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- * MTV *

- Previously on
"Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...

- Got all my stuff
and was like,

it doesn't look good for Grace.

On October the 31st, my world
just came crashing down.

I was fighting for my life.

[groans]

God literally
gave me a second chance.

- Giving y'all some pictures
of your significant other,

because I know they piss
you off enough to make

you want to [bleep] them up.

- Oh, god, wait.

- Excuse me.

- Erica, let's smash [bleep].

- Ooh! Ooh! Ahh!

- Yeah!

- She filed for divorce.

I was texting and flirting
and doing all that [bleep].

- So you never hit nothing; you
were just texting and talking.

- It-- it was the
person that it was.

- Diamond?

- Yeah.

- You were just in a person's
DM that you used to date.

You can't even go do what
you gotta do and come home.

- You trying to
make me look bad?

Go ahead.
That [bleep] won't work.

That [bleep] ain't
gonna work on me.

[funky music]

- * This is the life *

- * It's the life
that I'm living *

- * This is the life *

- * It's the life
that I chose *

* This is the life *

* It's the life
that I'm living *

* This is the life *

* Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Brag so much
'cause I am so much *

* [indistinct] *

* You ain't talkin' about me *

* You ain't talkin'
about much *

* I stay on call,
but it ain't no bluff *

- You ready to help me pack?

Are you helping?

Weather in LA is a little cold.

We need furs.

* [indistinct] *

- Erica, I need you to give
it to me on this camera.

- You ain't said
nothing but a thing.

- * When I hit the block,
even all my haters watch *

* I run from nobody *

* Don't talk
if you don't know about me *

- I'm the rock star rep.

Sold-out arenas
everywhere I go,

and I'm able to be myself now.

You know what I'm saying?

Do everything
that I been wanting to do,

but I'm doing it freely.

[rapping indistinctly]

And after my fight with Bam,
I'm still torn up.

But all this stuff helping
me, you know what I'm saying?

Being on stage, being booked--
it just made me feel better.

Love y'all. Love y'all.

I be feeling like as a wife

you should always make your
husband feel like he that guy.

I wasn't getting it from Bam.

And I mean, you gotta
come from somewhere else.

* *

What's going on?

- You're looking good, buck.

- Thank you.
- We gotta get some drinks.

You know what I'm saying?
- Yes.

* *

[Helena's "Tootsie Pop"]

* *

- * Treat my body
like a candy shop *

* Pick your poison, different
flavors for the choosing *

* Yeah, I got a lot *

* You can't explain it
till you hit the spot *

* He gone licky licky
till he hit the center

* Like a Tootsie Pop *

- Shekinah?

- Is it Spice?

- You know it's me.

I'm gonna open the gate.

- It's your girl Shekinah.

And I've been blowing
Spice up for weeks,

and she's finally
picked up to see me.

- You can come in.

- Oh, I can come in?

I don't know why Spice
is so angry with me,

because she haven't
been picking up.

She's been ignoring me.

Oh, my.

This is beautiful.

You have nice floors.

- Thank you.

- So what's up?

- Nothing.

- Well, you acting
like a bitch.

- Excuse me?

- Yeah, you acting
like a little bitch.

- Shekinah, I'm just
coming out of the hospital.

- I know.
- And that's how you greet me?

- How I greet you?

How you greet me?

- Yeah, I'm not out
of the woods yet.

I still have
an open wound that I

have to go back
to the hospital

to clean every other day.

By the end of the day,
I still have

a long journey ahead of me when
it comes down to my health.

- Can you show me
around your house?

- Oh, I'm not showing
you around nowhere.

I wanted somebody to show
me around the hospital,

and you wasn't there.

So you can show yourself.

- Give me a hug so we can talk.

Hey, Grace.

How you doing, girl?

- I'm doing better now,
Shekinah.

- You are?

- Much better.

- I'm happy
you're doing better.

It's good to see you.

- I wish you were
there from the start,

not just at the end of it.

- [sighs] They didn't
want me there, Spice.

- They-- who didn't
want you there?

- Superwoman didn't
want me there, girl.

Mena never gave me
the address, baby.

I called her, and she never
gave me the address.

- So you're telling me
Mena gave everyone else

the address except for you.
- You said--

- Even Karlie came, and I
wasn't even talking to her.

- Well, that's the
reason I wasn't there.

- What do you mean?
What are you talking about?

- That's the reason I got
locked out of everything.

Karlie and Mena
are best friends now.

If Karlie was there,
it makes all the sense

in the world, because I don't
[bleep] with Karlie like that.

You know, I got pissed
with Mena trying

to keep me
from coming to the DR,

because I thought
Mena was my friend.

Hey, girl.
How you doing?

- Hey, mama.

How you doing?

- It's cute for Spice.

But now, I really
feel like the reason

Mena told me not to come
was because of Karlie Redd.

Me and Karlie Redd have
not been seeing eye to eye.

Somebody don't want
to [bleep] with you.

- Yeah!
- It's OK.

- Totally.

- How you gonna learn how--

- You're absolutely right.

- Oh, really?

You didn't come
because you feel

like Mena didn't give you any
information, and that was it?

- I couldn't find nobody
to give information.

- Mena know damn well
I wasn't friends

with Karlie at the time, and
she gave Karlie information

to come see me in the DR,
so why would she keep

information from Shekinah?

