- [scoffs] There's a lot to talk about.
Phew, okay...
♪♪♪♪
Yeah, Ceaser got fired, but I couldn't let
the Black Ink legacy go down in flames like that.
So then I called a dinner meeting
for select members of the crew,
figure out what the [bleep] we wanna do next.
What I'm tryna do is start a new shop.
[Puma] Alex, Draya, and Nychelle,
they were on board from the jump,
which was a good thing, because Spyder and Ted,
they had some choice words for me that night.
- We ain't even mother[bleep] bury the body yet.
- I'm gonna fight for what the [bleep] I built forever.
- But soon enough, at least Ted's ass came around.
- So what are we doing, bro?
- We decided to throw a mixer
for some new artists to join our crew.
- Great, bro, we got eight new artists.
- We had no shop to really put 'em in,
but with the help of Daymond John,
I found some angel investors that hooked us up
with a house for a couple of months.
Welcome!
[all exclaiming]
While me and Ted looked for
the perfect location for a new shop.
- I've been looking at spots in Harlem,
our community is what built us,
and we know we gonna get the love there.
- In the meantime, we've been putting these artists
through a series of grueling pop ups
and competitions to see who can survive
and be down with our crew.
We're gonna break you guys up into teams.
That person next to you,
they ass might be going home tomorrow.
Along the way, we lost a few.
First, Nychelle decided to go back to Dallas.
Then we fired Ink Dreamy for being
a total distraction in the house.
And finally, Trilla went home
for underperforming in the competition.
You let us all down, honestly.
- [bleep] you talkin' about, dead-ass [bleep].
[Puma] So now, we're down to our final six candidates.
And two weeks left in this mansion,
time is running out fast.
- ♪♪ Always knew I'd be victorious ♪♪
♪♪ Glory, glorious ♪♪
- ♪♪ All the way up, la la la ♪♪
♪♪ La la la la la ♪♪
♪♪ All the way up ♪♪
♪♪ La la, la la la la la ♪♪
♪♪ All the way up ♪♪
- Oh, [bleep].
- [bleep] is everybody at?
- It's like a ghost town in here.
♪♪♪♪
What's going on, everybody? Where's everybody at?
[Puma] Seeing how quiet it is in this mansion right now,
I guess firing two housemates
got the message across to these newbies.
♪♪♪♪
We need less partying,
and more mother[bleep] pressure and participation.
Yo, can everybody come to the living room?
How you doing today? - [Miracle] Nice to see you,
I'm doing good, how're you? - Good, good, good.
- Lord, please don't let this be no more bad news.
- I'm having a hard time.
- I know you are.
- Trilla getting sent home
was devastating to me.
I'm sorry.
- You know how I feel about the universe.
Everything happens for a reason.
You good, handle your business, you got this.
[Jahnova] It's really hard to focus,
but I need to more than ever
because it could be me next time.
I've blown big opportunities in the past by letting
my heart go before my head.
I can't let that happen again.
[Ted] What's up, why it so quiet?
Y'all good?
- [sighs]
The temperature in the house is a lot different
without... without Trilla this morning...
- I can totally understand that.
We liked Trilla, you know?
And we hope that he gets it together
and figures [bleep] out, you know?
But for right now, we gotta keep pushing forward.
- I told him, if this is something that you really want,
work for it, bro, we gonna be around for a minute.
But for right now, it is what it is.
- But we do come bearing good news, though.
- Whoo...
- I know you guys have been cramped up in this house.
- Facts. - Yeah, so y'all gotta
pack your bags...
[music winding down]
But not to go home.
- Oh, okay! I was like, damn, [bleep]!
- We're gonna go take a trip down to ATL...
[all cheering]
You know what I'm talking about?
We're all gonna be doing a pop up.
- Okay. - Oh, wow, [bleep].
- So we're going down there to go work.
So the plan is to take everybody,
including Draya and Alex, to Atlanta
for four days to do this pop up.
This is for us to see the whole crew
get together and work well as a unit.
We're going to go work at the legendary Miya Bailey's
Peters Street Station shop.
- Nice. - Oh, wow, nice.
- And he doesn't do this for just anybody.
Miya Bailey's one of the biggest artists
in the Black tattoo art community.
Maybe one of the first Black artists I knew
outside of New York City that I really respect,
'cause he has his whole gameplan going swell.
Plus, on top of that, he's always been
a huge supporter of everything that we do
with the "Black Ink Crew" movement.
- Miya Bailey... [all cheering]
An honor to have you, man.
- Love to be in y'all home, man.
Y'all should be very proud of y'all self.
[Puma] Everybody's a winner.
[Ted] Him inviting us
into his shop means a lot.
Having Miya there to check out the talent
as an artist and business owner
will really help Puma and myself narrow
the six down and pick the final team.
- From the beginning, we've let everybody know
this was a competition.
So not everybody's coming back to Jersey with us.
There will be another elimination in Atlanta.
