Yandy Smith-Harris

* LHHATL
* LHHNY (Season 10)
* LHHNY (Season 9)
* LHHNY (Season 8)
* LHHNY (Seasons 6-7)
* LHHNY (Seasons 3-5)
* LHHNY (Season 2)

**Yandy Smith-Harris** is a main cast member on *Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta* since season ten. She appears as a main cast member on seasons two through ten of *Love & Hip Hop: New York.* For her time on New York, she was the leading star from seasons three to ten.

Introduced as manager to Jim Jones in season two, Smith becomes a major cast member and chronicles the demise of her relationship with his girlfriend Chrissy, and Jones himself. The show highlights her relationship with Mendeecees, and the struggles dealing with his impending jail sentence. Yandy begins to manage Bianca Bonnie in season six, and attempts to start a record label with Rich Dollaz.

The series highlights Yandy's struggles to have a good relationship with Mendeecees' baby's mothers, and often feuded with them. Season seven, Yandy is featured in a more antagonistic light, having a feud with Erika, and Samantha. The feud comes to a head at the seven season reunion, where Samantha is jumped by someone allegedly in Yandy's circle.

Smith-Harris has had a tumultuous relationship with on and off friend Kimbella. Initially best friends in season two, the pair have their first falling out before Kimbella's return in season seven. The pair make up, but have another falling out during season nine, when Kimbella speculates that Yandy is a clout chaser, and using her new foster daughter for her own gain. While it seemed the two made up by the end of season nine, the two had another falling out with each other.

After New York ended, the Harris' relocated to Atlanta, and joined the main cast in season ten. The season highlights her move to Atlanta, and briefly highlights her activism. Her and Mendeecees bring the cast to Dubai to renew their vows, with Judy coming to cause tension. Yandy was a smaller presence in the second half of season ten, highlighting the opening of her store. Yandy makes amends with Samantha at the end of the season, with Mendeecees mediating the tension between Samantha, and Yandy along with her cousin Kisha who jumped Wallace at *New York's* season seven reunion.

## Before *Love & Hip Hop*

Yandy Smith is an entertainment manager, entrepreneur, actress, singer and rapper. She was born in Harlem. In 2004, she graduated from Howard University and interned at Violator under the mentorship of Mona Scott-Young. In 2005, Yandy met Jim Jones on a private jet charted by Russell Simmons, and left Violator to manage him full-time. In 2006, Jim approached VH1 executives to make a reality show about him, leading to the filming of an 11-minute presentation tape, *Keeping Up with the Joneses*, produced by Stefan Springman and Toby Barraud of Eastern TV. VH1 were unsure if audiences would be invested in the concept full-time, and Yandy approached Mona to retool the show, and the concept was tweaked to include Jim's girlfriend Chrissy and her circle of friends, becoming what would be later known as *Love & Hip Hop*.

## *Love & Hip Hop* franchise (2011–present)

Yandy first appears briefly in an uncredited cameo in the first season episode "Proposal" during Chrissy's proposal party. She is also given "special thanks" in the end credits of every episode of the season.

Yandy joins the main cast of *Love & Hip Hop: New York* for season two, which chronicles her struggles while working as Jim's manager. During the season, her professional relationship with Jim falls apart, culminating in a violent brawl with Chrissy at a Miami nightclub, and ending with Jim and Chrissy severing their relationship with Yandy for good.

On July 16, 2012, Yandy gave birth to her first child, Omere, while filming the show's third season. The season introduces Mendeecees Harris, her on again, off-again boyfriend since 2007, and chronicles their engagement and subsequent wedding plans, which are interrupted when Mendeecees is forced to turn himself into custody for multiple drug and trafficking charges. Season four shows Yandy trying to adjust to life with Mendeecees locked up awaiting sentencing. The couple are reunited in season five when Mendeecees is released on bail, and Yandy gives birth to their second child, Skylar, on January 26, 2015.

On May 25, 2015, Yandy and Mendeecees were married live on VH1 as part of the special *Love & Hip Hop Live: The Wedding*.

While filming the show's sixth season, Mendeecees is sentenced to eight years in jail and turns himself in. Season seven chronicles Yandy's strained relationships with Mendeecees' baby mamas, Samantha and Erika, which explodes into a vicious feud, as the women fight for custody for Mendeecees' oldest children, Lil’ Mendeecees and Aasim. During the season, Yandy admits that her televised wedding was "symbolic" and that her marriage to Mendeecees is not legal.

Later seasons chronicle Yandy's struggles to repair her broken friendship with Kimbella, having had a falling out behind the scenes during season eight. Their feud intensifies in season nine, when Yandy begins the process of adopting a foster child, Infinity, and Kimbella questions her motivations for doing so, claiming it was all for "clout". In season ten, Yandy and Kimbella are once again at each other's throats, after Kimbella buries the hatchet with Yandy's nemesis Chrissy.

Yandy also appears in an episode of *Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: After Party Live!*, as a guest star in the spin-off show *Remy & Papoose: Meet the Mackies* and in the specials *40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments*, *Dirty Little Secrets*, *The Love Edition*, *Love & Hip Hop Awards: Most Certified* and *40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments: The Reboot*.

## Gallery

**Opening credits**

Yandy in the opening credits of *LHHNY* seasons 2, 3, 4 & 5.Yandy in the opening credits of *LHHNY* seasons 6 & 7.Yandy in the opening credits of *LHHNY* seasons 8 & 9.Yandy in the opening credits of *LHHNY* season 10.Yandy & Mendeecees in the opening credits of LHHATL season 10.
**Green screen looks**

One of Yandy's green screen looks in *LHHNY* season 2.One of Yandy's green screen looks in *LHHNY* season 3.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 4.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 5.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 6.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 7.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 8.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 9.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHNY* season 10.Yandy's green screen look in *LHHATL* season 10.
## Appearances

Yandy has 144 appearances.

## Trivia

* Yandy is the longest-running main cast member of the *Love & Hip Hop: New York* series, appearing as a main cast member in all nine seasons, with the exception of the first season (in which she makes a cameo appearance in).
* She is the highest paid person of the whole Love & Hip Hop Franchise with a net worth of $15 million dollars.