At this point, my trust
with everybody is super low,

and I don't know what to think.

Shekinah, do you have any
idea what I've been through?

My whole body was poisoned.

The sepsis
was eating away my skin.

I was in the hospital
at my lowest point.

That's when I needed you,
not now when

I just bought a house
and move and, like,

getting back to my good life.

- It hurts me right now to know

that I wasn't able
to help Spice.

I wish I'd never
listened to Mena,

and I wish I would have
took my ass on out there,

because I really don't
know what I would have did

if something happened to her.

It would have broke me.

I am so sorry, Spice.

I never want you to
believe that in your heart

that I was not there for you.

I was praying for you.

I look up to you.

I [bleep] with you,
like-- and I thank God

that you are a friend of mine.

So can you forgive me?

[gentle music]

* *

- The truth is,
it's not easy to get

Shekinah to stop talking.

So the fact that she stopped
talking and start listening,

that was just a big plus
for me,

because this
is the Shekinah that I know.

I can forgive you.

- Thank you.

And I'm sorry you
had to go through it.

- I feel better that
I've told you the truth.

- I'm gonna hug you hard.

I'm sorry you had to go
through this, I promise.

Nobody deserve
to go through this.

- I've been through
a lot, friend.

- I'm happy you better.

I thank God
for saving you, too.

[sniffs]

- I just
really needed to see you.

- OK.

- * OBB *

* I am the realist *

* What else
would you call it? *

* They been in they feelings,
if I'm being honest *

* I been no chill, I'm
just weighing the options *

* You know that I finish
whatever I start *

* I'm shooting the street *

* I got the drop
on all of the ops *

* I swear I ain't missing
the target, I promise *

- Hey, how you doing?

- How you doing?
- I'm great.

Thanks for coming.

How are you going?

Tonight is an epic night--
my album listening party.

And I'm so excited about
letting everybody hear it.

And I invited a lot of
friends, so let's turn up.

[upbeat funky music]

- * Independent woman,
know your all, hon *

* You don't need a man, but
he still blow your phone up *

* Outside,
got to get the dough up *

* I ain't even tripping, we
could mix and make some more *

- I want anything but
some Hennessy, please.

Please, though.
- OK.

Yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.
You--

- I know that's right.
- Oh, yeah, you a thinker.

- I know that's right.
Come on now.

- You a thinker.
- You look good.

- You are so fake.

- Ah, you look amazing.

- You just fake.

- What, you don't
want me on you?

- I am Amy Luciani, recording
artist, singer, rapper,

songwriter, YouTube star.

I own several businesses.

I pride myself
on just being real.

I am here to support
my good friend Khaotic.

- You don't want me on you?

- Are you going to
give me a drink?

Princess treatment, remember.
- Sure. Go ahead.

Let me watch it all
the way to the bar.

Come on.
Oh.

Oh, hold on.

I want to take you over
here to meet Momma Dee.

Come on.
Hey, Momma Dee!

How you doing?
I'm doing great.

- I'm good. How are you?

How you doing?

- Amy right here.

- Amy.

- Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

- Take a seat, Amy.

- I was about to say, am I
getting princess treatment?

- I'm pulling the chair out
for you.

- It better be for me.
- You are gorgeous.

- Baby, you picking
the wrong girl magic.

- Girl, you got you
a bad one now.

- Oh, no, that ain't--
that ain't mine.

That's my dawg.
That's my bestie.

- We have been
friends for years.

We are very flirtatious.

Now, we have not
crossed the major line,

but it's one of those
things that's complicated.

- I'm going to tell
you a secret, though.

Back in my pimpin' days, it
used to be women that would

put a pimp in a Cadillac.

And there were some that
would put you in a Bentley.

You that Bentley bitch.
- Mm.

So I know Momma Dee is an
OG in Atlanta and in these ATL

streets, but girl, you must
didn't do your research

on who you talking to.

If anybody pimpin',
it would be me,

and this would be my little ho.

- Momma Dee, where Scrappy at?

- I don't know.

- Why is he always late?

Make sure he all right.

- Yeah, but I've been, like,
worried about, you know,

what him and the Bam
is going through.

And it ain't none
of my business,

because he a grown-ass man.
- Right.

- Has he done bad [bleep]
to her?

I'm sure he has.

I'm sure he has.

- But bad [bleep] go
both ways now, Mama.

- Yeah.
Uh-huh.

And that's why y'all
wearing the belt evenly.

And really, I wish the
best for both of them,

because their [bleep] is toxic.

- In the past,
I've tried to, you know,

attack Bam from
here and from there,

but I've been trying to,
like, you know what?

That's their business;
I don't even [bleep] care.

I really damn don't.

So I have just decided
to leave the Bam alone.

I love Bam as a human being,
but I don't like the bitch.

- When-- when you come to--
to grips with what you dealing

with and, you know,
he's been able

to confide in-- in Diamond
and that she got her issues--

she was talking
about a week ago

she said she was
waiting on her period.

And I'm like, what?
It's a lie.

It's too much, it's too
much, it's too much.

- Wait, so is Diamond pregnant?

[tense music]

- Coming up
on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...

- Eric, he mentally abuses me.

I'm planning to escape.

- Oh, shoot.
- This hurts!

- Try to walk with me.

- You some real bull[bleep].

- I got this.

