>> You know what, Puma?
Get the [bleep] out!
>> I'll be [unintelligible].
>> [bleep]
>> [unintelligible]
>> "The owner of Ink 124 is
listed as Joe L. Brick."
>> That's Med.
>> Med?
>> Puma's runnin' around like a
little bitch talkin' about he's
a boss when he's still a [bleep]
employee.
Puma is going to regret ever
droppin' any lemon pepper
chicken in Black Ink.
>> I should've never came back
here with Ted.
>> That's all I [bleep] wanted.
>> [laughs]
Teddy don't ever kiss me like
this when I'm [bleep] up front!
>> Today's my last day at Black
Ink.
I'm going to rehab tomorrow.
>> Where is Ceaser?
>> Puh.
Your guess is as good as ours,
bro.
>> No one knows where Ceaser and
Dutchess is.
>> Me and O [bleep]
got a mental, emotional,
creative relationship.
It's not just sexual.
I have to meet Anya.
>> ♪
>> ♪ 'Cause I'm overlook
♪ What always hurt
♪ My instincts is to kill
♪ This song with every word
♪ I know I got a lot of haters
♪ That don't wanna see it
♪ Yeah, but I ain't stoppin'
♪ Stoppin' please believe it
♪ You heard me, uh
>> You seen my picture that I
drew?
>> No.
>> Come look at it.
>> I like it.
You just really can't see the
Black Ink.
>> Really?
>> No.
The Black Ink don't pop.
>> Yeah.
What could I do?
The only thought--'cause
I didn't wanna put no more
colors in there.
>> You can just throw red in
there.
>> [bleep].
You can't just throw red into
everything, you know?
>> That's the Black Ink color!
This [bleep] is red.
>> I've been apprenticin' at
Black Ink for six months now,
and right now I feel like I'm
managing his shop.
It's not really true to what I
came here to do.
Red don't go with that.
>> Who matches nowadays?
>> It has to coordinate.
So I've been really workin' on
my sketches and drawin' and
everything, so eventually I can
tattoo in the shop.
>> [door alarm buzzes]
>> Hello, hello, Boom.
>> Hey Ink daddy!
Hey.
>> Hey, what's up, love?
>> Hey, how are you?
>> Hey, baby.
>> Unique Sutra's a porn star
from Chicago, and today is her
fifth time comin' tryin' to get
tattooed by Ceaser and Dutchess.
>> You good?
>> How y'all been?
>> Chillin', chillin'.
>> So.
>> You about to be mad at us.
>> What?
Tell me it's--'cause
I only wanna see Ceaser or
Dutchess.
>> It's both of them.
>> What?
>> Ceaser and Dutchess went to a
tattoo convention in Colorado
like a week ago, and they were
supposed to be gone for two
days, but no one's heard from
them.
That's [bleep] up.
>> Do they ever come to work?
>> Ceaser's phone all day been
goin' straight to voicemail.
Dutchess' phone was ringin' for
a minute, and now it's goin'
straight to voicemail, like--
>> How both of them conduct a
business when they phone's goin'
straight to voicemail?
>> The last time I saw Ceaser he
stormed outta my car.
So I really don't care where
he's at.
This is typical [bleep]
of them when they're back
together.
When they're apart, the shop is
runnin' smoothly.
When they're together, the shop
is fallin' apart.
>> And I really can't do
anything, and I kinda owe you an
explanation, you know what I'm
sayin'?
And I--I really can't give
you one 'cause I don't know.
>> Look, bitch!
I don't like bitches who trick
people.
>> I'm a representative of
Ceaser and Dutchess, so when
they don't communicate with me
and I don't have anything to
tell our clients when they're
not here, I look stupid.
>> Bitch, you don't know I will
come here and [bleep] you up?
We all the way from Chicago
comin' up here.
Bitch, I gotta pay for the
hotel.
I gotta pay for all that
[bleep]!
>> I'm sorry, babe.
>> UNIQUE SUTRA: These people
don't care.
>> ♪
>> So you gonna go for it?
>> You know I'm not a real big
fan of getting tattooed, but I
definitely think I wanna get it.
I been goin' through the
stresses of life, so a little
pain therapy...
>> Exactly.
>> Would it freakin' be too bad?
I'm really happy that I'm
getting this tattoo right now,
and I got my boy, Teddy, which
is one of the first people I
actually hired for Ink 124, to
do it.
He better not [bleep]
this up.
I always wanted to get this
laser gun, though.
One of my favorite cartoon
characters back in the day was
Marvin the Martian.
He had, like, a laser gun for
everything.
>> But, like, he's always, like,
backfired and blew his face off.
>> That's how I feel what I do
every time.
>> [laughing]
That's how you feel like that?
>> It always backfires.
Every time I keep tryin' to do
something right, the Acme gun,
p-ew,
right back in my [bleep] face.
Takin' Tamia off of Quani's
shoulders for a day, temper
tantrums, tryin' to support
stupid Black Ink, goin' over to
their re-grand opening party.