- See, I knew this trip was too good to be true
and now I'm freaking out.
Just yesterday, I was in the bottom.
[Ted] And we feel
the bottom three are...
Trilla, Santana, and Liza.
- I don't wanna be the next one to go home,
so I need to step it up and think outside of the box
and prove that I belong here.
- We're trying to curate something that's authentic.
That's us.
- Awesome.
Bring it on, even though I'm sad
we lost Trilla, it's time we clean house
and get rid of the weak links.
- So we need y'all to really like,
get the word out there that we gonna be in Atlanta
and try to get as many people through those doors as we can.
- Spread the name, spread the word.
And, you know, we gonna live up to this name
and [bleep], alright?
[Rich] That's dope.
- It finally feels like everything is falling
into place now, the only thing we have to do
once we get back to the mansion is finalize the location
that we're gonna have all these artists in,
which we're about this close from getting.
And we'll be locked and loaded,
and all this hard work will finally [bleep] pay off.
Let's shake this [bleep] off and get yourself ready
for Atlanta, baby, alright? [all cheering]
Yeah!
-♪♪ Is this pain, is it love, is it hurt? ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ I don't know, I don't know, I don't know ♪♪
♪♪ Will it ever get better, will it work? ♪♪
♪♪ Guess I gotta find out on my own... ♪♪
- I'm not gonna lie, there's been a lot on my mind
since the "business meeting" with Krystal.
- I said I'm sorry and I wanna continue
being together and trying to work out our issues so...
- Just give me some time.
[Rok] She obviously wants to restart our relationship,
and for a while, that's exactly what I wanted too.
But I'm not sure that she's into it
the way she said that she is.
And right now, I just don't know where her head is at.
Oh... [door rings]
What the [bleep]?
♪♪♪♪
What the hell is this?
- I just thought I had to make things a little more...
special for you.
When I made that big, romantic gesture to Rok...
♪♪♪♪
With the belly dancing and he just walked away,
I was devastated.
But I had to realize, if I want any chance
with getting back with Rok,
I'ma have to be real about my feelings.
And even if he rejects me again,
at least now he'll know how much I love him.
"10 Reasons Why I Don't Wanna Lose You."
♪♪♪♪
- "You're the first person I want to talk to."
- When anything happens to me, the first person that comes
to mind that I wanna share it with is you.
[papers rustling]
- You got a lotta boards over here.
- Right, 'cause I took time to think about this.
- Krystal's really blowing me away right now.
I feel like Krystal heard everything
that I said last time, and now she's saying
everything that I wanna hear.
"You make me feel like I can get through anything
as long as I have you."
Baby, I told you, as long as I'm by your side,
you can get through anything, that's it.
Baby, why you crying?
- [crying] It's true.
♪♪♪♪
You're the only thing I hope
is consistent in my life, you know?
- "You make me a better person."
I try, but you know, at the end of the day,
you make me a better person. - Of course,
but I mean, sometimes I'm not that welcoming,
and you taught me something different.
[sniffles]
- "I can't see myself without you."
You sure about that?
- And the last one...
- "Will..."
Krystal, you're not serious, right?
"Will you marry me"?
Krystal, is this real?
- I wanna know if you will still be my Rok.
♪♪♪♪
I can't see myself with anybody else.
[crying] Like when it comes down to my everyday,
like, you make life so much easier
and like, I can never see myself not talking to you.
I'm sorry if I made you feel like I didn't, but...
- Baby, you're asking me if I will still be your Rok...
I was always your Rok.
If you're serious...
♪♪♪♪
Of course I'ma say yeah.
♪♪♪♪
Oh, my God, baby...
[Rok] Never did I think that Krystal would propose to me.
Listen, love is powerful.
I don't know if y'all understand this.
Love is powerful.
So anything can happen,
if you put your mind to it.
I don't even know what to think right now,
because it's like, I thought I lost you.
And it was killing me to try to [bleep] forget about you.
- And it was killing me too, like, you think it was
so easy for me, it wasn't.
Like, I didn't give up on us.
- Are you sure about this? - Yeah.
- You ready to live your whole life with me?
- Yeah.
- Oh, my God.
[bleep] love you.
We about to start a fire with these candles.
[Krystal laughs]
[Puma] Welcome to Atlanta!
New city, same competition energy, baby.
We're here to work.
- We're going to the club.
[all cheering]
- Time out, y'all went out last night?
- I don't [bleep] with you... - You got a bed.
- 'Scuse me... - Be mad if you want to.
- People don't know how to draw, it was obvious.
- I'll be damned if somebody pushes me out the mix.
[Puma] Everybody needs to get their [bleep] together,
because not for nothing, none of y'all are safe.
- ♪♪ Hold up, don't stop ♪♪
♪♪ Hold up, don't stop ♪♪
♪♪ You cannot front when you chasing the cash ♪♪
♪♪ Hold up, don't stop ♪♪
♪♪ You cannot quit when you chasing the cash ♪♪
[Ted] I think I hear them pulling up right now.
