- ♪ - [sirens wailing]
- CEASER: I've always wanted my own empire.
- [tattoo machine buzzes]
- CEASER: That dream has become a reality.
Black Ink, we're moving up in this world.
- ♪
- To 125th!
- ♪
- CEASER: Think about it.
A kid from the projects owning two shops in New York.
Harlem is mine!
- ♪
♪ Last call
- Get the mother party started!
- [crowd cheering] - ♪ Last call
- CEASER: Welcome to the new era of the mighty Black Ink.
- ♪
- Ah!
- Let's party, bitches!
- TED: This is our new tattoo artist.
- Young Bae, baby.
I came here to save y'all all.
- MAN: Hey!
- My name is Tiffany.
I'm 100% Puerto Rican.
And I'm the best one in this shop.
- ♪
- Whoa, what is going on [bleep] in here?
- Ah!
- Now I'm back, I'm clean as a whistle.
I'm a new man.
I would like for you guys to meet Nikki.
Nikki's the woman who I've been waiting to marry my whole life.
- We don't know her!
She just [bleep] popped up and married O [bleep]
after two, three months tops.
- Like this [bleep] could be
the biggest con artist in the world.
- ♪
- Here's to the new Black Ink.
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪
- I love my job!
- You all some disrespectful [bleep].
The minions are running the asylum.
- Be happy I didn't [bleep] smack you!
- You have no power here.
You only a receptionist.
- Oh [bleep].
- This mother [bleep] crazy.
- [indistinct yelling]
- Miss Kit is that bitch.
- If you wanna close 113,
because that's a better business move,
that [bleep] is just whack, [bleep].
- I was there!
[bleep] [unintelligible]!
- If it wasn't for me,
none of you mother [bleep] would be here.
- You fired then, yo.
- Tiffany's fire.
Donna's fired.
[bleep]'s fired.
Walt is fired.
- You all gonna link this to UFC.
- Unlock the door, Bae.
- Uh!
- My sister...
was pregnant by Cease.
- I didn't [bleep] every lie--
- --[bleep] behind your neck
with her ring around your [bleep] neck.
- I just wanna get the [bleep] out of here.
Five years down the mother [bleep] drain.
Come on, hurry up, move.
- [horn honking]
- [sirens wailing]
- [sobbing] Hello?
No, don't tell me this!
- Is he okay?
- ♪
- [phone disconnects]
- What the [bleep]?
- ♪
♪ Yeah, you can find me pushing my way to the top ♪
- ♪ To the top, top
- ♪ I'm pushing my way to the top ♪
♪ To the top of the game
- Harlem is in my blood.
It's the streets I walk on.
It's the air I breathe.
This is my home.
There's a lot of mother [bleep] that walk on these sidewalks,
try to make it.
But most of them fail.
So for me to open up a brand-new Black Ink shop
on 1-2-5th, the heart of Harlem, I [bleep] made it.
- ♪ So don't be a hater, 'cause I'm on another latitude ♪
- I'm up.
Y'all better get used to this [bleep].
I'm 'bout to Kanye you all mother [bleep].
No one believed in that mother [bleep]
when he first came out.
Now look at him.
I can do anything.
I could be [bleep] mayor of New York if I [bleep] feel like.
- ♪ You can find me pushing my way to the top ♪
- My idea for 125th Street is simple.
Celebrities, luxury,
and the best tattoo artists in the mother [bleep] city.
So I'm trying to get a Beyoncé
or a mother [bleep] Oprah in the building.
That's what I'm aiming for.
The top.
Welcome to the grand opening of Black Ink 125th.
All hail Ceaser, bitches!
- ♪
- CEASER: Everybody [bleep] looking good in here, yo.
This is my Animal House.
I'm gonna celebrate like I'm a mother [bleep] Roman.
- ♪
- TED: You got chandeliers and [bleep].
- CEASER: You like 'em, right? - TED: They cool.
- Nah, you like 'em.
- I'm proud of Cease, because the first time we came here--
I'm not gonna lie--it was a piece of [bleep].
- What you think? - Are you crazy?
- I know we gotta clear it out.
- This shop turned out dope.
And I'm happy for Cease.
But this [bleep] is too bourge for me.
Take me back down the block to 113.
I need to smell a little bit of piss and see some crackheads.
This wasn't all you.
You did this?
- She had nothing to do with the décor of this shop.
The whole Feng shui is me.
- All of it, baby?
- [laughs]
- We have the same desk at Pretty N Ink.
With the same floor.
- They just look a lot alike.
But they're both nice shops.
- ♪
- I mean, a lot of people was taking notes
at my grand opening.
I guess my fiancé Cease was just one of 'em.
- Ain't no comparison.
- You know what? - No comparison.
- You're right.
- Pretty N Ink has been opened for less than a year.
And it's already exceeded my expectations.
I've recouped my investment.
I'm a successful business owner.
- ♪
- Take a picture of me next to this [bleep] picture.
The shop looks amaz-balls.
I'm really proud of Ceaser.
