Monday on T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle Season 4 Episode 16, Tiny and her posse took center stage as the focus shifted to their life on the road.
Tiny took Niq Niq and the OMG Girlz to a class taught by Divas in Defense, which made for a classic B-story in a reality show that is more like a sitcom.
If you stumbled on T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle Season 4 Episode 16, you could be forgiven for thinking this were some ’90s-era family comedy.
That’s what it feels like with hilariously staged events such as Tiny and Co. enrolling in a self defense program to prepare them for life on the road.
Because on the road … who only knows what kinds of things might happen to Tameka "Tiny" Cottle. One best be prepared for all things, no doubt.
The instructor had an unusual way of teaching her moves, which made for some conflict, as Tiny wondered if the girls were taking the class seriously.
How did they respond? Well, you’ll have to watch T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle online to find out, but the real star of this episode was again Tip.
This week’s episode saw T.I. installing cameras in the house and watching from an actual surveillance van to catch his kids in the act of mischief.
Again, this feels like a plot lifted straight out of Modern Family, and the results were almost as funny as a five-time Emmy winner could’ve produced.
"It seems when I’m around, they’re on their best behavior, and when I’m not … anarchy. The kids need a little bit of a lesson in respect," quoth Tip.
"But," he adds, first, "I need to catch ’em."
Suffice it to say, seeing rapper T.I. install nanny cams with his associate Major and then reacting to his discoveries from afar is nothing short of hilarious.
There is almost no effort to hide the fact that this is scripted comedy, and coming from a man who recently fought Floyd Mayweather, why should there be?
He is who he is, and the Family Hustle have joined their beloved patriarch in creating an unexpected "reality show" (term used loosely) gem for VH1.
Last week’s episode was equally classic: