- Previously on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- I’m planning the big release for this top song,
"Go Down Deh" featuring Shaggy and Sean Paul.
- The art of music is very sexually provocative.
- What do you mean? - You not single no more,
so I’m just telling you that you must watch what you do.
- You telling people, am I on drugs.
- This thing was a post.
- This ain’t the first time...
- No, this ain’t the first time--
- Something bad about me came up--
- This ain’t the last. I’m your mother.
Okay? I’m your mother. - Act like it.
- I have big dreams, big goals.
Like, I’m trying to go mainstream.
It’s not no one-hit wonder [inaudible], like...
- Your energy be [bleep] up all the time.
- No, your energy is [bleep] up!
- So go! You can go.
- I’m out of here, man.
- I told Scrap that I do think
it’s a good idea
that we do probably get a divorce.
- While I’m in the hospital...
Who would have thought I would be going through this alone?
You left me by myself, pregnant,
and you’re groping bitches.
I’m ready to throw in the towel.
God as my witness,
I would have done anything to save my marriage.
[glamorous hip-hop music]
- ♪ It's the life I live ♪
- ♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
♪ It's the life I live ♪
♪ It's the life that I chose ♪
♪ Made my way to the top... ♪
- ♪ Wanna see everybody happy now ♪
♪ Everybody happy now ♪
♪ Mi nuh waan see nobody sad ♪
- Toy.
You want to come help me pack?
That's not packing. What are you doing?
Don't jump on mama's jacket. Stop. Get off.
I'm heading to New York to promote
my long-anticipated album, "10,"
So I'm about to do "Breakfast Club,"
"Wendy Williams." I'm super excited to go
to all of these mainstream media outlets
to make sure that my album does extremely well.
Let's be clear: I'm known worldwide, international,
but when it comes to crossing over here in America,
it could actually be the break that I've been waiting for
and working for all of these years.
This is what I'm wearing on "Wendy Williams," Toy.
[swaggering hip-hop beat]
- I'm happy to be back in the ATL.
You know I gotta give my girl Spice
all the tea about what happened in Dubai.
- Karlie.
- Hi! You look good.
- Wagwan. - I missed you.
- I missed you more.
- I missed you.
- We have so much to catch up on.
- Tell me about it.
What you doing? You packing to go.
- Oh, yeah, I'm packing. I'm going to New York.
You know I'm gonna do Wendy Williams.
I have a whole lot of interviews,
and, you know, promotion... - Right.
- Mommy, can I go talk to Eva?
- Sure. Keep me in the link.
All right, baby, thanks.
Just so they can't hear us talking.
- Right. - I got so much to tell you.
Let me sit down or something. You got a lot to tell me too.
- Yes, girl. - How was Dubai!
- A good time.
I mean, other than, you know, Jas and her boyfriend.
Like, come on. - Hey, guys.
- Hey. - Hi.
- This was supposed to be our trip; I'll leave,
and you can be with KP. - [laughs loudly]
- I might introduce her to somebody else.
- If she's making a mistake, she gotta see for herself.
- I'ma introduce her to somebody else.
- Why would you do that? - Somebody dope. Somebody good.
- You're too messy. - Somebody--
- No. - Somebody nice. Somebody--
- You gotta let her grow
and see her mistake for herself.
- He's horrible.
- She gotta see that for herself.
- I do not like him. I don't like his braids.
- [laughs] - But it's okay.
So you going to New York. - Yeah.
- You must be so excited about your press tour.
- Let me tell you all my feel.
I feel like all this excitement--
I'm going to New York...
- Yeah. - My career is doing good.
- Yeah. - My album "10" is coming soon.
Like, everything is just going up for me.
I'm celebrating all the success.
- Yeah. - But on my personal life,
everything is just deteriorating.
Things is not good in my relationship.
I mean, like, the energy between us--
I just feel like we're at that place.
Well, he feels like I'm his woman
and I should cover up a little bit.
And then, the way I perform, you know,
I dance with guys onstage.
He not really-- he's just a different man.
He built different. So him nuh like that stuff.
- So what you supposed to do? Stop doing music?
- That was my point.
Me and Justin, we started out in the pandemic,
so he got a lot of the Grace side of me,
and I think that's the person that he fell in love with.
Now he's trying to change me,
and I'm not kind of feeling that.
You have Spice and Grace.
You can't get one without the other.
Justin and I, we had a huge argument,
and I let myself in his house and realized
him take down my my picture.
It's just--it's a slap in the face for me.
But yeah, I'm happy you came and see me, though.
I will catch you up when I come from New York,
wherever I'm gonna see you again.
- So if you need me to, like, you know,
do anything with the kids or anything, I got you.
- Okay. - Just tell me what it is
I gotta do.
[somber music]
- ♪ Are you ready? ♪
♪ Is you ready? ♪ - ♪ Ready ♪
- ♪ You say you ready, whole squad ready ♪
- ♪ Ready ♪ - ♪ Is you ready? ♪
- ♪ Are you ready? ♪ - ♪ Ready ♪
- ♪ Is you ready? Whole squad ready ♪
- My trainer has Hollywood and I working out,
and I'm just gonna use this opportunity
to take all my anger with my mom out on this bag,
since I'm keeping my hands to myself.
Man, you tired?
- Girl, I'm tired.
- From what? You ain't did nothing.
- Girl, you know I don't go to no gym.
- So I haven't spoke to my mom
since we had the conversation at the house.
I really don't have time to be dealing with any of the drama
right now.
I needed that workout.
