LHHATL Recap: Mimi & Spice Clash over Colorism + Scrapp Learns the Truth About His Father

LHHATL Season 8 Episode 1
Photo Credit: VH1

Stevie J is in a good place.

He’s broken free from Estelita and the drama with Erica Mena.

Now married to Faith Evans , he’s on the way to the Soul Train Awards.

While in LA, Stevie confirms that they decided to tie the knot in Vegas. After Biggie’s death, Stevie and Faith got closer.

The only problem is Stevie hasn’t told Eva and Mimi that he’s married and living out in LA.

Spice and Tokyo are now friends.

While performing at a club, Tokyo joins Spice on the stage.

“I love me some Tokyo.” – Spice

They have been good friends since making up at the reunion.

Von is A&R  and he came out to watch Spice’s performance.

He’s giving her feedback to help her get to the next level of success.

Her ultimate goal is to find commercial success in the US.

While her performance was cool, he tells Spice she needs a new look to get on Michael Jackson’s level.

This upsets Tokyo and Spice.

They tell him off and Von makes his exit.

Both women discuss how people want them to look a certain way in order to succeed in the industry.

At Mimi’s house, she calls the police.

She tells the operator that there was a break in and the man shot at her before running out of her house.

After the scary ordeal, Eva meets with Rasheeda, Erica Dixon and Karlie.

She tells them that she took the trash out and a man was in her garage. He shot at her before fleeing, leaving bullets in her car.

Apparently the man was trying to steal her car.

The great news is she and Eva weren’t hurt.

In a green screen interview, she says Ty left to play basketball in Israel. And Stevie was mad that she didn’t tell him about it in a timely manner. He hasn’t seen Eva in a month despite telling Mimi he would be coming to Atlanta.

Scrapp is a free man.

Since being out, he’s been focusing on praying and working on himself spiritually.

He doesn’t want to go back to jail.

But he realizes he has to just take it one day at a time.

Momma Dee is clashing with Bambi’s mother.

It’s Momma Dee’s birthday.

She has a celebration at a club and throws some shade at Bambi’s mother during her speech.

After wrapping up her speech, Momma Dee tells Karen that Bambi is pregnant. Bambi, her mother and Scrappy are all living with Momma Dee.

It’s been a lot of tension between Bambi’s mother and Momma Dee.

Karen updates Momma Dee on Scrapp.

While Scrapp is out, he’s been living in a halfway house and can only leave with a family member who doesn’t have a record.

So Karen is figuring out a plan to see him.

Karlie is engaged.

She goes over to Mimi’s place to get help preparing her invitations.

Apparently she’s been dating he fiancé for a few months.

They discuss Tommie.

While they thought she was doing better, Tommie was arrested for allegedly assaulting her daughter at her middle school.

Tommie is facing up to 50 years in prison.

Eva learns about Stevie’s new marriage.

Stevie is back in town and he took Eva out to dinner.

Mimi is feeling some type of way about him not telling her he got married.

At dinner, Stevie tells Eva that he and Faith got married.

Eva tells Stevie and Faith she’s speechless in a good way.

When Stevie asks if Eva would move to LA, she says that all depends on what Mimi wants to do.

Eva also tells them what went down on that scary night with Mimi.

Frustrations grow for Spice.

Spice came to America to make a name for herself.

She calls her children to see how they are doing. They are living in Jamaica with her mother so she can work on her music career.

After she breaks down in tears, Karlie comes by.

Spice vents about feeling like she hasn’t been involved enough in her children’s lives.

She’s also frustrated about her music career. In a green screen interview, she says she’s now willing to change up her look so she can succeed and be able to be with her kids again.

Eva fills Mimi in on her dinner with Stevie and Faith.

She tells Mimi that Stevie wants her to live in LA but she can’t do that unless the parent who raised her is okay with that.

When Eva tells Mimi that Faith was there too, Mimi is not happy. She was supposed to meet Faith before Eva did.

Karen and Scrapp reunite.

Cheyenne, Scrapp’s newly found half-sister, picks up Scrapp from the halfway house.

She doesn’t have a record, so everything worked out.

He is driven to Karen’s house and she’s happy to see him.

Karen tells him that she didn’t know a whole lot about Cheyenne but Scrapp’s dad cheated on Karen with Cheyenne’s mom.

She didn’t even know Scrapp’s dad was still alive but he is. Scrapp’s dad is the one who told her about his sister and made things happen.

Scrapp and Cheyenne are “ghetto twins.” They are both 30 years old. Their dad was in prison for 23 years.

“He’s coming to town soon.” – Cheyenne

Skin bleaching is a possibility for Spice.

Spice has come to the conclusion that she is too dark-skinned to be successful in the US.

So she goes to a dermatologist to find out how to bleach her skin.

The dermatologist tells Spice that using a topical product could give her skin cancer.

When the dermatologist says Spice should get a psychological evaluation before she takes that step, Spice is insulted by this and storms off.

Mimi and Spice clash.

Later on, Karlie comes by to Spice’s photoshoot.

Spice has lightened her skin and is unrecognizable to Karlie at first.

Not too long after, Rasheeda and Mimi also pop up.

She tells them she hasn’t bleached her skin and it’s just makeup. But she may get her skin bleached eventually.

Spice says she’s tired of people bashing her about her complexion on social media.

When Mimi says this is ridiculous, Spice says it’s no different from Mimi getting breast implants.

She then says Mimi would never understand because Mimi has never been black.

This angers Mimi and they began shouting at each other as Mimi says that she’s been black her whole life.

Seeing things are getting heated, Rasheeda pulls Mimi away as Spice screams that Mimi has no idea what it’s like to be a dark-skinned black woman.

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