It’s a family affair on this season Growing Up Hip Hop. Not only has rap icon but Pep is also joined by her son, Tyran Moore, and her ex-husband, Naughty By Nature’s Treach. Pepa and Treach’s relationship has been the subject controversy for decades, but the crux their scandalous headlines came from Pepa’s allegations that during their relationship, Treach was physically abusive toward her.
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Treach has publicly addressed the accusations on multiple occasions and even spoke with their daughter Egypt about it on their reality show. Both father and daughter recently stopped by The Breakfast Club for a quick chat about Growing Up Hip Hop but the topic Treach’s relationship with Pepa couldn’t be avoided.
“We have a love-hate relationship,” Treach admitted. ” and now it’s gonna be a Salt-N-Pepa movie. So they come to me and I’m looking at the character they got for me and they wanna release it. And it will never happen, you feel me? It’s like, What’s Love Got to do With It was a great movie, but it wasn’t our story.”
He said he didn’t take any legal action when the accusations first surfaced because his career didn’t skip a beat. “It wasn’t like I was blackballed or anything else. It’s getting to a stage now because I’m seeing—when I actually got the script what they were saying, I’ve had to keep saying, ‘When did this ever happen?'” He added that he asked Pepa about the same stories in the book and he claims she told him that she didn’t proread it.
Treach stressed that the #MeToo movement has the capabilities completely ruining a person’s legacy and career, so he wanted to know exactly when these domestic violence events occurred. “,” Treach said while Egypt interjected she couldn’t recollect any incidents. She also said that Pepa is careful about what’s included and shared publicly because she doesn’t want his life to be negatively affected by any allegations. Watch Treach and Egpyt talk about Pepa below.