I need a clear mind space for everything that I got going on.
You know, things like being on Kevin's whole tour.
- Gates? - Yes.
- Bitch, word!
- Kevin Gates is, like, a huge artist
with a very cult-like following.
To be able to expose my music to his fanbase
would do nothing but help my career right now.
- Bitch. You about to go on tour with Kevin Gates.
Girl!
- That's another thing I gotta figure out, though--
what to do with the kids.
Well, you know I'm not sending them back to South Carolina
for school.
I can't do that weekend [bleep] and going down there
and still coming home and they not here.
I can't do that another school year.
I'm gonna try not to have my kids
come on the tour with me.
Most of my shows used to be in nightclubs, so of course,
like, my kids can't go,
but these are gonna be in, like, arenas and amphitheaters.
It's been about eight months away from my kids--
like, not seeing them every day, you know.
I never want to be away from my kids again.
I want to put some music out before the tour starts.
- Exactly.
- So I can have new content to perform.
I'm thinking about having, like, a light listening party.
- Okay.
- I would just like the opinion of the people who I value
and a couple friends.
- Should I invite your mom?
- You know I can't let nobody sit in my face
and just play with me like--
- Right. - "You're telling a lie."
- Right. - So.
- I think maybe inviting her, you know, having her come,
just listening to her daughter--
because at the end of the day, you still are her child,
and I feel like it's a great moment of,
you know, your accomplishments and journey to the next level.
- I don't know. I'ma let you handle that,
and you're just gonna tell me who coming.
I'ma surprise y'all with the music,
and you just surprise me with...
- With the guest list.
- You ready? - Yeah.
- ♪ I don't wanna need your love ♪
♪ Your love anymore ♪
- So it's day five. I'm still here.
Sad, because it's lonely.
The baby has been on and off on monitors.
Everything is great with him,
which is so happy--which I'm so happy about.
Sorry.
It makes being here a lot easier,
just knowing that he's okay.
They're still trying to figure things out with me and my body
and what's going on.
It's safe to say I just am dealing with so much.
I never thought I would see the day that I would be
a married woman, in the hospital,
by myself, going through, you know, something like this,
and not having someone by my side, helping me through this,
giving me that support you probably do need.
You know?
- ♪ Sometimes I just wanna say forget you ♪
♪ But I can't right now 'cause I'm feeling you ♪
♪ When time fly by, things change ♪
♪ But right now, I'm feeling like ♪
♪ I need space ♪
- ♪ Time out, I just need a break ♪
- It's been a lot going on right now.
I was in Miami,
because, you know, these bills ain't gonna pay themselves.
And then my wife files for divorce.
When I got back, I got a call from Scrappy.
He's telling me my daughter's there.
He's telling me Erica was having
some early complications, that she went to the hospital.
I didn't know about any of this, and of course,
if I knew, I'd have did whatever I had to do.
I'd have made sure that my daughter was with me.
But nobody told me anything.
- Hey.
- Hey, what's up, Bam? Take off my shoes?
- He's downstairs. Sure. Here. Take a kid.
- Ooh. Ooh.
- I'll show you where to go. - Okay. "Take a kid."
- Take a kid. - [chuckles]
- Look at your face. - Yo.
- What's up, boy? Ooh, snap.
- I got a baby for you.
- Nah, I got one here for you too.
Hey, man, I had to hit my homey up, man,
and just let him know, man, "Hey, bruh, Faree,
Safire is over here."
I slipped when I talked to him
about what going on with him and Erica.
Some things going on, man.
It done got real serious, you know what I'm saying?
Man, I don't want to tell you, bro, like,
your situation got me like...
- It's a lot.
- And me and Bam wasn't even talking for real, like,
until this happened.
Me and Bam's situation, it ain't, like, all good.
But, you know what I'm saying, it ain't that funky neither.
I mean, I pray we in a better space.
I pray we keep going to a better place,
you know what I'm saying?
How you dealing, though? Like...
- I didn't even know none of this was going on
until you called me.
- She didn't text you, nothing? Like...
- Nah, nah. Once you, like, file for a divorce...
- Yeah.
- There's really nothing else to talk about.
You know, me and Erica, we're at the point
where we're not speaking at all,
so everything that's been going on,
if it's not on social media
or if I don't hear about it through somebody else,
I just won't find out about it.
To find out last minute that my daughter's been there
this whole time, I think it's some BS.
- Man, you really gotta go check on Erica in the hospital.
- But she's filing for divorce. That's a very drastic extreme.
Then to now come and be over here...
- But that's the thing.
Like, she's doing that because she's hurt.
But if you can go put a Band-Aid on it
for a little while,
and it'll help the baby come out great,
it'll help her stay alive and come out great, then cool.
- I'm not being cruel.
Like, of course I care about, you know, her being good,
'cause she got my baby, you know what I'm saying?
But it's like, yo, when I'm around, she ain't calm,
and it's just-- it's just getting nasty.
That's why I left the crib the first time,
'cause I'm like,
"Yo, look, all you're doing is taking the arguments
and the fights to levels that it don't need to be."
I just want to do whatever I can do to be helpful.
But at the same time, I'm not trying to argue with you
while you're pregnant, and, you know, that's that.
- Sorry, I'm bringing the kids some snacks.
- Okay.
- But I'm hoping that you are really telling him
how severe this Erica situation is.
She keeps dilating.
Like, now, she's at like four or five centimeters,
which is not good.
The baby's not even fully developed at this point.
