- Previously on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta."
- You gotta learn how to compromise.
- I walked away from everything in New York,
so you can't say compromise. I've compromised so much.
- We haven't spoken, and I don't feel good
about everything that's going on with us.
And you went and bought me dead roses.
- Hello, Richard!
- You gotta hold me. Welcome back.
- What the [bleep] is Erica Mena and you doing?
- Y'all just [bleep] trying to put me in the corner.
- Okay-- - So you know what?
- No, no, no. - I'm out of here.
[laughter]
- After a month in the hospital,
today, my mom took her last breath.
It's just hard.
- Some woman said that her stepsister
has a baby by Joc.
- I'm having to pretend I didn't know about the baby.
I look like a fool right now.
- We need to really have a talk
and try to mend you and your daddy's relationship.
- Every time I say, "Come," you never show up.
It's been like that all my life.
- You know what? I'ma tell you what's up--
- No, don't tell me [bleep]. [bleep] you!
Stay out of my life! I don't give a [bleep]!
[upbeat hip-hop music]
- ♪ This is the life ♪
- ♪ It's the life I'm living in ♪
♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
♪ It's the life I'm living in ♪
- ♪ This is the life ♪
♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
[upbeat hip-hop music]
- ♪ Know what I mean ♪
♪ Know what I mean ♪
♪ You gotta know what I mean, know what I mean ♪
♪ Know what I mean, you gotta know what I mean ♪
♪ Know what I mean ♪ - ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Crip!
♪ Lean back when I leave, [bleep] ♪
♪ When we looking this clean, [bleep] ♪
♪ How you smiling no cheese, [bleep] ♪
♪ This baccarat make you cease, [bleep] ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ Straight!
You know, there's been a lot of things that's done
to try to make the divorce hell
and make me feel like I'ma lose my mind,
but when I'm in the booth
and I got that music going through,
it's like--it's my escape. Whoo!
- That was [bleep] fire. - Whoo!
That's a hit. Yo!
- What up? - Oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
- Nice to see you. - Hey, bruh.
- You must be underneath, I'm saying, right?
[laughter]
- What's up? What's up?
- What's good? - See you dripped up.
- I see you dripped up-- - I'ma let y'all chop it up.
- All right. Cool, cool, cool, we here.
- All right, I'll see y'all. - What's up, bro?
You paying for the session? - Oh, man.
Yeah, I got my son here.
He came here so he could lay down something too, you know?
- I wanna hit some.
- Oh, what? You a rapper now?
- Yeah, just beginning,
but you never know where it could take you.
You could really go far with it.
- You got like a star quality. That's dope.
- Thanks. - How old are you now?
- 16.
- Everything with the music, it comes from within,
so go in the b-room.
There's another studio right there.
- All right, I got y'all. - Go write a 16.
- Appreciate you. - Write a 16, bring it back.
I wanna chop it up with your pops.
- All right, I got you. I appreciate you.
- Stay focused. - All right, I got y'all.
- Stay off your phone. - No promises.
- So what's up? What's up with you?
What's new, bro?
I ain't see you in a minute, [bleep].
- I've been working, man.
I've been busy with the restaurant
and my baby mother, Samantha,
Mendeecees' mother, she moved down here.
- Damn! How is that?
- It's cool because she allowed Mendeecees to live with us,
and he's doing great.
- And her and Yandy, they cool?
- They okay. They cordial.
You know, a lot of things happened in the past.
- Mm-hmm.
- Wait, wait, wait, did you call me a bitch?
- I called you a [bleep] bitch 'cause--
- Are you out of your [bleep] mind?
- What the [bleep] you gonna do?
- Is she crazy?
- I still feel like, you know,
time heals everything, and we can move past this.
So I know Little Mendeecees don't want this to happen.
What do you think we need to do to bring the family together?
- We shouldn't rush things, you know?
- Rushing? What do mean rush?
- I just think everything has its time.
- But I'ma do my best to work on this.
So how's it feel to be, you know, a father?
- Now, I'm starting to see, like, when the personality
comes through, you know what I'm saying?
I wanna be with them all the time.
And then, with Legend, it's like--it's like
he's so beautiful when I look at him,
but I'm like, "Yo, why he don't look nothing like me?"
Do you see it in my pictures?
- Yeah, he looks just like your daughter.
They look--your kids look alike, bro.
- You think so? - Yeah.
- When I see my daughter, I see me when I was younger.
I see that all day.
- But you still got to give him time to develop.
- I feel like-- - I see like you questioning.
You in doubt right now. Did you get a test?
- No, I never did that. You know, it's crossed my mind.
[dramatic orchestral music]
I'm not just pulling this out of my six-pack for no reason.
Like, when Erica got pregnant,
me and her were not on good terms.
So what? You're pregnant?
- We're pregnant. Say something.
♪ ♪
- I don't trust nobody. - Yeah, man.
Listen, see, Rich Dollaz-- we was talking--
me, him, and Kirk. It was at Joc's wedding.
- Mm-hmm.
- And, you know, he made a reference to your wife, Mena.
