LEFT: Remy Ma, (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Fanatics) RIGHT: Claressa Shields, (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)
Is Remy Ma taking jabs at Claressa Shields? That’s the question fans on both sides are asking after the rapper teased a new song, ‘Wanna Be,’ using a clip of the champion boxer. The track appears to sample ‘Knuck If You Buck,’ and Ma dropped it just days after Crime Mob’s Princess revealed Shields blocked her on Instagram over a request to use the iconic track for a fight walk-out.
As mentioned, Remy Ma gagged her fans with new music. In the song, she brags about her fashion sense and rocking brand-new, runway pieces. She also repeatedly talks about someone shopping on TikTok, retail and the clearance rack. However, some speculate that Remy could be saying “Clarence,” an unfavorable nickname for Claressa Shields used by online trolls.
“I got b****es on my d**k, b****es watching all my poles. I got b****es popping sh*t, b****es I don’t even know; I got b****es imma slide cause these b****es do the most; I got b****es that’ll ride if you b****es wanna go,” Remy Ma raps.
In another verse, she raps about someone wanting her hand-me downs. “B****es want all of my hand-me downs. My flows, my shoes, my n*gga, my wigs, all of my hand-me-downs,” Ma said, adding that she’s being copied. The cover art for the new track shows the rapper holding two black dogs by their chain leashes.
Last week, Princess from Crime Mob revealed on Instagram that Claressa Shields hit the block button on her. Princess alleged that the reason was because she slid into the boxer’s DMs asking her to feature her ‘Knuck If You Buck’ verse during one of her fight walk-outs. She appeared to ask twice, last year August and recently in July. In the screenshot the rapper shared, Shields rejected the request with a solitary, “No.” Princess captioned the post, “Damn [Claressa Shields], I just asked to do my verse on Kunck for your walk out at a fightYou didnt have to block me. @mzshyneka Its all your fault. #girlpower.”
This week, while doing press for her upcoming fight on August 15, Claressa Shields clarified that she “doesn’t know” Princess or have anything against her. “If she got blocked, it’s probably because she said something, but I don’t know her personally. It wasn’t because I don’t like that song. We all love ‘Knuck If You Buck.’ That’s an anthem,” the boxer said, adding that she hopes Princess still attends the fight and wasn’t too offended. “A block is a block, we all live,” she also said.
Soon after the red carpet clip circulated, Princess responded. She wrote, “Y’all go stream #Knuck on all platforms…and y’all let that damn girl focus on the fight,” adding a laughing emoticon.
After teasing ‘Wanna Be,’ Remy Ma slid on her Instagram Stories with a clip repost of Claressa Shields. In the video, clipped from the boxer’s red carpet comments about Princess, Shields is saying, “We all love ‘Knuck If You Buck,’ like that’s an anthem.”Again, the song ‘Wanna Go’ samples the hit Crime Mob track.
In another IG Stories post, Remy Ma posted the cover art to ‘Knuck If You Buck,’ and wrote, “Real Recognize Real” and “Crime Mob What Up!” Separately, Princess reposted Remy Ma’s ‘Wanna Go’ teaser and tagged her with fire emojis.
Claressa Shields, who is one day away from her fight against Kaye Scott in Atlanta, seemingly has not responded to Remy Ma’s song or repost. Instead, on Friday, she reposted content on her IG Stories that highlights her career as a boxer. One clip of her in the ring is captioned, “10 YEARS AGO ON THIS DAY, I WON MY 2ND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL!!!” Additionally, she reposted Boosie promoting tickets to the fight. On her IG feed, Claressa shared a comparison video of her body changes from heavyweight to middleweight fighter. She revealed she underwent strength and conditioning four times a week, boxed five days a week and drank a gallon of water everyday.
