- Brooklyn, welcome to Vax the Block.
- We registering people for their vaccination shots.
We gotta get past this COVID thing.
We gotta finish taking over this world.
We're in Brooklyn!
A little change in the company.
Tatti is now the new manager of 125th.
- Oh, (bleep)! - Okay, Tatti!
- Congratulations, Tatti! - Thank you.
- When I got downstairs, Tatti's in handcuffs already
in the kitchen. - Oh, my God.
What's going on?
- They said they had a warrant out for my arrest.
- Oh, boy.
- The charges against me are public information.
- He allegedly arranged for 3 kilos of cocaine
to be shipped to Tatiana Ritter.
- I'm goin' through excruciating pain.
- I made an appointment because of your situation,
what's goin' on.
- My biggest fear is leaving y'all here by y'all self.
Krystal and Rok, they missing in action.
- Yeah. - Well, hello.
- What up? It's hot as hell.
- What up? Welcome to work, guys.
- What up, Spyder? - Y'all clients been coming.
(bleep), like I had to cover for y'all a lot.
- Bro, you're not doin' none of our clients' tats.
Stop talking (bleep), bitch. - You mean I'm not--
(bleep) you, (bleep). (overlapping shouting)
Get outta here, (bleep). - Hey, hey, hey!
- We can put a lawsuit together that's directed
solely at Crystal, not your daughter.
And if you can't get her to be quiet by asking her politely,
maybe a judge can.
- The truth has to come out, not one person's narrative.
So I'm holding a press conference
to tell my side of the story.
Honestly this the only way to clear my name.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Yeah, you knocked me down before ♪♪
♪♪ I thought I couldn't take anymore ♪♪
♪♪ Celebrate like you won the war ♪♪
♪♪ Guess you forgot what I'm fighting for ♪♪
♪♪ I'll come right back at ya ♪♪
♪♪ You couldn't take me out when I was down on my luck ♪♪
♪♪ Now I got too much power in every ounce of my blood ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- All right. - You good?
- Yeah. Just a little nervous.
This is a lot.
I'm holding this press conference today to tell
my side of the story of this whole situation with Crystal.
For months now, my lawyer has told me
not to say anything.
But now that we're going forward
with this defamation lawsuit, he advised me
to tell everybody my side of the story-- the truth.
- We can hold a press conference.
You're gonna speak to the blogs.
The very blogs that have been destroying your name,
we're gonna invite them there so they can actually get it
from the horse's mouth.
- You having second thoughts?
- Only reason why I'm nervous as hell,
because I don't like playing with the media.
And honestly if this (bleep) go wrong,
I could lose everything.
- At the end of the day, they only hearing one side.
You haven't given your side.
- I'm gonna share something with you.
Whenever you're doing anything, never have second thoughts.
Because you'll never win when you have second thoughts.
I'm your mother and I've never seen you do
anything wrong with your child,
and you've always put her first place.
The battle is not for the weak, but for the strong.
And I'm proud of who you are.
And I'm proud that you come from my womb.
- Thank you, Mommy. - I love you.
- My mother being here means a lot to me.
A lot of people don't know my mom's had
a couple brain surgeries, so she can't get on a plane.
She has to drive or take a train.
And everybody know, from Orlando, Florida,
that's 20-something hours.
Proud of you too. - Okay, be strong.
- Yes, Mama.
- Yo, have you guys been paying attention
to all the chaos all over social media
with Ceaser and his baby moms?
- What is up with that? - That (bleep) crazy.
- He has a whole press conference today.
He got a lawyer 'cause it kinda (bleep) up his image, man.
- Damn. - I know we've all seen Ceaser
go through so much (bleep) in life, but right now,
it really seems like he needs his team and family with him.
- Yo, Ted didn't pull up.
- Well, where the (bleep) is Ted?
- Where is Ted? It's not like him
to miss an important event like this, like...
Have you spoken to him today? - No.
He said he would be here.
- This (bleep) is trash it had to go this far,
but I'll be there in my button-up.
- Yeah. - You don't have no missed calls,
no text messages, nothing from him?
- The (bleep) is up with him?
That's weird. - I hope he's all right.