- Alright, I'm starting to think these mother[bleep] got lost.
ATL, shorty, what's going on?
Yerrrp!
Welcome to Atlanta!
[Puma] New city, new house,
same competition energy, baby.
Come on in... - Alright, alright.
[Puma] These next few days are gonna be
a new beginning for some of these newbies,
and for somebody, it may be the end of the road.
I know the energy at the house was a little bit off
after everything that just happened.
So we wanna just change the energy a little bit
and pick it up, we're here to work.
We're gonna do our thing at this Miya Bailey pop up.
I need that energy high, and we gon' [bleep] kill
this [bleep] out here, right?
But at the same mother[bleep] time,
there's gonna be an elimination happening here in Atlanta.
- [chuckles]
- So get on point and prove your worth.
- Y'all got any questions?
- Always, Rich. - Always you.
- I'm a curious guy, I need to know these things.
- Go ahead. - So I know last time,
we did a little card game.
- Now, the thing about the rooms,
they're numbered 1-8.
1 could be the best room,
8 could be the best room,
I don't know.
Rich, pick a number.
- How are we selecting rooms this go-around?
- Oh, I'm glad you asked that question,
because I didn't really like the card game that Puma did.
I really liked the old school way we used to do it.
Y'all on your own, go find it.
♪♪♪♪
- Now? - [laughter]
[racing music playing]
- Oh, [bleep]!
- I'm finna dog all you hoes!
[laughter] [overlapping chatter]
- A part about being the boss, I don't have to deal with
this [bleep] no more, thank the universe.
I'm not even mad at you.
- This cute, this mine.
[Puma] I hope they keep that same energy at Miya's.
- This the VIP section, just so y'all know.
Don't bring y'all asses up these steps.
- Nothing!
- You can't find a room? - You can't find a room?
- You about to share.
- Miracle got a twin,
like, she got a bunk...
- I don't know what you talking about.
- You have to share a room, Santana.
- How the [bleep] did I get in a room with goddamn Miracle?
This ain't about to go down, I ain't having this [bleep].
[bleep] got me tight.
- Let's see your room, Rich, where you at?
- What's good, champ? - Okay.
Oh, you got the-- oh.
- Look at that. - Kobe...
[laughter]
- How you doing? - I'm great,
is this your bathroom?
- I wish it was, it's my closet.
- Oh. - I'll take it though.
How you feeling about this trip?
- I'm excited, I love Atlanta
and I love getting rid of more dead weight.
Number one, Liza.
- They have the weighted [bleep]...
- They be like... [squeaks]
- She doesn't practice her craft
or even try to get better.
She's always hanging out on the couch,
scrolling on her phone, doing God knows what.
It's weird because me and her
were really close when we got here.
- Mmm-hmm. - But you know,
they say when you live with somebody...
- Mmm-hmm. - You really get to know them.
And it's just, eh...
- She's starting to reveal herself,
and I think it's just starting to get to you.
- It is.
I fought way too hard to get
to where I am today,
so if you ain't taking this opportunity seriously,
it really bothers me, and that's just how I feel about it.
And now it's irritating like,
mother[bleep] be next to you, and I'm like,
ugh, why is this bitch chewing?
Like, why are you chewing this food...
- Everything is bothering you. Stop [bleep]--
- Yeah, exactly. - Right now!
[Santana] Miracle.
We gonna have to figure something out,
because this ain't working for me.
You know we don't [bleep] with each other,
ain't no point in even tryna fake or front.
- I'm fine, so if you wanna switch rooms, that's fine--
- But what I'm telling you is you need to stand up with me
so it doesn't look like Santana's bugging,
because you know me and you do not [bleep] with each other.
Me and Miracle have not [bleep] with each other
since Miracle decided to believe Ink Dreamy's lies over me.
- Dreamy says that you have a girlfriend.
- I ain't dating nobody.
All I can do is say take my word for it.
- Alright, then I'm gone.
- So I keep things cordial with Miracle,
but there's no way in hell I'm about to sleep in
the same room with her, period.
Why I gotta always be the mouth?
You know you don't [bleep] with me...
- Because you care, I don't give a [bleep].
[overlapping chatter/bleeps]
- I don't [bleep] with you...
- They fighting already.
- I don't [bleep] with you... - I'ma tell you right now--
[overlapping arguing]
I don't give a [bleep]!
[arguing continues]
Be mad if you want to-- - You weak as a [bleep]...
- Don't give a [bleep]...
- 'Scuse me, 'scuse me.
'Scuse me, can we have a house meeting?
- I can't believe Santana is causing drama
when the whole point of this trip
is to show that we can move as a unit.
- So if I know that I don't really [bleep] with her,
and she know she don't really [bleep] with me,
she know she don't wanna [bleep] share a space with me,
and I don't wanna [bleep] share a space with her.
