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Rashidah Puts Yandy and Mandeecees on Blast

Apr 172013

Photo Credit: VH1

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Love and Hip Hop season three may be over, but the drama between the cast members is all but done. Although the season didn’t seem to produce the same high ratings it has in past seasons, it surely isn’t because there aren’t any beefs. In particular, Yandy Smith might have had what many felt was a genuine romance on-screen with her man Mandeecees Harris, however, LHH newbie Rashidah became a bit of a problem for the couple after she got word about some comments Mandeecees made about their past together. Of course Rashidah took shots at Mandeecees and his manhood during the reunion, and Yandy kept it classy but took to her Instagram account to clap back. So we’re not surprised Rashidah decided to put both on blast during a recent interview with VH1. According to Rashidah, she was actually sleeping with Mandeecees while he was with Yandy and she even claimed that Mandeecees was still out in the streets messing around so much that he didn’t come home often before his current prison bid. She says:

“It’s not that I even have a problem with her [Yandy]. You know what I’m trying to say? It’s just the situation, like for instance, yesterday when she was like, “You’re leaving these women scorned and heartbroken,” I was like, “B—, what the hell are you talking about?” You’re not going to deal with facts; you’re just going to say anything. I don’t f— with b—s like that. Speak facts. Speak real s—. Don’t just say s— because it’s good, like, am I 7’ tall or am I 5’6″ — you’re more about just saying s—, I like to deal with facts. I like to deal with the fact that you know that n— don’t come home at night. You know it, and I know it. I want to deal with that. I don’t want to deal with you being 9’ tall — that’s not a factual thing. That’s frustrating to me. People that just throw stuff out there that’s not valid, it’s not legitimate, you’re just making up stuff. You’re looking for punchlines, is what you’re saying. How can I respect you? You want to be portrayed as a businesswoman, but really what are you doing when the show’s not filming? I don’t see s—. It’s a facade to me.”

Rashidah admitted she was also annoyed that Yandy keeps trying to label her as being “heartbroken” over Mandeecees and she claimed Yandy knows that she was messing around with Mandeecees while they were together:

“What?! Heartbroken? She wants to say, “Oh, you f—d him,” but then she wants to say it was 10 years ago, too. You want to try to expose people, but you want to make sure it doesn’t make your relationship look crazy. You want to make it look like, “Well, he didn’t do this while he was dealing with me, though.” Girl, let’s stop it. Ten years ago and I’m coming up to you now to say something about him mentioning me? Does that make any sense? So you’re not going to deal with facts. So I’m going to handle you like you a b— that doesn’t deal with facts.”

Messy.

Sneak Peek: Rashidah Attacks Mandeecees’ Manhood at Reunion

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Apr 062013

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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Season three of Love and Hip Hop New York has finally come to an anticlimactic end, but most people are hoping that the Reunion Show will make up for a pretty lackluster season. Ratings for the series even tanked its lowest since its debut season, and most would suggest that has to do with the fact that the “story lines” and new cast members just aren’t appealing enough to viewers. For one, Erica Mena and Rich Dollaz’s “romance” just didn’t seem believable most of the time, and the love triangle between Kaylin/Joe Budden/Tahiry just wasn’t all that interesting to most. Especially when one considers the epic love triangle on the spin-off with the Atlanta cast.

The reunion show promises to bring confrontations and surprise announcements, but it also appears that there will be some pretty ridiculous moments in which it’s clear that some things are just better left unsaid. In the sneak peek of the reunion, it couldn’t be clearer, especially since Rashidah takes shots at an incarcerated Mandeecees’ manhood, while Yandy is left to sit through it and still keep it classy.

In the clip, Rashidah says:

“Mandeecees and I used to hang out on a regular basis. We used to see her [Yandy] out sometimes, and he would talk about her behind her back.