- I don't know where Ted is right now,
but he was always there for me.
Now the one time that everybody that knows me know I'm right,
you not there?
How the (bleep) am I supposed to feel?
♪♪♪♪
- Oh, hey, babe. This my wife Jess right here.
- Hi, how are you? - Hello.
- Well, you know, since the last time folks saw me,
I just been staying focused on my focus.
Comedy's been doin' well. I been traveling around the country,
doing my photography, just staying busy.
You know, I went to go talk to a private investigator.
I'm being accused of doing the break-in.
I really need to clear this up as soon as possible.
- It might take a week, maybe two weeks, a month.
- You know, I'm still waiting to hear back from them and all that,
but in the meantime between time,
I'm staying focused on what I need to do.
(phone buzzing) What the hell?
What the (bleep) is this?
- Ow. - Yo, you seen this (bleep)?
So I heard boss Ceaser was gonna do a press conference
and all that as far as all the things that he got going on
with Crystal and Cheyenne.
And I ain't know if it was real or not,
but then I get a text message that's saying
that it's actually about to go down.
- Ceaser, you ready? - Wait, give me one second.
Let me send this text and we'll go right in there.
(sighs) All right, let's go.
- After you. - (exhales)
♪♪♪♪
- Let me go and squeeze in here.
Nobody walked out yet? - No.
- Oh, the press conference is about to start.
I'ma put it on live. Buck...
- Yeah. - ...hit me with it.
- I got you, bro.
- There's no goin' back now.
I can't fix this situation between me and my daughter
if the whole world think I'm a child abuser.
- Good afternoon, my name is Walter Mosley.
I have the pleasure of representing
Mr. David Emanuel, professionally known as Ceaser.
- Okay, he got Suzette and his mama with him.
- First and foremost, Mr. Emanuel
is not filing a lawsuit against his daughter.
And he would never do so.
This is a defamation lawsuit against Crystal Torres.
- He's suing Crystal?
- Those facts are in this now publicly filed document.
- Where the hell is Ted at? I thought he was goin' with him.
- (smooches) Let's go, girl.
- So, with that being said, Mr. Emanuel is going to share
a few words about how he's feeling right now,
why he's engaged my firm to do this,
and what he hopes to accomplish.
- All right, here we go. Here we go.
- This is the first time
I've ever seen Ceaser look nervous.
- Hello, everybody. Um...
This right here is nerve-racking to me.
Right now, it feels like I'm on trial.
- What is going on, yo?
- Not by the government
but by the court of public opinion.
- That (bleep) don't look like himself.
- The things that are being said about me online,
in publications, they're not true.
I was accused of being a child abuser
by my daughter's mother, not the police.
The police did not call Child Protective Services.
It's my daughter's mother.
And I went through an intense--
and I mean intense investigation.
I did not do these things,
and it's written down and proven.
So for me to be called these names,
it hurts.
I want to let y'all know that this defamation lawsuit
is not nothing that I'm sittin' here having malice.
But this is the only way for it to stop.
- Kimchi, look at your uncle looking stupid
doing a press conference with chains on.
- Ted, why aren't you at the press conference with Ceaser right now?
- Are you (bleep) (bleep) me? Do you see this?
I refuse to stand next to Ceas while he does this dumb (bleep).
This is not the way to get your daughter back.
- People don't know how it is to open up your social media
after you just did a big community event in Brooklyn
and people write you with heinous and hatred.
- It can't be easy for Ceaser to go in front
of the whole media about what's been going on in his life.
Me? I am nowhere near ready
sharing my legal issues with the crew, let alone the whole world.
- I'm living with a false narrative
that I have to wake up every day to.
And this has damaged (bleep),
not only as a businessman and as a family man.
But people have to think about how many people are in my company.
And if I go down and this Black Ink thing goin',
there's a whole lot of people and a whole lot of families,
they ain't gon' be able to feed themselves.
- Yeah. - In the great words
of the poet Shawn Carter... - Mmm.
- ..."Nobody wins when the family feuds."
- No one. - Facts!
- At the end of the day, the lawsuit
has nothing to do with my daughter.
It has everything to do with her mother.
And hopefully she'll understand that later on.