- Like, I look at Erica and Safaree,
ain't no rhyme or reason.
Sometimes, [bleep] don't work. 'Cause, I mean, [bleep].
When we be speaking, she be saying something different.
- Y'all still be speaking? - Oh, yeah, we talk.
- Then I saw on Instagram a clip of the reunion show
where Rich was rubbing her leg
and telling her he still love her and stuff like that.
- You love me, you [bleep]. - No, you love me.
- Yo, I'm out.
- You know, me and Rich, we always been cool,
but, I ain't going to lie, like, you know,
that definitely is-- comes across as disrespectful.
When it comes to Rich, I'm not surprised,
but there's just a man code that we just don't do,
like, no matter what. So, Rich, you tripping.
I appreciate you letting me know.
I definitely need to talk to him
about that and see what's up.
- ♪ Do you like what you see? ♪
♪ 'Cause you know I ride high ♪
♪ Eyes up here 'cause you know I stay fly ♪
♪ Boy, I know you like it ♪
♪ Tell me how you like it ♪
♪ All about me and you know that's how I like it ♪
[hip-hop music]
- Hey, babe. - Hey.
- My best friend Jodi
has been with me every step of my way.
Me having my daughter at a young age with BK,
breaking up with him, the situation with my sisters.
Like, she has never left my side.
So her opinion really matters to me.
Oh my God, Best, we need to have a conversation.
- I want all the details. - Where do I start?
- With the engagement.
I wish I could've been there, Best.
- I wish you were there. Yes, I am engaged.
Can you see the ring? It's beautiful.
It's 11 carats.
So let me tell you guys how Eric proposed.
He did it so smooth.
We were at a big family gathering,
and I looked down.
He was on one knee with a beautiful ring.
It's so nice. Wow.
- You crying? - Shut up, Eric.
I'm just like, "I don't know."
You know, you my best friend. I talk to you about everything.
I feel like we connected by the hip.
- Okay, so what?
- Me and Eric be power tripping.
In my past relationships, I was always the boss.
I was always calling the shots,
and with Eric, sometimes, it comes off, like, daddy-ish
'cause he kind of bossy a little bit,
you know what I'm saying?
- When a real, true man comes in,
there's gotta be some type of compromise, I think.
- But sometimes, it just be overbearing.
I said yes to Eric's proposal because it let me know
what type of man I have
and what he's trying to promise me for our future,
but the fact that both of us
is used to being the alpha of our relationships,
is making it so hard for us to get along.
- You wanna be married. You wanna feel secure.
That's always been a dream of yours just like--
- But, Best, how many rings I gave back?
- No, Eric is different,
but I just feel like that's the good man for you.
- And I know every relationship has its problems,
but I don't wanna rush down the aisle
and then rush to a divorce.
- If you feel all these ways, why you take the ring?
- Because I know that he means great,
and I know that he loves me to death,
and I know that he's actually good for me.
I just feel like I'm so used to...
- Doing whatever you wanna do.
- Doing what the [bleep] I wanna do.
He coming in for the better,
but it's like I've just been so sad.
I honestly feel like I'm losing myself.
[dramatic music]
Being a teen mom,
I always had to work hard for everything I got,
and the thought of having a husband
was always one of my biggest dreams,
but after I've grown up and become so very independent,
I realized you don't need a man to feel secure,
so I just feel like me and Eric just really got to get
on one accord and figure out
if this is really what we wanna do with one another.
I gotta go see me a counselor or somebody
'cause I gotta pull myself together.
- Maybe y'all should do therapy together.
- Maybe we should. I thought about that.
You always was the one that could bring me back
to who I need to be, so I need you in this time.
- I will give you my heart right now.
I love you so much, Best. Like--
- I love you too. Love you, Best.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- This is the first time I done seen you in about seven years.
You've been absentee. - [bleep] off!
- You can kiss my ass. - No!
- You can get the [bleep] out!
- After the engagement,
you know, we took a break, and he
got somebody else pregnant.
- So you knew about it? - Yeah, yeah.
So the thing is, I knew about it.
- But why did you act like you didn't?
- I'm just not ready right now. I feel like I need some time.
- That's going backwards. I don't agree.
It don't make sense. - Are we just breaking up?
- You said it. Not me.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
- ♪ I would take back ♪
♪ All the things I said ♪
♪ Wish that we could fake that ♪
♪ But it is what it is ♪
♪ But I can never have it ♪
- Your dad, he should be pulling up real soon.
- Yeah.
- I've been longing for this day.
I want y'all to try to resolve this relationship
to the point where we can move forward.
- Yeah, all right, well,
get his ass on up in here then. Where he at?
Since our last conversation was way left, me and my dad
are in this strange place, and I'm just like,
"You know what?
Let's keep the space where it's at, spacious."
But, unfortunately, this is not what Ms. Shirleen has in mind.
- Your daddy--
- Here we go again with this [bleep].
- He's here in Atlanta.
- He just popped his ass up
and drove down here from Decatur, Illinois?
