announcer: Previously this season
on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta".
- You just tweeted to the world that marrying me
was your biggest mistake.
- I never thought I would see the day
that would be a married woman in the hospital by myself.
- Her seeing you with the women.
That [bleep] sent her over the top.
- She always said, "I’m not gonna stop you
from seeing your daughter"
- Like, why did you marry me to do this to me?
Like, why?
- I’ve never had to micromanage so many mother[bleep]
in my life.
- We [bleep] in a jail. I don’t give a [bleep].
You mad, you mad, whoever mad.
- You see how much money we’re dishing out.
- You’re in the red, right over a million dollars.
- There’s something going on. I think the food being stolen.
- Everybody has to understand accountability.
Who is it? - It’s Ciara.
- That’s not true. - This is the thing.
You do think you can get away with murder.
You can say you don’t, but you do.
- Strike three, you got the door.
- I don’t feel like I have no support.
- I was there with you every day.
Now, all of a sudden, I got a song out,
and I’m moving, and you like, "You’re never home."
- I think it’s a good idea
that we do probably get a divorce.
- She out to get you.
- If anybody said they wanna take your son for--
- Who said that? - [indistinct]
- She said I was gonna take your son--for what?
- For anything.
- For what? - I don’t know.
- What is everything?
- You’re scaring me these days.
- I’m not scaring you ’cause I’m, like, umpire, bro.
I’m done. I’m over.
- You, Shaggy, and Sean Paul together on a record?
- Legendary.
- Your art of music is very sexually provocative.
- What do you mean?
- You’re not single no more. Watch what you do.
You felt like you had to spite me on "Wendy Williams"?
Tell her that you single?
- I put my ring finger up. I’m not married.
- Let’s not play this [bleep] in there.
- Whatever.
- I am officially a Georgia Peach.
Oh, the door. Who’s at the door?
Who’s at the door?
- You held things down.
The kids didn’t really feel like I was missing.
I’m still involved in their life,
and that’s because of you.
- Are you pregnant? - Not yet.
- Want a baby? - Yeah, I want a baby.
Do you want a baby?
Let’s go get in the shower, boo-boo.
That’s our baby-making time.
- Baby making last night. Are you ready?
You’re gonna be tired again, grandma.
- You trying to sit right here on the TV show
’cause you just wanna make me seem like I’m bad.
- You walking around this mother[bleep] telling me
I’m broke for telling you some real [bleep]
- I’m trying to move on!
Look at my exes!
- [bleep]
You fit in the description to be another statistic.
That’s what I don’t wanna see.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ It’s the life \hthat we livin’ ♪
♪ It’s the life that we chose ♪
♪ It’s the life that we livin’ ♪
♪ It’s the life that we chose ♪
♪ Make my way to the top and ain’t no stopping ♪
♪ ♪
- Hoo-whee!
- This is who I am. This is what I do.
This is who I am. I'm the living proof.
This is who I am. This is what I do.
This is who I am, coming with the truth.
- So today is the big day. Your girl is lit.
It's been a crazy, crazy year,
and to be able to open a new business after COVID,
be in the hole, come out the hole,
and continue to persevere is such a blessing.
Frost Bistro had its bumps but Pressed 2.0,
we about to cruise this thing out.
- So I am at Pressed ATL with my boo.
- 2.0 the new location in Midtown.
- She's bossed up, baby.
- Pressed two is opening up right in Atlanta again.
This is exactly what I mean
when I call Atlanta the new Black Hollywood.
- Thank you for shopping at Pressed.
- You know I got you, honey. Congratulations.
- Thank you. - I'm so proud of you.
- Oh, that's so nice! - Look at you!
all: To the best, baddest boss ever!
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, that's nice! Thank y'all.
I love you.
- This is who I am. This is what I do.
This is who I am, coming with the truth.
- It's so nice in here. Hey, y'all!
- What a gwan? - Hey, Karlie!
Hey, Spicey!
- Me--but first you with the shopping
before you buy all the good stuff before me.
- I know, look, so I was, like,
let me get that, let me get that.
- I need that, right?
- Congrats on "Wendy Williams," "Good Morning America".
Everything that you been doing. I'm so proud of you.
But wait a minute.
So you said you was single.
- Like, oh, my God.
This whole "Wendy Williams" thing.
I mean, when it comes onto Justin and I,
I'm still not sure where we heading.
We kind of talking, but it's not like it used to be,
and at this point, my mind,
now my focus is not even on Justin.
My focus is on my album "10."
I don't have time for no drama,
no problem, not right now.
My relationship was at a place that day where I never know.
We had a huge argument. Things not going right.
So what me a-gone do? Claim this man, I'm happy.
Yeah, maybe if we were in a good place,
I would have said, "Well, I'm not married,
but I'm in a serious relationship."
But I couldn't say "but" because I don't know.
- I really hate that my girl Spice is
going through it with her man,
but I am on cloud nine with me and my man.
We are still trying to have our baby
and in the process of buying our brand-new home.
I'm in love.
- But on a good note, guys, you know, my album is ready
so I'm inviting you guys
to come to the album release party, and you know,
I'm inviting y'all.
I'm a living testimony
that you got to fight for your dreams.
Fight for what you want. Never give up.
Truly believe in yourself. And I'm just super excited.
And I want everybody to come on out and celebrate with me.