I've built myself out of the projects, out of the mud.
I did this for her.
I wanted to make sure my daughter was proud of me,
that she could look up and say, "Yo, my father's somebody."
And right now, it feel like it's been torn from me.
- This is so sad.
- I've known Cheyenne since she was like a little girl.
Yeah, I'ma reach out to that (bleep).
I ain't gon' lie, this (bleep) is like heartbreaking.
I know me and dude got our differences
and all that other (bleep), but at the end of the day,
I still feel that I could reach out to him and speak to him.
You know what I mean, I just wanna make sure he's all right.
- Hopefully, in the near future, I can see my daughter
and we could get back to where we was.
That's all I really want, because honestly,
a daughter needs her father.
Thank you.
- Ooh...
- Kimchi, your uncle is out here wildin' in these streets.
- Man, yo, that was crazy, yo. Like, what the (bleep)?
- This is not the way to be. This is ugly.
(clears throat)
(indistinct chatter)
- After you, counsel.
- I can't stop feeling like there's some way
I could've did something else besides this.
But in reality, my back is against the wall.
I have no other choice, and until
the Child Protective Service case in New York is closed,
the restraining order lifted, and I'm finally able
to contact Cheyenne, all I can do now is wait.
That press conference, (bleep), I really wanted you there.
- I can't stand next to my brother while he doin' that (bleep), man.
- This is about elevation. We're here for Tatti.
- The way that Ceaser is talking about me
and showing me respect,
I feel like I can't lie to this man.
I'm facing some felony charges.
This is a setback for me, but I don't want it to be
a setback for what we've been building.
- Yo.
- So, what's up? You wanted to talk to me?
♪♪♪♪
- I'm glad to be away from Brooklyn
'cause I feel like the vibes are definitely better at 125th.
I feel like it's a more peaceful environment,
so I feel like I can really devote myself into my tattoos
and becoming better.
Vanity.
- Hey, girl, hey.
What's up, mama?
- I told you they was sending me to 125th.
- Right, you did tell me.
What the hell happened over there?
- Well, I guess Spyder ended up tattooing one
of my clients or something and maybe they complained or something.
I don't know why he was so bent out of shape,
but he ended up attacking Rok.
- Stop, stop! - Hey, hey, hey!
- Guys, stop, stop! Sit down!
- (bleep) outta here, bro!
- I don't know what the hell got into Spyder.
We had our differences, but after Atlanta
and all the (bleep) we went through, I thought we were past this.
Spyder like tackled him. - Poor little (bleep).
He got tackled by Spyder? Oh, no.
♪♪♪♪
- Yeah.
Damn, it's looking good up in here.
- Yes, sir. - What up? What up?
- Welcome, Rocky, Rocky. - What's up, baby?
- I heard what happened in BK.
- Yeah, I got charged by a rhino and (bleep).
That fight was some bull(bleep).
I've never seen Spyder act like that before.
Like this (bleep) came out of character out of nowhere.
- Hello! - Why, hello.
- You all right, bro? - Yeah.
Just feels good to be back at 125th.
- Well, it's good to have you guys here.
This the party at 125th now. - Yeah, no, I definitely wanna
chop it up with you so we could figure out some things.
- I could use all the help I can get, honestly.
- Girl, I see you working hard.
Vanity has been running 125th and tattooing
and running the front desk.
So naturally she's gonna be a little burnt out,
and I've been there before.
- I'm worn out, for real.
I'm literally spreading myself so thin out here.
I just wanna tattoo.
- I'm coming here to make your job tons easier.
So I was thinking about throwing a backyard barbecue
because I really wanna get everybody back together.
So what a better way to bring my Black Ink family
and my family together?
And I'm not gonna let my legal issues get in the way
because I choose to stay focused on the positive things in life.
Do you have a day off?
- It sounds like blasphemy to me.
Like what is that? I get a break?
No way. Whatever you need, baby girl,
you let me know, for real. - All right.
- ♪♪ Yeah, I'm stompin' with the big dogs ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I'm stompin' with the big dogs ♪♪
- You know how Daddy be gettin' his nails done,
and Mommy be gettin' her nails done,
and you always wanna bite on Mommy's nails?
