(Ceaser) I'm holding this press conference today to tell my side of the story.
(man) Mr. Emanuel is gonna share a few words.
- The things that are being said about me online,
in publications, they're not true.
- You have a condition called trigeminal neuralgia.
We're gonna get an MRI to make sure that nothing else
is irritating that nerve.
- Now it's the hard part-- waiting for the results.
- I'm facing some felony charges.
(woman) He allegedly arranged for three kilos of cocaine
to be shipped to Tatiana Ritter.
- This is a setback for me, but I don't want it to be
a setback for what we've been building.
(Puma) I did another Puma production--
battle of the sexes.
It didn't go well.
- What do you mean?
- The client felt like you made the end
to their whole situation worse.
And they legit said you.
- This really (bleep) me up.
You know it never happened before
and it's never gonna happen again.
- We're gonna have to change the narrative for Black Ink.
We have to learn the ethics of being a minority tattoo artist.
Poch is one of the most talented
black tattoo artists of this time.
- This white allows me to see exactly what the contrasts were.
- This situation made me realize my crew is willing to grow.
- Give Poch the keys to the city.
(all laughing)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ You don't wanna swap, you don't really wanna mob ♪♪
♪♪ You don't wanna know your odds when it comes to the best ♪♪
♪♪ You ain't never tried, you would never tried ♪♪
♪♪ You ain't never ride or survive ♪♪
♪♪ Over time with the best ♪♪
♪♪ I've been doing this (bleep) my whole life ♪♪
♪♪ I've been doing this (bleep) my whole life ♪♪♪♪
- It's been a minute since everybody's been in one shop.
- And everybody's booked and busy.
- Yeah. - Your favorite thing to see.
- I see Alex is here, too.
- That's what I'm saying. - I'm surprised.
He's gonna have to leave soon.
(Ted) Got your ankle monitor on?
- (bleep) y'all. - (laughing)
Thank God the shop is back to normal
because it was getting a little toxic,
just a little bit.
But having Poch's workshop,
it really cleared out all the bad energy,
and I feel like this is home again.
- It's (bleep) hot out there.
- Yo. - What up, (bleep)?
- What is going on, y'all, what's going on?
Everybody, everybody, do we have a surprise
for y'all today that's gonna calm the atmosphere.
With the success of the Poch workshop,
me and Ceaser came up with a brilliant idea to
bring the Black Ink brand to another level,
and I think I got the perfect person
to make this happen.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Got body ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Oh, (bleep), look who the (bleep) it is.
- Hey!
(Puma) Yes!
- Hi, Ted. - How you been?
- Tan as (bleep). Where you been?
- Look at that.
- It's so good seeing Sassy.
I'm not gonna lie, with all the changes that are happening
in Black Ink, it feels good to have an old, familiar face.
Are we gonna turn it up tonight?
And whenever I needed Sassy,
I could always count on her being there.
- Here's where we are now, and as far as I'm concerned,
there's deeper (bleep) going on at your shop of this--
outside of this painting situation, I'm just saying.
- I knew when I came up with my genius idea
and asked Puma to help, there was only one person
to call, and that was Sassy.
- I'm here to catch up.
I wanna see what's new.
This is my first time here.
(Ceaser) You like it?
- Bro, this is (bleep) beautiful.
It is so good to be back with the crew.
Just to kick it, talk (bleep), kiki about old times.
- What about that time that (bleep) tattooed
that dollar sign by his ear?
- I can hear the money calling me.
- (Ted) This mother(bleep) really was walking around
talking about, "I can hear the money calling."
- He could hear the money calling!
- Y'all forgot about that. - Wow.
- But I know that there just must be some reason
why Ceaser and Puma asked me
to come all the way out to Black Ink Brooklyn.
So what's up?
What you thinking about over there?
Tell me what's in your brain. I wanna know.
(Ceaser) Sassy, you remember "Black Ink Magazine."
(Sassy) Yeah.
- I started "Black Ink Magazine," plain and simple,
because no other magazine
would sit there and publish black skin
or a black tattoo artist.
So what I did was I made a magazine about us and for us.
(Sassy) Damn, y'all, this is Cardi B.
(Puma) She look mad young and innocent.
(Tatti) Super.
(Ceaser) A lot of those (bleep) don't understand,
before people was people, they used to (bleep) with us.
People don't understand how big the "Black Ink Magazine" was
and how I didn't have enough time to keep it up.
It was a lot on my plate at that time.
But seeing this Poch workshop made me realize...
there's a lot more educating that we need to do.
So what I'm thinking is we're gonna let everybody know
we're still here and we're not going anywhere.
We've gotta do it, like, real big.
Like... a ad campaign
with a photo shoot of all of us, yo.
- Whoo. - Like, glamorous.
Like, on some-- I don't know--
like, some dynasty type of (bleep).
How-- I'm thinking, like, something like
a big-ass billboard. (Young Bae laughing)
- Advertising genius that I am,
we have to do the best and biggest billboard
anybody has seen
and let people know black is beau-ti-ful.