- We talked about this [bleep].

You ain't got nothing
up under control.

- I see. Yes.
- OK, OK, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Stop, stop, stop.
- You gotta let go.

- Right.

- I'm on boss time,
and that boss time

does not involve
petty bull[bleep]

unless you want it to.

* My way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

* My way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

[tense music]

- My son, Scrappy, he's been
able to confide in Diamond

and that she got her issues.

She talking about
a week ago she said

she was waiting on her period.

And I'm like, what?
It's like--

it's too much,
it's too much, it's too much.

* *

- Wait, so is Diamond pregnant?

- If it come, it comes.

If it don't, it don't, right?

- Like, what the [bleep]?

Hold on, Momma Dee,
like, how you doing?

I'm all right.

You all right too?

You can't be all right
talking about Diamond.

What the [bleep],
Diamond pregnant?

You could have told us
at a later notice,

because this ain't
the time for that.

So I'ma just lead
myself in the direction

of the bar or something.
- Yeah.

- You starting to
drink or something?

- I'm going to stay sober.

- Because-- come on.

You're going to
lead me to the bar,

so I could look back at it.

- So everybody knows, if you
know your "Hip Hop" history,

that Diamond and Scrappy
were a big thing.

But the news
about her coming back

or him going back or circling
back and spinning the block

I personally think
is inappropriate.

You got a whole wife,
so I'm not with it.

- Y'all, boy.

- You always late, bro.

- No, no, no,
it wasn't my fault.

I had them kids,
man, them kids, bro.

[indistinct].

- You got a pass.
You got a pass.

- OK, you know how
I am about my baby.

- [shouts]
- What?

[bleep].

[both shouting]

- Since the last
time people seen me,

I've been going back and forth
between Atlanta and Miami.

Atlanta was starting to feel
very heavy on me,

with, like, the divorce.

Just wanted a new,
fresh start.

But hey, I'm here
to support my brother.

- What y'all talking about?

- Yo.
- Rastaman.

- Hey, you got a lot of
good-looking women in here.

- You can't look
at other girls.

- I mean, listen, man.

Man, Safaree going
through a divorce, man,

so I don't even know
why buddy trying

to check me like that, man.

And plus, he was doing stuff,
you know what I'm saying,

bringing other girls
around and stuff,

like, while he was married.

- Is that Safaree?

- Wait, that's not Erica.

- He in her with his new girl,
and I supposed to be that girl.

- What you talking about, bruh?
You can't say nothing to me.

I got to know something.

Man, it seems like you
and Erica

been around each other more.
What's happening?

- We're at a good space,
at a good page.

This past, like, year,
we hated each other.

That [bleep] ain't cool,
because when I think about it,

I'm like, damn, we was beefing.

But like, yo,
look at what you gave me,

two of the most
beautiful things

a man could want or ask for--

a boy and a girl.

Maybe we may not be
right for each other,

but no matter what,
we're still a family

because we got kids together.

The relationship
between me and Erica

has definitely changed,
because, you know,

last go around, me and her,
we couldn't even speak,

couldn't see each other
or nothing like that.

But now I feel like
we're definitely

in a better place
and space where we're

able to be around each other.

- Erica,
where did you come from?

You know Amy?

- Get up and give me a hug.

Give me some love, man.

- You trying to act fake,
and I'm standing here.

- He's so fake.
- You smell good.

- I always I smell good.

- How you doing. You know,
- Get out.

- I'm Amy.
- Hi. Nice to meet you, Amy.

- You look so good.
- Thank you, thank you.

I don't know how
you deal with him.

I don't know much about Amy.

You know, I haven't met her,
but I do know

she's an
up-and-coming rapper out here,

so I'm excited to talk to her.

And if you know Khaotic
and you can take

his humor and his big-ass
personality, then [bleep],

we can roll,
we can all have a good time.

- OK.

What y'all drinking again?

- Give me a Lemon Drop
and a shot of Casamigos.

- And a double Patron.

Princess treatment.

Snap, snap.

- Snap, snap.

Come on, y'all.
Let me get the waitress.

Excuse me.
Excuse me.

- I'm so glad to meet you,
because I've been loving

your consistency, though.
- Thank you.

- I've been watching just
everything you're working on.

Be motivation for people
like me and the other girls.

- Yeah.

- I feel like women
in hip-hop is--

we're in this weird
space where we're not

supporting each other.

It's almost like there only
can be one girl winning.

- I mean, of course,
in my head, I'm the top bitch.

- And-- and I am.

- But I'll never just be
fighting for y'all to know

that I'm the top bitch.
- And I've been fighting.

I done-- I done been
dealing with bitches.

- You lose it. You lose it.
- Stealing records.

- Wait,
somebody stole your record?

- Bitch, now, are you
familiar with Renni Rucci?

- Yeah.
- You familiar, OK.

I haven't met her personally.

I landed
in a situation with her

where I was in a situation
where I was writing

for artists.
- OK.

- So I wrote
and recorded this song.

Fast-forward months later,
I heard no line.

I was like, those lyrics
sound very familiar.

Let me tell you why
Renni Rucci is a thief.

I wrote a song called
"Walk-through,"

and next thing you know, a fan
sends me a screen recording

of Renni Rucci performing my
song, my lyrics, my thoughts,

and anybody knows in this
industry that when you write

a record
and it's being performed

and it's getting
millions of views

on YouTube
or streaming that is

a check that is just constant.

