It’s official. VH1 is bringing its wildly popular “Love & Hip-Hop“ reality show franchise to Atlanta!

“Love & Hip-Hop,” a New-York based reality show that focuses on several women who are (or were once) romantically linked to some of Hip-Hop’s biggest stars, has already been through two seasons.

Some of the cast members include Chrissy Lampkin (fiancee of rapper Jim Jones), Olivia Longott (a female Hip-Hop recording artist who once dated Maino), Somaya Reece (an aspiring female rapper), Kimbella Vanderhee (Juelz Santana‘s baby mama) and a few others, including Teairra Mari, Yandy Smith and Erika Mena.

Earlier this week, the “Love & Hip-Hop Season 2 Reality Check” recap episode aired, giving the ladies one last and final chance to speak about the crazy events that took place over this season, and at the end of the episode, VH1 confirmed that “Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta” will be the next chapter for the show.

According to our friends over at Straight from the A, local rappers Diamond and Rasheeda are on board for the new installment of the series. R&B singer (and Lil Wayne Baby Mama #3) Nivea will not be joining the cast as previously reported.

There are also rumors floating around that Waka Flocka’s mom/manager Debra Antney will be joining the cast, as well as ATL celebrity assistant Rici, who would be a “Yandy” type character, but none of that has been confirmed.

It’s also being rumored that Phaedra Parks will be leaving the “Real Housewives of Atlanta”) to join “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” in some form, whether on or off camera, but that hasn’t been confirmed either.

Either way, it will definitely be interesting to see the dynamics of an ATL version of the show, given the success of the first two seasons.

VH1 did something similar with “Basketball Wives L.A.” and it turned out that version of the show was much better than the original! So we’ll just have to wait and see how everything pans out.

Will you be watching?

Fans of VH1′s “Love and Hip-Hop“ will be glad to know that a new franchise of the show is said to be in the works.

According to our friends over at Straight from the A, industry insiders say that “Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta” could be making its way to your TV screens one day soon:

Former Crime Mob member Diamond (Lil Scrappy’s long time ex, and Soulja Boy’s jump off) has reportedly been offered a role on the upcoming show.

Things are still in the beginning stages and Diamond has a few details to hash out before she’ll ink the deal. Apparently, the producers of the show want her to be 100 percent herself in front of the cameras, but her publicists would prefer to finesse things a little bit. “Diamond would definitely be the Chrissy [Lampkin] of the group.”

Others mentioned on the list include A-town rapper Rasheeda, Lil Wayne baby mama #3(?) Nivea, and I’ve also heard talks of Cee-lo Green‘s ex, Christina Johnson being approached as an addition to the Atlanta Love & Hip Hop cast.

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With all of the other reality shows already out there, we think adding another one to the mix this soon would probably be overkill.

Now … if Usher’s ex wife Tameka were to somehow join the cast, then we might have a reason to tune in, just because we know she’s gonna probably end up being like Jackie Christie on BBW L.A. Couldn’t you see that?

What are your thoughts?

Atlanta’s music royalty packed into the city’s historic Cascade Skating Rink and donated their time and money Wednesday night to help the homeless and less fortunate at DeVyne Stephens’ Roll Over Hunger Celebrity Charity and Skate Jam Wednesday night.

The guest list for the charity event included Ludacris, T.I., Young Jeezy, Big Boi, Toya, Polow Da Don, Ciara (who showed up in a wheelchair and wearing braces on both legs) and many others.

Through this star-studded event, DeVyne Stephens and his DeVyne Intervention foundation were able to raise thousands of dollars to help feed Atlanta’s homeless.

All of the proceeds went straight to he Hosea Feed the Hungry Foundation Holiday Dinner Program, which provides four major meal service events for Atlanta’s homeless, serving over 200,000 hot meals every year.

No word just yet on why Ciara rolled up to the event (literally) in a wheelchair, though it looks like she (and everyone else) had a ball!

Check out 20+ pics below:

[Photos: FreddyO, Prince Williams/Film Magic]

Rapper turned actor Xzibit sees nothing funny about planking, the latest trend that seems to have swept Hollywood in the last few weeks. He wrote on Twitter:

Planking is THE dumbest sh-t ever. #Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, it’s not funny. Educate. Don’t get it twisted. I care less where your dumb asses lay face down and take pictures of the shit, I’m just telling you where it came from.

