- Can I ask you something? - Sure.
[Miracle] Dreamy says that you have a girlfriend.
♪♪♪♪
- Dreamy said what?
But it was 'cause it [bleep] my date up.
- So you the drama.
- I need a break from [bleep].
- So who would you want to go?
- Ink Dreamy.
- I feel like Rich is the absolute most entitled.
I'm the OG here...
[overlapping shouting]
- But my name rings bells!
- Rich...
what you did the other night was some bull[bleep], bro.
- How do you feel like you're supposed to be here
when you can't respect the mother[bleep]
that standing on this [bleep]?
- Blind and colorblind, bro, I'll tattoo circles around--
- The only tattoo you ever did was ass.
- Since y'all been playing house...
[overlapping arguing/bleeps]
- Now it's on.
Hey, yo, say it to my face...
[overlapping shouting]
- Bro, you crazy as [bleep]. - Hell nah!
Shut the [bleep] up, all of y'all.
Get the [bleep] out. This the team, my [bleep]?
This is them? - Definitely not gonna last.
- ♪♪ You gon' get hit by ♪♪ ♪♪ Ready to blast, collision and crash ♪♪
♪♪ Try to spark it, I'ma smoke it to ash ♪♪
♪♪ Off the safety, let off like an automatic ♪♪
♪♪ My nerves are strained, let's kill the static ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Hey hey hey, my dear.
What y'all up to?
- Playing my guitar. [strumming]
- Hey, that was a good lil strum right there.
- A one, two, three, go!
- After last night, the tension in the house
is absolutely through the roof.
It's been going on for a while, but like,
today, it's absolutely seven versus one
and that one person is Dream.
- Well, I'm about to go get something eat real quick.
I'll be back.
- Last night just was a big-ass mess.
Every time the OG artists are around, we're yelling...
- My name rings bells! - We're screaming...
- You're not telling the whole story!
- Hey, we ain't here for this! - ...we don't look unified.
- People have to show they real faces.
- Stop doing that weird [bleep],
you come in here with an agenda
to throw somebody else under the bus.
- ...and show that we're able to work with one another.
- I said my apologies, like, you know,
I didn't plan for it to get that far.
- Mmm-hmm, yeah, I don't think you expected
for a man to get in his chest about you either
and boss up on you like that.
[overlapping shouting/bleeps]
- No, and he-- every single woman he's gotten into it with
in this house, he's the aggressor.
- That's weak.
- Honestly, I think Dreamy
escalated the way that he did because
he's not built for this,
and he proved that last night.
- Even though I knew Dreamy was gonna be Dreamy
and I'm glad they got to see it,
I did not think he was gonna do all that.
- At the end of the day, if I was managing a shop
and I had multiple artists come up to me
and tell me a [bleep] made them uncomfortable...
- That [bleep] has to leave.
- I was on Dreamy's side at first,
but then he got in between me and Santana.
And he was sending me inappropriate texts.
♪♪♪♪
No, I don't trust her
because she's never honest with me.
- Like, I feel like that [bleep] just kinda nailed his coffin.
- Yeah. - And sealed the deal.
♪♪♪♪
- Yo, do me a favor, go get, um, the Ink kid.
Last night was not acceptable.
I need to use the office, if y'all can step out.
- I can.
- Me and Ted brought everybody together
to basically put all the cards on the table and find out
who's feeling each other and who's not.
- Yo, Puma wants you downstairs, bro.
- But I ain't expect the newbies to make it that bad.
- It's about to be a day.
[knocking] - Sup, boss?
- What's up, man? - How you been?
- Yeah, have a seat, man.
[sighs]
Yesterday, your actions left a real bad taste
in my mouth, I'm not gonna lie to you.
- I can see that. - It just was
how you were treating the women
that are part of this group, you know what I mean,
how you were talking to them,
you know what I mean, you overtalking everybody.
You're [bleep] up the morale in here, man.
And you gotta go today.
- Bull[bleep], I can't believe I'm missing out on
this opportunity over drama, I didn't even get a chance
to really show off any tattoo work.
Me being the person getting sent home first,
it's super unfair.
If that was a part of the brand that you were
building anyway, then that's not a part of something
I would be a part of anyway, I was there for art, so...
- A'ight, I understand. - Cheers to tha--
yeah, absolutely.
So I apologize for offending you
and, you know, rubbing [bleep] the wrong way,
but I feel like you gonna realize at the end of the day,
it's more on them than me.
You have a good one, peace and blessings.
- This right here, this is why I hate
the whole boss thing.
The Ink Dreamy kid, he's really talented,
but at the end of the day, me and Ted are trying
to build a new brand with this shop
and it's all about the people who work in it.
And there's no way, no how we could let
Ink Dreamy's behavior go unchecked.
Hey, can I get everybody to come down to the living room?
[AMH] Oh, [bleep].
