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- I had got a call from DFCS
because Jasmine had him late for school every day.
So if I come to your door, you're gonna be
fully dressed, or are you gonna be
in your birthday suit? - Are you kidding me?
- You don't think that's happened?
- So that's never happened?
- Kirk is still trying to [bleep].
He's told me, I can give you more as long as we're [bleep].
- When you first told me about coming out,
and I did not know how to deal with it.
- Me being gay was one thing,
but, you know, I came out swinging.
- You know, I still want a wife and kids.
- Yeah. I know.
- I like the restaurant, but I don't think y'all need
to go in business together.
I feel like y'all in a good place.
I just don't want nothing to [bleep] it up.
- Oh!
Hi.
- This is the surprise.
- This is a big surprise, though.
- I see all the mother[bleep] I go over and beyond for
don't even come down there to check up on me.
That [bleep] hit me deep.
I don't want to be around a group of bitches
who generally don't [bleep] with me.
- You got weird when I started hanging
around Bambi's fake ass.
- You want to get slit in your pressed outfit?
- Bitch, I'll drag your ass. On my mama, bitch.
[funky music]
- ♪♪ This is the life ♪♪
- ♪♪ It's the life that we're livin' ♪♪
- ♪♪ This is the life ♪♪
- ♪♪ It's the life that we chose ♪♪
- ♪♪ This is the life ♪♪
♪♪ It's the life that we're livin' ♪♪
- ♪♪ This is the life ♪♪
- ♪♪ It's the life that we chose ♪♪
- ♪♪ Make my way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stoppin' ♪♪
- ♪♪ I'm here, as strong as I began ♪♪
♪♪ This is who I am ♪♪
♪♪ And this is where I stand ♪♪
♪♪ Stand with me right here ♪♪
♪♪ Whoa, I'm here ♪♪
- Yay.
I haven't seen my son, Scrappy, since the food truck event.
And I invited Scrappy to come over for some lemonade
because after all, he is my son,
and I do love my son.
So last time we talked, we got kind of heated.
- I think it was just disappointment
'cause we thought you were gonna rock with us,
you know what I'm saying, on some whole other stuff.
And I feel-- - But I wish y'all well
on y'all future endeavors if, you know--
and, you know, she kind of-- let me tell you something.
She was very defensive on your behalf, now.
Really, today it's a tester.
- We could have did the same testing at the restaurant.
- Yeah. - Well--
- It's like everything you saying don't really make sense.
- Erica's one of them people, like,
we always love each other.
So if something happen and we go back and up,
you know what I'm saying, that's cool.
I do agree with my mom, like, on some aspects
that sometimes you can't mix business and pleasure together.
But hey, man, I love where me and Erica at right now.
It's mature. It's approachable.
And when it comes to the relationship,
I'm sure that me and ED can keep the business
and the relationship separate.
And I got my babies, you know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. - It's gonna be a--
it's gonna be a lot 'cause I be doing--
I be with them a lot.
- You're a full-time father.
You're a great dad.
But from what I'm hearing, some people are not
on top of their daddy duties.
- I really don't be caring, you know what I'm saying?
I don't care about nothing that be going on with none of them.
- Well, honey, when you see about your business,
you ain't got time for nobody else's business.
Funny enough, I happen to know a certain baby's
mother's uncle.
Yes.
And the word on the street is that Kirk
is very, very selective in who and what kids
he loves and supports.
- I got my kids and all this music and movies--
- Yeah, but guess what. It's a lot of them--
a lot of them had a lot of time last year to make--
voice their opinion about your business with your ex,
Rasheeda, wondering what her and Kirk got going on,
'cause obviously, they think they life so freaking perfect
that they got time to pass judgment
on something they don't know nothing about.
Rasheeda was listening to baby mama number two
and bought the [bleep] lie.
- Women talk to women, and they think everybody's
in the same situation, and they're not.
- But we done been around this block a few times,
my [bleep]. - No, bro.
- I manage our household.
And he keeps not paying his rent,
so I got to find somewhere else to live.
- He doesn't understand all the things that
go along with being a mother.
- Since Rasheeda had enough time
to get in my son's business, this year,
I'm going to be in the middle of everybody else's business.
So I'm having this mothers appreciation.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I'm inviting a few people, you know.
So I got some special guests coming.
- I don't like it when you say special guests.
- I am going to just nose myself around to everybody
that has something to say about your situation
with your ex-wife and go on and see what they
got going on in they life.
I have brought it upon myself to organize
this mothers appreciation event.
And I took the liberty of inviting one special guest
that deserves a safe space to enjoy,
kick back, and tell her truths.
A lot of people are gonna need to be
praying for her this year, honey,
'cause the last year was a thunderstorm.
And I'm the tornado that's finna wipe everything out.
Hmm.