Like I love to see his dreams coming to fruition,
because [bleep] my toe is in 'em dreams.
I wanna do new [bleep], too.
I'm ready to move up the Black Ink ladder.
I [bleep] love my life.
- ♪
- WALT: How you all like the new shop?
It's a little different from 113th, you know?
- It's very different.
- One thirteenth is home.
That's where like, you know-- - I like 113th.
- WALT: That's home, you know what I mean?
It's great that Cease did his thing
and made this happen.
It's just not 113th, you know what I mean?
Then [bleep] not even here to--boy still in rehab.
- I believed in you! - I wanna apologize.
- No, my [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]!
Get the [bleep] out of my face!
- I need to [bleep] get away
from this [bleep] fast-paced city life.
[bleep] [bleep] gonna kill me.
- Yes, please. Get well, man.
I don't wanna bury you, bro.
- This would be a moment-- you know what I mean--
that I would have liked for him to be at.
- I wanna thank all of you all for coming to this 125th shop.
You all understand the struggle that all of us been through.
We came from the bottom, B.
We didn't ask for nobody else support but our own.
That's why...
I'm not closing 113th down.
- [crowd cheering]
- If I wanna build an empire, I can't be closing down shops.
[bleep] it.
I can have five Black Inks, ten Black Inks.
[bleep], I could have 100 Black Inks.
The sky's the limit.
And the person I trust most is gonna run that [bleep].
And that's Ted.
- [crowd cheering]
- CEASER: I'm not gonna sit here and step on his toes.
I'm not gonna interfere in nothing.
- Dutchess must have tied Ceaser's toga too tight.
Everybody knows that Ted hasn't done [bleep] in the shop.
How is he Ceaser's choice to run 113th Street?
If I had a B.B. gun,
I would pop both of these [bleep] right now.
- I love you, bro.
And I never leave you behind.
- [crowd cheering]
- DUTCHESS: Cease gave Ted 113th.
I don't know if Ted done brainwashed him.
If he Bill Cosby'ed him.
But the first week, gonna fall right on his face.
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪ We party high
♪ These swimming pool that look over the water ♪
♪ [unintelligible]
♪ And now we poppin' bottles ♪
- This rug represents royalty.
- That's what you feeling right here?
- SKY: Yes.
Welcome to the first day
under Teddy's reign of Black Ink 113.
He got us a new rug.
[sighs]
Come on, let's walk down the red carpet.
Bam, bam, bam.
♪ Bring it back down, I got a different angle ♪
♪ Bring it to the sky, I got another angle ♪
Nice!
- WALT: Sky, your boob is all the way out!
You got [unintelligible].
- God dang!
These titties have a mind of their own.
It's just like, boom, like, thank you, Dr. Miami.
Mwah, mwah.
Hey, manager!
- This is--this is--
- DUTCHESS: Good to see you, man.
- [knocking]
- What's up? What are we doing?
- [knocking]
- What--what are you knocking on the ceilings for?
- [whistles]
- WALT: What the [bleep] are you doing, Ted?
There's a secret society [bleep] y'all got going on
with new owner [bleep]?
Now you gotta tap ceilings and stuff?
- SKY: Is that another tattoo artist?
Because we need one.
- [laughing]
- SKY: There are no artists in the shop.
Melody's cut back her hours.
[bleep] still in rehab... hopefully.
And then we have Dutchess between Pretty N Ink
in North Carolina and 125th.
I'm not gonna be out here [bleep] [bleep]
to pay the rent for Black Ink.
- Oh [bleep].
- SKY: Yep.
- Fire.
[laughing] Yes!
Black Ink doesn't need a stripper pole.
But that doesn't mean that we can't use a stripper pole.
- You ever been a strip club
where they had like a double pole?
- ♪
- What the [bleep]?
- Because, um, this one is clearly not gonna fit in here.
- WALT: Did you even consider that when you ordered it?
- No, I just had a vision.
- What? [laughs]
- Cease can have his high-class clients
and chandeliers uptown.
But I'm definitely gonna give 13 a sexier look.
I was thinking...
- I like that mother [bleep] idea.
I always wanted to be a Madame!
This is an amazing idea!
We're gonna get in sync.
All our periods are gonna be on the same days.
We're gonna be in love.
We're probably gonna fight.
But it's gonna be a fight out of love.
Teddy, you're giving me hope.
- From now on, this is [bleep] Teddy's Playhouse.
- Teddy's Playhouse, for real? - Yeah.
- Teddy's Playhouse?
- Teddy's Playhouse.
- ♪
- SKY: Yes, yes, yes.
- Welcome to Teddy's mother [bleep] Playhouse.
This is pretty dope.
We're here to party, have fun, and make some money.
- MAN: Hey!
- I missed my calling!
Teddy's Playhouse is lit.
And as long as Ceaser does not notice
this big-ass hole in the ceiling, we're good.
- I just wanna let you all know
that Teddy's Playhouse is officially open.
- Hey!
Yo!
- [bike bells dings] - [laughs]
- [sighs]
- Oh, wait.