“He’s not here to defend himself, so because of that I’m not going to get so deep, in depth because he’s not here to defend himself. And I’m the type of female, I don’t want to kick you when you’re down. Let’s box toe to toe when you up. I’m not going to try to take advantage of the fact that he’s not here. However, it was shocking to me that he would ever mention me because he had one of the smallest p*nises I have ever seen on a human being.

“Yandy, can you not attest to that?”

Check out the clip below:

Yandy Smith Speaks on Missing Mandeecees During Incarceration

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Mar 272013

Photo Credit: VH1

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Yandy Smith and Mandeecees Harris have been the bright spot for a rather dull season three of Love and Hip Hop. unfortunately for what appeared to be a storybook romance to many, Mandeecees’ past would come back to haunt him in such a way that it’s managed to put the couple’s upcoming wedding plans on hold. Mandeecees proposed to Yandy recently, and although the couple is engaged, Mandeecees is currently in prison awaiting his chance in court to beat out felony drug charges. All of this comes just weeks after he was found not guilty of child molestation charges.

Yandy has been very supportive of her man, but she tells VH1 taking it all in hasn’t been easy. While she admits she misses him very much, she also says it hurts her that the life he had before her has started to haunt their current relationship, which read like a fairytale before the legal issues. Yandy says:

“Yeah, it’s hard. It’s absolutely hard. It’s hard when you kind of see your life flash before you. I know the life that we live together which has been like a storybook, like a fairytale with ups and downs of course, butit’s been good, and the love has been good, so for something like this to happen and to happen now, it’s like, ‘Ugh, why!’ And you know you read about it with all the articles everywhere talking about the engagement. This case is from all these years ago. It’s just like, why now? You know? That’s just how I feel, like, why now of all times?”

Yandy also reveals that she copes with the situation mostly by keeping busy. But when things slow down at the end of the day, she’s forced to deal with the pain of the uncertainty of her man’s fate:

“Well, you know I go through spurts, especially at night. I just keep busy. Like I told you, I haven’t had a day off, so I don’t even know if I’ve really soaked up what’s happening in my life because I’ve just been so busy. We both were busy during the day so it really hits me at night when I come home and I’m with the boys in the house, that’s when it’s like, “Aww, dag.” But I’m really faithful and hopeful that this situation will be cleared up and he’ll be back with us soon.”

Rashidah Says Yandy is Weak & Puts Mandeecees on Blast

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Mar 102013

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By: Taren Vaughan

Season 3 of Love & Hip Hop includes some new faces this time around, Rashidah Ali being one of those. And although the show hasn’t had the best of ratings this season and has seen a drop in them since the beginning of the season, that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been some entertaining moments on the show. During a trip on a previous episode that Yandy Smith and her baby’s dady Mandeecees Harris made to cast mate Winter’s apartment, Rashidah was brought up into conversation. And after Mandeecees clowned Rashidah for looking like “Ronald McDonald”, Yandy joked with Mandeecees about Rashidah being his old boo, changing Mandeecees mood with the quickness as he said all him and Rashidah did was slept together and that he didn’t enjoy it. Yandy laughed off the whole thing.

However, Rashidah thinks Yandy made herself look like a clown and says she would never be okay with her fiancé openly talking about a woman that he slept with like that in front of her. And as far as her feelings about Mandeecees, the feeling is mutual:

“His name is like a black cloud to me. And I almost threw up in my mouth. I mean he’s just, gross to me…I find it kind of interesting that he’s actually talking about f*cking me in front of his woman. It shows the lack of respect he has for her because I know my fiancé wouldn’t be talking about who he slept with to anybody, especially not with me standing there.”

Rashidah also says that she thinks Yandy only wanted to see who she was because Yandy is insecure and says that if she were Yandy, she would be insecure too since Mandeecees is a bed hopper:

“Her only motive was that she wanted to see me. I think that her man mentions my name a lot and she probably feels very, very insecure. If I was her, I’d probably feel the same way being that he bounces around from one person’s bed to the next person’s bed.”