I'm gonna go shop before Ciara.
Buy all of the good stuff.
- No, no! - Yes.
- ♪ Big girl with big boss energy ♪
♪ Big world, the people gon' remember me ♪
- Hey, host!
♪ ♪
- Ever since the meeting at Frost Bistro
about this bull[bleep]
that Ciara was stealing from the bistro,
Ky's girlfriend Amina feels
like she can disrespect Ciara
- I ain't got time to fight with nobody.
I've talked to Ky. He doesn't care.
Of course, Amina gets favoritism
'cause that's his girlfriend.
My siblings, we have never had these problems
until these girls came into the picture.
Y'all got beef?
- She can't even last on the floor.
- This is not a Frost Bistro conversation.
This is Pressed right now.
- Exactly, congratulations on Pressed and we're out.
- For me, Ky, as your girlfriend,
why is she whispering to you?
She can't even handle the floor.
- She can't even handle the this.
- Why you back there--
- Okay, so therefore, when you do that--
- You back there--
- You causing problems when you do that!
- Exactly, but that's my [bleep].
- When you say that--
- Let go of me. - I don't give a [bleep].
- I just want her to know because that's your bitch!
She's gonna [bleep] understand.
Rule number one, my [bleep]. Get yo bitch.
If you're gonna be a girlfriend,
you don't come between family.
It's family over bitches.
- We're [bleep] right here! We're [bleep] right here!
- All right, y'all are tripping!
- I don't know what the [bleep] happened.
This is like a nightmare.
Like your kids are fighting one another.
That [bleep] just really hurts me.
I can't even control my emotions.
What the [bleep] wrong with y'all?
- I don't know what to say.
The event was over with. Thank God.
But every time I turn around, it's some [bleep] drama.
Like, not here, not today.
Can y'all respect my [bleep] place?
- You need to calm down. Calm down.
- It's always some lame [bleep].
- That's okay. - Being disrespectful when--
This is the wrong place for it. - All they gotta do is talk.
- But it's like every time a [bleep]
tryna talk, you always got something to say.
Sometimes you need to sit back and listen.
That's her problem. - Okay, but you--
- [bleep] is not telling you nothing for no reason.
I'm telling you about you 'cause I [bleep] care.
- Okay. - I care!
You always doing that lame [bleep] to my girl,
- But your girl be saying something to catch it,
too, though.
- I'm sorry my [bleep] timing's bad!
- You talk [bleep] about me. You talk [bleep] about her.
And I still love you. You're still my brother.
- None of that shit matters.
- 'Cause your girl be speaking--
- And I ain't never got mad at you because I love you.
- But you gotta check your girl, too, though.
- I do gotta check her, but I gotta tell my sister,
we're family!
- You can't yell at your sister about your girl though.
- But you're yelling at me over your bitch!
- I'm yelling at you because we're in front
of all these people!
- Your girl just said a whole bunch of sour [bleep].
[indistinct]
- No, no!
- Everybody need to understand. Chill the [bleep] out!
- They're all [bleep] up.
- Get your hands off of me. - Listen, no, no.
I love you, too, but you have to calm the [bleep] down.
- This is just terrible.
This is not the love that we grew up having.
- Chill out before you do something stupid.
- I'm over it. - Yeah, go home.
Get your [bleep] and go [bleep] home.
announcer: Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...
- What's new? - You being here.
- At the end of the day, I'm 100% for my family.
- How when you don't have a family now?
- See, I know everybody wondering
what the hell Scrappy got me here for.
What we doing?
- Ahh! - Oh, [bleep]!
You telling me
that I'm not there for you touches me in a certain place
because I know what I'd do to be there for you.
- All that [bleep] I did, y'all,
and y'all do this [bleep] to me.
There's gotta be a change.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ My way to the top, and ain’t no stopping ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Tell me the reasons that I can’t have it all ♪
♪ I drive foreign cars, buying out the mall ♪
♪ Instead of sitting home staring at the wall ♪
♪ I wanna sit in box seats watching basketball ♪
♪ ’Cause I deserve it ♪
- Good game, young one. - All right, next time.
- You worse than I thought. - No, you trash.
- Mental, mental, mental.
- I’ve been going through so much lately, man,
that I felt like it would be dope to just kinda,
you know, organize this mental health check.
This is us coming together as sons and fathers.
And I think as men, we should do more of this
because like, man, we are definitely
going through a lot of trouble on a daily basis.
Ay, so look. Check it out, right?
I’m just, like, happy that everybody could be here.
Like, this is past just us just playing basketball.
We all know that. It’s fellowshipping.
It’s good. It’s healthy.
And I was going through a little situation.
Me and young’un right here, you know, we few times in the past,
we’ve come to our boiling point,
and Kirk and Mendecees was like,
"Yo, I think you’re not the only one going through
what you’re going through."
So it was, like, yo, we need to just bring everybody together.
So it be about love.
It be about us communicating and opening up.
You know what I mean?
I know how it go, man, when you’re fighting
to keep your family together,
or when you’re just fighting for your own happy.
It gets rough out here.
I didn’t even realize how crazy Scrap’s situation was.
When I saw that post that he put on IG,
I was just like,
"Damn, that’s how you really feel about life?"
- You know, as Black men, we deal with levels of trauma
that nobody deals with anyway.