- Mm-hmm. - Wow.
- Maybe you guys can sit down and have a decent conversation.
That's what you need to do. - I mean--
- It needs to be resolved 'cause I'm sick of it myself.
I'm sick and tired of it. I'm sick of it.
- I can't--I can't even recall when is the last time
I've seen my dad. It's been years.
Because we have always had, like,
a complicated relationship, but I don't think
this meeting is gonna change anything.
Honestly, I'm just going along with it to make my mama happy.
[knocking] - Oh.
- I ain't seen him in so long.
I'm curious to see what he look like.
- Let me go ahead and open this door.
Hey. - Hey, what's going on.
- Nothing. How you doing?
- Pretty good. - Good.
- How about yourself? - I'm good.
I do have love for Harold.
He's not only my ex-husband, but he is Rasheeda's dad.
- Hello, sweetheart. - Hello.
- Come up here and give your dad a hug.
- I think a meeting in person is important.
Nobody can hang up, you can't walk out,
and they can get everything out.
- What's up?
- Same old thing, same old thing.
- You can sit down.
- Okay, thank you. Appreciate it.
What's up, y'all?
- I just been really feeling some type of way
about you and Rasheeda's relationship.
- Okay.
- And I just wanted to bring you and her together.
- Well, you know, we've had
a tenuous relationship for years.
- Yes.
- But we don't want it to end that way.
- Mm-hmm. - That's what I'm hoping for.
- So that's what I'm here for. - Oh, that's great.
- And that's what I wanna do.
- What made you just get up and come this time?
- Well, I didn't feel like you wanted me to--
- Well, that's not true. - But--
- Because-- - Hold on--
- No. - Hold on--
- Because it's always been an open door for you to come.
- No, it ain't been always-- - I don't have to invite you.
You're my dad.
- I didn't come-- look, you know,
I had a bunch of medical conditions,
the timing wasn't right, and so on and so forth.
- This is one thing I did wanna say.
That last phone conversation that we had had--
- Oh, the one where you told me to go [bleep] myself?
- [bleep] you! Stay out of my life!
I don't give a [bleep]!
- Was I mad? Yes. But I apologize for that
because that was the wrong way to handle it.
But I think that there comes a time in your life
where you can be man enough to admit your wrongs too.
- Hell, I am man enough. - Oh, well--
- I say it when I'm wrong.
But I'm not wrong about anything.
- Not wrong about nothing? - Yeah.
- Well, our relationship is the way it is because of you.
[soft dramatic music]
- You gonna put it on me?
- This is the first time I done seen you in about seven years.
You've been absentee. - You know what?
- Damn, dad, I'm just trying to get you to own it.
- Well, I did the best I could in life.
- You know, you--
- Look how successful you turned out.
We laid the foundation for you.
- You ain't lay-- we ain't gonna say that.
- Okay, don't say I do. - I just gotta be 100.
My dad is, like, one of the most stubborn people
in the world. He doesn't own up to [bleep].
He has the answer to every question,
and the words be long as hell.
But, yeah, our [bleep] is dysfunctional.
- There's a way and a means that we could come together
and make things more pleasant for each other
before time runs out.
- But I feel like there's a lot of things
that we do need to talk about. - What?
- You gotta understand, the way you feel about Kirk,
and the things that you say about him, that's my life.
That's my husband.
- He had a previous relationship
where he fathered kids, ain't that right?
- A few. A few kids.
- Right, that means
he ducked out on his responsibility--
- He ain't duck out on nothing.
The crazy part about my dad and Kirk
is they haven't even really spent a lot of time
together for him to even not like Kirk,
and he wanna sit here and point the finger at a man
when you don't even do what you supposed to do as a man.
You [bleep] throwing rocks from a shattered glass house?
You tripping. Guess what?
He always been a father to his kids
way more than I can say for you.
- How do you know what you-- - No!
- Guess what, he never ducked out--
- Listen, why did he take your--?
- The same reason why you ain't
with the last several women your [bleep] been with.
- Well, guess what, that don't involve you, so [bleep] off!
- You know what? You can kiss my ass.
- You too. - No!
- As a matter of fact... - No!
- You can get the [bleep] out! - No!
- Get his ass the [bleep] out! - No, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- When I was little, you was a [bleep] superhero!
As I got older, I realized what it really was.
- We need a goddamn psychiatrist
up in this mother [bleep]!
- Mendeecees told me that Rich and Erica, they texting again.
- What's your point?
[chips clatter]
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
- You can get the [bleep] out! - No, no, no, no, no!
- Get his ass the [bleep] out!
- No! Come on now!
- You could've spoke up
a little bit more at different points.
- She don't have to!
- What she think she talking about?
- Speak for your [bleep] self! She ain't gotta speak [bleep]!
The best things she did was never talked
about your ass to me. - That's right.
Oh, hell no, Harold.
That's a bunch of [bleep]. I have done everything
I could to get him and Rasheeda together.
- When I was little, you was a [bleep] superhero!
As I got older, I realized what it really was.
