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VH1 Officially Announces ‘Love and Hip Hop: Miami’ Starring Trina, Trick Daddy, Pretty Ricky & More

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9 years ago

September 1, 2017

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It’s been rumored for quite some time, but VH1 has officially announced ‘Love and Hip Hop: Miami.’

The fourth installment of the L&HH franchise is set to premiere January 2018.

Thanks to Trina’s viral rant from a few weeks ago, we knew that she was confirmed to be on the Miami cast. Her longtime friend Trick Daddy is also a cast member.

Other cast members include the group Pretty Ricky, rapper Gunplay, Shay Johnson (of Flavor of Love) and more.

Take a look at the cast list via VH1 below.

Trina will join the docu-series as she preps her upcoming album The One while balancing home life with her unpredictable family. Will Trina be able to manage being one of the most celebrated femcees while having it all at home?

The self-proclaimed “Mayor of the 305” Trick Daddy is also working on his latest creative endeavors but will his divorce from his wife Joy derail his comeback?

Pretty Ricky is also back on the radar. Pleasure P is focusing on new music for their big reunion but will his relationship with girlfriend Shay Johnson (the former Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star!) threaten his relationship with the group?

Rapper Gunplay and his girl Keyara are starting over in Miami but will ex-girlfriend Miami Tip shake up their happy home? Can the couple outlast the drama from the past?

Multi-talented Amara La Negra is ready for that crossover to the American mainstream charts but is Miami too big for her? Will she be able to remain true to her voice, her image, and herself in the Miami scene?

Veronica Vega is a controversial and unapologetic figure trying to make an impression in the music industry. Will she be able to balance work and friendships before something falls?

Producer Young Hollywood also joins the Love & Hip Hop Miami cast as an early pioneer of the Latinx trap music movement. His work includes collabs with major artists like Migos and Pitbull. While his attitude may not be for everyone, his body of work speaks for itself.

Prince is a nightlife personality with a thing for beautiful women. The self-proclaimed “Prince of South Beach” and his longtime gf Liz Cifuentes will be at odds over his late nights and constant “party boy” lifestyle. Will Liz’s friendship with a rival promoter DJ Michelle Pooch be the nail in the coffin?

Steph Lecor, fresh off opening for acts such as Calvin Harris and Ariana Grande, has signed with Dj Khaled’s We The Best Music Group. Loyal through and through, Steph will always be vocal about where she stands when her loyalty is called into question.

Celebrity stylist Jojo Zarur is ready to expand her business including opening new stores but with her parents’ tenuous divorce in the way, she may find her plans take a different turn.

Finally, aspiring rapper Bobby Lytes has a very famous first cousin that he doesn’t feel supports his ambitions. Ahem, Trina! That, plus his relationship with his boyfriend Jeffrey White will be shook when a former flame Malik Williams returns for love. Can the couple find a way to have it all? Will Trina support her cousin? Will the past stop Bobby and Jeffrey in their tracks?

Will you be watching?

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The Publicist Who Changed Everything: Howard Bloom and the Art of Making Legends

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11 hours ago

May 15, 2026

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Before there was a science of influence, before algorithms decided who mattered and viral moments manufactured stars overnight, there was Howard Bloom — working the phones, shaping narratives, and building some of the most enduring legends in the history of popular music.

In an era when the music industry ran on relationships, instinct, and the sheer force of personality, Bloom was operating on a different level entirely. He wasn’t just doing publicity. He was doing something closer to cultural architecture — understanding not just how to get an artist covered, but how to make them mean something. How to make them matter. How to embed them into the fabric of American life in a way that outlasted any single hit, any single moment, any single headline.

The roster tells the story. Prince. Billy Joel. Kiss. Lionel Richie. Michael Jackson. Bob Marley. These were not simply clients. They were cultural phenomena — and Howard Bloom was one of the key minds helping to shape what those phenomena meant to the world. At a time when rock and roll was the most powerful cultural force on the planet, Bloom was at the center of it, helping to translate raw talent into enduring mythology.

What set him apart was not hustle alone — though there was plenty of that. It was his relentless intellectual curiosity, his insistence on understanding the deeper forces at work beneath the surface of pop culture. While others in the industry were counting chart positions, Bloom was asking bigger questions. Why does this artist connect? What need are they meeting? What truth are they telling that the culture is desperate to hear? Those questions drove everything — and the results spoke for themselves.

His approach was years ahead of its time. The strategies he developed intuitively in the back rooms of the music industry would later be validated by neuroscience, sociology, and the emerging study of how ideas spread through human populations. Howard Bloom was not just a publicist. He was, without fully knowing it yet, a theorist of cultural contagion — and the music world was his laboratory.

The industry has changed beyond recognition since those years. The gatekeepers are gone, the major label system has been disrupted, and the very concept of a music publicist has been transformed by social media and the democratization of attention. But the principles Bloom operated by — find the truth in the artist, find the human need they speak to, and tell that story with everything you have — remain as relevant as ever. Perhaps more so, in a landscape where genuine meaning is harder to find and easier to fake.

Howard Bloom didn’t just help make stars. He helped define what stardom meant in the most electric and consequential era in the history of popular music. That is a legacy worth understanding — and one the industry is still catching up to.

The official website for Howard Bloom may be found at https://www.howardbloom.net