- ♪♪ I believe we can see ♪♪
♪♪ That together we can be as one ♪♪
♪♪ This could be what we need ♪♪
♪♪ Our moment in the sun ♪♪
♪♪ We are, we are, we are ♪♪
- I hate these knives.
- You having fun.
- These [bleep]-- these knives.
- Dee, you keep talking about the knives and all that,
but guess what.
When I'm in the kitchen, nobody don't complain.
Dee is at my house.
We're just hanging out, and he's about to cook.
He takes the D from Devon.
And he's a chef, so Chef Dee Monsterr.
- What time I'm supposed to be coming?
'Cause I ain't seen her in a minute.
I'm excited to see her. - I don't know.
She supposed to stop by before she go to church,
so, you know, she finna be-- - Church?
On Friday? - Yes.
So you need to be happy that she going to church.
She's putting a little pressure for you,
because you ain't living right.
As a teen, me and Mommy just disagreed
on my lifestyle, basically.
She really wasn't for it.
And I was ready to bust loose, be free, and be myself.
But I'm glad that, you know, we're able to come together
and she's got a newfound love for her son.
Mom's about to come over and just visit us
and explain more about her new book.
[doorbell rings]
- Look at your crazy self.
What you doing?
- Hey, Ma.
- Mom. - What you doing here?
- I know, Ma. It was a surprise.
Devon and my mom have, like, their own relationship.
She's, like, his bae.
She talks to him even when I'm not talking to him.
So they just have they own thing.
- I was stopping by to show Santana something.
And I guess I'll have to share it with you, too, as well.
- Uh-huh, anything you can say in front of me,
you can say in front of him.
I'm anxious just to hear from her perspective
of what she thought of things.
I'm sure that her perspective may be different from mines,
but it's just good for her to be able to open up and be
vulnerable from her side.
- So what you doing?
- I'm finishing up this mixtape.
- So did you make something for the church people?
- Um...
- I just need one song.
- I do got a song.
I say, leave a blank guessing.
God steady blessing.
And they never gonna dress.
I said God, Mom.
I feel like we always grew up in church.
I was always church-oriented.
And my mom going to church helped our bond
because I think it just taught her
to be forgiving, understanding,
and having love unconditionally in her heart.
- You know, Dee, I wanted to come and share the book.
And so it's a pleasant surprise that you're here.
As I was, like, going through this chapter,
my heart was touched,
and I got kind of emotional while even reading it.
And before I kind of shared it, like, big,
I wanted to share it with you first.
This chapter is entitled "Innocence Stolen."
Why didn't I protect my baby?
I'm his mother.
Every house my son was allowed to visit
was supposed to be a safe place,
but my son was passed around to be used and abused
by different family members.
It felt like someone in my family had died
when I found out what the predator had did to my son.
But no one wanted to talk about it.
If more people talked about abuse,
it could be helped, even when predators
are your family members.
It took courage for my child to share his truth,
but he was only labeled a liar.
Some of the abusers admitted their part
in the entire ordeal, but the one predator blamed my son,
like a nine-year-old would want to be violated
by an older cousin in that kind of way.
I truly believe this situation opened the door
to change my son's sexuality.
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- Rasheeda brought up the DFCS case.
- So she wants to bring up all the negativity.
Maybe that would be our time to get some of these truths out.
- Who all is gonna be on the album?
- I want Renni to be on the album.
I want people to take the album seriously.
- Well, I'm just gonna tell y'all.
- Whatever it is. - What? What?
- Well-- - Jesus.
- [screams]
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- Some of the abusers admitted their part
in the entire ordeal,
but the one predator blamed my son,
like a nine-year-old would want to be violated
by an older cousin in that kind of way.
I truly believe this situation opened the door
to change my son's sexuality.
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- That's deep.
- Very deep.
- Families don't talk about it.
I think that families sweep it under the rug.
- Do you still know the person?
Are they still-- like, the family member?
- Mm-hmm. - I'm past it.
Like, I don't hold no grudges.
It could be because I grew up in it.
It could be because I was groomed or manipulated.
- So you kept doing it after the situation happened?
- Yeah, this was, like...
- 'Cause you was nine years old, so, like--
- From 9 to, like, 16.
- Yeah. - Damn.
- To this day, I don't have no hard feelings.
Only thing was, everybody was just like,
oh, he lying.
I'm like, I ain't lying.
I didn't want to tell. I didn't tell.
I trusted one of my cousins, and he told everybody.
And that's how it came out.
It came to the point where family had to choose sides.
Hey, you gonna be on that side thinking that,
or you gonna--you gonna stand up for what's right?
I felt betrayed when everything hit the fan
because it was something that a cousin who I confided in,
he went and told everybody.
And so that's how my mom and my other family found out.
I don't think I was necessarily ready at that age
to speak on it, so it was just more betrayal than anything
when I was a child.