- You could have said, "Rasheeda,
"your dad wasn't the best of dads,
but he wasn't the worst. He did care for you."
- Did.
- I don't wanna rehash this [bleep].
- Sit down. It's gonna call--
it calls for all that.
Have a sit 'cause I wanna say to you--
- We need a goddamn psychiatrist
up in this mother [bleep]! That's what we need.
- Well, that might be what the [bleep] we need
'cause your ass needs to talk to somebody.
- You need to also implement her husband.
- Do you want me to come and talk to Kirk?
- Of course, she's been waiting on this
probably all her freaking life.
- Okay, let me-- let me ask you something.
What does Kirk think about me?
I hope he don't think of me in the same light that you do
because I'ma [bleep] creep.
- You wanna know what Kirk thinks of you?
Y'all talk about it.
- I really don't give a [bleep] what he thinks about me.
How you like that?
- Why? But why?
- He doesn't [bleep] to hurt you.
- Yes, he did. - More so than I could ever do.
- Yes, we have had our problems.
- Okay. - And you wanna talk about it?
Yeah, we can talk about it. We went through some [bleep].
He had a [bleep] baby
with a [bleep] another person. Yes, he did.
- Okay, yeah. - We went through a lot.
But I've been married to this man for 22 years now.
You think [bleep] ain't gonna be [bleep] up?
You and her didn't last one year.
Come on, dawg.
Like, the reason why you drove here
is because you know you wrong.
It's like talking to a brick wall
that talks back to your ass.
- Will you please come to dinner tomorrow?
- With who? - Why does it matter?
- I might not wanna be in their [bleep] company.
- Somebody's gotta give in. Somebody gotta compromise.
- Okay, I'll meet with the [bleep].
- Okay, that means a lot. I'ma come pick you up.
- Cool. So you can go see him out too.
- All right. - Thank you.
- All right. Now come on.
- See you, Rasheeda.
[quirky music]
- ♪ Man, you know this ain't a thing ♪
♪ Keep that heat up on me ♪
♪ Put that on the gang ♪
♪ Everybody that I'm with, they lost they brains ♪
♪ I been up all night ♪
♪ I'm trying to hit her back ♪
♪ But it ain't a thing ♪
- My boy Eric just got engaged to Sierra,
so I felt like it's time
for all the guys to get together and celebrate,
and we need to gamble 'cause, you know,
Eric just dropped a bag on that ring,
and he need to get some of his money back.
Sierra seem to be draining them pockets.
- My birthday on the 20th. - 19.
- My birthday is on 4th. - Mine is the 19th too.
- Mm. - Whoa, whoa, two!
- Two black. - Two, two, and I'm on black.
Bow. - Boom
- Bow. - Rich, yo!
- What's happening? - Yo.
- What up, Rich? - What's good, my [bleep]?
- I'm good. I'm chilling.
- What's happening?
- It's just time to find out like,
"Rich, are you gonna keep it real?
Are you gonna tell me what's really going on?"
Because that's just slimy.
- Where the money at?
- I don't got no money. I put my money back.
- Yeah! Yeah! - Oh, [bleep].
- Congratulations. - What's up, my guy?
Congratulations. - Thank you. Thank you.
- The man of the hour.
- Who's sliding me some chips over here, cuz?
- Here, bro. Boom, boom, boom. - Oh, wow.
- All that down just 'cause. - Just like that?
- Gonna go buy me something. - [chuckles]
- That's that good energy right there.
- So what's up, Eric? You guys set a date yet?
- No, we ain't set a date yet.
There's been so much, the house and everything going on.
We gonna definitely do it this year,
but we don't have an official date.
- I say, just take y'all time doing everything.
Because planning a wedding-- - Right.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Don't rush into it.
- But she definitely gonna make you rush into it though.
- Too late! - You know what I'm saying?
- Yo, hold on a second though. Joc, Spice had a fashion show.
I heard there was some drama though.
- He wasn't there. - I don't know.
I wasn't there.
- I was there, and Joc wasn't there.
- So what happened? - My neighbor was there.
- So Meda was at the fashion show, I'm taking it.
- That's her name? - Meda.
- You know, me and Kendra,
you know, those getting married and [bleep],
it's done ruffled some feathers, I guess,
and she even, you know, saying little [bleep] like,
"We been kicking it all the way up to 2019."
- But, Joc, is there any truth? Is there any truth to this?
- Nah. No truth, bro.
At this point, I'm really not trying to give no gas,
no energy, no attention to Meda.
Like, for the sake of my marriage,
I gotta shut this [bleep] down.
I don't know what this means in poker, but what is this?
- Oh, he got a straight. - Wow.
- Straight! - What's up with you, Safaree?
Did you talk to Erica about the paternity test?
- Nah, well, just like you said, I gotta wait.
- Right.
- You were like, "Bro, the baby not gonna look
like you right away."
'Cause I'm like, "Why the baby don't got my goatee yet?
Where his muscles at, you know what I'm saying?"
- Rich don't got a goatee.
- You want a baby with a beard? - Oh, man.
