New York rap queen Remy Ma was released from prison in August after serving six and a half years for assault charges . During that time, she came to recognize the luxury of these freedoms.
Taking a shower when they want...
"When you're incarcerated, you cannot take a shower when you want to," Remy said. "And if you're in the Special Housing Unit, you only get to take a shower once every other day. That's only on the weekdays: Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Saturday and Sunday it's not happening. I heard about an interview with Chris Brown where he said it was horrible he could only take a shower once every other day. I was going through the same thing but I had my menstrual. So I'm like, 'Oh, really? You think that's bad? I'm dying here.' There are issues that women have that men don't have and that's not taken into consideration."
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...for as long as they want.
"These showers are for 10 minutes only. And 10 minutes goes by really, really fast," Remy said. "Don't even think about washing your hair. They'll turn off the water and you'll get caught with shampoo in your hair, and then you're just stuck like that. When I was home, I would be in the shower forever. Leaning on the wall. You have a radio in there. You leave your conditioner for extra long. But when someone has a clock waiting to turn the water off on you, it gets serious."
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Never running out of essentials.
"You can't go to the store yourself and buy soap if you need soap," she explained. "You literally have to call someone and wait till they're able to bring it to you. So if you run out of soap, what do you do? I think people really take for granted, just their freedom to be able to wash their body."
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Choosing what to eat.
"It's one thing to be on a diet. Everyone who's ever been on a diet knows that can be torture. But in prison, you can only get 35 pounds of food a month and 35 pounds is not a lot when everything you can eat comes in a can. You're only able to have pre-cooked foods that are packaged a certain way, either in a can or a bag. It can't say 'keep frozen,' but those are the half-decent ones, that are flash frozen. You can't get fresh eggs."
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