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- * MTV *

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

- Speaking of Khaotic, I don't know how this happened.

Somehow your friend slid a little kiss in there.

It was a slick--it was like-- - You liked it?

- I can't say I liked it or disliked it.

- You liked it. You liked it.

I mean, that's cool. I don't want it.

- You sure?

- The consensus is is that I have something to do with

their broken marriage, but I don't.

- He's just like his mom. Like, the emotional incest

in that family is absolutely disgusting.

- I have been dealing with bitches stealing records.

- Somebody stole your record?

- Are you familiar with Renni Rucci?

- Yeah.

- I DMed her with all the facts

that proved it was my record

and she goes off and she blocks me.

I'm on boss time.

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

unless you want it to. - OK. [laughs]

[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 *

- * It's the life that I chose *

- * Make my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' *

- Aight, man. Y'all know what time it is, man.

* New money on Monday, traded in my Hyundai *

* I'm so good on the way, I'm crazy like road rage *

* You must have ADD, you must have ADD *

* 'Cause when I count that money *

- Rasheeda, you coming out here?

What is it, have a drink moment?

- Well, I figured I'd bring a bottle

just in case I need to use it. - Really?

- * Count it up, count it up, count it up *

* Count it up, count it up, count it up *

- Messing with the returns? - Yeah.

I'm trying to figure out why we have returns.

- No, no, don't, don't-- don't mess with those.

- So is we going out to eat or something after,

you know, get a little dinner?

- Well, after that, I was going to that man house after that.

- "That man"? - Khaotic.

[laughs]

- * All I do is A-D-D *

[mellow music]

* *

- * You never could take any of the blame *

* Mm, mm *

* I always had to pick up the mess you made *

* Mm, mm *

* *

- Last few months, man, have been so crazy hard, man,

you know what I'm saying, emotionally and mentally.

People that that's not even involved

trying to blame me for the divorce and stuff,

not knowing the whole situation.

- Why you letting everybody in your business right now?

- 'Cause Bam did it.

Bam told all her friends something,

and they went and spreaded it.

- They got, like, a school bus full of kids.

- Right.

- You're wrong.

- About what? - About Bam.

- She tried tell me I don't do what I do for my kids.

- * I fell in love, yeah *

- It's hard, like, looking at it like,

you know, I had somebody, you know what I'm saying,

but I was still lonely.

That was never no love there, I'm telling you.

Wasn't no love.

- I'm done with it, you know what I'm saying?

I don't want no [bleep] baby mama drama.

- Don't walk out now. - I'm done.

- What I think you should do is--

- I don't even want to hear no more, for real.

Like, you be doing some bull[bleep].

What [bleep] we talking about?

- She trying to act like she been--

- What [bleep] we talking about?

- She don't be on that [bleep].

* *

- And it came to that point, man,

since I'm finna go to this final trial with Bam,

I just wanted somebody in my corner that,

you know, really know me and got my back.

- What's going on? How you feeling?

- Feeling good. I'm feeling like

I'm going in the right direction.

- I'm just interested to know

what are your thoughts on Bambi as a step-mom?

* *

- Um, I don't care for her. I never have.

- Me and Erica relationship right now, it's cool.

I think we still low-key remember

everything we done went through.

- When I first found out about

you and Diamond's relationship, I felt betrayed.

- It's done. - What's done?

- It's done. The conversation and everything, it's done.

- That shows you weak. You can't deal with it.

- What's that? - The ring.

- We shouldn't have no beef now.

It's good for my daughter

to see her mom and dad on a cool note.

- Kudos to you, as well, for being supportive.

- Yeah, for real.

- I'm just interested to know 'cause you're on the outside

this time, looking in. - [laughs] What?

- Looking in. Looking in.

- I like these chocolate things, though.

[laughter]

- I'm here with Scrappy because, honestly,

I'm happy to have a front row seat to Bambi's karma,

although Bambi and I came to a truce not too long ago.

You just had two beautiful babies.

I have two beautiful babies. - Absolutely.

- She has siblings on both sides.

I really want us to be

at a place of peace. - Yeah.

- That was for Emani's sake and short-lived, girl.

Less than a week later, you didn't want to be around me

and you did not want Scrappy around me either.

I just feel like what you see is not what you get.

So it's one image to, you know, everybody else,

but behind closed doors, she's a totally different person.

- Wow.

- She portrays this image like, you know,

she wants everything to be cool,

but at the end of the day,

you're at the center of all the chaos and confusion.

- I'll tell you, Mr. Richardson,

there is no debate that you are an exceptional father.

And I want you to remember that

no matter how nasty she gets with you--

the comments, her friends harassing you, people online--

you are an exceptional man and an exceptional father.

I really feel that we can work towards resolving everything.

- How long do those things take?

- It's dependent upon you.

- I just want everything to be to where it's concrete,

where can't nobody go back on their word

or nothing like that. - Understood.

During divorce, sometimes you see the worst

of the other person.

But as long as you keep that high road,

Capricorn... - Yeah.

- We always end up on top, don't we?

