Love And Hip Hop – Episode 7 –Recap

Love And Hip Hop – Episode 7 – When Tellin’ It All Goes Wrong

 

 

“Mendeecees came to his [Maurice's] place of business and put hands and feets on him,” said Yandy in her confessional. Yandy, girl, feets? Beside her adding an additional plural to feet, it’s true. Her man did choke her cousin for an Instagram picture.”He got up and flexed his little muscles,” Mendeecees said. “You don’t touch my cousin,” Yandy said. “You do not respect my family.” Mendeecees doesn’t care who it is. The pictures were a problem for him so he handled it the way he saw necessary. Yandy’s point is that if Mendeecees wants to be part of her family then he has to fix the situation. “I told him to take it down after he told me about the fight,” she said.

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Lore’l and Winter are out celebrating Lore’l's record “This Is How We Do It” while also scoping out men. Winter wants Lore’l to find a rich boo as soon as possible and her advice: start asking for things immediately. Winter’s done writing her tell-all book about the music industry. “You don’t feel like none of these people are going to get mad?” Lore’l asked. “You are friends with these people.” Lore’l is in for a real surprise when she finds out she is one of “these people.”




In the studio, Rich Dollaz is meeting with his mentor and business partner Pete Gunz.
Rich‘s business partner is not here for Erica Mena as a singer. He wants Rich to cut ties with her so they can get back to making hit records. Mixing business and pleasure, he reminds him, was a mistake. Now that Erica won’t sign a contract Rich is reconsidering working with her. “Wrap that up musically, and wrap that up with the relationship,” said Pete. “You looking crazy out here.” Cheers to the real friends like Pete who tell the truth instead of what you want to hear.


Cons recants the Raqi drama for Jen revealing his new nickname for his enemy–DJ Perjury. “She gon’ sit there and try to paint it like you racist,” Con tells her. They’re both animated now. If Raqi is such a non-factor she certainly gets them both riled up. “She just talking, she just want attention, she just desperate,” Consequence said. “Remember this is all over no bread. Nobody even got no check,” Consequence said. Jen plays the victim as if she has no idea why there’s a beef now. Whatever, girl. “Thanks for yelling at her for me,” Jen said. The fact that she wants her man involved in messy drama between women is quite telling.

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 Jen and Consequence are on the hunt for a personal babysitter. First up is the booby woman showing lots of cleavage. “You know what, I can’t do this because her boobs are staring me right in the face,” Jen said. The second interviewee was fired from her last job and “rather not get into” why. Next up is the part-time makeup artist to which Cons asks, “Where’s the connection to childcare?” Finding someone to watch their son wasn’t smooth, but it looks like they hit gold with Lexi.

No one is team Erica, including Rich’s mom. “Are you in love?” his mom asks. “I wouldn’t say that.” Mom dukes is not having the nonsense and she speaks her mind. “This girl is dangerous, Richard. She doesn’t need a manager; she needs a psychiatrist.” Rich goes blank as if he knows his mom has a point. “She is so damaged that she is going to cause problems for you.” His mom tells him to start thinking with his head and get his emotions out of it. “You need to get over it…You’ve got to move on,” she tells him. That easy? According to mom, yep. It’s that easy.

 

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Yandy takes Mendeecees to apologize to Maurice. “I don’t even know if I like you or not,” Maurice says off the bat. “You think I give a f— if you like me or not?” Mendeecees responds. Their egos are fully inflated. “At the end of the day you both are going to be in my life forever,” Yandy said. “I’m sorry for putting my hands on you,” Mendeecees apologized. Finally the fellas dap it up ending their beef.
“Mendeecees came to his [Maurice's] place of business and put hands and feets on him,” said Yandy in her confessional. Yandy, girl, feets? Beside her adding an additional plural to feet, it’s true. Her man did choke her cousin for an Instagram picture.”He got up and flexed his little muscles,” Mendeecees said. “You don’t touch my cousin,” Yandy said. “You do not respect my family.” Mendeecees doesn’t care who it is. The pictures were a problem for him so he handled it the way he saw necessary. Yandy’s point is that if Mendeecees wants to be part of her family then he has to fix the situation. “I told him to take it down after he told me about the fight,” she said.