I'm taking you to get your nails done.
I'm still feeling some type of way about Ceas's
whole press conference thing.
Last minute, Ted had to make an executive decision
with not standing next to Ceas with that buffoonery.
At first, it sounded good,
but when I went home and thought about it,
the only person that's being hurt is Chey.
He's been texting me, but I'm not in the mood
to talk to him right now.
- Hi, welcome to Digs.
- Say hi, look.
So instead of worrying about all this dumb (bleep),
I'm gonna have a daddy-daughter day with my child
and take her for some puppy pampering.
Please be careful with my baby.
- Sure. - Thank you.
- ♪♪ Be a good dog ♪♪
- This is our oatmeal shampoo.
This is for sensitive skin.
- Sensitive skin. - Yeah. Yeah.
We're gonna do a refresher. Okay.
Just do this all in the bath.
No cry.
- Not today, Ceas. Today is about me and my child.
You and your drama is not a priority of mine right now.
- ♪♪Good dog ♪♪ - And then clean up.
- ♪♪ Keep your nose out the trash ♪♪
♪♪ Keep your ass out the street ♪♪
- What's next? - We're gonna dry.
(dryer whirring)
- I'm not gonna lie, I was kind of nervous
about having somebody else handle my child,
but after her calming down a little bit,
Kimchi is gonna be the freshest pup in New Jersey.
Ain't that right, baby? Ain't that right?
Gimme a kiss, baby. Gimme kiss.
Mwah!
We so pretty now.
Nice little baby. Say thank you.
- Bye, Kimchi. - Bye-bye, Kimchi.
- Thank you! - See you later.
- Say bye. - Bye.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ A real one is hard to find ♪♪
♪♪ I think of your name sometime ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
- Seeing Ceaser up on that press conference, man,
like that don't look like him.
This (bleep) looked mad, confused.
He looked scared. He looked hurt.
I know we not the best of friends nowadays,
but we still family at the end of the day.
That's still my brother, you know what I'm saying?
And I would just like to reach out to him
just to see what's up.
- ♪♪ Young brothers take the fall like it's our fault ♪♪
♪♪ Make you start to lose pride in the long haul ♪♪
♪♪ Take your friends, they look at you like you all wrong ♪♪
♪♪ Numbers start to fade out from the car lot ♪♪
♪♪ A real one is hard to find ♪♪
♪♪ I think of your name sometime ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
- The (bleep)?
"Would really like to finally link up
and chop it up with you."
I can't believe with everything that's going on right now,
Walt is honestly reaching out to me.
I'm thinking I'm gettin' a text from Ted,
and it's (bleep) Walt.
How is it that a (bleep) that stole from me
is more concerned of how I'm doing than my own cousin?
Ted is still MIA, and nothing's making sense to me right now.
- ♪♪ A real one is hard to find ♪♪
♪♪ I think of your name sometime ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I got a lot on my mind ♪♪
- This (bleep) got some nerves.
- We have fire!
- This feel real like homely and family-like.
- That's what it is. - I like this.
- This is so nice. Go, Tatti.
- What's up? What's up? What's up?
- Oh! - Yo!
- Is that him? - Mmm.
- What up?
- With Spyder walking into the barbecue,
this can probably go a little left.
- ♪♪ Elevated, elevated, elevated, elevated, elevated ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- What up, y'all? - What's up, boss?
- What's good, Ceas? - What y'all doin'?
- We were just talking about our worst tattoos.
- Talking about our terrible tattoo story.
This is my worst tattoo. I'm almost lost my leg 'cause of this bitch.
- God was giving you a sign. He was like, "Yo,
stop doin' stupid (bleep)."
Speaking of which, I just had a client cancel on me.
- Damn, that sucks. - Yeah.
At least I got some time before my next tattoo.
- I was just thinking I was gonna come to the Brooklyn shop
and hang out for a little bit,
but if the boss has some free time,
I am fully ready and available to get tatted.
Because I've had something in mind that I really wanna get.
Think you could give me a quick tat?
- What you want tatted?
- I was thinking something, you know... simple.
Like "I am."
- Give me a couple minutes, we can do that.
