- CEASER: Welcome to the grand opening
of Black Ink 125th.
All hail Ceaser, bitches.
Under the supervision of my brand ambassador Kit.
- Miss Kit is that bitch.
- I'm not closing 113th down. - [all cheering]
- CEASER: And the person I trust most
is gonna run that [bleep].
And that's Ted.
- Ted hasn't done [bleep] in the shop.
How is he Ceaser's choice to run 113th Street?
- ♪
- Welcome to Teddy's mother [bleep] Playhouse.
- [all cheering]
- Let's party, bitches!
- An all-female shop?
This is the cornerstone of Black Ink.
If this [bleep] falls, everything else falls.
- I got it.
- If you [bleep] this up, I'm gonna [bleep] kill you, yo.
- This [bleep] giving away my clients.
Dude, I'm eight and a half months pregnant,
you're gonna [bleep] steal my client?
- I didn't [bleep] up nothing.
- No, [bleep] this. I'm done.
- I thought Maxwell was the man of my dreams.
And then he just really showed me his true colors.
- [bleep] you, I'm done.
If Maxwell wants to continue being disrespectful,
treating me like garbage, [bleep] you Maxwell.
And [bleep] my marriage.
- ♪
- ♪ Damn right, this right
♪ If you play with fire, live your life ♪
♪ [unintelligible]
- ♪ Disrespect - ♪ I'm not having it
♪ No, I'm not having it ♪
- SKY: [groans]
- What the [bleep] is you doing, yo?
- I'm trying to tighten my pelvic wall.
- A pelvic what?
- You know I'm getting designer vagina, right?
- A what?
- A designer vagina.
- [laughs]
- You getting a Louis V for real?
- [laughs] - Louis V!
My pum is not pretty.
It looks like the jowls of a dog's mouth.
Ugh. God.
I would love to compare it to like Amber Rose's vagina.
Something nice and light.
Ha.
- Once you do this design to your vagina,
what are you gonna do with it?
- I was thinking about just going
and getting a mold of my [bleep].
- ♪
- I was thinking about making it a cup or something.
Like something you can travel.
Like a travel mug of my vagina.
- [laughs]
- Come, 'cause men can do Kegels, too.
It's good for your heart. Come on.
- TED: I'm watching [bleep] being thrusted into the air.
How can I say no to this invitation?
- Lift up your pelvis.
One, two, uh.
- TED: Stop grabbing my balls like that, man.
- [laughs]
- Whoa, what is going on in here?
- Ahhhh!
Ahhh!
- What the [bleep] is you doing here?
- I can't believe it!
And you got a bald head!
- What up, Walt?
How's--what you doing, man?
- What's up, bro?
- O [bleep], that's my brother, O [bleep].
Last time I seen this mother [bleep]
was like four months ago when [bleep] went to rehab.
- But right now, [bleep] is looking good.
Like I'm excited.
- Got a little tummy and all that.
- Yeah, I've been eating good.
- SKY: Yeah, you look like a model.
- I don't see no little action going on.
He looking kinda clean.
- What is going on?
- SKY: [bleep] get crazy in here.
- What's up, bro?
- SKY: Welcome to Teddy's Playhouse!
- What the [bleep] happened here at Black Ink?
You got a shag rug.
You got a stripper pole.
This does not look like the Black Ink that I'm used to.
I would like for you guys to, um, meet Nikki.
- Hi, Nikki!
It's a pleasure.
- Nakaya. Nice to meet you.
- How was down south?
- I actually--I didn't go down south.
- You never went to a rehab then?
- No.
- ♪
- What the [bleep] you mean you didn't go to rehab?
You always do this bull [bleep].
Like seriously.
- I was in San Francisco.
And then I met this beautiful young lady here.
I decided to go to California instead of going to rehab,
because I wanted to show them that I don't need help
to get over what my demons are.
And now I'm back, and I'm clean as a whistle.
- Did you guys meet on an app?
- Yeah, we met on Christian Mingle,
believe it or not. - TED: You met where?
- Christian Mingle.
- SKY: What's wrong with Christian Mingle?
Christian Mingle is sexy.
Did you all really meet on Christian--
- Nah.
- [all laughing]
- Go ahead. Tell the story how we met, baby.
- So we met in California.
- In a tattoo shop that I was working at.
- Oh, so you had a job in Cali?
That's good.
- WALT: So what's up?
Are you trying to come back and work here?
- I wanna be at Black Ink 125th.
- So why the [bleep] is you here?
- I'm coming to see my friends.
Word on the street is that 125th is a serious shop
that puts out good work.
One thirteenth is all about the partying.
So Nikki and I think it's a better fit for my sobriety.
- You know what?
O [bleep].
- His--his name's Richard.
- What? - What?
- Yeah.