It's just residual income.

So it's very personal for me.

I reached out
to Renni, and I'm like,

you know, I know how
they play the game.

- Yeah.
- I know it.

I'm in it.

But here, respectfully,
says hey, "I'm Amy.

How you doing? I'm Amy Luciani,
this is what's going on."

- So you didn't come with no
rah-rah [bleep]?

- Oh, no, never.

Woman to woman, I'm trying to--

I'm trying to get
you on a one-on-one

with me to let you
know I wrote that.

- So what happened?

- A turn-up.

I was very nice
and respectful when

I DM'ed her with all the facts
that proved it was my record.

She, of course,
having pride and wanting

to be the "bitch"
at the time,

responded
in a very disrespectful way.

It was very catty, it was
very petty, and she goes off,

and she blocks me.

Girl, get the [bleep] on.

- I can't even say
I understand her side,

because it's like
you can't prove.

You didn't have
to come like that.

- Sometimes the
weird moments just be

like a conversation to be had.

- You know what I'm saying?

- And I feel like that's
where I'm at with it.

Like I said, I'm on boss time.

And that boss time does not
involve petty bull[bleep]

unless you want it to.

- OK.

- Come on, now, leave it alone.

- Cuckoo, cuckoo.
Cuckoo, cuckoo.

- Oh, hey, how you doing?

- Hey, baby.
- How you doing?

- Fine.
- You good?

- Pull up a seat!

- Why you sitting over
there by yourself?

- Let me get my--

- Things ain't been real
right with me and my mom,

but, you know, it's way
better than last year.

I'm still trying to keep
a distance with Momma Deuce,

because Momma Deuce done caused
all kind of problem and drama

and trouble with me and Bam.

I don't need no more
of that, so the less

Momma Deuce know is the better.

[upbeat funky music]

* *

- Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,

what up?

I want to thank everybody
here for coming tonight

to my album listening party.

We got an album.
It's called "The Provider,"

because I'm a provider for all
the beautiful ladies here.

This album is going to prevent
you from getting played

by Safaree, prevent you from
getting played by Scrappy

and every other
man out here that's

playing with it to the left.

- But I ain't that guy,
you dig what I'm saying?

I'm not him.

If anybody's a player, it's
the man on that mic right now.

- Go get this princess
treatment featuring

Shekinah on the right.

Now run that [bleep].

[upbeat funky music]

* *

- I love it.

And I'm not just saying it
because I think he cute.

I really am enjoying it.

It's nothing but vibes.

- * Better treat her
like a princess *

* Better treat
her like a queen *

- This record and
music he's currently

putting out is like a
feel-good vibe for the women.

- I'm happy for him,
man, because he's been

making music for years, man.

And I feel like he
just found his niche

and he just finna blow.

- * Princess dreaming *

* She could have
what she want *

* I'm gonna give
her what she want *

- Hey, I appreciate
all y'all for taking

the time out of y'all life
to join me

and hive up up with me.

I love y'all.

* Just around the glow *

[Bambi's "Shining']

- * Show you how
to talk privacy *

* I ain't lying *

- * Check my throwback.

* Bitch, I been popping *

* Check your whole facts.

* Bitch, you been bopping *

* That's my twin, yeah.

Bitch, we've been rocking *

* Stitched together
like Issey Mikyake *

* I don't want to
talk if ain't about--

- I'm in LA to shoot a video
to my single, "Shining."

And it's just really a vibe.

I just have so much going
on right now between Scrappy

and this divorce.

We just moved out
of this house,

and that's been really tough.

So I found a house
for me and my kids,

and it's very comfortable.

And, you know,
I'm just doing what moms do,

making it happen.

- OK.

So, like, how do you
feel about rapping?

- I think this is just more
beauty shots than, like,

for the hood.

* Teach you
how to talk privacy *

- Yeah.

- So I'm here in LA.

I'm here to support
my friend Bambi.

She asked me to be a
feature in her music video.

- The spotlight looks good.

- Oh, that's cute.

- And I couldn't say no, for
one, because that's my sister,

and for two, I always wanted
to be in a video, so I'm here.

- Yeah.

Perfect.

Head up a little bit.

Yeah, perfect.

Perfect.
That was great.

- All right.

- I'm going to get
Sierra for y'all.

Drayka, I'm going to need
you to touch me up in, like,

a few seconds, but I'm going--

- You need a touch-up?
- Yes, just a quick little--

- You look so pretty.

- Thank you.

- I feel like you came here
just, like, revamped for real.

Don't be mad at me.

- What do you mean?

- Paris just keeps texting.

I got to go back to Atlanta.
- What do you mean?

Why?

- So this morning, my phone
was just ringing off the chain,

so I answered the phone,
and it's Paris,

and she's like, "Mom,
I'm tired of Eric.

"Him and Paris got into it.

"This man is weird.

"I've been holding my tongue.

"I don't like him.

He's saying stuff-- you need
to get your grown-ass kids."

And it was just, like, a lot.

When I first got with Eric,
everything was so perfect.

I want this moment
to last forever.

- It will.

- I am engaged.

- Is there a date yet?

- It's 1/23/23.

But as things started to happen
and life started to life,

I realized that we really
didn't know each other.