Make it about us.
- That'll be dope.
- So, Sassy, we already know you've been in that whole
industry of marketing and PR thing,
so we need your help on this.
What you think about that?
(Sassy) I would love to.
I think a photo shoot with everybody
is exactly what we need.
- I'm gonna be on a billboard?
- Yeah.
- OMG!
Let's talk about a bitch's dream.
A bitch's dream is to be on a billboard.
However, the other side of that is that we gotta look our best.
Listen, before we do this photo shoot,
everyone needs to get fit.
- Right, I've gotta lose weight, I wanna...
- I've gotta gain weight. - We need to look right.
(Ceaser) I guess you're in charge of that.
- Tatti boot camp.
(Young Bae) Oh, my God.
- Uh, yeah, y'all have fun, I'm too busy for all that.
(Tatti) Anybody wanna come to the boot camp, I've got y'all.
- ♪♪ I am the realest what else would you call it? ♪♪
♪♪ There've been many fillers if I'm being honest ♪♪
♪♪ And I've been no trouble just weighing the options ♪♪
♪♪ You know that I finish whatever I started ♪♪
♪♪ I am the realest ♪♪♪♪
(video game beeping)
(man) Oh, ripped him right off the rip.
- You already lost, bro, you next.
You trying to get your ass whupped, too?
- You don't want none.
I don't know what the child playing on this game nowadays.
- All right, "B," you wanna play games?
- Nah, I don't, not no more.
- So how's work been treating you, bro?
- Yeah, I lost it. - You lost what?
- Yeah, I lost my job.
- I lost my job, but I'm good.
- So-- so you'll be able to pay the other half of the rent?
Like, you have no problems doing that (bleep), right?
- I got that under control.
- All right, so we got Aaron, my younger brother.
Aaron's been living with me since
the beginning of quarantine.
And then we've got my brother Mario,
which is my oldest brother.
Mario-- Mario be coming by when, you know,
he's going through the bull(bleep),
you know, girl problems and work problems.
- Oh... okay.
- You know how much those worth?
They're, like, two racks, bro.
- No, they're not.
- (sniffs)
You smelt that to make sure what?
- To make sure it's real, bro.
- That's how you check out if sneakers are real?
- Yeah, bro.
If you've ever had a pair of fake sneakers and you smell it,
it smells like... I would say rubber factory or something.
- Word, they smell like factory.
- It's like it's not the right smell, bro.
- (inhaling)
(exhaling)
All right, so it looks like, you know--
- You're doing your thing. - He's doing his thing, man.
All right. So what about you, Mario?
What you doing about money?
- When are you gonna teach me how to tat?
- Aaron, you hear this kid?
I can't teach you how to tattoo
because, one, you're not gonna take it serious.
I could give you the machine, the needles--
- I bought the machine before.
- All right, and what'd you do?
How many tattoos did you do?
- I did none.
- A waste of time.
Mario's my big brother.
You know, I always looked up to him.
He always had the freshest gear and all that (bleep).
And when I was younger,
I actually wanted to be just like him.
But he's a little crazy.
I just wanna make sure y'all good before, you know,
I make any further steps.
'Cause you know what Bah said, man.
"It's only us, man."
Team standby.
You always gotta take care of your brothers.
He never left us behind.
- You're taking over Bah's place?
- I feel like I have to, bro, 'cause to be honest,
it seems like when Bah passed,
we all hit rock bottom, bro, all three of us.
- Stop. - So after that (bleep),
that (bleep) pushed me
and now I've gotta do what I've gotta do.
Bah, he passed away three years ago.
My father really held it down
being a single father of three kids.
He never gave up on us.
And the one thing that he always told me to do was...
keep an eye on my brothers
and make sure they're never (bleep) up.
And I never forgot that, even when I was homeless.
You see where that-- that little orange thing is?
Me and my brother were sleeping in there, you know?
You see the carpet and (bleep).
I tried to make it as nice as possible.
Team was his biggest thing.
You never leave anybody behind.
- Look, just know Papi's proud, son.
- You know, Krystal did a tattoo on me and (bleep).
Every-- every time I'm somewhere, I just look down,
I'll be like, "All right, I got Bah with me and (bleep)."
I got Bah on me-- - It came out real good.
- Back in Atlanta, Krystal gave me a portrait of my father.
And I told her, "Yo, if you could kill this piece,
I'll love you for life."
And she killed it, so I'm in love for life.
I've just been thinking a lot, bro, I'm 31.
I wanna get my life together, bro, I wanna settle down, I--
- 31 years old.
- You know, probably have a kid or, you know, get married--
- Kid! - I'm dead serious, bro.
- I love your lady, yo.
- She gotta rock different, right?
- Nah, it's not-- it's not even about that, yo.
It's like, it's just who she is, you know what I mean? Like...
- I knew my brothers were gonna love Krystal.