- [all laughing]
- That's his name. His--I don't--
- His mama named him Richard.
But I'm gonna call him O [bleep].
- I go by Richard now.
After getting sober, I'm a new person now.
Because O [bleep] is behind me.
O [bleep] was wild and crazy.
Now it's about Richard Duncan.
Alright, it's time for us to bounce.
- It's great to have you back, [bleep].
Nice to meet you.
- It was nice to meet you.
- Nice meeting the new you, too, Richard.
Peace and blessings.
- Later.
- She's pregnant.
- [laughing]
- ♪
- Everybody likes to joke, but I really would appreciate it
if people take me seriously.
Because I changed a lot.
I'm a new man.
This is the happiest I've ever been in life,
because I know what my purpose is
more than anything right now.
And like I can see where my future's going.
And my future is very, very bright.
- ♪ I wanna love you until anything left ♪
♪ Anything left, anything left ♪
- RICHARD: Every day, I'm gonna be fighting my disease.
But you know what?
I have something that's gonna keep my mind
off of what my ailment is.
Nikki.
- ♪ I wanna give you all that you want ♪
♪
♪ Anything you ask of me
♪
- Nikki's everything I've ever wanted in a woman.
She's smart, she's educated.
She inspires me to be a better Richard.
And I love her.
- ♪ I wanna love you until there isn't anything left ♪
♪ Oh ♪
- ♪ [unintelligible]
♪ My window's down, and I'm doing a buck 50 ♪
♪ Get on the bus, get under the bus ♪
♪♪
- KIT: Oh, I love baby clothes.
[laughs]
Oh, this is so cute.
- DUTCHESS: I'm taking Kit to look for a baby gift
for Melody, because Ted is an idiot.
I get back from North Carolina, and Cease tells me
that Ted is stealing clients from Melody was just like,
"Brah, the girl is [bleep] pregnant."
Ultimately, Ted's [bleep] ups
always affect everybody at Black Ink.
So if Ted loses 113th's best artist,
I don't what the [bleep] he gonna do.
- Look at this!
My emcee such and such--
- Yeah, emcee.
What--what can we call Melody's baby?
'Cause you know baby's funky.
- I'm going to try my best to rectify this situation.
At least maybe this gift could be a peace offering
to show that we do actually care about her.
- This is so cute.
Aw.
So how did Teddy end up running 113th?
- He graduated from the couch directly
into a management position overnight.
- Why?
- Because Cease is so loyal to his friends.
- I'm surprised, because Cease usually hires the right people.
Like me.
Maybe he should consult me more about 113th, as well.
What's it like at 113?
- One thirteenth is raggedy.
It's like a lot of things that go on that shop
that don't go at 125th.
Black Ink 113th, let that--mm-hmm,
I don't wanna say it, but mm-hmm.
If I can't say a word, I just mm-hmm.
I like our little vibe.
I like us enjoying each other's company,
but still gotta haze you a little bit...
at the shop. - No! No!
[laughs]
- ♪ Bring it up
♪
♪ Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up ♪
♪ Bring it up, bring it up
♪♪
- Snapchat, I'm back!
So, yo, you already know that I got the champagne on deck.
Boom.
♪ Mexican tequila, Mexican tequila ♪
Got that on deck, too.
- [doorbell rings]
- [laughs]
- DONNA: Hello.
- Who is it?
- DONNA: It's Donna.
- D Money.
- [laughs]
- Yo. What the [bleep] is these bags about, bitch?
- I may need a couple of days on your couch.
- Whoa, bitch...back up.
I'm not running a flop house.
- I know I'm imposing.
But just for a couple of days.
I'll keep my things very confined.
I just need spiritual guidance right now.
- [sighs]
What is going on?
- Uh, it's just too many memories of Maxwell at home.
I'm in the kitchen thinking about
how he used to [bleep] me over here.
How I used to make dinner with him.
So I cannot go nowhere in this house
without thinking about Maxwell.
- Mm-hmm. - Then I'm also thinking about
all the [bleep] that he did to me in this house.
After I burned my wedding dress, I really felt a sense of relief.
But since I let my marriage go, I'm really starting to see
the extent of how bad things really were.
This time, I just been having to really sit back
and think about it.
Like this [bleep] really took advantage of me though.
Like he found me in a weak place.
And then just really took advantage of that.
- Yeah.
- I really truly lost myself in that relationship.
Like I didn't have no friends.
I was hiding [bleep] from my family.
And he was beating my ass, Sky.
I couldn't go to work,
because I had black eyes from this [bleep].
If I would have came up missing, or hurt, or in the hospital,
nobody would have knew nothing, 'cause I wasn't saying nothing.
He would prey on me.
Like I was like a [bleep] sick animal or some [bleep].
Just like so [bleep] up, because then in my head,
I'll be like so upset
and so hurt that he did that to me.