- Oh, you a Capricorn too? - I am a Capricorn.

That's our connection.

We always take the high road. [laughs]

- Not always.

[laughter]

- Well, let me rephrase. - But you're doing good now.

You doing good. I'm shocked.

- So we are gonna work to make certain that

we get to a resolution as quickly as possible.

Then we will have a trial likely in June.

- Wow. - Likely in June.

- I just want it to be over with.

- Be over with. I understand.

- * I'm so bad, I'm a real one *

* Money maker, hustle chick *

* I'll take you down if you really want to mess with me *

- This is so nice. I love it.

I'm just praying we can get everything done in time.

The whole thing with Frost Bistro

and us wanting to revamp came from the late night hours,

and more things were going in the opposite direction

of Kirk and I's vision.

So we decided to shut it down

and figure out what the next move should be.

We wanted to do a switch with frost bistro

we decided to go, like, the brunch, breakfast route.

- You know you could be a part-time

interior designer, right?

- You know, I think that's gonna be my next passion.

- Yes, yes. - [chuckles]

Hey. - I'll bet it can.

- What? Why you looking so mean?

- The whole permit thing has kind of put us

in a [bleep] rut.

We have a grand opening coming up.

Now I find out, out the blue, we have a permit issue.

Rasheeda did not file for the general permit.

When you say, "hey, we gonna be open in a few days"

and now you talking about it's gonna take

another couple of weeks

and now we have a stop work order,

and I don't know what the [bleep] is gonna happen.

This is a [bleep] issue.

You dropped the ball

but then you really be giving me the attitude.

- Damn, I dropped the ball?

- If you pushed a little more buttons, then, guess what?

We could make a grand opening date.

We can't make a grand opening. - It ain't my fault

somebody [bleep] wanted to talk some [bleep] about

what the [bleep] we're doing. - Get the permit rolling.

- It totally went over my head.

We're also in a historical district,

so you have to file a permit with the historic preservation.

I didn't know that.

- I need my business partner to handle her business

when it's necessary to handle business.

- Come on, Kirk. It takes both of us

to make this mother[bleep] boat rock and it's--

and if anybody do slack, I mean, damn, we human.

My life is consumed with

waking up every morning at [bleep] 6:15,

taking Karter to school, coming back,

us working on all of our businesses,

trying to hold everything the [bleep] together.

When you come at me sideways and start talking [bleep]

like I don't hold my part, that [bleep] is hurtful

because I bust my ass every [bleep] single day.

I feel like--and I'm sure other women feel this way too--

a bitch don't never get a day off, ever.

- I think something's got to change.

- Wow.

I got to go get Karter, so...

let me go do that and go woosah somewhere.

There's been a whole lot today already.

- Leave me hanging, partner.

- You is really in your feelings today.

Please, somebody get him some Kleenex.

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

- Oh, whoa, whoa!

- [screaming]

- [maniacal laughing]

- Lately, it's just been like

I'm just having the attitude, being a asshole,

talking about I dropped the ball.

I'm the one who's, like, the punching bag.

- If ten people say you a ho, you a ho.

If ten people say you stole the song, you're a thief.

- This is not going the way I wanted it to go.

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

[upbeat music]

* *

- Ah, hey!

* When it comes to war, we dressed in jet black *

* But we don't want to hurt nobody *

- Ow. - Yeah.

* *

- What's up, cutie?

[laughs] - Hey!

- Hey, darling.

- What's up, girlfriend? - How are you?

What's wrong? - I have not been able to shake

that last meeting with Spice. - I know.

That was, like, unexpected.

- What's wrong with your face? Let me see.

[gasps]

Oh, my God! Every day it's something else!

Oh, my God!

- I could never imagine what she went through.

- Me, too.

I am so happy that Spice's daughter is fine.

But hearing my friend say she feels like

she's going to die--

- I feel like I'm gonna die early.

- Don't say that. - Spice!

- Please, don't say that.

Don't say that. - It's just true.

- I have to really help her change her thinking.

You cannot go into this life saying things like that.

- I just pray for her strength. It's crazy.

Speaking of strength,

I need enough to choke Kirk out.

- [laughs] - Just for a minute.

- You need enough strength to choke him out?

What is going on? - Just for a second.

Lately, it's just been like,

I'm just having an attitude, being a asshole,

talking about I dropped the ball.

Because of a permit that he's, like,

frustrated about a bunch of stuff in life.

But I'm the one who's, like... - Mm.

- The punching bag. - Yeah.

That's because you're the closest thing to him.

- And I'm just like, you know what?

I'm over it right now.

Being in a marriage and also working together

is not for everybody. [laughs]

And you just be like, "you know what, I just wanna

skip past this part," but you can't.

Because every situation that you go through

does build character.

But, boy, you be ready to [bleep] some people up

in the process.

- So y'all are going at it about it

or was it just like, "you forgot the permit"?

- No, he cussed me out. - He cussed you out?

- Like, just dogging me out.

- And you don't take that stuff well.

- Even though he pissed me off, and he was wrong,

and I really be on some bull[bleep],

but for real, for real-- - Wait a minute.

