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50 free Love & Hip Hop trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Love & Hip Hop began on VH1 in 2011 as a look at the women around New York's rap scene. It grew into one of the highest-rated unscripted franchises in cable history, with spin-offs set in Atlanta, Hollywood and Miami and a cast that runs into the hundreds. This LHH trivia quiz covers the whole run: who joined which cast and when, the couples, feuds and weddings that drove the storylines, the music careers the cast had before the cameras arrived, and the specials, working titles and production changes behind the scenes. It is written for fans who watched every reunion and for anyone who knows the franchise mostly through its breakout stars. The questions start with the biggest names and go deeper as the rounds go on.
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Q 01Which future Grammy-winning rapper joined Love & Hip Hop: New York in season six as a social media personality?
Cardi B
Cardi B was dubbed the show's breakout star, left after two seasons to focus on her rap career, and later became the first solo female artist to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album.
Q 02Megan Thee Stallion once auditioned for a Love & Hip Hop spin-off, never aired, set in which Texas city?
Houston
Houston's version was cast and partly shot, then put on hold in June 2016 over safety concerns on set. The rapper tried out before her career took off.
Q 03Which politician compared the 2016 presidential race to Love & Hip Hop at a campaign rally in North Carolina?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama made the joke as sitting president on November 4, 2016, days before the election, likening the whole race to reality television.
Q 04Which Dipset rapper's 2006 pitch to VH1 for a reality show about himself eventually became Love & Hip Hop?
Jim Jones
Jim Jones shot an 11-minute presentation tape with his girlfriend and his mother, but producers rebuilt the idea around his girlfriend and her circle of friends.
Q 05Love & Hip Hop's original cast of New York women was pitched as a black version of which TV series?
Sex and the City
Sex and the City was the template for the four-woman line-up, though critics of the first season found the result closer to The Real Housewives franchise.
Q 06Moniece Slaughter of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood sang the theme song of which reality contest soon after high school?
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model earned her royalties for years. Her stepfather, Dave Thomas of the gospel group Take 6, landed her the job.
Q 07Which R&B singer was offered the lead in Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and married castmate Princess Love in season three?
Ray J
Ray J was offered a co-producer role too and led the original 2014 cast. A 2018 special, Labor of Love, followed him and Princess Love before their daughter's birth.
Q 08Which Terror Squad rapper joined Love & Hip Hop: New York for its sixth season alongside Papoose?
Remy Ma
Remy Ma had been freed in 2014 after six years in prison, and the show featured the pair's televised wedding ceremony in 2016.
Q 09Omarion and Lil' Fizz, original stars of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, first found fame in which boy band?
B2K
B2K had a number-one hit with Bump, Bump, Bump before disbanding in 2004, and a third member, J-Boog, joined the show for its sixth season.
Q 10Which Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta breakout star did producer Stevie J discover dancing at Atlanta's Onyx Club?
Joseline Hernandez
Joseline Hernandez joined the original cast as his new artist and quit after six seasons, following a falling-out with producers at the 2017 reunion taping.
Q 11Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta left VH1 in 2023 for which network, starting with its eleventh season?
MTV
MTV premiered the eleventh season after a six-week limited series, Run It Back, in which cast members recapped every episode of the first.
Q 12On which night of the week did VH1 air a Love & Hip Hop installment nearly year-round from 2014 to 2020?
Monday
Monday was the franchise's home: Atlanta ran from spring through summer, Hollywood in the fall, and New York and Miami in the winter.
Q 13Which Violator co-founder and longtime manager of Missy Elliott created the Love & Hip Hop franchise?
Mona Scott-Young
Mona Scott-Young reworked a pitch about one rapper into an ensemble show about the women around him, made through her company Monami Productions.
Q 21Which Love & Hip Hop: New York star married Mendeecees Harris in a live two-hour VH1 special in 2015?
Yandy Smith
Yandy Smith's ceremony drew more than two million viewers, yet it emerged in December 2016 that the couple had never been legally married.
