Remy Ma in court

New York rapper Remy Ma, aka Remy Smith, appeared in court in Manhattan yesterday, where the judge set a date of 25 Feb for the hip hop star's trial on those charges of gang assault and witness intimidation. The charges relate to those previously reported incidents last summer in which Smith is accused of shooting acquaintance Makeda Barnes-Joseph in a dispute over money, and then ordering a group of men to attack the boyfriend of a woman who witnessed that shooting in an attempt, presumably to persuade the witness not to testify against her.