- Previously on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- What the hell was that?
My mom got into a car accident.
When I said, "You gonna be okay?"
She shook her head no.
Mama ain't never said that she wasn't gonna be okay.
- Uh-uh! How you gonna pour my wine out?
- We concerned about you.
- I decided to check myself into detox.
[tense music]
[loud crash]
- Three guys came in here with guns.
I don't want to be there.
- So you want to sell the house
and go back to an apartment?
- I gotta be somewhere I feel safe,
and I just wish you would understand that.
- I don't want to go backward. You just like wasting money.
- I sent Joc his invitation and I sent him his outfit,
but he said that they couldn't make it.
- Dearly beloved.
- 15 minutes after I post her walking down the aisle,
a friend of a friend of this friend named Meda
hit me up and was like, "He [bleep] with Meda."
- What's going on with you and Joc?
- I have been [bleep] with Joc for almost 14 years.
2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015.
- What?
- Until death do us part.
- The [bleep] that I heard is beyond him
just having a [bleep] mistress. It's--
- You're talking about the baby?
- That. - Ugh.
- You may kiss your bride. [cheers and applause]
- Some woman said that her step-sister has a baby by Joc.
- Jasiel, I need some answers is what I need.
Why did you marry me?
You lied to my daddy, you lied to my mama.
The rumors about the baby aren't rumors.
How do we move forward?
'Cause now, it's not just a Kendra and Jasiel thing.
- My vagina does not need a timeline for anybody.
What my vagina does is nobody's [bleep] business.
- In 2019... - No, right.
- We didn't have physical sex,
but he did that thing that he does with his mouth.
- He [bleep] your [bleep]. - Yes. Exactly.
- ♪ This is the life ♪
- ♪ It's the life that I'm living ♪
- ♪ This is the life ♪
- ♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
- ♪ This is the life ♪
- ♪ It's the life that I'm living ♪
- ♪ This is the life ♪
- ♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
- ♪ To the top, we go ♪ - ♪ To the top as we go ♪
- ♪ Top as we go ♪
- ♪ This is our show ♪ - ♪ This is our show ♪
- ♪ You either can get down or lay down ♪
♪ It's our town wherever we go ♪
- ♪ Wherever we go ♪
- Can I see the toner over there please?
- Mm-hmm.
- So Yelle's located at the infamous Underground Atlanta.
But we want to own the block, so I got the space next door.
Let's get a restaurant right there.
- Hey, man. How's it going?
- So I don't know how many of you have ever been
to a bodega in New York.
I wanted to bring that bodega vibe
to the Underground Atlanta.
- How long you think before we able to turn the key?
- This is a good three months. - That's good.
If you could do this in three months,
especially before the summertime?
- For sure. - Hey, hey, hey.
- Well, wait till-- wait till you see--
- Okay. - What's happening?
- Oh, my God. - Hey, hey.
- What's up, Yandy?
- Are we ready? - Yes.
- Gonna be ready in a week?
- He said 90 days. - If you took a long nap, yes.
- 90 days? 90 days is not gonna work.
When it comes to my business,
I'm not afraid to say how I want things to be.
We could sell juices in this and make money.
I wanted this to be a quick turnover.
I did not get this for it to be a money pit.
- All right. - Thank you so much.
I appreciate you. - Good to see you.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- All right. Thank you.
- If I tell you I got 90 days, you gonna take 120 days.
So let me tell you I got three weeks,
'cause then maybe I'll get it done in six weeks.
- On another note, I've been talking to Lil Mendeecees,
and his mom, you know, she live here now.
- Yeah.
- So he want to do something where he bring, you know,
his mom and us together, you know, a blended family.
From what I understand, she's engaged.
She's in a happy place.
- Samantha's Lil Mendeecees' mother.
She's actually been living in Atlanta for a year now.
And one day, Mendeecees told me
that Samantha felt like
Lil Mendeecees should be with his father.
Me and Samantha, we've had a pretty contentious history,
but when Mendeecees went away,
things just got really, really bad.
- You're gonna have to stop
acting like you're my son's mother,
especially when you don't pay no bills in my house.
I have the financial burden of my son,
while you get to sit around here
and act like you're raising him.
- Samantha-- - I don't want to hear my name.
I don't want to hear my name.
All I wanna hear you do is say sorry.
- Mendeecees' relationship with Samantha was not great,
but now, Mendeecees can coparent with Samantha.
There's never really a need for me and her to communicate.
I'm okay with that.
I think y'all should build a relationship first.
And definitely, I'll come--
- But we have been cool this whole transition.
Whatever you and Samantha went through in the past,
that should be the past, right?
- Yeah. - It was many, many years ago.
- You prayed, we prayed
for Lil Mendeecees to be back at home.
You're happy. We're all happy.
- Yeah, but-- but Lil Mendeecees--
- I don't like [bleep].
- But you got-- but you gotta understand
this is not about you, all right?
- It's not.
- Lil Mendeecees want us both there with Samantha
and her boyfriend.
This will make him happy.
