It’s hard out here for the significant other of a pimp a.k.a. a successful rapper.
After winning the coveted prize of being thee chosen one out of an endless sea of video vixens and model schemers, they have to endure with cheating allegations, extended alone time and most likely, a hedonistic lifestyle. If Love & Hip-Hop has taught us anything, it’s that a ring (or promise to get one) isn’t the end-all, be-all to your relationship issues. Just ask Frodo.
Lil Wayne’s ex-wife, Toya Wright recently found herself in the back of a police cruiser after Atlanta cops noticed she had a warrant out for her arrest due to missing a separate court date.
This type of reckless behavior can’t be blamed on Lil Wayne per se, but Lord knows that the duties of being a ride-or-die chick will alter your public image, usually for the worst.
Poor Toya wasn’t the first rapper-affiliated “shawty” to be in cuffs and she definitely won’t be the last. Sad, really.
We dug deep in our mental Rolodex and found 10 rapper wives who have been arrested for this, that and the third-degree misdemeanor. With trends like this, VH1 is never going out of the rapper-exploitation business.
Hit the gallery to see all of those beautiful mugshots.
Photo: TMZ
Nivea (Lil Wayne/The-Dream)
The former R&B princess-to-be received a mini iron vacation in 2011 when she was driving a little drunk with her baby in the car. For shame.
Photo: YouTube
Ecreia Perez (Shawty Lo)
This feisty Atlanta woman was living out her vertically challenged baby daddy’s rhymes when she tried to bring a loaded handgun to court.
Photo: LA Times
Shante Broadus (Snoop Dogg)
Snoop’s family favors the sticky-icky but in 2008, matriarch Shante was dipping in the gin & juice cabinet and was cited in the outskirts of L.A.
Photo: StraightFromTheA
Walnita Decuir (Lil Boosie)
Mrs. Bad Azz tried to prove she was a little too down by helping Boosie with his prison capers.
Kelis (Nas)
Photo: Yahoo
Back when Kelis was game to don N-word shirts with her Illmatic hubby, she got a little too vocal with the police and they put her in cuffs for disorderly conduct. Too bad they had to say “bye baby.”
Photo: BET
Remy Ma (Papoose)
All the other birds in this list have experienced slaps on the wrist compared to the ex-Terror Squadian who has been in prison for the past six years. At least she has Papoose shouldering a brunt of the struggle from the outside.
Photo: Blastro
Faith Evans (The Notorious B.I.G.)
Long after her and second husband, Todd Russaw were fully established, the former Bad Boy First Lady was busted with DUI’s in 2004 and 2010. Good grief.
Photo: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Tameka “Tiny” Cottle-Harris (T.I.)
Despite being one rap’s most visible pieces of arm candy, Mrs. Tip was an accomplice to a drug charge that put the star rapper right back behind bars months after he was barely removed from his last stint in the bing.
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Joseline Hernandez (Stevie J.)
Before she was leading Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta to countless Emmy nominations (yeah, right), Joseline b.k.a. “Shenellica Bettencourt” to Miami police, was arrested for the world’s oldest profession. Yep.
Kim Mathers (Eminem)
If you heard the song “Kim” (or at least one of Eminem’s albums for that matter) you’ll understand why Slim Shady’s ex was busted driving extremely dirty.