Q 22Which rapper's love triangle with Tara Wallace and Amina Buddafly dominated season four of Love & Hip Hop: New York?
Peter Gunz
Peter Gunz, half of the duo behind the 1997 hit Deja Vu (Uptown Baby), admitted in a 2013 radio interview that he was exploiting the situation for a check.
Q 23Which former Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star became the first cast member to appear in all four installments?
Safaree Samuels
Q 14Which rapper joined Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta in season three and eloped with girlfriend Tammy Rivera during filming?
Waka Flocka Flame
Waka Flocka Flame arrived with his mother, Deb Antney. He and Tammy later starred in their own We TV reality series, Waka & Tammy: What the Flocka.
Q 15Stevie J of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta won a Grammy as one of the Hitmen, producers for which record label?
Bad Boy
Bad Boy used him on No Way Out, the 1997 album that won the award, and on several tracks of The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death.
Q 16Which R&B singer left Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta for the New York cast, then starred in the spin-off My Life?
K. Michelle
K. Michelle announced the move at the second-season reunion and later became the first person to hold a main cast spot in three different installments.
Q 17Which rapper said in 2016 that he was quitting Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood because his brand was too big?
Soulja Boy
Soulja Boy had joined the original cast in 2014, and by the time he posted the announcement he had already been removed from the opening credits.
Q 18Which R&B singer joined Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood in season four alongside her ex-husband, NBA player Daniel Gibson?
Keyshia Cole
Keyshia Cole joined the main cast in 2017 and left after one season. Her storyline followed the pair's co-parenting arrangement and the run-up to a new album.
Q 19Which Miami rap veteran turned down Love & Hip Hop: Miami in 2014 before joining its original cast?
Trina
Trina said in November 2014 that she had declined, changed her mind by April 2016, then waited through nearly two years of development before the premiere.
Q 20Which rapper and producer discovered Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta's Lil Scrappy and signed him to BME Recordings?
Lil Jon
Lil Jon found him performing at an Atlanta strip club and made him one of BME's first signings. Their 2004 split album with Trillville reached number 12 on the Billboard 200.
Safaree Samuels moved on to the New York and Atlanta shows, then completed the set by joining the main cast of Miami in its fifth season.
Q 24Which breakout star of Love & Hip Hop: Miami landed a multi-album deal with BMG hours after the premiere?
Amara La Negra
Amara La Negra won praise for a storyline about colorism, which began in the premiere episode when a producer criticised her afro.
Q 25Which R&B singer, formerly signed to 50 Cent's G-Unit, was in the original cast of Love & Hip Hop in 2011?
Olivia
Olivia had earlier been the first artist signed to Clive Davis's J Records, and her manager, Rich Dollaz, appeared on the show alongside her.
Q 26Stylist Emily Bustamante joined the first season of Love & Hip Hop as the girlfriend of which Brooklyn rapper?
Fabolous
Fabolous shares three children with her. She took a slot first meant for Misa Hylton and left after two seasons for a spin-off.
Q 27Mashonda Tifrere, who appeared in the first season of Love & Hip Hop, is the ex-wife of which hit producer?
Swizz Beatz
Swizz Beatz's ex-wife turned down a lead role, agreed to a smaller part advising Emily Bustamante, and ended up appearing in only three episodes.
Q 28Felicia Pearson joined Love & Hip Hop: New York's main cast in season seven after starring in which crime drama?
The Wire
The Wire cast her as Snoop, a fictionalised version of herself. The nickname came from a mentor who thought she resembled the cartoon dog Snoopy.
Q 29Which rapper declined a spot in the first season of Love & Hip Hop, then joined the cast in season three?
Joe Budden
Joe Budden was the ex of original cast member Somaya Reece. He quit while the fifth season was being filmed and came back four years later.
Q 30Which Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta favorite, mother of Lil Scrappy, remarried ex-husband Ernest Bryant during season four?
Momma Dee
Momma Dee was ranked by Complex in 2013 among the greatest VH1 reality stars of all time, and she later crossed over to the Miami show.