[Puma] But Dreamy wasn't the only one
that got out of pocket last night.
Rich kinda made an ass of himself too,
and just like Dreamy, his ass can get packed up too.
Ink Dreamy is currently leaving the house.
Last night was [bleep] chaotic,
and it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
So we're gonna be turning up the pressure,
and after the next few weeks,
a lotta y'all are gonna be gone.
♪♪♪♪
Get y'all [bleep] together.
- I thought for sure I was about
to get voted off this island too.
I guess we've all been put on notice.
We gotta step up our game, really work together,
or we could all be going home.
- I'll talk to y'all later.
[Trilla] Damn, yo.
[bleep] got real, real fast.
[Dreamy] This was definitely not how I wanted things to go.
This playout was... so far left when
I tried to make sure all my steps were right.
Being here, I wanted to show the world,
but like even more importantly, my little girl, like,
that I could be a colorblind artist,
I could be in this moment and really show what
I can bring to the table and especially what I was,
you know, willing to do here.
My biggest regret is that I wasn't even here long enough
to kinda let people see the artist
as Ink Dreamy,
so, it sucks.
Nice to know you, room.
Hope you don't miss my vibes too much.
[Dreamy] Being a scapegoat for everybody in the house,
it's like, not even a feeling at this point.
You can see the way everybody gangs up on me.
When I sit back and think about it,
that's not a coincidence, they do that [bleep]
because they know I'm a threat,
they know what I bring to the table.
Peace, love and hair grease.
Till next time.
- Later, dog.
- Asta la vista. - Welp...
- We have a competition we're gonna do.
Alex and Draya are gonna be the team captains.
- He get four people and I get three?
- Hold on, here he goes right here.
- Oh, hell no!
- Tryna give a bitch an aneurism.
- There's never been so much on the line
like there is now.
One of these artists today are gonna be going home.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ My team love the fight ♪♪
♪♪ Hit some like thunder strikes ♪♪
♪♪ Put us up under lights ♪♪
♪♪ My team bring the ruckus like ♪♪
♪♪ My team love the fight ♪♪
♪♪ Hit some like thunder strikes ♪♪
♪♪ Put us up under lights ♪♪
♪♪ My team bring the ruckus like ♪♪
- Isn't the house so much more peaceful now?
- It feels a lot more cohesive amongst energies.
- [panting]
- I've not missed that [bleep] at all.
It just feels lighter in here.
I don't know how many of us Ted and Puma are bringing
into their new shop, but I do know we got
one less artist to compete against.
And it feels so good inside
to know that I helped make that happen.
So what y'all think is next?
- I've learned not to expect anything.
- You know what I'm gonna say--
- Womp womp womp... - It may be one of y'all.
- In the words of Trilla Casanova, cap!
[laughter]
- Yo... - Holy [bleep].
[overlapping greetings]
- Y'all came in with better energy, I like this.
This feels very different,
seeing Alex and Draya in this house.
I've gotten on people's bad sides a few times already.
Y'all paying rent?
- Rent?! Y'all not even paying [bleep] rent.
- This house ain't for y'all, it's for us.
I've made my apologies for my past actions already,
and now that we see Dream's gone,
I'm definitely focusing on the challenges ahead.
- How you guys all feeling today, y'all alright?
- We're great... - Going well.
- A little nervous. - Um, now that
the Dreamy situation is over and done with,
we wanna change things up.
Going forward,
we have a competition we're gonna do.
But this time, there's a lot more on the line.
That person next to you,
they ass might be going home tomorrow.
♪♪♪♪
- Alright, round two, lemme get my boxing gloves
so I can whoop some ass, but at this point,
I'm getting a little shooken up.
- So we're gonna break you guys up into teams,
and Alex and Draya are gonna be the team captains.
Team Draya will be AMH, Miracle, and Santana.
[Ted] And Team Alex will be
Trilla, Jahnova, Liza, and Made Rich.
- Wait, he get four people and I get three?
- Basically. - I love you, Miracle,
but I'm even down one tattoo artist.
- Ooh, I didn't even think about that.
- [bleep], me and Ted have already thought about all this,
and so, hold on, here he goes right here...
- He? Who's he? - Tryna give
a bitch an aneurism.
- Kevo! - Hey, what's going on?
- Welcome, welcome.
- Oh, hell no. - Oh, [bleep]!
- You guys remember Kevo?
[overlapping greetings]
See, this isn't a typical competition.
Me and Ted got a few surprises
to throw these newbies off their game.
And to push these newbies even further through the test,
we've brought our boy Kevo back to the competition.
You remember, we had Kevo at the mixer.
- What's your name? - Draya.
- Draya, I'm Kevin.
- But Kevo is only coming back for this competition
as a guest artist.
- What's up, what's up? - Hey...
So not only am I on the same team as Santana's ass,
which is already awkward enough, but now we get cocky Kevo too?