Like, come on. Y'all see a smile on my face.
- I think you made a good choice--
- She's the right person for you, bro.
- Yeah, bro, like... - It's different, bro.
It's like I'll literally do anything for her.
She's the one.
- ♪♪ Like I'm walking on Grand ♪♪
♪♪ Real slow creeping up the block ♪♪
♪♪ You can hear my drum beating my path ♪♪
♪♪ Like I'm walking on... ♪♪♪♪
(Tatti) Oh, I'm so glad somebody noticed the mess
and decided to do something about it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah... - Good job.
Thanks. - In fact, who did this?
- Yeah, for real.
- Yeah, who left this mess? - I don't know but it was--
- Like, this (bleep) is the front of the shop
and it smells like mad food in here.
Honestly, I'm super overwhelmed with my legal problems.
- He allegedly arranged for three kilos of cocaine
to be shipped to the post office box
owned by Tatiana Ritter.
- It's like every time I talk to my lawyer,
things just get even more real.
This is my lawyer.
You guys gotta get out.
Go, let's go, I'm serious.
Yo, stop playing with me.
(door slams)
And it's just so hard to stay positive
when I have all of this bull(bleep) going on in my life.
(Puma) You all right there, Pam?
- Yes, I'm wonderful, thank you.
- We'll get the guys to clean up, but...
- Are you sure you're all right?
- Move the mask down, put the "pokey" in your mouth
and that's it. - Time-out!
Your-- your-- your energy levels are on chaotic right now.
The one thing I hate is when people
bring they bull(bleep) to work.
So I gotta find out what the (bleep) is going on with Tatti,
because I don't need this negative energy in here.
You sure that everything is all right with you?
- No, it stinks in there, it's a (bleep) mess,
there's food everywhere, Fezy's, like, always playing games.
- No, that's not it.
What's really the goddamn problem?
You're not being your goddamn self,
and I wanna know what's going on.
♪♪♪♪
(Tatti sighing)
Well, Ceas already knows, so without saying too much,
because I really can't say too much...
- Okay.
- I'm facing a felony charge.
(Puma) Wow, I definitely wasn't expecting
that answer from Tatti.
A felony charge?
Goddamn, man, I hope they don't send baby girl to the island.
You don't wanna go there.
- I don't even know who to talk to about it
because my lawyer's so adamant on
don't talk about it to nobody and...
- You got your family, though, right?
- I'm grown.
Like, what are they gonna do for me?
I don't-- I don't want this to be nobody's problem.
- It's not about what they're gonna do for you,
but you want people to be in your corner,
especially when you're going through stuff like this.
You know what I'm saying?
- I feel like a little bit of a disappointment.
(sniffling)
- I understand--
- You know, so I'm really trying to, um...
just handle it on my own, honestly.
Obviously, I'm freaking the (bleep) out about it.
I'm constantly keeping myself busy and working
and distracting myself,
but I still have, like, this (bleep) thought
in the back of my head every day,
like, what's gonna happen?
Every time something's going so great for me,
it's somebody's (bleep) with me and trying to bring me down--
- What did you do to put yourself
in these goddamn positions?
'Cause this is not your first time
going down this (bleep) road.
So you gotta really start thinking about your movements
and what you're doing to keep putting yourself
in this goddamn scenario.
I know that (bleep) is (bleep) rough
and I know it's cold, but it's the harsh reality
of the game that you put yourself in.
You know what I mean?
Right now you need to be running it up
and trying to get everything in order as fast as you can.
- Yeah. - So that if something does happen,
at least you got something to come back to.
(Tatti) I really appreciate Puma keeping it real with me.
But I really don't wanna put my energy in focusing on
the worst that could happen.
I'd rather focus on the best-case scenario
and that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna keep moving forward
and challenge myself to stay positive.
(Puma) Yeah, get your (bleep) together.
You got this. Come here, come on, come on.
I know it's COVID and all that but, you know,
you're gonna be all right.
- ♪♪ (bleep) in the blood ♪♪
♪♪ She hit me up for some drugs ♪♪♪♪
- What the (bleep) is this?
How am I supposed to introduce a hot, new female artist
with her boyfriend talking this goofball (bleep) on the track?
- Yo. - Yo.
I need you take Rok off the song.
- He got into a bad car accident.
- Bro... - The car is smashed up.
- He's (bleep) up? - Oh, my God.
- All the (bleep) I've done this (bleep) for,
I've lost my reason.
That's all I ever had and all, bro.
♪♪♪♪
(Spyder) Ceaser, where are you moving to when you finish
with this whole (bleep), Jamaica?
- Nah, I wanna move to England. - What?
- You know what I mean? I'm gonna be old by then.
I'll be ready for the penny loafers and the teatime
and the-- and the fake British accent.
- 'ello. - 'ello.
- Teatime.
- Bloody mad.
- See? - Yeah.
- I don't have my accent down yet,
but I'm gonna have that (bleep) down sooner or later.
