Love And Hip Hop New York Yandy Smith Says Erica Mena is 'An A** Monkey' For Behavior Not Editing

Love and Hip Hop: New York reality star, Yandy Smith addresses Erica Mena's comments about favoritism on the show. The VH1 star told Hot 97's Ebro in the Morning that she is in the same boat as the rest other cast mates and it's all about how you portray yourself not editing.

Yandy sounded off about Erica's recent interview with the group and denies getting special treatment, "Let me address something with Love and Hip Hop." She continued, "I get Google alert about this way too much. There's a certain cast member [Erica Mena] that you had up here that felt like I got special treatment." She continued, "I keep hearing my named mentioned and I'm not sure as to why I'm constantly mentioned -but to clarify- yes, first season I was on the production side of Love and Hip Hop. When I decided to be a cast member, I relinquished all rights on a production side, But I don't get special treatment. I just choose not to act an a** monkey. If I acted an A** monkey, best believe Mona Scott-Young would put up there me acting an a** monkey and would be like 'Yand, you acted an a** monkey, but that got us some money.'"

She explained that it's about how you carry yourself and what you bring to the cameras that is aired and exposed, "I choose not to do that. Not only do I choose not to act like an a** monkey, I don't have crazy ish like a girlfriend and a boyfriend that sleeps with the boyfriend and girlfriend- that's good TV, I would cast here and I would put that on blast."

Yandy explained that Erica's claims of the show's editing to purposely shed a negative light on her are false because it was her reality she was living that appeared on screen that could not be fabricated.

"Let me tell you something. You cannot edit down or edit up something that doesn't exist." She explained, "If it exist and it's crazy, they're gonna put it out there. If you don't give them crazy they can't out it out there. We all got our crazy stuff, we all do, but at the end of the day you have a brand and not only do you have a brand, you should want to prepare for your future so you can have a job after Love and Hip Hop."