GETTING A JUMP ON IT

‘Growing Up Hip Hop’ stars dish on Season 3

A NGELA Simmons and Romeo Miller, who co-star on “Growing Up Hip Hop,” say the WE series, which follows the offspring of famous recording artists, is more than just a reality show.

“A lot of people want to be stars and be famous,” says Miller, the son of No Limits Records CEO Percy “Master P” Miller. “This show is not that. This is about following people on their journey that they’re already living. Our lifestyle and family legacy is hip hop.”

Simmons and Miller, who also executive-produce the show, stopped by The Post to talk about the new season of “Growing Up Hip Hop,” on which they’re joined by Angela's sister, Vanessa; Damon “Boogie” Dash (son of Damon Dash); Kristina DeBarge (daughter of James DeBarge); Egypt Criss (daughter of Salt-N-Pepa’s Sandra “Pepa” Denton and rap icon Treach); and TJ Mizell (son of the late Run DMC DJ, Jam Master Jay).

“Romeo and I ... executive-produce the project, so being a part of it is really more than being behind the actual camera, but being a part of the back end as well,” says Simmons, the daughter of rap pioneer Rev. Run (of Run DMC) and Russell Simmons’ niece. She says she never regrets who her father is — or the pressure that comes along with being his daughter. “I am not a person to regret anything. You learn from the mistakes you make. No one should ever regret that,” she says.

“Everybody goes through something no matter if your pops is a doctor, bus driver or an international movie star,” adds Miller. “There are a lot of kids who come from families similar to ours that are going through situations, but they’re going through a destructive path of killing themselves or drug overdoses. But it has a lot to do with you and as a person and the choices that you make — not who your parents are.”

But with that pressure comes negative publicity regarding their personal lives — as when it was revealed on the show that Simmons’ fiancé, Sutton Tennyson, has a criminal past (he was convicted in 2000 of carrying a concealed gun).

“I don’t think it can get any worse for me,” she says. “I have so much of my life out there. It is what it is. At this point of my life, people are going to accept what they see and that’s it. People make and perceive things as negative, and that’s where it gets tricky.” And when it comes to partying and balancing being a mom — Simmons and Tennyson have an infant son, Sutton Joseph — she says she finds the time to do both. “Just because you’re a mom doesn’t mean you stop doing what you want to,” she says. “I think it’s important to find that balance, because you will go crazy just staying at home. People are always going to have something to say whether it’s right or wrong. You just have to do what you want to do and let them talk.”

Miller, meanwhile, has had a few incidents — including the thefts of a chain worth $250,000 and his Frank Muller watch, which he bought with the first million he earned as Lil Romeo — and he says he now has major trust issues. “Another thing ... is having guy friends and they hit on your little sisters,” he says. “That’s something that we just don’t tolerate. Loyalty is everything, so it’s not cool when you’re 14 or 15 and my sister is 11.”

So what’s his overall message of the show?

“Everyone has a different perspective on life, so the thing that I realize in this business and being on TV is that you could do something right and someone will see it as wrong,” he says. “But that is the cool thing about this show is that everybody is opening up — and being vulnerable.”