>> Why didn't you come down?
I really need for him to come to
Atlanta so we can start this new
chapter together.
>> I just like knowing that
money is guaranteed.
>> I like knowing that my
marriage is guaranteed.
>> I'm very against this
vasectomy.
>> Kathy's so upset because she
does have hope that she's gonna
have another child from me.
>> How's it going?
>> Here I am finally getting my
vasectomy.
But let's say he does happen to
sneeze and wound up cutting off
one ball, then I'm Lance
Armstrong out of this bitch.
>> If you are not ready, you
don't do it.
>> *
>> You have a double oven here.
>> DUTCHESS: With me and Cease
getting married, I'm trying to
move to North Carolina.
>> I know this is your dream.
And this is kinda like my
nightmare.
>> I've given up things just
because of you.
I'm just asking you to meet me
halfway so I can have some of
the things that make me happy,
too.
>> What is it that's stopping
y'all from getting married?
>> I don't wanna move to North
Carolina.
I just can't leave right now.
>> If he's gonna stay in New
York, I'm still opening up my
shop.
The Dutchess sits on the
throne...with or without Cease.
>> *
* You see the light
* How it's shining bright
* Shining down
* Through the clouds
* Making everything come alive
* Making everything wrong
* Feel right
* Making everything loose
* Feel tight
* Like the stars
* In the heavens
* Lined up *
>> What up, y'all?
>> That's a cool ass jacket.
Where did you get that from?
>> Custom made, you know what I
mean.
>> And he got his name on it.
Look, that [bleep] say Cease.
>> SKY: Oh, so that's the
surprise?
You got us all one.
Thank you.
>> [cheering]
>> What you think?
You all ain't gonna pay for
[bleep] manual labor?
I gotta pay them [bleep].
>> Oh, you [bleep] finally put
Dutchess to work.
>> [laughing]
>> Cease, where the [bleep] is
Dutchess?
That's what [unintelligible].
What you do, man?
>> Long story short.
>> SKY: Damn a brother's story.
>> She in North Carolina.
>> Huh?
>> SKY: For what though?
Visit her mommy?
Like regular [bleep]?
>> If it was regular, Cease
would be there with her.
>> What the [bleep] is
happening, you guys?
>> Uh, everybody don't know for
the last--we can say a couple of
weeks, me and Dutchess have been
kinda going back and forth.
She wants me to go down to North
Carolina.
She decided to pack her bags and
go.
She left me a letter this
morning.
And I haven't heard from her
since.
>> [groans]
>> I thought if I told her that
[bleep] would just stay the
same.
We'll be in New York and do what
we always do.
I didn't think she'd just pick
up and leave me.
I guess I was the [bleep] idiot.
The one thing I be feeling about
Dutchess, I never want her to
sit here and tell me, ten years
down the line, that I held her
back from anything.
You feel me?
And I know Dutchess.
She's not happy just being
underneath me or the boss.
She wanna have her own.
So at the end of the day, I feel
like she's gonna build her own.
>> Right.
>> SKY: Wait.
How long she gonna be down
there?
>> Honestly, she gonna be down
there like a year or better.
>> SKY: Oooh.
>> *
>> I'm worried about what's
gonna happen to the shop.
This is Cease and Dutch we are
talking about.
He loves that girl.
Who's to say he won't break down
and just say [bleep] everything
in New York and go down south?
>> Is she moving down there as
your fiancée?
Or just as Dutchess?
>> Only time will tell what
happen.
>> TEDDY: That's a [bleep]
breakup, man.
>> That's not a breakup.
She still got her [bleep] ring
on.
>> I mean, Ceaser, you might as
well just say I broke up.
It's cool that you're trying to
be optimistic and all that but,
bro, it's not sounding good.
You wanna keep the hope alive,
Jessie, but--
>> I'm not saying it ain't gonna
work out, I just say time will
tell.
I work my whole life to get to
this place.
Here in Harlem.
Here in Black Ink.
Dutchess and I have different
dreams.
And at the end of the day, I
can't give up what I've built.
I gotta keep on grinding.
Yo, where [bleep] at?
>> SKY: Just got his balls
snipped.
>> So he really went in there?
>> SKY: Yeah, we dropped him
off.
Just got back from dropping off
[bleep] at the hospital to get
his vasectomy done.