Rashidah made it clear that she thinks Mandeecees is nothing but a “f*cking clown”. Yet Yandy says that he isn’t the only clown in this situation:

“As you talk to me, 7 feet tall with bright red hair…No, he’s not the only clown here.”

As far as what happened between Rashidah and Mandeecess in the past, Yandy really could care less about it as Rashidah tried to talk to Yandy about it at her ENCORE shoe line launch party:

“I could care less!…I had on a Victoria Beckham dress so you know, I was trying to keep it cute or keep it mute. And that conversation was not really one I wanted to have. Couldn’t mess up that dress, not that one.”

Joe Budden and Tahiry spoke on the night that Joe showed up at Tahiry’s job and asked her for a minaj with Kaylin. And Tahiry says that as far the incident where she hit Kaylin, she says her issues with Joe and their relationship had a lot to do with that situation happening:

“Whether together or not, we still have so many issues at hand that you know, we can be here f*cking thirteen seasons. You never know.”

And Joe claims that he asked Tahiry the minaj question just to get a rise out of her:

“All joke, just random. More so to entertainment myself, not to entertain her. She would have f*cked me up had she accepted.”

Peep the clip below:

Mandeecees Harris in Court for Drug Charges

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Mar 092013

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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Mandeecees Harris may now be a new star of Love and Hip Hop, but he hasn’t had a whole lot of time to enjoy his new-found reality television fame thanks to his recent legal woes. As we reported recently, Yandy Smith’s baby daddy was accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl, but was later found not guilty to the charges. However, the reality star has racked up some drug charges and is possibly facing 20 years in prison if he is found guilty. It was speculated that the home he shares with Yandy was raided over the summer possibly due to drugs, but now he must face the court over the charges that accuse Mandeecees of federal drug conspiracy.

According to Democrat and Chronicle, the rapper pleaded not guilty to the charges Friday in Rochester. Due to a drug conviction that he obtained in Maryland in 2001, Mandeecees is looking at a 20-year mandatory sentence.

The report claims that Mandeecees is actually one of three men who have been accused for selling a huge amount of cocaine and heroin in the Rochester region. The other two men accused are Harris’ brother Tyrus Harris and his friend Ronald Walker. Both men were arrested last year and are awaiting trial in jail. Both have also pleaded not guilty.

The indictment reveals that police seized over $1.5 million in cash that was kept in safety deposit boxes, as well as homes, $406,000 in jewelry, and a 2012 Land Rover.

Mandeecees’ attorney Donald Thompson is said to have plans of asking for a bail hearing at the upcoming court conference which has been scheduled for Wednesday, and a date for the hearing will also be set during the conference.

Yandy Smith Goes off on a Follower for Calling Mandeecees a Child Molester

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Feb 102013

Photo Credit: @yandysmith Instagram

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

It’s been an interesting turn of events for the current cast of season three of Love and Hip Hop. As we have already pointed out, it does appear that the real drama is taking place away from the cameras for the cast, and unfortunately for Yandy Smith, her baby daddy Mandeecees Harris is right in the middle of most of it. Mandeecees isn’t just currently in some hot water over drug related charges, but he was also accused of molesting a young woman who was 15 years old at the time. Fortunately for Mandeecees, he was found not guilty to the charges, and as quiet as Yandy has been about the whole situation, she finally broke her silence on Friday when the verdict was confirmed, and her boyfriend and baby’s daddy was found not guilty to child molestation.

Yandy made it clear that she was happy Mandeecees was deemed innocent, and she also made it clear that she will continue to stand by him during all of his legal troubles.

Despite being found not guilty, it’s obvious that there are still people who feel that Mandeecees may be guilty. And these people have no problems telling Yandy so on Twitter.

Refusing to be silent any longer, it appears that Yandy is now willing to check anyone who calls her man a child molester. Just a couple of hours after the verdict was confirmed by multiple reports and Yandy’s personal Instagram account, someone decided to try Yandy in her mentions. She wasn’t having…at all.

