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“Sisterhood of Hip Hop” recap (1.5): Stank Faces

This week on Sisterhood of Hip Hop, Diamond is being interviewed on a radio show in Miami. She’s about to have a signing party, hosted by her label. “All my female emcee friends are flying down,” she says, even mentioning Nyemiah. She says she’s ready to take over the city. Small goals!

The next shot is Diamond standing up on the back of a hummer. “You better keep your man inside today because the girls are out!” she says. Bia and Brianna are with her and there is a ton of “WOOOOOOOOO” happening. Brianna says Kiki (her mom) isn’t in town so she’s going to have some fun. (I spy open containers.)

They run into Nyemiah who is eating outside on the street. The other girls thought she had rehearsal which is why she wasn’t hanging with them. Nyemiah has resting bitch face, so everyone thinks she hates them, which she might. I’m not quite sure. Nyemiah is working on a video while she’s in Miami, and she explains there will be some dancing. Diamond takes her sunglasses off to ask if it’s the same dusty dancers she hated on at Nyemiah’s showcase. Nyemiah cooly explains she’s got new girls and invites them all to partake.

Siya and Renaye are hanging by a pool in the MIA. “I’m here in the sun and New York is cold. Not really feeling that,” Renaye says. She wants to go jetskiing and get a tan. Siya has work to do, though, like going to a party and a video shoot. Siya has to hustle and network. “The more people see your face, the more they see you’re in the game,” Siya says. Renaye is pissed. She thought they were in Miami to work on their relationship. Nope, it’s all for this reality show she signed up for work.

“If you wanna go ahead and work, go work,” Renaye says in her best passive aggressive lesbian fashion. She doesn’t know how going to a music video is work.

Siya is on the beach, watching Nyemiah doing her thing. “You killing it girl!” she says. She’s so supportive. “If we don’t stick together in this game, everything falls apart,” she tells the camera. Siya is seriously good people and I hope she’s successful in this industry, even though she says she knows she won’t fit in with the kinds of girls dancing in Nyemiah’s video with the booty shorts. She’s just there to show support, unlike the other female emcees, who didn’t show. Nyemiah acts like she doesn’t care if they like her but Siya wants to have everyone interact more. “I see it’s going to take some shell cracking,” she says, and Nyemiah offers that some margaritas might help.

Diamond, Brianna and Bia are at a restaurant, still talking about Diamond’s party. She says it’s going to be a “grown and sexy” party, no cops or anything crazy she’s used to with Crime Mob. Diamond gets a text and rolls her eyes. She reveals it’s from Soldier Boy, her ex. She invited him to her party, and B&B are like “UMMMMMMMMMMMMM.” Diamond is always saying how she wants to move on from her past and associations with Soldier Boy, but then she does some shit like this. “I just wanted him to come by and see the growth of where I am,” Diamond says. Bia calls her out. “You looking like you got some type of thing going on inside,” pointing out Diamond’s smile when she talks about him. Basically it’s a terrible idea and Bia and Brianna think she’s crazy.

Siya and Renaye are out to dinner. “Where was you today?” Siya asked Renaye. Renaye said she was alone, but then Siya reminds her she went out with friends. Renaye is passive aggressive again, which Siya points out as her defense mode. This show has the most real lesbian relationship fighting I have ever seen on television. “You can go ahead and do whatever you do with your friends,” Renaye says, which translates into, “You chose Nyemiah over me and that pisses me off.” They are not on the same page but Siya wants Renaye to know there’s nothing to worry about, that she shouldn’t feel threatened by her female friends.

“What do you want from me out of this relationship?” Renaye asks. Siya wants, you know, love and support. The fight turns into how Renaye is insecure and they debate semantics. Renaye makes her “You stupid” face and Siya knows she’s fighting a losing battle.

Diamond is having a drink with her manager talking about, what else, her party. HAVE YOU HEARD SHE IS HAVING A PARTY!? Bryan, her manager, wants her to focus on work. “There’s nobody else I should worry about?” he asks. “I’m single,” Diamond says. Then he asks about Soldier Boy. She lies to him: “No distractions.”

Bia is recording in the studio before a showcase and Brianna and Diamond come by to show her love. Diamond says she invited Siya because Siya is blowing her phone up about her fight with Renaye. Siya explains Renaye went back to New York. She’s “emotionally exhausted” and feels like she has no one in her corner. She knows she’s done and said some dumb shit but she’s never cheated and she hasn’t lied about being at work when she’s at work. Siya tears up talking about how she’s been through some heavy shit and wants to provide for her family, and that includes Renaye. Bia wants Siya to “get back to Siya.” Brianna wants Siya to make some positive affirmations: “I’m doing this for me!” Bia says “You’re not going through it alone. You’ve got us, especially right now.” Siya doesn’t want to break up with Renaye, but she wants to move forward. Obviously they will have to do some more processing when Siya goes back home.

It’s Bia’s showcase night and all the girls are, except Nyemiah. She’s in the studio with Timbaland, which is a good excuse, IMO. It won’t score her any points with her friends, but she’s trying to open herself up in her work. They start talking about female emcees, and Timbaland says they all need to work together because they’re all competing with the dudes, not each other. Nyemiah sounds like she’s hearing what he’s saying, so hopefully she’ll start living it.

Back at Bia’s showcase, she’s getting turnt up and Siya, Brianna and Diamond are in the front row showing her love.

The next day, the five women are together and Siya makes them put their phones in the center of the table so they have to converse. Brianna toasts to them all and positive energy. Bia says she wants to know more about Nyemiah, and why she wasn’t at her show. The women take this opportunity to tell her how closed off she is to them. They want her to be real and try to connect with them, but she comes with “stank face.” “That’s just my face!” she says. But then she does start to try and explain how she hasn’t had a lot of female friends because the ones she did have let her down. Diamond says she was like that before now, too, even with her family members. The stank face is slowly fading and all of the women begin to share their experiences. Diamond is even saying she wants to connect with Nyemiah and it ends with Bia hugging Nyemiah. Bonding! Timbaland would be so proud.

It’s finally time for Diamond’s party. Nyemiah showed up and is actually having fun with the girls. The women sit down together and have a conversation about the business and how they’ve been done wrong. More connection! Nyemiah tells the camera she’s finally enjoying herself with them.

And then Soldier Boy comes over to say hi to Diamond. Manager Bryan is in the corner with a stank face of his own. Sherica, Diamond’s sister, is also in the room and not psyched to see him. SB is spitting game at her and hugging on her, saying he’s missing her. To be continued….

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