- Oh, my God. - Oh, that real [bleep].
Y'all is tripping, man. - Listen.
- Look, listen, though, you just reminded me, though,
'cause, you know, Mendeecees, he told me that Rich and Erica,
they texting again. I didn't know that.
- What's your point?
- I seen on the blogs, well, you know, him rubbing her leg.
- Man, I seen that on the thing too.
- You seen that? - Rubbing her leg?
- You know, at the end of the day, we know each other.
I came there, like, the next day,
and Rich was one of the first people I hugged and greeted,
"Yo, what's up?" You know what I'm saying?
And then it's like, "Damn, you was on her like that."
I kind of took that as a slap in the face.
[dramatic music]
- Hmm, since you bring that up,
let me see...
It's almost like the kettle-- what's that saying?
- Kettle calling the pot black or something.
- Yeah. - Or some [bleep].
- The reality is I dated Erica
for two and a half something years,
like two and some change, right?
And me and Safaree were friends.
Never once said, "Yo, I'm dating your ex."
And now you have a problem with me when I'm pretty much
doing everything that I've done broad daylight?
Come on, my dude, listen, at the end of the day,
I don't give a [bleep].
Richie D is going to do Richie D the way Richie D
wants to do Richie D, the end.
So it's kind of funny to me
that you feel a way about me in San Diego,
which was honestly just some drunk flirt.
It was nothing.
I ain't even really think of it like that.
Honestly, I ain't think of it like that.
- Nah, nah, nah, ain't no drunk flirting.
You in love, Rich. I see it all in your eyes.
You in love.
So good luck, buddy. Good luck.
I ain't bailing you out though.
- Besides, the fact that y'all
was already going through y'all divorce.
Like, y'all came to the island--
- But they were married though.
You know, their thing different, though.
- Y'all feel y'all could get back together?
[soft dramatic music]
- It would need a lot of-- you know what I'm saying?
- 'Cause y'all kids' are young.
- That's the [bleep] that Kirk hit me with
when me and Ben were talking about divorce.
I think about that with my kids.
Now, I look at them, and I be like, "Cuz."
Once we break that up,
other dudes come in and wanna feel like
they owed, get so fired, baby, you know what I'm saying?
- Well, he don't like you. And--
- Oh, yeah.
- He'll do some [bleep] to your kids.
- I think about that every time I wanna pick up my bags
and walk up out that house, cuz.
♪ ♪
[chips clatter]
- Oh! - Damn.
- Oh, [bleep]!
- He almost knocked himself out.
- That [bleep] what I'm saying.
- I actually think that divorce ain't really hit Safaree.
Another man raising your kids.
Another man, you know, with your wife.
Those things can take time to figure out,
and you threw a chair,
and the chair looked like it hit your ass back in the head,
so that was really God saying, "Knock, knock, wake up."
- Yo, he had to think
about Rich being a step-daddy or something.
- Whoa!
- Rich, man, what you doing, bro?
- What, bro?
- You had a man hit himself in the head with a chair.
- It's not funny, gentlemen. - It's not.
- He can be on the outside looking in like,
"That's my family, cuz."
The streets cold, bro. Ain't nothing out there, bro.
♪ ♪
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- Is there anything else you have to tell me?
- I'm not gonna say that this is for sure coming,
but I feel like a DNA test is on your horizon.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Yo, what's up? Where you at?
Nah, I gotta talk to you. It ain't nothing crazy.
I just wanna have a little conversation with you.
I just bumped into your man, so I'ma pull up on you.
All right.
So, tonight, right after poker night,
"E, we need to meet up. Right now."
Because there's no way that I could hear what I heard
and not immediately go to her.
- So what's going on?
- I pulled up at this-- you know the guy E?
He's-- - Oh, Sierra's fiancé.
- Correct. - Yeah.
- So they had a little poker thing for him tonight.
So I go, we crack jokes, everybody was laughing,
whatever. Safaree got serious.
- Mm-hmm.
- And was like, "Yo, I feel a way about you, basically,
with Erica in San Diego."
- Well, why would he feel a way
when he's mister you filed for divorce?
- Well, that's what I said.
You feel a way about me putting my hand on her leg
because I probably couldn't [bleep] stand up straight
because I was twisted. - No, you know why--
you were a little dirty dog too.
Just take accountability if you're gonna [bleep]--
- All right, [bleep] it. I own it.
- I know you did it on purpose. - I was grabbing them thighs.
- Richard, please. Okay.
- But know I feel like [bleep] is coming at me
like I'm trying to interfere with y'all marriage.
Is this divorce happening?
- Oh, absolutely, it's happening.
Why?
Is there anything else you have to tell me?
♪ ♪
- I just felt like,
in the spirit of our new, rekindled friendship,
I'ma be honest and transparent.
- I really appreciate that.
- I feel like a DNA test is on your horizons.
- For who? - I don't know.
One or the two of them.
- So you're telling me this man
is not embarrassed enough?
Now you wanna do a paternity test?
I want him to take that paternity test.