- The thought of sitting down with Samantha
is just not something I think about.
But if this is really coming from Lil Mendeecees,
I would literally do anything to make him happy.
- Lil Mendeecees want you there.
- You want me there. - I want you there, too.
- He ain't had no conversation with you.
- Yeah. Nah, I want--no, he did so.
- You don't want to go by yourself.
- We both want you there. We both want you there.
- [laughs]
If you do some wining and dining, feet rubbing.
- I'll try to carry you. How about that?
Come on. [grunts] Oh, my God.
Come on. - Giddy up.
- Holy [bleep]. These legs gonna buck.
[laughter] Wait!
[laughter]
- Ahh! Ahh!
Oh, my God. - [laughing]
- ♪ I can't find my way ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Out of the shadows, out of the shadows ♪
[FaceTime chiming]
- Renni. - Hey.
- Hey, girl. What you doing? I'm on my way.
I am in Columbia, baby.
- Okay. I'm here. - All right. See you soon.
- ♪ I'm barely holding on ♪
- Renni and I are both going through it
with our moms and my heart breaks for her,
and I want to just be there for her.
And plus, after dealing with the whole rumor
with Joc and Meda, my house getting robbed,
even me and Erica's getting into it bad,
it's just too much, so I need this little getaway.
both: Hey!
- It's been weeks, and my mom is still in the hospital.
Her condition hasn't improved any.
And the longer my mom is in the hospital,
the harder it gets for me,
because every day I realize how much more I need her.
- I'm about to cook, and we about to relax.
- I'm really happy to have Sierra in my life.
I love her, and she shows how much of a friend
she is to me by--by just being here.
- I've been super overwhelmed.
And the robbery just made everything worse.
- I'm so glad y'all wasn't home.
- Yeah, I know. - Like, that's crazy.
- Yeah. And they came in there with guns.
Like, I can't go back. - That's it for that.
- Yeah, I gotta sell it, so.
- Everything happen for a reason.
It's gonna be all right. - [sighs]
- Come here.
[soft dramatic music]
- Renni is a real friend that's gonna support me,
even though she's going through her own deep [bleep],
which is more than I can say about Erica and Bambi lately.
They put me on blast with Kendra
before I could even explain myself.
- People saying that you knew
what time it was with her before the wedding.
- No the [bleep] I didn't.
- You're assuming we're trying to set you up.
We just want an answer.
- No, it's not set me up. It's bigger than set me up.
So right now, I'm feeling like I really don't have
much of a support system except for Renni.
I genuinely love her.
So how is your mom doing, Renni?
- She having another surgery today.
- Really? - Yeah.
So I guess we'll see what happen today.
You know me and my mama ain't really have, like,
the best relationship all the time.
- Mm-hmm.
- But I love my mama to death regardless.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm just sitting back, looking at all the messages
that she done sent that I didn't respond to,
and all the times, like,
I might have just been in one of my moods
and dealing with my own bull[bleep].
- One of my--bull[bleep].
- And I was a bitch to her.
Then, it's like I don't never want to do that again,
'cause I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow.
Like, I want to lay in the bed and cuddle with her.
- Our mamas get on our nerves, but when they not feeling well,
we want them to be well, because--
you know what I'm saying? - We only got one.
- We only got one mama. - We only got one.
It's been very helpful having a friend like Sierra.
For her to put her situation and everything
she's dealing with at home to decide to come here
and be here for me, I love her for life.
- In the Bible, it says,
"God give his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers."
We gonna get through it, because we strong enough.
♪ ♪
We got it.
♪ ♪
- ♪ You ain't bad, baby ♪
♪ You ain't bad, baby ♪
♪ ♪
♪ But you got to know, you got to know ♪
♪ That the shock ain't no thing to me ♪
- Hey, Pastor.
- ♪ Oh, what's the problem? ♪
♪ What's the matter? ♪
♪ Too much drama ♪
♪ Too much happening every moment ♪
♪ Like a bomb ♪
- That was an interesting wedding.
- [chuckles]
- So what's up?
- Well, the big, main issue that we were addressing
in our premarital counseling was this child.
But it's come to the surface now--
- The night you were proclaimed husband and wife,
someone showed me social media--
40,000, 50,000, 75,000, 100,000,
150,000--about this baby.
I didn't have to worry about it. You know why?
Because we had--
- 'Cause you knew, yeah.
- We had already covered that, and we ain't let anybody know.
- We've been working on that. Quietly.
Now, people know, you know how it go.
Somebody gonna talk.
Somebody gotta look like they got the best tea.
Well, the good thing about it,
you ain't gonna be able to throw it in my wife face,
'cause we established this way before her and I got married.
- Now that the word is out there about this baby,
I feel embarrassed, I feel angry.
That's really the real reason I didn't go
to Spice's fashion show.
It's just hard, you know, like, to have a wound heal,
and then to pick it back open
just leaves a open sore again, you know?
- I knew the position I had put myself in,
and I knew what was at stake when I told her.