He was all the way wrong or was he a little bit right?

- No, that's true. - OK.

- I didn't know about the permit thing.

And then everything else just spilled out about how he felt

about a whole bunch a [bleep].

But there's not a time that I don't want him to think

that he's not the [bleep].

- Right. - You know what I mean?

I try to empathize with Kirk.

He's always been my strongest supporter.

And when it comes to the bistro,

I want him to understand that I have that same love

and support for him because he's put

a lot of his life aside just for me.

So what's up with you and Mendeecees?

- When I tell you Mendeecees has been so down,

because he is getting dragged and beat up

since he did that Shannon Sharpe interview.

The only thing that helped a little bit is his son

just started talking about,

"Dad, you're this type of dad to me.

Like, I know who you are." - Right.

- And his son just completely poured into him.

- Aww.

- And almost instantly his mood changed.

- See? That was sweet.

- So maybe you need to get Karter in the mix.

Maybe you need, like, Karter to come over--

- You know, that's a good idea.

- Maybe Karter needs to soften up the mood a little bit.

- Yes.

Karter would be a great idea to just,

you know, bring him in.

You know, he always brings a smile

to me and Kirk's face, even when we're at, like,

the worst mood ever in life.

- Hopefully, that permit situation gets worked out.

I got a connect at the City of Atlanta.

- Mm.

- I'ma text you her information.

- Please do.

- Speaking of business,

I got this panel that I'm getting ready to do.

Meda booked me to speak on this women empowerment panel.

- I heard about it. - Yeah.

- She had reached out to me, but I got

something going on that day. - OK.

This is interesting because it's a all-women's event,

and it's for up-and-coming artists.

So I'm on the panel, Deb Antney's on the panel,

Erica Banks, Amy-- remember Amy from the spa?

- The girl from the spa, yeah. - Yes, yes, yes, she's coming.

Renni Rucci's gonna be there as well.

- Oh, wow. You know what?

That's probably a good thing for them to go to.

Because I think Amy and Renni end up having, like,

beef and stuff like that. - I don't know.

- What's going on with you and Renni?

- It was some musical stuff.

You know, me being a artist, I wrote a song.

About four months later,

everybody's sending me this video of her

rapping my full song on YouTube.

And I'm like-- - Really?

- That's probably good for them.

Maybe they can learn how to get along

if they do got a problem.

Because females need to learn how to stick together...

- Yeah.

- Especially in the music industry.

- Oh, my God, we'll talk about it all, hopefully.

- Drink good as hell. - I mean, we ain't got

the OG Rasheeda coming through. - Oh, whatever!

- But I'ma try to speak as if I was speaking...

- You got it. - On your behalf.

- [laughs] - OK?

- I'm over here talking about "this drink good, ain't it?"

- Your [bleep] is gone. - Gone, OK?

And I need another one. - Period.

- * It's your birthday, it's your birthday *

* Go on, turn it up, it's your birthday *

* Tonight is going down, it's your birthday *

* I know that you want to have fun in the worst way *

- Hey. - Hey.

- What's up?

- Wow, man, this is a bittersweet day.

My daughter 18, man.

Like, I remember she was just this--

this little baby I held in my arms.

She blossomed to be this beautiful young lady, man.

You know, celebrating my daughter's birthday

with Erica, feel good to do that now.

- You guys gonna be playing "Deadwood Mansion."

That's the scariest one to me. - "Deadwood Mansion"?

Is that like zombies and stuff? - Mm-hmm.

- I like zombies. - I think we need to do that.

[upbeat music]

- All right.

I'm a soldier in the army of the lord.

- So now I need y'all to come up with a team name.

- We need a team name.

- It would feel good if we said "Family,"

'cause we are family. - Family?

- We family. - OK. We'll say family.

- Yeah, we family.

- We'll roll with that. - You dig.

Erica, after all these years, man,

you know what I'm saying-- arguing, fighting--

Emani told me straight up like this one day.

She said, "hey, Daddy," like,

"Y'all can be cordial. Y'all can be cool."

And for real, like, the past, like, eight to nine months

it's cool, friendly. We all still connected.

We all a family through Emani.

- You guys ready to drop into the virtual world now?

- Yup. - Yeah.

- All right, let's go.

[ominous music]

- All right, man. Let's get it.

- Come on. Back to back. Let's get ready.

- Hold on, what's going on, cuz?

- Y'all see the bodies? - Yeah, they there.

- There they go. - Oh, whoa, whoa!

[screaming]

Oh, [bleep]!

Hold on, cuz! Get up off me! - [screams]

- Hey, get up off my-- get up off my daughter.

[screaming]

- [maniacal laughter]

- Woo! From the ceiling! From the ceiling!

[all screaming]

- Get off me, you little slugger.

- Oh, hell no!

[both shouting indistinctly]

- I definitely had the best zombie kills.

I do my thing, you know what I'm saying?

I am a PlayStation, Xbox guru.

Congrats to you.

You finna go to college, finna graduate.

- Yes. I'm so ready to go to college.

