The 'Love and Hip Hop' franchise is not necessarily known for level-headed people, who handle their beef without getting too messy, but we got to meet one such 'Love and Hip Hop' person when season 1 of 'Miami' premiered. Prince, the self-proclaimed "Fresh Prince of South Beach", told Meaww his image is not the result of a perfectly manicured television personality, but instead, that of being 100 at every point in his life.
"I refuse to be a fake person. Everything that has to do with me has to be organic, has to be real, has to be genuine," said the 'Love and Hip Hop: Miami' star, who is all for reality TV, but refuses to embellish the "reality" in reality TV. "I will never put on a facade or fake the funk because that's just not who I am. I would never do something just for TV to garner some attention, I'd never do something that is going to be malicious or hurt someone, just for some extra air time, that's just not in my character."
That being said, season 2 of 'Love of Hip Hop: Miami' (LHH) is going to be a salicious one, he promises us, revealing the "rose-tinted glasses comes off this season". "I think everyone has their favorite from last season and then who they deem as real and awesome and 'lit'. But I think that this season you kind of really get to see and know people in their character and their depths," he revealed.
As for the stars of the show, who were virtually strangers to each other in shooting season one, "We all got to hang out and get together and learn one another and hang out. And then, you know, you can kind of see people for who they are. You know those spots start to show. And I think that's the biggest thing this season that you get to really see people for who they are and their values."
Speaking of people and their values, Prince has been having some trouble connecting with his on-again-off-again friend on the show, Bobby Lytes, this season. There is a lot about the story that the rest of season 2 will uncover and Prince wants us to stay tuned for that storyline.
However, he does clarify he does not think Bobby is a bad person or that he has a bad character. "I just think that he has some ways about him that I can't have too close to me. For me to have been such a good friend and to have have dealt with the social media backlash... The thing that people save on my back, even just here, in our own community, for me to have put up with all that and never treating him differently, and for him to do the things that he does and did - which you see as episodes air - it's not that it's unforgivable, but it's unforgettable," Prince opened up.
Miami Tip, a common friend of both Bobby and Prince, has been trying to get both men on great terms again, but Prince refuses to fix the friendship because someone else wants him to.
He said, "At the end of the day I am my own person and I make my own moves. I'll never allow someone to depict what a friendship should be or what shouldn't happen. It's just like a relationship. You can have a [obscenity] that treats you like s**t and you, girls tell you, you got leave that [obscenity], but you're going to stay with him if you want to stay with him, because you care for him. It's the same kind of situation. Regardless of who tells me what, who's in my ear. I want to do what I want to do and what feels best for me. I love Bobby like a brother as far as moving forward, you will have to this season."
Be it for his friendship with the out and proud Bobby or his impeccable fashion sense, Prince has been called gay by many people, and while Prince is "very, very, very comfortable" with who he is, the collective voice gets to him.
As someone who has been assumed to be gay from when he was a child, the 'LHH' star says it ignites the anger inside of him when people repeatedly assume his sexuality and label him as someone he is not, even though he was "technically, kind of" with two women last season.
"I don't care what the individual person thinks," he said. "It's more so what the majority thinks. So, I deal with it. There's only so much you can do. People are going to talk no matter what. They talked about Jesus. They talked about Chris brown. When you're good looking, and you're fly, and you dress well and you speak good and you're black because this is only an issue in the black community. And I want to say that this is only an issue in the black community because if I was white it wouldn't matter how well I spoke, how well I dress or what color I wore, but in our community this is a huge issue."
Thankfully, people like Prince are shattering the stereotypes of what a straight black man is supposed to be, by being himself on a show like 'Love and Hip Hop.' Even though Prince had never watched 'Love and Hip Hop' before entering the show, he has fit in perfectly on the show.
A huge fan of 'Real World,' he believes he made it to the better show, and if you want to watch him kill it as usual, don't forget to watch 'Love and Hip Hop: Miami' every Tuesday, 8/7c pm on Vh1.