>> [bleep] gonna go crazy.
Now he could have sex and not
have to worry about no babies?
>> [laughing]
He got some beautiful kids.
I just don't want [bleep] to
make no more.
This [bleep] getting snipped.
We're saving all the women all
over the world who feel like
they wanna sex with him.
They don't have to worry about a
baby.
Maybe chlamydia.
So...whoop, whoop!
I gotta throw my [bleep] brother
a party.
>> To celebrate balls?
>> SKY: I have a vision.
I have a vision.
I am going to have balls
everywhere.
Here a ball, there a ball, balls
everywhere.
>> Of all the parties to
decorate for, you gonna decorate
a vasectomy party?
No way.
>> SKY: Okay, we're talking
about his balls.
They're missing.
And we're having a party for
'em.
>> [laughing]
>> What?
>> *
>> [dog barking]
>> Hey!
>> Hey, baby.
>> I'm home.
>> What's up, baby?
What's going on with ya?
>> Hey, daddy.
>> Hey, baby.
Mmmm, good to see you.
>> NeeNee!
>> Hey!
>> What's up, baby?
That is so precious.
Glad to be home, man.
Feels good to have all that love
in the air.
I'm back in North Carolina.
I'm in sunshine.
I'm in good weather, good
company.
>> Where is Cease at?
>> Cease is in New York.
And I'm here.
>> So why is he not here?
>> 'Cause he feel like that,
right now, he can't step away
from Black Ink to help me do
this.
And I don't wanna keep waiting.
I miss him, but I gotta do it.
>> Well, you gotta do what's
best for you.
>> Yeah.
>> DUTCHESS: I'm disappointed
that Cease isn't here, and
everybody wants to ask me why he
ain't here.
But he don't even wanna move to
North Carolina.
But that's where I wanna be.
My mindset is to be at home, and
to do that [bleep] I gotta do to
create a successful tattoo shop.
>> Be your own boss.
>> Yep.
>> She already a boss.
[unintelligible].
Self-made, our daddy taught us.
>> Self-made like our daddy
taught us.
We might have to get that
tatted.
[laughing]
Well, I'm about to
get changed out of these
New York airport clothes.
And then I guess we'll get ready
to get eating.
>> *
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> [laughing]
>> Miss D!
>> Look at this stranger in
disguise.
Ah!
>> Oh my God!
I missed you so much.
>> Keeta is my best
friend...since I was--before I
was driving.
>> How's everything going?
>> Good.
Come on, let's talk.
I'm around people that I know
love me.
That I don't have to question
their motives.
Me and Keeta been around each
other so long, we really have
that type of friendship where we
finish each other's sentences
and [bleep] like that.
It's crazy.
How you been?
>> I've been okay.
Where's fiancé?
Something's wrong.
>> DUTCHESS: No, nothing's
wrong.
I just really--
>> You keep saying nothing
wrong, but where's Ceaser?
>> He's in New York.
It's nothing wrong.
>> You can keep trying to hide
behind this little façade you
got going on, but you know I
know you.
Come on.
>> [sighs]
I don't know.
When I first thought of, you
know, having this shop, I
thought that it would be me and
him.
Last time we was here, we was
looking at houses.
We was looking at shops.
But...I guess things changed, so
we just gotta go with the flow
for right now.
It was hard to leave Cease,
because I do love him.
And I don't wanna be without
him.
But if he don't understand that
I need to have this for myself,
then I don't know how much he
could really love me anyway.
I'm trying to ignore how I feel
right now, which you know that
ain't easy for me.
>> Understandable, 'cause it's
hard.
>> I can't regret this [bleep]
now.
I done came--I'm here now.
My emotion may want me to go
back to New York.
And they want me to be back with
Cease.
But my mental is saying, "You
"gotta focus on the things that
"clearly he's focused on.
Money."
Because that's where his mind
is.
I don't even know if we're
engaged right now.
Get me off this depression
[bleep].
Come cookout [bleep].
You about to make me cry.
>> It's cool, it's cool.
>> * I'm breaking away
* I'm moving on
* To a better place
* Yesterday's far away
* Yo
* Should I leave
* Should I stay?
* This is a situation
* Many of us face
* On an everyday basic
* Can't do what they created
* To do, never made it
* I'm young
* So I'm gonna take it
* And run fast with it
* Like Kunta Kinte
* I'll do it my way
* When I'm breaking away, yo
*
* Gonna beakup my life
* And move on *
>> *
>> Today I'm meeting my father
for the first time in 14 years.
