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The King Kong of reality shows, Love & Hip-Hop (New York), is back and it’s bigger and badder than ever. With both new and familiar faces, this week’s season premiere brought the real and the ratchet on all fronts. Yandy is still holding her man down while he spends time behind bars, Joe Budden is back with his original main squeeze and New York’s own, Peter Gunz, joins the franchise to becom

"I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the king of New York/King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both." "I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm rhymin' with/But this is hip-hop and them niggas should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Mills, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I

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