- So with me being the de facto leader of the house,
being that Puma and Teddy is gone, I'm gonna take
this opportunity to show equanimity in action.
Santana, you can have my room,
and I will switch to your room.
- Whoa!
[all exclaiming]
- Y'all crazy.
Look at you, Alex, stepping up to be a leader.
You would think he was auditioning
for head artist or something,
but Ted and Puma ain't even here to see it.
- So, now that we got the room situation out the way...
- Appreciate you, brother. - We gonna have to go out.
We going to the club.
- Okay, well, bossing up ain't an overnight process.
- We gonna go pop some bottles in the section and act stupid...
- Oh, my God. - I'm probably not gonna go.
- Huh? Why? - Because
I got stuff to do-- - What you got to do?
- Work? - Yeah.
Y'all can party if y'all want,
but I need to prove that the new shop
needs a kickass piercer instead of just another tattoo artist.
So I booked a client that wants piercings
that are guaranteed to blow everybody's mind.
- Alright, we'll bring you some shots back,
don't even worry about it.
But the rest of us, we outside, a'ight?
[overlapping chatter]
Oh, [bleep], I forgot I got a new room.
[laughter]
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Fighter, ain't nothing gonna hold me back, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ Fighter... ♪♪
[overlapping greetings]
- Miya. - Good to see you, brother.
- Miya Bailey's what you'd call a real one.
As soon as he heard that we needed a location
for our trial run of this new "Black Ink Crew",
he immediately offered up his shop.
- How you been? - Feeling great, man.
I like that shirt. - Oh, thanks, brother.
You know I had to represent the A.
- We appreciate you for allowing us to have this pop up.
I mean, this the first time in the shop atmosphere,
so we really been telling them, like, yo, y'all gotta
show out for hits because he don't do this for anybody.
- We really appreciate, you know, you taking
your time out and helping us right now 'cause
any little help we can get, it's good, you know?
- Anything you need from me, man.
- I appreciate that. - Anything you need from me.
- The reality of it is being the big boss
is a lot more difficult than we both thought it would be.
So it was a huge relief hearing that Miya's here for us,
'cause it finally feels there's someone in our corner
that understands us.
- How it been without Ceaser?
[both sighing]
[laughter]
- I miss that [bleep].
I ain't gonna hold you, man.
- I'm all over the place with it, bro.
- Uh-huh. - That's my family,
know what I'm saying, he's always gonna be by my side,
but as of right now, we trying to keep
the family name alive. - Yeah.
- I understand now why he was the way he was.
- Yeah. - Dealing with people
and the [bleep], and I'm starting
to become an asshole, I see it.
- Yeah. - I know, yeah, Ted.
I see it, I can admit it.
Watching Ceaser all these years,
he made it look so easy
just to tell somebody you're fired.
- Guess what, I'm the boss, and you fired, [bleep].
Sky, since I ain't on your [bleep] level,
you [bleep] fired.
You need to go [bleep] find a new job, yo.
- Ceas, you can't fire me.
- Watch, no, no, no, no. You're fired.
[Puma] I can't do that [bleep].
I feel bad.
- Time for y'all to elevate.
[laughter]
Time for y'all to elevate
and change and transform, bro.
- Yeah. - We got a whole new crew.
Most of them are from out of town.
- I personally, man, like, when I'm looking for artists,
man, it's always the ones that move in from somewhere else.
Hungrier, they got more to lose.
Personally, when I do business, I think about
the Motown-Berry Gordy aspect of it.
I'ma have me some Smokeys, I'ma have some Stevies.
They can make you a lot of money,
but sometimes it come with the headache.
I'm gonna have some Jackson 5s.
They hungrier, they got more to lose.
You being a boss, you gonna have to figure out if
you gonna deal with more cons or more pros...
- Noted, noted. - Noted.
Miya's really putting into perspective
how we should be thinking about all of these artists.
Especially with the decisions that we make here in Atlanta,
could affect the future of the whole Black Ink.
- At the end of the day, man, this is the ultimate test
to see who's really coming back to New York
and being part of our crew, know what I mean?
So I'm really gonna need your help
checking out their talents
and giving me your feedback, bro.
Like, we've been around them,
but it's always good to get another opinion.
- I got you, man. I got you anytime, man.
- Hey, how are you, baby?
- My mom is the only other woman in my life
whose opinion matters.
- What is that?
- This is a wedding ring.
- A what? - We about to get married.
[Miracle] My client wanted
a corset piece done through needleplay.
Turn around. - [gasps]
- Oh, my God!
- What the [bleep] is that?
- ♪♪ I know that I'm different ♪♪
♪♪ I'm not tripping, I'm just noticing ♪♪
♪♪ I've been writing scripture every picture that I'm posing ♪♪
♪♪ Like I can see the future in the distance ♪♪
- I'm not gonna lie, in my head,
I can't believe we're getting married
after everything we've been through.