I didn't really understand the champion part of it.
But now I am glad that my cousin did that.
- You never talked about none of this.
How do you move forward, knowing that this happened
to you and thinking in your head,
well, if this wouldn't have happened to me, would I be gay?
Would I be straight?
You know, did that situation make me
want to experience it more?
- Mm-hmm. - Like, you know, do I like it?
So it's--I'm sorry, Ma. It's [bleep] up.
- People be grown and manipulating.
And you start from a kid,
and you get older, and you think it's normal.
I'm almost 15, 16, still messing with my cousin
like it's normal.
That's not normal.
We know that we cousins.
But that's--you-- I'm still in the closet.
I'm still a kid still. Like, you what I know.
Children are easier to manipulate.
Children are not grown.
Their mind is not fully developed.
When you're a kid, you know, you're easily influenced.
That's why older men prey on younger girls, younger boys.
It was hard for me.
Me, personally, I can't blame them 100% for my sexuality
because I do remember as a kid messing with other boys,
playing house.
- But you thought that that would be your life
already at five or six years old that you would--
- I'm not thinking as far as my life, but I don't know--
I haven't really grasped what that is.
I think my feelings with men doesn't have nothing
to do with the situation.
I remember liking boys from when I was
a little kid before any abuse.
- As your mom, I just felt like I failed you.
- I don't think that you should carry that
because you was on top of everything.
You just didn't know.
- Mm.
It still don't make it feel better.
- Yeah, I'm-- I'm shocked.
- And that's why I want your permission, like,
because I would never do this if you like, Mom, no.
- Yeah, and that's why I could
give you my blessing of my experience
and you, as my mama, to tell how you felt
because it's so many people that's gonna be like,
oh, my God, I would have never said that,
but that same thing happened to me.
Just--and coming from a mother's dynamic
is so strong, I think people need to hear it.
I think my mom's book is so important.
I think that it's gonna be an eye-opener
for LGBT and the church.
You have a lot of LGBT that's scared to go to church
because of how church people can be so condemning.
And I think it's great for people in the church
to see you have to love everybody.
Those are your children at the end of the day.
You can't abandon them.
- So before I leave--
so, Dee, I'm surprised you here.
Last time I was talking to you, you told me you was
finna have a wife and some kids and you were done.
- Why would you bust me out like that?
- I think that we both is just on the same page with--
and seeing, like, working towards the same goal
and just seeing where it goes.
- Yeah, marriage.
- What? Nobody is getting married here.
- Huh?
- Man, you want to be married to a man?
When did this come out? - Not to a man, to him.
- No, that's a man.
- Everyone has their own opinion.
I feel like, especially for parents, what
they see for their kids, my mom, that's
just how she was raised.
But my mom loves me regardless.
She supports me in everything.
I don't see me marrying Dee.
I'm not really a marriage person.
I think I'm a dog. [laughs]
- And you know-- and I still love you.
- I love you too. - We still love you.
- Yeah, we just--
[hip-hop music]
♪♪ Unh, ay, pull the plug ♪♪
♪♪ I'm charged up ♪♪
- Ah. Oh!
- Whoa! That's it! That's it! - What's up, baby?
- Scrappy, the album is called "Togetherness."
You know, you are--
- No fake artist [bleep] right here.
- You know mother[bleep] well you gonna put me on there.
- I cannot put you on the album.
- ♪♪ The crowd go wild ♪♪
♪♪ Hear the bass and the boom ♪♪
♪♪ I got them like ♪♪
- Spice wanted to have, like, a small little intimate
get-together for me for the baby.
- With me being in the hospital and my leg, they didn't call.
They didn't text. They didn't do nothing.
I just want to really ask, like,
did I do something to y'all?
'Cause I really [bleep] with y'all girls,
and it really hurt me.
So now I want to have a conversation with Spice.
I'm coming to the pre-shower.
- ♪♪ Yeah, hit the gas ♪♪
♪♪ We about to get the fire started ♪♪
- So Momma Dee finna hit me up to hang out.
I guess it's, like, a dressy-up type of celebration
for y'all mamas. - OK.
- And we gonna have a reason to get cute.
I told her we gonna go
and we gonna be on good behavior.
- I'm always on good behavior.
- ♪♪ Wonder where I've been ♪♪
♪♪ Fresh out the huddle ♪♪
♪♪ It's about to get intense ♪♪
♪♪ Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah ♪♪
♪♪ What I said is what I meant ♪♪
♪♪ Throw the jersey on ♪♪
♪♪ I need to see you represent ♪♪
- [speaking indistinctly]
- Hey! [laughter]
- I'm still super upset from the Kirk and Rasheeda meeting,
so my mom is here at the park with me and Kannon.
My mom has held it down,
and she's never judged me not one time.
[laughter]
- Oh, my goodness.
I'm glad he is having a great summer.
