Remy Smith was sentenced Tuesday in New York criminal court to eight years behind bars for the shooting of a friend in 2007 during a spat over money.

Justice Rena K. Uviller delivered the sentence Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, describing Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, as “an extremely angry young woman whose anger is completely out of control.”

A New York jury found Smith guilty of assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion in March.

The trial stems from a shooting accident which occurred last summer. Smith, 26, shot Makeda Barnes Joseph, a member of her circle of friends, after a celebration of her birthday at a nightclub.

During the party, the singer asked Joseph to hold her purse. Upon recovering it, she claims $3,000 were missing. Once they left the locale, Smith pulled her Cadillac Escalade up to her pal’s Nissan Maxima, and entered the Maxima with a cocked gun. A struggle followed and Joseph was shot in the abdomen.

Smith has maintained the shooting was an accident.

In trying to convince the judge she was innocent, Smith insisted that her perceived aggressive demeanor is only a “façade,” an industry-created image. “Remy Ma is not even close to who I really am. I’m not a thug,” she said in court, as quoted by Reuters. “I’m not a threat or a menace to society, and I still have so much to offer.” She also cried.

Her fiancé did more than cry; Shamele Mackie, a rapper known as Papoose, was enraged when he learned about the sentence and cursed court officers in a hallway outside the courtroom. He also tried to strike them, shouting, “Go ahead, lock me up!”

Mackie and Smith planned to marry earlier this week at Rikers Island Jail. Correction officials called off the wedding after a handcuff key was discovered on Mackey. Her lawyer said the two still planned to marry.

Smith faced up to 25 years in jail. She is one of three female rappers to ever have a number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2005, she received the best female hip-hop artist award at the BET Awards; in 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy award for her part in Terror Squad’s song “Lean Back.”