- You finna be 18! - You're gonna be 18.

- Yes. - Yes. How do you feel?

- I feel amazing. Like, I'm so excited.

Like, I'm extremely excited about

all the new things that's coming to me.

- I'm so grateful to have this kid, man.

Like, she'll move a mountain for me,

you know what I'm saying, for her Dad.

And I'd do the same thing for her.

- Let me ask you this. So with divorce and everything,

like, after seeing the lawyer this week, how you doing?

- Man, I'm trying to just get myself together

'cause I got kids, you know what I'm saying?

- Yup.

- I got to be there for all of 'em, so--

- I'm happy that you are, like, getting yourself together.

But it also reminded me how strong,

like, you are as a person.

'Cause you're not around Debbie Downer anymore, so--

- So who? - Debbie Downer.

- "Debbie Downer"? - Yes.

- Bambi, Debbie Downer. - Oh.

- Energy that brings you down constantly,

causes you to continue to have drama and turmoil

where it doesn't need to be. - Yes.

I couldn't even get online without somebody asking me,

"do you feel some type of way about

what Bam said about your mom?"

- Shut up, bitch.

- It has nothing to do with you, sweetheart.

- So shut the [bleep] up. - No, you shut the [bleep] up.

- Shut the [bleep] up with your little nappy-ass bob, bitch.

- I don't play about my mom. I don't play about my dad.

So when anybody, no matter who they are,

when I feel like they disrespect them,

then you're really disrespecting me,

and I really can't fool with you like that.

- I honestly think Emani's speaking out now

because she's tired, she's fed up.

To be in a household and constantly hear

somebody have something negative to say about your mom,

and then you see how she talks to your dad,

she's 18 now, so it's like, "you know what?

"I don't like this, and this is something that

I don't have to deal with."

- I look at it and I be like,

man, I don't want the babies to go through

what you went through-- - Go through what I had to.

Yes. - You know what I'm saying?

- I do not want that for none of--like, ooh.

- Nobody. 'Cause it's like, you know,

Like, I feel like we missed a lot of

situations because of it.

With Erica, man, I didn't like what we went through.

This time, I want no smoke with the mother of my kids.

Like, I ain't doing this again, you know?

So I just want to be cool, man.

I want to be able to co-parent in peace.

- You got to make a wish. A real wish.

- I think we should all do it together.

- OK. - No, it's my day.

- [laughs] - Yay!

- That was so shady.

- That was shady. - It was.

- I hope the cake is nasty.

- Family hug.

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

- Every day you have been coming in

just tripping all the time. Like, it's just like, negative.

- I'm supposed to be happy.

We're just jolly, joy, happy. Oh, yeah.

We're just stuck sitting here spending money.

- There will be no getting to base two, three, and four

until there's, like, a understanding.

Because if you slide into the real home base, you mine.

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * On my way to top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good *

* I'm good, I'm good, I'm good *

* I'm alive, it's a dry time on it *

* Got to cut ties to show 'em I really want it *

* *

- How that homework coming? - It's pretty good.

- How much more do you got left, Karter?

- Um, I'm on my last one, actually.

- Oh, OK.

I don't know what the heck is wrong with me

with this dadgum paper towel.

[mumbles indistinctly]

[music fades]

- Hey, Dad.

- What's wrong with you? - What's up?

It's another [bleep] up day, same old thing.

- I'm gonna just take a second to breathe,

because I'm trying to be that supportive wife

that I need to be.

But, boy, let me tell you, it can be hard.

Every day, you have been coming in

just trippin' all the time, like, it's just like, negative.

[suspenseful music]

- I supposed to be happy? We're just jolly, joy, happy.

Oh, yeah, we're just stuck sitting here spending money.

We're not moving forward. - I'm just asking.

- The bistro, bills, no permit, can't open the doors--

what do you mean what's wrong? It's a lot.

- Life happens, Kirk. I mean, things happen.

Everything ain't gonna be like you want it to be all the time.

- Feeling all the pressure that I already been feeling,

not being able to speak to Rasheeda

and have that wife there, the comfort zone,

it's like, damn, I can't even really vent to nobody

'cause we're mad at each other.

So that means another night of holding [bleep] in.

- Dad, can you hear this essay that I'm writing?

I just want you to listen to it to see if it sounds right.

- Let me hear it. - All right.

"My dad is funny, creative, and kind.

"He puts me as his first priorities,

"and I am grateful for that.

"In fact, if you're one of his guests,

"he will treat you very nicely and will show you around.

"To Dad, from Karter. Stay blessed.

I love you, Dad. Prayers to you."

- Well, OK. I'm happy to hear that.

See? You love me.

- That was sweet. - Yes.

You thought about me this time. - I did.

- For him to write the essay, I felt great, I felt loved,

I felt appreciated.

You know, I really feel like I wish there were more Karters.

This is very sweet.

- That was really sweet, Karter.

- Did you put him up to this?

- I did.

You know, I want you to understand that

you are appreciated. You're an amazing father.

You know, you're super strong, super smart.