Where have you been?
>> I was in nowhere where you
could not get in touch with me.
>> [bleep] is ass backwards.
>> *
>> What the hell is this?
>> It's our new shop.
>> If drama is brought because
Puma has another shop in Harlem,
I don't wanna have to go through
that.
This isn't gonna happen.
>> *
>> Yo!
>> Party!
A vasectomy party!
>> Ohh!
>> I think you should go get
your baby mother.
>> [bleep]
>> Who the [bleep] I am!
I will [bleep] you up!
>> *
>> * Oh, oh, oh
* Oh, oh *
>> Yo, mo.
>> I'm definitely concerned
about Cease moving down south
and possibly closing the shop,
because Black Ink is more than
just a job, a tattoo shop.
Black Ink is home.
So now I feel forced to
reevaluate my life.
I know the situation.
Like how your pops passed away.
Like Walt, when he went to look
for his pops, found out his pops
was gone.
Like I decided to reach out,
like find out what the [bleep]
is going on with my pops right
now.
I never really had a
relationship with my father.
I remember when I was younger he
popped up one time, he bought me
a birthday gift.
And he disappeared for some
years.
Popped up again, bought me some
sneakers for school.
After that, there wasn't no more
pop-ups.
He was just gone.
>> [sighs] Man.
>> I don't wanna reach, and then
be too late.
>> I've been there [bleep].
That [bleep] might [bleep] you
up more than it help you.
When I met up with my father, I
thought I could forgive him.
But...once I'd seen him, I just
couldn't forgive him for all
them years.
He left me for dead, to fend for
myself.
I can't [bleep] visit his
[bleep] grave.
Before I met him, I had an image
of a superhero.
And when I met him, it was one
of the biggest disappointments
of my life.
That magic question is always,
"Yo, what the [bleep] was you up
to?"
That answer's always the wrong
answer.
I've never seen a [bleep] answer
that [bleep] right, B.
Your pops supposed to be with
you, when you [bleep] catch your
first baseball.
For your first basketball game.
Help you ride your first [bleep]
bike.
They wasn't there for none of
that [bleep].
You helped me ride my [bleep]
first bike, even though I'm
older than you, I didn't even
know how [bleep] ride a bike.
>> TEDDY: [chuckles]
>> CEASER: We had it tough, but
we did it on our own.
You're Ted.
You don't need this [bleep].
You never did.
>> It's just something I need to
hear.
Like I need to hear your side.
>> Psst.
>> *
>> This is dope spot where you
can get your own feet on the
ground.
I think you'll like it.
>> SKY: In the front, I could do
a dope sign up here.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> SKY: A lot of space.
My dad is taking me to look at
this location for my shop in
North Davidson, which is like a
new, up-and-coming art area in
Charlotte.
>> *
>> That is so big.
[laughs]
>> [laughs]
>> This is like ten Black Inks.
>> DAD: [laughs]
It used to be a general store.
>> DUTCHESS: This is crazy,
there's so much space.
It don't gotta just be a tattoo
shop.
It could be a--a number of
creative things.
Pretty and Ink is my new brand
that I am creating.
And it's going to be more than
just a tattoo shop.
Not just about getting the
tattoo, but the experience as a
whole.
I don't want it to be the
hangout like Black Ink.
I want this shop to be the
blueprint of what it means to
have a professional environment
that is still alternative.
At least it'll be the way I want
it to be.
>> DAD: Yes.
Your only vision.
>> DUTCHESS: Mmm.
I really like it.
But it seem like a lot.
>> DAD: But I'm gonna help you,
baby.
Your daddy always gonna be there
for you.
>> I love you, daddy.
>> Mmm.
>> DUTCHESS: My daddy is nothing
like Cease.
Cease puts his self first.
And that's been my problem.
I put him first, too.
But now I'm gonna put me first.
I can't keep putting my dream on
hold just 'cause I love
somebody.
They should love me enough to
support it.
I'm just gonna do it without
him.
I've never had anybody give me
anything.
I've worked hard for everything
I have from my college education
to my career as a tattoo artist.
And now being a tattoo shop
owner.
I'm just glad that...you always
been like you.