- Yeah, he is.
- So what's going on with you?
- I had a conversation with Kirk and Rasheeda.
- Oh, boy. OK.
- She brought up, you know, the DFCS case with Kannon
because he's been tardy a lot.
And I'm just like, you haven't been concerned
about anything in years.
This is my first time hearing from--
ever hearing from you, actually.
- So she wants to bring up all the negativity
as opposed to taking control and being a real stepmother.
- Right.
Make that make sense.
Kirk did what he did.
And it is Kirk's son.
However, you decided to stay with this man.
And y'all are still married at the end of the day.
Y'all have a partnership.
So I feel like it's only right for both of y'all
to step up and spend some time with our son.
And then Kirk was trying to say that I answer
the door in my birthday suit.
- You don't even want that man no more.
You have told me that specifically.
That is old news.
- Exactly.
- That's a bunch of mess.
- Speaking of mess, Momma Dee invited me
to her mothers event.
And I would love for you to go.
Do you want to go?
- OK.
- I think it's a little odd that Momma Dee invited me.
However, I do know she's always plotting
because you know she always got her ears to the streets.
And I have nothing to hide.
And I have my truth, so bring it on.
- OK, well, maybe that would be our time
to say what we need to say
and get some of these truths out, you know?
- Yeah. - I would love to go.
Thank you.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- I'm mad at you because you did not check on me at all.
- But, Sierra, you don't care about nobody.
- I had talked to Mommy the other day,
you being my gay mama.
She said, who is this person that my son calling Mommy?
- Like, I'm his mama. - Mm-hmm.
For real?
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
[groovy music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ I got the new kind of style ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, unh ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, wow ♪♪
♪♪ I got the new kind of groove ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, damn ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, ooh ♪♪
♪♪ I got the new kind of style ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, unh ♪♪
♪♪ That make you go, wow ♪♪
- OK, you set up a cute thing for her.
- ♪♪ Make you go, make you go, make you go, ooh ♪♪
♪♪ Let me take you back to the fresh, how fresh ♪♪
- I think this is so nice that you did this for Renni.
- Oh, yeah, it's cute, 'cause, you know,
we haven't seen her ever since she announced that it's a boy.
It's only natural that I throw a blue dinner for Renni.
I haven't seen Renni or Sierra in a long time
'cause I've been traveling all over the world doing my tours,
back and forth for shows; it's a lot.
So this is just one small get-together
for kind of reconnect with my little bellies crew.
And let's just kick it.
Hey, baby mama!
- Hey, y'all.
- Ooh!
[laughs]
You are huge.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yes, you are huge.
- You know what? I would be weird...
- Let me hug you, Sierra. - But I'm not gonna be weird.
- It's too early. Let's have a drink first.
- I still love both of y'all.
- What is she talking about?
Oh, Sierra, don't even bother with going in your feelings.
- I am in my feelings.
Did you come see me at the hospital?
Did you check on me? - Wait a minute.
I thought it was a publicity stunt.
I thought it was--
I thought you were selling your cream.
- It's really sad that people would just
come up with their own conclusion.
This is a real serious matter.
Like, they told me I could lose my life.
They told me that I can lose a limb.
So if Bambi or whoever think I'm lying, girl, bye.
I had an infection eating at my leg.
I'm mad at you because you did not check on me at all.
- But Sierra, Sierra, baby, you know I love you,
but I'm gonna look at you and tell you the truth.
I was in the hospital for 102 times.
You never showed once.
Do not make this about you, Sierra.
We're here to have a great time with Renni.
And that's what it is.
You can't be mad if I didn't show for you...
- Who you call? Who you call?
- Because you don't show for nobody.
- I did not know Sierra was gonna come straight
into the dinner before we order a drink
and just go straight in for the kill.
Nobody know how to have some decorum around here?
- I cannot believe you and all the people.
- And I can't believe your ass. - I cannot believe your ass.
- You don't care about nobody.
- Are you [bleep] serious, Spice?
- Yes.
- How dare you let some [bleep] come out of your mouth
and say something like that?
[dramatic music]
- How's your leg doing now? You walking fine.
- I think it's fine. Thank God I'm healed.
- Amen. - Thank God--
- I'm happy you feel better now.
- No, seriously, thank you.
- How do we get on you getting on Spice
for not checking on you?
This wasn't about you today, sister.
But thank you, Lord, for whatever
was going on with the leg.
Thank you for healing that leg, amen.
- So what's this I am hearing about a cast album?
Who all is gonna be on the album?
- I want Renni to be on the album 'cause I know
it's hard--being in a male-dominated
business as a woman is hard.
And now that you're becoming a mother--
- And I'm itching to get back to, like, making music.
- Well, that make me feel good because now I feel like,
you know, so we got to get in the studio
before the baby drops. - Let's do it.