Among many others, pictures of Rosario Dawson, Ellen Page, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and more “Planking” have hit the net in the past few weeks. Check out a ton of pics of celebrities planking below:

Diggy & Justin Bieber

Chris Brown

Dwight Howard

Usher’s sons Naviyd and Cinco

Diddy’s sons Quincy & Christian

Game

Rosario Dawson

Wiz Khalifa

Rocsi & Terrence J

Kristen Bell

We’ve heard it all……

Soulja Boy‘s new girlfriend Diamond revealed in a recent interview with Dr. Jay’s that his “intelligence” is what attracted her to him.

“We’ve been friends for awhile. He’s always been real sweet, real manner-able guy, he’s very, very smart, intelligent. I learn from him and that’s what I look for when I date a guy. I like to learn, teach me. Sometimes guys want to compete. And that was one of the key things that captured my attention about him.”

The former Crime Mob rapper also went on to say that neither one of them expected for the news of their relationship to get so widespread.

“We talked about it, but we didn’t know it was going to be that big.” Diamond stated.

These two already sound like they’re made for each other….

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Lil Scrappy has spoken out on his ex-girlfriend former Crime Mob rapper Diamond dating Soulja Boy.

The Atlanta rapper called into the Durtty Boyz on Hot 107.9 and explained what’s really going on. More »

Lil Scrappy has spoken out on his ex-girlfriend former Crime Mob rapper Diamond dating Soulja Boy.

The Atlanta rapper called into the Durtty Boyz on Hot 107.9 and explained what’s really going on. Check out the audio clip below:

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We’re glad to know he’s still in good spirits…..maybe his mother can calm down a tad bit now.

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Atlanta rapper Lil Scrappy‘s mama is not a happy camper. And it has everything to do with Diamond (Scrappy’s now ex fiancee) dumping her son for another ATL rapper …. SOULJA BOY!!!

Upon learning that Diamond, former member of rap group Crime Mob, was hooking up with Soulja Boy, Scrappy’s mama (aka Mama D) went in on Diamond live on the radio in Atlanta this week. Calling her a “dirty low down b*tch,” Mama D was not pulling any punches when she let Hot 107.9 know how she felt about Diamond.

“Okay, the b***h done got breast implants and booty shots, the b*tch ain’t real first of all,” Mama D said. “Secondly, Soulja boy is gonna come behind him anyway. So at the end of the day Scrappy is chilling, he’s fine, he’s the Prince of the South and he got it good.”

“She lied like a motherf**ker!” Mama D shouted on the radio. “Called Scrappy back, talking about I was just hanging out with him. Whooooooo! I want to put my hand around that b***h throat. I want you to go on the radio and say ‘Mama D is angry because you don’t mess with Mama D son.’ But you know what ladies and gentlemen? Her son is doing good. The Prince of the South is still the reigning prince because he’s chill like that, he’s gonna keep it pimpin’.”

“It’s f’d up how she did it … low down dirty b*tch,” she continued. “She’s lucky I don’t take [inaudible] and pimp her azz. She gonna give it up like that, she might as well get some money for it hoe. Scrappy, Mama D, we gonna keep it G, ya heard me? Let the radio know that Scrappy the Prince of the South is still the reigning Prince and he’s chilling on South Beach, okay, with a beautiful lady. He ain’t stunting that sh*t there, he’s all good.”

WOW! Mama D went INNNNN!

Check out pics of the “new couple” (courtesy of the homie FreddyO) all boo’d up at the car & bike show in Atlanta over the weekend below:

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Diamond was in shock last night after her brand new 2010 Chevy Camero was towed away by the repo man! While the former “Crime Mobb” rapper was on the set of a Young Money video shoot in Atlanta earlier this week, the repo man came through and repossessed her new vehicle, which she says she bought just last week:

Sooooo tell me y I bought dis 2 brandnew 2010 camero!!! And theze f*ckas cuz repo my car aint dat a bitch!!! “ISMELLFRAUD” HAhAHA damn… I just bout dat sh*t SON!!!

Peep the footage below…

Well damn. Ol’ girl just got her car yanked from her in front of EVERYBODY! Just tragic…

The 2010 BET Hip-Hop Awards aired on TV last night (Tues. Oct 12) and featured a segment where several different rappers across the Hip-Hop spectrum participated in friendly freestyle battles aka “the Cypher.” Hit the link below to check ‘em out!

Kanye West, Pusha T, CyHi da Prynce, Big Sean, and Common

Ice Cube and his two songs (OMG and Doughboy) and Reverand Run with his sons Diggy and JoJo

Tyga, Kuniva, Diamond, Royce Da 5’9″