And everything just started
going down the drain.

But she was at my mama's house,
so she

came home to get
ready for school,

and her room was,
like, destroyed.

Like, Eric went through all
her [bleep], girl.

- No, freakin' way.
- Went in her purse.

- What?
- Yes.

Went in her purses, went
through all her clothes, girl.

So she was like,
"Get the [bleep]

out with your weird ass."

So I'm like, I got to get home.

With Eric, I started
noticing things of him

just being jealous first.

And I swear I tried to
cater to his feelings,

but it's just, like,
never enough with him,

and I'm in
a [bleep] up situation.

My kids hate this man.

He's driving me up a wall.

We fuss every [bleep] day.

Like, I'm literally going
through so much [bleep].

He, like, really mentally
abuses me, I swear to god.

He's very insecure, he's very
possessive, he's very jealous.

Like, he don't want me to spend
time with my kids like that.

And then on top
of that, his mouth,

he don't mind calling
me bitches and hos.

- Oh, no.
See, that's rough.

- In front of my kids, he
be like, [bleep] my [bleep].

- Oh, my goodness.

I can't believe-- I'm like
really at a loss for words

right now.

Like, this is a lot.

- And then on top of
that, it's some more.

- Girl, what?

- Girl, me and Eric
went and got married.

[tense music]

* *

So now I got to try to
get out of this [bleep].

- I mean, Sierra had been
planning this wedding.

You know, we've been
talking about wedding

gowns and bridesmaids dresses.

And then this bitch
just dropped the bomb

that she's already married.

And I'm just like...

I feel like I'm living in
the twilight zone right now.

- How long y'all been married?

- Oh, girl,
it's been a few months now.

Bam, I swear to god--

- So you got yourself
into a big situation,

because this ain't finna be,
like, a regular breakup.

- I'm planning to escape.

Like, I'm planning to move out,
and he don't know about it.

- Oh, shoot.

- Honestly, I'm tired
of hiding this [bleep].

When I got married to Eric,
I kept it a secret,

because a lot of
me felt that it was all wrong.

I was like, this is not what
we supposed to be doing.

But I feel like Eric
was all I had at the time.

And as soon as it happened,
that's when [bleep]

just started getting real bad.

And I'm tired of it.

I can't take any more of it.

I got to get the [bleep]
away from this guy.

He is really like a wolf
in sheep's clothing.

- Coming up on
"Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...

- You ain't got no
business out here telling me

what the [bleep] to do.
- Yes the [bleep] I do.

- I've got to push myself.

- So is you pushing yourself
back

to the [bleep] hospital
or what?

- I don't get no
love in this house.

All you do is worry
about your businesses,

your kids, and your family.

- You don't make me feel loved.

- I'm uncomfortable
in my own house.

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Crazy *

* I'm giving
princess treatment *

* She can have
what she wants *

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Yeah,
they in trouble *

* Wasn't ready
for what they did *

* Can pop your bubble *

* Thought you were
the hottest around *

* I left you in the rubble *

- I feel super excited to
go back to dance class.

- The queen is back.
- The queen is back!

Whoo-hoo!
- Let me help you.

- * You can't stop me *

- I've been feeling
a lot better recently,

and it's just time for
me to get back to work

and get back in a Spice mode.

So right now I'm going to
have my first dance rehearsal,

because I'm preparing
for my show that's

coming up in the
Cayman Island,

and it's
only a few weeks away.

This is my walk back into
my real world, you know,

what I'm used to.

So this is like one
of the happiest days.

- Hey, baby.

- Wanwan.

- What's up, sexy?

- You look sexy.

- Come on,
you know I look sexy.

Hey, friend.
- This is Angel.

- How are you?
- Hey.

- Angel, this is Mooney.
- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- My dance instructor,
choreographer.

- Yes.

How you feeling, baby?

- I just want to get
back on the stage.

Mooney is one of
the biggest and best

choreographer in Atlanta.

And even though Mooney know
about my health situation,

him also know the kind
of performer I am.

So hopefully Mooney
can come up with, like,

an idea that gives
that Spice flavor,

but it still keeps me safe.

- Let me tell you
what my concern is.

- OK.

- Me the queen of
dance for a reason.

I don't want to come back
out and be like, "Guys,

I'm so sorry, I've been sick."

- I got something for you.

- You think so?

- Baby steps, baby steps.

- Put the waist right on.

I got something for you.

- Don't listen to her.

So Angel is like
my best friend.

She's also one of the
person that rushed to the ER

when she heard about
my scare ordeals.

So I just feel like she's
just overprotective.

And I'll be honest,
I'm a risk taker when

it comes down to performance.

There's nothing that I
will not do to please

my fans and my besties.

But the truth is, I'm not 100%
confident, like, in my health

and where I am.

So I just want
to take baby steps,

you know, to get back there.

- Let me see how far
you can wind down.

Here we go.
Let me see.

Take it down.

Let me see.
- Oh, [bleep]!

- Ooh, right.
Uh-uh.

- I can't even wind.
- Uh-oh.

So here we go.
Just do this.

So give me, like, a bop first.

We got to see your limitations.

See your limitations.
- This hurts!

- Try to walk with me.

- This some real bull[bleep].

- I got this.

- We talked about this [bleep].

He ain't got nothing
up under control.

