The Art Institute of New York City graduate works in corporate marketing and social media for Steve Madden. “If I left I would be taking away opportunities from my kids,” he says.Īngie, 27, says she hopes that “Growing Up Hip Hop: New York” - which features the children of hip-hop legends navigating their personal and professional lives outside of their parents’ shadows - will show another side of her. He was supposed to appear in four episodes but ended up in 10. What if someone would’ve punched JJ or Angie in the face ? If someone touches my kids … I’m not playing about that.”Īfter a week of back-and-forth phone calls, Gotti decided not to leave the show. I got all this positive stuff and happy stuff with my family. “I felt that I wanted to be violent I wanted to hurt people and I’m like, ‘Don’t do this.’ My life could have been over. You’re not going to see Angie put somebody in a headlock you’re not going to see JJ beefing with somebody. We’re not boring - we’re just not fighting anybody. “All that stuff at SOB’s … the producers of the show perpetuate some bulls–t … I went into the deal more concerned with the producers and production of and how they are going to spin the reality because there’s no real drama here. That’s not who we are and I’m not going to perpetuate that type of s–t,’ ” Gotti says. “I told production, ‘Don’t do that with us. Gotti, who felt the show’s producers ratcheted up the drama for no good reason, threatened to walk off the show and take his kids with him. Gotti was happy to oblige and appear on the show - which also features Fat Joe, Charlie Baltimore, Lil Mama, Flavor Flav and Kid Capri - but he did have one major concern when a video of Gotti and Ja Rule being barred from the nightclub SOB’s and arguing with a security guard went viral. “That’s when I went to my dad and said it would be dope if we were all on it together.” “My friend hit me up and told me, ‘Yo, bro, we are going to be on ‘Growing Up Hip Hop: New York’ and I said, ‘I want to do it too,’ ” says JJ, 20. 29) season of the series with his father and sister, Angie Pearson. CEO Irv Gotti to co-star on We TV’s “Growing Up Hip Hop: New York” came from his son, Jonathan “JJ” Wilson Lorenzo - who appears on the upcoming (Aug.
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