Lately I have been feeling a little isolated,
just, you know, in my own little pregnant bubble,
so I am excited to get back to doing music and just feeling
like Renni Rucci again.
So who else is on the album?
- [scoffs]
- I'm making that decision.
I just--I was telling everybody
I want people to take the album seriously.
- You ain't even ask me or told me, so you don't--
- So you need to take a deep breath.
I haven't even seen you since you put out your music.
You remember? - You're right. You're right.
- So what are you talking about?
That's why I'm confused.
My friends got to understand that I want artists,
real artists, on this project.
You're not an artist.
[alarm ringing]
That's my--that's my alarm to pray.
God is saying--
[laughs] God just said, grace--
[laughs]
No, I'm sorry.
[playful music]
Thank you, Jesus.
- When we going to the studio?
'Cause this how that man [bleep] it up.
- It was my first song.
And honestly, I don't give a [bleep]
what these people say; I liked it.
And I'm gonna keep trying until I get a hit,
a hit, hit, hit.
- This is not what I planned.
This is about you, Renni.
We shouldn't even be arguing around you with this energy.
It's not good for the baby.
- He is just introduced to it at this point.
- Oh, wait.
So I got a gift for my nephew, first of all.
Let me break this table up.
Where's my gift? Ooh. So--
- Oh, my God.
- Spice got her little way to get under my skin.
And I do feel a way.
I'm just gonna let all of that go
because tonight is about Renni.
The gift was a nice gesture, so thank you.
We appreciate it, Spice.
- This is cute.
- That's my baby nephew. [laughter]
- I'm excited for my baby to meet his dysfunctional aunties.
I'm so grateful for my little friend group
that I have right here.
- Auntie Spice is here!
Whoo!
[laughter]
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- I can't stay with a [bleep] for a week.
- They keep coming back, ain't they?
- I don't know what kind of coochie this is.
[laughter]
- I take my career seriously, so I know I'm gonna hurt
a lot of people feelings.
But even if I record the song, it doesn't mean that it's
gonna be on this album. - It's gonna make it.
So who's gonna be on it?
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ Lazy Mondays turn into them fun days ♪♪
♪♪ Got a couple tans bathing in the sunrays ♪♪
♪♪ Up again, I'm on 10 when the sun raise ♪♪
♪♪ I swear, I want the big bags and the chump change ♪♪
- Make sure just don't get nothing on my couch.
Tanya is my gay mom.
So in the LGBT community, we often adopt families.
And she was just really that mother figure
when me and my mom weren't at a good place.
So I definitely want to catch up with her
and let her know what's going on with Mommy and the new book
and see her opinion.
- What's been going on with you?
- I been getting, like, the music together
'cause I'm finna drop it in June.
- You're standing on business.
- Yeah. I'm just excited for that.
So I had talked to Mommy the other day.
She was telling me about the book that she doing.
She had read me the first chapter.
Like, it was deep.
She talking about, like, me being molested as a kid,
you know, how she blamed herself for it
'cause she feel like, dang,
I'm thinking when I'm sending you out, you safe.
I'm thinking when I'm sending you out, ain't nothing--
you know, ain't nothing going on.
- 'Cause I'm trusting these people that I'm sending you to.
- Exactly, and so she was just like, you know, asking me,
do I--do she have my approval to talk about it?
And I was like, yeah.
You know, people sweep it under the rug,
or they don't want to talk about it,
or they don't want to be embarrassed.
That really break people.
Her coming from a perspective of
not necessarily knowing
how to love me at a certain point in time,
that's where you come in,
you being, you know, my gay mama.
And it was so funny.
I didn't ever know that Mommy was jealous.
- For real?
- Like, she said, I used to be kind of jealous of Tanya
'cause I'm like, who is this person
that my son calling Mommy?
Like, I'm his momma. - Mm-hmm.
I remember you was just so little.
[laughter]
- I'm so glad to have both gay mom
and biological mom in my life.
My mom loves Tanya, us being together
collectively as a family.
She just always has positive words.
Ma is a pastor, but she's still my mama.
- Yeah.
- And even now, like, she love me unconditional.
- Mm-hmm. - And I'm so grateful for that.
Girl, when she was here, we was talking about it or whatever.
Dee was here too.
So Dee had brought up marriage.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I just don't see me and any [bleep]--
like, it's just-- that's just a lot.
- So you just want to be with a [bleep]
forever without marriage?
- Yeah, I feel like you don't got to get married.
Like, what you get married for?
- It's levels to relationships.
- Bitch, I--I can't stay with a [bleep] for a week.
- [laughs] And they keep coming back, ain't they?
- I don't know what kind of coochie this is.
[laughter]
I feel like marriage is a serious thing.
You have to commit to one person.
I like being free to date whoever I want,
to be with whoever I want.
Different men offer different things.