But then I'm also trying to figure out
how he could have did that to me,
and he supposedly loved me so much.
And I'm still trying to sit there
and justify for this [bleep] though.
Like, "Oh, he's going through this."
Or "He's stressing about this."
- Never think that you no dumb girl
for whatever you've been through.
You beautiful, you smart.
And I'm about to cry,
because you're one of the most genuine bitches I know.
[sobbing] I want you to just focus up though.
- Yeah, me, too.
- SKY: You get what I'm saying?
And you gotta go to your next steps.
'Cause I know that you can do it.
Listening to Donna tell me that Max abused her really hurts.
So I just--I wanna be there for her right now.
And like really comfort her.
- I'm just so ready to just feel unconditional love.
Like...when nothing can come between you.
You know what I'm saying?
I didn't even--I just wanna feel that.
I wanna stop searching for love and just have it.
- I'm so tempted to just stomp all over that rug.
I came here today to let Ted know
that he's not gonna [bleep] with my money.
I'm ready.
- [door buzzes]
- 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.
- Well, I heard some stories about, you know, 113.
- What you heard? - You all raggedy.
- [bleep] you mean we raggedy?
- What's up, boo?
- [indistinct yelling]
- ♪
- ♪ I've been on top
♪ And I ain't even into my prime ♪
♪ [unintelligible]
♪♪
- SKY: My uterus is killing me today.
Right now, it feels like someone's tap dancing on it.
- Someone's tap dancing on your uterus?
- No, doing the [bleep] nae-nae on it actually,
'cause it's in one spot. - What?
- SKY: It's crazy.
Where everybody at?
- I was 'bout to ask you the same [bleep]. [laughs]
- SKY: I don't know where Teddy is.
I don't know where Bae is.
But I do know that Melody has a client coming in today.
And she is pissed with a capital P.
Hi, baby! - Hey!
- How you feeling? How's my baby?
- MELODY: It's doing good.
The mother [bleep] is strong.
Due any day now.
- Any day?
That is so exciting.
What if you have a baby while you're doing a tattoo?
- MELODY: I will pop this baby out right here in the shop.
- ♪
- I came here today to let Ted know
that he's not gonna [bleep] with my livelihood,
and he's not gonna [bleep] with my clients.
And, you know, the gift from Dutchess and Ceaser
was a super sweet gesture.
But I still want an apology from Ted.
I'm gonna have birth on that rug. [laughs]
I'm ready. - [door buzzes]
- Hi, welcome to Black Ink.
- Hi, how are you? How are you doing?
- SKY: It's a model. - How are you?
Where've you been? - Welcome.
- Thank you. - Good, I'm excited.
- What are you doing on her?
- We're gonna do a lotus flower.
- Nice.
We might need a little Mel a little bit.
She brings a little bit of the diversity.
Different kind of hippie money.
Anything that we can do to make some money
and bring some money into this shop.
- So talk to me a little bit about this tattoo,
what it means for you.
- Um, I've been wanting to get a lotus flower
just because the background of it is new beginnings.
I'm kind of in a new chapter in my life.
- I can definitely relate to all of that.
If someone would have told me five years ago
that I was gonna be a mom, I would have been like,
"Who the [bleep] are you talking to?"
[laughs] Not me.
I remember the first time I saw the baby kick.
I was like, "Oh my God, I gotta get my [bleep] together."
- [bleep], I had to get everything like ducks in a row.
- Uh, I'm excited about this tattoo.
It's gonna be beautiful, very meaningful.
Alright, so just lay down for me.
- Okay.
- MELODY: I've got so many emotions going though me.
I'm gonna be a mother any day now.
- ♪ Yeah, I was lost, but we did find ♪
♪ I found a love of a lifetime ♪
- Do you have to take a lot of time off of work
or see what happens?
- Um, I'm gonna kinda just play it by ear.
I don't wanna take too much time off.
- Uh-huh.
- I don't know, I've always been
so career driven and maybe a little selfish.
I came to New York City three years ago
to make an impact.
I don't wanna be some mediocre tattoo artist.
I wanna be at the top of the food chain.
- ♪
- Becoming a mother and still trying to follow my career,
I know it's a lot of work.
And I am a little scared that maybe I can't do both.
- ♪
♪ You are born to live your life ♪
- MELODY: I'm so [bleep] nervous.
But then I look down at my big old belly,
and I'm just super excited
to get to know that little mother [bleep]
and just hold it and it be so cute.
Alright, we are done.
- ♪
- Oh, it's beautiful.
I love it.
[laughs] I'm so excited.
- ♪
- CEASER: There we go.
- ♪
- Thank you, thank you very much.
- MAN: You're welcome, sir.
- Ever since I opened up 2-5th, business been great.
So good, we've been drinking [bleep] champagne
with our pinkie in the air.