- SKY: Yes!
- [crowd cheering]
- Look at my wives!
- ♪
- SKY: Shake that ass! Shake that ass!
Shake that ass!
I love my job!
Teddy's Playhouse!
- TED: Yo, everybody, get outside.
I got a surprise for you all.
- Teddy's Playhouse, let's go outside Teddy's Playhouse!
- TED: Watch your feet on that carpet though.
- Teddy's Playhouse!
Teddy is calling all of us outside for a surprise.
This is like some super sweet 16 [bleep].
I think this [bleep] got a car outside for me.
Teddy's Playhouse!
Ah!
- Really, my [bleep]?
What the [bleep] is this at?
- Three--
- ALL: Two, one!
- Let's party, bitches!
Whooo!
- Teddy hired an Asian stripper!
I mean, we've always been an equal opportunity employer.
But, I mean, I'm happy that Teddy's putting it into action.
[laughs]
- TED: This is Young Bae.
- Wait, you got clothes on.
Take them off.
- No. - TED: She's not a stripper.
- Not a stripper?
Then what the [bleep] is she jumping out of a giant cake for?
- Whooooaa!
- WALT: You see giant cake, stripper.
They go hand in hand.
That's peanut butter and jelly right there, Ted.
- This is our new tattoo artist.
- Tattoo artist? - Yes.
- Hi, honey!
Wow, Teddy actually did his job and hired a tattoo artist.
Who would have thunk it?
- Ah!
- [crowd oohs]
- This is expensive.
Get yourself together.
I am the best tattoo artist in New York City.
I could do anything.
Cover-ups, portrait, geometric.
You name it, I slay it.
I'm about to show Harlem who the best is.
Young Bae, baby.
- Nice to meet you. Where you from?
- Korea. - Korea?
- Mm-hmm. - Nice, nice.
Do you have a certain like-- - You nervous?
- --specialize in? - [laughing]
- No, like a certain lane that you specialize in like--
Young Bae, she got a little spice to her.
But are you gonna make us some money?
That's all I care about.
- Are you a team player?
- Uh, I'm a leader, I'm sorry.
[laughs]
- Oh, so we're gonna have issues.
This litle bitch Young Bae has a mouth on her ass
that I've never seen.
I don't know if I like her or if I wanna fight her
or if I wanna [bleep] her.
- Let's go inside and party.
Young Bae, she tough.
And she's a super dope tattoo artist.
I found her on Instagram.
She does a lot of big-ass, expensive tattoos.
With her here, we can just sit back
and watch the money roll in.
And she looks good as [bleep].
- ♪
- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- SKY: It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
You know, this [bleep] is gonna be poppin'--
- SKY: This one right here-- - --because of me.
It's over!
[laughs] - Okay, okay.
- Because I came here for one mother [bleep] reason.
That's [bleep] money. - That's right.
- YOUNG BAE: That's it. - That's right.
- [laughs]
- Bae is very cocky.
You're Floyd Mayweather-ing this right now.
But Floyd Mayweather knows how to fight very well.
And I just wanna know are you a great tattoo artist?
Or are you going to come in here
thinking as though you run [bleep]?
And you don't.
- I just wanna know one thing, right?
I don't know what type of work you all guys be doing up here.
Because I've covered some of you all work.
- ♪
- Bitch, don't come in here talking about
you covered up tattoos from our shop.
- What's up with that?
- [bleep] [bleep] bitch.
- These tattoos I've seen, it's crazy.
- Get the [bleep] out here.
I'm not [bleep] with you right now.
- I came here to save y'all all.
- Okay, all this saving, you're not saving anything.
All that H-B-I-C [bleep] that you do,
do it with those bitches.
It'll never happen here,
because I'm really the H-B-I-C of this, okay?
Bitch, who are you?
You put a sour taste in my mouth.
I hope it don't last.
Because, bitch, I will spit you out.
- [unintelligible]
- CEASER: The last tattoo DMX got from me,
he drank a whole [bleep] gallon of Henny
just to get through that [bleep].
- It's gonna hurt though, right?
- That pain, he ain't really ready for that [bleep].
- Uh, uh.
- You need to get the [bleep] in check.
- [bleep] up. - I didn't [bleep] up nothing.
- Teddy, do not [bleep] with me.
[bleep] this, I'm done.
- Are you [bleep] serious, Donna?
- This bitch thinks I give a [bleep],
and I have to show her I don't.
- Donna, do not go do nothing stupid, bitch.
- ♪ Oh, yeah, you're in trouble now ♪
♪ I ain't playin' games, I'm ready to run it down ♪
♪ Work with me
♪ Work, work, work ♪
- All you [bleep] eating sushi.
You all getting money in here.
- They 1-2-5th. They fancy now.
- I hired the best mother [bleep] tattoo artists
in the city who's not about drama or [bleep] like 113.
They just work and make that money
under the supervision of my new brand ambassador Kit.
Let me talk to you real quick.
Kit is more than a receptionist.