[knocking] But it's happening.
And I've never been more sure of anything in my life.
- Hey...
[speaking Spanish]
How are you, baby?
- My mom is the only other woman in my life
whose opinion matters.
She's been around through the ups and downs
with me and Krystal's relationship.
And after this breakup, she thought we were really done.
So I'm not really sure how she's gonna take it.
- What's up with you? I haven't seen you in a minute.
- A'ight, you already know what's going on with
me and Krystal, right?
- Isn't that done already?
- Yeah, it's done,
but this is the thing.
Love, love makes people do crazy things.
The other day, we actually spoke about it.
And, you know, we're gonna fix this.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- So how is that gonna be different from the other times?
- Look, I understand from the outside in
it looks like a repeat of the old Krystal and Rok,
make up and break up situation.
But this is the first time
Krystal made amends instead of me.
And honestly, I feel like she really changed.
I think both of us changed.
This time, I think she proved it to me.
I'm not gonna lie.
- And how was that?
How did she prove it this time?
- [clears throat]
- What is that?
- This isn't rapper jewelry, Ma, this is a wedding ring.
[wedding music plays]
- A what?
- We about to get married.
[messy, crashing organ music]
Listen, Ma, I just...
I thought you would've been a little more excited.
- I'm happy for you.
You guys keep breaking up, and getting back together,
and breaking up, it's like more toxic than it's getting better.
♪♪♪♪
You need to have someone in your life
that's gonna be there forever. - Yeah, I know.
The other day when I went to the shop
and she gave me this ring, I...
- She gave you the ring?
- She gave me the ring.
Isn't that, like, proving your love
to the highest point?
- Btu that doesn't mean that you have to rush into marriage.
[Rok] I understand where my mom's coming from,
but it feels kinda crappy that my mom thinks
me and Krystal's relationship is bad for me.
I wanted to make the wedding happen right away,
but without my mom being on board,
I don't think that's gonna happen.
I'm not tryna just stop right here.
- Okay, I just don't wanna see my son get hurt.
That's it.
- ♪♪ Working at night till I get it done ♪♪
♪♪ And I do it with the heels on my feet ♪♪
♪♪ Closing out the deals and then having fun ♪♪
♪♪ And I do it with the heels on my feet ♪♪
- Thank you so much for coming.
- Thank you for having me
and giving me a reason to get out the house.
After the guys told us to recruit clients for Atlanta,
I immediately started to put the word out
and Lucrecia reached out to me for a unique piercing.
So the rest of the crew can have fun at the club,
but I came to here to do what Ted and Puma said,
and that's work.
- I have been looking at your work on Instagram
for the longest, so thank you
for finally being able to come.
- So I have the design. - Okay.
- My client wants a corset piercing
done through needleplay.
Needleplay is when you're taking needles
and putting them inside the skin to make a design
or to put lace through.
I just don't wanna overwork your tattoo that's back there,
and I don't wanna overwork your skin.
- Okay. - This is a very
intricate design, you have to include
22 piercings and two different types of lace.
So I have to be completely focused
because I don't wanna damage her skin
or hurt her in anyway.
You're in good hands, you know that.
- Yes, yes.
♪♪♪♪
- Alright, you ready to start?
- ♪♪ I got a point to prove, I got too much to lose ♪♪
♪♪ Give 'em my feet, I bet they couldn't walk ♪♪
♪♪ A mile in my shoes, I got faith that I'ma make it ♪♪
- I feel like people don't take piercings as serious
because they don't see how intricate it is.
Tattooing is just top layers of skin,
I'm actually dealing with a lot more
veins and muscles than you would with tattooing.
I just want people to respect my artform
the way I respect theirs.
- ♪♪ I work long nights, never stop ♪♪
♪♪ I'ma make it to the top ♪♪
♪♪ I'ma show you how a boss get it, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ I ain't never had a handout, give it to 'em ♪♪
♪♪ They wanna see just what these hands 'bout ♪♪
♪♪ Walk in the room, always been the one to stand out ♪♪
♪♪ No drumline, I'ma break them bands out on God ♪♪
- I've continuously shown that I can be a team player
by being an AP, but my passion is piercing,
and that's why I'm here.
- ♪♪ I got too much lose ♪♪
♪♪ Give 'em my feet, I bet they couldn't walk ♪♪
♪♪ A mile in my shoes, I got faith that I'ma make it ♪♪
♪♪ I'm here but this not my destination ♪♪
- Alright, you're done. Take a look...
- Yes, oh my goodness!
This looks amazing.
- I'm super happy that my client loves her piercing.
It's a very intricate design,
and I can't wait to show this to the rest of the team.
I want everyone to see what I actually bring to the table.
I can't wait till tomorrow when we meet everybody
and I get to do a big reveal.
- Yay, I'm excited.
- How have y'all been promoting y'all self for the pop up?
- I downloaded a couple apps,
like Bumble BFF.