If Ceaser wants to be so violent
[bleep] and smash heads.
>> Man, are we gonna do this or
what?
>> Yeah.
I think this is the Puma can't
get right year.
I deal with mad haters, so I
need a laser gun to shoot away
my [bleep] haters.
Case in point, mother [bleep]
Ceaser and Dutchess.
You could always think that
that's somebody that you are so
cool with and so close to.
Maybe they were just playin' a
front just to get themselves in
a position where they needed to
be.
>> All right.
Let's put this [bleep]
thing on ya.
>> Nah, man, I deal with a lot
of [bleep]
on a everyday basis.
>> [buzzing]
>> This is gonna [bleep] hurt.
Like I don't know if I could
forgive Ceaser because I've
tried to be the bigger person
numerous times, and I'm tired of
that [bleep].
And you know, fool me once,
shame on me.
Fool me twice, okay, hold the
[bleep] on.
>> Wanna check it out?
>> I like...
>> [humming]
>> ...my martinis shaken, not
stirred.
>> [laughs]
>> P-ew, p-ew, p-ew.
>> The most interesting man in
the world.
>> ♪
>> Lombardi.
>> Teddy.
>> What's up?
>> How you doin'?
>> It looks clean in here.
>> Oh, no.
Look.
>> Who the [bleep]
was drinkin' that poverty?
>> Ah, who knows?
>> What be goin' on in Black
Ink?
Hey, um--
>> I could [unintelligible]
that.
>> --you heard from your bosses?
>> Tsk, no, nope.
>> Neither one of 'em?
>> Nope, and I left my phone at
home.
>> Read that.
>> Oh no-o-o-o!
"Celebrity tattoo artist
arrested in western Nebraska."
>> Look at that mugshot.
>> [laughing]
>> [laughs]
Hashish!
That [bleep] is crazy.
Why you driving with no license
with weed across country?
[laughs]
This is so [bleep] up.
Oh wow!
That explains why they haven't
been here.
>> What up? What up? What up?
>> What's up, sexy?
>> Good.
>> What's goin' on?
>> No, no, no.
You need to sit down for this
information.
>> [sighs]
What's goin' on?
What'd I miss?
>> Here.
That's what you missed.
>> [laughing]
Mister Boss Man, hmm.
I wonder if he the boss in jail.
He always talkin' his bull
[bleep].
>> Walter!
>> Yo, Ceaser's just in jail.
Did you hear?
>> [laughs]
Get the [bleep] outta here.
>> In Nebraska.
>> [laughing]
>> In where?
>> Nebraska.
>> In Nebraska.
>> Oh [bleep]!
[unintelligible]
>> State-to-state!
>> [laughing]
>> [laughter]
>> Oh [bleep]!
Somebody dropped a dime on 'em!
[laughing]
Gettin' arrested in Nebraska,
like, it only sounds like you
went out--out of town to hustle.
Like, what are you doin' on the
side now?
>> I don't know what goes on in
Nebraska.
>> [laughs] What?
>> Do people live in Nebraska?
>> Where the [bleep]
is Nebraska?
Is that like Cleveland?
>> So where was Dutchess?
>> That's what we tryin' to
figure out.
>> Dutchess wasn't locked up,
but she coulda called.
>> Exactly!
When the [bleep]
cleared, you couldn't send your
friend a [bleep] text!
>> What's up, y'all?
>> [bleep]
Welcome home!
Why wouldn't you text me or call
me?
Why?
I'm hurt!
>> A'right, let me tell you
exactly what happened.
Boom!
So I was in Colorado doin' a
tattoo convention, you know.
We missed our flight by
accident.
[bleep] it, let's drive out.
Four hours into the ride, mother
[bleep] pulls me over
for doin' 80 in a 75.
So he's like, "Your, um, [bleep]
"is suspended, we can search
your car."
[bleep]
searched that car and he see
this little bit of hash.
He's like, "Yo, listen.
"This [bleep] a felony.
"You could do five years for
this [bleep]."
I had to spend three nights in
jail, post bail, and now I'm
gonna have to pay a fine.
A little two-day
trip turns to a weeklong
nightmare.
>> We had customers that we had
to turn away and all that
[bleep].
>> And that girl come and this
is her, like, her fifth or sixth
time reschedulin' with y'all.
And she came from Chicago.
And she had a appointment.
She put $100 on you and she put
$100 on Dutchess.
>> No.
O [bleep] in rehab.
>> What?
>> WALTER: Yeah.
Y'all missed that, too.
>> Hold on, what happened?
>> I think O [bleep]
even goin' to rehab is the first
step in a great direction, but I
really wanted to see my friend
before he went off.
>> Damn, like, that's what we
said.
Like we understand what you
goin' through now, what
happened, but we was
lookin'--lookin' for you [bleep]
for the shop's sake because
y'all did have appointments.
>> [unintelligible]
>> You just have to reschedule!