And I'm here for all of it.
But I definitely will take the ring.
- What else you got going on coming up?
- Girl, you know it's gonna be Pride.
- Mm-hmm.
- So I got a show in Long Beach, California.
I love Pride season.
It's definitely a time that I get to go out
and advocate for my community.
I'm excited to perform and just show the world
that gays is running [bleep].
I'm kind of nervous 'cause I got to perform
for 45 to 60 minutes.
A bitch ain't been on the stage in a minute.
[laughter]
[hip-hop music]
[horn honks]
♪♪ ♪♪
- So today I'm working on my album.
And I'm finally gonna get to record Renni Rucci.
So you know say gyal will go right.
Good song, good music. I'm excited.
How long you haven't been in the studio?
- I think the last thing I did was
the feature I did with Zacc.
- That was before the baby. - Yeah.
Like, that was a while ago. - That's crazy.
Well, it's my pleasure
to have you back in the studio after so long.
- I'm coming back with the right person.
- I'm excited! [laughs] - I'm excited.
- Me can't believe me gonna produce
an album with all the cast.
Can you believe it? - I can. Yeah.
It's you.
So who's gonna be on it? - [laughs]
That's the big question everybody got to ask.
Well, so far, I was in the studio with Scrappy
as well, Rasheeda.
I know for sure that I wanted Amy.
- Now, you know, Sierra, are you gonna put her?
- I feel like I don't know if Sierra is taking her career
as an artist seriously. - Seriously, yeah.
- Or she's just doing it because, hey,
I got the money to do this, so I'ma do a song,
and I can shoot a video. - Yeah.
- 'Cause at the end of the day, as a producer,
I'm still gonna need support from the artist.
- Right. - I take my career seriously,
so I know I'm gonna hurt a lot of people feelings.
But even if I record the song, it doesn't mean that it's
gonna be on this album. - It's gonna make it.
Real artists will understand that
'cause there's songs we record of our own that don't make it.
So if you a real artist, you will understand,
like, if it don't make it, it just don't make it.
I definitely understand.
And I respect her standpoint because at the end of the day,
she has more accolades than all of us here.
So Spice should put everybody's feelings to the side
and just focus on giving the best body of work
because her name is on it.
- I'm happy that you took the time out for kind of come,
even though, you know, I know it's hard for you
'cause you're pregnant.
But I need to go find out what's been
going on in your real world.
Like, how was being pregnant and with Zacc?
How is that relationship?
- It's different because I have a partner who's present.
I'm enjoying it, though.
Most of my past relationships, I never got out of being
in, like, survival mode.
He's a very hands-on partner.
And I'm not used to that.
So sometimes I find myself, like,
looking for things to be wrong
because when you're used to things going wrong,
you feel like it's too good.
- Well, girl, let's get this song out before the baby drop.
- I'm ready.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- It's not worth it. - You are not ready.
- What's she not ready for?
I'm ready, baby.
- Ma, sit down. Stop, stop, Ma.
- That's side chick territory.
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ All day, all night ♪♪
♪♪ I get to the growler ♪♪
♪♪ Topper, big shot caller ♪♪
♪♪ You can holla, dollar ♪♪
♪♪ Word to my mama, you can follow ♪♪
♪♪ Bottles, pop it ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I gets a lot of like ♪♪
♪♪ Get it, got it, good ♪♪
- [gasps] Hi, beautiful.
So good to see you.
- You know I had to get everybody together.
- Great. - I got something for you.
- Thank you. - Yes. Come on.
- Oh, thank you.
- Because you know what?
We, as moms, you know, we need to stick together.
I'll tell you that much. - We have to stick together.
- This is a very special event for me
because I'd like to show some love to other mothers
to let them know, you know, we don't walk alone.
It's also a chance for me to catch up
on all the tea and the gossip.
I live for the mess.
Mm-hmm.
- So how are you?
- I'm so freaking happy, Mignon,
that they're finally co-parenting.
They're finally friends.
Because that was-- they had interference
for a long freaking time.
- But you know what?
I'm behind Erica and Scrappy 100%.
- Me too, you know. - Hello, mothers.
- Oh, look who here. - Hi!
- Hey, hey. - Let me get over.
- Momma Dee invited me to her lit mothers event.
And I'm super excited.
The last time I was in a group setting
with Sierra and Bambi and it went down...
Lord, let the good side of Amy win tonight, please.
- I'm just so honored to be here, really.
- I wanted us to come together because we have,
you know, a lot of things in common.
- Yes. Ooh! - And--
- More than you might know, now.
- Come on, now. - What?
So tell me what's been going on, 'cause you know
I'm nosy as hell. Tell it.
- So let me just tell you, Momma Dee.
I have had to conclude that Bambi is definitely a liar.
Me and Bambi ended up having an argument.