There are people who talk about committing suicide
or actually commit suicide
’cause they don’t feel like they can outlet the trauma
and the stress that they dealing with.
- What’s up, Kirk?
- Sorry, I’m late, guys.
- Kirk, what up? - What’s good?
After this [bleep] at the grand opening
of the new store,
I’m here to help my mental health right now
’cause I feel like I’m the one who [bleep] need help today.
- Scrap. - What’s happening?
- What up? And you missed the game.
Everybody was getting dumped on.
- Man, but I ain’t trying to play with y’all.
When I did that post about mental health,
I just understand being a man.
You supposed to not cry.
You supposed to not say how you feeling.
In the end, you gon’ pop.
Three years ago, I wanted to kill myself.
People thought I was confident, but I don’t know.
It just came to a screeching halt,
and I just heard them voices in my head
like, just end it all.
But I told myself I would never allow trauma
to mess up my next day.
Like, as brothers, we got to let it go.
- Me and my dad, we were going through a little things,
getting into a little altercation and stuff,
but at the end of the day,
I know I need my connection with my dad.
You know what I’m saying? Everybody needed a connection.
Like, I don’t care what you’re going through,
but fix it for real.
- That’s why, too--like, I’m about to have a son
and whether--even though I’m going through a divorce,
I feel like it’s really for the better.
Women who I’ve been with, they’re always, like,
"You have such a wall up," and it’s like,
I feel like I have to.
Yeah, so it’s, like, to some people, it’s running away,
but to me, I’m just avoiding a situation.
Like, I’m not gonna...
I don’t want my kids to hear yelling.
Like, the only yelling I want my kids to hear is laughing.
I don’t want them to hear fighting.
I don’t want them to see it.
That [bleep] is not healthy.
- I look at it like--
’cause I be going through the marriage.
She’s now two. You know what I’m saying?
And I ain’t really trying to be
going through what you’re going through.
I don’t believe in death do you part
because people change the way they feel.
Hearts change.
But I really do think Safaree is giving up way too early.
In my marriage, sometime, I be wanting
to let it be all over with.
Sometime, I wanna just keep going.
But right now I’ma keep going and I think he should
at least try to like give it a little more time.
- I’m not gonna sit here, and lie to myself,
and say, "Yo, look, cool.
We gon’ do this. We gonna stick it out and"--no.
- Me and Bam, we had conversation
about his divorce [bleep].
Bam told me like, "Man,
what happened with [indistinct]"
I don’t know what going on at the end of the day.
Man, it’s a whole bunch of he say, she say,
but I hope that we can make it through.
Like, we can have a whole bunch of gray hair
looking at each other cooling.
- What’s going on with you, Kirk?
- That [bleep]’s [bleep]ed up. - Nah.
- What, you talking about personally, family, or my kids?
[bleep] What [bleep] disaster.
- What you mean?
- Had the grand opening yesterday, Pressed.
The kids is there, you know?
They start rehashing [bleep] at the bistro.
Ky wanna fight. Kelsie wanna fight.
What the [bleep] are you talking about?
You’re a spoiled [bleep] brat.
My father never gave me a car.
My father never gave me a [bleep] job.
You never sold no [bleep] dope, a [bleep] bag of weed.
You never even had to [bleep] be on welfare.
I had to stand in a [bleep] welfare line
for cheese and bologna,
and y’all [bleep] doing all this [bleep] to me?
That [bleep] make me wanna cry
because it’s like all that [bleep] I did, y’all,
and y’all do this [bleep] to me?
- Hey, man.
- That [bleep] hurts, bro. I’m telling you.
And I hate it because it’s touching feelings
that I never [bleep] experienced,
and it made me just wanna leave
and get the [bleep] away from here.
- Man, I ain’t never seen Kirk even let out a little emotion
so yet alone cry.
I am thrown right now,
and I understand where he coming from.
It’s always, like, wars in my life, too.
That’s why I appreciate the guy energy.
I really don’t feel like I be talking to myself.
- Kirk, I look up to you. Real talk.
- I appreciate it, man. [bleep] just gets to me.
- You’re a real dad though, bro, for real.
- I can’t please all y’all.
Is this always some [bleep]?
And it’s just like...
I just went down so fast.
I didn’t even see it coming. It just broke.
It just hurt me just thinking
about what my kids are doing.
I was at a vulnerable moment
and it felt good to have the support of others
and just being ever to lift you up
and help you get back up.
- Bro, I appreciate you just giving that cause
that’s--it’s okay.
- Yeah.
- You gotta let it out too.
- I go through that with my mama, daughter,
wife, and that helps, bro.
Men can cry, bro.
You just gotta just thank God for the process.
Be grateful for the journey because in that journey of pain
you still had times where you’re smiling.
You know what I’m saying, he always open the clouds up.
- I never seen you in this emotional state ever.
So it further shows and proves that like it’s needed, bro.
So when I get a chance to sit amongst my brothers
and we are vulnerable enough to be transparent.
That’s everything, bro.
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"...
- How we feelin’?
- You [bleep] did it.
- You should have been there for me.
- Jacko, are we good?
- What are we doing here? - I don’t know.
- We gon’ get to the bottom of this Dubai situation.
- ♪ My way to the top, and it ain’t no stoppin’ ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Intro ♪
♪ Production ♪
♪ ♪
- So my album release 10.