So it's easy for me to be me.
>> *
>> [crying]
>> *
>> DONNA: Are you cutting the
ball off?
>> SKY: Yeah.
It's time to party!
Tonight we're throwing a
surprise vasectomy party for
[bleep].
As soon as he gets here, it's on
and poppin'.
>> TEDDY: I'm still confused of
why we're celebrating another
man's balls.
But [bleep] it.
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> [bleep].
>> [cheering]
>> [bleep].
>> Harlem should rejoice.
[bleep] will not be getting
anybody pregnant ever, ever,
ever again.
Thank God.
>> [cheering]
>> [bleep] like you all love me,
man.
>> [cheering]
>> How you feeling, man?
>> *
>> What the [bleep] is this?
>> SKY: Come here.
I got something for you.
>> Balls, music, and strippers.
I know how to throw a party.
>> Hey!
I love [unintelligible].
This is awesome!
They got me some strippers.
I'm living!
I've never been more alive.
>> [chanting]
>> *
>> [unintelligible]
>> SKY: Too rough, too rough.
Getting a little too rough.
He just had ball surgery.
>> Oh, by the way, everybody, my
balls don't hurt, because I
didn't get the vasectomy.
>> What?
Wait, cut that music.
Turn the music off.
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> CEASER: Cut the music.
You ain't get what?
>> I didn't wind up getting the
vasectomy.
>> What?
>> This mother [bleep].
Get the [bleep] off--
>> [bleep] hey.
>> Yo, [bleep].
Come look at this movie.
I found something that
everybody needs to see.
>> [laughing]
>> I can't!
It's not fair!
This is not who you are.
>> *
>> You ain't get what?
>> I didn't wind up getting the
vasectomy.
>> Oh, get up, ya.
Get up, get up.
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> Give my money back.
[bleep].
>> This mother [bleep] ain't
change one [bleep] bit.
>> He's a [bleep] fraud.
>> Yo, I walk in, they had
strippers and [bleep].
Was I [bleep] supposed to say
that?
>> [unintelligible]
>> No!
Deejay, hit me one time!
>> MAN: No, party done!
>> CEASER: Yo, let me talk to
real quick.
Yo, what the [bleep] happened,
yo?
>> I couldn't do it.
I chickened out.
I can't do this to myself.
And I can't do it whoever my
potential wife is gonna be.
I want a family.
Mother and father sleep in the
bed together, wake up.
I mean, like the whole--the
whole thing.
>> You could've [bleep] let us
know, and I wouldn't have went
through all this planning with
the girls and [bleep], spending
all this money.
>> Uh, uh, this mother [bleep]
gonna have ten more kids.
[bleep] is never going to
change.
You [bleep] these [bleep] left
and right in the shop.
It's just a matter of time
before you get one of 'em
pregnant.
>> Can you at least start
strapping it up though like--
>> I am.
>> Seriously, this [bleep] is
not cool.
>> I'm not making no more
babies.
>> Who not making no more
babies?
>> I'm not.
>> Do I got mad dirt on my back?
>> What's up, baby?
>> Hello.
>> Hey, Kathy!
>> Oh [bleep].
>> Hey!
>> Come here, give me hug.
After tumultuous relationship we
had in the past year, me and
Kathy are finally learning how
to have a peaceful coexistence.
>> Oh my God, stop.
>> Hi, Kathy.
>> Hi, Ceaser.
>> No.
You need to stop promoting my
crazy.
>> I just wanna know who invited
Kathy?
None of these other baby mamas
is here.
>> [laughing]
>> What the [bleep] is the deal
with Kathy?
You know what our party's about,
right?
>> His vasectomy.
>> Yeah.
He tell you the good news.
>> No, that's not good news.
>> I didn't get it.
>> Why?
[laughs]
>> Wait.
>> He change his mind.
>> You ain't happy he tried to
cut his [bleep]?
>> KATHY: I don't want him to
get a vasectomy.
>> Why?
>> I'd rather, you know, he puts
condoms on.
You can do it!
Condoms!
[laughing]
>> I think you need to have a
talk with him about all that,
yo.
I think she's still in love with
[bleep].
Think [bleep].
No, she still in love with him.
>> KATHY: Oh, my bad.
Who's here?
Hi, guys.
>> CEASER: It's obvious [bleep]
never gonna change, and he'll
always be the same.