She 'bout to be my right-hand.
She 'bout to keep the high-end customers happy
and 1-2-5th classy.
I have a very important client coming in,
and you gotta treat him like [bleep] royalty.
You gotta treat him like baby Jesus.
It's DMX.
- Wow.
- CEASER: Yeah.
I've tattooed him before at 113.
For him to step through these doors
and bless 2-5th, that's--that's something big.
- It's all about X.
- Right.
- I moved to New York City from Northeast DC
to just rub elbows with the who's who,
and I definitely wanna be a socialite.
I don't think it's gonna be that difficult.
Because anything I want, I get.
- You need any help?
- KIT: Nope.
- Let me handle baby Jesus, 'cause I'm godly, okay?
Any celebrity that came to DC, more than likely I've met them,
hung out with them.
So I'm pretty well-connected.
Miss Kit is that bitch.
- [unintelligible] [bleep].
- Hi, how are you? - How're you doing?
- That's my mother [bleep] boy right there.
My brother.
It's been like ten years since I've seen DMX.
Honestly, this [bleep] mean the world to me
for him to be coming on 125th Street.
You been alright?
- What number is this?
I heard but-- - Fifteen.
- For reals, 15? - Yeah, yeah.
- Congrats, yo. - Thank you, man.
- Fifteen [bleep] kids?
That mean you got the starting lineup, the roster,
and the practice team.
Whoa.
What tattoo you getting today?
- Exodus.
- CEASER: Exodus right there? - Yeah.
- CEASER: We can do that.
- That's gonna hurt though, right?
- You ain't drunk enough for that.
[laughs]
The last tattoo X got from me was the Twin Towers on his neck.
And he drank a whole [bleep] gallon of Henny
just to get through that [bleep].
Now you want Exodus on the front of your mother [bleep] neck?
That pain, you ain't really ready for that [bleep], X.
- Gotta give you a little bit, but not too much.
- Okay, all right.
To family. Real family.
- To real family.
- Yeah, real family.
You know you just got pregnant, right?
- [laughing]
- You just got pregnant. It's that easy.
Baby Jesus is laying that game on really thick right now.
But Kit don't give up that cat, honey.
- Wha--wha--what's going on, man?
- It's been kinda hectic, you feel me?
- As far as what?
- Like on 113.
I was comfortable in the hood.
I was fine in the hood.
My whole thing was to get bigger.
- Right, right.
- So to 2-5th was me stepping out of comfort zone like--
- It's--it's nothing wrong with--with--with making it big
in the hood.
But you don't wanna lose the hood.
Remember where it started, how it started, why it started.
- Thank you, brother.
- DMX: That's what's up.
- ♪
- CEASER: Ready, X?
- Let's do it, man.
[unintelligible].
[sighs]
- ♪ It took a long time
♪ Ten whole years, finally breaking through ♪
- CEASER: When X came in and got a tattoo from me ten years ago,
he was at the height of his [bleep] career.
He was a multiplatinum-selling artist
going on world tours.
X could've went to any mother [bleep]
and got tattooed.
But, no, he chose me.
- Uh, uh, uh.
[bleep].
I don't what the [bleep] I was thinking.
- ♪ Nobody gets a handout
- CEASER: He recognized that this underground mother [bleep]
is gonna be somebody.
- ♪ [uninteligible]
- CEASER: It just took that one person to make me feel
like I can actually be bigger
than just the local tattoo artist in the hood.
- DMX: [screams]
- [laughing]
And that's why I always take an example from DMX.
He might be selling millions and millions of records,
but he still comes back to the hood.
It's okay to upgrade.
It's okay to get out the hood.
But don't forget the hood that made you.
- ♪ Ten whole years, finally breaking through ♪
♪ Nobody gets a handout, you gotta pay your dues ♪♪
- DMX: Done? - CEASER: Yeah.
- ♪
- Yo, man.
Yeah.
Yo, I see the struggle.
You're a good dude, man.
Thank you, man.
- Good times, X.
- ♪ From sun up, sun down
♪ You're money, money, money, money ♪♪
- MELODY: I don't even know how I got here.
I'm in denial.
My life has been crazy.
I'm currently eight months pregnant.
I got knocked up by my boo thang, Mr. Lalo.
- What's up, baby?
- Nothing.
And we decided to kick it old school
and just pop this baby out at home.
- So this where you're doing this?
- Yes, the baby's gonna be delivered in this pool.
- In this toxic tub.
- Don't call it that. - [laughs]
- This is a tub of love.
- BOTH: [laughing]
- As I get closer to my due date,
I've been kinda cutting back my hours at the shop,
because, you know, I gotta get ready for baby.
- [knocking at door]
- But I can't take too much time off,
because kids take a lot of mother [bleep] money.
Hello. - Hello.
I'm Valerie, the doula.
- MELODY: Hey, hey.
- Nice to meet you. - Come on in.
I have no [bleep] clue what a doula is,
but she's definitely gonna be the one cleaning up my poop,
because I ain't doing it.