But, yes, I wanna have teatime.
- Big tattoo today, big tattoo today.
- Yeah? - Yo, a big, big Brooklyn celebrity.
We got the Goddess coming in today.
(Spyder) Oh, wow.
- K's been around for a minute, yo.
K Goddess has been getting tattooed from Black Ink
for a long, long time.
So we remember when she was in the mud.
Now she's a social media influencer,
up-and-coming female rapper representing Brooklyn.
- (indistinct rapping)
Hey.
- Oh, my God.
- Hola. - Hey, what's up?
- Brooklyn's here, people, Brooklyn's here.
- Hi, Ceaser. - What up?
- How you been? - You're late, as usual.
- I know, I'm sorry.
- That's artist (bleep). - Have a seat.
Yeah, this is your first time in the Brooklyn shop, right?
- Yeah, and I like it too.
It's dope, it's fire, it's better than what you came from.
- You're saying that (bleep) 'cause we in Brooklyn, ain't you?
- Yeah, but this is nice, though, this is dope.
- So, all right, tell me about this tattoo.
Why do you want it?
- I feel like everything that I go through in my life
is like a "laugh now, cry later" situation.
- Mm-hmm. - There's so many people, they see me outside,
they see me grinding and it looks like glitz and glam
from the outside.
And the inside it's like I'm really crying 'cause people
don't know what I go through. - That's a dope-ass concept,
but I ain't got no time for crying.
- Yeah. - I can't.
- I've got too much-- I got too much (bleep)
to build right now.
- Keep going forward. - Exactly.
- Stacking this (bleep).
You're doing great, I'm proud of you.
- Thank you.
- So you ready to do this tattoo?
- Buck, set the vibe for me.
- ♪♪ Not by chance, not by chance, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ Not by chance, not by chance, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ Been a whole lotta cryin', a whole lotta cryin' ♪♪
♪♪ But wouldn't take it back, not a chance, yeah ♪♪
Seeing Sassy, it brought back some good time,
but it also reminded me of the struggle.
We came a long way, but I'm not gonna tell you no lie.
I'd rather that bull(bleep) from back in the days
than the (bleep) I'm dealing with now.
- Mr. Emanuel is gonna share a few words.
- I was accused of being a child abuser
by my daughter's mother, it hurts.
- ♪♪ It's like you're in an iPhone when you had a Droid ♪♪
♪♪ We been endurin' for the night but don't forget the joy ♪♪
- Look, I know this court thing, it moves crazy slow.
I understand that.
I know one day I'm gonna have my daughter back in my life.
But for right now, all I'm gonna concentrate on
is positive things.
- ♪♪ My blessings outweigh all my tribulations ♪♪
♪♪ And I can trust that when I'm beat ♪♪
♪♪ That you gonn' change the cadence ♪♪
- My shops is thriving, my team is moving as a unit,
and this photo shoot is about to take us to the next level.
All I need now is my daughter to be right beside me
to run this empire.
I'm tired of (bleep) crying.
It's time for me to laugh again.
- ♪♪ Been a whole lotta cryin', a whole lotta cryin' ♪♪
♪♪ But wouldn't take it back not a chance, yeah ♪♪
(K) Mmm...
This is fire, I love it.
- Eh, I try.
- You definitely do.
Thank you. (giggles)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ You can get it like I got it I ♪♪
♪♪ I'm burning hotter, hotter, hotter ♪♪♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- I'ma play this mother(bleep) song for you.
Listen to this (bleep).
'Cause I'm having a hard time coming up with
the treatment for the video.
- ♪♪ I flip the script up on these hos and watch 'em copy ♪♪
- I've been running around like crazy getting this video
set up for Krystal.
I got a director, I got a stylist,
I even got a camera crew.
It's a big test for me, it's a big test for RGLR.
We need to prove that we can deliver on the hype.
If we don't, our name will be stuck in the mud,
and if you hadn't noticed, Ted ain't playing in no mud.
- ♪♪ BK loving that hope keep popping that (bleep) ♪♪
♪♪ Come see about me ♪♪
- ♪♪ Walk in the club chillin' with all of my thugs ♪♪
♪♪ (bleep) in the blood she hit me up for some drugs ♪♪
- What the (bleep) is this?
- ♪♪ Bring me the Hennessy... ♪♪
- What? - (bleep).
My-- my-- my bad, bro.
I don't know what the (bleep) just happened.
That definitely wasn't part of the song.
What the (bleep) is Rok still doing on this track?
'Cause I know when I was in Atlanta, I told Krystal
Rok couldn't be on this track.
- ♪♪ Throw your (bleep) pipe down ♪♪
♪♪ Wipe my (bleep) (bleep) off this seat ♪♪
- ♪♪ Let a (bleep) goddamn pocket let a (bleep) get... ♪♪♪♪
(Ted) I was impressed what I heard from you,
so I'm gonna give you an opportunity.