You lead this family. - Well, I feel--

- And I'm not saying you can't feel how you want to feel.

- No, I feel better you saying that.

Because I want to feel like the work that I'm doing,

and spending my time,

and busting my knuckles is appreciated.

That helps, totally.

I'ma be honest.

With Rasheeda saying she appreciates me,

it feels like a ton of bricks being lifted off my shoulder

and it's just good to hear it.

I don't feel like I need a accolade.

I just want to know you appreciate me.

- I was trying to put the damn paper towel thing together.

I couldn't get this [bleep] to screw in there.

Shut up. [laughs]

- Yeah, as--as always.

Give me that Allen wrench.

- I ain't even use the damn thing.

That's probably what the problem is.

- I appreciate that. I feel--

I feel loved again.

I was having a moment, you know?

I apologize for my [bleep] up attitude.

- Well, your apology is accepted.

And on another note... - Mm-hmm?

- Um, we did get the permit.

- So we back moving? - Yes.

- So I could get back to banging, and slamming, and--

- Slangin' and bangin'. [laughs]

- Good.

- Let's get this [bleep] done, babe.

It was just a little--

- See, that's the teamwork we need.

- * You're my whole life *

* *

* Out of everybody on my phone *

* No brainer, you the go-to *

* No need for us to sit down one-on-one *

* Baby, let me call you *

- Hi.

- So some time has passed since the flirty kiss

and all the activities going on on FaceTime.

So it's very important I talk to Khaotic because

after the situation with his video shoot,

I'm trying to figure out what's happening.

I want to talk about this then skip over it.

And I don't want to stay on it.

You know, I feel like there a lot of bitches

coming and going.

Not even gon' talk about Erica Banks,

but when I came to the video shoot..

- Uh-huh. - I'm not gon' lie.

I walked up and it was just kind of like--

and I shouldn't feel why is it awkward seeing you hug her.

Why is it awkward for me? - No front.

- But it was. - I think I was doing squats.

Right? - You had her picked up.

- Put me down, boy. [laughs]

Put me the--Khaotic!

- No, that was--friend, so what I was doing was--

you know I've been in the gym?

I'm showing all the people at the video shoot,

like, look how strong I am. - That you strong? Oh, yeah.

- Erica Banks got a little weight on her.

- Oh, yeah. - She ain't no--

she not a big girl, but she got like--

- Yeah. - She got a little bit of--

- It was cute. - So it felt like,

ooh, look at me squatting. - "Ooh, look."

- Like, I know how to do squats with a person.

- Seeing how he's moving with Erica Banks, this is different.

Like, he's never been in front of me

hugging a bitch, holding a bitch in the air.

Starting to kind of squint at them two.

The freaky [bleep] that he say he wants to do to me,

I feel like he's already done to her and I don't like it.

And I don't want to be that girl, but I'm that girl.

It's the--we're just like, boo baby bestie.

Boo bestie.

- I like boo baby bestie. - Boo baby bestie.

- Ooh, boo baby bestie.

- But you my boo baby bestie.

- I'm your boo baby bestie.

- And I'm not trying to control you,

but stop playing with me.

Too many people get princess treatment,

boo baby bestie.

It ain't gonna be no getting to base two, three, and four,

until there's like, a understanding

of, like, what we doing.

Because if you slide into the real home base,

you mine. It's like a contract.

- Amy telling me if I slide into her home base

that I'm hers, if I do that with Amy,

then I might strike out with Erica.

So I'm gonna shoot for the grand slam,

and hopefully I score at both.

Baseball is a confusing sport.

Just thinking about it,

I'm getting turned on even more right now.

- Really? - I don't want to stand up.

- OK. 'Cause I didn't know if--

I was like, that's your phone? - No, I'm [bleep].

- So you're [bleep] right now.

- Yeah. - Wow.

- Right here. - That easy.

I'm trying to be straightforward,

but Khaotic cannot stop playing games.

Things like this remind me of

why I'm not giving it up easily.

So I made that clear.

And until he's willing to step it up,

I'm just keeping my eyes open on him.

I'm not moving too fast. I'm not in a rush.

- Well, what else been going on?

- Let me tell you. I was invited

to this event for women in the industry.

And, of course, you know, it sound good.

It's a women's conference.

It's just supposed to be women empowerment,

all these great people.

And then, you know, I'm hearing,

OK, Renni's gonna be there too.

- Renni Rucci? - That's what Yandy told me.

And, you know, she and I, we have not met still.

- Have y'all spoke about anything?

- We have not spoke. We haven't talked.

- Oh, my God. - We have not--

- So how you think that's gonna play out?

- I think that 'cause an embarrassment behind

what happened on her end,

that she's probably not gon' want to hear it,

which could probably turn me into the Detroit person.

- Please don't turn into the Detroit person.

- This will actually be my first time

seeing Miss Renni Rucci--

run off with your song hoochie--

in person and it's very important

because although it's been years,

I did not sweep this under the rug.

This has to be fixed and squared away.

I hope Renni Rucci does not try me in front of these women

'cause it's a "women empowerment" network event,

and I'm really not trying to do that.