The party is finally here, and I’m happy.
Me marching with a marching band
[indistinct]
say the queen of dancehall deh yah so.
- Let’s show them what we doing.
How you feelin’? [cheering]
- ♪ Give me an S, S, S ♪
♪ Give me a P, P, P ♪
♪ Give me an I, I, I ♪
♪ Give me a C and an E ♪
[rapping]
Yeah, we gotta let them know
Spice is here, and I’m here to stay.
[rapping]
[cheers and applause]
Spice is so talented to me.
She has hit after hit after hit.
I be with it, and I began crying.
I’m, like, "Okay, this my [bleep], Spice."
- How we feelin’?
- My girl Spice is releasing her first album.
Me and Kirk had to get up and be a part of this.
We’ve been stressed the freak out trying to figure out
what to do about these kids.
- First, I want to give thanks to my mama.
Mama Jayla, big up yourself.
I thank you. [applause]
- Even though Grace said that she was saying on "Wendy",
she asked me to show up.
So you know I gotta be there to support you.
- Last but certainly not the least, Justin Budd.
I thought that, you know, he wouldn’t show up.
So I was super excited. He still cares.
To see you here tonight to celebrate with me
on the final project on this release,
it’s such a joy and I thank you so much, Justin.
I love you so much and I thank you.
He is a great man to me,
and he’s a great father figure to my kids
and he did support me in some way.
So I have to give him thanks.
I love you all so much.
I just want you to know never give up.
Believe in yourself. Fight for your dream.
If I can do it, you all can do it.
My album "10" is out! I love you all!
Thank you.
♪ ♪
Ooh!
[cheering]
- You [bleep] did it! You did it.
- That’s right.
- It’s been a long time coming,
and that’s why I had to call the album "10"
because people just need to know
that it’s really been ten years waiting for this album.
Just looking back at everything that I’ve been through
when it comes on to just making it to America.
Like, I really went through a lot, so to see this night
being such a success, I’m so excited.
The fact that Justin made that big step to come out
to support me at my album launch.
I know that there’s something in him for us.
I also want to apologize
because if he had said he was single on an interview,
I probably would have felt some kind of way.
Thanks for coming. Supporting.
- I always try to be here to support you.
- But you should’ve been there for me
and I just felt like you were being spiteful.
- You telling me that I’m not there for you that touches me
in a certain place because I know
what I do to be there for you.
- And I appreciate you,
but you know it’s hard for me to say I’m sorry,
but I’m saying if I said I was single,
and you feel some kind of way, I’m sorry.
Justin is a great man, but I just want him to be
that great man to me all the time not sometimes.
Can I go celebrate my album now?
- Can I have a kiss first?
- Sure. [both laugh]
Don’t get me wrong. Me really miss my man.
Me want me likkle relationship for work out, you know?
It’s something worth fighting for.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- So I got a really weird text message from scrappy
saying meet him at this warehouse
and wear all black.
With a damn stuffed dog. What?
- Hey, Bam. - Hey.
- How you doin’? How you feelin’?
- Do you care? - Yes.
- Okay, I’m good.
- What the [bleep] are we doing?
Momma Dee is the last person
I wanna be looking at right now.
[both shouting]
- We got lawyers too.
- Okay. - And we can pay.
- Okay.
- Ciara.
- So then Ciara comes in. Now I’m thinking okay,
maybe he’s gonna address some things that went on in Dubai.
I’m kind of putting that together.
- I feel like we in a Scarface movie.
[laughter] - I know, right?
♪ ♪
- I need to get some stress
off my head and my shoulders, man.
All these rumors I been hearing that Bam was trying to do this
and that and divorce and take money
and all that kind of crazy stuff.
Man, the hell with all this, man.
Everybody got their own story about Dubai.
I just wanna put this story that story together
and get down to the bottom of it,
and we gon’ do this today, pimp.
Everybody want a show and all this [bleep],
I’ma give they ass a show.
- Oh, look what the cat drug in.
- Well, well, well.
The clan is here,
- We’ve been waiting for you.
- Jacko, you good?
I love me some "New Jack City."
I love me some Martin.
I really want to get down to the nitty-gritty,
but at the same time,
relieve some tension that’s in the room
’cause I know there’s gonna be some tension.
See, I know everybody wondering, "What the hell
Scrappy got me here for? What we doin’?"
But at the same time,
I’m wondering how the hell we got here too.
- You text us.
[thunder booms] [screaming]
- [bleep]!
- That was the man upstairs
- [screams] [chatter]
- Hold on. Hold on, though.
We gon’ get to the bottom of this Dubai situation.
You know what I’m saying? If somebody knows something.
Who started it? Who motivated it?
Who trying to turn my life upside down?
- Don’t look at me. I ain’t--
- I’m just sayin’--I’m-- - I--
- I done heard your name couple times, say, say.
- And I’m trying to figure out where this all is coming from.
- Man, Scrappy is walking around the table
with his Teddy bear dog like he’s Nino Brown.
I have no idea what’s going on.
You gotta tell him what you told me about.
- I’m just trying to figure it out.
- At y’all wedding, somebody said
that we were getting a divorce
and that I was trying to take all of his money.
- That’s what was said. That’s what was said.
- Who said that you was trying to take all the money?
- She said that. - Oh, no, Momma Dee.
