategy. What do you do?”