We sat right here, and you witnessed that happen.
She cried, I cried, we cried.
And I told her
I'ma be the best version of myself that I can be.
And I've been working on that.
- So you made progress. - A lot of progress.
We both have.
But it's like, right now, this is a new situation.
A young lady has come out right here
around the time of the wedding. And--
- Yeah. It's a lady from his past.
Allow Jasiel to tell you.
It was not during his dealings with me before he met me.
- It wasn't, it wasn't.
- And again, that's why I said...
- It wasn't. - That's what you said.
- But she's-- she coming out like--
- But it's contradicting stories.
- What did she say?
- She saying that she told my wife--
- She told me that she's been dealing with him since 2008,
so since he was deep into his first marriage.
She told me that she had dealings with him
in 2016, 2017, and 2019.
- But ain't no truth in it, though, like, for real.
- So you having been involved. - No. Look at what year it is.
- She threw out--
- That would still be a violation, but--
- She threw out at least three or four date ranges.
You know what I mean?
And I fell within... - Nothing past 2019.
- At least two or three.
- Nothing. - So--
- And when you ask her about that--
- No, are you saying that--?
- You mentioned the 2019-- of her being--
- Nothing past--
- Past when? Tell me the year.
- '12, '13. '12. '10.
- Okay. - Nothing past that.
- You sure? - Yeah.
- She stood up and said it.
Like, what are you talking about?
- Look, I didn't say she's--
I didn't say she's lying about that happening.
- I don't know why she would, you know what I mean?
Like, I don't know, but it was said.
And it's just, like,
I don't want to be in our marriage now with that.
[dramatic music]
Make no mistake: when I was crying
with Bambi and Erica, those were real tears
simply because it's, like, I want my marriage to work,
but I do not want to stay and remain in a marriage
that's built off of bull[bleep].
We need help.
- It sting a little bit when your wife say,
"I don't want to be in this marriage no more," you know.
This whole [bleep] with Meda, it just, like,
poured gas on the fire.
But I gotta do everything in my power to get past that,
keep my lady happy.
- And so, that's where we are, Pastor.
Like, I know that we dealt with the baby--
- And you knew nothing about this.
- Well, it--okay, so it's a little bit.
A while back, Jasiel let me know
that there was a lady he used to deal with.
- Her name is Meda.
- However, when I went to, you know,
speak with my friends, her name came back up.
- When this news came up to me, I was like, "What?"
Then, she FaceTimed her
and said she been dealing with me up until 2019.
- When was your last time...
- 'Cause that's what I--that's--
- Engaged with this Meda?
- I'm sorry, Pastor, but that's what I want to know.
- When was your last time with Meda?
- "With." - Okay.
- Got an attorney sitting right here, Pastor.
- Now, how many years have you been single and married?
Like, come on.
When did you and Alex get a divorce?
- Baby--baby, listen. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
- Y'all got divorced in '13 or '14.
- Listen, listen--
- And I met you in doggone almost '15. So--
- Hold on, hold on, hold on. Kendra, hold on.
I'm being cross-examined by my pastor and my attorney wife.
And even though I know the last time I was with Meda,
stuff like this could--could trip anyone up.
- So when was the last time
you were physically together intimately?
- Intimate? Years ago. Way before I ever met Kendra.
- That's too vague. - Wait, but I can't--
- Okay, way before you met me? Okay.
All I'm saying, Pastor, is this:
like, we already been through enough stuff.
And we ain't even done.
I'm not even done telling you all the crap.
His ex, he had at his bachelor party.
She was in a box. She came out.
You feel me? - [chuckling]
- I got my friends telling me, "Yeah, he was rubbing on her.
They was making contact." - Nah, nah.
- Like, that's what is out here floating around.
- No.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- My mom's marrying the guy.
I'm not marrying the guy. I don't know what he like.
- Yeah, but if she marry him, that's your step-dad.
- Relax. - Relax?
- Yo, your father the other night?
"You ready for a new step-dad?"
- Yeah, like, it's probably him being a little jealous.
I think that's what it is. - [laughs]
- You honestly think Joc can sit down
and tell you everything he's done?
My brother got about
four of these little bowls of [bleep]ups to go.
- I know.
- So you either gonna have to decide to deal with it
or not to deal with it.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
[dramatic music]
- I got my friends telling me, "Yeah, he was rubbing on her.
They was making contact." - Nah, nah.
- Like, that's what is out here floating around.
- No.
- Karlie was at the bachelor party.
- Doing what?
- Apparently, she jumped out of a box.
He's, like, rubbing and groping and doing all that [bleep].
- Jasiel's position is,
"Oh, all these rumors, all these rumors."
But it's, like, come on, playa,
'cause one of them ain't a rumor.
So that's the stuff. That's what I'm talking about.
- Can't even tell you. - That's why--
- But that wasn't me. I don't recall all that.
- That's kind of-- - Bold.
Say it, Pastor. It's bold.
That's--that's what I'm saying. Why would you even play?
Why would you even go close to the ledge?