This is some team that we have.
- Well, hello again.
- Hello again, yes, yes... - Mmm-hmm...
The last time I saw Kevo,
I was not impressed by him or his ego.
You could never beat me in a tattoo competition.
- I definitely can. I definitely can.
- I hurt your male ego! - Nah, my ego's not hurt,
I'm just very confident in myself.
- I'ma go ahead and give him another chance today though,
because your girl forgives, but she does not forget.
- Now, the part of the competition,
the captains are gonna pick which person does what.
Draya and Alex are the team captains
for this event because they are the two senior artists
out of everybody in this shop.
This is a team competition,
but we're not gonna judge it as such.
And we don't want the artists to know
what they're being judged on just yet.
So there's gonna be one person dealing with
the drawing and the stenciling,
one person dealing with the outline,
one person dealing with the color,
and there's gonna be one person who's gonna be the AP.
- So basically like we in the shop
and we goin' from consultation to client walking out.
- Right, right, right.
- You guys are gonna have to all work together
as a team to make one badass tattoo for your client, alright?
[Ted] Yes, they're working as a team,
but this is still an individual challenge.
And they will be judged based on how they do
in their individual roles.
But they still need to work together,
because these clients expect they tattoos to be badass.
- We'll see y'all for the competition tomorrow.
[overlapping chatter]
- See ya, see ya. - Honestly,
I'm not worried about winning or losing,
that's not what this competition is about.
It's about how these artists take direction,
let their egos get in and out of their way,
and work as a team.
But it is still bragging rights
if it's one of Draya's artists that go home.
A'ight, so first off... - Yeah?
- I wanna hear who y'all feel
should be in which position, we gonna start with Rich.
- I'll take shading or color, that'd be the best move for me.
I'm confident in anything I do, I'm Made Rich.
- Even though I feel like my line work is immaculate,
I still have room to grow and learn
so I'll take the learning opportunity,
I'll take that AP role.
Yo, after last night, I'm playing it safe.
- I personally feel like my line work is fire as [bleep],
however, I personally feel like my designs are also
fire as [bleep], so I'd be confident with
Liza doing the line work and me doing the design.
I know I can do any of these roles,
so hopefully my team is just as confident
because this is a team competition,
and I need everybody on the same page.
- This is great team building, because they done said it all.
It's a no-brainer that I'm getting line work.
I mean, it's one of my strengths.
So I don't see one weak person on my team.
- Just gotta make sure that y'all are working
as a team, you feel me?
- Alright, so you guys kinda got a gist
of how this is gonna work, right?
I'ma put this team to the test.
But I'ma be realistic about who can actually do what.
Miracle's a piercer, and, uh, this is
a tattoo competition, so I don't think anybody's
gonna let the newbie tattoo them.
You automatically gonna be the apprentice, right?
- I get that... - We ain't putting
no tattoo machine in your hand-- - I'm about to be
the best apprentice y'all ever had in y'all life.
I definitely still have things to learn,
so I think me being the apprentice for the day
would help a lot, and I get to be
hands-on with some of the things
I don't necessarily do in a shop.
- Last time I seen you, you was talking hella [bleep].
- I'm-- look, man, I'ma competitor...
- All that talking you was doing,
I hope you back it up, I'm just sayin'.
- I think I'm really good too with people.
- I don't know about you, Santana.
Your ass a little spicy.
- I feel like I'm a two-pack combo.
Like, I'm a great artist
and I got the customer skills too to go with it.
So I mean, we can't lose.
- My strongest point is gonna be
color work and shading.
I'm not just a great artist, I know I can
pull this team together to make the client happy,
with a slick, badass tattoo.
- Well, I'm excited, I feel like we got a good team.
- For sure gonna bust their ass. - Y'all better bust they ass.
- For sure gonna do that. - I don't take no Ls.
- We're taking home a W...
- We came to eat!
This and this.
- I'm definitely feeling the energy from my team.
But the real test is to see if they can keep
that same energy up when we throw them some curveballs.
Got my eye on you, Rich.
With that fake-ass apology from the other night.
- A-team on three. - A-team on three.
- Two, three... - [all] A-team!
- Let's get some shots, please.
- I love when people drink with me in the morning.
[laughter]
[Alex] We here to win.
- ♪♪ Yeah, I been wishing ♪♪
♪♪ Tryna close the distance ♪♪
♪♪ Find a new position but I don't really know ♪♪
♪♪ All I know is that I'm just tryna flow ♪♪
- You ready for the day? - Yes, actually.
- You're gonna AP right? - Yerrp.
- Okay. - Best AP ever.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- I hope y'all do horrible. - Ha, we won't.
[laughter]
- Yerrp!
[overlapping greetings]
What's up, everybody? - What's up?
After last night, Puma called me and Alex
to change the teams up a little bit.