I don't know what you wanna do with Rok,
but tell him he's not a part of this.
How am I supposed to introduce a hot, new female artist
with her boyfriend talking this goofball (bleep) on the track?
Goddamn.
(cell phone ringing)
- Yo. - Yo.
Okay, I see you with the curls going on.
Look at you.
- Bro, took a shower.
- Oh, that's good.
You is busy?
- Uh, nah, I'm in the house.
- As you can see, I'm sitting in the studio.
I was just listening to the song and we got a little discrepancy.
- Okay, what's up?
- You didn't tell me Mr. Rocket In His Pocket
was gonna be on the song.
I thought we established that in Atlanta
that we was taking his verse off the song.
- I honestly did not even realize
that Teddy is this serious about taking Rok off the song.
- I can't deal with him shooting people and--
like, I don't got time for, like--
and it take away from the sexiness of the song.
Like I said, you talking spicy
and he's talking about killing people.
It don't go together.
- Okay.
- Yo, if you want us to work together, I need you
to take Rok off the song.
(intense music)
- All right.
I don't want him to mess up,
like, what I'm trying to do on the side...
- Right, right, right.
Now that we locked in that Rok's not gonna be on the song,
the next step will be me, you sitting down
and just coming up with a solid idea for the video.
- I feel like Rok maybe shouldn't be on the song.
But the only thing is, how is he gonna take it?
I don't wanna put my honey in a weird situation.
- All right, later. - See you.
- What do you wanna see that represents Black Ink?
- I don't know, that's why we hired professionals.
I'll leave that on y'all.
- Come on, you gotta give me something.
- So y'all are ready to get started?
- Yes! Come on, guys.
- Let's go!
- Oh, my God... whoo!
- Yes!
- (bleep), Spyder's going down.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Swingin' like Jackie Rob ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I'm swervin' this traffic like Jackie Rob ♪♪
♪♪ If I ever go broke... ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- It is time for Tatti's boot camp.
I'm going to whip everybody into shape
'cause we've got this photo shoot coming up,
so I need to make sure that we are the fittest,
sexiest, most swole tattoo shop in America.
- All right, so y'all are ready to get started?
- Yes, whoo!
Come on, guys.
- So we're gonna start in the saddle real quick.
- ♪♪ Turn it up now feel the vibrate ♪♪
♪♪ Can you do this all night, all day? ♪♪
♪♪ Stuck on replay ♪♪
♪♪ And you talk like you like the... ♪♪
- Three, two, one, ahh! - Hey!
(woman) Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left.
We're just warming up. - Oh, (bleep).
Hold the (bleep) up.
What do you mean, a warm-up?
I'm boiling!
Like, Miss Lady, you trying to kill us now.
- ♪♪ Go back down ♪♪
- Work, work, work!
- Ow, ow...
(Tatti) I am so grateful of being able to organize this boot camp,
because with everything that I have going on
with my legal issues, keeping my mind distracted
doing something I'm passionate about
is just what I needed.
- Work, work, pick it up, picking it up.
Pick up the pace, let's work.
- (bleep)!
- Let's go.
- Oh, my God... whoo!
- Yes!
Thank you guys so much for coming out...
(all cheering)
Y'all did so good.
- Oh, (bleep), Spyder's going down.
You know what?
They say no pain, no gain.
I'm feeling a lot of pain, so I'm hoping
I'm gaining something at this point.
It's an evil, evil little bike.
(Alex) It is.
(Spyder) I wanna be healthy, not dead.
- Speaking about your health, any word on your MRI?
- Well, right now we still waiting for it, me and my wife.
That (bleep) one of the hardest things.
It's not every day where you waiting to see if you gonna have
to get your brain cut open or some (bleep) like...
So basically right now I'm stuck in limbo
and I'm waiting for the results from this MRI test.
If this (bleep) come back to me needing brain surgery,
I don't know.
That scares the (bleep) out of me.
But you know what I mean, I'm praying for the best.
They're trying to see if it was maybe something
like a nerve in my brain that controls the side of my face
that something is (bleep) up, it hurts.
- You'll be having migraines and (bleep)?
- Passed that-- shooting pains in my jaw, my face,
headache down to my neck and (bleep) or whatever.
I try to just keep-- just keep rolling with the punches
and, like, hope to God I don't need brain surgery.
- I'm gonna keep you in my prayers at all times, bro.
Most definitely.
- Hopefully it don't get to that point.
- Yeah, hopefully, hopefully.
Hoping God know best.
- Did you speak to Rok yet?
- I didn't 'cause I don't know exactly who he gonna take it.
So I've been trying to let him off easy.
- Okay, you've gotta tell him soon
because, like, we can't move
forward unless he's off that song, like, for sure.
- Teddy, I'm gonna get it done.
There's no need to be putting all this pressure on me.
Can-- can we be patient so I can figure out
a way to handle this?
(Teddy) You gotta do it sooner or later.