Let me tell you, I hate when I have to show that ugly side,
but to raise up on me--
- My child, she's a wonderful person.
And when bitches try to just cut her neck like that,
it just [bleep] makes me pissed off as hell...
- I know it do. - You know what I'm saying?
- Bitch, you saw the first half.
- All right. - You played with that one.
- OK. - Now you gonna meet
the next bitch. - OK.
- Once you cross me, the other half of Amy, it's a "game on,
"may the best and biggest bitch win" type of energy.
But I am here solely for the moms.
The women are OGs.
I'm here to celebrate them.
- Hi.
- Hey, baby.
How you doing?
- Ooh. - You look so pretty.
- Thank you.
- How are my grandbabies?
- They are good. They are good.
Can I get a drink, sweetheart?
- Hey, hey, hey. - Hey!
How you? - I'm fine.
- I'ma let you sit down. - OK, thank you.
- You good? You in better spirits?
- Yeah, yeah. - What's wrong?
- She stormed off with an attitude.
- Why?
- I got both of they backs, but I just own the business.
I'd just like them to stay co-parenting and friends
and that.
- But you know you don't always get what you want, right?
- No, I don't.
Is y'all in a relationship?
- Who? - You and Scrappy.
- Well, I'm just gonna tell y'all.
- What? - Whatever it is.
- What? What? - What?
- I'm pregnant.
- [screams]
- Ooh, catch her. Get her up.
- Hallelujah. - I'm joking, though.
It was a joke.
- You know, [bleep].
I feel like I'm at the dentist's office
and he's just overgassed me, right?
But I kind of wish it was true.
- But Scrappy and I have been talking.
And I told him, you know what?
I'm open to giving him another chance,
but the ball is in his court.
And we gonna see what happens.
So let's toast to that. - OK.
- OK? - Mm-hmm.
- To new beginnings. - New beginnings.
- To new beginnings.
- ♪♪ You really think I'm gonna lose it all ♪♪
♪♪ But I'ma drop it ♪♪
- Goodbye. - Goodbye.
- ♪♪ I live my life the way I want it ♪♪
♪♪ Energy on top, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ It's my door, they keep on knocking ♪♪
♪♪ What I want, what I want ♪♪
♪♪ No, we ain't stopping ♪♪
♪♪ What I want, what I want ♪♪
♪♪ Energy popping ♪♪
♪♪ What I want, what I want ♪♪
♪♪ No, we ain't stopping ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Oops. Did I do that?
[dramatic music]
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- ♪♪ My way to the top ♪♪
♪♪ And it ain't no stopping ♪♪
- It's not promised.
- And you came with it? - Exactly.
- And Scrappy came with it too?
- Exactly. But you know what?
- Hey, Momma Dee. - In hip-hop history,
there has never been a mother and son.
- How are you? - Hey, big Jasmine.
How are you? - Good.
- Hey, Momma, I'ma holla at you.
- This is my ma. - OK. Hey, Mama.
- Amy, Erica.
Amy.
I'm so confused right now.
- Child, if this ain't some messy [bleep].
- I thought this was an event honoring mothers.
And when I think honor, I don't think or see Jasmine.
So why is she here?
- I'm just trying to understand when this connection happened.
- The reason why Rasheeda and Ms. Shirleen Pearlene
hasn't been invited, because I have simply ran out of hay.
I have no more room to even put a bird in it.
Don't you know what I just built?
It's a [bleep] nest for you to goddamn sit on.
- You need to sit your ass on it.
- Mm-hmm.
[bell dings]
So listen, I've been keeping my ear to the street.
- Oh, Lord. - I'm nosy.
- What the streets been telling you?
- And, you know, I own it.
Last year, Bambi and my son got a divorce.
A lot of people like Kirk and Rasheeda, they bought the lie,
so I know how one-sided they can be.
So tell me, Jasmine, what's going on?
- Listen, I just don't like my business out there
if it doesn't have to be, you know what I'm saying?
But I will say this, though.
So Kirk tried to put me out there.
Like, he tried to lie on me.
Honestly, I am a little shocked at how quick
it took Momma Dee to dive right into my business.
However, I ain't come here for nothing, so let's get into it.
I appreciate that somebody in this circle
is willing to listen and not just take the Frost side.
So Kirk, he tried to lie on me.
He said that I be answering the door in my birthday suit
when he comes to pick Kannon up, which is a lie.
And immediately, when he said it,
I was thinking, like, you only
saying that because you trying to cover up your tracks.
And if I say the truth, you want to have something
that you can say in return, you know what I'm saying?
- Mm-hmm. Has he flirted with you or anything
since you had your son? - Wait till you hear this.
- He still been trying to [bleep] with me.
- What?
Have sex with you? - Yeah.
- Last year, Rasheeda and Kirk had enough time
to get in me and my son's business.
You need to be watching Kirk.