You know, shake 'em up.
A little bit of a change.
We wanna challenge
some of the people on the team.
- Okay. - So,
you're gonna be doing lining today.
- Okay. - And you're gonna be
doing customer service.
[Miracle] Santana on customer service?
Hopefully she treats our client way better than
she treated our relationship.
- Jahnova, you are going to be doing the consulting
and the drawing. - Okay.
- Okay, Trilla, you said to me
that your line work was immaculate.
So I need you to prove that to me.
[all exclaiming]
Liza, you're going to be doing color and shading.
Last but not least, my boy Rich,
you're gonna be the AP.
Mainly because I need you to, you know,
follow and not lead.
- Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait wait.
Why you starting at the top here?
Artists usually start at the bottom.
- You wanna go with Jahnova?
- Me and Jahnova supposed to be a team.
I'ma tattoo the same tattoo
and do it better than anybody.
[Draya] There's been a little bit of a change
as far as our responsibilities.
We wanna challenge some of the people on the team, so...
- My boy Rich, you're gonna be the AP.
[gasping]
Mainly because I need you to, you know,
follow and not lead.
[Rich] Follow and not lead?
I don't know if I should take that personally.
I know Alex and I have our issues up to this point.
But that's kinda cold.
I'll tell you this, though.
We're not gonna lose 'cause of me.
They're about to see the best AP ever.
We about to have the best setup in the world.
- Definitely. - I like that energy.
- The best setup.
- Yo! - Yo!
What's going on, y'all, what's going on?
Today is our first official competition in the house.
And the category is skulls.
- Yes! - Okay, very confident.
I like that. [laughter]
It's game time, people.
We've had some Black Ink battles before...
♪♪♪♪
...but there's never been so much on the line
like there is now.
And we switched up their preferred roles
so we can really see who can work well under the pressure.
They all know that someone's going home,
but they have no clue this is not a team competition.
Having the best tattoo doesn't matter,
it's about how each individual
performs the task that they were given.
It's time for "Black Ink Crew:
Battle of the Skulls."
The clients are some family friends of ours.
[overlapping greetings]
So I expect them to be treated right.
- I think you can go to that side.
- Alright... - Yeah...
[overlapping chatter]
- You, go to that side.
[Ted] These newbies have no idea that
these clients aren't your typical clients.
They are very special clients,
and I'll just leave it at for right now.
- Cool, how you doing... - Draya, very nice to meet you.
- Let the competition begin.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Got they neck on a swivel ♪♪
♪♪ How I make waves but you're only making ripples ♪♪
- What's good, baby, Santana, how you feeling?
- Jordan, a pleasure. - Thank you, like the fit.
Have a seat for me. - Nice to meet you.
- David. - Jahnova.
- How you doing? - Good, take a seat.
- What you have in mind for today?
- I'm going leg. - Okay, perfect.
- I'm thinking that we do some filigree.
- I'ma have to look that up...
- Okay.
- Filigree is basically like,
an ornate floral design,
you see it on the dollar bill.
They use it to kinda decorate cathedrals.
But don't ever tell a client that you don't know something.
Take down what's said, and go look it up
when you not around them.
Or better yet, I would've told you what filigree was.
Not cool, Santana.
- This skull right here look good.
- You like that one?
- Just do it like, black and grey.
- Okay, I'm gonna go ahead
and design it up... - Okay.
[Puma] She's still wrapping that goddamn chair.
- Yo, there's mad saran wrap on that [bleep].
- Yo, that [bleep] look like grandmama's couch.
[laughter]
- You want one leg up or you want both legs up?
- Um, how you feeling? - You can do one leg, yeah.
- I'll be doing the line work, Trilla Casanova.
- You do-- okay, how long you been tatting, man?
- One year. - One year?
- Yeah. - I normally don't
get tats from somebody that hasn't been tattooing
for like, five years.
- Sit down, sit down, you in good hands, no worries.
- I'm trusting your confidence.
- I've had doubters on my case since I started,
and I rise above, today's no different.
Everyone's gonna see
the Trilla Casanova star being born.
- Am I putting this stencil on?
I'm putting it on? - Yeah, you're gonna be
doing placement and everything. - Oh, wow, okay.
- So this is a little bit out your comfort zone.
- Very much.
- That don't make me feel no better.
[Santana laughs]
[Santana] I'm not really too used to this,
I'm used to doing my own thing.
I mean, I usually do well with pressure,
but I can literally feel the [bleep] eyes beaming on me.
Like, it's just a lotta pressure.
[Ted] Rich is so mad he's not doing that tattoo.
Look at him, look, look how he lookin' at 'em.
[laughter] That's crazy.
- He wants to push this [bleep] Trilla over
and do everything right now.
- Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait wait.
You shaved downwards, you don't shave the other way?
- [bleep]. - Yeah, oh my God.
You said a year? - 30 days.