Because, at the end of the day,
the world needs to know
the lengths that this man will really go
to not only embarrass me,
but now he's embarrassing his children.
That right there speaks volumes.
So when is this paternity test thing supposed to happen?
- I don't know.
- Is it the one Sunday of the every other month
that he wants to come grab them that he's doing this test?
- He may not even say nothing,
so I don't even want you to overreact to it.
- I'm not. - Like I said--
- You know what?
Honestly, I'm just gonna really ignore this one.
I just wanna focus on just keeping the energy
that I need to, like, finalize this divorce.
- I will ride it out with you.
This is what you wanna do, then I'm with you on that.
- Okay.
- No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
- Okay.
- ♪ Work hard all day ♪
♪ Putting in work like two weeks straight ♪
♪ 10:00, God, I could really use a break ♪
♪ Use a break, use a break ♪
♪ The weekend's here, and I just got paid ♪
♪ Call up my girl, tell her let's get faded ♪
- Tonight, I'm doing my girl Renni
a big slumber party
because she's been going through a lot.
Unfortunately, her mom did not make it.
She passed away, and I really wanna dedicate
this night to her so she could let her hair down,
and, me and my girls, we could just fill her
with a bunch of joy and good times.
- I have not really had a sit down with all the girls
at one time since everybody who I know
found out about my husband's indiscretions.
- Oh, hey! - This is--girl.
- Hey! - Look, look, look, look.
- Hey, boo.
- I know how to shake my shorts.
- At the end of the day,
I can't just keep hiding from it.
You know, what's done is done,
and I kind of would like to clear the air,
like, if an opportunity presents itself.
- So y'all know Renni, my friend,
she's going through a lot right now.
Her mom actually just passed,
so it's been really weighing on me lately,
and I feel like, you know, I just wanna--
- So where she at?
- Yeah. - She on her way, bitch.
- Oh. - I know the last time me,
Bambi and Erica saw each other, I was mad as [bleep],
but we got real situations going on in life.
Renni literally just lost her mom.
So that whole thing in itself just made me be like,
"Life is too short."
They said they were sorry, and I believe it.
So we best friends. We best sisters.
- Every time I see you again...
- Come on with it, Bamb. Come on with it.
- You come back with more [bleep] diamonds, bitch.
- Congratulations on your engagement!
[all cheering]
- Let me see! Let me see! Oh, my God!
- How many of y'all bitches been proposed
to twice in one year?
- It's twice in one year? - Twice!
- The ring Big Burger King gave me ain't [bleep]
compared to the ring... - No, it's not.
- Mother [bleep] Eric Whitehead gave me.
This [bleep] hits.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I still got cold feet about the engagement
and our whole relationship,
but it feels good to be all extra happy about my new ring.
I literally got two rings in a [bleep] year.
Ain't feel good to say, but it kind of did.
- So did y'all husbands tell you?
Apparently, there was, like,
a poker night with Joc and Mendeecees and--
- Yes, there was.
- Oh, I heard about that, and my man too.
- Yeah, I heard about this too.
- So, apparently, Safaree fixes his mouth
to say he wants
to paternity test my kids. - What the [bleep]?
- But why would he say that about--?
- Like, this is just too much.
Like, we're on our way to divorce.
I have to now, every day, no matter whether you decide
you wanna be there or not, they are my every day,
morning, noon, and night, seven days a week.
It don't-- there's nothing that--
- It never stops. - It never stops.
I just wanna break down
because I feel like a failure because of my marriage.
- No. - Girl, [bleep] him.
- I don't know.
I think it's typical of men to try to hurt
their partner when they're hurt.
And, even though, you know, Erica kids are young,
they're gonna get older.
They're gonna see all this thing on the internet
that their father never believed
that he was the father.
Like, it's just a whole situation
that these men need to think about
before they try to say things just to hurt the mother.
- Oh!
- Renni! - Hi!
- How you doing? - How are you?
- Good. - We got you some pajamas.
- Okay.
- So you can go upstairs and get comfortable.
Did you bring some plates?
- No, I didn't bring no plates.
- You can be--
girl, you can be barefoot like me.
- I really appreciate how much everybody is here
just being supportive because it's been so hard
just trying to keep my family strong,
trying to be a mom and be a fiancé
on top of, like, trying to grieve and cope with,
like, losing my mom, so I needed this bad.
- Hey, beautiful! - Hey, guys.
- Y'all so, for real, we just want to dedicate
this night to you, Renni.
We are genuinely here for you. We love you. I love you.
- I love you too.
- And I want you to just be happy.
You know, you're not by yourself.
- You definitely not the only one
that feels like life is just like--
- Ooh!
- Pulled right from underneath you.
- You have kids too, right?
- I got two kids. - Two.
- And my fiancé got, like, six kids.
It's--yeah. - Really?
- Two?
- Mm-hmm.
- As a mom, I've not birthed any kids,
but I have stepchildren. - Mm-hmm.
- And it's just like--
- Oh, my God, tell her how many step kids you got.