Let’s get this straight. Tahiry mushes Kaylin in the head and Kaylin feels the need to apologize to Tahiry? Clearly Joe had a hand in influencing this decision. Kaylin says women shouldn’t wild out like that (referring to her own actions), but she had a problem with the song. “Do you have a problem when he raps about me today?” Tahiry asked. Kaylin doesn’t mind him rapping about Tahiry just not getting on a track with her, which makes no sense in Tahiry’s mind. Tahiry’s mad at Joe for saying he’d do something and backing out. For her it’s bigger than the record. And she wants Kaylin to know the next time she has a problem with something her man does she should check the man, not the woman.


Yandy tells Winter she’s “breaking the code” by exposing people in the industry through her book. Winter doesn’t think there is a code. It’s her life and story to tell according to her. “My only concern is if there’s going to be any threats posed on your life,” Yandy said. Winter “ain’t got no worries” and would rather talk about Yandy potentially managing Lore’l. All Yandy sees is dollar signs so if there’s no money to be made she’s not doing it. “For me it’s very important if I’m going to run around with an artist, that I can figure out how to generate some income from it.”


Erica meets up with Rich to tell him he was a little unfair. Rich is really uninterested in having this conversation until there’s a contract. “No contract, I get it,” Erica said. “But why are you making that such a big deal?” Maybe because legally he needs to make sure he gets paid for the work he’s doing. Rich tells her the relationship is too clouded right now. “I’m let you off the hook,” he tells her. Basically he accuses her of only being with him to jump start her career. “You can let me off the hook, but I’m not going anywhere,” she yells.


Winter’s book cover reveal brings Yandy and Lore’l together for what may be the beginning of a professional relationship. Winter reads the chapter about Lore’l to a room full of people. What Winter thought was an ode to their friendship actually divulged a little too much information, like how she was sexing “all these millionaires for free.” Yandy’s confused how this could be her friend but she’s telling all her business in this book. As Yandy said, “Oh, she done lost her damn mind.” Lore’l isn’t happy and can’t believe what’s happening.  

“That was kind of foul,” she said. “We’ll talk. I don’t feel like this a group discussion for the room.” Lore’l pulled her to the side to let her know she rad the whole chapter and thinks it’s messed up. “I get you, you’re mad, you’re upset. That’s how I felt,” Winter said. “I don’t f— for money. Sorry,” she tells Winter. Bottomline is Lore’l doesn’t understand how Winter feels that there’s nothing wrong with what she wrote. “Hope you make all the money in the world off this book, homegirl, because you gon’ have some problems.” A lot of this could’ve been solved with Winter giving Lore’l a heads up, or she could’ve tried the whole not blasting your friend’s business in book route too.

Love And Hip Hop – Episode 6

Love And Hip Hop – Episode 6 – Check Ya Self Or Get Checked

Before we get to Tahiry’s “h* sit down” moment we have to recap the other drama of tonight’s episode.
Erica wants to strike while the iron is hot. With her new single recorded she wants Rich to have the plans ready to shoot the video. “Yo, you’re demanding. Demanding in what you want, how you want it, when you want it,” Rich said. First thing’s first is a contract needs to be signed. Up until now they’ve been operating on the trust. “That would be officially giving you the keys to the car you’re driving,” she responded. Getting Erica to sign a contract won’t be easy.

Joe‘s girlfriend Kaylin takes a listen to Tahiry‘s “Devil” but is not feeling the song’s content. “I don’t understand that. If you gotta get detoxed from her life, why is she trying to be in it?” Kaylin doesn’t want Joe jumping on the track because she doesn’t feel Tahiry deserves it. She claims Tahiry isn’t keeping it real in real life. “That’s where I draw the line. You’re not doing a song with her,” Kaylin said. Joe confesses that he invited her to one of his shows. Kaylin naturally feels that should’ve been run by her first.

Yandy is this season’s advice giver. Raqi needed to vent about her blowout with Jen. Yandy’s not sure where the confusion is coming from if Jen knew she was coming on as a co-host. “Even if you didn’t get the memo you didn’t do s—,” Raqi says about Jen. Raqi brags about telling Jen that Consequence wanted to have sex with her. “I wanted her to choke on that ether. I served it.” Yandy is in shock when Raqi tells her that Jen pulled the white privilege card, but she still suggests Raqi apologize for bringing up Cons.