- The ledge came close to me.
- But one of the things I want you both to understand is this.
Listen. You cannot entertain spirits.
That should have been a immediate, "Oh. No.
"Let me call my fiancée
and let her know exactly what just happened."
- So I didn't tell her. Okay.
I had a lot going on.
You know the tension we was having,
having to talk to you about it. - Right.
- I just wanted to make this one with my wife
and to continue to grow and move on.
- I plan for this to be my only marriage.
Like, I don't want to get a divorce.
I don't want to have to go find somebody new to love.
Lord forbid, I'm forced to, I will.
You know? I don't know. I don't want to feel that way.
- I just don't want you to-- I just don't want you
to jump every time somebody brings something, because--
- I'm not jumping. But these are real people.
- I get it. - These are real events.
- Well-- - These are real happenings.
- Well, where are the receipts?
Hey, Kendra, I am your husband.
Just listen to me. You know what I'm saying?
Like, we just got married.
Can't be going on what somebody said I did
three, four years ago, 'cause that ain't even--
♪ ♪
- He is okay because
we were able to get through that first major hurdle.
I feel like Jasiel feels like he can do, say,
and act any kind of way, and that's not what it is.
Like, I want you to appreciate me.
- Like, what make you think-- - When we wasn't together,
you ain't even have enough couth to not, like, wrap it up.
- Okay, do we--I did.
- Nah. I mean, DNA says differently, sir.
- How do you fix this situation?
- I mean, honestly, man,
I'm just trying to love my wife.
I'm just trying to grow.
- And I'm trying to love you, too.
I just want us to get past--
- But if a rumor come out, I don't--
- Right. - I go on punishment again?
What?
- Nah, it's not that simple. Like, these ain't just rumors.
You can't just be dismissive of...
- I'm not. - What's circulating around.
Like, you know what I mean?
I just want you to hold up
to what you told my daddy you was gonna do,
and how you told him that you was gonna love me
and my brother and my whole family.
Like, that's serious to me, you know?
And I trust that your heart's in the right place.
Like, I know that you love me. But I just want peace.
- You have to work extra. - I--
- It just is--you know? "I gotta work extra."
- So many people said, "Don't mess this up, Joc.
Don't--you got a good one."
That's all it take sometimes.
[snaps fingers] A second.
A second for something to go wrong,
and everything crashes or burns, you know?
- As far as the baby, what I'm prepared for
is for Jasiel to be the spokesperson on the matter.
- And I'ma hold you accountable.
- I'ma hold me accountable.
I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, I--you know--
- So the plan is let him hash it out, whatever.
- I feel like Jasiel should be the one
to tell my family about this baby.
And the fact that he's not jumping through a hoop
to run and beat down they door to tell them,
like, that's kind of an issue to me.
- As long as we're communicating,
we can't be broken. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I got your back no matter what ♪
- Close the 'frigerator.
- ♪ Our family, our family ♪
- What's this right here?
- Four. - Ah.
- So this is a typical night in the Smith-Harris home.
As crazy as all of our schedules are,
it's important for us just to take a moment
to catch up with each other.
Our cousin Shasha is here. I am surrounded by Harrises.
I think we're blended enough.
My family, y'all ready to eat?
- Please. - Yeah.
- Yandy, how was your day?
- It was good, Mr. Student of the Month.
- Hey.
- Student of the Week, but, you know.
- We speaking Student of the Month into existence, okay?
- Lil Mendeecees only been here a few months,
and he's thriving.
But my biggest dream is to have the whole family
just getting along without drama,
and people enjoying each other and having a great time.
- Lil Mendeecees, how do you feel about your mom and Mario?
- How am I supposed to feel about that?
- I mean, you like him?
- That's my mom.
As long as she happy, I'm happy.
- A'ight. - I'm happy she happy.
- Why would you bring that up right now
while we're having a family dinner?
- What do you think about her moving down here?
- I don't know, man. That was God.
'Cause when I was living in New York,
I was begging her to come down here.
And then she found out she had family down here.
It all worked, you know?
- Oh, thank you.
- So what do you think we need to do
to bring the family together?
- I mean, how closer do we need to get?
I feel like everything's fine.
- This is a blended family.
- We shouldn't rush things, you know?
- Rush? The hell you mean rush?
- We fine. We--we--
- Why you--why you making that face, Yandy, over there?
- I knew it. You lied. This is you, what you want.
It's not Lil Mendeecees.
He's just getting used to the fact
that his mom has a new fiancé.
Please listen to the boy.
- What do you think should happen that could bring,
you know, our blended family together?
You know, they about to get married.
That's a huge step.
- My mom's marrying the guy.
I'm not marrying the guy. I don't know what he like.
- Yeah, but if she marry him, that's your step-dad.
- Nah, relax. - Relax?
- Relax.
I think I should get to know him first before y'all.
- That's fair, Mendeecees. - Yeah.
I mean, listen. I respect--
- You gotta listen. - Nah, I respect that.
- You know, he's with my mom,
so I'm gonna make sure she in the right hands.