- Are we using what we look like to promote,
or are we using our work?
- That's how you talk to people underneath you?
- You have done nothing to show that you wanna be more.
- ♪♪ On God, I got a point to prove ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[all cheering]
- ♪♪ We gettin' lit ♪♪
♪♪ Like a bottle, drink it up ♪♪
♪♪ Crew drippin', we were models ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, we gettin' lit ♪♪
♪♪ Pop a bottle, drink it up, drink it up ♪♪
♪♪ Crew drippin', we were models ♪♪
- It's our first night in Atlanta,
and what better way to wile out
than go hit up a local bar and get some hookah?
And I know Ted and Puma said we came out here to work,
but we're also here to check the temperature of the team,
and see who can play nice and who doesn't...
Y'all ready to have a good time?
- I'm ready to get [bleep] lit.
We in Atlanta, y'all!
- So that's exactly what we came to do.
- ♪♪ Yeah, what's up, we gettin' lit ♪♪
♪♪ Pop a bottle, drink it up... ♪♪
[laughter]
- I like single Jahnova.
She actually was ready to pop the [bleep] up tonight.
I said yes, bitch! - I gotta ask now.
So, Trilla, what is that?
- What do you mean, what is that?
- She said you're single. - I did... [laughs]
- Draya loves me shaking ass and having fun,
and I can admit without your man being here,
it's more comfortable to do certain things.
However, I will still respect my relationship
and myself within my limits.
Sorry, Vagina Slayer,
but this vagina is taken.
- Are y'all nervous for the pop up?
- It's gonna be a little surreal for me.
I went on, um, tour, back in 2017.
And I tattooed at Peters Street Station.
And in the middle of my tattoo, Miya Bailey walks up to me
and he's like, you know you the first person to tattoo in here.
I'm like, somebody get the camera!
I am so excited to be back at Miya Bailey's shop,
and I don't wanna call this a victory lap,
but a boss bitch is fully booked for this pop up.
- How have y'all been promoting y'all self for the pop up?
Instagram has been my main source
of tryna like, promote my [bleep],
what y'all been doing? - IG.
I've been writing out my email list.
- IG, TikTok. - Yeah.
- And then I've just been reaching out to clients
that I had out here already.
- I downloaded a couple apps
that are "friend" friendly.
I posted my content...
- What's "friend" friendly?
- Like Bumble BFF. - Is that a dating app?
- That's a dating app.
- They have different categories.
They have dating,
they have friends, and they have other.
So I swiped on everybody to the right.
- Oh, so now we're promoting our tattoo work on dating sites?
That's interesting.
Are we using what we look like to promote,
or are we using our work? - I hear you...
- I ain't with that [bleep]. - It's my artwork...
[overlapping arguing]
- I would much rather promote my work
the old fashioned way, through my work,
and word of mouth.
But no judgement over here.
- Just because it doesn't have a tattooing category
doesn't mean I can't extend my tattooing out there.
- I don't know anyone in Atlanta.
And I feel like this is the best way
to promote myself for this pop up.
I made it very clear on my Bumble profile
that I'm a tattoo artist from out of town
who's looking for clients.
I feel like a little shade was thrown at me
when was I was speaking on where I branched out
and found my clients.
- Talk to me as an artist, don't talk to me as
a mother[bleep] that's pulling up dating apps.
- But being a new artist, I am talking to you.
- Well, I don't hear you as an artist.
- Why the [bleep] is AMH coming at me like this?
I thought we were friends.
I mean, we came here together.
- How long are y'all in town for?
- A little while, little while. - A little while.
- Y'all need to be here just long enough for us
to link up again. - We can do that.
[Liza] I know this is a competition,
but from a woman who screams "woman empowerment,"
this is a such a low blow.
You're here to build up women, AMH...
- Absolutely. - And you're shutting me down--
- I didn't shut you down. - Yes, you were.
- I said... - Look how you're--
- Was it a dating app?
- But I told you it wasn't.
I told you there's Bumble BFF
and I put my work on the page,
I put what I'm here for,
and I swiped on clients.
- So what more do you want from me?
- To clean up what you said about me.
- I ain't cleaning up [bleep], I said what I said.
I'll see you at the competition.
- Girl, AMH, what are you doing?
I thought pressure made diamonds,
not assholes.
- That's how you talk to people underneath you?
That's how you talk to them?
- You have done nothing in this house
to show that you wanna be more.
- That's your opinio-- - No, that's a fact.
Where is the work you're putting in in this industry?
You got me in a club arguing with you about [bleep] tattoos,
so let's talk about it since that's where we at.
This shop is about to become a real thing,
and I wanna make sure every person in there
deserves to be there.
So I can't keep quiet anymore
about [bleep] I disagree with.
That's not doing anybody any favors.
That [bleep] you did in the first competition
was shaky as [bleep]...
- It's mother[bleep] who's in that same room as you
who's put in way more work than you have
to where you not equal.