I don't wanna hear, yo, I had to
call or do nothin' like that.
>> Ceaser!
This girl--this girl--
Let me tell you!
>> Hold on!
>> Let me finish what I'm
sayin'!
>> I just spent 10,000 to get
the [bleep] out!
I don't wanna hear about $20,
yo!
>> People enjoy comin' to see
you, and when they make
plans to come see--
>> Donna!
You are here to do a [bleep]
job!
>> Ceaser!
>> Yo, I just got out, like
[bleep]--
>> If I was able to tell her
somethin'--
>> Bring your voice down!
>> Donna's number one problem is
her mouth.
She's gettin' on the wrong two
people nerves.
Ceaser being the boss, me being
his future wife, I don't think
you really wanna rub us the
wrong way.
Get in line, baby, before you
fall the [bleep] out of here.
>> If you can't arrange the
appointment accordingly, I'll
fire your dumb ass.
>> I recently got in contact
with my brother.
>> They ain't your [bleep]
sibling [bleep]!
Till you prove this [bleep]
walk in and say, "Yo, I'm your
brother."
>> This is what I'm--
>> They're laughing at your ass.
>> I have to meet Anya.
>> When Donna get here instead
of committing herself to her
work ethic, she [bleep]
everybody.
>> I don't like that you're
living with my fiancé.
>> You're crazy.
>> I'm crazy!
>> [unintelligible]
>> ♪
>> Well, people enjoy comin' to
see you, and when they make--
>> Donna!
>> --when they make plans to
come see--
>> Donna, you are here to do a
[bleep] job!
And if you can't arrange the
appointment accordingly, I'll
fire your dumb ass.
I sign your check!
So you have to understand who
you have to talk to!
>> At this point, I feel like I
have whatever right to speak my
mind to him.
I run your shop, so yeah, I'm
gonna always stand up for myself
and what's right.
>> [bleep] outta here, yo!
>> All you gotta do is
communicate, that's it.
>> She does not understand she
doesn't hold no weight in Black
Ink.
She will be kicked out of Black
Ink and go work over Ink 124 for
all the [bleep] I care.
I done fired my sister.
I fired other people before and
they said the same dumb [bleep]
you sayin'.
>> All right.
>> You need to shut the [bleep]
up, please.
>> I'm happy we cleared the air,
though, you guys.
Um, I'm in a good space.
How's everyone else doin' here?
>> ♪
>> What you doin' over there?
>> Sketchin' this cosmetology
tattoo out for my client.
>> Been four years now.
>> I wanna do a tattoo here.
>> That's somethin' that when
everybody feels like you're
ready for that then.
It's not somethin' that you
yourself is like, "I'm ready for
that."
You're an apprentice.
I moved here from North Carolina
straight out of gettin' my
masters and tryin' to figure out
what I wanted to do with my
life.
When I got here, I was committed
and dedicated to the goals and
dreams that I had, which is why
I easily accomplished them.
When Donna got here, instead of
her committing herself to her
work ethic, she [bleep]
everybody.
I'mma tell you somethin' that
you might not [bleep]
wanna hear, but I'm gonna tell
you anyway.
>> I'm listening.
>> I really do appreciate how
you look today.
You look approachable.
You look like I could take you
serious.
>> So you're tellin' me that my
colorful hair makes me look
unapproachable?
>> Sometimes.
You know the ultimate collection
of the Crayola crayons?
I think it's like 152 crayons.
She basically puts them all in a
bucket, randomly selects three
or four colors, maybe five if
she's feelin' fancy.
Once the color scheme is picked,
it's like, "Okay, what do I do
next?"
It's just makes people very hard
to take you serious because it
doesn't look like you take
yourself serious.
>> That's crazy.
>> Perception is a mother
[bleep], I'm tellin' you.
Especially with us.
We're [bleep] women
and we [bleep] black.
You got to put in work to get
that respect 'cause these mother
[bleep] ain't gonna respect you.
And then you gotta think of the
role that you play in these
[bleep] [unintelligible].
That's [bleep] your position.
>> Dutchess definitely thinks
she's queen bee of Black Ink, so
she doesn't hold her tongue when
she speaks to me.
She could say things in a nicer
way, though.
>> What's up with you and
O [bleep] lately?
>> I have to meet Anya.
>> I think that might not be a
bad idea.
>> Yeah, [unintelligible].
>> You need to [bleep]
set the record straight.
>> That's exactly why I wanna
meet her.
>> Take care of that [bleep]
outside of the shop, though.
If she wants to be a tattoo
artist, she better deal with her
problems with Anya outside of
Black Ink.
We know how O [bleep] picks 'em.
We seen Kathie.
Kathie will knockout, drag out,
so if Anya is anything close to
his normal standards, it's gonna
be a pretty good show.
But it's not gonna happen on
these grounds.
>> [door alarm buzzes]
>> Hey.
>> Hey, baby.
>> Hey, hey.
How are you?
>> Good to see you.
Lookin' beautiful as usual.