- You sounding real grown man right now.
- I'm a grown man.
- I like that. - I've been a grown man.
- He's a smart boy. He's gonna tell you what it is.
- Thank you, Yandy.
- I see what you're doing, Mendeecees.
You're trying to prove to me that you wasn't lying, right?
So you trying to make your son get on your side
when he's just an honest kid, so he's gonna be honest.
Stop. You lose this one.
Mendeecees, you know me and you always.
- Yeah, I know. - We always.
- Yeah. We always. [Lil Mendeecees laughs]
- I think, now that I'm back,
it's starting to feel like the old times.
- Mm-hmm.
- And it's starting to feel like it's normal.
- Mm-hmm.
- So when I was gone, a lot of things happening.
- You right.
- You know, we able to put the past in the past,
and we all moving forward like adults.
Let's bring the blended family together, and make it work.
♪ ♪
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- The Meda situation. - Yes.
- I don't even know where that came from, bro.
- You don't know where that came?
So it's not true? - No. What?
- I don't-- - Bro.
- I'm asking. - Stop playing.
- What had happened at that reunion,
where my mom was, you know, physically touched,
I was young. - Yeah.
- Having to see that on TV. - It was horrible.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
- ♪ Man, it's up ♪
♪ Then it be for real 'cause you know I ain't a bluff ♪
♪ Money comin' in, I had to get it on the month ♪
♪ All up in my lane ♪
♪ I left them haters in the dust, yeah ♪
♪ 'Cause it's up, yeah ♪
- And what if I just swept my ball
in the direction I want it to go?
Would that count? - That tennis.
[both chuckle] That ain't pool.
- I'm up with my brodie oldie, Chino Dolla.
And this really, like, the first time I seen him
since the wedding, man,
so we got a lot of catching up to do.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
- Well, that the best shot you done made in your life.
- It don't even matter. I made it, baby.
Listen.
You already know everything going on with this baby.
- Yeah.
- Ever since the news went public,
we--you know, we in a different space,
'cause every day is a makeup session.
- I'm sure it is.
- It's only a small circle of people
that know about this baby.
I let my mama know, told my dad, I told my pastor,
I told my sister, and I told Chino.
But you gotta understand, we was on--we was on a break...
- But do you really think... - With the situation.
- Then, on a break...
- It wasn't even a break.
We was--it was kind of, like, you know--
- So you thought it was over with-over with?
- You know, I conceived this child back in 2019.
Kendra and I were still,
you know what I'm saying, engaged.
I think we were dealing with some very difficult issues
while on this little break. I--
one-night stand turned into a lifetime of commitment
to a whole nother child.
- I mean, be honest to yourself.
- You know what I'm saying? I didn't want it to be over,
but I got caught up in the situation.
I thought that was done,
and shorty came back like, boom.
- Okay. - "You know, I'm preggo."
Somedays, you just be like,
"Man, like, how this even happen?"
You know what I'm saying?
Somebody gonna say, "No rubbers."
Actually, there was a condom involved.
But instead of me just coming on out,
maybe came out the sides of the condom, man.
And...
and yeah, the DNA was like, "Yeah, boy. That's yours."
- You dropped a bomb on her that--boy.
- It was the hardest thing in the world to do, bro.
- I commend you for telling her.
- So now, my question is the whole Meda thing.
Do I just ignore it or just step to the situation?
- You can't ignore it.
- I'm really--I'm at the point where I'm like, hey, man,
I don't know what you doing, but--
- You can't ignore it.
You gotta take responsibility for your own stuff.
- What do you mean? The Meda situation--
- Yes.
- I don't even know where that came from, bro.
- You don't know where that came--so, it's not true?
- No, it's not. What? Bro.
- I don't--I'm asking. - Stop playing with me, bro.
If it was receipts, it'd be there,
because you--on one hand, you get up and say,
"Oh, I ain't messed with him since 2019."
So if that's the case, then why even bring it up?
And that's not even factual.
That's not even no truth in that.
I think Meda still loves me.
And it's deeper than just loving me.
I think she doesn't want to see me with Kendra.
- So you got issues like-- - Ooh!
- You want me to tell you the best ammunition for that?
Sit down with her and Kendra.
- Man, you don't threw my shot off with that [bleep].
- Nah. - Kendra--
- But what I'm-- what I'm saying--
- Listen, here's the thing. Protect the nest.
So saying, I don't even want to--
- What can she do?
- It ain't about what she could do.
It's almost like, why am I gonna even
allow you enough power to damn near summon me
and my lady to meet with you to clear the air?
I almost don't even want to see her,
'cause I'm like,
I don't want to see this side of this person
that I never seen before. It's like, if I'm gonna say so,
Meda was one of my good friends in real life.
So for this to be happening, I'm like, for what?
- All I can say is...
everything done in the dark
come to the light.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I'm stompin' with the big dogs ♪
♪ ♪
- Hi! [indistinct] Hi!
- She stinks! - [squeals]
When I grew up in Grant Projects,
I had responsibility.