The more I'm thinking about it,
the more I feel like it should've been Liza
that went home and not Trilla.
He has way more raw talent in the tip of his pinky
than she does in her whole-ass body.
I can see you don't know how to draw, it was obvious.
- But you haven't seen what I done there...
- That don't matter, I'm seeing what you do now.
- I got here, that's exactly how I got here--
- And you will go home too!
- This a competition and I'ma bring that [bleep].
- We'll see 'cause both competitions,
your ass was not first place, baby.
- Then you didn't look, 'cause I'ma bring that [bleep].
- I'll see.
♪♪♪♪
- Real mother[bleep] have clients
by word of mouth, baby.
- [crying]
[Draya] It's two years in,
she got a long way to go.
[crying continues]
- I got a big project that I wanna show off.
[all gasping]
- Oh, my God!
[Puma] That will definitely get you packed up.
- ♪♪ Make what you want, take what you want, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Take what you want, say what you wanna say ♪♪
♪♪ Just another day, nother day ♪♪
♪♪ To the side, just a game ♪♪
♪♪ You wanna play, wanna play ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Mmm, sips tea.
♪♪♪♪
- It's cold in this mother[bleep].
- I'll tell you. - How you feeling, you a'ight?
- I'm chillin'.
- Good morning. - Ah, good morning.
- How you feeling?
You look like [bleep].
- Oh, thanks.
Last night's drama at the club
really killed the nice vibes that we had going on.
- I wasn't expecting it to go that quick,
but I feel like it was a bunch of
built up pressure for real.
- Now AMH and Jahnova is keykeying
with Rich on the patio, and Liza has yet to come down.
So let's just say it's a low simmer
with a potential to boil. - How about Miracle,
she a quiet sleeper, or she snore?
- She hit the snore real quick, I ain't gonna lie...
- The cute little... - No, it was like a...
[quick snore] And I heard it again and I was like...
[laughter]
Oh, a'ight.
Then she kicked me outta the room this morning.
I think she got somebody in there.
- Are y'all disappointed that [bleep] went left last night?
- I didn't want it to happen last night
while we out having fun, you know?
- I'm not disappointed at all.
I've always felt this energy from Liza.
It's crazy to say that she's here for the wrong reasons,
I just don't know if she knows why she's here.
- Something to do... - You know, something to do.
When it comes to Liza, it's like, I don't
expect her to be me, but at least try.
Pour some effort into this craft,
like we do a sacred practice.
We are dealing with people's skins,
their bodies, their souls, forever.
So if you're not gonna take it seriously,
just get out the room.
I'd rather Liza be exposed
and just get hit with that hard truth
before we go into Miya's shop,
and have a pop up. - Yes...
- Embarrassing the [bleep] out of us.
- Yes, exactly. I can guarantee
if it goes negatively for her, she's gonna have excuses.
- Oh, of course. - "I'm not from here.
"It was hard for me to get clients.
Ooh, it was too fast. I only do scripts..."
- "I specialize in it." - "I specialize in script."
No, baby. No, baby. [laughter]
What Liza needs to specialize in
is proving that she needs to be here
over my baby because best believe
Trilla would not need to use a dating app
to fill his client list.
- How you feel about last night?
- It definitely was looking like an attack.
That [bleep] was looking like am ambush.
- Full blown Royal Rumble.
- We should be trying to lift each other up
and like, the girl's trying. - Yeah, when she said
she went on a dating app, I was like,
damn, I ain't even think of that.
- I don't really feel like AMH, it was her place to tell her,
oh, well, being on Bumble is--
like, however you get your money,
you can't knock how anybody else get they money.
Personally, I give Liza props
for thinking outside of the box with this.
I used to do something similar in my early days,
and quite honestly, this is a cutthroat business.
So more power to her.
- Ted and Puma said we supposed to come down here,
do work, are we involving them in this,
or what happens in the A stays in the A?
- Personally, I don't feel like that
has anything to do with them. - Heard you.
- If it gets outta control,
anybody asks, I don't know nothing.
- Oh, hello, hello, hello.
- Good morning. - Oh, you guys are up early,
look at you guys.
♪♪♪♪
- Yo! - Yo?
- Come inside, guys. Puma and Teddy here.
- Oh, smooth. - Oh, hey, now.
- Tangerine, I love it.
- [sing-songy] Good morning.
- AMH, Jahnova, how you guys feeling?
- Good morning! - Oh, there go Liza.
What up, though? - Hey, how's it going?
- How you feeling?
- I'm alright, I'm doing alright.
- Okay.
- I'm [bleep] irritated.
I'm still pissed off from last night.
AMH, I don't even look at her as a friend anymore.
- Where's Miracle at?
- Miracle! - Yes?
- Oh, there you go. - Hi!
- What up? - Good morning.
- How're y'all? - We're good, we're good.
- I skipped out on going out with them last night
'cause I was working on... - Wait, time out.