- She said it. - Oh, no.
- We’re not going to lie.
- I told you that Bambi was thinking about divorce,
but never anything about me.
From my understanding,
Bambi wants a divorce and she wanna separate.
Like, she don’t wanna be in a house with Scrap.
- So can I ask you a question about that?
Was you a little tipsy
when you heard this information?
- Yes, I was. I ain’t gonna lie.
- Okay. - Momma Dee, so you told me
to come into the palace, you said--
- Then you came over and sat next to me. I remember.
- I never said that.
- You know what--you know what I think?
I think she just probably misunderstood something.
You feel me? And it’s okay. You dig?
- Momma Dee, don’t call me into
that goddamn palace no more.
I don’t give a damn if the prince, the king,
and the horses is doing--
whoever else is riding up out that bitch--
I don’t want no parts.
Keep me away from it, Momma Dee. Goodbye.
I’m sorry that y’all got, you know,
dragged into this mess.
- Next time can we just get on Zoom?
- I love y’all. [crosstalk]
- Bam, you can stay.
- I gotta stay in here.
- I really think I got to the bottom
of what happened in Dubai.
Now it’s time to get to real life.
Me and Bam got some real [bleep] going on, man.
We gotta work through some things.
♪ ♪
Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"...
- You know I got anger towards you, and I’m gonna do
what I need to do to make this situation change.
- I’m weeks away from giving birth to our son.
It’s you that’s out of town. It’s me stuck in this house
by myself, taking care of our daughter.
- ♪ My way to the top, and it ain't no stoppin' ♪
♪ ♪
- Hello, boo.
- Hello. Your--your antics.
- About Bam trying to leave the Scrap.
You feel me? I was upset and pissed off.
'Cause you were telling your homegirl
and not me, and I had to see why.
You know, I don't understand that I had a lot
of anger towards you,
and at the same time,
I know you have a lot of anger too.
So we like--we human.
I feel like, you know, we should keep trying.
- I mean, it's a lot of different things
we could be doing that we are not doing
and I feel like that's why this keeps repeating
like, the same pattern.
- You know, we feel the way we feel.
Sometime we act out.
Sometime might be right sometime it might be wrong,
but I'm just like-- I'm dealing with myself
and do what I need to do to make the situation change.
I love you. I know you love me, you know?
- Yes. - Just go through a whole bunch
of craziness, you know what I'm saying?
- I do feel like something clicked,
like, overnight in you.
You know, you had the ring on in the house.
- I had a conversation with myself and I said, "Self
"if you gon' be married, you gon' do this thing
till it's over with, you know what I'm saying,
and play your part till it's over with.
- We both should start, like, really focusing for real
on individually, like, our mental health.
I know a few weeks ago I was just, like, not okay
with the idea of doing counseling,
but, you know, if we are gonna move forward like, I feel like
that's something that's gonna be really important.
- Yeah, I feel that.
- I love my husband, I love our family,
and Scrap and I having conversations
about his mental health is a huge step for him
because he never admit [bleep].
But we have to, you know, evolve, like, every day.
We have to just want to do better for ourselves
and our children.
- I just wanna take you home and rub on your stomach
and rub on your feet and kiss on your mouth.
- What are you gonna do with your kids?
- They gonna go in the other room.
[both laugh]
- ♪ When I know that it's over ♪
♪ I can see that it's meant to be ♪
- Damn.
- ♪ Now I feel a little sober ♪
- I haven't been to that house for a few weeks.
So this is the first time I've seen Erica
since we both filed for divorce
and, you know, we just haven't been speaking.
We got each other blocked, and nothing has been nice
about our communications.
- ♪ A thousand miles from who I used to be ♪
I just want our relationship to just be co-parenting,
no more arguing, as calm and smooth as possible.
- You look nice. - I'm sure.
- What's new?
- You being here.
- [chuckles]
- Are you happy?
- It's what you wanted.
I haven't seen my husband face-to-face in some time,
and as much as I love him, I love me more.
We're gonna have this conversation
'cause we need it.
The main thing is that my kids come first.
You know, we gotta get this co-parenting thing figured out.
- I'm still gonna be around. At the end of the day,
whether me and you are together or not,
I'm going to still be 100% for my family.
- How, when you don't have a family now?
- This is still my family. - What is?
You don't care if your kids grow up in a broken home.
- It won't be a broken home. - Yes, it is.
You're living somewhere else. I'm living here.
That's a broken home.
And therefore, I have to suffer 'cause you get to live
where you say 20 minutes away,
wake up when you feel like it,
do as you please while I have to be around the clock 24/7,
a mother and a father
when you're not around to our children.
I'm weeks away from giving birth to our son.
It's you that's out of town.
It's me stuck in this house by myself
taking care of our daughter.
- You know, I definitely take responsibility for the things
that, you know, I've done to cause her pain.
But the last time I was at the house,
I had to call the police
because me and her got into an argument
and she starts yelling and crying
and throwing stuff at me and picking up sharp objects
and I just need to protect myself.
Look, I'm not gonna lie to myself.
The inevitable with me and you is us not lasting.
- It's not gonna last because you put no effort.
If you love us the way you love you, yes.
If you decided I'm going to be a man for mine.
Yes. But I know that's not the case
and that's why I filed for divorce.
I know you will never put us before you. Never.
