The couples list their grievances about their partners.
The episode begins with day two in the boot camp house. Overnight, Vado and Tahiry had an argument and they both woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Willie and Shanda woke up in their room surrounded by Willie’s unfaithful text messages. They feel like the first day was intense and it is a bad sign for how their time will be in the boot camp.
Later that morning, Phaedra expressed concerns about getting serious with Medina to Tahiry. She’s nervous about getting physical with him until he shows that he’s worthy.
Dr. Ish meets with everyone for breakfast. He’s splitting them up by gender to list their grievances with their partners. Both groups seemingly create lists that have similar issues. For the guys, it includes attitudes. Toni did add to her list that she’s tired of Kurupt’s friends coming over and stealing from the house. She also revealed to the ladies she took Kurupt to rehab. Meanwhile, Kurupt’s sneaking drinks.
The couples battle rap.
Next, Dr. Ish has everyone take their list of grievances to form raps and battle their partners. The first battle rap is Tahiry and Vado. Tahiry’s rap was about Vado holding her past against her and saying she needs a man, not a boy.
Next, Hazel and De’Von rap battle one another, and Hazel felt salty hearing De’Von’s rap. Hazel also rapped about getting a prenup before getting married. That notion shocked the crowd and seemingly frustrated De’Von. De’Von believes they won’t ever break up.
Next is Willie and Shanda and Willie raps about Shanda’s attitude. Shanda, of course, brought up Willie cheating.
Phaedra and Medina battle next and of course, Medina brought up not getting any while Phaedra wants to know whether or not she has a ride or die partner.
Surprisingly, Kurupt and Toni’s raps got pretty personal. Toni brought up her stuff being stolen out of the house by Kurupt’s friends while Kurupt seemingly took it easy on her.
Hazel’s frustrated with Tahiry.
After the battle, everyone relaxes by the pool. Things get intense when Tahiry exposes her bralette in front of everyone and Hazel points it out. She’s not comfortable with Tahiry showing off her chest. But Tahiry says she’s hot and needs to cool off. Phaedra and Tahiry then joke about Hazel’s spandex outfit and Hazel walks off irritated. She and De’Von tell Vado about what happened and he’s shocked by Tahiry’s behavior. Hazel hopes Vado checks Tahiry about what happened. Vado says he’s disappointed Tahiry didn’t show any class in that situation.
Next, Dr. Ish has the couples symbolically smash down their resentments. The exercise requires each person to take a hammer and destroy the issues they wrote down on their “walls” previously. Vado and Tahiry go first and Vado was rather aggressive. Tahiry was surprised Vado didn’t smash their insecurities. She feels it’s their biggest issue. Tahiry also believes Vado is jealous of her “popping” ex-boyfriends.
Medina took his frustrations out on the wall and Phaedra jokes he smashed the wall because he isn’t “smashing” her.
Kurupt gets dangerous with a hammer.
Shanda was so violent on her wall, she tore it apart. When Kurupt and Toni take turns at the walls, things get really intense. It got so intense, Kurupt threw the hammer at the wall. A producer came out and took Kurupt out of the exercise and Dr. Ish is angry about the whole thing. Afterward, Dr. Ish reveals that the boards they smashed with hammers had photos of them together on the backside. This revelation made the couples emotional.
During their break, Dr. Ish has a one on one with Kurupt. He tells Kurupt that he has to get the drinking under control. Dr. Ish suggests to hold back on the liquor, opting for just beer as a way to ween himself off. Meanwhile, Vado confronts Tahiry about what Hazel told him about Tahiry exposing her chest. This angers Tahiry. She doesn’t like the fact that Hazel went to Vado instead of just coming to her woman to woman.
In the boot camp room, Judge Toler came out to give her comments to the group. She tells Hazel first to let De’Von man up. Judge Toler then speaks to Shanda and Willie. The couple seems really receptive to her comments. However, Kurupt and Toni are struggling.
Tahiry’s frustrated with Vado and argues with Hazel.
Dr. Toler seemingly sees fear in Phaedra regarding her relationship with Medina. In the end, Judge Toler has the couples split by gender and tell all in the group one thing they like about their partner. However, once the session ends, Hazel confronts Tahiry. This leads to an argument between Hazel and Tahiry. Tahiry tells Hazel that she didn’t criticize what she’s wearing or her body. So Hazel should be the same way towards her. Vado steps in and says he understood why Hazel approached him about this. Phaedra brings up the fact Hazel broke the girl code going to Vado instead of Tahiry, first.
But, Hazel feels separate from the other ladies so she’s not seeing what she did wrong.
In their room, Willie noticed text messages are missing from their wall. Meanwhile, Hazel and Tahiry put their differences aside and party with Kurupt. Toni sees this and gets upset. She says the people in the house don’t seem to understand Kurupt has a serious illness. And he’s been drinking and hasn’t even been eating properly. She recalls the times he’s been so sick that she’s had to take care of him. So she makes her annoyance with Kurupt known. In response to Toni’s anger, Kurupt gets angry as well and vents his frustrations about their relationship. The episode ends with Kurupt saying they have the worst relationship on the planet.
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