Lungs--like, it's just--
- And you'll have to deal with that.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause that's still your baby.
- It's too much. Nobody's there. High stress.
- Is seeing me gonna make her stress level
go up and make it worse?
- No, it's gonna make her feel like you care.
I am so frustrated with Safaree.
He doesn't realize everything that she's going through.
It's your responsibility
to make sure your baby is okay too.
And since Safaree doesn't get it,
he needs a woman to explain to him what's really going on.
It's gonna make her feel, like you said,
"forget everything else that we got going on,
I'm coming to check on my wife, period."
I'm sorry, I ain't trying to get in y'all business,
but her seeing you out, no ring, with the women
and all that, that [bleep] sent her over the top.
Like, for real.
- We both ain't been wearing rings for the past two months,
you know what I'm saying?
- Well, we all haven't. So.
- Yeah, but we all having been in the club
every night either, gyrating on women.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- You called my sister and said,
"Is Courtney on drugs?"
I ain't never call nobody and said,
"You think Mama got a alcohol problem?"
- You tried to spite me.
- Ain't nobody trying to spite you.
- That's what I feel like. That's what happened.
- You felt like you had to spite me on Wendy Williams?
- She's making moves behind your back.
- No. - She's hired a lawyer.
- You're tripping. You're bugging.
- She out to get you.
- ♪ Ain’t no stopping ♪
- ♪ One, two, show ’em what you got ♪
♪ Three, four, I’ma drop it like it’s hot ♪
♪ Getting money, counting up my stacks ♪
♪ Pretty with a body, little mami is a trap ♪
♪ One, two, show ’em what you got ♪
♪ Three, four, I’ma drop it like it’s hot ♪
♪ Getting money, ’bout to make it last ♪
♪ With the body, little mami is a trap ♪
- All right, y’all ready?
all: Ooh!
- Cheers to being the baddest bitches.
- Yes! [all speaking at once]
- Hell, yes. I spilled.
- We need a gas pedal. [engine revs]
- [shouts] Ooh, don’t do that!
I was in LA working.
I had two music videos to shoot
for features that I have coming up.
I also had maybe four meetings with some of these labels.
So to come home, it always feels good to see my friends
and just have a little girl talk.
- Let’s do some hookah.
- That’s why I was asking where the hookah at on here?
LA, you cannot get hookah.
- Speaking of LA, I saw that you said you’re moving to LA.
- I’m thinking about moving. - Okay, okay.
- Oh my God, you’re coming. - It’s not set in stone yet.
- She’s finna leave us? - I’m considering moving to LA
because, professionally, I get so much work done out there,
and there’s so many opportunities
that I feel aren’t really available for me in Atlanta.
I had hella, hella meetings out there.
You know, like three or four labels trying to, you know--
- Trying to holler at you. - Okay.
- Trying to holler at the girl. - Three, four.
- Three, four, five.
- Okay, so you was running around.
You know what you was doing. Okay, okay.
- I’ve just always had this vision,
this dream that I would be signed to a label.
And now I’m feeling like all the work that I’ve put in
is finally coming to an even bigger moment.
- I didn’t really see you with my--with Guap, I mean.
- With who?
I’m not really crying over no man that, like,
got his mattress on the floor, don’t have a headboard.
- [gasps] all: Whoa!
- My God! [all speaking at once]
- Have you been going on any other dates?
Or what about our homegirl?
- It wasn’t giving what, you know, I want right now.
Yada is the type of person
that I would really enjoy being friends with.
But it is definitely refreshing to see such a juxtaposition
between Yada’s genuineness and Guap’s...
what even was that?
You know, life is good. We done came a long way.
Everything is just elevating.
I might be signing-- not even might be.
I will be signing to somebody label in the next few weeks.
- Yes, a major label. - Major label.
So dinner on me when that happens.
all: Yes!
- I’m so excited about the future.
I’m super focused on my career.
I got million-dollar deals on the table.
So I’m just very grateful.
It don’t matter if there’s a man up in there or a woman,
’cause the only man I’ve ever really needed is
Benjamin Franklin, okay?
Cheers to life. all: Cheers!
- And upgrades! [all speaking at once]
[chill hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Man, I ain’t seen Ma Dukes in a minute.
She done got back from Dubai.
And she talking about, "Hey, Scrap, pull up."
Yeah, you over here cooking-cooking.
- Yes, God.
- When I go to my mom house, man,
it’s two ways she come at me, man.
One way is, like, she really love me and she miss me.
But when she want to tell me something...
- Look what your mommy got for you.
- Oh, wow.
...that’s when she cook.
- Listen.
Yandy’s renewal.
- How was that? - Gorgeous.
It was breathtaking.
Now, mind you, it was 125 degrees.
So your mama tried to hang. - Mm-hmm.
- At the end of the night,
I had to be carried to a vehicle
where there was air conditioning.
- You already gotta be carried to a vehicle.
- Yeah, I gotta be carried.
I gotta tell you something else.
- [chuckles darkly] - There was a club night.
- Was there a fight? [chuckling]
- So Sierra comes over.
She said, "Mama Dee, it was me, Erica Mena,
and daughter-in-law, Bam."
She said, quote-unquote...
- From my understanding, Bambi wants a divorce,
and she want to separate.
Like, she don’t want to be in the house with Scrap.
- You only listening to them, and you believe them.
I know the real, and I’m just--that’s why I’m so calm.
- You know what you been told.
- I’m looking at my mama like, basically,
you got the names wrong.