This is really [bleep] up. I feel scammed.
So now you're free.
Congratulations. You got what you want.
You can live your bachelor life.
- It's not about bachelor life. - You can do all of that
that you want to do now. - I love being a father,
and I want us to just be-- - Yeah, okay.
- Be amazing for our children.
- Yeah, okay. - She looks at me
with so much anger sometimes it's like damn.
But I know where my heart is, I know what I wanna do.
I still wanna be there and do as much as, you know,
you know, I can with the kids.
- Our son will be born in a couple of weeks,
so that by the time he comes,
I can really fully wrap my head around the fact
that I'm gonna be a single mother of two under two.
- I'm gonna check on Mahjee.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- Coming up on "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta"...
- Things are not what they used to be.
I would rather sell the bistro than have all of this conflict
and bull[bleep] going on, and in order for it to change,
there's gotta be a change.
♪ ♪
- ♪ A thousand miles from who I-- ♪
- ♪ My way to the top, and it ain’t no stoppin’ ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Get ’em down take around ♪
♪ Now it’s time to shine ♪
♪ Get the sack, get it filled ♪
- What’s up, guys? - Hola, hola, hola.
- Since the situation at the grand opening,
Kirk and I have just been trying to figure out,
like, what’s the next step?
- Sometimes when kids do wrong [bleep],
you really gotta back up and let them taste that [bleep]
so they chill the [bleep] out. - They have to.
- So we figured let’s meet with the kids individually
and talk to everybody, and basically let them know
that Kirk and I want to be supportive,
but we need them to understand y’all are [bleep] [bleep] up.
Everything that happened the other night, I was in shock
- What in the hell is wrong with my children?
- I can apologize for it,
taking part in how the grand opening was.
- It was kinda-- kinda crazy.
- Since it did happen,
I would prefer it to happen somewhere else or at least--
- I wouldn’t want it to happen all.
- Where did it all go wrong?
- We was having a family conversation, and [bleep]
just went left real quick. - We straight.
It ain’t going to never be me fighting my sister,
but one thing I’m not gonna do, like,
is let her talk to me no type of way.
- The way Ky came at me it’s kinda like
I don’t like aggression,
especially not coming from a dude.
- Especially not coming from your brother.
- Well, I don’t feel like it’s my siblings.
I definitely feel like it’s your girlfriends.
- Amina and Kelsey needed to work it out
’cause it always causes Chelsea and Ky to argue.
- I totally feel like blaming stuff on Ciara,
blaming it on Amina.
All that’s cool, but no, you guys are grown.
Like, you gotta look in the mirror and say, you know what?
"I [bleeped] up too. I messed up. This is wrong."
Like, let’s stop talking about these girls
’cause I told y’all, don’t bring it in here,
you did it, and now we having all these problems.
Things are not what they used to be.
I would rather sell the bistro than have all of this conflict
and bull[bleep] going on.
And in order for it to change, there’s gotta be a change.
I feel like we need to find a path to make sure things,
number one, get back like how they was, and then remain
and get stronger and grow in the right direction.
We letting Amina and Ciara go at this point,
but I don’t think that’s enough to save the family.
The plan is to kind of just let all the kids go at this point.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Me and Kirk making the decision to say,
let’s let the kids go is hard as a parent.
We tried, we did everything we could,
and now it’s time for them to just move on.
They know how this has affected us on a family level.
Like, we ain’t on the same [bleep] we used to be on.
In order for us to get back to that good place,
I think it’s best for us to not work together.
- That’s--I don’t--
- I’ve worked with y’all since day one.
Getting rid of them is a plus, but getting rid of us...
is also probably a better thing to do as well.
- That’s not gonna change how I feel about y’all.
I love y’all, regardless. I don’t mix that business
with how I feel about y’all.
- Shoot, I’m with-- [indistinct]
[laughter]
- The plan is definitely to get you out of Frost Bistro,
but the plan to help y’all become entrepreneurs,
and we’re gonna help y’all start your own business
and help you out and be great at what you wanna do.
I feel like this is a great move for the family aspect.
I do feel like starting a new business
it will be some work for them,
but I feel like we can begin to begin to heal
and get back closer to being family
and get rid of the [bleep].
The next time you try me, though,
I’m gonna make you feel something.
Just so you hear me. - Really. [laughs]
- ♪ My way to the top, and it ain’t no stoppin’ ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life ♪
♪ We’re gonna have a good time ♪
- Moving down to Atlanta is something
Mendecees has wanted do for a very long time.
So to now see all of his children together and happy,
it means the world to him.
- This [bleep] has been amazing for me.
All my kids underneath one roof.
My wife is happy.
Of course, we still, you know, got little problems.
- I think that I have experienced
the highest of highs in my marriage
and the lowest of lows,
but ultimately, we walked out better than we started in.
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life ♪
♪ We’re gonna have a good time ♪
- I started this year out working really hard,
recording, Foogiano going to jail,
being away from my kids,
trying to figure things out, and move on with my mom.
But now everything is falling back into place.
My kids are here with me.
We’re about to have us a movie night.
These times right here mean the most to me,
and that’s what I’m working so hard for.
- ♪ We’re gonna have a good time ♪
- This year has been a roller coaster, to say the least.
Things could be a lot better
if Scrap would really just focused on his mental health.