- I love Spice, and I'm mad as
hell I was not there for her

in the DR,
but I'm damn sure going

to be here for her in Atlanta.

So I'm getting aggravated,
because Spice

do not need to have a setback.

She want to shake
that ass, but the doctor

say you got to heal.

So which one is more important?

- You know goddam well she
ain't got no mother[bleep]

knees that's moving this fast.

- Ooh.

OK, so I see.

- OK, OK, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Yeah, stop, stop, stop.
I see.

Stop. Right. Right.

See?

Uh-uh.

- Baby steps!
- Baby steps.

I was trying to tip--

- I didn't know that it would
take so much out of my body.

- You are not a so-called
mother[bleep] friend.

- Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.

- And this
mother[bleep] ain't got

no business
in here doing a clap,

clap, clap, clap [bleep].

- What your problem?

- My problem is you
ain't got no business out

here doing all that [bleep].

- And my problem
is you ain't got

no business out here telling
me what the [bleep] to do.

- Yes the [bleep] do.
- I'm an artist.

- I got
all the mother[bleep]--

- I'm an artist.

I gotta get back to being
a [bleep] artist.

- I got all the mother[bleep]--
- What are you talking about?

How dare Shekinah come in here
trying to tell me what to do.

I don't need you talk
for me, Shekinah.

I can talk for myself.

One thing for sure and
two things for certain,

I don't want ain't
no mother[bleep]

person going to play
with me and my craft

and what I can do.

I was in the hospital
for two months.

I couldn't even walk around.

Now that I'm able to
walk around and get back

into myself,
I've got to push myself

to go back to being myself.

[indistinct].

What you want from me?

- So is you
pushing yourself back

to the mother[bleep] hospital

to have a goddamn setback
or what?

- That's what we don't want.

- Because at the end of the
day--no, you let me talk.

Let me say something,
get you [bleep] straight fact.

You just got out of the
hospital last week, poo.

- Rehearse with
Shekinah and Angel.

I will see you
at the next class.

I'm going to leave
them in this rehearsal.

It's too much for me.

I'm going to come
back next week.

- We ain't no goddamn dancers.

- Go train that one to dance.

Maybe when you train her to
dance, you can sign them on.

- Coming up
on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta..."

- There's supposed to
be a baby on the way.

Diamond is pregnant.
- Wow.

- You know her and
Scrappy was a thing-thing.

- You done went and
got you some [bleep]...

- This [bleep]
ain't going nowhere.

- Flunky-ass bitch
with no kids,

because I'm not that bitch.

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

[dramatic music]

- * Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah *

* Run it, run it, run it,
run it, run it, run it *

* Keep it on the honey *

* Run it, run it,
run it, run it *

* Run it, run it *

* *

- * Call my bitch,
don't beat my face *

Send that bill that
[bleep] don't pay.

* Send it now
for the [bleep] don't play *

* Back outside,
it's a good-ass day *

* Ass too fat,
but [bleep] don't touch it *

* Big-ass check,
but you still ain't [bleep] *

- Yeah!

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- What's up? What's up?

- I have been
rehearsing nonstop

for my big performances
at South by Southwest.

I hit it off with
Erica Banks really

good at Khaotic's event.

So I'm like, you know what?
I should invite her

to my rehearsal, be able
to get a little opinion

from another female artist.

You know what I'm
getting ready for.

- The mother[bleep]
South by Southwest, bitch.

- This is my first time
going to South by Southwest.

- It's my first one!

- How? Texas?

- Well, you know what?
The pandemic.

- OK, OK.

- When I first had busted,
I was supposed to go,

but world shut down, bitch.

Never got to go.
So this my first one.

- Are you nervous?

- Honestly,
I am, because I ain't

never did South by Southwest.
- OK.

- But I'm not nervous, because
I have done a show in Austin

before, and the people
there are so sweet.

- They show you up?
- Oh, they support.

They don't even
have to know you. Like...

- I'm glad to hear that,

because my music
has kind of been

slowed down, because I
was getting this personal

and this business.

Then the business ended
up stretching for, like,

two years.

I have not performed.

- When was the last
time you performed?

- A year ago.
- You're kidding!

- I am so serious.

And that's making me
kind of be more like, ah,

this is my first time!

- No, no, no,
you can't think like that.

You got to go in there like--

- Yeah, yeah.

And I'm going to
play the whole show,

because that's what I'm doing.

I'm putting on a show.

I've been rapping for a minute,
but I feel like

this is like my first year
on my breakout artist, like...

- Yeah.
- I got something to prove,

and I just feel like it's time.

South by Southwest
is a huge, huge platform

for artists to be discovered.

I'm super excited.

I'm hoping that out of this,
I can

connect with all
the big DJs, producers,

label execs, the A&Rs.

I have to make this perfect.

- So what's going on?

Why you ain't
performed in so long?

- It's been so much personal,
personal [bleep] is going on.

I'm dealing with some
family drama between me

and my sisters, girl.

If you mix the business
with the personal,

it's all downhill.

My sisters,
their mentality is, "Mom,

"you always worry about Amy,
everything's

"about Amy, Amy, Amy.

We got businesses."

- I hate to say it, but I
just got to keep it real.

- Mm-mm.

- You don't have to deal
with your family.

If anything starts slowing
me down with my music

or my career, I get rid of it.