These kids don't know nothing about that.
So today, we are going to wash the dog.
Did you get warm water? That water's freezing cold!
- And? - [laughing] He said, "and?"
- Don't say "and" to your mother.
Now, hurry up, Omare.
Get some warm water. She's freezing.
- [indistinct] - Go!
Now that I know the truth about who really wants
this blended family thing to happen,
I need to speak to Lil Mendeecees,
'cause this has been a really big year for him.
He's living with us in a whole new city.
His mom just moved here, and she's newly engaged.
There's so much happening in his world,
and I just want to take a moment
to just get in his headspace.
Yo, your father the other night?
What was that about?
- I don't know, man. He just kept going crazy.
- [laughing] He's so weird. You looked so uncomfortable.
- I felt he was going too far with it.
Like, he was just-- he was just doing the most.
- "Are you ready for a new step-dad?"
- Yeah. Like, come on, now. - [laughing]
- Like, he was just--
it's probably him being a little jealous.
I think that's what it is. He--
- Jealous that you might have another man in your life?
- Don't make it sound like that.
That just sound weird. But it's different.
It's unsettling for me right now.
I'm not used to it.
So the last thing my dad said to me before he left is,
"Son, keep this family together."
That's what he told the eight-year-old me.
- You have two brothers and a sister.
You'll become a father figure to them,
so you have to lead by an example.
- All right.
He wants all of us to feel love,
and he just wants to bring in the whole family,
so I can't really blame him, and I do understand him.
But I just think everything has its time.
I feel like things is just so perfect right now, how it is.
- Yeah. It's true.
- And I just feel like there's no need to rush.
- I said the same, exact thing.
- He wants everything to go back to how it was...
- Yeah. - When he was home.
I don't know if he realizes, like,
how bad it was from being inside.
- Yeah.
- When he went away,
everything just completely, like--
- It went crazy.
All these years,
I've never had a conversation with Lil Mendeecees
about what happened at the reunion show.
- Shut your [bleep] mouth! - Bitch!
[overlapping angry chatter]
- Bitch! You disrespect me?
[cheers and applause]
- Mendeecees has no idea of the magnitude
of hurt I had to deal with while he was gone.
- What had happened at that reunion...
- Mm-hmm. - Where my mom was, you know,
physically touched, I was young.
Having to see that on TV, having my friends see that.
- It was horrible. You know, I'm sorry for that.
- I appreciate your apology.
And this is--this is hard,
because this is our first time ever speaking about this.
- I'm just grateful that, you know, we're past it.
Like-- - Yeah, me too.
- In the midst of going through all the attacks,
I did not think about
what effect it would have on Lil Mendeecees.
So hearing that he knew what happened,
hearing that they were talking about it in school--
he was in elementary school.
That breaks my heart, and it really does make me feel bad.
- I didn't really know how to treat you
when you and my mom-- when y'all were at odds.
So... - Yeah.
- That's my fault for that.
- You were a kid.
You owe no one an apology in this.
You definitely don't owe me one.
- I feel like it's too soon to have a dinner.
- Yeah.
Are you going to break the news to your dad
that a dinner is not your thing right now?
- Yeah, I'll be sure to tell him.
- I don't know that I'm, like,
super excited to just sit down and, you know, all of that.
- Not everything needs to be said or addressed right now.
- I definitely don't want to address anything more.
I just want to move on.
- That's what I'm saying.
- Not even right now. - Yeah.
- That's it. Let bygones be bygones.
Time should have healed whatever is broken.
And that's it.
- This talk was well-needed. - It was. It was good.
- 'Cause my dad was bugging out.
- I don't know what happened to Omare
with that bucket of water, but the doggie--
- He probably got lost on his way.
- Can you go find him? - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- I gave it all up.
- Ma, you look so good. - Thank you, girl.
- If you find out the dates overlap,
I mean, what--
- Girl, I'ma leave your brother,
because he lied to me.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
- ♪ Open your eyes, we are headed to another place ♪
♪ Go no fear, I'm never scared ♪
♪ I got a lot to say ♪
♪ Love a challenge when they push me to a higher level ♪
♪ Came for all I deserve, I ain't come for trouble ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, sis. - Hey, boo.
- I am visiting with my sister-in-law, Ebony.
She's Jasiel's second-oldest sister,
so she's a lot older than me.
She's just a big, genuine sweetheart.
And ever since the first day I met Ebony,
like, we just clicked.
It's just been a lot, Eb.
Like, that's why I came over here, girl, 'cause--
- I knew it was something.
- Ebony is that one person in Jasiel's family
who knows everything about our relationship.
You know the stuff at the wedding.
You already know that before the wedding, like,
we was dealing with the whole--
- I know. - The thing with the kid.
- I didn't know how you would respond to the baby.
- Mm-hmm.
- I thought you would have walked.
- After having time to reflect, it's like,
Jasiel told me about it knowing that it was a higher chance
than not that I was gonna leave you.
But I didn't.
