Here are eight amazing things we learned from Monday night's episode of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta."
1) Joseline Hernandez is insecure about her relationship with Stevie J. I guess it's hard to blame her. Last season, she was the woman who got between him and Mimi. He has a blatant reputation as a playboy. So it's natural for her to see any other female he's working as potential prey, even someone as unattractive as rapper Che Mack. You have to give Stevie (a little bit of) credit. He wants to work with Che Mack but wants to do it upfront so he gets the ladies together to theoretically hash things out, perhaps even have them work on a song together. Che Mack is agreeable. Joseline? Not so much. She keeps calling Che Mack the "b' word and says she would never work with Che - ever. Then she starts to get into a physical fight with her, pried apart by security. Fortunately, this "business" meeting was held at that classy joint, Bones. Oh, wait. Correction. Strip club Magic City. That's more like it. They both get booted out. "I created a monster. Dr. Frankenstein," Stevie J muses, regarding Joseline. He says he can't have Joseline and work with Che at the same time. Not that this will deter him from trying to find a solution. There is always that therapist he used last year for Mimi and Joseline. That worked well, didn't it?
2) DJ Babey Drew gets snookered. Things were finally looking up for the sneaker store Drew was opening. He finally received the $25,000 check from his baby's mama Traci, who still loves him years later but refuses to reconcile with him. Instead, she has spent the past two episodes harping about his lady friends. In this episode, she convinces him to hire a good (male) manager and not a set of "groupie ho's" he auditioned in last week's episode. Then he has to tell her the bad news: his partner ran off with the $50,000 they put into the store, which won't be opening. "We had a verbal contract and a [paper] contract that wasn't signed," he admits. Yipes. That was stupid!
3) Ariane really wants in on this "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" business. Can you blame her? She's some sort of peripheral figure who has left zero impression on me until she shows up at the video shoot Mimi and her boyfriend Nikko were doing. I think K. Michelle brought her. Last week, K. Michelle began spouting off that Johnny (the singer) was gay. (Didn't she also say Kirk was gay, too? She thinks every guy who isn't sleeping with her is gay!) Ariane gets in the middle of this one with Mimi. This week, she convinces Mimi to fly to New York with her to meet up with K. Michelle and fix this dispute. A detente appears faint at best. Why? To date, K. Michelle's record is never admitting weakness or vulnerability and acting juvenile and angry when confronted. Clearly, she didn't take her lessons from Jimmy Carter.
4) K. Michelle doesn't mind spreading rumors if it means more camera time. She upped the ante tonight in New York City by telling Mimi she believes (with no direct evidence except that Nikko has a male roomie) that he's gay, along with Johnny. True or not, she seems to have a knack for throwing crap out just to be mean - or TV-friendly provocative. Mimi is understandably angry by this accusation.
5) Kirk thinks "pulling out" is a good birth control method. If this genius knew for sure Rasheeda was using birth control (as he claimed to her), why even bother with this methodology? Was he just thinking "pulling out" was safe "enough"? He feels Rasheeda was being "spiteful" by getting pregnant. He doesn't want yet another baby. (Apparently, Mr. Responsibility has a few already.) As a manager, he thinks the pregnancy will hurt her career. He wants her to get an abortion. She refuses. She feels like their relationship has been rocky of late, blaming it on him. In a trailer for next week, he starts accusing her of cheating on him, thinking the baby isn't his. Kirk's friend Benzino, by the way, is deeply bemused by Kirk's idiocy.
6) Mama Dee knows what she wants. She helped get Erica out of her son Scrappy's life (for now). Mission accomplished. But a disgusted Scrappy moves out of her house, leaving a dog behind. She hires a good looking dog trainer - and starts hitting on him.
7) Poor barely-a-cast-member Karlie Redd is stuck in no man's land. She tries to get Rasheeda to join her on a diss record against K. Michelle. Rasheeda has much bigger fish to fry and says no way.
8) Traci's mediation skills are poor. She somehow thinks it's a good idea to get Shay and Erica together. (In her defense, this was probably the producers' idea, not hers.) Scrappy's former lover Shay comes to Traci's fashion show and (surprise!) Erica is there as a model, surprising Shay. After the show, Erica comes up to congratulate Traci and ignores Shay, who makes silly faces and says nothing. So much for reconciliation. But at least the two didn't start tackling each other.
Physical fight tally this episode: one
Ratings last week: 2.46 million and a 1.4 18-49 rating. Episode six was a season low. But then again, it was Memorial Day so we'll give this lower-than-normal figure a pass.
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