‘LHHNY’ Fans Slam Cyn Santana for Pressuring Joe Budden to Marry Her: ‘She’s Controlling’

“Love and Hip Hop: New York” viewers blasted Cyn Santana for hounding her then-longtime boyfriend Joe Budden to ask for her hand in marriage.

Santana and Budden dated for at least two years before welcoming their 1-year-old son Lexington into the world. However, during Monday night’s episode, Santana expressed the idea that she felt it was time for her and the New York rapper to take their relationship up a notch since they’d had a child together.

Cyn Santana

Cyn Santana and Joe Budden. (photo credit VH1 screenshot)

The 26-year-old gathered her two sisters together to help her drop a hint to Budden that she was ready to get married.

“Here I am with a baby and,” Santana says in her confessional while looking at her bare ring finger.

She then suggested that Budden drive his “dusty a–” to Zales and buy her a “ring.”

Budden responded to Santana’s proposal hounding by saying, “I will propose when I am ready and when I feel the time is right. And hopefully that’s when Cyn decides to take some of her wifely duties around the house a bit more serious.”

Social media agreed with Budden and slammed Santana for trying to force the rapper to marry her.

“Cyn has no clue what being a wife nor a woman means, she’s a filthy immature little girl! If a man wants to marry you, he’ll ask you!! 😭.”

“She’s controlling he want be with her to long they not gone make it to the sanctuary period she wild she ghetto do the most she 26 so I don’t see this going anywhere 🤷🏻‍♀️.”

“No man is going to marry a female just b/c she wants him too it’s ‘gon be if he really love her and that’s the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life w/. 🤦🏻‍♀️.”

“Nvr pressure a guy to married u .the man says he have to be willing to say let’s get married when he is ready. It takes time and patience to walk into a marriage life.”

One fan agreed with Santana and felt since she had had Budden’s baby, he should make her his wife.

“How funny, she had a duty to have you baby but not the duty to be your wife? NOW I FULLY understand why buy the cow when you are getting the MILK, NIPPLES, And … for FREE 💯💯💯.”

Nevertheless, Santana’s wish to become Budden’s wife came true on December 19 after he proposed to the 26-year-old on at a holiday event in New York.

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