- I believe that.
- When I'm seeing things go wrong,
I want to overstep,
but I'm just gonna play my role.
If this ship continues to sink,
blame the captain.
- Team Alex is not looking so good.
- Nah.
Team Draya looks like they're struggling too.
[Kevo] A'ight, so look, we gonna have to redo this stencil.
You know what I mean, it's kinda scrunched up.
- We gonna have to redo that?
[tape fast forwarding]
♪♪♪♪
- Oh, [bleep].
[Draya] Santana thought she was only gonna be
talking to the client, but every step of the way
is important in this.
I told Santana to put the stencil on
because I wanted to see if she was gonna fold under pressure
when she was outside of her element.
- Perfect.
It's perfect.
- I feel it, I think it's perfect.
This is the one.
- That's-- yeah, that is... yeah.
[Puma] The stencils are finally on,
and instead of building their clients' confidence,
these mother[bleep] are even more nervous
than they were before.
This is not going so well,
and they don't know it's only gonna get harder
as we get to the next round.
♪♪♪♪
- You tattoo also, right? - Yes.
- Okay, if something go left field...
- You don't gotta worry about that.
I-- you don't gotta worry about that.
[tattoo gun buzzing] - Sound like it's too high.
- This sounds better? The questions,
the comments from this guy
isn't like any client I've ever dealt with.
He definitely knows what he's talking about.
- Yo...
- I'm... you know what...
We're supposed to be a team and work together,
but the way Trilla's acting is a bit childish,
and that's gonna be his downfall.
[Kevo] Alright, my man, you ready?
- Yes, sir. - Let's get it.
- Yep. - You ready? We good?
[nervous chuckling]
- ♪♪ Look, get out my face before you start something ♪♪
♪♪ Start something, get out my face ♪♪
♪♪ You don't wanna start nothin', start nothin'... ♪♪
- Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait wait.
[laughing] I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, why you starting at the top here?
Artists usually start at the bottom.
- Uh-oh. - I like to move my way
from right to left, so this the start of the right for me.
- No, no, no... [laughing]
- Oh, my God, Trilla.
Just be quiet, bro.
You making things worse
for yourself and the team.
- A'ight, so I'll start at the bottom for you.
- It's not me, you-- you gotta know what you...
- I know what I'm doing,
but if you would like me to start at the bottom,
I'll start at the bottom.
- So what you wanna do, bro?
- Ah, man... - You wanna go with Jahnova?
- I'm very confident in my line work.
- Okay. - Me and Jahnova
supposed to be a team,
that's why I had her back with Ink Dreamy.
But now when it's time for Jahnova to have my back,
she's quick to kick me to the curb,
that's some [bleep] up [bleep].
[Draya] I think Trilla just got bumped from
doing the tattoo.
- What happened, what happened?
- I never got a tattoo where the artist started at the top.
- Bro, what does that got to do with anything?
- My artist tells me that when they start from the top,
all the stencil gets wiped off.
- But if I'm wiping it up and I'm wiping it away,
then what's the problem? - Just like how you did...
- Alex, you need to make an audible, Alex.
- You feel comfortable switching artists?
- Yeah, man. - Alright, look, look, look,
listen, Trilla, you're out, Jahnova, you're in.
- So I'm lining, she's shading.
- Yes. - Matter of fact...
- I'm confident that she can do better line work.
- That's fine, I'll tattoo myself.
I'ma tattoo the same tattoo and do it better than anybody.
- Trilla, I need you to chill out.
- I understand Trilla being pissed,
but he can't do this in front of a client
or Ted and Puma, he's literally putting a target on his back.
Okay, are you ready? - Uh, yeah, I feel good.
- Okay, we're gonna start now.
- ♪♪ Man, this fool is looking over here ♪♪
♪♪ Like there's something wrong with me ♪♪
♪♪ I'm like, what's up and he sayin' nothing ♪♪
♪♪ Like something's wrong with his speech... ♪♪
[Trilla] You don't want a tattoo from me?
I don't give a [bleep] who you are.
[bleep], you know who I am?
Anybody that got my ink on they body is worth
a trillion dollars, stamp that in.
- ♪♪ Snatch that, blast that, get that ♪♪
- I know I'm here to win,
I just hate to see my man lose.
But babe, you started off this competition
with the wrong energy.
And how you start is how you end.
Alright, boom, we are done with the outline.
- Okay. - Nice and fat.
- Of course, you aced that [bleep].
- Thanks again... [overlapping chatter]
Looks good so far.
- Solid as [bleep]. - Yeah!
- Team Draya over here, they're flowing.
[Puma] This competition is getting crazy.
Alex's team is substituting Trilla for the second time,
but Team Draya, she's cruising and bruising, man.
And now, it's time for round three.
Shading!
[Liza] I do need just regular black.
And then just gradient down.
- You don't just use black?