Whatever needs to happen in order for you
to have a better quality of life,
I think we should focus on that.
- When it comes to what I think the future gon’ be
all I know right now
is I want to be married the rest of my life
and to be filled with the journey
that God has meant for me to have.
You dig what I’m saying?
- ♪ Yeah, we living in the moment ♪
- I definitely did come into this year wanting love,
but this record deal is just going to take me to the places
that I’ve always known I should be.
So I found love in my pockets.
I threw out the one guap
and I went and got a million guaps,
and I’m so excited about the future.
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life ♪
♪ We’re gonna have a good time ♪
- I finally made it in America.
I’m just living my American dreams.
My album is a success.
Justin and I, we’re working things out.
I’m going to take over the universe,
Queen of dancehall for Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, and definitely mother [bleep] Earth.
- ♪ It’s always gon’ be hating ♪
♪ When you still on your grind, yeah ♪
- So I gotta be honest, man.
I’m very optimistic about this next year life
opening up this new rim shop, exclusive rims and tires.
I think my son is starting to see
what’s real and what ain’t.
I’m very appreciative of our newfound happiness
with our relationship.
Family-- mm, ain’t nothing like it.
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life ♪
- To me, my music is more relatable
because it’s talking about my real life.
Fans love you for real ’cause they can be able to connect.
And talking about my childhood,
this has helped me and my momma
start to have real conversations
and not just keep sweeping everything under the rug
and talk about our real feelings
and get stuff solved for real.
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life ♪
- This year has been a journey.
I feel like we’re beginning to come out of it.
It’s feeling like a fresh breath of air right now,
- We’ve had some [bleep] happen with our family
that we never fathom would even happen,
but it’s just about trying to grow.
Ultimately, man, all we can do is try to be the best
that we can possibly be
each and every day and better than we were yesterday.
- ♪ It’s all a mindset get that mind right ♪
♪ It’s your life ♪
- Through this journey with my daughter, I’ve learned
that you gotta back up a little.
But it’s so hard because she’s still my baby.
That’s what I learned. I learned that
I can’t treat her like a baby anymore.
We are now closer than ever. That’s such a good feeling.
- ♪ So this what life teaches and I’m okay with it ♪
♪ Yeah, you can have your way with this ♪
♪ Life cannot stay like this ♪
♪ There’s changes when you move your lips ♪
- The end of 2020, I got engaged.
The beginning of 2021, I was in a whole new relationship.
My boyfriend is super successful.
I’m successful. My kids love him.
We are about to close on a big, beautiful house,
and we are still practicing on having a baby
and I’m a little late.
So let’s see what happens.
I feel so good and I’m just-- I’m grateful.
- ♪ We’re gonna live our best life, yeah ♪
- I did it!
Legend was born at 34 weeks.
Healthy, strong.
He’s so, so yummy.
- I’m not gonna miss the birth of my son
for nothing in the world and, you know,
fatherhood is just so important to me
because what I saw growing up I just knew that, like, yo,
when I become a father, I wanna--
I wanna be the opposite of that.
- From here on out, I just wanna heal.
’cause I got some healing to do.
I’m a mess, but I’m going to use this to make me stronger.
I’m just waiting for what God has in store next
’cause obviously, something just wasn’t meant to be.
- I don’t know if this year was just like one big test,
but it’s been a rough year for the both of us.
I just want us to be best parents we could be.
I can’t worry about what the world thinks.
I gotta focus on me, my mental health,
raising these beautiful children.
I don’t want them to have to worry
about anything other than just being happy.
- ♪ We’re gonna have a good time ♪
♪ We’re gonna live our best life, yeah ♪
- ♪ My way to the top and it ain’t no stopping ♪
- 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--
it was about to go down at Pressed.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Damn, Mendeecees,
aka Bruce Wayne in the Batmobile.
That’s what I’m talking about, my boy.
♪ ♪
- Oh, look, it’s all my friends.
♪ ♪
- Seeing Pressed 2.0 come to life is beautiful.
It feels amazing. Hey, you know what?
All the hard work is finally here.
We’re at the moment of truth.
- Watching Kirk and Rasheeda turn the whole Pressed
boutique brand into, like, you know,
a actual brick and mortar, a actual storefront
type of situation, all from a little, you know,
online boutique-- psh--kudos to the kiddos.
- Hey, hoes!
- I ain’t got time to fight with nobody.
- Oh, Lord. [laughs]
There go my-- uh, everybody says
Kelsie is me at a younger age.
They was like, "She reminds me of you.
Stop faultin’ her. She is the younger you."
- Y’all got beef? - She can’t even last
on the floor.
- This is not a Frost Bistro conversation.
This is Pressed right now.
- Look at Rasheeda being Christian.
Go ahead, girl, get ’em in line.
- Congratulations to Pressed, and we’re out, baby, we’re out.
- For me, Ky, as your girlfriend,
why is she whispering to you?
She can’t even handle the [bleep] floor.
- ’Cause that’s my [bleep] and I’m gonna tell him whatever--
- She can’t even handle-- - Why you back there?
- Okay, so therefor, when you do that, my [bleep].
- Oh, see? This is where you understand
that they just don’t like each other.
They need to get in the boxing [bleep] ring.
You know what?
We need to see them two in the boxing ring.
- You caused a problem when you do that.
- Exactly, but that’s my [bleep].