Cheers, you know what I mean? - Mm-hmm.
- Until you get Oprah and Stedman in here.
- Let's make this money.
- [indistinct chatter]
- [bleep] what up, yo?
- What up?
- 'Bout time [bleep] came back home.
- Yeah, but it's not [bleep] anymore, it's Richard.
- What? Who the [bleep] is Richard?
[bleep], shut up.
- I grew up a little bit.
- [laughing] This mother [bleep]
got a tie on and [bleep].
What [bleep] rehab he went to?
Business rehab?
Well, let me introduce you to my new staff.
That's Kit. - How are you?
- RICHARD: Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- This right here-- - [unintelligible].
- What up?
- And these are my artists.
That's L.A., my black and gray specialist.
This is Eli, mother [bleep] draw [bleep] all day.
- I love erotic art.
- Pervert.
- [laughs] Pervert.
- And this right here, is the whole 1-2-5th.
You know what I mean?
- The shop looks really good, bro.
I'm really proud of you.
Come downstairs. Let me holler at you real quick.
The 125th is a serious shop.
It's the complete opposite of 113th.
And it really does motivate me and inspire me.
This is exactly where I wanna be.
- Welcome to 2-5th.
- Yo, I'm really impressed with the way
that you put everything together.
That's what's up, bro.
I'm excited to get back in it.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Bro, I ain't seen you in forever.
Like how was rehab down south?
- Like I was going to go to South Carolina.
So I like--
- But?
- Plans changed, I need to make money.
So I went out to California.
Out there, I was working out in, uh, Oakland.
- So wait. You ain't go to rehab?
- Nah, I just needed to get away.
I didn't really need rehab.
What I really needed was just a peace of mind.
- What?
You snort more coke than Pablo
could bring in the mother [bleep] country,
but you don't need rehab?
Yo, this mother [bleep] crazy, B.
How you gonna tell yourself you don't need rehab?
- Because I've been to rehab before.
- But last time we sat down and talked, bro, you was on--
- The road to destruction, yeah, I was.
- In the past, I let [bleep] get away
with so much bull [bleep] because of his addiction.
And it drove me crazy.
I believed in you [bleep]!
So why the [bleep] I can't get the same [bleep] respect?
- No, yo, I just wanted to apologize.
- [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
Get the [bleep] out of my face!
You [bleep] [bleep]!
Now I have to set boundaries with him.
I have to let him know like,
"This is [bleep] is not gonna be tolerated."
I'll be honest with you, [bleep].
Like a repeating cycle,
you [bleep] up, and I take you back.
- Yeah.
- You [bleep] up, and I take you back.
- Look, what I'm saying--
- I can't take no chances right now.
- This is my pretty much only option
is working for Black Ink.
Because I'm know as being-- working at Black Ink.
- I don't have no space for you in 2-5th.
- Cease, I'm not a begging man,
but I am gonna beg you right now.
Yo, can you please give me a job working here at 125th?
- ♪
- I know I had my issues.
I used to party a lot.
But you know what? That's in my past.
I'm clean now.
Like I need this job, I need stability so that I can
move forward with my career and my life with Nikki.
I already got over all of my issues.
I battled my demons, and I won.
I'm gonna make a new name.
Everybody's gonna know the name Richard Duncan, the artist.
He's gonna be serious about it.
- [thunder rumbling]
- Let's do this, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- I'm gonna give you one more shot at 113th.
If you feel like you changed like that,
it should be nothing for you
to be around 113th without relapse.
If you can do that, then you can come 125th.
- As long as I got supportive people around me,
yes, I feel like I can do anything.
I know that 113th is a party shop.
And Nikki's not gonna wanna hear that,
yes, I'm gonna be in this atmosphere
where people are partying all the time.
But I'm glad that Ceaser's giving me the chance.
Now I just have to make sure that I stay focused.
- Like understand this.
If you kicked that habit, I'm definitely proud of you.
But if you didn't, bro, you can't be here no more, man.
- [thunder rumbling]
- Tiffany Perez fits in perfect
with my vision for Black Ink 113th.
- The moment I came in, this raggedy chick over here.
She had this stink face going on.
- Did you actually tell him how serious you were though?
- Can I change another man's mind?
- You can show him.
- I did show him.
This is not ideal for me either.
You think I wanna be over there?
Ceaser's just not with it.
- ♪
♪ [unintelligible] ♪
- SKY: Since Mel's about to have her baby,
you need to hire Donna.
Let her in!
Let her in.
Let her--let her in.
Let her in, let her in.
- You all finished your Donna war cry?
- [laughs]
- She needs a job.
- Donna's not a tattoo artist.
I've been looking for new tattoo artists
instead of like an apprentice.
Like we need somebody that's gonna bring some money in,
somebody's that solidified.