- Appreciate it.
There's a mantra that I've been doing
every morning to get my mind right.
"I am love. I am loving.
"I am lovable. I am enough.
I am worthy. I am powerful."
It helps me keep the negativity away
while I'm dealing with these legal issues.
It's really hard for me to pretend like nothing's going on
and I'm not stressed out around my coworkers.
- All right, let's get started.
- ♪♪ Whoa ♪♪
♪♪ I am a warrior ♪♪
♪♪ Whoa, oh-oh ♪♪
♪♪ I am a warrior ♪♪
- I've been working way too hard for way too long
to let my unknown future (bleep) up my present.
So I'm having this party.
This is one of the few things I can control right now.
Plus, everybody already said yes.
I wanna, you know, show the house to the crew
and just have a good time. - For sure.
I'ma pull up for sure. - Of course I will come.
- Oh, yes. - I'm gonna come over there
and chill out with the civilized people.
- Yeah!
- ♪♪ I pick up the pieces ♪♪
♪♪ I fight for my reason ♪♪
♪♪ Just watch me, I take on whatever come ♪♪
♪♪ Whatever comes my way ♪♪
- My mind is not here right now for this tattoo.
I can't even focus.
All I'm thinking about is this damn press conference
and if it was the right move.
Am I gon' be able to clear my name?
Am I ever gon' be able to talk to my daughter again?
And if the press conference was a bad move,
what the (bleep) am I to do now?
I already did it!
- ♪♪ I'll never stop climbing ♪♪
- That's what "I am" is all about.
It helps me to stay present in the moment,
because the moment is all I can control.
So it's not "I will," "I was."
It's "I am," because I am.
- Done, Tatti.
- I love it. - I am Tatti.
See, there you go. - Love it, thank you.
It's perfect.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Here's where my trust and my loyalty lie ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause you held my hand while I balled up and cry ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
(bell dings)
♪♪The trust and the lies, the games, the pain ♪♪
♪♪ How you supposed to win when everybody's on the same? ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Yo.
- So, what's up? You wanted to talk to me?
- Yeah, man.
I really wanted to speak to you,
see how you was doin'.
Of course, you know, I been hearing
everything that's been going down.
I'm just concerned. Like, what's up with that?
- Everything that's goin' on with me,
with all the betrayal that I've bene through,
I'm almost getting used to it.
My (bleep) family has (bleep) turned on me.
I even had a falling out with Ted.
And that's why I'm sitting here talking to you,
because... we got so much history together.
- I feel you. - Feel me?
- No, trust me, I totally understand what you saying.
And again, like, I know what's real and what's not.
You know what I mean? Breaking into the shop
and stealing 5K, y'all ain't even--
you know that's not me. You know what I mean?
Like, all the speculation,
the drug use or alcohol
or I'm (bleep) up and...
(voice echoing, fading) ...breaking into the shop
and stealing 5K, y'all ain't even--
You know that's not me. You know what I mean?
Like... - I thought Walt wanted to talk to me
to help me like a brother.
But all I'm hearing is (bleep) excuses.
Is this the real reason why you brought me here?
When you sittin' here talking about the past,
what we talking 'bout right now, bro?
- No, like I said, I just wanted to chop it up with you
and let you know like, yes, I took $400 to pay off some bills.
I definitely planned on trying to pay that (bleep) back,
but unfortunately the shop got broken into.
- So let me ask you a question, right?
If we never got burglarized, would you have told me
about the money you took out the register, bro?
- Ceaser, I been trying to get in contact with you
for like two weeks before that. - It don't matter, bro.
Yo, it's a text message. This ain't TV, bro.
- I'm not on no TV (bleep). - No, yo, I'ma be honest with you, bro.
We been together forever, bro. This day one Black Ink
before it was Black Ink, bro.
♪♪♪♪
- And you absolutely right, and this is why I'm not part of that (bleep).
- You hurt my (bleep) feelings. - And that's cool.
- And I couldn't do anything. You don't understand
the (bleep) love I have for you.
And for you to sit here and do
after everything you know what people do to me, bro?
You've been there, yo!
♪♪♪♪
Why it always gotta come down to this type of (bleep)?