Obviously, Sierra is getting something from Erica Mena,
and that’s more closer to the truth than Bam and me.
Like, Erica Mena filed for divorce. Not Bam.
- She’s making moves behind your back.
- No. - She’s hired a lawyer.
- No. - She’s retained a lawyer.
- Supposedly. - She coming.
- All that what you saying,
you sound like you don’t know what’s going on.
- Don’t do that. Okay.
- ’Cause you ain’t seen no paperwork.
- But you gonna--okay. - You ain’t seen no proof.
- And I haven’t. You’re right. But what you’re gonna see--
- All you saying is a girl told you something.
Soon as you tell my mama one thing, man,
she gotta go make your problem,
what you going through, an event.
[tragic violin music]
Don’t do that, Ma. - No.
- I can’t do that right now. That fake cry,
I can’t do that right now. - No, I’m not fake crying.
- I known you my whole life. - I’m not crying!
- Okay, ’cause I be like... - I’m just telling you!
- Mom. - Heartfelt.
Yeah, I can’t do it. - It’s heartfelt.
She out to get you.
- You’re tripping. You’re bugging.
This is another situation where I have to tell her
that I’m a grown man.
I don’t go off he-say-she-say.
That’s high school [bleep]. I mean, one thing that I know,
me and Bam ain’t been on good terms the whole time,
but she wouldn’t go behind my back and do that.
She’ll just do it in my face.
Like, y’all be trying to make [bleep] look bad.
Everybody do. Everybody want they little story,
want they little--want they side in the conversation.
- Okay, I’ll shut up.
Come back, come back, and shut it down.
- I’m slick done with all this stuff.
- When it comes down to my son--you know, sometimes,
as moms, we can overstep our boundaries.
But I have no shame in my game
because he is the next in line to take over my throne.
But bitch gonna try to get you.
You gonna learn the hard way, like you learned with Diamond.
Oh, God, Jesus of Nazareth.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- New York City.
And you know what time it is. We’re taking over.
- So you have Wendy Williams next?
- Yeah. - So then we can’t be late.
Feel like you’ve been running on fumes all day.
- This is why we where we are! - Did you text me?
- This started a while ago! With this,
everybody saying your mama this, your mama that!
[dancehall music]
- We're ready for misbehaving in New York City.
And you know what time it is. We're taking over.
[both singing]
Love is real.
They know me. Them come for the queen.
I'm in New York, and I'm here to promote my album "10."
I have so many important mainstream interviews lined up.
Everybody know me already, and by the time I leave New York,
I'm supposed to be a bigger superstar than I already am.
I just want more for myself.
I want more people to get to know the brand Spice,
and it's just one of my goals.
Thank you. What floor?
- We're gonna get pics first.
- Hey, Shaggy.
You love hip-hop, though. - Love hip hop.
- But hip hop came from dancehall.
- Mm-hmm. - You know that, right?
- No. [laughter]
- Breakfast Club, thank you guys for having us.
- Ay! - My new best friend.
When I see him again, I'm gonna make sure
I see him love dancehall. - All hail the dancehall queen.
- Yes. - Spice.
- So you have Wendy Williams next?
- Yeah. - So then we can't be late.
Feel like you've been running on fumes all day.
- I just keep going.
Like, it's just, you know, a nonstop.
But I'm not complain,
because I want my album to be a success,
so I'm gonna keep going, even if my shoes pop off.
All right, I don't wanna be late.
Not one more time. - All right.
- I don't want to be late. Let's go.
- Let's roll. - That went really well.
- Yeah, yeah. - It was a good interview.
- Don't even know how I'ma manage to, like,
keep a straight face
and do all these good interviews
and good shows and good performances,
'cause I really--I really be going through so much.
I don't know about Justin.
I don't know what's going on with us.
- No? - So I'm not sure
if I should continue to--you know,
it's a long story. It's complicated.
- Y'all got some tea? 'Cause I got some time.
[laughter]
- Thinking about Justin is hard, because, you know,
it's a lot of heartbreak that I'm feeling,
and I can't put it all to the public.
Every time I see somebody, I gotta be, "Hi!
Oh, yes! The album coming out!"
Sean Paul not physically here. Talk about [inaudible].
- Hello. - [inaudible].
- Wagwan, boss.
Baby, we going out there. We gonna do an interview,
and of course a performance of my hit song.
[cheers and applause]
Walking into "Wendy Williams," I'm a little bit nervous.
Wendy have a huge viewership,
and we all know Wendy can get a little bit messy.
She can say something that can either make
or break you or take you out of character.
And me nuh want Wendy take me there.
No taking off shoes, Spice.
- Dancehall's making a comeback.
I didn't think it ever went anywhere, you know.
But it's making a comeback.
But my question was are you involved?
Are you in love? Are you married?
You know, are you--do you have a--
- Yeah, I'm married with two kids.
- Aww. Spice?
- I'm single. [cheers and applause]
- You know what? [laughter]
you know what? And that's best for you,
because you're trying to grind it out.
- Definitely. - A lot of times,
men don't understand... - They don't.
- You know, a woman on the road.
- I told Wendy I'm single, because right now,
at this specific time, I am single.
The man not even talk to me.
- I would have just said "I'm not married."
- "I'm not married," yes. - That's how you answer that.
- But you said... - But you are single. And so...
both: "I'm single!"
- That's a different conversation, yo.
- But I didn't have a ring on my finger.
So if you-- - No, no, you're not single.
[all speaking at once]
- You're not single? You're not married.
- Justin knows what I'm coming to New York to do,
so I know he will be watching.