- ♪
- Remember the little curly haired drink
that came in here to try to get a job?
And Dutchess kind of curbed that [bleep]?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I know someone.
We already know how Dutchess gets when--
you know what I mean-- some pretty vaginas around her.
She don't like that [bleep] at all.
- TIFFANY: Hi, I'm Tiffany.
- Are you a tattoo artist?
- Yes.
- CEASER: Where you tattoo out of?
- New Jersey.
- I have an issue with it.
That's just me personally.
- Your work is very impressive and all that [bleep].
But I can't say yes right now.
- TED: So I just hired her, and she's starting today.
- Ted, you bugging the [bleep] out.
Hiring somebody that Dutchess already said no to.
- How you think it's gonna be when Dutchess comes
and sees someone that she doesn't particularly care for?
- I'm not really worried about when Dutchess walk in.
- Uh-huh, I don't like it.
- Yeah, I'm actually on it right now,
see what you all think.
- YOUNG BAE: I love the shading.
- WALT: Not bad for the shop.
- Here she comes as we speak.
Don't open the door.
- [buzzer sounds]
- Hey!
- What's up?
- Hi. - Hi.
- TED: We're just sitting here [bleep].
- Oh, for real? - What's up?
I really don't care that Dutchess
has an issue with Tiffany.
She's not in charge of the shop.
I'm running [bleep] now.
Tiffany Perez fits in perfect
with my vision for Black Ink 113th.
Number one, she's a dope-ass tattoo artist.
Number two, she looks good as [bleep].
And number three, she's a Spanish woman.
Everybody knows Ted loves Spanish girls.
Welcome back to Black Ink.
- Welcome back. [laughs]
I'm feeling the shop.
You got the strip pole.
[laughing]
- Let me show you your room where you need to set up.
Come here, follow me.
- ♪
- Noooo!
- SKY: Yep, I swear.
It's between us. - YOUNG BAE: Are you sure?
- Keep it in the front.
Don't take it to the back.
- What? - YOUNG BAE: [laughing]
- My name is Tiffany.
I'm 100% Puerto Rican.
Before I became a tattoo artist,
I was this little girl going to college.
And then I got introduced to tattoos.
- ♪ Do a bit every time that you see me ♪
- I've been tattooing for eight years.
When it comes to black and gray realism,
I gotta say I'm the best.
And I'm gonna make sure that I'm the best one in this shop.
- TED: Everything set up back there?
- TIFFANY: Yeah, I'm all good.
- TED: The energy feel a little different when you walked in?
- TIFFANY: Oh, it feels way better.
The way the shop was before,
it was a little on the negative side.
- And what happened last time you was here?
What happened? - So, all right--
- SKY: Fill me in. You walked in--
- I walked in, and this raggedy chick
over here, Dutchess.
- SKY: Raggedy chick.
- TIFFANY: I'm sorry, but she--the moment I came in--
the vibe was real negative.
That's all I gotta say.
She had this stink face going on.
And I instantly knew she wasn't feeling me.
Almost felt a little bit like jealousy.
Is she gonna be here?
That's the question.
- SKY: She might come through here.
She might come through here.
- She's welcome here. - Yeah.
- [laughing]
- SKY: Now hold on, bitch.
Why do you think you're that comfortable to sit there
and talk about this bitch Dutchess to any of us?
You're not gonna do that on your first day, ho.
Teddy is hiring all of these people
that don't make any sense if I ever seen it.
- [buzzer sounds] - TIFFANY: Hey, Jim.
- Hey, how're you doing?
- How you're doing?
Great to see you. - JIM: You as well.
- TIFFANY: Good to go? - I'm ready to go, oh, yeah.
- TIFFANY: Alright, awesome.
- ♪
- So tell me about like what this means to you again.
- Uh, really, it's about my mother.
You know, she's a beautiful woman
on the outside. - TIFFANY: Yeah.
- And strong on the inside.
The wolf is symbolic of that.
- ♪
- I'm definitely gonna hook up this tattoo for you.
And show them that I should've been here a long time ago.
- JIM: There you go.
- So, let's get ready to do this.
- Let's go.
- ♪
♪ Surrounded by the fire
♪ Can you get any higher
- TIFFANY: I feel like I can relate to this tattoo.
The wolf element, I think, represents me.
Being in a male-dominated industry, I always
had to prove myself and show that I can do what men can do,
or anybody, at that.
- ♪ I just wanna know the truth ♪
♪ What am I supposed to do
- Being like this quiet and small girl,
I feel like people always wanna take advantage of that
and pick on me and mess with me.
And it just gets me so angry.
My parents used to say, "Just ignore it."
And ignoring it just made me bottle up
all these feelings inside that I never got to express.
So now that I'm older,
I refuse to keep this bottled up inside no more.
If you disrespect me, well, I'm gonna disrespect you, too.