Knock the bitch out the park.

- OK, you ain't got to knock no [bleep] out, now.

- Yeah, we do that too, but I don't want to.

- I know, but you ain't got to take 'em to Detroit.

[laughing] For real, don't take 'em to Detroit.

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

- There's a door here for you to go home.

There's a pathway for you to walk straight to her.

You make that decision,

'cause everywhere you go, you leave a legacy.

What you want your legacy to be when you leave here?

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * Let's go *

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* All right *

* The world needs a little more estrogen *

* A bit more swagger, and power, and confidence *

* I'm saying, strut mamas, we rule the world *

* Yeah, no doubt about it *

* Go ahead and work it, own it *

* Come let me see you show it *

- How you doing? - How are you?

- Who do I have here with me today?

- The one and only Amy Luciani.

- Hey, how you doing today? - I'm feeling good.

- And when you feel good, you win.

- You win. We winning over here.

- Hi.

- * Every woman *

- The one thing I'll say to you is, you never lose.

It's always a lesson. - All right.

- Every yes, you probably got 50 no's first.

- * I am stronger *

- Bye, darling.

Good seeing you.

- * I am smarter, a fighter, a go-getter *

* I'm every woman *

- Sexy ladies.

- Hey, girl!

- You look stunning.

- Meda booked me to be a panelist

at her women's empowerment event,

which I'm excited about because

this is an audience full of up-and-coming artists.

Being a woman in music,

there are a lot of pitfalls that can happen

without the right guidance.

- We gotta get a drink,

talking of you being on the panel.

I already knew that Erica Banks was gonna be

a panelist at this event.

I just want to figure out what's going on

with her and Khaotic.

Is he in your face, my face? Sis, really, what's the tea?

Girl, so we ain't talked since the whole Khaotic music video.

- He did--he also felt the way that you came

'cause you was real aggressive.

- When? - When you got there.

You was like, "Oh, so I'm that video girl?"

- And that was when I was-- - But I wasn't tripping though.

I was just like, OK. - I wasn't trippin'.

But he told me the whole setup of the video was different.

You talking about it's gonna be a sign.

You're gonna be walking with me, da, da, da.

When I came up, he's like,

"so after Erica, you gon' come."

I said, "Hold on, stop."

I'm not try make this be no weird thing.

But that's not what the video was supposed to be.

- See, I didn't know that.

I didn't know he told you about a sign.

If I were her, I would be worried about me.

Me and him been getting a little serious.

Like, he been taking me out.

And I told him that once he off the market,

he's off the mother[bleep] market.

He makes it obvious when he come around

who he really want to be with.

So I think she should just let it go.

- Hey, y'all. - Hey.

- Girl, what's tea?

You're [bleep] him or you're not [bleep] him.

- I got to go get ready for the panel discussion.

- I'm excited that Khaotic's gonna turn

his game into a competition.

Because one thing about me, I don't lose.

I might not even want you,

but I'm still not gonna lose to the next girl.

So, as I said before, may the best woman win.

- How you feeling?

- Girl, I'm just trying to figure it on out.

- Yeah? - I'm just trying to

really be in the space

with just meeting so many new people of being like,

"let's have a understanding. Like, we good or we not good?

- I remember that you said there was a song,

that the song was performed. - That would be Renni.

I was brought in to write some music,

and I was dealing with some pubs.

And then, about eight months later,

the fans are blowing me up on Instagram like,

"Amy, this is weird. This is your song

and this artist is rapping it." I'm like, OK.

You know, I naturally go and look into it,

and it's Renni Rucci. So let me DM you.

She responded.

"Oh, yeah, I was on some [bleep] for clout.

"Take that up with the label.

I ain't got [bleep] to do with that," and blocked.

Now I go public with it, but I'm not calling her out.

I'm calling out the label. - The label.

- She said some petty [bleep]. I said some petty [bleep].

I think, as women,

it could have been handled a little better.

It's already hard enough for Black women to do

what I'm trying to do and pull off.

So to have another Black woman disrespect me like that,

it is personal for me.

- Renni is gon' be here, so I want y'all to talk.

Have a conversation. If it goes well, then great.

If not, at least you tried.

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[cheers and applause]

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- This is the Art of Woman, because what you do is an art.

These ladies on my panel, I brought them up here

not because of their accolades,

but because of their experiences.

We are going to discuss

some really harsh issues and experiences.

So if you ain't ready to talk some real reality,

you can always leave. - Ouch.

- Y'all ready to go? [cheers and applause]

We need to stop being in competition.

If I need to tie her shoe

or take a booger off her nose,

that's what I'm here for.

Because if my sister's uplifted,

my sister's gon' carry me.

- When we come into the industry

and we're not used to the internet,

it consumes us so much that we start to believe

that we have a problem with the next bitch.

I have allowed the internet to make me feel like

I have a problem with this girl,

and I have never even met her in person.

- Please research before you go sign a deal,

before you sign a management contract.

Look at what you're signing.

- There's that level of confidence

when you walk in there.

'Cause when you walk through there,

you let them know this is yours.