Jen retells her side of the story to Consequence reiterating that she’s been “co-signed out here.” Jen admits that she wanted to hit below the belt with her “taking my white a— to get a job” comment. “Well, here you go Raqi, now take that, b—h.” Consequence takes his girl’s side as expected. “With a b—h like her, she’s gonna take whatever you say — obviously — and run with it.” “She’s a mother—,” Cons said. “She’s a motherf—-,” Jen repeats. Cons went in the studio to prove he has his girl’s back by making a diss song about Raqi. Jen’s loving every second of it.

Yandy’s cousin Maurice is committed to getting her back to her pre-pregnancy weight. The before and after pictures are to prove his training methods work. But where those pictures end up may cause problems for him.
Mendeecees heads to the gym to confront her about the pictures of her working out on Instagram. “I shouldn’t be looking on Instagram seeing your a—.” “You came over here, you didn’t even greet me, you didn’t give me a hug, a kiss, say ‘hey babe,’ you popped up at the gym and you asking me about pictures?” “You can see cameltoe. You can see everything.” “Are you serious right now?” Oh, he’s dead serious. He wants the pictures down or there will be consequences. “All you missing is the pole,” he says. Yandy doesn’t understand the problem. He’s her cousin, she has a deal to help promote his business by letting him take before and after pics and that’s all there is to it. “You not gonna come to me about a cousin of mine.” Mendeecees isn’t letting it go. Yandy warns, “Mendeecees, you disrespect my family, it’s gon’ be a problem for me.”

Rich needs the loot fronted for Erica’s video. How much cheese? 15-20 stacks. His frat brother may be able to help, but he wants to be clear on the type of artist Erica is. “She’s a video girl?” he asks sarcastically. “Problem is: The partnership’s not here. We are the biggest, she is the smallest,” Keenan said. Ouch. Rich had to have been prepared for that type of respond. Gambling on an unknown artist is exactly that—a gamble.

As soon as Cons sees Raqi in the studio he lights into her about the disrespect she showed Jen. Raqi came to apologize, but Consequence isn’t trying to hear it. “You sleeping with the enemy,” she said. “I’m not sleeping with no enemy, I’m sleeping with my woman.” Raqi starts screaming about how she’s raising a black man so Jen’s comment was inappropriate. Cons reminds her he’s also raising a black man. “If two girls are having a catfight of course they gon’ pull out weapons,” he says in Jen’s defense. Cons tells her she’s desperate for attention. “This pen don’t stop, B,” he said. “Keep them enemies out the bed, B,” Raqi said. He resorts to calling her a “b*tch” as she walks out. Men should stay out of women’s quarrels.

Joe’s talking to Kaylin backstage at his show when Tahiry walks in. Joe beats around the bush to tell Tahiry he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to jump on a song with her. Tahiry thinks it’s bull that all of a sudden he can’t be there for her. “Right now you can’t get on the track because you’re trying to be considerate to who, to what feelings?” Kaylin interjects to let know Tahiry she has a say so. “You do?” Tahiry asks sarcastically. Kaylin stays calm and tries to explain to her that she thinks it’s a privilege to be on a song with Joe. Tahiry jumps up, “Sweetie it’s not about you at all because all you are is someone on the side who does whatever he says, so you really need to check yourself.” Tahiry hits Kaylin below the belt, “If you were handling your business he wouldn’t have to call me all the time,” Tahiry said. “I don’t call you,” Joe retorted. When Kaylin takes a jab at Tahiry’s career, Tahiry pops Kaylin in the head. “You look stupid,” Joe tells Tahiry. “Don’t call me…I’ll make your world go ’round rapper,” she yells. Joe tries to calm Kaylin down with his philosophies. Where was he when Kaylin was getting hit upside the head?

Erica gave Rich a couple weeks to make a video and she’s not happy that there’s no video. When Rich tries to explain to her that there’s a process she snaps. “All you had to do is pick up the phone and tell me what’s going on.” Rich let’s her know that she’s recorded a song for free, but he’s not paying for a video. “You know what, I’ll see you later. Cheap mother—-,” she says. So much for her working on changing that attitude.

Mendeecees takes things in his own hands and checks Maurice about Instagram pictures. Social media always getting people in trouble. “Maurice, you can’t just be putting pictures on Instagram without people knowing.” Maurice doesn’t understand the problem. And if he wants the pictures taken down so bad Maurice wants Yandy to tell him herself. Maurice starts working out in the middle of their conversation, which infuriates Mendeecees. He chokes Maurice out and we’ll have to wait to see how Yandy feels about her man beating up her cousin.