- ♪ When the skies are falling down ♪
♪
- TIFFANY: 'Cause I got turned down last time,
I feel that I have something to prove at Black Ink.
I'm just gonna do whatever I can to show that
I am the best and top artist, and they're gonna love me.
Okay, we are all done.
- JIM: I can't wait to look at it.
- Take a look.
- JIM: Oh wow.
- TIFFANY: So this is my first tattoo at Black Ink.
- I think they're gonna be jealous
they didn't do it themselves.
- [laughing]
- ♪ We gonna rise up, rise up
♪ Rise up
♪ To the end fall down
♪ To the end fall down ♪
- NIKKI: What are you making?
- I'm making you some of that good old gourmet Top Ramen.
- Wait, what are you putting in there for real though?
What is that?
- Even though we've been dating for a few months now, I mean,
like Nikki's completely committed to being
a part of this relationship.
She left her life in San Francisco,
and she moved to New York
just so that I can be closer to my children.
That's the epitome of commitment.
- Salsa?
- Kinda sort of.
- What else are we eating besides Ramen?
This is it?
- You know we on a budget, girl.
We ain't got that kind of money.
I ain't got no job.
Right now, we're living in a cramped apartment
with two other roommates.
I wanna get Nikki
the dream apartment that she deserves.
But I'm a little bit reluctant to tell her that I'm gonna
have to actually work at 113th to get this money up.
- When do you think you're gonna be able to talk to Ceaser?
- I already did kinda speak with Ceaser.
- Okay, you didn't tell me that.
- Uh.
- What did he say to you?
- Ceaser told me that, um...he's gonna give me a job.
- That's good, that's great.
This is good news.
Why am I just hearing about this?
- Because it's not the job that you think is gonna be best.
- What do you mean?
- He gave me a job working at 113th.
- ♪
- Wait, hold on, what?
- Yes, Ceaser gave me a job working at 113th.
- Why didn't you tell him that you wanted to work at 125th?
- Ceaser knows that-- - That's what we discussed.
- I know that that's what we discussed, honey.
But I have no choice of what Ceaser says.
- NIKKI: What about sobriety?
You tell me how being at 113th with all of the elements
that you could not handle being around,
everything's just gonna be peaches and cream?
- This is not ideal for me either.
You think I wanna be over there?
- Did you actually tell him how serious you were though?
- Can I change another man's mind?
No, I can't.
- You can show him.
- I did show him.
Ceaser's just not with it.
Being in 113th where people are constantly drinking,
it's gonna be tough.
But now that I have Nikki in my life,
I can get through anything.
- I don't understand how you're not worried about it.
- We're trying to get out of this situation.
- Getting out of this situation is only gonna be as good
as how sustainable and stable our lives are, Richard.
- You have to have just a little bit of faith in me.
- I have all the faith in you!
It has nothing to do about you!
It has to do with the environment.
Like it's not okay for you to work at the shop again.
- ♪
- Teddy just hired some new bitch named Tiffany.
And she's very disrespectful.
I might have to smother this ho.
Shut the [bleep] up, bitch.
- She gonna die.
- ♪
- WALT: What the [bleep]?
- What are you doing?
- What is all of this?
- Um, can you talk to us for a second?
- WALT: He took his sneakers off.
This must be serious.
'Cause you know he can't be getting sneakers messed up.
- [laughs]
- What the hell is Teddy doing?
- TED: [whistles]
- SKY: This [bleep] like on some espionage [bleep],
not even filling in on what the [bleep] is going on.
- What are you trying to do with this room?
Yo, why yo cleaning everything up finally?
- Teddy's Playhouse needs a boom-boom room.
- ♪
- I'm turning Cease's old office
into Teddy's Boom-Boom Room.
It's gonna be a sexy room.
You know anything goes in this room.
I was thinking swing, little water bed.
- A swing, mother [bleep]?
- TED: You'll see at the party this weekend.
- Alright.
- And we gonna be boom, boom, booming right out this room.
- Like, come on, brother.
Like you really turning this into a sex shop.
- Yo!
Melody had the baby!
- TED: What?
- SKY: Melody had the baby!
I just got the text!
- TED: I don't know if Mel is still pissed at me,
but I know I didn't do nothing wrong.
Hopefully the baby has given her pregnancy brain,
and we can just move on from this [bleep].
- SKY: Mel Money!
- WALT: Hey!
- Congratulations!
How is the baby?
- Ky, he's a boy.
- [all cheering]
- I knew it was a boy.
- [crying]
- [all cheering]
- He like, "Get that [bleep] out of my face, Mama!"
- SKY: We love you.
- My new baby Ky Jundo was born at home in my apartment.
Seven pounds, ten ounces.
Can you believe that little mother [bleep]
came out of me?