You have to teach people how to treat you, period.

[applause]

- Amy, talk to us about this rap beef.

Give us a little bit.

- A little bit, little bit.

My mentality is so different. I think that I--

I'm just trying to make the money, right?

And I feel like I've had some little run-ins

with some of the girls in the industry.

I just feel like we're too emotionally charged right now.

And if the focus is the money,

we got to kind of pull out the personal more.

It's childish.

- Your best asset, your best marketing,

your best song is you.

Because when you got it, you can do it again.

Own your authority. Own your artistry.

Own your resilience. Own your fortitude.

You walk in the room, you are the artist.

- That's right.

- Amen. Amen. [applause]

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- OK, women of the hour.

- Thank you so much. - Hey!

- Thank you so much.

- Hey.

Y'all look so good, first of all.

- You made it.

- Sorry I'm late. - It's OK, baby.

- So Meda invited me to her women's empowerment event

at Jasmine's gender reveal.

- I'm taking a bunch of women who want to be artists

and I'm asking them "are you built for this?"

- I'm definitely coming.

- Where you coming from? You missed the whole panel.

- I was in South Carolina.

My daughter's birthday was yesterday.

She run track, so she had a championship to run.

There was just a lot of stuff going on.

I would have been here earlier

but, you know, I'm a mother first.

I had to take care at home before I came,

but I still wanted to make sure I came.

- I don't know if Amy is still here.

But I told her, I said,

y'all gon' bump into each other.

- Your eyebrows went up.

- Y'all should absolutely have a conversation.

'Cause sometimes it be weird.

- I definitely feel like

the situation with me and Amy is so tired.

Like, it's been going on for years.

You keep talking about the same old thing.

If it was this much of an issue,

my song is still streaming.

So I cut the record.

She had already cut the record. I knew nothing about it.

You speak about me. You go to the blogs.

- Right. It wasn't your fault.

- She said she wanted to keep it private.

That's why DMed you.

- Well, how did she want to keep it private

if she went to the blogs and--

- I think she thinks you went to the blog first.

- How? - I'ma grab her so we can--

we could squash this right here, right now.

I think Amy's ready to squash things with Renni.

And I think this is the perfect opportunity

for me to put them in front of each other.

So y'all never met each other. This is Amy.

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

- Aren't you a slide who doesn't write?

- Bitch gonna sit in my face and call me no slide

and say all this extra [bleep]. - This bitch said it.

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

- * On my way to the top and it ain't no stoppin' *

[tense music]

- So y'all never met each other.

This is Amy. - OK.

- Um, yeah.

I just felt like, you know, while we here,

let's seize the opportunity.

- I love to seize the opportunity.

- Yeah. You know how you feel,

what you shared with me.

Just share what you shared with me

so that y'all could just be clear.

'Cause y'all not clear. - Right.

- 'Cause from what she thinks happened,

it's different from what you think happened.

- So, you know what?

I don't even want it to be, like, childish.

I feel like you responded kind of crazy.

- It was just rude.

I felt like the message that I sent, to be blocked,

I thought that was just crazy. - That's why I feel like

when you say blocked and all that,

you was making things up,

'cause I didn't block you until the blog [bleep] happened.

I didn't even see your DM

or I feel like I was rude or anything.

Even when I went live to talk about the situation,

I never once, like, was rude

about you, towards you, anything.

I said it was a confusion with whoever you work with.

You know who we both work with.

At the end of the day, if you were so mad about a record,

it's three years later. - It's not even mad.

It was just I feel like-- - It's three years later.

- And I'm not mad about it.

Listen--OK, you're right about something.

It was three years old.

But still, how you handled it, you blocked me--

- I hate you feel that way. - Let me--can I chime--

can I chime-- - I hate you feel that way.

- And it's the truth. - I hate you feel that way.

- And I knew the conversation was gon' go just like this.

That's why I didn't have it with you--

- But let me say something. - A year ago,

the year before that, and the year before that.

- Instead you kept saying it to the blogs.

You got what you wanted.

- You think I'm sending this to blogs?

Oh, they're eating you up.

- They got all your screenshots, all of your--

- Listen, if ten people say you a ho, you a ho.

If ten people say you stole a song, you're a thief.

- Ain't you a comedian? - Period. No, no, no, no.

Aren't you a slide who doesn't write?

- Bitch gon' sit in my face and call me no slide

and say all this extra [bleep].

- This bitch said it. - Who, bitch?

- You don't write songs. You a--you're a slide.

- You don't either. - I write 'em all, bitch.

- This is not going the way I wanted it to go.

- You pressed. You're pressed. - What up? What up?

You don't write, bitch.

You don't fight. You don't write.

Bitch, what you want to do, ho? [all shouting]

- What's up? What's up? - Bitch, pick a pen up, ho.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold up. Hold up.

Hold up. Hold up. This is not the same Amy

that just sat on this panel

talking about how rap beefs shouldn't happen,

and it's ridiculous, and it stops the money.

You are screaming this in front of every single person

that sat there and heard you say rap beefs are stupid.

