On Tiny & Shekinah’s Weave Trip Season 1 Episode 1, rapper T.I.’s wife and her bestie took their mobile bus weave business nationwide. Road trip style.
The rapport between Tiny (Tameka Cottle) and Shekinah is one of the top reasons to watch T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle online, so a spinoff has potential.
Did it live up to it, or did it disappoint?
In theory, a Tiny and Shekinah spinoff should be a hit, but as is often the case with promising reality shows, all the best scenes take place in the trailers.
Still, if you enjoy all things T.I., you’ll probably be entertained as Mrs. T.I. says, “we’re always coming up with a new business idea … it never goes smooth.”
Tiny and Shekinah have to meet with mediators, it turns out, when their bus purchase hits a snag (the bus being the central component of the business, natch).
Ever the savvy businesswoman, Tiny wants Shekinah to put half of her money into this, but a 70/30 split in her favor when it comes to future profits.
Uh.
Shekinah is the stylist, not Tiny, and she knows a bad deal when she hears it. Fortunately, with the help of a mediator, she breaks her down to 50/50.
Why do you need a mediator, you ask? Well, they also suggest, casually, that the girls take a road trip on the bus (named “Pretty Hustle On the Go”) to L.A.!
Wow, what a crazy and not at all scripted idea.
After that interlude, they finally hit the road.
For better or worse. What followed was much like parent show (see our T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle Season 4 Episode 19 recap), but not as amusing.
Perhaps it’s that they struggle without T.I. as the voice of reason, but a lot of the funny banter we normally see between the best friends is absent on Weave Trip.
“That is going to be a long trip,” Tiny says.
If they don’t quit sniping and get back to the core of their friendship that makes Hustle so much fun, it sure as heck will be, and a lot of fans might bail.