>> Hey.
>> Hi, my name's Donna.
>> Lady, nice to meet you.
>> Nice to meet you.
>> So today I'm tattooing my
home girl Lady Love.
She's a tattoo model just like
myself.
We did a couple modeling gigs
early on in my career when I
first came to New York, and
we've been cool ever since.
>> You in cosmetology school
right now?
>> Yeah.
>> Oh.
>> I'm actually getting into
barbering.
>> Like there's not a lot of
female barbers, and I'm trying
to actually specialize in that
now.
I wanna open my own barbershop,
all female barbershop.
>> That'd be so dope.
>> Well, [bleep]
I'm just proud you doin' what
the [bleep] you love.
You're doin' what you wanna do.
Lady Love has stopped modelin'
for a while just so she could
focus on, you know, graduatin'
and gettin' her license.
And that's dope because it shows
a level of dedication and
commitment.
I wish that Donna could take a
couple notes from her.
Well let's get this thing
started.
>> Aha, good luck, girl.
>> Thank you.
>> Me and Lady Love, we've been
very cool since I moved to New
York.
It's just great to see our
growth and development, because
I'm a tattoo artist in a male
dominated industry.
She wants to have a barbershop,
that's a male dominated industry
and we killin' it.
>> ♪ I'm a leader
♪ [unintelligible]
♪ I know that you love me
>> Donna's not doin' that.
Like you have to make sure that
there are so many things on
point to get to the level we at.
And we have showed and proved.
We busted our ass, and that's
what Donna has to do.
>> ♪ Blazed my own trail
♪ I'm not afraid to fail
♪ I am a leader
>> I'mma clean you off and let
you look in the mirror at it.
>> ♪
>> I love it.
Nobody else coulda done it.
>> I'm so glad.
>> From somebody who knows me.
>> I'm so glad you like it.
>> All right, baby.
>> Mm.
>> Now you know we got a lot of
work to do outside of these
tattoos.
>> Girl!
>> ♪
>> Are you guys textin' each
other?
That's cute.
What are y'all textin' each
other?
>> How 'bout we don't ever even
discuss our relationship because
it's for us.
How 'bout that?
>> Mm-mm, no.
>> Anyway, I need some type of
advice from y'all.
I recently got in contact with
my brother.
He came in the other day.
He was like, "I think you might
be my little brother."
My brother was always like this
myth.
My pops, he wasn't really
around, and around that time my
mother was on drugs.
So I always knew I had a brother
while I was growin' up, you
know.
But I just never knew how to
find him.
>> How you gonna know if he for
real?
>> From everything I was told
about his name, he knew all my
father's history.
>> Anybody believe this [bleep]?
>> [laughing]
>> What's you all gonna do, go
out picnicking [bleep]?
Take the kids out?
>> SKY: This is a big deal to
meet your brother!
>> But shut the [bleep]
up, Sky!
>> You really are insensitive
to the people around you.
Like this is one of the reasons
why your relationships with the
people around you is all [bleep]
up as it is, 'cause you act like
you care and give a [bleep].
When it's time to actually show
it, you don't.
I say, "Y'all I'm gonna try to
"meet 'em.
"I don't know how to go about
this."
We supposed to be fam here!
>> And you [bleep]
really mad, Wal.
>> Yeah I'm mad [bleep]!
This ain't no jokin' matter!
[bleep].
You know I was goin' [bleep].
He already knows all the [bleep]
I've been goin' through: my
moms, losin' my pops.
I don't really got much family,
like, he knows this!
"Dear Mr. Miller.
"You have recently contacted us
"to help in search of your
"father, Ronald W. Miller.
"Unfortunately, these records
indicated Ronald is deceased."
>> Walt.
>> Like I don't even know how to
feel right now.
Like, my whole body just went
numb.
[crying]
My whole body just...
>> ♪
>> The fact that you over here
sittin' here mockin' me now,
talkin' about, like, all this
[bleep]
about my brother, bro, like
that's whack.
>> We close to 30 and you're
talkin' about meetin' your
[bleep] brother.
Hold on!
I'mma keep it 100 with you, that
ain't your [bleep]
sibling, [bleep]!
If [bleep] know how the [bleep]
your favorite color, he ain't
[bleep] stayed in the same
[bleep] bedroom with you!
Me and Todd did that, [bleep]!
That why I could say a claim to
you [bleep] brother!
>> When you grow up with your
siblings it does give you like
a--a closer knitted
relationship.
I think that's what Ceas was
sayin', like that's not your
real brother.
Just be aware of the things that
you're putting yourself into.
You don't know this man.
You don't know this man's
intentions.
>> Till you prove that [bleep]
walk in and say, "Yo, I'm your
brother."
Yeah, I'mma laugh at your
ass!
People don't understand.
I see Walt as my little brother,
and I never like to see him get
hurt.
He has to cover all his bases
before he accept anybody as a
long-lost [bleep] relative.
>> You wanna know why nobody
even talk to you about [bleep]!
