I like ‘Love and Hip Hop‘ executive producer Mona Scott-Young. She’s real enough to give viewers into the real, less glamorous side of reality shows. For instance, Chrissy Lampkin only agreed to appear on last night’s episode if she wasn’t interviewed by Scott.
In last night’s episode, subtitled ‘Reality Check‘, Scott took viewers behind the scenes of ‘Love and Hip Hop‘, to show how the producers really influence the direction of reality shows.
Scott is part interviewer, part therapist. It was interesting to watch her use her calm shrewdness and experience to draw the emotions out of the insecure cast members.
For instance, we now know that fading rapper Jim Jones agreed to appear in the LHH pilot because Chrissy “took a liking to” all the attention she received from the show. It was hard to watch Jones squirm under the weight of his own humility as he admitted to suppressing his pride to allow his woman to shine on the show.
Now that’s love.
On the other hand, rapper Juelz Santana harbors no such feelings toward his baby mama, Kimbella Vanderhee. He refused to become a part of the cast. The same goes for rapper Fabolous, who couldn’t care less about his baby mama, Emily B, although she’s so delusional that she denies the truth.
Fabolous declined to take part in the show as well. In fact, the peer pressure is so strong that Jones indicated he might not be in the cast of season 3.
But it doesn’t matter, because the first episode of ‘Love and Hip Hop Atlanta‘ is already in the can.
