The Love & Hip Hop franchise is forever expanding. Last night, Mona Scott-Young took her talents to Miami with a whole new crew of people; a couple of easily recognizable names and a whole lot of drama.
Let’s get into it.
Miami-bred Amara La Negra is a strikingly gorgeous Afro-Latina rapper with Dominican roots; creamy cocoa brown skin and a huge curly Afro.
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The episode begins with her preparing for her first meeting with producer Young Hollywood, with her mom in tow. “She sees what I don’t, sometimes.” Smart girl. But still, we get Hollywood’s reaction when he spots the two women waiting for him in a corridor. “You brought your mom?,” he asks incredulously. Maybe she could’ve relayed the details of the meeting to Mom later on.
Anyway, it seems like the meeting went well because later on, La Negra heads to the studio to sit with Hollywood and he exposes his weirdo mentality regarding her image. He says he likes to be “hands on” with whatever artist he’s working with. Um, typically that’s the manager’s job but okay.
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Then Hollywood wastes no time in breaking her image down. If you ask him, he would probably say he’s just telling her what the industry is really about. But to everyone else watching, it just sounds like old-fashioned colorism. It’s dope that the producers found a way to show its existence in the Latino community but heartbreaking to see Hollywood mock La Negra mercilessly on national television.
Still, she handled herself well considering the situation. He threw up the Black Power fist and laughed. He called her a “Nutella Queen.” He asked her about the Afro and told her that she needed to change her look because Afros can’t be elegant.
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She reminded him that she’s Afro-Latina and he teases, “Afro-Latina Queen. So are you African?” She should’ve smacked his face off, but she walked out, which was an even better response.
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Gunplay is on the show too. And we love Gunplay. His woman, however, is having issues convincing him that moving back to his native Miami would not be wise. She’s concerned about his being tempted by the streets… And the skeezers. Much to her chagrin, his mind is made up. The foreshadowing of a session with Miami dancer/rapper Tip Drill alludes to some improper happenings that look to be occurring sooner than later. Gunplay admits to the confessional camera that he smashed a while back but his girl “don’t have to know.” Playing with fire, because she asked specifically which women he planned on working with back home. He mentioned Tip’s name and purposely omitted their history. Yikes.
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Bobby Lytes is an openly gay rapper based in MIA. Never heard of ‘em? We haven’t either and his first cousin Trina is doing nothing to help with his visibility. We don’t know what could’ve happened between them until he invites himself to her white party – mind you, rocking the brightest colors – and it comes out that he has an ongoing issue with her staff, namely Trina’s assistant Alvin.
Trina has lunch with Tip Drill later in the episode and Tip brings Bobby along. Facepalm. Why’d she do that? It’s crazy because it seems like the two grown men are fighting for Trina’s affection and she only seems to check her blood and not the assistant who’d just called her first cousin a “bum.”
Anyway, by the end of it, Bobby needles Trina about never supporting his career, vows to show and prove and Trina flippantly says, “Okay,” like she doesn’t believe him. Damn. She’s got an icebox where her heart used to be.
Shay Johnson appears on yet another reality show. We ain’t mad though. Get your paper wherever it’s at, girl. Last time she was on Love & Hip Hop, she was with Lil Scrappy in Atlanta and that was years ago. This time she’s with Pleasure P of the boy band Pretty Ricky. She seems happy but maybe a little overinvolved in his business.
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She claims that it’s an issue because she moved out to Miami to be with P and he’s jumping back into working with the men he fell out with over typical male ego drama. Shay insists that he doesn’t need them to flourish and that he’s a star anyway. It comes to a head later when he and the guys have a performance and she picks a fight after the show with Baby Blue Whoaaa (who’s already been on his loudmouth steez this ep).
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“Where you find this ho at? A halfway house?,” Blue says. P holds Shay back, but he doesn’t check Blue, which should’ve been the first thing he did.
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She was out of pocket to start but if you’re with her, you have to defend her. SMH. When will these guys learn? Anyway, upon realizing that P wouldn’t stand up for her, Shay gets extra heated and leaves.
Next week should be really interesting. Actually, this season might be way more entertaining than we thought.