[both shouting over each other]
- Let go of me. - I don’t give a [bleep]!
- I just want her to know!
Because that’s your bitch,
she’s gonna [bleep] you, understand?
- What?
She talk like that?
Oh, she lit, man. Okay, okay, okay.
- You need to calm down.
- But that [bleep] lame.
It’s always some lame [bleep].
Being disrespectful when people--to talk to people.
- This is the wrong place for it.
This is the wrong time and place.
- Every time a [bleep] try to talk,
you always got something to say.
Sometimes you need to sit back and listen.
That’s her problem. - Okay.
- Rasheeda,
a penis is winning right now.
Penis: Two. Parents: Zero.
Penis is winning right now.
- Okay, but you-- - [bleep] not telling you
nothing for no reason.
I’m telling about you ’cause I [bleep] care.
You always doing that lame [bleep] to my girl.
- But your girl be saying something trashy too, though.
[bleep] check your girl.
- You gonna talk [bleep] about me,
you gonna talk [bleep] about her.
And I still love you ’cause you’re my brother.
- Check your girl, too. - None of that [bleep] matters.
- Your girl be speaking up--
- I never got mad at you, ’cause I love you.
- But you gotta check your girl too, though.
- I do gotta check her.
But I have to tell my sister we a family.
- You can’t yell at your sister about your girl, though, bro.
You trippin’. - I’m yelling at you because
we in front of all these people.
- Your girl be saying a whole bunch of sour [bleep].
I ain’t said [bleep].
- What is Kirk even doing in the middle of this?
Because it’s like, you know what?
There’s a referee thing going on.
I feel like Sierra and Amina need to argue one-on-one,
and none of my kids should be in it,
and this is where I don’t like the [bleep].
- No, no!
- Everybody need to understand, chill the [bleep] out!
- Man, what the hell’s happening?
- Let’s [bleep] all [bleep] up.
- Get your hands off of me.
- I love you too, but you have to calm the [bleep] down, bro.
- Chill out before you do something stupid.
- Go home. Get your [bleep]
and go the [bleep] home.
♪ ♪
- Wait, wait, wait, what?
It was getting’ good! Hold up!
Oh, no, wait, hold on, it was getting good.
- Next scene you about to see right now, man,
is hip hop with no love.
Man, the heartbreak of all, man,
a marriage couple break up--
Safaree and Erica Mena.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- That’s the best pregnant lady I’ve ever seen.
- Damn.
♪ ♪
- What did she do to his shoe?
I mean, he got to smell it before he place it down?
Mm, or was he the last one that washed it?
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- You look nice.
- I’m sure.
- What’s new? - You being here.
- One thing about Erica, you can see that look,
you can see that look in her eyes.
Yo, you can see that look in her eyes.
- You know, we gotta get this coparenting thing figured out.
- I’m still gonna be around.
At the end of the day, whether me and you are together or not,
I’m going to still be 100% for my family.
- How, when you don’t have a family now?
- This is still my family. - What is?
- Safaree giving me "I don’t give a [bleep]" vibes.
"All my [bleep] is [bleep] up," you know what I’m saying?
"You’re crazy. I just wanna be away.
Take care of my kids." [laughs]
- You don’t care if your kids grow up in a broken home.
- They--it won’t be a broken home.
- Yes, it is! You’re living somewhere else,
I’m living here; that’s a broken home.
- It sounds like a broken home to me.
- And therefor, I have to suffer
’cause you get to live where you say "20 minutes away,"
wake up when you feel like it, do as you please,
while I have to be around the clock, 24/7 a mother
and a father when you’re not around to our children.
- You can’t make a man be a man.
Sometimes we gotta get it
that we are messing with grown-ass boys.
- For some reason, us guys do dumb [bleep]
when our wives are pregnant.
I don’t know if it’s ’cause they big
and they gain weight and they not as sexy to us,
or--I don’t know.
We do dumb [bleep] and we ha--
I’ve done dumb [bleep],
but Safaree has took the [bleep] flag
and won the race with it.
- I’m weeks away from giving birth to our son.
It’s you that’s out of town.
It’s me stuck in this house by myself,
taking care of our daughter.
- Look, I’m not gonna lie to myself.
The inevitable with me and you
is us not lasting.
- Wow.
I ain’t never seen a mother[bleep]
be real like that, ever.
Like, that was just--
I mean, I don’t even see what you can say after that.
Like, a mother[bleep] said, like, it’s--
- I watched Safaree wish to be married.
He was like, "One day,
"somebody’s gonna wear this ring.
One day, there’s gonna be a Mrs. Samuels."
Like, the things he asked for you’ve seen happen,
so I was thinking it would be better than this,
but I pray they make it.
- I’m gonna go check on my child.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- It’s okay, Erica. Come over and cry.
I’ll hug you, boo.
- My last advice to you, Erica,
is that I’m proud of you. Stay strong.
And know that trouble don’t last always.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Rise up, rise up ♪
♪ We will rise as a whole ♪
♪ Rise up, rise up ♪
♪ We will grind to the poll ♪
♪ Rise up, rise up ♪
♪ We will never, ever fall ♪
♪ Rise up, rise up ♪
♪ Aim for the top, \h\hfor the goal ♪
♪ Rise up, rise up ♪
♪ We will rise as a whole ♪
- ♪ MTV ♪