- We all had dreams of, you know what I mean,
doin' this together forever, you know?
This (bleep) saved our lives, but sometimes life
can't go the way you planned it.
- I had a dream of me and my brothers
making it somewhere and showing everybody
that we wasn't the regular little (bleep) from the Bronx, bro.
But in all our years being with each other,
I had a falling out with everybody but you, yo.
How does this story continue, yo?
- It may not be able to get back to where it was,
but at least, you know, things could get better.
- I never like saying "forever," but for right now,
I can't be around Walt.
And I hope Walt understands that.
I gotta think about myself right now.
'Cause if I don't, all this (bleep)
that's happening is gonna destroy me.
Hey, Walt, I...
I can't do this no more, bro.
I wanna wish you the best with everything that you do.
But I'ma tell you now,
you ain't part of Black Ink no more.
I just can't have you in my life right now.
I can't keep sittin' here takin' "Okays" and "It's cool."
Like... I guess we wasn't meant to go on the same path.
Doesn't mean I hate you, but I gotta do what I gotta do.
♪♪♪♪
- Wish everything good with you as well.
For real, with all that family (bleep), for real.
- Yeah. - I love you, man, for real.
- I love you too, bro. I know from this moment forward,
talking to Walt, we could never be the same again.
And honestly, I don't even know if we'll ever speak again.
My reality is...
I have to get used to betrayals and looking out for 'em.
- ♪♪ And there's been times that I don't want to go ♪♪
♪♪ But I know that I really gotta keep on going ♪♪
♪♪ I keep on goin' ♪♪
- Regardless of the way the situation is right now,
that doesn't take away from all the good times,
the good years, the good moments,
the good memories, the good laughs.
- Yo, Walt, I need you to watch the front for me tomorrow.
I'm goin' out with Dutchess.
What y'all doin'?
- I'm trying to talk to them about the birds and the bees.
- Oh, whoa!
- ♪♪Oh, yes, there's ups and, yes, there's downs ♪♪
- Everybody know my history wasn't the prettiest,
you know what I'm sayin'? Like, I've been through some (bleep) in my life.
And the Black Ink family, they helped me out a lot.
It's made me who I am today.
I discovered a few of my passions while at the shop.
I found the love of my life.
- I now pronounce you both husband and wife.
(cheering and applause)
- ♪♪ Hold on, just hold on ♪♪
♪♪ Don't let go, don't let go ♪♪
- Black Ink is my family. It's always gonna be my family.
Black Ink is tatted on me.
We go through the ups and downs, the good, the bad,
the ugly, and in between.
That's just what family does.
It always gon' be a family, no matter what.
- ♪♪Don't let go, you can't let go ♪♪
♪♪ You gotta keep on stayin' strong ♪♪
- At the end of the day, I can't stand next to my brother
while he doin' that (bleep), man.
- I can't stop feeling like this is just another betrayal.
♪♪♪♪
- Let's start bringing the food outside.
- You didn't get no regular hot dogs?
- No.
(dogs barking)
- Hey, hey, stop! - Cut it out, you two!
- Look, with the Rok and Spyder beef,
Ceaser's press conference, and my legal issues,
we all got a lot going on.
So what better way to keep everybody together
than bringing them to Long Island
for some good food, some cold beers,
a little relaxation, and just share some love?
(doorbell rings) (dog barks)
- Hey! - Hi!
Oh, my God, it smells like food! I'm hungry!
♪♪♪♪
- Ohh! (speaking Spanish)
Puma!
What's up, girl? Welcome.
♪♪♪♪
- Hi. - Good day!
- So we got Rok and Krystal here!
Please put your stuff down, get comfortable,
get some food.
I'm trying to stay as positive as possible,
but the stress of these court cases
is starting to weigh on me.
I do have to go back to a court date.
- Oh, boy.
- I'm forcing myself to stay focused on the present,
but I'm starting to feel real anxious about it.
- That's how it works?
Oh!
- From the Bronx, B! - (laughs)
♪♪♪♪
- You came looking like Santa Claus!
- I know I don't say this a lot,
but I'm really proud of Tatti.
From where she came from to where she is now?