Time is ticking, right?
- Yeah. - All right.
- I'm gonna talk to him.
(Tatti) All right, people, time to go to Zumba class.
- Wait, what?
- What the (bleep)?
(Tatti) Let's go, let's go.
♪♪♪♪
(Puma) Yeah, I remember our first photo shoot.
- We're not gonna talk about--
- We was in the streets.
- The first thing we got was Hennessy. - Yeah.
- We had the photo shoot, we need Hennessy.
We don't need photographers, we don't need no digital--
- Lighting? Man, put that light bulb in.
(all laughing)
- It's inspiring, though, just to see how much
your brand has grown.
So I'm really excited today.
My creative team is gonna be meeting with Ceaser
and his team so we could finally get all of our ideas
together for this billboard.
My biggest goal for this new ad campaign
is to really show melanated skin being tattooed beautifully
and to also show the artists and the allies
that help make this happen.
Solomon and Devin, you guys had some fire ideas
about this, right?
- I was thinking about just taking the phrase
"Black Ink is beautiful,"
just wrapping it around in certain different ways.
- I get it, that's dope.
- I'm thinking, like, mainly focus on the person
and their ink and also do it in a tasteful way.
- Yeah, that's dope.
- How do you feel, Ceas?
- (sighing)
Yo, I don't know.
I'm really not in the mood for this today.
- Ceaser, is there any specific things that you know
that you wanna see?
If you're thinking about this billboard,
what would entice you?
What do you wanna see that represents Black Ink Crew
for you, you know what I mean?
- I don't know, that's why we hired professionals.
Y'all should be asking them the questions.
- I don't know what's going on with Ceaser,
and I'm usually able to read him,
but I do know he had a court date.
Maybe that's bothering him.
- I hate when people come in here and try to dictate
what type of tattoo they need and how it's supposed to--
you came here to get a tattoo from Black Ink,
and we came to you guys
to make sure our campaign shoot look good.
- Who's reppin' Black Ink Crew the best for you?
- I'll leave that on y'all.
- Come on, you gotta give me something.
- Yo, listen, I ain't beefing with nobody right now.
You can bring whoever will be the best representation
of Black Ink, I'm good with it.
- What do you want?
- I don't know who's photogenic and who's not photogenic.
I'm gonna let the professional be professional.
- Oh, my God. - Figure it out.
- Oh, my God, okay.
- This (bleep) was kicking my ass.
- We had some rough nights. - Completely.
Tell me about it. - Oh, my God, some crazy nights.
♪♪♪♪
(Spyder) What's this?
- What the hell is that? - I don't know.
- It's so cute, though.
I like when they put little things like that--
- This is cute? - Yeah.
(laughing)
- I don't know what that is.
- It taste good? - Huh-- yeah.
- (laughing)
- This whole medical journey that me and my wife
been going through for the past year or so
been a crazy one.
I'm just happy at the whole fact
that we able to just be here, period.
This has to be one of the toughest,
scariest times of my life.
It affected almost every aspect of it,
even spilling over into work.
(all shouting, bleeps)
Man, I'm talking about me in the house
in the middle of the night, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning
on my knees praying to God.
This (bleep) was kicking my ass. (laughs)
- We had some rough nights. - Completely. Tell me about it.
- Like oh, my God. Some crazy nights
that I don't even wanna go back on.
- One of the main things that had to be
the most frustrating and scariest thing about this
is going to doctor after doctor and not having no answers
until I ran into the right one.
- I do think that you do have a condition
called trigeminal neuralgia.
- Is there a cure for this?
- There's surgery.
- Brain surgery. That's heavy.
When I first heard the doctor say
that, yo, you might need brain surgery,
I didn't know how to take it.
I just felt like my world just falling
into the pit of my stomach.
That had to be like one of the scariest
things I ever heard in my life, period.
I'm definitely happy
that they ain't find nothing to the point
where they feel like they need to do an operation.
Big sigh of relief.
The results are back in.
I don't need brain surgery. Whoo!
- The fact that she said that, you know,
it came back clear and nothing is on your brain,
we should be celebrating.
I need to turn up, 'cause I was stressed.
Let's cheers. Yay!
- Health, wealth, and freedom.
- Amen to that.
- The other good news is
the doctor put me on this new medicine.
I just call it Ox. It's Ox-something.
I can't even pronounce it yet.
It's keeping the pain to a maintainable level.
At this point, I feel like I got my life back
and I know Des is even more happier
'cause she got her sleep back.
You're so amazing. Give me a kiss.
- Aww, thank you, baby.
- Mmm... - I love you so much.
- I love you more. - Team players, okay?
- ♪♪ I I I cry with it ♪♪
- Yo, yo, yo. - ♪♪ Let me see you ♪♪
♪♪ Throw a rhyme with it ♪♪
- Beautiful people, what's going on?
(Desiree) What's up, beautiful people?