- No, I do different gradients of black.
- Oh, I thought they jus-- the artists just do black.
- No, no. - Don't hurt me now.
- I ain't gonna hurt you, I'ma make you better.
- ♪♪ Let's go, here I come ♪♪
♪♪ I'm the one, I'm a certified hustler ♪♪
♪♪ Lately I've been on a run, watch me ♪♪
- Is that like, the darkest one that you're using?
- No, I'm using the lightest one.
You know why I do light to dark,
'cause it gives me a chance to build if I need to,
you know what I'm saying? - Oh, that's different.
- Yeah, it's different 'cause it's wrong.
Not only is Liza shading wrong,
but she's giving this client wrong information.
- I don't know if Liza's lying to her client,
or if she was just taught the wrong way.
But either way, as a tattoo artist,
I know that you have to go from dark to light so that
you don't overwork the skin
and that you don't cause any scarring.
This is something that could definitely cost us.
- That's it. - Looking good.
- We are finished.
- Good job.
- Alright, everybody's done?
If the clients can come over, let's look at your tattoos.
It's time to see who rose to the occasion
and who crumbled under the pressure.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Who brings the fight to your door like us ♪♪
♪♪ Who's crushing all competition like... ♪♪
- Alright, let's move this out the way now finally.
- Oh, hey! - Hey, guys!
[overlapping chatter]
- And, uh, if the clients can come over too.
Come on, guys, let's look at your tattoos.
This tattoo competition was a huge success.
We took all these artists out of their comfort zone.
And some of these artists,
they really shined toady in this competition.
Others [bleep] fell short.
But at the end,
they still all completed the task at hand.
I really appreciate you guys taking time out today
and coming through with us.
♪♪♪♪
Clean...
clean...
Okay.
Now, before we get to the judging of these tattoos,
I didn't actually introduce you guys to the clients
that you were dealing with today.
So would you fellas like to introduce yourselves?
- My name is David,
and I'm a professional tattoo artist.
- Oh, [bleep]. - In two shops in New Jersey.
- [AMH] That's crazy. - And I'm Jordan,
and I've worked with David, I have 12 years of experience,
and I'm also a tattoo artist. [all exclaiming]
- That's why you was asking the right questions.
I was wondering why he was asking so many questions.
He was definitely taking notes,
it could've went bad.
- I told you. - Ugh, no pressure.
- These clients are actually tattoo artists?
Now I have anxiety 'cause Santana messed up
on the stencil not once, but twice.
I'm worried we're not gonna win
and it's gonna be my ass on the line.
'Cause I'm an easy artist since I'm not a tattoo artist.
- So now knowing
who you guys actually were tattooing all this time,
I wanna hear from these experts on how they think y'all did.
- [whispers] Hey, I'm glad we did a good job.
- Alright, we're gonna start off with Team Draya.
- So Team Draya, they really held me down.
I feel like they was professional, you know,
when I got the stencil put on, got a little anxious,
you know, we had to put that on a few times,
but I think all the way through, good customer service,
and I really do love my ink.
- I love this tattoo,
and honestly, I'm proud of the team.
But I have to say, some people are outshining others.
- I think from the rip it was a little bit
of a trainwreck in the beginning,
with my man here.
But we worked it out, switched to a different artist,
Jahnova, yeah, you hooked it up with the line work,
you came through with the shading.
I'ma tell you this right now,
if I was to rate y'all,
I would say you would be first,
you would be second, then you would be last.
- That's a personal opinion though.
- No, no, but I think you need more work, like,
you know, maybe learn from your peers
and get a little bit better, definitely need some coaching.
- Nah, I agree, I agree. - So you would agree
it would be the coaching instead of my talent though?
- Telepathically, I'm trying to tell Trilla
to shut the [bleep] up!
He's digging the hole that he's already dug
even deeper, I don't know how the [bleep]
he's gonna get out of this one.
- But like I told you, it's all based off
your customer service, that's where it starts at,
you feel me, so if your customer service was
at least decent, he would've gave you
a chance to show your work for real for real.
- I'll take that.
I don't think they seeing how hard I've been trying
and pushing forward through all adversities.
If I really was a sucker,
I'd have just said "[bleep] this whole [bleep],"
flip the whole [bleep], and everything would've
just been [bleep] up.
- Yo, thank you, guys, bro.
Appreciate, y'all, man...
[overlapping chatter]
Thank you guys.
I like to consider myself a pretty fair boss.
This competition wasn't just about tattoo skills,
this is more customer driven.
And a lotta them kind of struggled with
that whole situation.
If the customer doesn't like the tattoo
or the whole vibe that they're giving,
they're not gonna come back.
That means we lose money.
We're gonna take our time out
and decide who's gonna go home.
Both teams got the tattoos done,
but it's not about the team.
It's all about the individual.
- Holy [bleep]. Is this for real?
