There may not be an official date of when Juelz Santana will be home from prison, but his wife Kimbella insists that it will be this summer. The rapper recently released his #FREESANTANA mixtape while behind bars with the help of his team and there’s a project with Lil Wayne in the works that will hopefully drop later this year. Things are looking up for the incarcerated rapper and Kimbella recently visited The Breakfast Club to update everyone on what life has been like without him.

Kimbella talked about Juelz revealing his addiction issues on Love & Hip Hop New York and why they decided to share such a personal subject matter with the world. She said that one of the main reasons why Juelz hadn’t released new music in so long was because of his struggle with addiction, along with some business troubles, and it wasn’t until he was confronted with his own mortality did he recognize it was time for a change.

Elsewhere, Kimbella addressed her Love & Hip Hop New York rift with former friend Yandy Smith and patching things up with Jim Jones‘s girlfriend Chrissy Lampkin. The reality star explained why she threw a drink at Yandy and talked about being “above” the VH1 drama. Check out Kimbella’s interview with The Breakfast Club below and stream Juelz Santana’s #FREESANTANA mixtape here.

Anyone who's been keeping up with this season of Love & Hip Hop: New York knows how chaotic it's been. Cyn Santana, Joe Budden, and Tahiry are involved in some major drama with Erica Mena, who got hitched to Safaree, but not before Safaree invited Erica's ex, Rich Dollaz, to his bachelor party. The whole season is a mess that you just can't look away from, and this week, some bad blood from the past resurfaced. This year, Kimbella, Chrissy Lampkin, and Yandy Smith are all on the same show, which was already guaranteed to cause trouble. They proved that to be true this week when Chrissy and Kimbella's iconic brawl ten years prior was the topic of conversation.

Love & Hip Hop star, Yandy Smith, was overjoyed when her husband, Mendeecees Harris, was released from prison last week. His incarceration was a major storyline on Love & Hip Hop: New York, and Yandy even revealed that Mendeecees, as a federally convicted criminal, is not legally permitted to live at the same residence as Yandy’s foster child, Infinity.

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Viewers and fans of Yandy’s noted that, since Mendeecees release, Infinity has been absent from her photos. Mendeecees also shared a photo on Instagram of a recent family outing, and Infinity is nowhere to be seen. In the caption, Mendeecees wrote, “Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love ? is a family. Having both is a BLESSING. Family is everything. Thank u for all of y’all welcomes.. they’re really appreciated and it doesn’t go unnoticed!! ??”

Users took the comments on Mendeecees post to ask where Infinity was. “Where is her adopted daughter?” one user asked “I hope she doesn’t get pushed aside now that he’s home.” Another commented, “So Yandy booted the little girl ?.” These comments did not go unnoticed, and Yandy made sure to let everyone know she was not going to stand for the slander. 

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“That’s funny?” Yandy wrote in the comments. “How do you think she’d feel reading you say this. Of course it’s not true but how do you think it would make a CHILD feel?!!!! Kids should be off-limits. Damn. It be your own kind.” It should be noted that Mendeecees is serving the remainder of his sentence in a halfway house, so Infinity would still be able to live under Yandy’s roof at least for the next nine months. However, it is unclear what arrangement the family will set up once Mendeecees is officially off probation, but it appears that Yandy is not planning on ditching her foster child anytime soon.

Many of you have by now already heard of Love & Hip Hop: New York star Mendeecees’ early release from prison yesterday. While the news had social media chattering extensively about Yandy’s extravagant “Cruella de Vil-inspired” fur coat in the video they posted together, or what they’d be doing that night as a married couple that haven’t seen each other physically in a few years, the  more interesting news is actually what he’ll have to endure as a newly-released parolee. 

Bossip reports that Mendeecees, seen throwing away his pre-prison clothes and Timbs in the aforementioned video with Yandy by his side (seen above), is not technically a free man as opposed to what’s been widely reported. While he has in fact been granted early release after serving close to half of his eight to ten-year sentence, Mendeecees will have to serve the remaining nine months in either a halfway house or on house arrest. While the spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons who confirmed this news with Bossip didn’t give specific details on what type of parole conditions he was issued, the site does say he was transferred to the New York Residential Reentry Management Office following his release on January 29. 

Mendeecees will officially be released on Oct. 14, 2020, as confirmed  the Bureau of Prisons. Prayers up!

No one is more excited to see Mendeecees Harris released from prison than Yandy Smith. The Love & Hip Hop New York couple have been candid about Mendeecees’s legal troubles for years since it was first announced that he was facing charges of drug trafficking. Authorities accused the reality star of helping to move heroin and cocaine from New York City to Rochester, New York between 2006 and 2008.

VH1 cameras followed the couple as they prepared for Mendeecees’s sentencing, and after he was hit with eight to 10 years, the pair struggled to work out co-parenting. On Love & Hip Hop New York, Yandy often shared her prison calls with her husband, and six months ago it was announced that after serving four years behind bars, Mendeecees would be released in November 2020.

However, his big day came sooner than later, and on Wednesday (January 29), Yandy shared a video to her Instagram showing that her husband was a free man. “Never going back…@mendeecees??,” she wrote in the caption of the clip that showed Mendeecees tossing out his prison clothing. The happy couple are then seen posing for photos in the street.

Mendeecees’s release is a central focus of Yandy’s storyline on the current season of Love & Hip Hop New York, so expect to see more of these two on reality television sooner than later. Watch the clip below.