- ♪♪ Let me see you go and rock ♪♪
♪♪ Hey hey ♪♪♪♪
- There's a lot of leather up here.
What's going on? - Yo, listen...
- Kama sutra, the hell.
Today is the photo shoot. It's lit.
It's all about the ink, the style,
and the melanated skin.
And I'm ready.
(Young Bae) I'm here today to show
my support to my fellow artists and my clients.
They're beautiful and their tattoos are beautiful, too.
- Very nice. - You like it?
- Ooh. - Hi, everybody.
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- We're over here checking out the drips and (bleep).
- Drippy time over here.
- Tatti, how you feeling over there?
- Oh! - She's on her eighth drink right now.
- Oh, okay. - (laughs)
- What had happened was...
I've been here for a long time
and I'm about...
too many cups in...
- (laughs)
- ...to be honest.
- (laughs) - I am so over
being stressed out about my future.
So, yes, maybe I, you know, indulged
in a little bit of Hennessy
to stay focused on the here and now,
get ready for the photo shoot.
- So I see you guys here.
Where's, um, Rok and Krystal?
(Spyder) Rok late once again!
- You know what?
It doesn't matter who's not here.
It matters who's here.
- Well, it kinda does matter, though.
This is definitely not how this photo shoot
was supposed to go.
But you know what?
I'm not gonna overreact.
Everything is gonna be okay.
We gonna be okay.
I hope.
- Are you ready for your moment, huh?
- This is what I do, you feel me?
- I got you, I got you.
♪♪♪♪
- Yeah, that last picture was very cool.
You set the standard for what's supposed
to be happening right now, I appreciate it.
(shrieking) Don't y'all just love
when y'all see something in your head?
You got a vision and then it comes true.
Ahh, it's coming true! I'm so excited.
All right, who else is next?
- Oh, (bleep), Rok calling me.
(phone vibrating) - (Sassy) Yes.
(camera shutter clicking)
(phone chimes) - Yo, what's going on?
(Rok) Yo, is Ceaser there?
- Nah, but where is you at? We over here.
I just got finished taking my pictures and (bleep).
Like it's lit, bro. - Bro, I just got a call
from one of my peeps.
My brother got into a car accident on a highway.
I gotta go to the hospital. - What?
A car accident?
But he good though, right? Like...
- I don't know. I'm calling his phone.
His phone is off. I'm just finding
from one of my friends.
They were there in the highway and they saw him.
The only thing I know, my brother Mario
got into a crazy-ass six-car accident
with a truck involved.
Nobody at the hospital is trying to give me information.
This is just making me feel like it's the same thing
that happened with my father.
They're gonna wait till I got there
and they're gonna give me bad news.
Krystal, yo, can you get the car keys?
- Damn, yo, Puma? - What happened?
- So, Rok's brother, he got into a bad car accident.
The car is smashed up. - He's (bleep) up.
- Oh, my God. - I don't know, man.
- That's crazy. Holy (bleep).
- I'm trying to hold it down.
This (bleep) is tearing me the (bleep) apart.
If I have someone else reach out to her...
I go to jail.
- So I couldn't even reach her. - No.
- Hmm.
♪♪♪♪
(phone vibrating)
♪♪♪♪
(phone vibrating)
- I've been outside for a minute now
waiting for Ceas.
I was texting him on the highway.
I was texting him when I was getting off the exit.
I expect him to be downstairs.
Something's off.
Yo?!
What the (bleep) is wrong with you, man?
It's photo shoot time.
You slept too long?
- Nah...
- What up, then?
- My bad for being MIA and leaving the meeting.
But you know I had court the other day, right?
- For your daughter.
- They try to say that press conference I had,
try to let people know what was up.
They said it was violation of a restraining order.
And the fact that I am who I am,
I talked about it,
and she's getting supposed bullied by people online.
So now they try to say that's my fault.
Imagine you go to court and they say that, look,
there's nothing found on any child abuse or anything,
but we're gonna hold you in contempt of court
for holding a press conference for defending yourself.
The things that are being said about me, they're not true.
I want to make sure my daughter was proud of me,
that she can look 'em and say, yo, my father's somebody.
So for me not to go to "jail,"
I have to agree
to have a permanent restraining order put on me
until my daughter's mother decides that it can be released.
What type of (bleep) (bleep) is that?
How can you sit there and repair a situation
with a father and a daughter
if a father came to see his (bleep) child, yo?
Bro, I can't even get next to her.
If I send her a card, if I send her anything,
if I make a fake page on Instagram
and say I'm sorry, that's me, I get a fine, I go to jail.
If I have someone else reach out to her...
I go to jail.
- So I couldn't even reach her. - No.
- Hmm.
This is some (bleep) bull(bleep).
What makes it even (bleep) worse
is all this time I was thinking I can be the bridge
to bring them back together.
And now I can't even reach out to her?
That's crazy.
- I lost my (bleep) heir.
All the (bleep) I've done this (bleep) for.
I've lost my reason, everything, yo.