- Tomorrow when we come back,
we will be sending someone home.
- Y'all fell short in this challenge.
The person going home is...
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ The time is ticking, it's doing down ♪♪
♪♪ I'm waist deep, gotta get out, get out ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Good morning. - Hello, hello, hello.
- Is everybody here? - Can we get
everybody to the living room please?
- Last night, me, Ted, Draya, and Alex
put our minds together and really talked
about who we thought was the weakest link
in this whole competition.
We're gonna have to talk about the elephant in the room,
which is somebody's gotta go home.
Regardless of whoever goes home today,
it's gonna be kinda hard for me and Ted because
we've kinda grown to respect these artists now.
We've been around them long enough.
Yesterday wasn't about Team Alex versus Team Draya.
It was actually an individual competition,
and we were putting y'all all in positions
to see what you can do out of your comfort zone.
Some of you guys did really well.
Like Kevo, you came down here
short notice and you did a great job.
- Appreciate it. - But you also know
we just needed you for the guest spot right now.
So unfortunately, we're gonna have to ask you to go home.
Alright? Thank you. - Alright, y'all.
- Nice seeing you.
- Kevo did a great job,
but it's time to get rid of people,
not add people to the list.
It's time to get serious.
We gonna play a little game, right?
We gonna go around, and ask each of you
who you felt was the weakest link.
Doesn't matter if it's your team
or the other team.
We gonna start with you, Rich.
- The newbies thought the competition was over,
but actually, this is the final round.
We wanna see who's gonna be honest
and show the desire to win at all costs.
And who knows, this right now
may change me and Ted's mind on who really goes home.
♪♪♪♪
- Unfortunately, Trilla was the weakest link.
[Rich] If we were in a shop,
Trilla's behavior probably wouldn't have worked out.
I'm sorry, bro. - AMH?
Out of everything that you saw yesterday,
who was the weakest link?
- Weakest link...
um, I would say...
Liza.
- Okay, I appreciate your honesty.
[AMH] Liza and I have been tight
since before we got in this house,
and I hate to say it, but I overheard
what was going on over there with the other team.
And Rich downloaded me on how Liza performed,
and she didn't do well,
I just gotta call it like I see it.
- Liza. - I would say Trilla.
- Miracle.
- Probably Santana.
- Santana?
- Um, I probably was the weakest link
just because of the project that we had to do,
we had to do realism and that's not what I do.
- So you would call yourself the weakest link on your team?
- If there's one thing I've learned from
seeing Dreamy ass go,
it's you have to take accountability.
I [bleep] up, and I own it.
To be honest, if they can see the willingness
and the humility in me,
hopefully they'll give me another chance.
- Trilla.
- I [bleep] up.
I claim my L, you know?
I was the weakest link.
But I feel I got the most potential
at the end of the day.
- I appreciate your honesty.
Jahnova?
Last but not least.
- Um, I think...
despite the circumstances of the switch up,
we really did our best, pulled it together.
Um, I think everybody had their challenges.
Trilla, you did learn a lot,
but sometimes the hardest lessons...
- So who would you say was the weakest link?
- Um...
I'm gonna have to say that...
uh, Trilla.
[Jahnova] Having to say my boyfriend's name out loud
is killing me.
But if I'm being fair to everyone else in the house,
I have to be honest about what happened yesterday.
- There was a lotta mishaps yesterday.
Some people handled it, some people didn't.
And we feel the bottom three are...
Liza, Trilla, and Santana.
We need y'all to step over here please.
- I don't think I deserve to be in the bottom three.
I mean, Rich told me last night that I made a mistake,
but I don't think it was that big of a deal.
- Now, Santana, sometimes I worry
that you're not built for this.
- A'ight, so look, we gonna have to redo the stencil.
Know what I mean, it was kinda scrunched up.
- We gonna have to redo that. - I worry
that if I put you in a chaotic situation,
the shop is full, there's a lot going on,
you're gonna [bleep] crack.
- Liza, a lotta the things that you were saying
came out the wrong way... - Didn't add up, right.
- And there was a lotta misinformation.
As long as you've been in this house
with experienced artists and everybody tryna become
a tattoo artist, there shouldn't be no misinformation.
- You know, I'm only two years in,
so what I was taught probably was the wrong way.
I wasn't trying to give off wrong information to my client,
but I mean, that's how I was taught.
So I'm just gonna have to accept it
and do better next time,
if there even is a next time.
- [sighs] And last but not least, Trilla.
I appreciate what you bring to the team,
but at the same mother[bleep] time, bro,
you are 0-2 in competition.
Each time, there happens to be a situation with you.
- The amount of time I have,
I think it may be a little difficult.
- What you mean, you can't do it?
- Yesterday, you messed up.
You let your pride get the best of you.
- I'm confident that she can do better line work.
- I'm not even gonna front, that's wild crazy.