Peep the tweets (read from top to bottom):

Mandeecees is currently in jail and awaiting his next trial for those federal drug charges.

Mandeecees Trial Over, Found Not Guilty to Child Molestation

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Feb 082013

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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

The Mandeecees trial is officially over. As we recently reported, the reality television star of Love and Hip Hop and baby daddy to Yandy Smith was accused of child molestation. A now 19-year-old girl claimed that when she was 15 years old, she was allegedly molested by Mandeecees Harris. The young woman is said to be the daughter of a former love interest of Mandeecees, and she also claimed that she had no idea that he was in the entertainment industry, or in a romantic relationship with Yandy. Mandeecees claimed in court that he did not molest the young woman, and he even claimed that he had little interaction with her while they lived with her mother.

Well, it looks like the trial is over and according to Yandy’s personal Instagram account, Mandeecees was found not guilty of molesting the young woman when she was 15 years old. She posted the following picture:

Yandy has mainly kept her silence on the situation, but it appears that she is speaking out now that her man has been cleared. Yandy also writes on another photo of Mandeecees and their son and says:

“No matter how much they tried to rip you of your pride, defame your name, degrade you…you kept your faith in God and told me to keep my head up. So I did. Not Guilty! I say it again, NOT GUILTY!!!!”

There’s no word yet on the current standing of the other charges Mandeecees accrued that are drug related. But in the meantime, he has a lot to be thankful for as he escaped a 20 year sentence if he would have been found guilty for child molestation.

Disturbing Testimony from Mandeecees Child Molestation Trial Released

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Feb 062013

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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

As we recently reported, Love and Hip Hop’s Mandeecees Harris has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl. While many have speculated on the terms that Mandeecees met the young girl, it has now been confirmed via testimony from the trial that the young girl is the daughter to his former girlfriend. Interestingly enough, the young girl also claimed she had no idea he was even in a romantic relationship with Yandy or anyone else other than her mother. Documents from the trial also reveal that the young girl accuses Mandeecees of also forcing her to have sex for money. Here’s a snippet of the report from Cliff View Pilot:

After moving in with Harris, his girlfriend and her brothers, the woman testified, she routinely reported to him for permission to go out, among other reasons. Her mother was usually at work while she was home with Harris and the boys after school, she said, during questioning by Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice.

Visibly uncomfortable, she gave brief responses to Maurice’s questions. Because she didn’t have much of a connection with her mother, she said, she confided in Harris.

“Mendeecees made me feel comfortable. He would give me advice. He’d say ‘It’ll be okay between you and your mom’,” the woman said.

Then came an afternoon when, with no one else home, she realized in the shower that she didn’t have a towel.

“I asked him to get me one, and he did,” the woman testified. “Then he came into my room and suggested I let him m*sturbate on me, but I just laughed.”

The suggestions continued, she said, until she relented. She said Harris then gave her $15 or $20 “for lunch or maybe a ball game.”

The alleged victim, now a 19-year-old woman even claims he used her past as a victim of rape to continue to push her to fulfill his requests by telling her that he mother did not even want her to live there. She claims she began to comply with Mandeecees’ request out of spite, due to her issues with her mother. The young woman also claimed during the trial that he would compensate her for the sexual favors she performed.

The young woman also claims that she was shocked to learn that Mandeecees was on a reality show and at one point, he was close to marrying her mother.

Mandeecees faces up to 20 years in prison

Yandy Smith Fired for Mandeecees Scandal? Mona Scott Young Speaks

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Jan 162013

Photo Credit: @yandysmith Instagram

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Was Yandy Smith fired? Season three of Love and Hip Hop premiered last week, but already it’s clear that most of the drama is taking place off-screen. Just two episodes into the season, two of the cast mates have already been involved in scandals. While we’re still not sure if Rich Dollaz and Erica Mena’s relationship is even real, and Rich Dollaz is caught up in a nasty paternity battle with a woman who claims he is not claiming his child. She was able to get a court ordered paternity test, but the reality star didn’t show up to court and was arrested last week as a result. Then of course there has been a string of women on Twitter claiming that Rich isn’t acting like he’s in a relationship.