You wanna see the umbilical cord?
- No, I don't wanna see no-- - SKY: I wanna see
the umbilical cord, please.
- Uh!
- SKY: What about the placenta?
- I ate the placenta.
- Ugh!
- What the [bleep] you mean you ate it?
- Oh!
- TED: What?
- Oh my God, that is disgusting.
But I kinda wonder how it taste like.
No, I don't.
- Mom of the year already!
Love you! Mean it!
- ♪
- [baby crying]
- MELODY: Life since bringing Ky into the world is awesome.
Like my whole world has changed.
- ♪ 'Cause there's 3 million ways ♪
♪ To change my life
- MELODY: Last week, I was so concerned with Ted
and him stealing my clients.
But this week...all that I care about is my baby.
He's my little monkey.
- ♪ Forever, oh ♪
- ♪
- CEASER: I can't believe this.
I'm in Rucker's championship.
- What the hell is a Rucker?
- That is our mecca of basketball.
That is the biggest tournament in New York.
- All right.
- CEASER: Man, they gave me a championship.
I'm talking [bleep] to Carmelo, Derrick Rose,
all the mother [bleep] Knicks playing ass [bleep].
This might be better than the first piece of [bleep]
I ever had, yo.
- Hey, how you're doing?
- Welcome to Black Ink 125th.
- ♪
- KIT: How are you? - How are you?
- Good, good. - What's your name?
- My name is Kitty.
- Nice to meet you, Kitty.
Meow, bitch.
Oh, there goes the man with the master plan.
What's up, Boss Man?
I'm surprised you don't got gold seats
in this mother [bleep].
Upscale as we are on 1-2-5.
- CEASER: This ain't George Jefferson.
Sit your ass down, man.
- SKY: Okay.
- What's up?
- Um...yeah, so, listen...I wanted to...
know--I need--may I have a raise
and a higher title position?
- ♪
- You're asking for a raise?
- I want a raise and a better position.
- ♪
- I'm asking for a promotion, because I [bleep] deserve it!
I put my heart, sweat, tears,
real blood in this mother [bleep].
I feel as though that I've proven myself enough to show
that I'm responsible enough to hold these duties.
I'm just--it's a lot more responsibility.
- Let me think about this.
- Ah! - [laughs]
- Welcome to Black Ink, come on in!
- ♪ - Ah!
- No!
- Some titties, some titties!
Got some titties right there!
- ♪
- [laughs] Don't stop, [bleep], don't stop!
- Seriously, I would love to take on a more serious--
- What would be this "serious" role
that you're gonna take on?
- Maybe assistant manager.
- Assistant manager?
- Yes.
Respect me and put some respect in my [bleep] name.
- I'll probably talk to Ted about it.
- Why does Teddy have a say in my future?
- No, he really don't--I mean--
- Because he can't even do his own job.
- CEASER: Alright, what Ted do?
- Teddy just hired some new bitch named Tiffany.
And she's very disrespectful.
You know I'm not fighting no more,
but I might have to smother this ho for like five seconds
in the middle of a conversation.
"Shut the [bleep] up, bitch."
- She's gonna die.
- You can sleep on it, but I'm putting this out there.
- I'm gonna think about it.
- ♪
- Giving Sky an ounce of power scares me.
All the [bleep] female tattoo artists
in [bleep] bikinis,
half-naked men running around with oily chests.
I don't want that [bleep] in my shop.
- SKY: It was fun.
Thank you for having me up.
- CEASER: Of course, like I always do.
- SKY: You know Teddy is throwing another party tomorrow.
Come through. - I'll think about it.
- SKY: I'm heading out of here.
I wanna pee in your toilet here.
- Yeah, you better not take a [bleep] in there, yo.
- ♪
- CEASER: She taking a [bleep].
[bleep].
- You coming up in here
talking about people are raggedy as hell.
- What's up, boo?
What's up, boo?
- [indistinct yelling]
- ♪
- Get the mother [bleep] party started!
- [crowd cheering]
- Whoo!
Tonight, we're celebrating the opening
of Teddy's Boom-Boom Room.
We're about to turn up!
Oh!
- ♪
- TED: Hey, hey, can I get you all attention, please?
I wanna thank everybody for coming out to Black Ink 113.
This is officially an all-girls' tattoo shop.
- [crowd cheering]
- So we have all women tattooing here.
So any women feel free.
Y'all can come here,
you all can take all your clothes off.
- [silence]
- [crowd oohs]
- TED: Here's to the new Black Ink 113.
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪
- It's time to mother [bleep] turn up!
- ♪
- I brought Nikki to 113th tonight because I wanted
to show her this is gonna be a good place for me to work.
- Move out of my way!
Ah!
- I had no idea that it was gonna be a full-blown party.
[bleep].
- [crowd cheering]
- What is that?