- You know that a doula is 100% dedicated support for you.
- Yes.
- Informational support, emotional support.
The biggest is physical support.
- Are you gonna yell at me?
- I don't yell.
I'm a coach.
- I'm just giving you a free pass to yell at me.
If I'm in a lot of pain and I'm being "in-cooperative,"
I need a mother [bleep] to slap me out of it if need be.
- So one of the things that's really helpful in opening up
the pelvis is making sure that...you'll be wide open.
- I felt like she was trying to seduce me.
- Sway side to side.
- I wasn't completely shut off to the idea,
but I just needed a little warmup.
- This is where I'm gonna say, "Moan if you need to."
- [moaning] - And moaning really helps.
Moaning and making sound--
- [laughing]
- And it sounds a lot like sex.
Yes, it does.
- She was totally coming on to me.
You can tell she's into pregnant chicks.
I am so ready to have this baby.
- Keep bouncing.
- [phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Hey, girl, how are you?
- MELODY: I'm good, how are you?
- T.J.: I just wanted to let you know,
I went to Black Ink the other day
becuase I scheduled a tattoo with you,
and when I got there,
they were trying to pass me off to another artist.
- You had an appointment confirmed with me?
And they-- - T.J.: Yes.
- --tried to give it to another artist?
- T.J.: Mm-hmm.
- Do you know who you were talking with?
- T.J.: I think it was Ted.
- What the [bleep], man?
Teddy's gonna book an appointment under my name,
and when the client shows up, he gives it to someone else?
What a [bleep] [bleep].
- T.J.: I just wanted to let you know.
- No, thank you.
That's so [bleep] shady.
- T.J.: Alright, bye.
- I'm having a [bleep] baby.
You really want to take money out of my pocket?
I'm really trying not to lose my [bleep] right now.
[bleep].
- Hello?
- Excuse me?
Maxwell was never as disrespectful as he is now.
- Who are you? - Who am I?
I'm the boss.
And if you don't get this [bleep] right,
you're gonna be unemployed.
My critiques is crazy.
It could make you, or make you lose your job.
- ♪
- SKY: Yo, yo. What up, Snapchat?
Moved here a couple of months ago from Brooklyn.
And look, you guys!
Who would've ever thought a Harlem joint'd be like this?
Who would have thunk it?
God is so good all the time.
New ass, new tits, and new crib.
You know what I'm saying?
Big baby is moving up.
I could say, "Get out of my Caucasian home!
Get out of my Caucasian home!"
I don't even know what the [bleep] this art stand for.
But it's [bleep] Caucasian to me.
I'm moving up.
I wanna be so much more than a receptionist.
I wanna be on some Kim Kardashian [bleep].
And I am taking over.
Dishwasher, bitch.
Yes, I ain't never had no dish--no,
I had a dishwasher in Brooklyn.
I never really used it,
but it had mad roaches coming out of it.
- [knocking at door]
- BOTH: [screaming]
- I haven't seen Donna for weeks.
And this bitch has been ignoring my calls.
So I organized the best search party
Black Ink has to offer.
Have you seen this young lady around here anywhere?
- Seen that ass before?
- Have you seen--
- Don't show that picture.
We're looking for Donna.
- Don't be alarmed, we're Negros.
- SKY: I should be upset, but I know she's a crazy bitch,
and I love her, and I miss her,
and I need to see what's going on with her.
Bitch, why you've been ignoring my calls?
- First of all, Maxwell is out of control.
I just need to be by myself for a minute
and deal with [bleep].
It's just like a lot of negativity period, so--
When I first came to New York and met Maxwell,
he swept me off my feet.
- Love you.
- Wanna come meet me in the shower?
- MAXWELL: Hell ya.
- I thought Maxwell was the man of my dreams.
And a few months ago, I even went to his jail,
and we got married.
- Oooh, [bleep].
She's looking like Mystic in a dress.
- And then he just really showed me his true colors,
I feel.
- So what's the issue? What he talking?
- You know I met with his baby mother a year ago.
And she hit me and all that other [bleep].
- We have phone sex probably like every day.
- Yeah, and don't use my money.
- Your money, bitch? Since when?
- Since our last run-in,
this bitch still tries to talk [bleep].
And I'm trying to shut her down for good.
But every time I bring it up, Maxwell shuts me down.
Like are you taking
your baby mother's side over your wife?
Like we don't even have conversations no more.
He's not mad that we haven't been talking.
He's not mad that I haven't seen him.
I'm just a money machine, that's it--
- Like he think you're that girl.
- DONNA: Yeah.
I've been married to Maxwell for less than a year,
and it has been way too hard.
He's super disrespectful all the time.
It's like I'm here trying to remain faithful,
and you can't even tell me you love me every day?
I don't got [bleep] like-- - Really?
- Now I'm like scrambling, trying to find some work.
Because I got fired from Puma's shop.
- Trouble follows your little ass.
You know, you're not a little--your big ass.
- [laughs]
- Everybody has a friend like Donna.
She's my little cuckoo bird that needs love.