Y'all went out last night?
- Miracle, this is neither the time
nor the place to bring it up.
- They'll get to that, but wait,
I got a big project that I wanna show off.
I'ma go grab her real quick.
- Okay. - So I can show y'all...
- Oh, you got a surprise? I like surprises.
- A surprise surprise.
- Y'all went out last night?
- Alex brought us out, it was amazing.
- Alex did not bring us out, it was Draya.
Don't [bleep] lie.
- You're the liar, Alex.
- Oh, okay, she has a septum piercing.
- Oh, you brought a bad bitch. - A'ight, I saw
what you did to her nose...
- No, I did something a lot better than that.
Turn around...
[drum roll]
[all gasping]
- Oh, my God! - Oh, [bleep]!
- 22 piercings in the back.
- What the [bleep] is that?
- You know, I started off as a piercer.
And it's not something that you do unless
you understand how to execute it perfectly, she does not.
Have you done this before? - Mm-hmm.
- What is it called? - It's a corset piercing.
- The ribbons were wrong, they were tied loosely.
The structure of the piercings itself
was uneven, like, everything was wrong about it.
No, ma'am.
- He like, oh, my God.
- That [bleep] is [bleep] ugly.
- What is it called? - It's a corset piercing.
Been trying to show a big project to y'all
to actually show you what I'm passionate about.
- It's connected in her skin?
- Yeah, all of 'em. - What the f...
Never in the history of Black Ink
have I seen a corset piercing like that.
If people are into it, great,
a new service provided by the shop.
Just don't schedule that [bleep] while I'm there.
I can tell you like pain. - Yeah.
- Like, that bow stays in forever?
- No, so they're mostly just for show.
♪♪♪♪
- Miracle, let me come look.
♪♪♪♪
- I will commend her, she worked.
- No yeah, that's hard. - You mind if I get a closer...
- No, go ahead. - Mmm, that's crazy.
[laughter, chatter] - The bottom two
are supposed to come out further...
- Yes, they're supposed to sit this way.
- Can't [bleep] look at it, for real.
- Honestly, with how the energy is in the house,
I'm not too surprised that they're over there giggling,
having their little playtime.
I'm just brushing it off just because
my client's right there, and I know what I did
was something to be proud of.
- Gonna start off with good job, though, Miracle.
You stepped up and you did something really kind of
outside the Black Ink box, honestly, you know what I mean?
At the same time, holy [bleep].
- Yeah... - What'd you guys think of that?
You know what I mean... - I'd call it an acquired taste.
[Liza] I ain't never seen no [bleep] like that before.
And that was impressive.
- Personally, you know, good job for your effort,
and working this one time.
- Not this one time, but okay.
[AMH] So, I was a piercer before I was a tattoo artist.
That was not right.
Because it's uneven, that's why your ribbons
were so loose 'cause you couldn't pull them tight.
- I spent a whole hour making sure that
everything was lined up correctly,
I made my markings all the way down her back.
I know for a fact it's not uneven--
- You wasted a lotta time then.
- I know for a fact it's no uneven.
[Jahnova] So how you wanna learn,
but you can't-- you can't take your pride aside
to try to learn? - No, because
at the end of the day, when have you ever
talked to me about corset piercing?
When have you ever sat down with me...
- When have you ever done... - Hold on, hold on.
I wished you would have done your research,
because that is embarrassing.
I don't want that to be what represents Black Ink.
- Alright, we get it.
I'm-- alright.
I'm used to AMH speaking her mind...
- Who would you want to go? - Ink Dreamy.
He's a slithery ass [bleep].
- Slithery! - Ooh!
She call him a slacker.
- But right now, it seems like
she's kinda crossing the line a little bit.
It's not about if she's right or wrong,
it just comes off real disrespectful to Miracle.
And not for nothing,
the [bleep] client was happy.
And she's just in the other room.
Shh, keep it down.
AMH, watch how you talk to people.
[Ted] We can't have none of this [bleep]
at the pop up tomorrow.
- Last night, AMH went after me,
and now she's going after Miracle.
I don't even know who this person is anymore.
- I wanna make sure that we show our asses for Miya, man.
And if he's allowing us to be in there,
we cannot [bleep] up.
That will definitely get you packed up.
No bull[bleep]. - Got you.
- Alright? And that's for everybody.
Nobody is special.
♪♪♪♪
[Ted] We'll see y'all tomorrow.
[Puma] This is a very big opportunity today. This is everybody's last chance
to make an impression on me and Ted.
- What you working on over here?
- I got the Loser/Lover.
- Uh, the V is in the wrong spot.
- Oh, [bleep].
- I'm ready to get married ASAP
because I wanna show her that I'm really serious.
[Jeanette] I just wanna make sure that this decision
is gonna stick this time.
- When we said everybody wasn't gonna make it to the end,
we wasn't bull[bleep].
So unfortunately, I hate to say it,
you will not be able to move forward with us.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