- All that, that's rude.

We don't have respect for each other.

So don't be mad when a person with the worst temper go off.

Ain't nothing to talk about. - No, walk away.

- And I'm walking away right now.

- Walk away. - But I said what I said.

- You said some amazing things sitting up there on that couch.

And then you let somebody come in here

and rent space in your head for free.

- The only thing you can control

is you and how you react.

- There you go. - Right.

- You can never control what somebody else does.

I know it wasn't you, and it's crazy.

This was three years ago,

but you don't see the energy you give.

You was just looking at her, and you didn't listen.

What she said was she didn't block you because

you DMed her about the record.

She blocked you once you went online

talking about whatever you was talking about.

That's when she blocked you,

and that's when she saw the previous DM.

- I got respect for Yandy,

for everything she's done in the industry for women.

I definitely got respect for Deb.

I need to stay calm.

I'm working on not blacking out anymore.

I'm working on not Gemini-ing.

- I'ma go check on Renni, make sure she good.

There's a door here for you to go home.

There's a pathway here for you to walk straight to her.

You make that decision on

what you want this legacy in this room--

'cause everywhere you go, you leave a legacy.

What you want your legacy to be when you leave here?

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- * On my way to the top, and there ain't no stoppin' *

[suspenseful music]

- There's a door here for you to go home.

There's a pathway here for you to walk straight to her.

You make that decision on

what you want this legacy in this room--

'cause everywhere you go, you leave a legacy.

What you want your legacy to be when you leave here?

I'm not really sure after hearing the whole conversation

why Amy is still blaming Renni.

You have to sometimes take accountability for being green,

and being new in this business, and being excited.

I'm really hoping and praying that she actually

has a conversation and listens to Renni.

- OK.

How--how I just reacted and responded was not--

it was my natural response,

but it don't make it the right response.

But it wasn't the way it should have been.

So, as I was saying, I think that

you didn't necessarily have

any parts to do with what happened.

I just felt disrespected from how it was handled.

That's why I reacted that way. - OK.

And I understand why you felt how you felt.

And I don't mean to cut you off. But even when--

when I caught wind of what was going on, I just told Yandy,

I never felt like you was wrong for how you felt.

I felt if you made it a personal attack on me.

So if you feel like I was rude or I didn't care

because I didn't say anything to you,

I went to who put me in the situation.

You got a personal issue with me about something that

I necessarily didn't directly do to you.

How you know I ain't have that beat first?

- Well--go ahead. I don't want to interrupt you.

I ain't tryna be rude. - You ain't gotta interrupt me.

I'm done.

This has got to be like a "Twilight Zone" or something.

'Cause this is the same girl

who call me everything but a child of God.

Now you standing here apologizing?

Like, make it make sense.

- I feel like how the situation grew,

if it could have been done over,

I wish it could have been handled a little different.

Me and you--'cause, again, we don't know each other.

So it wasn't like I could just call and be like, "Hey."

- But that's the thing. I felt so wronged

in the situation, like, I-- I really would have.

- I think that you can at least understand like,

what we trying to pull off, it'd be a lie.

Now that we're in this year,

I don't really want no smoke. We in Atlanta.

There's been plenty of places I've been seeing you,

but it was like, stay over there, I'ma stay over here.

And it shouldn't be like that if a conversation--

- And I'll say I should have-- I should have reached out

and responded in a different way.

- Yandy was right. Keep my reputation high.

I don't want to scare the money off.

I'm trying to make it in this industry.

And I'm just hoping that we can stay on this vibration

and just keep the dialogue going,

so we can get back to business,

back to the money,

and leave the bull[bleep] behind us.

I'm just gon' take this situation

and just learn better with it.

Instead of taking it so personal,

I will [bleep] with her. If she ain't finna say [bleep],

maybe my thought could have been like,

maybe she getting some straight in the corner with them.

Maybe she-- - That's all it was.

- It was just the silence. - That's all it was.

- So I get it.

- I'm so glad you walked back over.

- Yes. - I thought that was amazing.

See? I'm glad. I'm glad.

I'm not even gonna say thank you, 'cause it wasn't nothing.

But I'm glad you walked over.

And I'm glad you sat,

and relaxed, and chilled. - Yes.

Thank you, baby. - 'Cause Lord knows...

- Thank you. Thank you. - We got enough beef out here.

- These shoes are too high for me to be

trying to break up anything. - Oh, we wasn't gonna go there.

- I'm glad. - But y'all got it out.

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- They may have to open me back up again

and do multiple surgeries.

And I wasn't telling you guys

because I never want you to get worried about it.

- Emani hasn't even been over there.

- To my new house?

- She hasn't been to the old house.

She's went when you're not there, Bambi...

- Exactly.

- Because you've mistreated her.

- What do you want to do? You want to square up?

- Oh, bitch. Square the [bleep] up, bitch!

- No, no, no, no, no!

- You never come to any her [bleep]!

- Bitch, you just bought the mother[bleep] house

across the street! You a stupid ass bitch.

- And you [bleep] a married man!

- Ooh!

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