- Girl, I got eight. I probably--
I might have nine. No, I've been--I got eight--
- Eight and a possibility.
- Eight and a piece. - So what?
- Eight and a piece. - Oh, you're pregnant?
- No, a while back, maybe a little while
after the engagement, you know, we took a break.
During that time, he got somebody else pregnant.
- So you knew about it? - Yeah, yeah.
So the thing is I knew about it.
- But why did you act like you didn't?
[dramatic orchestral music]
♪ ♪
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
You say you want clarity?
I can introduce you to Meda, and you can ask her
whatever it is you want to ask her.
- That's right.
I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
[upbeat hip-hop music]
- So you knew about it? - Yeah, yeah.
So the thing is I knew about it.
- But why did you act like you didn't?
♪ ♪
- Well, because that wasn't
the only thing y'all presented to me.
- We dropped a lot of [bleep] on her.
- Y'all did. - We dropped bombs,
but you already knew the bomb was coming.
- Well, I knew--
- And you gave us a reaction
that was like from somebody who's just finding out.
I don't know how to feel about this just because--ooh,
the fact that she was able to fool me, that's scary.
'Cause it takes a lot to fool me.
Well, not really. I got fooled by an old clown,
but that's-- I mean--next question.
- Meda was new information though.
So I want to know like what--like,
where was they messing around in 2019.
- Because she did say it at the table, 2019.
- Because when we talked to Meda on the phone,
when we talked to Meda, it was me, Erica, Bambi.
- Yeah.
- She says that they were not messing around in '19.
- But then--oh, oh, no, no, no, okay, so this is the thing,
I haven't talked to Kendra since the fashion show.
I know that's your homegirl,
but I feel like she kind of cap.
'Cause when we called her on the phone,
she said, "No, I wasn't messing with him.
I haven't been messing with him."
When I saw her at the fashion show,
her whole [bleep] energy changed.
She was hype--
- No, no, let me say-- - She wanted to fight me.
- [bleep] - She never wanna fight you!
- What? - What are you talking about?
- She said, "Bitch--"
- Is Meda lying or what, Spice? - She lying.
- I'll talk to you one-on-one by yourself.
There's too much opinions.
We'll just go to the side and have a conversation.
Call me--care to listen. I'm not about that.
- I'm a little perturbed that Spice did not say
something about this prior to the wedding.
At least Sierra made it clear
she didn't know of it to be a fact.
This was just something that hit her ear,
but it's like, Spice, you had potential information that,
you know, could change my life, and you just sit on it.
That's some week ass [bleep]. We'll be back y'all.
- Where are y'all going?
- We going to talk.
- And now y'all gonna go
and have a little private conversation.
- Wow, we talk too much.
- The reason why I want to talk to Kendra is
because I know that my name is gonna be in the mix
because Meda is my friend.
So we just need to get to the bottom of this and move on.
You and Joc married. - Yeah.
- Like, this shouldn't even be an issue right now.
- I know, Spice. - You just got married.
- I know, Spice. - Meda is in the past.
She don't want Joc no more.
She's not trying to be with him.
- Spice-- - It's not no issue.
So why dig up back all... - Because guess what?
- "Oh, what date did you have sex?"
Like, it's just too much for me.
- I don't--because I don't want a man--let me tell you.
I don't want a man in marriage
who has been dirty to me before marriage.
Right now, Jasiel and I are in counseling with the pastor
just trying to sort through everything because Meda
has told so many different sides of the story.
Jasiel has just vehemently denied.
Anything going on still doesn't offer me any clear answer.
- I don't wanna be
in the middle of this situation anymore.
- I know.
- But if you say you want clarity,
I can introduce you to my friend,
and you can get to ask her
whatever it is you want to ask her.
- That's right.
- And then I think that's how it should just end.
- I appreciate it.
- And you can have that conversation.
- Thank you. That's all.
- Give me a hug. - Thank you, Spice.
That's all I wanted. That's what I told him.
From speaking with Spice, I do feel better.
I feel, you know,
less animosity than I felt towards her coming in.
So now, it's just like,
"I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
I'm going to."
- I'm so glad we made this happen tonight.
- I really just be in my own world.
- She be in her own word. She do, she do.
- Okay. Well, come in ours.
- She be with her man,
and I be picking up calls in prison all day.
all: Aww! - Trust me, I get it.
My brother was locked up for so many years, so--
- How's that been for you? Is it hard?
- I think like right now,
with going through like what I'm going through,
he don't really understand like calling
all the time ain't really, like, being there for me
how I need you to be there for me.
She like-- she know, like,
I had to take--this was-- I wasn't happy here.
So I went back home. I went back to South Carolina.
And when I went there, me and my mom
worked on our relationship, and we got better,
and now it makes sense why it happened, you know?
'Cause if I didn't do that, we wouldn't have done it.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- Boo, okay. - Yeah.
- I know 'cause I've had
my issues with my own mother, so...
- I'm just happy
when she did leave here, like,
we were in a better place.
And, like, she knew I loved her.
She didn't--we weren't at odds. We weren't not speaking.
