“Marriage Bootcamp: Hip Hop Edition” stars Wocka Flocka Flame with his wife, Tammy Rivera.Brian Zak/NY Post
Rapper Waka Flocka Flame and his wife, Tammy Rivera, renew their vows in a Mexican destination wedding on Thursday night’s episode of WE tv’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition” (10 p.m.)
The couple tells The Post that they wanted to show a different side of their relationship than viewers have seen on their other series, VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta.”
“On ‘Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta’ they only give you a good 15 seconds to show who you are in a relationship, and we’re in a different space at the time,” says Waka, born Juaquin James Malphurs. “It was rushed and people formed an opinion. And of course, through all of our turmoil, we have been pretty much open about our lives. You’ve been on this roller coaster with us all the time, so this is it.”
Waka and Rivera, both 32, first met in 2011 in Miami, where he had a club performance and Rivera was on vacation with her girlfriends. “It was a regular typical South Beach s–t walking around at night with all your friends just having fun,” he says.
“[Rivera] was wearing a peppermint dress [and] she was looking so good. It was just her energy and her look.”
“He told me I was going to be his wife the first time we met,” says Rivera. “The crazy thing is my friend told me we were going to the club and I said I didn’t want to go to that club because there was going to be fighting. We ended up going to a classy place and Waka ended up there because he got into a fight at the other club he was booked at.
“We ended up going for drinks after we met.”
‘Cheating is wrong, but you can’t compare me to somebody who is a habitual cheater and having babies.’
The couple has been married for five years, and Waka has helped raise Charlie, Rivera’s 13-year-old-daughter.
They both admit it hasn’t been an easy road, due to Waka’s past infidelities. “He could’ve got somebody pregnant,” Rivera says. “You don’t know what could happen when you cheat. But it’s a part of growth and thank God it didn’t happen to us.”
The couple even separated for six months in 2016 after Rivera finally reached her limit regarding Waka’s infidelity.
“Cheating is wrong, but you can’t compare me to somebody who is a habitual cheater and having babies,” Waka says. “But I have grown from that. I needed to be separated [from Rivera] because I just needed to slow down. I always knew Tammy was the one. I just wanted to know how long I could have fun.”
Their eventual reconciliation made Waka and Rivera prime candidates for “Marriage Bootcamp: Hip Hop Edition,” on which they tried to see if their marriage was worth saving.
This season also featured Soulja Boy and Nia Riley, Lil’ Mo and Karl Dargan and Jessica Dime and her fiance, Shawne Williams.
Waka is asked if he was ever scared of losing Tammy. “I knew guys were going to slide in her DMs (online direct messages) but I was not scared,” he says. “What could they do for Tammy that I couldn’t do?”
One thing that the couple can agree upon is their genuine love for each other — but as far as setting an example for other couples? Forget it. “I don’t look at it like that,” says Waka. “We are just doing us. Our strength is our unity and I want us to be an example of, ‘Anything can happen if you really are looking for love.’ ”
He says he and Rivera intend on having children; he would like to have twins, but she doesn’t see that in her future.
“I just want a healthy baby boy,” she says.
