Whether you hate the show or love the show, ‘Love & Hip-Hop: ATL’ is one of VH1′s top rated shows. Cast member record producer Stevie J and executive producer Mona Scott-Young sat down with Sway on Wednesday’s (July 18) episode of “RapFix Live” and spoke out about accusations of the show being scripted.
Stevie J:
“I just live my life. I don’t even care about the cameras around. I just do what I do,” he said. “If it shocks the world, then you know, I guess they’re in shock.”Mona Scott-Young
“At it’s core, this show is set in a very specific world and is dealing with the struggles that these women are experiencing. When I hear that the show is fake or I hear that the show is scripted. It almost negates their very lives because this is their lives, this is what their dealing with. It was going on before our cameras started rolling, it went on during and will continue to go on even when we pack up and leave the city. They have every right to tell their stories. I think they’re valid stories, and judging by the numbers, they’re stories that people want to see and hear about”
Do you believe them when they say it isn’t scripted?? Check out some snippets of the interview below..
ON IF THE SHOW IS STAGED or SCRIPTED
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This is definitely scripted. Normal people don’t have this amount of daytime soap opera drama in their lives 24/7
I totally agree. It’s scripted and Mona Scott needs to be fired ASAP, it’s the worst storyline in history! Get better actors also.
exactly. Thats what i’m saying!!
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If people ask you if your show is scripted then it is scripted and horrible actors on the set.
Absolutely Not! There is no way that show is NOT scripted. No one around them even looks up when they’re arguing in a public place. The scenarious are too “set up” for it not to be staged. Whether its scripted or not,it wont stop people from watching it either way. Its seriously just a hood soap opera. If anything they should be happy that people still watch the show knowing its staged. Its not like their numbers are decreasing due to people realizing its staged.
LOL@ “no one around them even looks up when they’re arguing in a public place” I promise I was thinking the very same thing. How “odd” is that for no one to look at people arguing, or even at a camera crew while they’re simply out to lunch.
Dang, now I’m gonna have to pay attention to that.
LOL my sister pointed out the same thing about people not looking up when they’re arguing ..
I’ve seen public arguments and almost everyone stops and stares .. I guess people don’t do that in Atlanta, pfft.
They might as well admit it.
Not only that. All of the women are ALWAYS made up. At least Basketball Wives we saw the women not always at their absolute best. They act like they don’t know each other or Joseline but didn’t they have to come together at one point to make the opening credits? And clearly Joseline is a man. When they’re doing their confessionals, THEY’RE READING!!! Look at their eyes (especially Scrappy’s so-called mom And Stevie J slow ass). I just can’t deal! Vh1 know they’re wrong and need to stop lying.
Even though I don’t know Mona personally something just seems so fake & phony about her….like she’s trying to be so conservative & speak so proper…knowing dam well she wanna be like….”Look sway let me tell you one muthafucking thing…this show is not scripted so stop riding my dick about it!” LMAO! Stevie J…..lawd….a mess…I though he was cute in the begining but NO I change my mind….I can’t stand a cocky dude….& then he really fucked me up with those homemade cut off shorts he has on! NEXT!!
Mona Scott is a devil.
They need to be honest about what “scripted.” When you “direct” what is supposed to be “reality,” then it is scripted. This includes hiring people as extras during the “restaurant scenes” (you really mean to tell me an entourage of camera men and production folk will swarm a damn near empty spot, and NOBODY is going to look and see WTF is going on and watch?), telling people when to arrive and go to certain places for crucial scenes in storylines (i.e. the one-on-ones and the fight with scrappy and Stevie J), and asking people to repeat things they’ve said or to say it in a different way (like she told the ladies to do last season before the fight between the video chick and them). I don’t doubt the emotions and beefs are phony, but they know what they do, like any other show.
@ Ariies, I totally agree. I notice that on several scenes.
IF I WAS THE MAYOR OF ATLANTA I WOULD BE CRINGING THAT THIS MESS IS OUT THERE AS A REPRESENTATION OF THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTA….ITS UNFORTUNATE THAT EVEN IN ATL PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE OF COLOR IN REAL LIFE DOING POSITIVE THINGS CANT GET ANY PLAY….
They know good and damn well this shit is scripted. Now, I’m sure Stevie J. is a cheating asshole, but this is too extra. For the “stars” that were previously know these types of shows are not going to revamp your career. If anything is highlights a side of them that I don’t want to support. After watching this mess, who would buy a Josline album? Scrappy? Karli?
Who’s gonna buy a Joseline album anyway. She is WHACKKKK as hell!!! Stevie J got her thinking, she’s gonna be a star..
I don’t believe its scripted but is definitely directed. Big difference.
I agree. it might be there real lives but some of those scenarios are definitely directed. Who sits outside of a recording studio waiting for somebody they don’t even know. If you don’t know them how do you even know where there gonna be. That scene was scripted for sure.
But who walks around with a pregnancy test in their pocket? If thats not scripted then what is?
Mona Scott and her unhealthy a$$.. ILL
THANK GOD SHE GOT MONEY CAUSE SHE AINT THE CUTEST. AND STEVIE J HE IS A HOT MESS. HE BETTER BE PACKING FOR ALL THAT NOSENSE HE BE DOING.
Packing ain’t everything…and if he is he’s still not worth putting up with. That’s what wrong with these women today.
This is scripted for real, who in they right mind gonna put up with that BS Stevie J be putting down, for the whole world to see. Shit if thats the case they would see me throw a pot of hot grits on his A$$ and see if they agree to that. Because he sho need a couple knots on that head for real.. IJS
Now i can see Joseline falling for the okey doke, because she’s kind of not all there anyway but MIMI – dang… Child or not that Nicca would be heading to the left to the left!!!! Off topic, Ariane is beautiful.. Mimi take some notes from her honey, you definately deserve better.