If she really love
you as your sister,

she will understand it.

- I got to figure it out,
though, ASAP.

- You gonna have to
figure it out.

- Every family has
its share of drama,

but dealing with my
family, we are literally

like the Black Kardashians.

My mom manages me and
all three of my sisters,

but recently, I have
taken off in my career,

so right now I do take all
the attention from mom,

which
has caused a lot of drama.

And I'm just trying to figure
out, like, how do I fix this?

Girl, speaking of
the mess, mess, mess,

Khaotic's listening party,
Momma Dee was fueling off some

[bleep] that was
like, "Well, you know,

"um, it's supposed to
be a baby on the way.

Diamond is pregnant."

- Wow.

- You know her and
Scrappy was a thing-thing.

- She's saying the baby by him?

- She was insinuating.

- I can't believe
that lady said that.

- This a whole married man,
and this

is a huge allegation
that you talking about.

- Mm.

So Amy just dropped
a damn bomb on me.

I feel like Amy just should
have kept that to herself.

Not even kept it to herself.

I feel like she should
have kept it from me.

Yeah, it's a sticky situation.

- And I want no part!
- I'm lost for words.

I want no part.

- I wish I didn't even hear it.

- That's really
what I'm saying.

That's why I'm like--

[stutters] I don't--
yeah, that's crazy talk.

- I walked away from
that table like,

why did I have to hear that?

- Look, if it is true,
I feel like that's

going to explode and grow.

- Coming up
on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...

- Listen to me.

The focus should have been
you fighting for your life.

What it turned into
was everybody fighting.

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

* Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Wake up,
I'm feeling blessed *

* All love,
ain't got no stress *

* It's a new day *

* I'm feeling good,
feeling great *

* I'm alive, I'm alive,
I'm alive, I'm alive *

- So how are you feeling?
You feeling pain?

You good?

- I'm getting there,
I'm getting there.

I've had a lot of time
to kind of cool off,

and I feel like I
probably overreacted

at the dance studio.

And I'm still not
happy about Angel as she

kind of trying to control
me and tell me what to do.

But know that they're
just concerned,

and they just truly love me.

It's not something to
ruin a friendship over.

- You're healing still.
- Yes.

- That's-- that's all I
want you to recognize.

Seeing you in pain
at rehearsal hurt me,

because, of course,
you have to understand

the last time I seen you
was not looking like this.

- I know.

- I was scared.

I thought you were gone.

Let me tell you something.

After what happened
in DR, Shekinah and I,

we're not the friends
you should be upset with.

- What do you mean?

- Listen to me.

The focus should have been
you fighting for your life.

What it turned into
was everybody fighting.

- Wow.

- It was a circus, a mess.

We were trying to
maintain your privacy.

We didn't want
everybody knowing

exactly where you were.

We didn't even know what was
exactly wrong with you,

so we
can't share it with the world.

But Meda was taking calls,
and Meda

wanted to do a press release.

She needed to
update social media.

- So you feel like
it was because she

was taking the phone
calls why everything

was out in the blogs?

- Who else knew that
was talking to anybody?

- I don't want to
believe that any of this

was leaking from Meda.

That's not
the Meda that I know.

- You know I'm a
Grammy member,

and I went and submitted you

for Best Reggae Album
to the Grammys.

- You lying!

[laughter]

Meda, you're the best.

But Angel is one of my
closest friends ever,

and I don't feel like
she would lie to me.

And then Shekinah feel like
Meda blocked her from coming,

because Carly was there.
- What do you mean?

- Because you know
Carly and Meda turned

best friend all of a sudden.

I don't know. Them just been
best friend overnight.

So she kind of feels
some kind of way.

Because Carly doesn't
like Shekinah.

- Crazy.

- Now that I'm hearing
Angel's side of the story,

make me wonder if what Shekinah
was telling me could be true.

And I don't know if Carly
could have gotten Meda

or she influenced me,
that was I know for a fact

Carly ain't no good.

The fact that they're my two
friends apart together now,

I feel like I'm just going
to start kind of speculating

things a little bit different.

But no, no, she kind of
said Carly an opportunist.

- I've never gotten
that from Carly

the few times
I've been around her.

- You know, but I feel like
I've been a good friend to her.

She do some shady stuff.

Like, I found out
that she went to Meda

to submit the song that I
did with her for a Grammy.

I should never
tell him about it.

And then last year when
it was my birthday,

Carly claims she had this big
birthday party.

- Oh, yeah.

- Come on, guys.

Give it up for
the birthday girl!

[all cheering]

- Why when we get
to Jamaica everybody,

"Oh, Carly complaining that,
oh, I spent so much money

"on Spice's birthday.

I had to spend
$35,000 for the bull."

- [screaming]

- You doing. Right!
You doing it; you doing it!

- [indistinct].

Carly never asked if
I should keep my party.

Like, yeah, use me for some
hype thing or some blog.

I don't do that when
it's your birthday,

so don't do that to me.

Fight people for Carly.

You know what I'm saying?

I go through so much
because of Carly.

That's why I just haven't
been speaking to her.

It's like me no
want to see her.

- Right.

- Yes, Carly did come to DR,
but going through my health

scare, I feel like
it kind of really

made me put things
into perspective.

I just need genuine
people around me

who I know that I can trust.

And I don't feel like
Carly's one of them.