Do you want a Twinkie?
- [laughs]
Um, sure, I'll take a Twinkie.
Have you ever fried a Twinkie?
- I'm getting ready to get you a fried Twinkie going right now.
- DONNA: Oooh, you poppin'. - [phone ringing]
- MALE VOICE ON PHONE: You have a prepaid call from
Penn State Correctional Facility from inmate Maxwell.
- Hello.
- Excuse me?
- Don't try to act--talk to me
like you care about how I'm doing.
- Once again, Maxwell isn't calling me to see how I'm doing.
He's more interested in when he's getting his cash.
And I don't even know where he's spending it.
- Maxwell was definitely never as disrespectful to me
as he is now.
It's just scary.
I no longer have
positive memories of me and Maxwell.
They've all been washed out with negativity.
- See, and I'm glad you're just saying that [bleep]
right on the phone. Thank you.
You know what you did to me though?
Before Maxwell went to jail,
he would--he would put his hands on me,
and then like leave the house for like hours.
He might not come home to the next morning.
In some way, I feel like he like kinda brainwashed me
or something.
And I kept it to myself because I was in denial.
It's just--it's just too much.
- [bleep] you, I'm done.
- ♪
- [buzzer sounds]
- Hey, welcome to Black Ink.
Hey, how are you doing?
- ♪
- [bleep] this?
- SKY: This is a pole.
- CEASER: You guys got a stripper pole in 113.
- TED: It's gonna get fixed.
- CEASER: There's a hole in my ceiling
and a stripper pole
in the middle of my mother [bleep] shop.
Okay, Ted, I'm gonna remain calm.
You really gonna keep this rug?
- Yo, yo, yo.
- SKY: Please don't step on the carpet.
- It's gonna get [bleep] up.
- People can't even walk on it.
- People can't walk on the rug in the middle of the shop?
Oh, so the next thing [bleep] can't sit on the furniture?
You're gonna put plastic on the furniture
like Grandma's? - That's a good idea.
- [buzzer sounds]
- Hi, guys.
- Hey, hey, hey, watch your feet, man.
- SKY: You're on the carpet, babe.
- It's too late, it's too late.
She's already-- - SKY: You're already on it.
- New face.
Who are you?
- Who am I?
I'm your boss. How are you doing?
- YOUNG BAE: You're my boss? - Yes, my name is Ceaser.
- My name is Young.
Young Bae.
- That's her real name.
- Mm-hmm.
- ♪
- Let me see some of your work. You got anything on your phone?
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- ♪
- Last time Ted hired a new artist, Cease came around
and just fired 'em by like two days afterwards.
- Melody, I don't really know you.
So I'm sorry about that, but you're gonna have to go.
- I just hope that Cease
is trusting Ted's staffing capabilities,
because Young Bae is bringing about three, four clients a day.
You do the math.
- YOUNG BAE: I have a client coming today
for a huge thigh piece.
- I wanna see how it come out.
- Oh, you're gonna love it.
- My critiques is crazy.
It could make you, or make you lose your job.
I'm the boss, I'm the owner.
And, honestly, if you don't get this [bleep] right,
you're gonna be unemployed.
- ♪
- SKY: Donna!
You're gonna get us arrested.
- [bleep] you, Maxwell.
And [bleep] my marriage.
- ♪
- I gotta Snapchat this.
This is crazy.
- YOUNG BAE: I have a client coming today
who's getting a huge thigh piece.
- I wanna see how it come out.
- Oh, you're gonna love it.
- My critiques is crazy.
- Mm-hmm.
- It could make you, or make you lose your job.
- You know what else is crazy, Boss Man?
Doing a bad tattoo I had to cover-up from the shop.
So I'm not worried.
- SKY: Bae, come on.
- An all-female shop?
- Sky, can I have some Medicide?
It's filthy back here.
I can't-- - Alright, alright, alright.
- Uh, I already see where there is going.
- SKY: She is very [bleep] demanding.
- This is the cornerstone of Black Ink.
If this [bleep] fall, everything else falls.
- I got it.
- Listen, Ted, you my little cousin.
I'm gonna trust you.
But if you [bleep] this up,
I'm gonna [bleep] kill you, yo.
And then I'm gonna tell auntie I'm sorry.
- YOUNG BAE: Sky, [bleep] paper towels here.
- Okay, look inside one of the other rooms, love.
She's a little needy, a little snappy.
And this attitude doesn't add up to a bitch
that just hopped out of a cake.
[laughing]
- Hi.
- Hey, doggie, puppy, excuse me.
Get off my [bleep] rug.
- I'm here to see Young.
- Hello, Jessica. - JESSICA: Hi.
Hi, how are you?
- [barks]
- Be nice, Madonna.
- I'm happy she's barking at that bitch.
- Let's go.
I met Jessica eight years ago
at an underwear store shopping for thong.
And I saw her [bleep] up tattoo.
So I walked up to her and said,
"Hi, do you want me to fix your tattoo?"
And she said, "Yeah."
And ever since then, she been a loyal customer.