I know right. This show is definitely scripted. You can tell. I can’t see what Mimi sees in Stevie to put up with his mess. Joseline seems dumb enough and Stevie’s match to manipulate. The fight between Stevie and Scrappy was fake. Ariane and Shaneka are the only ones that seem to have it going on. I don’t know what it is but I really don’t like this show.
Every time this show comes on i tell myself i am not going to watch it.. but i always end up watching
.. It’s like a train wreck you know the horrors your eyes are about to behold but you just keep looking.
Now we all know reality tv is made to entertain you. The show started off being full of drama. Some things may be true. That’s what make the scenes worst
I’d have an opinion on this topic if DirectTV and Viacom could stop acting like b*tches and turn VH1 back on. So I could actually watch the damn show.
@Johnathon You can watch the show on VH1.com for free direct tv member or not. Now on Monday you will not be able to watch it with everyone else, but VH1 posts the video I believe three days after the episode airs.
I don’t love this show THAT much to do all that. I’d rather just catch it when it comes on TV.
Who gives a damn?!!!
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That show is scripted all around. Some parts are real, but others are so obviously scripted. For example, the whole Jose getting pregnant and an abortion story was entirely scripted. How does a man get pregnant? And I don’t think you can eat before an abortion.
I don’t see why people are obsessed with this show anyway. The cast except Shaneka and Ariele seems like they’re retarded. They keep silly stuff going for ratings. Did they even graduate from H.S.?
At first I must admit I was a little excited that “the South” was getting a little facetime on the reality sector (even though I hate reality TV). However, this show is a HOT MESS!!!! After the 1st episode I refuse to watch. If it’s not scripted, the “actors” are very daytime TV soap opera-ish. Jose needs to crawl back under whatever rock she danced her way out of and Stevie J’s unsexy, disgusting tail can too! He would get his a$$ whooped in the streets.
My Wife watches the show and I tell her that its fake. She gets all made and says ” You ruin all of my Fun ” What fun watching this damn buffoonery. I cant lie I like to watch it sometimes. Buffoonery or not. Lets keep it 100!
It’s SCRIPTED!
I don’t like Mona at all. You can tell her spirit is bad.
After watching re-runs of The Hills on MTV, one of the pioneering reality dramas, I am absolutely sure this ‘ish is scripted. On The Hills, the crowd seems to be just as emotionally connected as the people at home. For instance, if people were fighting like K. Michelle and Karli Red, they wouldn’t continue with their meal and act like it’s not going on. However, that’s EXACTLY what they did on LAHH. Now, think back to when Evelyn almost hit Jen at one of the fancy restaurants in Miami (it was someone’s birthday; can’t remember). When Evelyn got up and started screaming “You ain’t about that life” to Jen, the crowd was visibly annoyed, appalled and shaken. Mona may be able to fool some of us some of the time but not all of us all of the time.
I JUST LIKE SAYING “STEEBIE” LIKE JOSELINE
GETS ME EVERY TIME LOL
So I was watching some behind the scenes footage of the first L&HH and what they do is get the people in a room and tell them what to talk about. There was a scene where Chrissy and Jim were in the kitchen just chillin and you heard a voice say “talk about….” (dont remember what it was) Then they started to talk about it. So it more directed that scripted. If it was actually scripted I think they writing would be a lil better than what these “stars” come up with…lol
I think it is directed to make the drama happen more often since the drama is what people want to see, but please believe…they DO NOT represent us in the ATL! The drama is crazy, but the sad thing is, I do know some people who their entire life is like theirs…DRAMA! All the time. They are not celebs either. I feel you either want to deal with it or you don’t and will remove it or yourself from those harmful situations. But yes, some would be lying if they say they don’t know anyone who has a drama-filled life. I know 3 for SURE and noe (thank goodness) are me. lol!
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The sad part is that Mona is actually a smart woman. This “Love and Hip Hop,” is degrading and simple.
all of these reality shows are scripted
Ok, it’s semi-scripted, lol. I especially love how the extras, oops I mean patrons in the restuarant pretended like they didn’t hear that blow up between K. Michelle and Karlie Redd. Even in fiction films, patrons notice when a fight is about to breakout, lol.
LOL all of these VH1 reality shows are scripted… matter of fact, just about every reality TV show is scripted. Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta is a ghetto HAM, but so entertaining because the cast acts like fools. I think it’s scripted in the sense that the producers tell them, okay, so on this day at this time you are going to meet up with this person and tell her what you think. I mean…everything is just too coincidental. Are the emotions real? Yes, of course. These producers purposely pick people who are nothing but trouble and who live for drama. These people really do act the way they do on TV in real life. It’s just with the fighting that’s totally hyped up because the cast members know they’re on TV and get into the show so much that they want to prove something and know someone will hold them back. The Joseline and Stevie J thing seems too “entertaining” to be true though. I mean… that pregnancy thing was really suspicious. Why would the cameras be there to film her crying after taking a pregnancy test while she’s sitting on a toilet, with clothes on, in a bathroom stall, in a public restroom that only has she and actually looked clean? LOL… like, really? Her emotions looked so real, but if she’s acting, she needs an agent ASAP.
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BULLSHIT, Mona really thinks we are dumb! It may not be scripted as in a script is handed to them and they read lines (that would be too much work for them), but it is scripted in a sense that they are “putting on” EXTRA for the camera. There is nothing natural about that show.
I can’t believe so many people watch these reality shows. Your actually giving these people ratings. Your paying for this to stay on the air yet you call it a hot ass mess. Stop supporting these puppets. Mona Scott knows people are stupid she doesn’t think it. Honestly what sane grown woman would tune into this garbage and it’s not just entertainment. This shit affects you as you watch it and you don’t even know.