But the biggest scandal of all would have to involve fan favorite Yandy Smith’s baby daddy Mandeecees Harris. Mandeecees has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor, and the young girl is rumored to be the 15-year-old daughter of his other baby mama. Mandeecees is set to appear in court soon, and Yandy hasn’t said much about the controversy.

There are now rumors going around that Mona is furious with Yandy and Mandeecees for not telling her about the situation, and as a result, it has been speculated that Yandy and Mandeecees will be phased out the show through heavy editing.

But when asked about the rumor, Mona Scott Young suggested that the rumors simply aren’t true:

We never believed the rumors, especially since both Mona and Yandy have gone on the record several times and stated that they were extremely close. In fact, Yandy considers Mona to be a her mentor and Mona has been looking out for Yandy plenty with her business ventures.

Yandy Smith’s Baby Daddy Mandeecees Accused of Being a Child Molester

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Jan 102013

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By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Is Mandeecees a child molester? Love and Hip Hop season three just premiered on Monday, and although the first episode promises to give the viewers plenty of drama for the remainder of the season, it appears the real drama is taking place away from the cameras. Yandy Smith first made an appearance on Love and Hip Hop as the manager to rapper Jim Jones. Their working relationship fizzled out quickly once Yandy began to struggle to get along with his girlfriend Chrissy Lampkin. Chrissy always had a hunch that Yandy was into Jim romantically, but it’s been revealed on the first episode of season three of the show that Yandy was actually dating someone else at the time. That person is said to be Mandeecees Harris, and he makes an appearance on the show with Yandy as the couple now has a child together. But whispers about Mandeecees having a not so squeaky past have been growing louder for the last couple of months. Some rumors suggest Mandeecees is into the street life, but a recent report suggests Mandeecees has been accused of something way more heinous.

According to a recent report, Mandeecees has been accused of molesting a 15 year old girl. According to New Jersey’s The Record, the new reality star and baby daddy to Yandy Smith has been charged for sexually assaulting the 15 year old girl, and rumors suggest the child is the daughter of his other baby mama (that has not yet been confirmed). Here’s the report:

Jury selection began Wednesday in Hackensack for the trial of a hip-hop reality TV star accused of molesting an underage girl in Lodi two years ago.

Mandeecees Harris, a 34-year-old actor on the VH1 reality show “Love and Hip-Hop,” is charged with performing various sexual acts with a 15-year-old girl and inappropriately touching her at his former home in Lodi.

Bergen County prosecutors allege that Harris asked for and received oral sex from the girl and fondled her on various occasions between September 2009 and April 2010. He was arrested later that year and charged with aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Harris remains free without bail. He was not present in state Superior Court in Hackensack during jury selection Wednesday. Court officials expect to have a full panel of jurors by Thursday, and attorneys are scheduled to make opening remarks on Jan. 29.

It’s also being reported that just this summer, Mandeeces and Yandy’s place was raided by the police due to Mandeecees alleged street activity. Here’s the report from Wives Confidential:

Sources and neighbors allege that Yandy’s house got raided by law enforcement back in July/August. Yandy was seen crying in the street during the occurrence. We are guessing the government sponsored home invasion took place courtesy of her Mandingo…oops we mean Mandeecee, and his known street affiliations. We can’t confirm the exact reason, but at least her and her child are safe.

Our sources also allege that Mandeecee only moved in with Yandy for show purposes. There are also allegations of an older child from Mandeecee. Prior to staying with Yandy he was shacked up with the mother of that child out in New Jersey. The said seed of Mandeecee is believed to be more than 2 years old and does not get mentioned on the show.