Love & Hip Hop Atlanta - LHHATL Insider's Gossip Recap

If you love Atlanta, you'll love everything about the reality show Love & Hip Hop Atlanta! It is us in that is is classy, ratchet, funny, and smart all at the same time. It is a great look in what it is like to live among the big houses, flashy lifestyle, and down-home attitude of hip hop starts (or wannabe hip hop stars) in the black capital of the South.

Being from Atlanta give one a special insiders point of view because you know where the places are that they visit and it provides a lot more context to the show. For example, most Atlanta reality stars don't even live in the actual city. Rasheeda lives in the country and the other in random suburbs of Atlanta that are like 45 minutes away where the houses are big and cheap. Sure, the houses look big and fancy on TV, but if you are from here you know the truth.

Location is also an important factor when it come to their businesses. Karlie Redd brags about having a store, but what most people don't know is that the mall where the store is located is like one of the worst ghetto malls in Atlanta, not very impressive. On the other hand, Rasheeda Shows off her boss bitch skills by opening her store at Lenox Mall - a much more upscale, exclusive, and expensive mall.

This insiders look really gives the show a reality check because things are not what they appear on TV. It really makes their lifestyle look more like an average person than a hip hop star's lifestyle.

Same goes for their "booming" music careers. Its funny that when it comes to their big events, parties, and performances; most of them are in very small and unpopular venues. What might look like performance showcase is actually a strip club or they even had a a "fancy" dinner at places that are just like going to The Cheesecake Factory - not very glamorous!