Exes Tahiry and Joe have some unfinished business and are trying to redefine their friendship while dealing with interference from Joe's "best friend" and trouble maker Raqi Thunda. Free Download Video Love & Hip Hop 7th Jan 2013 Episode On VH1 Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Love & Hip Hop Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV. Rich and Erica have taken their relationship to a new level and Yandy has deals with her expanding family. Don’t be shy, let them cameras expose you/The worst that could happen is I Amber Rose you,” Fabolous rapped last year, on “I’m Raw,” referring to Kanye West’s plucked-from-obscurity girlfriend at the time: “People in the street, like, ‘Damn, I knows you!’ ”Or in the case of Fabolous’s girlfriend, Emily Bustamante, maybe not. On the docu-melodrama “Love & Hip Hop,” which begins Monday night on VH1, she talks about the couple’s trip to a recent award show. “Of course I went out there to dress him, just dress him,” she said. “I didn’t do the awards.” Not allowed, that is.But Fabolous does get his comeuppance on this show, a variation on the “Real Housewives” theme, which is at least useful as a corrective to rappers’ public images. Those artists with the bikini-clad women draped over them in videos? They may be masking the sinister truth of their humdrum suburbanness, their emotional (and maybe even physical) monogamy.Two of this show’s stars — Ms. Bustamante and Chrissy Lampkin, the girlfriend of Jim Jones — are behind-the-scenes better halves. (Both have served as their paramours’ stylists.) There’s also the little-known singer Mashonda, who was previously married to the producer Swizz Beatz (who later married Alicia Keys). The cast is rounded out with two struggling musicians, the rapper Somaya Reece and the singer Olivia.
Olivia was once signed to 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records, which in this context is a meaningless footnote: She quickly mentions that she’s dating the Jets’ star cornerback Darrelle Revis. (Or once was, or never was: “Nothin against Olivia but we are not dating” Mr. Revis said on Twitter earlier this month.)
Olivia, like the rest of her cast mates, is eager to participate in an ecosystem where proximity to men of power appears to be currency more valuable than artistic talent; at minimum it gets you on TV. And reality television, from “Gotti’s Way” to “Basketball Wives” to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” to “Tiny & Toya,” has over-highlighted this dynamic in the black celebrity class in recent years.
“Love & Hip Hop,” at least, reveals those men of power to be nuisances and liabilities. Ms. Lampkin chides Mr. Jones, her boyfriend of six years, for agreeing to host a women’s boxing event, and later wonders if they’ll ever get married.
“It happens a lot,” she says. “You’re with a man, you groom him, you straighten him up, you dust him off, you teach him how to chew with his mouth closed, and before you know it, he’s chewing with the next one.”
Ms. Lampkin, though, appears to take no guff, putting her ahead of Ms. Bustamante, the show’s tragic lead, who’s been with Fabolous for eight years and shares a son with him.
“He could leave me any second,” she tells Mashonda. “And the difference between me and you is I’m not married — you know what I mean? — so he doesn’t have to take care of me.”
So where Fabolous falls short, VH1 — a more reliable and chivalrous lover, perhaps — steps up to the plate. And trying Fabolous, who does not appear to be participating in the show, in absentia still gets a conviction.Amid growing criticism of its latest season of “Basketball Wives,” the network is introducing yet another title in a booming roster of provocative programs slanted toward African American viewers wanting to wallow in the behind-the-scenes drama (quite evidently, there is a ton) that goes on with women attached to the music and sports worlds.
“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” a spin-off of the popular New York based docu-series in which slapping, drink throwing and hair pulling became a plot point, is set to premiere on the network on Monday.
The 10-episode series is anchored in a new crop of industry players: Grammy Award-winning producer Stevie J (Diddy, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey), his girlfriend, Mimi Faust, and his protégée, an up-and-coming Latina rapper named Joseline; rapper Lil Scrappy, his girlfriend, Erica Dixon, and his mother, a former hustler known as “Momma Dee”; Atlanta rapper Rasheeda, her manager-husband Kirk Frost; songstress K. Michelle; and Trinidadian R&B singer Karlie Redd.
Pop & Hiss caught up with two of the aspiring performers, Joseline and K. Michelle, to talk drama, putting themselves in front of the camera and, of course, music.
The uncertainty in Ms. Lampkin and Ms. Bustamante’s relationships forms the core of this show, which lingers on slick, beautiful shots of the women driving spectacular cars with no men in sight. The presumption of neglect also fuels needless filler drama between Ms. Lampkin and the statuesque Ms. Reece, who wants to collaborate with Mr. Jones.
