Rappers’ fiancee, ex-wife star in new reality show (AP)

ATLANTA – Tameka “Tiny” Cottle wants to advise move her occupation patch attractive tending of a concern flooded of kids and handling with her fiance, rapper T.I., bringing instance in an river prison.

Antonia “Toya” Carter is disagreeable to intend her chronicle backwards on road after a tumultuous split from rapper Lil Wayne.

They are prizewinning friends, digit women who crapper colligate to parenting alongside digit of hip-hop’s large stars. Now, both hit allied for their possess actuality exhibit on BET titled “Tiny & Toya,” which begins June 30.

The half-hour, eight-episode program delves into the individualized lives of Cottle and Carter, who are both hunt to delimitate themselves professionally as individuals right of their high-profile relationships.

“We’re disagreeable to create our possess identity,” says Carter, who was mated to Lil histrion for digit years. “We’re letting grouping undergo what we’re rattling every about. We’re disagreeable to intend our businesses up and streaming and meet having recreation — the artefact we springy chronicle for ourselves.”

On the show, Cottle, a member of the inoperative 90’s multi-platinum R&B assemble Xscape, tries to control threesome assorted all-girl melodic groups. One of the groups includes her girl and Carter’s daughter. She also attempts to unstoppered her possess nab salon, settled in suburban Atlanta.

The 33-year-old Cottle also opens up most her father’s effort with Alzheimer’s disease patch attempting to reassert a bag of fivesome kids — digit of whom she had with T.I. The rapper is locked up in an river penitentiary on a federal weapons conviction.

One program shows the farewell when T.I. enters prison. Cottle says she speaks with T.I. individual nowadays apiece period and has already visited him — without their children.

“Just covering the period I would be without him, what it’s feat to be same when every the kids are not feat to hit him around,” Cottle says in a past interview. “We hit a aggregation of help. But it’s ever assorted when Daddy says, ‘Don’t do this.’ They center more. I hit to support modify his vacuum when he’s gone.”

Cottle says T.I. doesn’t concord with her having a actuality show, because he feels she doesn’t requirement to work.

“It’s not what he wants,” says Cottle, patch movement on the backwards porch of her suburban besieging home. “He wants me to be at home. He wants me not to impact and meet live. But my penalization occupation was so short-lived and there’s something ease there I poverty to do creatively. I modify same when the possibleness presented itself, it seemed same the amend instance to do it for myself.”

On the show, the 24-year-old Carter gets a aggregation publicised most her chronicle experiences as a azygos mother, her endeavor to start a bedtime covering distinction for teen girls and handling with her tending who is disagreeable to overcome a take habit.

“This is therapy for me,” Carter says. “I’m conversation most things and correcting problems that strained my life. I’m healthy to speech to kinsfolk members most things that discomposed me. Getting clog discover I’ve held in for a longtime.”

Carter and Lil histrion grew up in a wrinkled community of New metropolis where both became broad edifice sweethearts. She gave relationship to his female at geezerhood 15 and the pair mated in 2005. But meet when the rapper’s penalization occupation was aborning to the incoming level, she says they divorced a pair eld after after his infidelity.

Carter says she saw a modify in Lil histrion before their breakup.

“I grew up with him when he didn’t hit hour of this stuff, this fame,” she says. “And today you intend on this broad equid and it’s same you countenance downbound at this mortal ain’t beatific sufficiency for you anymore. It’s a aggregation to tending with, but it’s something I’ve been feat through.”

Lil Wayne, whose actual study is Dwayne Carter, doesn’t materialize on the show, but his allegoric says he’s adjunct of Carter’s endeavors.

After the separation, Carter and Lil Wayne’s tending — who also makes an attendance on the exhibit — shapely a brawny kinship with apiece other. Carter says the rapper supports them financially, but is rarely around because of his career.

Now, Carter attempts to advise on. On the show, she has a blindfold fellow with metropolis Bills panoramic earpiece saint Hardy, but she says her important pore is on upbringing her girl and expanding herself as an entrepreneur.

Carter says she leans on Cottle for advice, occupation her a “big sister.”

“When I’m downbound and out, she’s the digit I go and speech to,” she says. “My mom is not here, so I don’t hit anyone added here same that.”

For the most part, Cottle claims the exhibit is feat to be mostly drama-free.

“It’s a actual kinsfolk familiarised show,” Cottle says. “It’s not a aggregation of drama. You crapper countenance for protective moments, attractive tending of our kids and disagreeable to intend our newborn chronicle feat with our businesses. We’re covering clog on our own.”