I don't even know what the (bleep) I'm doing
this (bleep) for anymore, yo.
I have no family. My daughter's gone.
I have nothing, bro. What the (bleep)?
At the end of the day, what am I gonna say?
I was a successful businessman
but had nothing after that, yo?
This (bleep)...
(Ted sighs)
- (sniffles)
Bro, my only child...
that's all I ever had.
And all, bro.
Bro, I'm trying to hold it down.
I try to act like nothing's bothering me.
This (bleep) is tearing me the (bleep) apart, bro.
What good is money if you don't have your family?
I gotta think about it.
From the time Cheyenne was born until now,
my main concern was making sure that little girl
never wants for anything.
But in hindsight,
I feel like...
instead of sitting there trying to leave her a legacy...
I should've been there with her a little bit more.
Maybe we wouldn't have such a big disconnect...
like we have right now.
Everything just feels so (bleep) wrong, yo.
I'm second-guessing everything.
And it's like...
who am I to talk to about this, bro?
I feel so (bleep) alone.
- Have you spoken to Suzette?
Is she at least being supportive in any type of way?
- I don't know, man.
She should be able to pick up if something ain't right.
She knew I had this court date.
She should know this (bleep), bro.
I shouldn't have to tell you something is wrong
for you to pick up that something is wrong.
Look, my mind ain't in no (bleep) photo shoot.
Can you just handle (bleep) for me?
- Got you.
Look, at the end of the day, do what's best for you, man.
I don't like to see you like this.
Love you. - Love you more, bro.
- All right, you know I'm always here for you, bro.
♪♪♪♪
- (Sassy) All right, we got Spyder up next.
All right, Spyder, just be yourself.
You know the vibes.
Even though everything isn't perfect right now,
my vision is coming to life.
I can see it all, you know, starting to form.
And then once Ceaser gets here, psst, that's it.
Then we smooth sailing, baby.
- Practice as Zoolander.
♪♪♪♪
(camera shutter clicks)
(phone ringing)
(Puma) (bleep) finally.
Goddamn.
Yo, Ted, where the (bleep) are you at, man?
(Ted) I'm calling to let you know
Ceas ain't gonna be able to make it
to the photo shoot today, bro.
He had a family emergency.
(bleep) hit the fan, bro.
Hey, he all (bleep) up right now.
(camera shutter clicking)
- Damn, man.
Well, you know, man, you know me.
Always family first.
So I'ma just wrap this (bleep) up, bro,
and we'll figure it out.
- All right, bro. Love.
- All right.
(bleep).
- Make sure you show your neck. You know what I mean?
All of it. I want all the goods, okay?
And just be yourself.
- Ceaser's having a little family emergency
and he's not coming. - No!
- I feel horrible for Sassy
'cause she did such a great job,
but this photo shoot is canceled.
Party done.
- Talk to me. - Ceaser's having
a family emergency right now,
and he's not gonna be able to come.
And I don't know if and when Ceaser's gonna be
up to, you know, kinda-- - Hey!
- Hi. Hi. You look hot.
- Yeah, well, you can take it off.
- Wait, what? - Sorry.
- Ceas has a family emergency. Today is...
- He's not gonna be able to come now.
- (Alex) Our time is wasted. - So I can't take a picture?
- Yes. - You can take pictures.
- Yes. - We gonna use this (bleep).
- Yes, we will take some pictures
and everybody will have a couple flicks,
at the very least is what I can make happen.
- Now let's do it.
- Yo, listen, man, even though this is like MJ
and Salt Lake with the flu game,
I gotta be on my Pippen (bleep), you know what I mean?
We gonna hold it down.
We gotta bring this championship home.
♪♪♪♪
(camera shutter clicking)
- Amazing!
(Spyder) We killed it.
- Hey! Hey! - (Tatti) Oh, Kimchi's here!
(Ted) Please keep an eye on her.
- Yo, where the dog at?
♪♪♪♪
- Kimchi! - (Spyder) Yeah, y'all done lost
this (bleep) dog?
♪♪♪♪
- Yo!
- Puma was gonna be a partner with us here at Chace Village.
Our goal is to create the equivalent of Silicon Valley
but for creators.
- Tyree just gave me like an acre of land.
- So we can build our container house there?
- Yeah. When you gonna come down?
♪♪♪♪
- Yo. - Yo.
Did you take Rok off that song yet?
- No, I haven't.
But there's a lot happening right now.
You know he going through a lot.
I'm not gonna hurt him more.
- I feel gut and chest pains.
Just random, crazy health issues.
- Damn, babe. - I want you to come with me
to get that MRI.
- I mean, of course, babe.
- Safe and fun goes together
like peanut butter and jelly.
I'm thinking that a masquerade ball
is just what the Spyder ordered.
(excited shouting)
- What the (bleep) is this?
There's a slight problem.
Um, I might have to bust another move on y'all.
- The (bleep)?!
When are you leaving?
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