Ms. Reece, who is making the naïve mistake of attempting to get by on her music, doesn’t understand the rules here, though. She’s confronted by Ms. Lampkin in a nightclub, and tries to blow her off: “Your career title is what? Jim Jones’s girlfriend?” Got that right. This docudrama attempts to show the flip side of the luxurious, high profile world of rap by featuring women who are struggling to build the careers and secure the relationships they want in a male-dominated industry that markets womanizing bachelorhood and female objectification. Unfortunately, the significance of this message gets lost in the endless catty arguments and trashy behavior exhibited by some of the cast.
The women featured here are choosing to be part of the rapper lifestyle, but some don’t appear to be very happy with these choices. Meanwhile, the fact that some of them are defining themselves and their lives according to the needs and goals of their rapping romantic partners and business associates makes them less than ideal role models for young women. It's hard to figure out exactly what it is that you're supposed to take away from this series, but ultimately, the message it sends to women isn’t very empowering.
Olivia was once signed to 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records, which in this context is a meaningless footnote: She quickly mentions that she’s dating the Jets’ star cornerback Darrelle Revis. (Or once was, or never was: “Nothin against Olivia but we are not dating” Mr. Revis said on Twitter earlier this month.)
Olivia, like the rest of her cast mates, is eager to participate in an ecosystem where proximity to men of power appears to be currency more valuable than artistic talent; at minimum it gets you on TV. And reality television, from “Gotti’s Way” to “Basketball Wives” to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” to “Tiny & Toya,” has over-highlighted this dynamic in the black celebrity class in recent years.
“Love & Hip Hop,” at least, reveals those men of power to be nuisances and liabilities. Ms. Lampkin chides Mr. Jones, her boyfriend of six years, for agreeing to host a women’s boxing event, and later wonders if they’ll ever get married.
“It happens a lot,” she says. “You’re with a man, you groom him, you straighten him up, you dust him off, you teach him how to chew with his mouth closed, and before you know it, he’s chewing with the next one.”
Ms. Lampkin, though, appears to take no guff, putting her ahead of Ms. Bustamante, the show’s tragic lead, who’s been with Fabolous for eight years and shares a son with him.
“He could leave me any second,” she tells Mashonda. “And the difference between me and you is I’m not married — you know what I mean? — so he doesn’t have to take care of me.”
So where Fabolous falls short, VH1 — a more reliable and chivalrous lover, perhaps — steps up to the plate. And trying Fabolous, who does not appear to be participating in the show, in absentia still gets a conviction.Amid growing criticism of its latest season of “Basketball Wives,” the network is introducing yet another title in a booming roster of provocative programs slanted toward African American viewers wanting to wallow in the behind-the-scenes drama (quite evidently, there is a ton) that goes on with women attached to the music and sports worlds.
“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” a spin-off of the popular New York based docu-series in which slapping, drink throwing and hair pulling became a plot point, is set to premiere on the network on Monday.
The 10-episode series is anchored in a new crop of industry players: Grammy Award-winning producer Stevie J (Diddy, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey), his girlfriend, Mimi Faust, and his protégée, an up-and-coming Latina rapper named Joseline; rapper Lil Scrappy, his girlfriend, Erica Dixon, and his mother, a former hustler known as “Momma Dee”; Atlanta rapper Rasheeda, her manager-husband Kirk Frost; songstress K. Michelle; and Trinidadian R&B singer Karlie Redd.
Pop & Hiss caught up with two of the aspiring performers, Joseline and K. Michelle, to talk drama, putting themselves in front of the camera and, of course, music.
The uncertainty in Ms. Lampkin and Ms. Bustamante’s relationships forms the core of this show, which lingers on slick, beautiful shots of the women driving spectacular cars with no men in sight. The presumption of neglect also fuels needless filler drama between Ms. Lampkin and the statuesque Ms. Reece, who wants to collaborate with Mr. Jones.
Ms. Reece, who is making the naïve mistake of attempting to get by on her music, doesn’t understand the rules here, though. She’s confronted by Ms. Lampkin in a nightclub, and tries to blow her off: “Your career title is what? Jim Jones’s girlfriend?” Got that right. This docudrama attempts to show the flip side of the luxurious, high profile world of rap by featuring women who are struggling to build the careers and secure the relationships they want in a male-dominated industry that markets womanizing bachelorhood and female objectification. Unfortunately, the significance of this message gets lost in the endless catty arguments and trashy behavior exhibited by some of the cast.
The women featured here are choosing to be part of the rapper lifestyle, but some don’t appear to be very happy with these choices. Meanwhile, the fact that some of them are defining themselves and their lives according to the needs and goals of their rapping romantic partners and business associates makes them less than ideal role models for young women. It's hard to figure out exactly what it is that you're supposed to take away from this series, but ultimately, the message it sends to women isn’t very empowering.