He will have to know how to deal with it.
What did he expect me to say?
[smooches] - Bye, Spice.
- ♪ I really made it from nothing ♪
♪ You could be bluffing ♪
♪ Ain't never been to the vendor ♪
♪ Stash pounds in a Honda door ♪
♪ Nah, I remember, I ain't had [bleep] ♪
♪ Now I got it and I still want more ♪
♪ Put the city up on my back ♪
♪ And I'm from the Bluff so I'm repping my four ♪
♪ I ain't new to this but I'm true to this ♪
♪ I read a bitch like a eulogist ♪
♪ They talking about me on the Internet ♪
♪ But I've been there, bitch, I'm used to this ♪
- I'm really proud of all the new music I've been making.
This is my first time as an artist truly
just taking creative control,
talking about what I want to talk about.
I just wanted to say thank you
to everybody for coming and enjoying the music.
Now y'all gotta buy tickets for the tour,
'cause a bitch going on the road.
all: The biggest. Yeah!
[cheers and applause] - Period.
- The biggest.
- So Hollywood went ahead and invited my mom
to the listening party.
I'm happy she's here,
but I'm also like, a little, you know, nervous.
both: Hey. - What's up? How are you?
- Good. How you doing? - I'm all right.
- I would really like to just clear the air, hug it out,
and be done with it, so we can continue,
you know, being whatever kind of mother and daughter we are.
I'm actually glad you came.
- I'm glad to be here too. Despite everything else.
- This ain't our first time.
- No. And I just pray and hope it's the last time.
- Ain't the last time.
I'm sure it ain't the last time.
- Oh, okay. - I was a little hurt.
I don't want to argue.
I don't care to continue not speaking
and being how we've been,
because, you know, my kids to pay attention to it,
they do notice things,
and aside from you and I's relationship,
you been the best grandmother that they got.
- Mm-hmm.
- The way you and I have been to each other,
I just think I don't ever want
to go through that with my daughter,
so I don't want to continue it with you.
So let's try to dead this here and now.
I was hearing the things that was said about me doing drugs.
And I feel some type of way,
because I don't understand why all that's going on.
- So guess what, then you should have pick up the phone
and you should have said, "Mom."
- No, but I didn't call around
telling people what was said or anything.
- Okay, I didn't call around.
- You did. - No, I didn't.
- My mom never takes accountability.
And it's really pissing me off,
because we don't have to keep going back and forth.
We're never gonna meet and agree,
because I feel like you're lying.
You didn't text me that you needed to talk.
You didn't text me that it was important.
You didn't text me anything. You called me one time.
Why can't you just say, "You know what..."
- I ain't gonna sit here and lie.
I already been lied on enough. Already been betrayed.
- Who lied on you? Who betrayed you?
- Okay. - Who betrayed you?
- Wherever you got your information from.
- Who betrayed you?
- You say I have all these friends.
I don't have those friends. - Who betrayed you?
- You have, for one thing, if you sit there and you let--
- When did I betray you? - When you sit there
and you say.. - When? Me?
- ...that I said those things. - When did I betray you?
- When you said I said those things.
- Because even when the information was brought to me,
I didn't get on the phone.
I didn't talk bad about you. I didn't bash you.
I didn't do anything. So who betrayed you?
I'm not surprised for my mom to feel like I betrayed her.
Whenever she's in this spot,
it's "let me take the heat off of me.
"I'd rather try to make you feel bad
so we can forget about what I did."
You called my sister and said, "Is Courtney on drugs?"
I ain't never called nobody and said,
"You think Mama got an alcohol problem?"
- Shut the front door.
- You having a shot. You pouring a bottle up.
So for you to even make up these lies about me,
that's complete [bleep].
You really sitting here acting like that was out of concern,
and you know it wasn't.
- Look, this is why we where we are!
- Did you text me? - ...started a while ago!
With this everybody saying
your mama this, your mama that.
- No, you say everything about everybody!
- Your friends! Your associate! Your mom! Your mom!
[both shouting at once]
- They don't talk about your mama!
- Nobody talk about you! Nobody!
[both shouting at once]
- Nobody talk about you! - All of them! [bleep]!
All of them! - I don't play that.
I ain't never let nobody disrespect you.
Don't nobody talk about you. Don't nobody do nothing.
You come around, you make everybody feel awkward.
- They don't have a relationship with they mom,
and they don't want you to have one with yours.
- What relationship do we have?
- She said that [bleep]. She said that [bleep].
- What relationship do we have?
- I'm just dealing with a grown child.
I'm definitely relieved that I made the decision
to bring my kids back to Atlanta,
because this is just--
I don't--I don't want to display this to them.
I don't want this to rub off on them in any type of way.
- I know.
- It's money. It's money.
- We know.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- Have you even spoken to Safaree?
- He came. I'm like, maybe he'll wake up.
- [crying]
- I know.
- It's money. It's money.
- We know. It's money.
I hate that people saw us interact
with each other like this.
Between work, my kids, getting ready for a tour,
I don't want to add drama with my mom on to that.
But I'm just not okay
with ending the conversation like that.
Did she leave? Did she leave?
- I just want my mom to stop playing this game where
"I don't remember that" or "that didn't happen."
I can't have that type of dysfunction around.
We been doing this [bleep] since I was 14 years old.
I'm not trying to keep doing this with you.
At the end of the day, my kids need a grandmama.
You the only grandmama they got.
- You gotta stop saying that I did the stuff.
'Cause guess what? You ain't know.