- How is that crazy? - Where the stencil at?
I'ma tattoo the same tattoo and do it better than anybody.
- You let us all down, honestly.
[Trilla] I'm a little pissed right now, I'm tight.
Like... [exhales]
- All three of y'all fell short in this challenge.
We got bills to take care, we got clients to please
and y'all failed at all of those.
So moving forward, Puma and I really thought about it.
And we feel the person going home is...
♪♪♪♪
[Puma] I can't keep having people who
are not stepping up to the plate.
- So moving forward, Puma and I really thought about it.
And we feel the person going home is...
♪♪♪♪
Trilla.
You gotta go back home, bro.
- Just get your bags packed up,
your Uber's gonna be outside,
and you're gonna be on your way, alright?
Trilla brought a lotta charisma and heart
to the competition, but it doesn't matter
how much everybody likes you.
If your ego's too big,
sooner or later, you 're gonna get cut.
- I'm pretty sure your journey doesn't stop here.
But now, we're gonna have to holla at you, bro.
- Thank y'all. I appreciate y'all though.
- Wish you the best of luck.
- Alright, talk to y'all later.
- Later, y'all. And everybody remember,
y'all still not safe, man.
[Jahnova] Damn...
[crying]
- Man, I appreciate y'all. I'm good...
[overlapping chatter]
- It's not gonna be easy. - It's all good, yo.
You know the game, you feel me, I'm good.
- Chin up.
Trilla, my dog, man.
- But nah, thank y'all, for real though,
you know, like, I grew in this experience.
This ain't the last of Trilla Casanova.
- I know that's right. I know that already.
- So it ain't y'all loss, it ain't my loss.
[overlapping chatter]
- This house without Trilla
is going to be extremely dry.
There's no unit without Trilla.
- I'm sorry.
- You know how I feel about the universe.
Everything happens for a reason.
You good, handle your business,
you got this.
Look up.
- [sniffles]
- [bleep] it.
Go Harley Quinn.
- They done cut my baby.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
It's like taking the heart and soul away from a body.
I just want this to make you stronger.
- Yeah.
- I don't want it to break you.
- Never, it ain't gonna break me.
Damn sure gonna make me stronger.
[Trilla] At the moment, I'm a little upset with Jahnova,
but at the end of the day, we're both competitive people,
and we gotta do what we gotta do.
So that's still my baby girl, we good.
You gotta hold it down, alright?
You the only nova now.
- I've been the o-- no, I'm just kidding.
- Ah, get the hell outta here.
[laughter]
I love you, thank you.
- I love you too.
- You gonna help me pack? - Uh, yeah.
- ♪♪ Hey, all of my thoughts ♪♪
♪♪ Be clouding my judgement sometimes ♪♪
♪♪ Backtracking and second guessing like I don't know ♪♪
♪♪ Nothing sometimes, seems like I'm spending ♪♪
♪♪ Hella my time to figure it out... ♪♪
- My name is Trilla Casanova.
- Said who? - Trilla Casanova.
- ♪♪ I got the vision, they don't got the vision ♪♪
♪♪ I'm well aware of all my decisions ♪♪
- I learned a lot from everyone, you know?
They made me a better artist, and at the end of the day,
I'm a diamond from the rough, you know?
None of this is gonna break me.
I'm taking it to the moon, nothing can stop me.
- ♪♪ Guess it's a blessing in disguise ♪♪
♪♪ I get lost in my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Still I rise every time, still I rise ♪♪
♪♪ It's been a helluva ride... ♪♪
- It sucks really bad.
-♪♪ You know it, look how it shines on me ♪♪
[laughter]
♪♪ I might've been down... ♪♪
- Coming from where I came from
to even be able to be in this big-ass mansion,
do tattoos on celebrities and different people,
I am extremely proud of myself.
- ♪♪ Guess it's a blessing in disguise ♪♪
♪♪ I get lost in my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Still I rise every time, still I rise ♪♪
♪♪ It's been a helluva ride ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- [bleep] still my [bleep]!
[bleep] you talkin' about, dead-ass [bleep]?
Just know this is not the end.
Not the end.
Let's run it up.
Peace.
[all exclaiming]
- Welcome to Atlanta.
New city, same competition energy, baby.
We're gonna be doing a popup at the legendary
Miya Bailey's Peter Station shop.
We're here to work, and there will be
eliminations coming up.
We cannot [bleep] up.
That will definitely get you packed up.
- You're here to build up women, AMH,
and you're shutting me down, look how you're talking...
- This mother[bleep] put in way more work
than you have to where you not equal.
[sobbing]
[Miracle] My client wanted a corset piece
done through needle play.
Turn around...
- [gasping] Oh, my God!
- I don't want that to be what represents Black Ink.
- Everybody needs to get their [bleep] together
because not for nothing, none of y'all safe.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