I was able to accept the fact that Jasiel could man up
and tell me about the child.
He could have lied, basically, and he told me the truth, so.
I spoke with Bambi, and she also had tea.
You know, remember Meda?
- Is she older? - Yeah.
So this mother[bleep] got up at a dinner--
and this came from people,
my friends who was there who told me about this,
she say, "Yeah, I been messing with Joc
since 2008 and 2016 and 2017, 2019."
Just, like, rambling off dates, you know.
So we FaceTimed her.
So I'm like, "Hey, what's going on?"
like, "Hey. How you doing?" like, "I'm Kendra. Yeah."
And of course, your brother like, "What?"
Like, "I've not messed with her in years."
Now, granted, here-- stay in your seat, now.
He did used to mess with the lady.
- The question is when? - Is when?
And some of the dates that she giving overlaps with me.
And so, it's just like,
why is it so many stories, you know what I mean?
Especially when he over here like,
"I have not dealt with this lady
since I've been with you." He was like, "I haven't."
- But Kendra, you know he does things impulsive.
You honestly Joc can sit down
and tell you everything he's done?
'Cause we know he done-- he's done a lot.
My brother got about
four of these little bowls of [bleep]ups to go.
- I know.
- So you either gonna have to decide to deal with it
or not to deal with it. I mean, he does.
- Can Jasiel change? Is he capable of change?
Yes, he is.
So either he's gonna love and honor me and be faithful to me,
or he will be single, and that's just what it is.
Treat me right, do right, or get the [bleep] on.
- If you find out that the dates overlap
your relationship with him, I mean, what--?
- Girl, I'm leaving-- I'ma leave your brother,
because if that's the truth, that means he sat up
and lied to me in my face after--
after we were husband and wife.
Like, that's stupid.
I ain't worried about it one way or another,
'cause one thing, kids gonna be fine,
whether it's with your brother or with somebody else, honey.
Okay?
I'm not finna be staying with somebody who doing me wrong.
I'm not.
♪ ♪
♪ Roll it out slowly, never lost focus ♪
♪ She was once broken ♪
♪ Hanging on for her life ♪
♪ Now look at her shine ♪
♪ She's on fire, oh, oh, oh ♪
- Madre. - Hey.
- Mama. - What's up?
- Look at you.
- I know.
- You look so good. Ma!
- Yes, girl. - Look at you!
- Let me do a little walk for you.
You ain't seen me in a while. - Girl, you look so healthy.
- I feel amazing. - Mama!
- I think it's like--
I didn't count the days, but I gave it all up.
- Ma, you look so good.
- Thank you, girl.
- You know--I know. Hell, I was up there.
- I'm back at the shop. You see the lights on.
I'm working. - You working.
It feels so good to see my mama healthy and happy again.
I feel like the conversation with Eric and his mom
really was a eye-opener.
I really feel like she's on a great track,
and I really hope that she just stick to it,
because she got girls that love her to death
and cannot live life without her.
I've been so stressed, Ma.
Like, after my house got broken into,
I'm like--Ma, you already know,
I done been robbed at gunpoint one time in my life.
And now that this happened,
I don't want to be in that house.
Trying to get it through Eric head's like--
we been bumping heads so bad.
I just feel like he need to understand me
a little bit more.
South Carolina allowed me to really think about
what I really want out of a relationship.
And Eric and I still haven't spoken,
and if we cannot agree to move forward,
I don't know how our future is gonna look.
I know I've been MIA. I'm sorry.
I been having a lot going on. - I know. Where you been at?
- I just left down from South Carolina with Renni.
Her mom is in the hospital, in a coma, Ma.
And I just feel so bad, because I'm like, damn.
Nobody knows what's going on with me,
but I'm making sure that I'm there for her.
- Yeah. - But I'm not gonna lie.
Being down there with them,
you know what I'm saying, made me be like,
"I need to get back home to my mama."
But I just need to come see you, feel you, touch you...
- Mm-hmm.
- And just tell you how much I love you.
And, you know-- 'cause life is short.
- It's crazy out here. - Yes.
♪ ♪
- What's up? What's up? Hey, Ma.
- Ooh! - How are you?
- What's up, Eric? - What's up, Si?
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- These are for you.
You don't look excited to see me.
- You went and bought me dead roses.
- These are not dead.
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
[dramatic music]
- Eric. - What's up, Si?
- Mom. - These are for you.
You don't excited to see me.
- Hey, Eric. - Hey, baby. I love you.
- No, I'm mad. - Don't be mad.
- Because it's a lot.
- Can I get a kiss? - No.
Eric, I'm really mad at you. - Why?
- We haven't spoken, and I don't feel good
about everything that's going on with us.
- Life--life is short.
- And this is your first time trying to reach out,
and you know what I've been going through.
- I got a fresh haircut in Atlanta.
You shouldn't be mad.
- Yeah, you got a fresh haircut.
- I got some flowers.
- And you went and bought me dead roses.
- These are not dead. - Oh, my God.
- These look nice.
And that's your favorite color in here, too.
