Dancehall artists Spice and Safaree Samuels deliver further drama to Love & Hip Atlanta with Erica Mena battle
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta returned for its eleventh season on the thirteenth of June, and is presently airing on MTV. This season options not one, however two Jamaicans – the island’s personal ‘born and develop’ dancehall celebrity Spice and 2nd-generation Jamaican American rapper Safaree Samuels.
Each Safaree and Spice have been the middle of a whirlwind of drama within the present season.
Spice and Erica Mena battle and throw racial slurs
Erica Mena’s participation in Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta has come to an finish after her latest use of a racial slur directed at her co-star, Spice. The tv franchise formally introduced this resolution on Instagram and Twitter underneath the identify “X” on Saturday. The official assertion acknowledged the franchise’s dedication to addressing difficult conversations inside the neighborhood.
Collaborating intently with companions, the affect of Erica Mena’s feedback will unfold within the remaining three episodes of the present season. Nonetheless, the assertion additionally revealed her fast exclusion from the upcoming season of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.
No representatives from Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta or Erica Mena offered fast responses to PEOPLE’s request for feedback. Equally, Spice’s consultant couldn’t be reached for remark.
The incident that led to this resolution occurred throughout an episode that aired on August 29. A heated argument between Mena and Spice escalated, leading to a desk being flipped and the intervention of producers to separate the 2 people.
The battle was fueled by Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels’ divorce
The basis of the explosive altercation was a dialogue surrounding Mena’s divorce from Safaree Samuels, her former husband and father of her youngsters. The change between Mena and Spice grew more and more hostile, with Spice mentioning that her teenage son held damaging emotions in direction of her. Mena responded with offensive language, together with a racial slur directed at Spice.
Following the discharge of footage depicting their altercation, Spice commented on the scenario in a now-deleted Instagram publish. She identified the obvious double requirements relating to conversations about youngsters and expressed her disappointment in Mena’s derogatory language.
It’s price noting that this isn’t the primary time Erica Mena has used such language. Up to now, she directed the identical racial slur in direction of former Love & Hip Hop: New York co-star Jhonni Blaze and a number of other promoters in 2015.
Erica Mena initially appeared within the franchise as a part of the Love & Hip Hop: New York installment and later joined the forged of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta for its seventh season in 2018. She finally grew to become an everyday forged member in 2020.
Who’s Spice?
Grace Latoya Hamilton, greatest often known as Spice, is a dancehall artist, singer, songwriter, and now a actuality TV star. Arguably probably the most outstanding and profitable feminine dancehall artist of the twenty first century, Spice is understood for her aggressive circulate, and vulgar and provocative lyrics. Her breakthrough single “Romping Store,” a remix of R&B singer Ne-Yo’s “Miss Unbiased,” not solely put her on the map, however signposted the trail her profession would take.
Spice was launched on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta as a particular visitor star serving as a information to collection regulars Karlie Redd and Mimi on their Jamaican trip. In season seven she joined the forged as an everyday, as she made her technique to Atlanta in hopes of breaking into the American music trade.
The Dancehall Queen has had just a few story arcs on the present, discovering herself thrust into the place of mediator navigating the messy relationships of her crewmates, chronicling her relationship with then companion Justin Budd, and wrestling with colorism within the Black neighborhood with social commentary on the popularization of pores and skin bleaching.
Spice opened the eleventh season with a confessional detailing her near-death expertise preventing a sepsis an infection she suffered throughout a beauty surgical procedure within the Dominican Republic.
“On October 31, 2022, I died, and God actually gave me a second likelihood, and I’m so grateful to be right here,” Spice shared in a video she posted on social media. The collection premiere picks up three months later and explores how the celebrity navigates her life within the wake of that have, but additionally reveals that she’s nonetheless the saucy dancehall icon she’s all the time been.
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Who’s Safaree Samuels?
Safaree Lloyd Samuels was born in Brooklyn, New York to 2 Jamaican immigrant mother and father. The rapper got here up with Nicki Minaj, Lou$tar, and Seven Up within the group Hoodstars. When Minaj went solo, Samuels took a background position as her companion and author for a few of her largest hits.
The rapper is now thought of a Love and Hip Hop veteran, bouncing round quite a few installments over time. In 2016, he joined Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. In 2017, he moved again to New York and joined the Love & Hip Hop: New York forged, and since season 10 he has been an everyday on the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta forged after being a supporting forged member in season 9.
The collection has cataloged Samuels’ breakup with Minaj, getting his profession again on monitor and navigating his eventful love life with varied ladies within the trade, together with his marriage and divorce from co-star, Erica Mena.
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