Spice and Erica Mena acquired right into a heated exchange throughout a lunch outing on a current episode of “Love & Hip Hop ATL.” Whereas discussing Erica’s marriage to Safaree Samuels, stress turned to insults and makes an attempt at bodily violence. After Spice focused Erica’s relationship together with her eldest son, King, Mena flipped a desk.
Although the present crew prevented the ladies from beating on one another, they each threw objects and hurled insults from throughout the restaurant. At one level, Mena proclaimed the Jamaican singer ought to’ve died throughout her well being scare final 12 months. Erica additionally labeled her castmate a “blue monkey,” which caught fireplace on-line for its traditionally racist undertones. Whereas leaving the venue, she additionally directed monkey sounds on the singer.
On Wednesday, Spice took to Instagram to answer Erica’s insults. She in contrast Erica’s response to her together with her responses to Lil Scrappy and Stevie J in separate, related incidents.
“Children are off limits proper????? However I suppose it’s solely once I ask trigger the place’s the identical vitality when Scrappy and Stevie J talked about it, however now I’m a monkey and will have died on the desk? Okay Erica,” Spice wrote.
As beforehand reported, in November 2022, Spice shut down rumors of struggling a coma or coronary heart assault. Nonetheless, the dancehall artist revealed her physique underwent extreme sepsis after a broken hernia.
She celebrated her “second rebirth” in March with a fake pregnancy photoshoot that despatched social media right into a tailspin. She additionally gave further particulars of her medical scare, together with that she “actually died.”
LHHATL’s Shekinah & Social Media Customers React To Erica Mena’s “Monkey” Insult In the direction of Spice
Erica has but to reply — at the very least publicly — to Spice’s name out. However the singer isn’t the one one tussling with Erica’s “monkey” insult and dying want.
Throughout the identical episode, castmate Shekinah Anderson acknowledged how Erica Mena’s remark landed. Shekinah was additionally current for the almost-brawl.
“Erica I can not consider you, you simply known as this woman a monkey after which mentioned she ought to’ve died. What sort of sh*t is that this? You’ve got Jamaican kids. Would you want if somebody known as your kids monkeys? You shouldn’t have did that Erica. That was out of line.”
As of Wednesday afternoon, Erica Mena was top-trending on X (previously Twitter).
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This Isn’t Colorism. This Is Racism
Erica Mena isn’t Black. Colorism is exercised inside the identical ethnic group/race. Calling Spice a “monkey” is pure, lower & dry textbook RACISM
I implore the confused to get off of social media and open a e book/dictionary pic.twitter.com/EEKl91m351
Appropriate! However, criticizing her parenting, saying her son hates her, is a set off; she flipped a desk on her! Spice deliberately lower deep & Erica Mena responded to chop deeper..
You’ll be able to’t inform an individual how to answer being attacked.
— Jerome Trammel (she/her he/him) (@MrJeromeTrammel) August 30, 2023
Erica Mena is a white latino racist cosplaying as black lady. To name THEE Spice BLACK & MONKEY then a BLUE to say she ought to’ve died?
Y’all have to pack Erica Mena up like y’all packed Evelyn Lozada up! As a result of sufficient is sufficient! She is DISGUSTING! 🤮🤢 BASURA!! IDC! I’m positive she calls Safaree a dancing monkey too! 🥴 #LHHATLpic.twitter.com/3KndSWYjFZ
Evelyn Lozada, Laura and Gloria Gloven, Erica Mena, all the identical. They’ve this unprovoked nasty anti black hate for black ladies however this unwavering obsession for black man- it was uncanny to observe trigger they by no means even attempt to disguise it.
Erica Mena fucked a black man, marry him and have children by a black man simply to show round and name a black lady monkey? Nah that racist dried up bitch gots to go! pic.twitter.com/VpqrsDEo4q
Erica’s silence on social media in regards to the incident may be attributed to different looming authorized troubles. Atlanta police arrested Mena, Bambi, and ZellSwag contained in the Lucca Lounge final Friday (Aug. 25).
Lounge workers reportedly requested the group, together with Saucy Santana, earlier than he left the scene to depart, and their alleged refusal was a tussle with safety.
Mena was hit with 4 expenses, together with two counts of straightforward battery, one rely of battery in opposition to an officer, and one rely of willful obstruction of justice.
After the arrests, Saucy claimed Erica was “very belligerent” amid the chaos.
In the meantime, Bambi spoke exclusively with The Shade Room’s Justin Carter about what led to their arrests.