Also, I have a surprise. - What kind of surprise?
- Can you stop being mad and I'll show you?
Look how you smiling. You love this.
- I love a gift. - Oh, my goodness.
- She talking about, "What kind of surprise?"
- Look how her attitude just changed.
- Eric is always trying to do a grand gesture to get me back.
But at this point, I'm tired of breaking up and making up.
How about you just don't [bleep] up
and we don't break up in the first place?
Don't be cracking no jokes,
'cause I'm still mad at your ass.
- Honestly, though,
I really do feel where you were coming from,
as far as the house being robbed.
You know, you can't put a price on peace of mind.
When you saying--when you were saying that you couldn't sleep,
and you were just having, like,
thoughts about somebody breaking in the crib,
I didn't really think about it like that, being a man.
But I do sincerely apologize.
So please, please, please, accept my apology
so we can move forward and be great.
- I want to see this-- what you got for me.
But I can't lie, I do miss you.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Ooh.
Hey. - Von.
- Von! What you doing here?
- This is the surprise. - Is this the surprise?
- Hey, Von.
So being away from Sierra,
I kind of had a little time to gather my thoughts.
You said you wanted a condo, so I went ahead
and took the initiative to find us a condo.
And I'm really and truly hoping that she likes this,
because if not, I'ma be upset again.
Hey, look around.
- Are you serious? - I'm dead serious.
Even though a condo in Atlanta wasn't my ideal way of living,
I still wanted to show how I'm able to adjust and adapt
to do whatever I need to do to make sure that she's happy.
- How many bedrooms is this? - Three.
- As far as gestures go, this one isn't too bad.
But I didn't get no say in this place.
I get that he's trying, but he's not really listening.
We should be making these decisions together.
It's not enough room for me and the kids and you.
- This?
- So--no, it's not, Eric. The rooms are tiny.
- Now, I don't know
if this is really about the condo being small,
but I don't like
how she's starting to make me feel again,
because I really tried my hardest
to make sure that she's good and that I'm also good.
You have other options that we could see, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- It's like, I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't.
She doesn't know what she wants
or how to communicate what she wants.
And I hope she's not playing around with me.
- Thank you. - So now we know, like,
the pros and cons of what she likes.
We need something bigger.
- We are trying to so hard in this relationship,
but it's just something missing.
And you can't just be selling me on stuff.
I'm starting to wonder will we ever see eye-to-eye?
You still in the doghouse, mother[bleep].
Don't get too cute. [chuckles]
- ♪ Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' ♪
[crickets chirping]
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- That's my mama. - I's the mama.
♪ ♪
- So after a month in the hospital,
too many surgeries to count, um...
today, my mom took her last breath.
And that's kind of
something we were preparing for.
Um...
it's just hard.
I mean, I'm happy that me and my mom
got to patch our relationship up
and say the things we needed to say to each other
and actually, like, spend our last couple months together
just loving one another and being nice to one another.
You know, my mom loved seeing me on that stage.
My mom was my number one fan.
Like, no matter what, we could be at our worst,
and she was not gonna miss a show.
So like,
I feel like I owe this to her to continue to do that.
♪ ♪
I started working on this song about a year ago.
She was always like, "You gonna finish my song?
You gonna finish my song?" So now, I'm finishing it.
And it's just everything that I would say to her,
everything that she's-- means to me, taught me.
You know, it's just my ode to her.
You know this a priority.
The definition of a mother in the dictionary
is a woman in relation to her child or children.
And that's just not enough,
'cause you so much more than that. Yeah.
♪ Listen, mama, Hope I'm making you proud ♪
♪ I came a long way from fighting ♪
♪ And you kicking me out ♪
♪ I know you still be trying to figure me out ♪
♪ Been through some [bleep] and called it quits ♪
♪ And threw fits ♪
♪ Thought you lost your baby, but look at me now ♪
♪ I was lost for a while ♪
♪ I found my way back home ♪
♪ Owning all my mistakes ♪
♪ 'Cause you ain't did [bleep] wrong ♪
♪ Should have been had this talk ♪
♪ 'Cause it been too long ♪
♪ Just want to give you all your flowers ♪
♪ 'fore my chance be gone ♪
♪ ♪
- Next time on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- Congratulations on your engagement!
Let me see, let me see!
- I don't know how to adjust to the change.
I'm not Money Monster Sierra no more.
- Sierra, you can't beat him down,
drag him, and then use him for what you want,
and then say, "Okay, Eric, you're the problem.
- A DNA test is on your horizon.
- This is why I have to get out of this.
- When I was young, I wanted to see my mama
and daddy together, so once we break that up,
other dudes come in, want to feel like,
"Oh, this Safaree, baby," you know what I'm saying?
[dramatic music]
- Oh, what the [bleep]?
- 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.
- Come up here and give your dad a hug.
- He's never been in my life.
- [bleep] off! - You can kiss my ass.
- You know, as a matter of fact...
- No! - You can get the [bleep] out.
- No!
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ MTV ♪