So that's what you need to be concentrating on,
keeping your man's [bleep] inside his [bleep] pants, OK?
- You saying you'll give it to me
if I [bleep] you, basically. - Damn.
- But you can't afford it any other time.
- Holding money or anything else hostage.
- Hey. - Hey, baby. How are you?
- Hello. - Mwah.
- Hi, Ma. - Hi, baby.
Good to see you. - Hi.
Who is this pretty young lady?
- This is my friend Erica. - Erica.
- Hi, Erica.
- Erica, this is Momma Dee. - Yes.
- This is a beautiful event. - Thank you.
- I invited my friend Erica Racine.
Just in case a bitch want to act up,
I don't want my mama fighting nobody.
- What you know, Erica?
- As far as Jasmine is concerned,
she's not the bad guy. - Mm.
- I don't understand why these men just can't grow up.
- It's a old cliché about me, y'all.
Don't tell a telegram.
And don't tell Momma Dee, 'cause Momma Dee
gonna goddamn get it, baby.
All these women that believe in the lie.
But for me, if you want to search for the truth,
it's right there in your home.
- Hey, Momma. - Hey.
Come on. What's up?
- You so messy. - Mm-hmm.
- You so messy.
- Mm-hmm.
They were messy.
- I should have known better because this is
Momma Dee we talking about.
And she always has some bull[bleep] up her sleeve.
But best believe, Jasmine clearly came here to start
a whole bunch of bull crap.
I mean, [bleep] follows her wherever she goes.
I'm just gonna call you Messy Dee.
You know who that is, right? - Yeah.
So I invited her tonight to ask her what's going on with y'all.
She said that he'll hold something hostage,
like, I'll give you this if you sleep with me.
They be arguing too.
- Oh, he's giving her proposition.
- Yes.
- Ooh, Lord.
What is you doing right now?
- So she said Kirk, you know, is like,
at her about sleeping with her.
Yeah.
- This is a lot. - Yeah.
- I definitely want to holla at her.
Regardless of what is going on between Jasmine and Kirk,
I feel like it's a time and a place for everything.
And this is not the time, nor the place.
I wholeheartedly think that Jasmine
is jealous of Rasheeda
and she's gonna continue to be a problem
throughout their marriage.
- Now, what?
- Hey, ladies. - How are you?
- So what's the tea?
- I don't have any tea for you, babe.
- You do. You had tea for Momma Dee.
- You're not Momma Dee.
- I know, but what you told Momma Dee?
- Ask Momma Dee what I told Momma Dee.
- So you don't want to spill the tea?
- I don't know you enough to spill no tea.
[laughter]
I have nothing to hide.
I already told Momma Dee.
What she does with that information
is what she does with that information.
I don't need to report back to Erica or anybody else
about my business.
- You had a reason why you came over here?
- Why you worried about what I'm doing?
- OK, but what is the tea for?
- Why you worried about what I'm doing?
- What is the tea for?
- [bleep] off. - But who is it for?
- Why you pressed? - I'm sorry?
- You came over asking about tea.
- Ma, sit down. Stop, stop, Ma.
[all arguing indistinctly]
Ma, be quiet.
Ma, sit down.
- I don't know her.
- Sit down. - I don't know her.
It's weird.
This is what happens every single time.
The woman is the one that is blamed
while they're friends with the man who also was involved.
- You ain't ready. - It's not worth it.
- You are not ready.
- What she not ready for?
I'm ready, baby. I'm ready. I'm ready.
- What's the disagreement, baby?
I'm finna ask her.
- Sit, Ma. It ain't worth it.
- I'm finna ask her, what's the disagreement?
- Erica Dixon is 100% in the right for defending her friend
in her absence against the side chick
that almost ruined the marriage.
And I want friends like that.
But we're here to celebrate the moms
and not the moms ready to box each other.
- No side chicks allowed.
- Shut the [bleep] up. - No side chicks allowed.
[laughter] - No side chicks.
- Side chicks not allowed.
- No side chicks.
Not one, please. - Y'all can't even talk.
[all cheering]
- Next time on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- Come on, Zay. - Welcome to the party, baby.
- Yeah. - You see the ladies?
- Oh, so you single?
- I'm married, but I'm separated.
- Mm. - But we still live together.
- Hey. - Hey.
- How they got in your house?
- They used a stone, and they hit the window.
But listen, they had a gun.
- Momma Dee said that Jasmine had just told her
Kirk had been texting her, saying that she could get
more money from him
if she would give him more sexual activity.
- What I don't want to do is to keep going
through this bull[bleep].
- You can say what you want.
You done your part. You [bleep] my life up.
- I [bleep] your life up. You just a straight-up liar.
- I get scared. What if he just go haywire?
- Do you trust Joc?
- If you can't step up into the shoes of what a husband
is supposed to be, then leave me.
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