Like, I saw her every day. She was at my house.
She was with my kids.
I was with her in the hospital until she took her last breath.
[tender music]
- Renni is not a person that shows her emotions
in front of other people,
so seeing her in tears and her being emotional,
I love that because we got to live in our truth
so that we can be healed.
Where the [bleep] y'all bitches was?
- We were talking.
- Y'all good? - Yeah, we good.
- Did y'all get to the bottom of it?
- Well, we didn't get to the bottom of it,
but I'm going to talk to Meda.
- Exactly. - We gonna talk.
- I just told her to stop listen to y'all.
[laughter]
- ♪ Make my way to the top, there ain't no stopping ♪
- ♪ Leave me low ♪
♪ Leave me low ♪
♪ Unless you talk of money, you can leave me low ♪
♪ Leave me low ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Leave me low ♪
♪ Hey ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Pastor Bentley. - Oh, my Lord.
- Hey. - Hey, Sierra.
- We need you. - Hey, Pastor Bentley.
- Well, there's still a ring there.
- I feel like we truly need counseling,
and it can't just be any type of counseling.
We need God.
So my pastor is somebody that's been around me
since I was 16 years old. I'm hoping and praying
that she will just tell us what God is saying, honestly.
Is this a good relationship, or it's not?
- Always something with y'all. What you want?
- I feel like me and Eric moved really fast
in this relationship. We didn't really allow
each other to learn who each other was.
So I feel like that's where we at right now.
- But that's not the case. I want to get married,
but it's just-- I feel like it's been a lot.
I don't know if Sierra is just used to being spoiled
or she's not used to a guy like me,
but we are clashing too much, and it's like to the point
I can't take it no more. Like, I'm done arguing.
There's a part of me that actually made me feel like
an engagement would fix our problems.
And I don't know if Sierra is scared
or what's going on in her mind, but she's not being
the same woman that she was when I first met her.
- What do you think, Sierra-- what the problem is?
- I just feel like
in the beginning of our relationship,
the person that I fell in love with
was somebody that loved Sierra, and you knew how I was.
But it's like now, I'm that same person,
we living together, and it's like a problem.
- In the beginning, you hid a lot of things from me,
you showed me what you wanted to show,
and then it's like
you just unleashed a bunch of other stuff,
and I didn't know what to expect,
and now it's just like I can't handle it.
You make me feel like everything I do is wrong
because I'm not doing it your way.
- Sierra, I love you.
And, out of love, I gotta tell you the truth.
You have never
got over your marriage.
You ain't got over BK.
You haven't got over stuff
that happened when you was a kid.
- And I can admit that I am a woman
that came into this relationship unhealed.
Maybe I should have healed first
and then got into this relationship,
but I didn't. So we're here now.
- But you can't beat him down, drag him,
and then when you wanna take him out the drawer,
use him for what you want,
and then say, "Okay, Eric, you're the problem."
This man gotta catch up. Eric needs his own address.
He needs to date you,
and y'all need to get the excitement back.
- I just don't want to go back into the same black hole.
It's just--it's--
- Then, basically, you're just saying you're gonna walk out.
- Are you just saying you gonna be a ho?
- No, that's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that I don't want to go backwards.
- I am in love with you. I love you.
I love everything about you.
You are totally different from the others.
Like, I wanna be with you.
I wanna grow with you, but Pastor Bentley is right.
You need to get your own place,
and I need to regain my strength.
I need to find myself. - You want me to move out?
You want me to get a spot and move out?
- I do. - All right, cool.
Then it is what it is. Nothing to talk about.
- I feel like this is gonna show me
if you're ready for this. Like, I'm not--I'm not--
- This is a test? - I'm not chancing it.
- To be honest, I'm trying my hardest to hold on
because I see how amazing we can be as a union,
but now you want me to move out?
I just proposed to you. Look at that ring.
I put time and creativity and thought because I felt,
in my spirit,
to take it to the next level because I love you.
And you're just making it about what?
Sierra and Sierra's way. That's not fair.
- I'm just not ready right now. I feel like I need some time.
- That's going backwards.
I don't agree. It don't make sense.
- Are we just breaking up right now?
- I'm not--I didn't even--I
didn't even wanna do this. You said it, not me.
- So we're still engaged. We're just taking a break.
- All right. It's, like, a lot.
♪ ♪
- Next time on "Love & Hip hop Atlanta"...
- Ain't no damn worker. - Hey, it's okay.
- That's all in your-- that's a meal ticket.
God damn it, you found a meal ticket.
- While I'm on tour, Mom can come
and just help you out a little.
- She keep violating and violating.
- I wanna see my grandkids.
I just need her to step her game up
to being my daughter-in-law.
Send out the kids. Send out the kids.
- Kendra like, "We need to go talk to Meda face to face."
I'm like-- - Meda, this is Kendra.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
Everybody's around here talking,
making it seem like I'm making up stuff.
The truth is, I messed with Joc
since 2008 till about 2019. - Meda!
- You don't want none of this. You do not want none of this.
- I'll break your face open!