For the sake of Kathy, I feel
like [bleep] need to be taught a
lesson.
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> CEASER: Walt.
I found something that everybody
should see.
Maybe this will finally get him
to change.
Found it?
>> WALT: Yeah.
>> Seriously?
You're about to do that?
>> Phhhw.
>> Ceaser's just [bleep] up for
showing that video.
>> [laughing]
>> [bleep] in a sex tape having
unprotected sex with a total,
complete stranger.
>> CEASER: Yo, [bleep].
Yo, come look at this movie.
This mother [bleep] is having
sex all over his room in the
shop.
Like this mother [bleep] only
got his mother [bleep] socks on
and his glasses.
>> It's time for a little show
and tell and put your ass on
blast, homeboy.
That [bleep] working now.
[laughs]
>> [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
Why the [bleep]?
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> In the middle of my ball's
party you're gonna do this?
Did you do this because I didn't
get the vasectomy?
You're a dirty dog.
How do you turn this off?
>> SKY: Kathy!
>> [indistinct chatter]
>> No!
>> What?
>> That [bleep] shut down.
>> Put this away.
I don't wanna see this.
>> We got crazy Kathy in the
corner, and we have [bleep] girl
on the computer.
[bleep] is crazy.
>> Don't be ashamed.
>> [bleep]
>> [laughing]
>> [unintelligible].
You know what?
You're all getting written off
the friend list.
I have no friends in here no
more!
>> You should be ashamed of
yourself!
>> Oh, I think you should go get
your baby mother.
>> KATHY: They're exploiting
him!
They're exploiting him!
Gotta stop, yo!
What the [bleep] is wrong with
you all?
>> Crazy Kathy is a [bleep] nut.
She storms out ranting and
raving and crying.
And this mixy, trashy bitch slap
this mother [bleep] Kathy soul
out of her.
She crying, blood is spewing.
All of this because she couldn't
keep her emotions in check,
'cause she say her baby father
[bleep] somebody else.
>> [indistinct yelling]
>> KATHY: [bleep].
Yo, get her away from me.
You don't know who the [bleep] I
am!
I will [bleep] you up!
I will [bleep]--
>> Kathy!
>> --and kill you!
>> *
>> What the [bleep] happened?
>> KATHY: [screaming]
[crying]
I can't do this anymore.
I can't!
>> Kathy!
Kathy!
>> Yo, Ray-ray.
>> Listen to me, listen to me,
please.
>> Why you let them do this to
you, Ray-ray?
>> Kathy.
>> I'm sick of people seeing you
like this, yo.
It's not fair!
This is not who you are!
You're better than this!
You're better!
>> OS--T: There was no reason
why any of this [bleep] should
have happened tonight.
Embarrassing me and embarrassing
Kathy that was fun?
She's right.
Your friends don't care about
you.
>> *
>> CEASER: When I opened up
Black Ink, I ain't do it just
for me.
I did it so I could help my
friends.
But what sucks, I don't even
know if Black Ink is helping 'em
right now.
And maybe I'm part of the
problem.
Maybe now it's time for a
change.
>> I just need you to come back.
>> Now, come on Puma with the
[bleep].
This year has been so tumultuous
since everything with Puma and
Ceaser.
This isn't gonna happen.
>> *
>> [truck backing up]
>> Today I'm meeting my father
for the first time in over 13,
14 years.
Growing up, he just wasn't
there.
It's just a bunch of things
racing through my mind right
now.
What do I ask him?
What do I expect?
What happens after this
conversation?
I'm just all over the place.
>> [knocking at door]
>> Well, well, well.
What's going on?
You good?
>> Yeah.
>> Surprise, huh?
>> Yeah.
>> I don't know how to feel.
When I was younger, I might have
resented him for not being
around.
But as I'm getting older and
experiencing life myself, I see
how things can be hard.
I see how life can take you in a
different direction.
At this point, I think I'm
mature enough to give him the
benefit of the doubt.
Ha, where do we start?
>> Okay.
>> [laughs]
>> It's hard to make up ten
years, so--I don't know where we
could start.
>> TEDDY: Where have you been?
>> I'm not gonna necessarily say
I'm blaming your mother for
everything, but wasn't gonna
work out for us.
So I had to make other
arrangements.