- No, you have to stop talking and listen to understand
why it's hurtful.
I could take accountability for everything I've done to you.
I ain't been the best daughter at all.
And I take accountability for that every [bleep] time.
But you never do that.
She knows exactly what I'm talking about.
The fights, from the time I was 13 years old to now,
calling the police on me when you kicked me out.
It's everything.
You don't ever remember nothing?
[sobbing] I ain't--I ain't never said I was the best.
I never said that.
And when I come talk to you about [bleep] that bother me,
you don't remember that.
[sobs]
You don't remember. "That ain't happen."
"I didn't do this."
- [bleep].
[sobs] That's just some [bleep].
[sobs]
When my mom said she does remember,
I just have a lot of different feelings.
I'm grateful for it, but at the same time,
it just makes me feel like, why did I have to beg for it?
Our relationship is just very toxic.
And I...
I don't really know why.
But you only get one mom.
And she's taught me a lot about life,
even through our problems.
Whatever issues we've had and still have,
I'm a great mom because of her.
[sobbing]
- ♪ I lose my cool sometimes ♪
♪ Do you like to see me crumble? ♪
♪ You know just what to say to me ♪
♪ Faking it for a while ♪
♪ Till I couldn't help but stumble ♪
♪ It's been cutting me real deep ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ But I think we let go way too soon ♪
- I pushed through and made myself stronger
for what it is I needed to accomplish,
and that was getting out the hospital
to get back home to my baby,
to take it easy until it's time to deliver this baby.
- [gasps]
Who's that? Hi!
Aww. Say hi to Mommy.
- I've been in the hospital for days,
and Bambi has really been extremely helpful
when it comes to my daughter.
But honestly, she's about to give birth any day now too,
and I really do need to give her relief.
Therefore I decided to call my daughter's godmother, Deeana,
to help me take care of Safire. Thank you so much.
Safaree just doesn't want to step up
and be the father he's supposed to be right now.
He's not even inquired about what's going on here at home.
So no, I didn't ask Safaree to come
and take care of his daughter.
You should never have to be asked.
- How you feeling?
- I'm all right, for what it is. I mean...
- Have you even spoken to Safaree?
- He came for, like...
ten minutes, and left for like a few hours,
and then came back for another 20 minutes.
He came to just say he came.
He didn't come to help me through
the reason why I was there,
to give me some type of reassurance,
to apologize for his disrespect.
Watching the video of him...
- The disgusting one? - Y...
♪ ♪
- I think that really took me to the edge,
because first of all, you're out and about, no ring on.
Since when do you touch these Bs'... [quietly] Asses?
When? - Yeah.
- And that's always been my issue with him,
is that he does things with not even thinking about
how it's gonna make me feel, how it'll affect me.
He just moves very about himself,
and only about himself.
I'm feeling every little thing he does the most right now.
All he cares about is hurting me and nothing else.
I'm just so tired, because it's like,
now it's getting intentional, where you're hurting me,
and you're causing distress... - You're in the hospital.
You're in the hospital. - To my pregnancy.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- You gotta watch your stress levels, Mama.
We have to make sure. 'Cause--
- And then it's just like...
- I know, baby, but your health--
- How many times is he gonna tell me, like,
"I will always put myself before you"
when we go at it, for me not to finally believe it?
I believe you now.
- Yeah. - Now, I believe you!
- Yeah.
- Because you left me in the house for six unnecessary days,
while you're gyrating with bitches
and smiling like this is okay.
In a way, I'm like, maybe he'll wake up.
But a big part of me knows he doesn't want to be married.
And I don't want to keep fighting for someone
that would never fight for me.
I'd rather suffer like this by myself.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- Why would you go on TV and tell her that you single?
- You took my pictures down.
You want me to claim you in the public,
but you not claiming me in private.
You think I'm a fool.
- ♪ I’m so hot everything burning up ♪
♪ Shawty wanna touch ’cause she can’t get enough ♪
♪ Liquor in my cup ’cause I’m always in the club ♪
♪ Party till the dawn, doing what I want ♪
- So you do all of them already?
What time is this? - That is--yeah,
that is 8:00, yeah.
- So why you take so long, like you’re not sure?
Yes, it’s super important to achieve my American dreams
and head for my goals no matter what.
But at the end of the day,
the reason why I did it was for my kids.
So it’s always a pleasure to just come back home
and chill and relax with Nicholas and Nicholatoy.
[knocking at door] - It’s Papa!
Papa!
- Even though my kids are running towards Justin
and they call him Papa and everything
and they have such a great relationship,
it still don’t change the price of rice.
- Hello.
- Papa’s here. - Hi.
- Why don’t y’all go upstairs and play the game for a minute.
Let me talk to Mommy. - Okay.
- It just makes it harder for me
to separate myself from Justin,
because my kids love him so much
and really look up to him.
- You mind if I sit down?
’Cause I see that you changing locks and all.
- Justin. I guess you wanted to talk.
That’s why you come over.
So don’t even start on a bad note. How you been?
- I’ve been busy. Working. - Me too.
You know, we had a couple big productions going.
- I saw that. Proud of you.
I watched the show that you produced on BET.
- Yeah? - It was very good.
- I wish you could have been there to support me.
- I wish you could have supported me too,
instead of giving me attitude and talk about
my dance to my music.
- I hadn’t talked to you in days.
I’ve been reaching out to you, what, two, three days straight?
And you ain’t been answering the phone.
- Why would I answer the phone if you give me attitude?