I don't have time for
no fake friend who's

trying to ride my coattails.

- There are some people in our
lives that are like family.

And you have some
people that's around

for a season and a reason.

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * Made my way to the top,
there ain't no stopping *

- * You know money
ain't everything, yeah *

* You know money
not everything *

* You know money
ain't everything *

* Yeah, you know
money not everything *

* You got to
charge it to the game *

- What's up, Sie?

- What's up?

- Nothing much.

You got food for me?

- No, 'cause you bought
this food for me.

You ain't buy you no food?

- No.

- Eric, you likes
to [bleep] with me.

- I don't like to
[bleep] with you.

I just know that you don't--
you pay me no mind.

- So I just got back from LA,
and things

has been so tense in my house.

Yes,
I still planning on moving,

but I have to be very
strategic with Eric.

I can't let him know
that I'm going to leave,

because he'll just do
something vindictive.

- So it goes two ways.

It's not just always about you,
and you always do that.

And that's why I be feeling
the way I feel now.

I don't get
no love in this house.

All you do is worry
about your businesses,

your kids, and your family.

And I feel like
when I first got with you,

it was different.

I'm not sure how things got out
of hand in our relationship,

but all I want to do is get
things right back on track.

All I want Sierra to do
is show me the same love

that she shows her
career and her family,

because I'm not feeling
that right back.

- After our divorce,
me and Mason's dad

decided that Mason
would come with him

and Paris would come with me.

And I feel like you fell
in love with the Sierra

with a grown adult child,
because Paris

was 17 years old.

It was kind of just
like me and you.

I feel like since Mason
came and stayed with us,

you seeing how I'm really
like in mommy mode.

And you got to understand that.
- But see--

- You don't make me feel love.

- See, you keep
going back to you.

- I feel like-- wait a minute.
- Hold on.

I'm going to cut
you off right there.

- Let me say--

- 'Cause you saying so much,
and I'm going to stop you,

and then you could finish.
If you knew Mason

was with his dad,
it would have been right

if you would have set us down
in the family and said,

"This is what it is,

Let's make sure
everybody's comfortable."

You'd have laid it
on the table.

You didn't do that.

So now I'm uncomfortable
in my own house.

- Eric, he just likes
to [bleep] with my kids.

Like, he do little [bleep]
to get under their skin,

and he's very jealous of the
bond that I have with my kids.

And what he doesn't understand
is that my kids come first.

The reason why it's hard
to adjust with Mason--

because he's heard you call
me bitches and hos before.

You can't disrespect my
son in front of my face

and then think you just
going to come in the house

and just be like, "Oh, yeah,
she's supposed to be kumbaya

between me and this son."
- No, that's not true.

- No?

You just got
a jealous streak.

You didn't want to be
with nobody with kids.

- I didn't!
I didn't!

- Did you want
somebody with kids?

- No, I did not but I [bleep].

- --act like it too.
- But I still--

I still--

- Your ass [bleep] act like it.

- I always wanted
my next female

to have no children, because
my first should be your first.

But because I
loved her so much,

I feel like I compromised
and I still proposed to her.

And I still tried.

And building with
her and her children

was difficult,
because they're already older.

Me adding my structure
and just my lifestyle,

it kind of clashed.

So it never really worked
the way it should have worked.

That's why I don't
like to talk to you.

Because it gets nowhere.

- Don't--
you [bleep] act like it.

- This [bleep] ain't going
nowhere.

- You should have
went and got you some

some [bleep] flunky-ass
bitch with no kids,

because I'm not that bitch.

I'm not that bitch.
I'm not her.

- You don't [bleep]--
you don't listen.

You do what you want.
- I'm not her.

- That's why this [bleep]
is not going to work.

You do what you want.
It didn't work before.

It's not working now.

You do the same [bleep]
and get the same results.

- But I'm still going to be
Sierra Renee [bleep] Gates,

a powerful, strong,
Black woman who ain't going

to let no man try her.

So if you want--

- Gates is not even
your last name.

That's your
ex-husband's last name.

You didn't even
drop that last name.

- You always trying to bring
up my ex-husband and my exes.

- I'm not-- you said
Sierra Renee Gates.

That's your ex-husband's last
name, so you brought it up.

I ain't looking for [bleep].

You crazy.

That's why this
[bleep] not going--

I do not want you to be
somebody that you not.

That's dumb.

You just don't-- you do what
the [bleep] you want to do.

That's why this
[bleep] don't work.

[dramatic music]

* *

- Next time
on "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"...

- As a mom,
it stresses me out

when I see my children at odds.

- It's just Amy has
always been top priority.

She's always there
in your ass crack.

- Ass crack?
- Yes!

- Really?
- Up your ass.

- I don't like to fail.

That's what is
driving me crazy.

- You got to own it, Jessica.

- Are they going to
let me [bleep] prove myself?

- What's your motivation?

- I just want
the next half to be

sexually liberating and fun.

- I got the sexual,
liberating, fun music.

It's a vibe.

- "Put It In Your Mouth"?

- [indistinct].

- Knock, knock.
We're across the street.

- Just giving single
white females.

- Right.

- You living next
to me is a problem.

- Carly, stop! Why are you
having this [indistinct].

- I'm begging you.

I really love you.
- Stop. Carly, stop it.

When people cross me and
[bleep] me up, that's it.