"Are you Thor or Mighty Mouse?"
Benzino poses a very good question to Stevie J about his relationship with Joseline Hernandez. Who's wearing the pants here?
He has three recent strikes against him: Joseline saw the naughty nudies on his phone that were not of her. She thinks Stevie J slept with Althea, Benzino's fiance. And now she's mad because Benzino placed his ex Mimi on the cover of Hip Hop Weekly with Joseline in the centerfold.
How does he make it up to her? He does a video for her! She is suddenly much happier and is even considering opening up her "kitty cat" for him.
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Mimi is horrified that after her father died, Stevie J wrote her note, "Karma's a bitch."
That's plain nasty. Yet she still wants him to have a good relationship with their daughter.
Stevie is bitter about Mimi's sex tape, call it a disaster. (He almost got into a fight with Nikko awhile back over it.)
Ariane, the meddler, goes to Stevie J and tries to glean info out of him while psychoanalyzing Mimi's inside pain. Ariane is also annoyed when Stevie J makes light of Mimi's dad's death. "Did he have a heart attack after seeing the tape?" Stevie says snidely.
"When I strike, I strike hard," he says, calling himself a "good guy."
Ariane thinks Mimi did that tape to take revenge on Stevie J. He suggests she could better have had revenge by dating a pro basketball player, not Mr. Stevie Lite Nikko.
She thinks Mimi will have a breakdown. So they decide they need to have an intervention. "She's with a scumbag," he says. "She needs to get back with herself."
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Karlie Redd is back together with Yung Joc, confident that he's no longer rockin' that "realtor" chick with the Cheshire Cat grin Khadijah . Karlie, who dubs her Miss Piggy, got into a fight with a few episodes ago.
He has since promised he isn't hooking up with Miss Piggy.
Instead, he's recording with Karlie and seriously pushing her music out there. She's impressed. All seems good.
With Yung Joc supposedly out of town for work, Karlie and Erica hit a fashion show where Erica runs into her ex Scrappy and they flirt a bit. She claims she still loves Scrappy but no reunion is forthcoming.
Scrappy then sidles over to Yung Joc, who happens to be out with that "realtor" lady. Ruh roh.
Karlie approaches Yung Joc.
And scene.
If this storyline sounds especially contrived, well, welcome to "Love and Hip Hop Atlanta."
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Waka Flocka met with her mom Deb Antney. She had been disappointed when she found out he and Tammy Rivera got married at the courthouse and she wasn't able to bask in the glory at a big ceremony. She felt "robbed" because she had already lost a son to suicide and now is "losing" another to marriage. He points out that he'll always love her and she should see it as gaining a daughter. She is okay with that. She also makes nice with Tammy, who wants to go a fertility clinic. "Give me my grandkids and I'm happy," Deb says.
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Pregnant Kaleena brings Rasheeda to the OB-GYN so she'd have someone to talk to. She gets to see her baby in the ultrasound. The doc tells her to reduce stress and stop having sex for now.
She is stressed living in a hotel while they find a new pad since their old one is infested with mold.
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Unaddressed storylines: Rasheeda and Kirk; Benzino & Althea; Scrappy and his current ladies.
TRAILER FOR NEXT WEEK
We see Karlie get into it with Yung Joc over his breach of trust. Then we're at the Althea listening party I attended a few weeks back where Benzino talks prenup, which Althea resists. Stevie J tries to advise Mimi and she considers it "torment." But how trustworthy is Nikko?
TV RATINGS
This show continues to sizzle. Last week's 13th episode drew 3.93 million viewers and a 2.1 18-49 rating, both season highs. Those are also the second best ratings ever for a non-reunion show in both cases.
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