There's a swing.
- ♪
- I don't think that that's for like children.
No, it has carpet on it.
- I get Ted wants his sex swing inside the shop.
And it's cool.
But you see, I'm trying to put my best foot forward
to show how good I'm gonna be.
You kinda [bleep] up, Ted.
- So you've never seen this room?
- No.
- NIKKI: I just don't understand the purpose.
Like it's like, "Oh, hey, come get a tattoo.
You wanna come swing in the back?"
- I mean--
Who knows?
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪
- Hello.
Well, how are you?
Hello, hello, hello.
Ceaser asked me to go to the party at 113th.
Hi, I am Miss Kit Sovain.
How are you?
As Black Ink's brand ambassador,
I'm here to check things out tonight,
make sure everything is up to our standards.
- Kitty?
Hey, Kitty, how're you doing? - Hi, I'm--
- My name's Walter. How're you doing?
- I'm Kit Sovain.
I came here on behalf of Cease.
Coming to check this--check this out.
- "I'm here on behalf of Ceaser."
Who the [bleep] you think you are, bitch?
You the messenger now?
- Hello, I'm Kit.
I'm from 125th.
The 125th.
- What the [bleep] does that mean?
- That means we are that [bleep].
We are the [bleep].
- TED: Why would you think?
- No, I heard some stories about, you know, 113.
- TED: What you heard? - You all raggedy.
- ♪
- TED: What the [bleep] did you just say?
Who give you the balls to come in here and say that?
- What the [bleep] you mean we being raggedy?
We don't come up in 2-5th like, "Oh, I heard you was--"
- KIT: We the originals.
- Why we gotta be all that?
Like you know what they say.
Messengers get shot, bitch.
- I'm surprised.
- Surprised at what?
- You feel some type of way?
- You said do I feel some type of way?
- 'Cause you're coming up in here talking about people
are raggedy as hell.
- This is your first time meeting us.
You sure you wanna run your mouth like that?
- TIFFANY: That's mad disrespectful.
You don't say that to people.
- What's your title, boo?
What's your title?
- TIFFANY: I'm the bitch that's gonna [bleep] you up.
- ♪
- 'Cause you're coming up in here talking about people
are raggedy as hell. You don't say that to people.
- What's your title, boo? What's your title?
- TIFFANY: I'm the bitch that's gonna [bleep] you up.
- Oh, [bleep].
- One question. Why are you here?
- I'm representing Ceaser.
- This is how you represent Ceaser?
- I'm representing the shop at 125th.
- See, that funny.
It just pisses me the [bleep] off.
How you gonna walk into a place and judge people?
You gotta know when to shut your mouth up.
- That's just what we're saying.
- Did I say--
- That's exactly your words though.
- I mean, everybody's kinda surrounding me right now.
So I feel a little bit--
- Everybody's honing in on you, ready to punch you in your face.
- I'm like--
- [indistinct arguing]
- KIT: Yo, back up.
Like it's not my fault
you all shaped like a pack of Newports.
That's not my fault.
You need to blame genetics and your ugly ass parents.
- TIFFANY: Don't come at me like that.
- What's up, boo?
What's up, boo?
- [indistinct yelling]
- [bleep].
- [indistinct yelling]
- WALT: Already?
Tiffany, you been here, what, two and a half days?
I mean, all right, you wanna hold down the Black Ink name
and all that shit, but geesh Louise.
- [indistinct yelling]
- Get her off my hair.
- [indistinct yelling]
- RICHARD: Yo, what the [bleep]?
These are grown women over here acting like little children,
scrapping over nothing.
- Disrespecting Black Ink.
Stay where the [bleep] you are, bitch!
- [indistinct yelling]
- Cease is gonna hear about this.
Every time I see that bitch, it's gonna be a problem.
- You know what?
- ♪ And this is why I drink water ♪
- You all gotta stop this.
Like this [bleep] is whack.
What we need to do is get some Black Ink Crew tampons
in this mother [bleep].
'Cause it's about to get real messy with these bitches.
- Hey, hey, everybody!
Get the [bleep] out!
- MAN: [bleep].
- I just wanna ask you a question.
- Get off the ground.
- Nakaya, will you be Nakaya Shaniya Lynn Duncan?
- My name's Bianca. Nice to meet you.
- Oh, Bianca.
- SKY: Donna's in disguise,
because she's not welcomed here at Black Ink.
So I have to change her name, everything.
- Bianca? Really?
- This is for you.
- What the [bleep] is this? What?
What the [bleep] you mean the lights are off?
How you [bleep] run the light bill up to $3,900?
What happened to my mother [bleep] office?
- You say some [bleep] like that, get out of here.
Listen, you don't [bleep] with me.
- SKY: Bae, unlock the door!
Unlock the door, Bae!
- [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]!
- ♪