>> I tell you what I feel, and
that's how I feel.
>> What are you textin' him
telling him that you love him?
>> And why would that be a
problem with me, though?
>> You--you comin' off
real hard.
I don't think you wanna do that.
>> ♪
>> There's a lot of big things
on the horizon for my Black Ink
empire, so I set this meetin' up
with Med from Tuff City.
Med is one of the godfathers of
urban tattooin' in New York.
He's also Puma's boss.
>> [laughs]
Holy [bleep].
>> When Puma finds out that I'm
meetin' with Med, he's not gonna
be very pleased.
So I would love to do some
projects with 'im.
I just wanted to holla at you.
I mean, like, I wanted to talk
about our situation that I
wanted to present to you.
>> We could go upstairs and sit
down.
>> You wanna go upstairs?
>> Yeah, let's do it.
>> Come on, let's--let's
have a little meetin'.
I'm thinkin' about long-term
right now.
See me partnerin' up with Med,
it's just another way to get
[bleep] Puma outta Ink 124.
I'll gladly buy this [bleep]
so I could piss on it.
Then maybe Puma will stop
runnin' his [bleep] mouth.
A'right, man.
This is what I'm proposin',
right?
I feel like you got decades in
this game.
>> Okay.
>> And me bein' a new buck
comin' up, I feel like we should
some way bridge this gap.
I think, like, we could
basically take this city over.
And what I wanna do is, like, we
do conventions together, we
trade artists, like, we
basically become, like, a
family.
>> The problem is how does Puma
fit into all of that?
How do we make that work where--
>> Understandable--
>> --there's no--no
hard feelings and no--
>> There's no hard feelings
because Puma's your employee,
whatever.
I came to do business with the
man Med.
>> I respect the fact that
you're comin' in here humble
like that and--and
givin' us props.
And I would like to see us all
work together as one unit, but,
you know, judgin' from the
history of you and Puma and with
the last altercation, it just
seems like that would be a
difficult thing to do.
You're comin' to me as a man and
I respect that, and
so I'd like to proceed as men
and not as young kids.
Honestly, man, 124 and Black
Ink, there's enough to go around
for everybody.
>> There's more than enough.
>> So really there shouldn't
have to be any sense of rivalry.
You gotta know your competition
and you gotta know what they're
about, but you don't--you
can't be obsessed by it.
And so what I'm sayin' is that
124 and Black Ink, we should
both be chillin' with no
problems and no beef and
no--no--
>> Honestly, it was never no
beef.
Like that's what--that's
what really got me pissed
because I never went to Ink 124
and disrespect that [bleep].
My beef ain't with Ink 124.
This ain't about no shop, no
business.
It's about Puma.
He's a disrespectful little
[bleep].
And I am done tryin' to be his
[bleep] friend.
>> I woulda been offended if
somebody came and threw chicken
on my floor and was makin' jokes
at my opening.
So I--I understand your
situation, but again, as--as
a man growing older, you need to
not let your emotional side
control your actions.
So by getting physical with him
in any form or fashion--
>> I was wrong.
>> --is--is somethin' that is
not good for business.
>> I know Puma's been cleanin'
toilets for Med since he was
like 13, but I didn't think it
would stop Med from doin'
business with me.
It look like I'mma have to find
another angle to partner up with
Med.
>> I just don't want no more
drama in my life.
>> ♪
>> You know after my brother
came to the shop, we been
keepin' in touch.
He invited me up to Kingston,
you know, to meet the family,
meet his mom, you know.
Also I got nephews that I get to
finally meet.
I've always wanted to be an
uncle.
I brought Sky and Ted 'cause you
know I don't what the hell to
expect so, I got my peoples with
me, you know what I'm sayin'?
>> [belches]
>> [laughing]
>> Yeah, we gonna go up there
and we gonna see what's up.
>> It's gonna be a lot of good
that comes out of this.
>> Once I found out what that
whole pop [bleep] was like, that
[bleep] me up.
So I never really got an
official farewell, so long or
whatever.
So he tellin' me he got my pop's
ashes and [bleep]
like that, so I was like come up
here to get some type of closure
with that whole situation.
This neighborhood is
definitely--we are not in
Kansas anymore.
Yo!
>> [knocking on door]
>> What up, OG, double OG,
triple OG?
>> It's good, okay.
>> What up, man?
You chillin'?
>> Oh, man, chillin' and
chillin'.
>> Good?
First time I met 'im, you
know, we were just talkin'.
It was really awesome, like,
feelin' each other out.
So hopefully, like, this time we
could really talk like brother
to brother, like
[unintelligible].
So I'm kickin' it [bleep],
you know.
>> That's your uncle, boys.
>> What's up, man?
Give me five.
>> That's Uncle Walter.
>> A'right?
>> [laughing]
>> Give me five.
>> Yeah, that's Uncle Walter.
>> Yeah.
>> I've always wanted to be an
uncle.
I think I would be the coolest
uncle ever, I swear to God!