So tell me a little bit more.
- JESSICA: Okay, so, basically, I just want something
to resemble my grandma.
- What makes you get this tattoo?
- My grandmother's an immigrant.
She came, all her ten kids.
- Ten?
- So my grandmother took care of the whole family.
- Right.
- She had to cook, clean, do everything.
- Oh my gosh, she's a trooper.
You know, I'm an immigrant.
I came here with nothing.
I had to struggle so much to get here.
And now that I understand her struggle,
I can make this piece so beautiful.
- ♪
- YOUNG BAE: I fled Korea when I was 22
to get away from my abusive childhood.
Would you wanna live that crazy life
that you get beat up every [bleep] day?
I had to get out of there, or I was gonna die.
- ♪ I gave my heart to you, and put it in your hands ♪
♪ What happened to our plans
♪ Guess you gave it to someone else ♪
♪ Yes, you gave it to someone else ♪
- I came to New York with $80 in my pocket.
With no English.
And I didn't know anybody.
In order to survive, I worked at a nail salon, hair salon,
restaurants, you name it.
There were times that were rough.
I mean, I've been homeless.
But I didn't even care.
As long as I was here, it was worth it.
- ♪ I gave my heart to you, and put it in your hands ♪
♪ What happened to our plans
- One day, I saw the sign says "tattoo."
And I was like, "Mm.
"I might not know how to tattoo,
but I know how to draw damn well."
I walked into the shop.
I lied to them about my experience,
and I got the job.
- ♪ I gave my heart to you, and put it in your hands ♪
♪ What happened to our plans
♪ Guess you gave it to someone else ♪
♪ Yes, you gave it
- YOUNG BAE: Tattooing saved me from a lot of stuff.
It put a roof on top of my head, fed me, dressed me.
I feel blessed.
I think we're all done, Jessica.
- ♪
- Whoo!
- CEASER: You know! - SKY: Damn!
- TED: What you think about it, Cease?
- CEASER: It looks nice.
- Thank you. - Good work.
I thought it was gonna be like some flim-flam,
get the [bleep] out of my shop type of tattoo.
But her work is [bleep] incredible.
It look like this was a good hire, yo.
- YOUNG BAE: I'm 'bout to change the name.
Yellow Ink!
- I'm not--good tattoo.
- [laughs]
- ♪ I came a long way
- ♪ Still the same from back in the day ♪
♪ Different hustle, but the passion the same ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I came a long way ♪
- SKY: Yeah, bitch!
Let's do karaoke.
I know my poor little cuckoo bird
has been going through the most.
So, we can go pour our hearts out together
and sing some Mary J. Blige over at karaoke.
- Hey, boo. - Hi.
Is it a themed karaoke, bitch?
I don't have a wedding dress.
What's going on?
- Driver, can you go to [bleep] [bleep]?
- Why we going over there?
Are you selling the dress, bitch?
- I hope it's not to someone on Craig's List,
because you know there's a [bleep] on there
that kills pretty bitches like us.
Like where the [bleep] we going like--
What's up? Like talk to me.
What's wrong, babe?
- [sighs]
Alright, so you remember when I was telling you Maxwell
was asking me to put money on his books and all that?
- SKY: Yeah.
- Yeah, well, I wasn't getting no phone calls.
And guess who this [bleep] was talking to the whole time?
His [bleep] baby mother.
The bitch he cheated on me on, had a [bleep] baby with.
He's talking to her using my money though in jail.
I'm so [bleep] pissed right now.
Today, this bitch starts hitting at my phone,
talking shit 'bout how she's talking to Maxwell
using my money.
This bitch is really crazy.
This bitch is texting me, talking about I'm dirty,
Maxwell never loved me.
I'm so [bleep] tired of being treated like this.
Mm, we 'bout to make this stop real quick,
and then it'd be alright.
- We 'bout to make this stop to do what?
- We almost there, we almost there.
- We're almost where?
- Ashley's house.
- Ahhhhh, [bleep]!
Are you [bleep] serious, Donna?
- This bitch thinks I give a [bleep] about Maxwell,
and I have to show her I don't.
- ♪
- What you came over here for?
- You can have him, Ashley.
He's yours, [bleep].
Stupid bitch.
- SKY: Fight, D!
- ♪
- Cease!
Where the [bleep] have you been?
- CEASER: What the [bleep] are you doing here?
- I was in the area.
I was doing--I was looking for some kicks.
What up though? What's new?
- Well, I'm eating this chicken.
- You have a nice business on 125th Street,
and you're eating chicken out of a box.
- TED: [laughs] Hey, what's up, babe?
- Hey, Mel.
- MELODY: Cease, I came in here to talk to your ass,
but I'm glad Ted's here,
because this [bleep] giving away my clients.
And don't [bleep] act like
you don't know what I'm talking about.
- I gave away your clients?
- Talk to me, Mel.
- My girl calls me up,
tells me that she books an appointment for me,
and then you give it away to someone else.
What the [bleep] is that?