When me and your mother really
separated, I took you to the
side and I explained it to you.
I said, "Shariff, I'm gonna do
"what I gotta do.
"I'm gonna go in this direction.
"If you choose to be in my life,
you can be there."
>> I don't remember that
conversation.
>> It's not that I left you,
that I wasn't nowhere where you
could not get in touch with me.
>> So I should have been an
adult?
I should have a father and
reached out to you as if you was
my child?
That's [bleep] ass backwards.
I know if I had a child, like I
would do whatever to be in
that--my child's life.
>> You said if you had one.
I have three others besides you.
And a grandson.
And I'm in all of their lives.
Now--
>> TEDDY: Why was I excluded?
>> You wasn't excluded.
You made your choice.
>> I prepared myself for every
answer, except for the one you
gave me.
Like I would've felt better you
saying, "I couldn't take care of
you."
Cool.
"I could barely take
of"--whatever.
But "I left it in your hands."
>> Once again, I only could do
what I could do.
All right.
>> All right.
It hurts.
It's like a slap in the face.
Like I feel kinda like a
[bleep].
Cease was right.
I just should've just never
reached out to you.
I should have just said [bleep]
you for the rest of my life.
>> *
>> So what did you have in mind
for the outside again?
Of course, we're gonna get
windows.
[laughs]
>> Of course.
I've told all my friends that
I'm back in town, that I'm
opening this shop.
So it's good to get the ball
rolling.
I'm thinking like maybe a dope
Pretty and Ink right there in
the middle.
>> Okay.
>> I would like more say like
the classy type of designs.
Like I want women to look at it
and be like, "Oh my gosh."
And I want men to look at it,
and be like, "Dang."
You know?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Just something.
Oh, wow, how you doing?
>> Doing all right.
>> DUTCHESS: Nice to meet you.
Marvin Williams is a Charlotte
Hornets' player.
Charlotte's definitely not like
New York where there's
celebrities walking around all
the time.
How you are all doing?
>> MARVIN: Good.
>> I gotta look up in the sun
just to see you.
You're like--
>> I'll try to block it for you.
>> --way up there.
>> We heard you were back in
town.
This your new spot?
I was hoping I could get
tattooed today.
>> Down south, word travels real
fast.
Pretty and Ink, it's not even up
and running, and he's choosing
this business.
Okay.
Um...I have my tattoo equipment
here.
It's an unfinished space.
Just excuse the appearance,
okay?
>> That's cool.
>> All right.
>> All right it was nice meeting
you.
Thank you.
>> Thank you, baby.
>> All right.
>> DUTCHESS: So what you wanna
get for your tattoo today?
>> Uh, this year, this season
really has been--it's been
interesting for me, 'cause I
really, really been missing my
family.
Being in one place but your head
and your heart is in like
another place.
Something that I've struggled
with my entire career.
It's for me like my job is here,
but my family is in Washington
state.
So I think I just want the word
family, you know, tattooed
somewhere on me.
But I was gonna let you be
creative with it and do you
thing, so--
>> I'll draw up some--some
examples of what I think you
might like.
You let me know which one you
like, and we'll get it done.
>> Okay, cool.
>> All right.
>> MARVIN: Thank you.
>> *
>> LENNY: My brother, my
brother, my brother.
>> Lenny.
>> Good seeing you, man.
Yes, sir.
>> CEASER: Today I'm giving
Lenny Green his first tattoo
ever.
A girl playing the sax on top of
a microphone.
Lenny Green is a radio
personality who has a very
popular show called
"Quiet Storm."
It kind of puts you in that--how
can you say it?
Romantic mood.
>> I wanna thank you.
>> No, brother, I'm honored.
I mean, your first tattoo coming
to me.
Me and Dutchess been on the show
several times.
So he knows us well.
[sighs]
>> Where's the Dutchess of
Harlem?
Where is she?
>> She's now the Dutchess of
North Carolina.
>> She moved?
>> [sighs]
I--I can't make a long story
short with you.
I'm just gonna have to tell you
everything.
So...we went down south.
We looked at a couple houses and
stuff like that.
She told me dreams I didn't even
knew she had.
Like she wanna have a kid.
She wanna do this, she wanna do
that.
And some of my dreams are
different.
I got kind of scared.
Because for her to fulfill her
dream, it was--it was looking
like I was gonna have to end
mine.