Like they're gonna get to know
me very well.
>> Oh, baby, you know how long I
been waitin' for this?
>> ♪
>> Help me!
[laughing]
Meeting Tariq's mom, she's cool.
She was actually like my pop's
wife at one point.
>> God, thank you, Lord.
You look like your daddy.
>> Yeah?
>> Yeah, you do.
Yeah, you do.
You and Tariq gonna be all right
now?
>> Yeah.
It felt good someone, like, look
forward to seein' me that much.
Like, it was cool.
How's your day been so far?
>> [water rushing]
>> It's been wonderful.
>> Well, you and my father were
married, right?
>> Yeah.
Nice guy.
He wasn't responsible.
Just couldn't seem to keep his
priorities straight.
When is the last time you saw
him?
>> October 3, 1997.
>> [laughs]
You remember the date, wow.
>> 1997.
I was 15 years old.
We had, like, a little fallout.
After that, I was like real
rebellious, like, didn't really
care too much.
I had just gotten cool with my
mother.
She was on drugs for, like, all
my life, you know what I'm
sayin'?
So--
>> Mm.
>> --she finally got cleaned and
then by, like, six months later
she passed.
Not havin' my pops for, like,
the last part of my life was,
like, was crazy.
'Cause I really had to learn a
lot about being a man on my own.
I really had to learn about life
a lot on my own, like, you know.
It was [bleep]
up, like, growin' up like that.
>> Maybe you don't know how
happy I am for you and for your
brother.
It's a healing for both of you.
You both have been through a
lot.
You both have been deeply
wounded, but now let the healing
begin.
>> This has been a long time
comin'.
Somethin' I've always wanted.
We gonna make this bond like
it's supposed to have been, as
if we grew up together, you know
what I mean?
>> [coughing]
>> We brothers, man.
>> All right, let's get some
food in our systems now.
>> Let's get some food 'cause
I'm hungry.
You know I lived most of my
life, like, seriously, like,
barely any family.
>> Give me a kiss.
>> Appreciate you.
Thank you.
>> All right.
>> Now, like, I got a brother, I
got nephews, you know what I
mean?
I got a stepmom.
I really got family out there.
>> I heard you about to get your
own--
>> Oh, this is good.
>> Now you know what I call her
[unintelligible].
It's [unintelligible].
>> Yeah.
[laughing]
>> [unintelligible].
>> Yeah boy.
>> You all got Tupperware?
>> ♪
>> The last time I saw my father
and we had a little fallout.
We let 15 years just go by for
nothin'.
That just got me upset.
My father ain't supposed to be
in a wooden box like that.
>> Donna is about to meet up
with Anya.
>> O'S T: Wait, wait, say that
again.
>> If your mistress is meetin'
up with your fiancée, [bleep]
is about to go nuke.
>> ♪
>> ♪ It ain't about the flow
♪ It's the principle
♪ I'mma have to let you go
♪ It's the principle
♪ They try to talk me into it
♪ I'm not convinced
♪ But everybody's doin' it
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> [sighs]
Yo, what up [bleep]?
>> You know, same ole same.
How's rehab?
>> Yeah, you better be a better
person.
[bleep]
to recognize that he had to go
to rehab is probably the most
responsible thing he ever did in
his whole entire life, and I
applaud him for it.
My boy's growin' up.
>> Oh, you don't--you
don't know the bull [bleep]
that's goin' on while you in
rehab?
>> Donna is about to meet up
with Anya, and this is goin' to
be--
>> Donna is about to meet up
with Anya.
I need to tell [bleep] this.
It's guy code!
If your mistress is meetin' up
with your fiancée, it is my
duty, my guy duty, to tell my
fellow guy that [bleep]
is about to go nuke.
>> I know [bleep].
I know.
That's why I'm laughin' right
now, because--
>> Must've been one of them
times when you was hittin' it.
She got your phone when you went
to sleep and got the number.
>> I'mma give you some words of
advice.
Go get your sneakers and all of
that [bleep]
before it get put on the curb
like my [bleep]
did when Dutchess was goin' ape
[bleep].
And guess what?
Your girl's a little bit more
crazy than mine.
It's okay [bleep].
Don't worry.
I'll put you in witness
protection or somethin' like
that, girlfriend protection.
>> ♪
>> Yeah, that whole thing was
weird.
>> It's [laughs] it's emotional.
>> Yeah, you was [bleep]
cryin'.
>> Dude, shut up.
No, it was touching
when we walked in.
>> Mm, whatever.
>> When she started tearin' up,
you could tell she's so--
>> She kissed him in his mouth.
That was weird.
>> [laughing]
>> Speakin' of...
the other night.
I kissed Sky the other day.
The number one reason I wanna
say is the Hennessy.
>> That's not gonna happen
again.
I can't because I'm really
trying to start and have
something serious with Bobby.
>> I'm gonna flirt with Sky for
the rest of her life.