- You haven't been to work in how long?
- Don't play games with me, Ted.
I'm not stupid.
I'm not a [bleep] kid,
don't [bleep] with my money, okay?
- Don't talk to me like I'm a kid either.
I don't know who the [bleep] this bitch thinks she is
talking to me like that.
One thirteenth is my shop,
and I'm not letting no money walk out the door.
So if there's a tattoo artist that's available, so be it.
- You need to get this [bleep] in check.
- ♪
- He cannot check me.
- All right, yo, yo!
- [indistinct yelling]
- Alright, calm down, calm down.
- --that's their [bleep] problem.
- CEASER: You're pregnant,
and you're [bleep] talking with a pregnant employee.
Y'all gotta chill out, yo. - No!
- He [bleep] up. - I didn't [bleep] up nothing.
- Well, then how did I get your name then?
- If anything's related to 113 Street,
it's gonna be related to Ted.
Yeah, because of Ted.
- Pfff.
Teddy, do not [bleep] with me.
I am pregnant as [bleep] right now.
I have this much [bleep] patience for bull [bleep].
If you're giving away my clients,
own up to that [bleep].
- Both of you all calm down.
Sounds like there's a mix-up.
- Why are you always acting like [bleep] ain't going on?
- Melody, calm down.
- No, [bleep] this. I'm done.
- Yo, what the [bleep] is wrong with you, yo?
- [bleep] barely at [bleep] work.
You wanna complain about one client?
- She ain't flipping for nothing, Ted.
There's only a couple of rules in the tattoo industry.
But the number one rule
is never steal another tattoo artist's client.
And look like Ted might have broke the cardinal rule.
You gotta fix this [bleep].
You can't lose her.
- This is some bull [bleep].
- Welcome to being a boss.
- Pfff.
- ♪
- I'll be right back.
- Donna, do not go do nothing stupid, bitch.
Come here.
- ♪
- SKY: This bitch is crazy.
I'm not okay with being in this situation right now,
because I don't know if you're about to kill Ashley
or suffocate her with your dress.
It's some first 48 [bleep].
Donna!
Bitch, come back here!
[bleep]. I gotta [bleep].
- ♪
- Oh my...you're gonna get us arrested.
- If Maxwell wants to continue being disrespectful,
treating me like garbage, calling me stupid ho,
then [bleep] you, Ashley, [bleep] you, Maxwell.
- ♪
- And [bleep] my marriage.
- ♪
- SKY: Oh my God.
Bitch, I gotta Snapchat this.
This is crazy.
- ♪
- I'm getting in the car.
I cannot get in trouble for the next two [bleep] years,
because I don't wanna go back to jail, bitch.
I'm not playing with that.
- You stupid bold bitch, like--
- You can have him, Ashley.
He's yours.
- What are you doing?
- You and Maxwell can be happy together now.
- What you came over here for?
What you came over here for?
- To let you know that you can have Maxwell.
- [bleep].
- You all can go ahead and be happy.
- Girl, if you're not gonna do nothing,
like you need to go about your business.
- SKY: Fight, D!
- ♪
- What you came over here for?
- [unintelligible]
- What you came over here for?
- To let you know that you can have Maxwell.
You all can go ahead and be happy.
- Girl, if you're not gonna do nothing,
like you need to go about your business.
- SKY: Fight, D!
- [indistinct yelling]
- Oh, [bleep].
- [indistinct yelling]
- SKY: Donna!
- ASHLEY: Stupid bitch.
Get off me.
- DONNA: [bleep] you.
- [unintelligible].
- You whack-ass bitch.
- See that $2,500 wedding dress?
Have him, baby.
That dress at one time meant so much to me.
Like I thought I was gonna have it forever.
- You mad.
He forever gonna be on my ass!
You burn, bitch.
- That bitch is so whack.
But I'm definitely getting satisfaction
from watching the dress burn.
- [bleep] out of here.
- DONNA: It just feels good knowing that
like I have the strength to walk away.
- ♪
- Whoa, what is going on [bleep] in here?
- Ah!
- Now I'm back, and I'm as clean as whistle.
I would like for you guys to meet Nikki.
Nikki's everything I ever wanted in a woman,
and I love her.
- [bleep].
- His name's Richard.
- What? - What?
- Tiffany Perez fits in perfect
with my vision for Black Ink 113.
- The moment I came in, this raggedy chick over here.
She had this stink face going on.
Almost felt a little bit like jealousy.
- I had black eyes from [bleep].
- If I would have came up missing, or hurt,
or in the hospital, nobody would have knew nothing,
because I wasn't saying nothing.
- Can you please give me a job at 125th?
- You snort more coke
than Pablo can bring in the mother [bleep] country.
Yo, this mother [bleep] crazy.
You can't be here no more, man.
- Oh, I heard some stories about, you know, 113.
- What stories you heard? - You all raggedy.
- You coming up in here
talking about people are raggedy as hell.
- What's up, fool?
What's up, fool?
- Oh, [bleep].
- [indistinct yelling]
- ♪