And I feel if I go out there,
Black Ink might crumble.
>> We all want it all.
But it's not about having it
all.
Hey, man, look, I'm--I'm an old
cat looking for love.
I wanna find the ideal lady of
my life.
You have the ideal lady in your
life.
Support her.
Because once you lose a person,
it's hard getting them back.
>> *
>> Hey, hey.
>> What's up with you?
This is what I came up with.
It's an anagram, so we got your
family in there.
And then when you flip it around
the other direction, you got
forever.
>> Yeah, I dig it.
I like it.
That's perfect.
>> So let's get this show on the
road.
>> * You made you cry
* I made you leave
>> I love Cease.
But I'm not going to cripple my
opportunities because he's
afraid of change.
That is what life is about.
The risks and the challenges
that you create for yourself so
that you can learn the person
that you are really capable of
being.
>> * And take like
* A pack of rabid dogs
* All the picture frames fall
>> CEASER: This whole marriage
thing freaked me out.
I thought Dutchess was trying to
change me to somebody that she
wanted.
Me acting out with Dutchess, me
giving her a pre-nup, I was just
being rebellious, because I'm
really afraid to change.
>> *
>> I never expected the moment
where I would have my own
everything.
My own shop.
It feels really good to do all
of this [bleep] by myself.
Every woman in the world should
have this feeling.
It feel better than love.
>> * How the hell
* It's suppose to feel real
* Oh
* If I can't feel no pain
*
* What'd I do?
* You made me cry
* I made you leave
* But I can't stay away
*
>> CEASER: Some people get
comfortable, and that's what
makes stagnant.
With Dutchess, she doesn't let
me get comfortable.
>> * Feel no pain
>> [crying] I really went
through so much to even get this
[bleep].
It's a breath of fresh air these
tears that I'm crying.
>> *
>> CEASER: Dutchess always makes
sure that I never settle for
less.
That without her, I would have
nothing.
Maybe now it's time for a
change.
>> *
>> Yo, man, this is beautiful.
You know what I'm saying?
>> Thank you.
>> *
>> DUTCHESS: This gonna have to
go on the wall of fame.
Everybody come through and see.
This gives me very, very high
hopes of what's to come.
>> *
>> No, don't take it off,
because we gotta surprise her.
>> [giggles]
>> It's about to be a surprise!
>> Surprise me with what?
>> PUMA: What I've been working
on.
So this is my moment, people.
While Quani's visiting from
Atlanta, I might as well show
her this new shop that I've been
working on.
>> Tamia, don't let me fall,
okay?
>> TAMIA: Okay.
>> PUMA: Are we gonna surprise
her now?
>> Okay.
>> Hopefully she's into it,
and she's gonna stay.
>> What the hell is this?
>> It's a new shop, baby.
>> *
>> I'm closing down Black Ink.
>> You leaving Harlem?
This is the stupidest [bleep]
Cease has ever thought of.
Really you're gonna close the
shop for a [bleep], bro?
>> *
>> My idea of leaving New York
isn't gonna happen now?
>> See, what had happened was--
>> No, come on, Puma, with the
[bleep].
What's changing from before?
What's different from before
when you opened up the shop?
Like you did so much last time,
and we didn't benefit from it at
all.
>> Well, this time it's gonna be
different.
>> This past year has been...so
tumultuous since everything went
down with Puma and Ceaser.
So if any drama is brought
because Puma has another shop in
Harlem, I don't wanna have to go
through that.
Well, I just wanna live a
regular life.
>> TAMIA: [happy screaming]
>> Mom, dad, daughter.
We have our little small family
right here, and that's all that
should really matter.
>> And that's all that really
does matter.
>> But I'm tired of everybody
else putting themselves into it.
Try to make your decisions about
them.
And then everybody need to
understand your decisions about
her, me.
>> Well, that's why I'm doing
this right now.
I'm not worrying about them
people.
And you need to stop worrying
about other people, too.
Could we do that?
This past year, I dealt with a
lot of people causing drama in
my life.
And I allowed these people to do
that.
But let somebody stay in your
brain, it's like they're living
in your head for free.
Not paying no rent.
Ain't nobody stays in my brain
for free.
[bleep] all that drama.
It's all about us.
The Robinsons.
There's no reason for Quani to
feel unsafe here in New York
City.