If Sky was to marry Bobby and I
was at the weddin', I'll be at
the weddin' winkin' my eye,
flirtin' with her.
Sky, you're my [bleep] forever.
>> The flirtin' between us, I
wouldn't want him doin' that
with anyone else.
>> Right.
>> You know?
So that [bleep]
is gonna have to stop.
Ted, I know he's fallin' for me,
but that's only 'cause of some
new [bleep] in the picture.
>> If you're happy now, I
respect it.
>> I love you, though.
>> I love you, too.
>> I need a real good handshake.
>> Stern handshake.
>> So that goes for both of us,
though, see?
Like you can't be--
>> Like what?
>> --like what [bleep]
you're doin' now.
>> I'm not doing anything.
>> So you didn't just scratch
the middle of my hand?
>> [laughing]
> I'm gonna try my best to not
do no ho [bleep].
So hopefully we're able to keep
it at a respectful level, but we
just have to see.
We'll just have to see.
Let's go say bye to the family.
>> Tell me you love me.
>> Go!
>> Tell me you love me.
>> Go!
>> Come on [bleep].
>> This is--
>> This is Daddy right here.
>> --this is him?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> It was actually like a form
of relief to know that my
brother had the ashes.
I'm [bleep]
up that this is how I gotta see
him again, but at least I get to
say my formal goodbyes and
don't just have to keep lookin'
up in the sky and sayin', "Dad,
Dad, Dad," you know.
I'm just, like, tryin' to
remember, like, how he felt,
like, his skin or how his hands
felt, like, feelin' him, like,
how he felt, his touch or
whatever.
I mean, I wanted to see it, but
now that I see it, like, that
just got me upset.
My father ain't supposed to be
in a wooden box like that.
I don't like that.
>> ♪
>> The last time I saw my father
and we had our little fall out,
we said a lot of things that
should've not have even been
said.
And this is how I gotta see him,
in a box.
We let 15 years just--just
go by for nothin'.
>> What we gonna do with him?
>> If we gonna do some spread
the ashes type of [bleep]--
>> Right, right.
>> --we could go to City Island,
keep it in the Bronx.
>> All right.
We could do that.
>> We could actually say goodbye
now.
We together now.
>> ♪
>> If for some reason my pops
was blessed to look down on us,
I'm pretty sure he's smilin',
like, "at least my boys are
together, I'm happy."
Uh!
Man.
>> BABY: Mm.
Mm.
>> Yo, man.
Like I said, I appreciate you,
man.
>> Yeah.
>> Your family's beautiful, man.
Give me five.
>> Right.
>> All right.
>> All right, man.
>> All right.
Be safe, man, love you.
>> Love you, too, yo.
I know firsthand, like, all that
not havin' your father around, I
know that pain all too well.
Today it just--a reminder, like,
you don't wanna repeat history.
I just gotta be the best parent
I can for my kids.
Period.
>> All your hands is movin'
around.
>> That's how I speak.
>> Like in my space, like, I
don't--
>> No, this is your space.
>> Okay.
She's not even [bleep]
he should be with, and it's
probably why he's in rehab.
But the more this bitch keeps
talkin' I just wanna reach
across the table and strangle
her.
>> ♪
>> Hello, hello.
>> Hi.
>> How ya doin'?
>> Good.
>> So I've decided to meet up
with Anya.
Um, I guess I'mma take Dutchess'
advice and do it before she
comes to the shop and tries to
find me.
I guess she's heard about
whatever's goin' on with me and
[bleep],
but I owe Anya no explanation.
That's [bleep]
responsibility, not mine.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Donna.
>> Anya.
>> Hey.
[laughs]
I like your grill.
A grill has no place in a Upper
East Side café.
Like was you about to shoot a
rap video?
Was you about to eat with that
grill in?
Was you?
So what's up?
'Cause I don't like this that's
goin' on.
>> What's going on, honey?
>> Whatever tension is between
us for no reason, you know what
I'm sayin'?
I don't even know you.
This is our first time meetin'.
>> And what's the craziness?
Fill me in on what you're
talkin' about.
>> Well, I got the impression
that there's a problem between
us, you know what I'm sayin'?
And we never met.
>> Where'd you
get that impression from?
>> From everybody.
>> Who's everybody?
>> From [bleep],
from people in the shop.
>> What'd you hear from [bleep]?
>> Basically that you don't like
me.
>> I don't like that you're
livin' with my fiancé.
>> Why though?
>> What you mean, "Why, though?"
>> Why?
And why would that be a problem
with me, though?
>> You--you comin' off
real hard.
I don't think you wanna do that.
>> [laughs]
>> Yeah!
You walked in here with--
>> Chill. Chill. Chill. Chill.
>> No, you chill!
>> You see me smilin' at you.
I say, "Hey, what's up."
You know I'm sayin', "Nice to
meet ya."
>> I see your smile, but I don't
trust a smile.
>> I'm tryin' to squash this
beef with Anya so me and [bleep]
can be cool, and I could
eventually start tattooin' in
the shop and everything.