The world don’t know what’s going on in my personal space.
But you are one of the only person that knows.
That’s why it hurt me so much when me see you
take down all of my pictures down out of your house.
I felt so hurt. You tried to spite me.
- Ain’t nobody trying to spite you.
- That’s what I feel like. That’s what happened.
- You felt like you had to spite me on "Wendy Williams"?
- Don’t even bring up "Wendy Williams."
- Why would you go on TV to the biggest mouth
in the world, and tell her that you single?
We didn’t even know what was going on with this [bleep].
- I put my ring finger up. I’m not married.
That’s what-- that’s the question.
I don’t know what you wanted me to say.
If I knew what was going on in my relationship,
I probably would have say, "Oh, I’m in a serious relationship."
But no, you took my pictures down.
You want me to claim you in the public,
but you’re not claiming me in private.
You think I’m a fool. You’re bright.
- That’s how you feel.
You gonna sit here and tell these lies.
- Not telling no lie. - Talking about I had--
- Before I went to New York, I went to your house,
and you took my picture down, because you’re playing--
- All right, yo, all right, all right, all right.
- Whatever, Justin. - All right, all right.
- Yeah, all right.
- Grace is always feeling I’m like trying to spite her,
but for you to go on "Wendy Williams"
saying that you are single is [bleep] up.
That’s, like, letting everybody know it’s done.
It was embarrassing.
If I was to do that, never talk to me again.
But it’s no point in [bleep] talking.
- Whatever. - All right.
- Yeah. I’m still single.
[door slams]
- ♪ Dip it low, now, dip it low ♪
- You know, after speaking to Scrappy and Bambi, of course
I went to go see Erica in the hospital,
because at the end of the day, she's carrying my son,
and I just want to make sure that she's good.
But all she wanted to talk to me about
was why I was out dancing with a girl in the club,
and why didn't I have on my wedding ring.
She just wanted to keep on talking about other stuff
that just did not have nothing to do with our children.
- ♪ Only love can give you life ♪
♪ Tune in right, you'll find the light ♪
Hey, Adamma. - Hey. How you doing today?
- I'm not gonna have somebody just sit here
and just paint this picture of whatever they want,
and then I'm just sitting here being blindsided.
You already blindsided me with the whole divorce.
So now I gotta protect myself.
I just can't believe, like, this is where it's at.
So now I gotta see
what I gotta do to just protect myself.
- Okay.
- I just feel like the respect is just totally gone.
I don't care how wrong somebody is,
there's just certain levels that just shouldn't be crossed,
and once they're crossed, especially with me,
it's just--it's just hard to come back from it.
- Have you had an opportunity to talk with her
since you found out about the filing?
- I did just go see her in the hospital,
but I didn't talk about the filing.
- Okay. - It's like, if you're filing,
I don't want to talk about nothing outside of the baby.
The house, and whatever, you know what I'm saying,
I don't really care about that,
but I just want to make sure that there's no issues
when it comes to seeing my daughter...
- Okay.
- And the newborn. And I just want to, like,
you know--just get it over with.
- What type of visitation plan or time
do you want to spend with the children?
- Yeah, I think it should be an even split.
- Okay.
- I just want it to be fair.
It's like... [breath catches]
I don't know how it's gonna play out.
These judges just not ever giving men
the benefit of the doubt to be in their children's lives,
you know what I'm saying? - Well, let me explain this
to you: we specialize in father's rights.
- She's such a happy baby.
- And you gonna make sure that she stays a happy baby.
- When I just think about my daughter's face,
and, you know, like, how she makes me feel,
I don't want to have to be one of those people
where it's like, I gotta beg to see my kid.
I don't want to have a spiteful divorce,
and, you know, sometimes I just feel like,
when Erica's upset,
that she has a potential to be very, very spiteful,
and I just don't want her to start using, you know,
our children as a pawn.
Even though she's upset,
and sometimes we just get real nasty to each other...
- Mm-hmm.
- When it comes to me seeing her, she's always said,
"No matter what, I'm not gonna stop you from--
stop you from seeing your daughter."
- Okay. So we'll focus on that,
and put the parameters in place under the law
to ensure that that never happens.
- All right.
- You're watching "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- "Check Yourself"... - Season 10.
- You'll be watching us watch the show...
- For the very first time.
- You'll be getting our natural and honest reactions.
- We're watching it... - With you.
- The scene you're about to see is Momma Dee
trying to tell me what's really going on in my life.
- Hey, what your mommy got for you?
- Oh, wow.
- My son Scrappy always wants me to cook for him
because he's pretty much tired of tacos.
- She did cook a couple things that I want,
and that got me thinking,
what dear lady finna try to talk to me about?
[dramatic music]
- I gotta tell you something else.
- [laughs]
This whole face is like a plot and twist
of a book and a movie at the same time.
I can see it in my mama. I know her.
Like, I be trying to tell her, "I know you my mama.
Like, I know when you coming with it, all right?"
- Um, there was a club night.
- Was it a fight? [laughs]
- So Sierra comes over.
She said, "Momma Dee,"-- it was me,
Erica Mena, and your daughter all met.
She said, quote-unquote...
- From my understanding, Bambi wants a divorce
and she wanna separate.
Like, she don't want to be in the house with Trick.
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- You only listening to them, and you believe them.
I know the real, and I'm saying that's why I'm so calm.
- You know what you've been told.
You're not believing, son,
in what your mom is telling you,
but that's okay, 'cause we're gonna learn that at the end,
and I'm doubling down when it comes to that.
