'Love And Hip-Hop New York' Recap: Taking Seats And Then Some

December 31, 2013 - 5:11 pm by Michael Arceneaux

Love & Hip-Hop New York
Season 4, Episode 6

After a two-week absence, Love & Hip Hop returned last night, and based on what we all saw, I volunteer to tuck at least 75% of the cast back into bed. We’re only eight episodes into season four yet I am so very, very trained and I’m not even one of the dozen or so people in the Tri-State area who have slept with Peter Gunz. But, at least there was Joe Budden and his mama who recognized bad behavior and collectively tried to do something about it. That’s certainly more than I can say for many of the folks on here.—Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick)

Because I Just Sat On It

It’s so hard to believe that Tara and K. Michelle are “girls” outside of Tara listening to “Can’t Raise A Man” a few weeks before filming and going, “That’s my song!” Nevertheless, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it. The two met at a pizzeria in Harlem and during their conversation, Tara turned to K. Michelle for advice. I found that strange. No shade to K. Michelle, but she’s the person you go to after the man makes you cry…and that’s in song. Be that as it may, K. Michelle encouraged Tara to talk to Amina and Peter to “deal with it.”

The end result of that piece of advice was Tara showing up at Peter and Amina’s studio session and telling Amina that she “sat on it” – it being Peter Gunz’s penis. Also: She can sit on it whenever she wants. Yes, despite that Amina and Peter are married now. A serial cheater continuing to cheat: imagine that. Assuming no on ever told her that you lose them how you get them, Amina bursted into tears as Tara smugly threw the big reveal in her face. I can’t blame her for smirking as Amina ugly cried on camera. After all, she’s the ditz who told her, “As a woman, you didn’t know your man he was not faithful to you.” Looks like your intuition is on the fritz, too, boots. Not to mention, she takes way too much joy in “winning” a man away from another woman.

That said, though I imagine Tara felt good in that moment, I hope she’s now realizing she looks equally as silly as Amina does. This man treats his sexual relationships as if it were a game of duck duck goose. After a certain point, when do you decide to take yourself out of the game? This goes for Amina, too. Like, you can’t even meet his children, plus he’s already cheating on you after three minutes of marriage. Why are you invested in this? I hope I don’t sound like Steve Harvey Vanzant right now. I’m just saying: Masochism ain’t the move.

Click through for a breakdown of last night's episode.

Rich and Erica from 'Love And Hip-Hop New York'

Erica Wants Rich And Cyn Erica Mena goes on and on and on about how great Cyn Santana is and how happy she is with her. And yet, whenever she’s around Rich Dollaz, we’re subjected to him calling himself “Big Daddy” as she gleefully hops in his lap and kisses him (with tongue, as he noted). At one point, Erica tells Rich that she needs him to “show her” that he wants her, but as he explains to her, she has a girlfriend. In other words, Erica Mena wants Rich to give her a reason to dump Cyn when the reality is, if she wants to be with Rich so badly, she should break up with Cyn and then try her luck with Rich. But that would be too much like right.

Yandy’s Still Waiting Poor Yandy. Someone should have gotten her a Fed Case 101 handbook or something. She was so geeked about finding out that Mendecees got approved for a bail hearing only to find out from rapper J. Dinero that she could still be waiting months before that hearing actually takes place (let alone Mendecees actually temporarily getting out of federal custody). She’s still not being told much by her man or her lawyer, so thankfully she took J. Dinero’s advice to go back to work.

Joe Budden and Tahiry from 'Love And Hip-Hop New York'

Joey Is Sorry For 2013 Joe Budden is extremely sorry for having another woman in the bed he shared with Tahiry. So much so that he’s starting to pop up at whatever events he’s certain Tahiry will be at with the helps of slowly but surely winning her over. Based on what we saw last night, Tahiry isn’t with it, or at the very least, is making Joey work extra hard at securing redemption…again. Joe appeared up to the task, even bringing his mama in for the ride in order to double-team Tahiry. In the preview for next week’s episode, Joe acknowledged that he’s ready to propose to Tahiry. That’ll be sweet so long as he doesn’t piss Tahiry smooth off for a 1000th time.

Erica Mena from 'Love And Hip-Hop New York'

Toxic Relationships Produce Terrible Music Before Tara informed Amina Buddafly of her sitting arrangements with her husband, we heard a track the two recorded called “The Pankies.” Do you know the difference between couples like Peter and Amina and Beyoncé or Jay Z…or hell even Future and Ciara? The latter couples seem to have healthy relationships. That chemistry produces quality music – i.e. “Drunk In Love” and “Body Party (I count Future’s owl coos as a duet).” “The Pankies” sounded like some kind of theme song for a crappy sitcom that might’ve aired on UPN, circa 2000. In related toxic relationships produce terrible music news, Rich presented Erica an EDM track which he swore was a “hit record.” Sure, if it was 2010 and Ke$ha was on the track. I know Erica wants to sing, but girl, you might need to hit up Mike Will Made It and figure out how to get a favor instead.

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