But now, everything's gettin'
worse.
I don't know if this was a good
idea.
I wanted to meet you because
[bleep]
is my friend and you're his
fiancée.
>> Uh-huh.
So you all friends?
>> Yeah!
And doesn't he live with you?
>> Wait, wait, wait.
>> I thought he painted there
and stuff.
>> Are we gonna talk?
>> 'Cause I don't like how you
talkin' to me, though.
>> I'm not--I'm talkin' to you.
>> All your hands is movin'
around--
>> That's how I speak.
>> --like in my space.
>> No.
This is your space.
>> Okay.
Now you see--okay.
>> No, we gotta be real 'cause
you're tellin' me I'm in your
space, and I know for a fact I'm
not.
I have a problem with you living
with my fiancé.
He picked you up and he decided
to help you--
>> No, he didn't pick me up.
He just gave me the opportunity;
you know what I'm sayin'?
>> I'm gonna use my words.
>> But the more this bitch keeps
talkin', I just wanna reach
across the table and strangle
her.
Like she's not even who [bleep]
should be with, and that's
probably why he's in rehab,
probably why he don't tell her
nothin'.
Like you're not even lettin' him
be who he is, and then you
wonder why all these problems
keep comin'.
>> Well, I'm not going to speak
and have you cut me off because
you're not--
>> [unintelligible] Anya!
>> You see?
You're doin' it right now.
>> So speak.
>> I don't need you to tell me
to speak, I'm speaking, clearly.
>> Now you bein' petty.
That's what I'm sayin', like--
>> I'm bein' petty, honey?
I'm bein' honest!
Okay, so let's talk about the
real issues.
What are you textin' him telling
him that you love him?
>> He said that to me!
I said, "I love you, too."
I love [bleep].
I do, and I feel bad that he
gotta deal with all the
craziness from Anya.
And now I'm gettin' mixed into
all the craziness.
And why is that a problem,
though?
You know what I'm sayin'?
Like--
>> For you to question me, his
fiancée, is a problem.
>> You're crazy!
>> I'm crazy?
>> She got me [bleep] up.
The bitch got me [bleep]
all the way up.
>> OPERATOR: [unintelligible]
25.
>> It's [bleep] fiancée.
Like I don't know how he's gonna
feel when he finds out.
Uh!
>> ♪
>> Let's talk about the real
issues.
What are you textin' him telling
him that you love him?
>> Why is that a problem,
though?
You know what I'm sayin'?
>> For you to question me, his
fiancée, is a problem.
>> You're crazy.
>> I'm crazy?
>> [glass shattering]
>> Stop now.
Stop!
>> Bitch!
>> Ah, bitch!
>> Do you wanna [bleep]?
Stupid bitch!
>> You wanna act like it's a
game?
It ain't no [bleep] game!
Go back where you came from!
You're laughin' in my face like
it's a joke!
>> Bitch, 'cause you're funny
that's why, bitch, you're funny.
>> [unintelligible]
>> Donna, Donna.
>> I'mma about to kill this
bitch.
>> [unintelligible] nothin'!
>> She got me [bleep] up.
The bitch got me [bleep]
all the way up.
>> [bleep] down.
This is the person he's been
living with?
>> So I'm standin' outside and
Anya gets in a cab to go home.
I guess she sees me standin'
outside, and this bitch gets out
of a moving cab and gets her
ankle ran over tryin' to get me.
>> OPERATOR: [unintelligible]
11-8-25, code 6.
>> Bitch you got a baby at home
that's a month old, and you
tryin' to hop out of a moving
cab for round two?
Ooh!
So I tried to listen to
Dutchess and squash this [bleep]
with Anya so I could do what I
came to New York to do, which is
tattoo at Black Ink, but that
didn't happen.
Uh!
Everything I hoped for went out
the window.
>> ♪
>> The worst part about this
whole thing is that it's my
[bleep] fiancée.
When he finds out what's goin'
on, I really don't know how he's
gonna take it.
But if this is the end of our
relationship, it'll break my
heart.
>> You movin' funny, bitch, and
you know you are.
For every minute that passes by
for her not payin' respect to
me, I am going to knock a
[bleep] tooth out of her mouth.
>> They're not together?
>> When it comes to my dating
life, I'm very private.
But it's different this time.
I'm gonna maybe introduce her to
my mom.
>> That should be fun.
>> O'S T: We are done!
>> No!
>> O'S T: You got into a
fistfight with my fiancée!
>> Like I deserve more than
this.
>> The bad thing is now Sky is
lookin' at almost nine years in
prison.
>> [bleep].
>> [footsteps pounding]
>> ♪ Before you do something
>> O'S T: We are done!
>> No!
>> O'S T: You got into a
fistfight with my fiancée!
>> Like I deserve more than
this.
>> The bad thing is now Sky is
lookin' at almost nine years in
prison.
>> [bleep].
>> [footsteps pounding]
>> ♪