She's making moves behind your back.
She's hired a lawyer. She's retained a lawyer.
- No, supposed to be-- - She coming.
- All that what you're saying,
you sound like you don't know what's going on.
- Don't do that.
- I can't, Dee. [chuckles]
It's the drama for me, God. You know what I'm saying?
- Okay. - Because you ain't seen
no paperwork. You ain't seen no proof.
All you've seen is a girl told you something.
And that's all I be saying for everybody in the world,
man.
[bleep] [bleep] to be concrete, I need some paperwork.
I need to be able to look online
and see that [bleep] is what you saying it is.
Ain't no snitch--you can't say somebody snitched
and all that and this person got a lawyer
and divor--all that.
I need to see proof. I need to see paperwork.
- [breathlessly] She about to hurt you.
- Don't do that, Ma. I can't do that right now.
That fake cry--I can't do that. - I'm not fake crying.
- I've known you my whole life. - I'm not crying!
- Okay, I'd be like-- - I'm just telling you,
it's heartfelt. - No, I can't do this.
- It's heartfelt. She out to get you.
- You're tripping. You're bugging.
Like, y'all be trying to make [bleep] look bad.
Everybody's doing.
Everybody want they little story,
want they little comments,
want they side in the conversation.
- Come back and shut it down.
- Honestly done with all this stuff.
Yeah, that's me. That's how I go.
- This bitch gonna try to get you.
You gonna learn the hard way, like you learned with Dime.
Y'all I've got Momma Dee praying out loud,
talking to herself,
'cause Scrappy done walked off on me.
Oh God, Jesus of Nazareth, give me the child.
- The scene you about to see right now
is my homey Safaree pull up on me
and Bam had to come butt in.
- Hey. - Hey, what's up, Bam?
Take off my shoes? - He's downstairs.
Sure. Here.
- You gotta take the shoes off at the house
'cause you got babies in there. You know what I'm saying?
Like, we ain't trying to get nobody--
you know what I'm saying?-- sick,
get no shoe print--
my babies be crawling and [bleep].
- Take a kid.
- Ooh. Ooh.
- I'll show you where to go.
- Hey.
- That was not shade.
I was just like, "Hey, you're here.
Take a kid." You know what I'm saying?
It's all hands on deck around here.
- We all know that Safaree does not like to take a kid.
He didn't even plan for his second one to come.
- A kid. - Take a kid.
- It's your face.
- Yo. - What's up, boy?
Oh, snap.
- I got a baby for you.
- No, I got one here for you too.
- Look at my son. As always,
all the kids have been put off on him.
Good daddy, Scrappy. Very good, very good.
Very good. Love it.
- How you doing, though? Like...
I didn't even know none of this was going on
until you called me.
- She didn't text you, nothing, like...
- Nah, nah. Once you, like,
file for a divorce... - Yeah.
- There's really nothing else to talk about.
- [laughs]
Yeah. I mean, I feel you.
My whole thing here: I would be like,
only thing we gotta talk about is the kids.
Like, that's it for me. You know what I'm saying?
Man, you really gotta go check on Erica in the hospital.
- But she's filing for divorce.
That's a very drastic extreme
than to now come and be over here.
- But that's the thing. Like, she's doing that
because she's hurt.
But if you can go put a Band-Aid on it
for a little while,
and then it help the baby come out great,
it'll help her stay alive and come out great.
Being cool.
- I mean,
Scrap--you know, he made a couple good points,
but he didn't really get
to, like, the real root of what was going on.
You know what I'm saying? I'm just like,
"Okay, put a [bleep] mic on me. Let me go down here
"and holler at this dude real quick,
because I got some [bleep] I need to say."
Sorry, I'm bringing the kids some snacks,
but I'm hoping that you are really telling him
how severe this Erica situation is.
She keeps dilating.
Like, now she's at, like, four or five centimeters,
which is not good.
The baby's not even fully developed
at this point. Lungs, br--like, it's just--
- And you're gonna have to deal with that.
- Yeah. - 'Cause that's still
your baby.
- All at once, the Bam is right.
- It's too much. Nobody's there.
High stress.
- Is seeing me gonna make her stress level go up
and make it worse?
- No, it's gonna make her feel like you care.
♪ ♪
- Holy [bleep].
[indistinct] You know.
I don't even wanna, you dig?
- It's gonna make her feel like you said,
"Forget everything else that we got going on.
I'm coming to check on my wife. Period."
Go see your wife! Like, what are you doing?
Definitely acting like Kirk season two right here.
Like, get it together, Safaree.
- Next time, on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta."
- I don’t even know if I’m doing the right thing.
- Right. - Like, why did you marry me
to do this to me?
- I want to smack some sense into Safaree right now.
Me hearing things,
like, Erica’s in the house by herself,
and you’re not there with her...
- Did she tell you that cops came to the house,
and I had to pack my stuff and leave the house?
- No.
- Well, you may think I’m tripping. I’m concerned.
I got a group of peers right now done lost their son.
I don’t want to be in that group.
- I’m annoyed with the situation
with the server and food
being taken out of the window and disappearing.
The truth: who is it?
Strike three, [bleep], you out the door. That’s it.
- My mama come back and say, "Oh, Bam is finna
go file for divorce, and she want this much money."
And I’m like umpire, bro. I’m done. I’m over it.
- If anybody said they want to take your son for everything...
- Who said that? Y’all should know that...
- You should be woman enough to discuss your business...
- No, no, no.
- At the end of the day, you run your mouth.