I understand I've dragged you
into my life.
You are my wife now.
So I just need you to come back
and be here...for us.
>> Okay.
[sighs]
>> PUMA: [laughs]
>> QUANI: You came prepared.
>> [laughing]
>> Another try?
>> Another try.
I'm all about it.
I'm a fighter, damn it.
>> QUANI: You're gonna get it
open? Oooh!
>> PUMA: I'm glad that you're
back, and I missed you.
Ah!
>> *
>> CEASER: Hey, Ted, let me
holla at you for a second out
here.
>> I'm so sick of this confused
ass weather, yo.
>> I hate to tell you somethin'.
I'm closing down Black Ink for a
little while.
>> *
>> I want Dutchess back in my
life.
And I know certain sacrifices is
gonna have to be made.
Even if it means closing down
Black Ink.
>> You leaving Harlem?
>> Just for a little while.
I see no other choice but to
close the shop.
Dutchess is gone.
I'm be gone.
And [bleep] just running around
[bleep] clients.
What other choice do I have?
I'm gonna help her with her shop
and come back.
But you know that [bleep] gonna
take a little while.
>> I think this is the stupidest
[bleep] Cease has ever thought
of in his life.
Like we have a family.
We built a whole lot here.
And for you to just close it for
your own reasons says a lot
about your "loyalty."
And I know Dutchess.
When she gets him down there,
he's not coming back.
Bro, you really gonna close the
shop for [bleep], bro?
>> *
>> Bro, you really gonna close
the shop for [bleep], bro?
>> That just ain't any [bleep].
It's a [bleep] I can't replace.
I love her.
I put her in a family
perspective, not just girlfriend
no more.
Not no fiancée.
Family.
I've been in it for the Black
Ink family since day one.
I've done everything anybody
need me to do.
And now that I'm marrying
Dutchess, it's totally
different.
We're in it together.
I need to be there for her.
And I don't think the business
is gonna thrive if I'm not
happy.
>> TEDDY: Did you think about
like what happen with Walt, Sky,
and [bleep]?
This was a savior for everybody.
Like you just put everybody back
at square one.
>> Yeah, Black Ink saved my
life.
Saved a whole bunch of our
lives.
And showed a whole bunch of
[bleep] different way of life.
But sometimes the things that
save you are the things that
hold you back.
Maybe [bleep], Ted, Sky, Walt,
they all need a break from the
shop.
>> This is crazy.
>> Don't think of it as the end,
Ted.
>> I know it's not the end,
but it's just like--
>> It's a new chapter.
>> I'm not a little kid, bro.
My father not being there.
I was kinda like a loner growing
up.
Now you're doing the same exact
thing.
It make me feel like a piece of
[bleep].
Like no one cares about me
genuinely.
It's definitely a wakeup call.
And I don't know if I'll be able
to [bleep] with Cease after
this.
>> *
>> Cous, don't worry about it,
yo.
We always been good.
>> TEDDY: There's no excuse for
them gates to be down.
And the excuse should definitely
not be you went to chance
Dutchess down south.
Where the hell does that leave
everybody else?
>> *
>> Get something to eat?
>> Straight.
>> *
>> MALE ON INTERCOM: This is the
final boarding call for flight--
>> *
>> Are you open
for business yet?
>> What are you doing?
>> *
>> Welcome to the first ever
"Black Ink Crew" reunion.
Black Ink!
>> Why would you lie to me?
For me to have a ring on my
finger, that should have been
something we knew about each
other!
>> Who has the smallest [bleep]?
>> You all really wanna know?
>> Yes!
>> MAN: Wait, wait, wait.
>> You a ho!
>> It's gonna be hurtin'.
>> No [bleep] this.
They're not civilized.
>> Then kiss my mother [bleep]
black ass.
>> MAN: Hey.
>> Any bitches is about to
fight.
>> *
>> Black Ink!
>> Why would you lie to me?
For me to have a ring on my
finger, that should have been
something we knew about each
other!
>> Who has the smallest [bleep]?
>> You all really wanna know?
>> Yes!
>> MAN: Wait, wait, wait.
>> You a ho!
>> It's gonna be hurtin'.
>> No [bleep] this.
They're not civilized.
>> Then kiss my mother [bleep]
black ass.
>> MAN: Hey.
>> Any bitches is about to
fight.
>> *