Like, come on. You gotta say,
Tatti did her (bleep) thing, yo!
- We have fire!
- It feel real like homely and family-like.
- Suzette. - I like this.
- This is so nice. Go, Tatti.
Miss homeowner.
- What's up? What's up? What's up?
- Yo! - Yo.
(overlapping greetings)
(indistinct shouting)
- With Spyder walking into the barbecue,
this can probably go a little left because I know
that Rok is probably feeling some type of way.
Hey, yo, Rok and Spyder, come here.
But I'm gonna fix this whole situation.
Puma, fix my life.
Right now. Happening.
(snaps fingers) I got this.
I feel like y'all both are having a misunderstanding
of the whole situation at the shop the other day.
But I haven't heard no real dialog
between y'all two, brother, like...
what's the really-- the root problem?
- I just feel like I can't even be in that shop, you know?
After that day, it was like that energy just (bleep) me up.
- But, Rok, you can admit it, bro.
Y'all been low-key (bleep) up.
You (bleep) late as (bleep).
- I understand that. - You know what I'm sayin'?
- I understand that to the fullest,
but it's just like, soon as we walked into the shop,
you know, I felt like we was gettin' targeted.
- In all honesty, it's not about targeting y'all.
Yo, bro, low-key, that's your lady, bro,
but I got a woman with a mouth on her, too.
My wife got a spicy-ass mouth. Jalapeño.
- Shut the (bleep) up. You always smile in (bleep) faces.
Now you got an issue. Fake-ass (bleep).
- Let's go outside. - She got a spicy mouth.
We all see that (bleep), but I feel like
I'm slowly calming her down.
- Right. Right. - Slowly.
- Spyder, you too, bro. Like we're not gonna
always put the blame on Krystal and Rok.
- No, I-- I just-- - You were way out of character, bro.
You were throwing water, runnin' crazy.
That whole situation was all just (bleep), bro.
- Sometimes, I mean, when you upset and (bleep) or whatever,
(bleep) like make you wild out, you know what I mean?
In a certain way. You dig what I'm saying?
I really don't like to really get into
a lot of my personal (bleep) with people in the shop
or whatever, but I feel like I got an obligation
to explain why things could've escalated the way they did
due to what I have going on in my life right now.
The bulk of the reason why I've been stressed out,
I've been having medical issues for the past year now.
- Medical issues?
- It's like a nerve thing.
- It hurts your-- it hurts what, like?
- It's all this (bleep) here.
It feel like the worst toothache ever.
- Damn.
Just hearing Spyder say all this (bleep)
is making me think like, you could really be going
through some bull(bleep) and nobody really knows.
They just thinking that you're having a bad day
or you're just going crazy.
- Well, you know everybody's here for you, bro.
You know that. You know what I'm sayin'?
- Sorry about that whole (bleep), man.
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(overlapping background chatter)
- I don't even know why Ted's even ignoring me.
For a couple days now, I've been trying to reach out to him.
And I figured he would be at this Tatti's barbecue,
but it feels like he's avoiding me.
If I don't hear from Ted by the end of the day,
I'm goin' to that (bleep) house.
But for today, it's about Tatti.
I'm just gon' focus on the people who are loyal to me
and I can trust that's in my life.
Listen up, everybody. I'd like to say a few words.
This is about elevation. We here for Tatti.
She proved that, you know what I mean,
under tough times, you don't fold, you know what I mean?
She's now running 125th
and doin' an awesome (bleep) job, yo.
And I know I made the right decision
on giving you a second chance.
- This is literally everything I ever wanted to hear.
But keeping up the lie that everything's all good
and I didn't (bleep) up is weighing real heavy on me right now.
Can I talk to you for a minute? - Oh, yeah.
- The way that Ceaser is talking about me
and showing me respect,
I feel like I can't lie to this man.
So, listen. - Okay.
- I, um...
I've been, um, going through some personal (bleep).
And I feel like I've been really, like, hesitant
to, like, bring it up to you because I know you're
going through your (bleep), and I'm not trying to, like,
put anything more on you or whatever the case may be--
- You pregnant?
- I'm not pregnant.
It's actually worse than that.
Remember when I got arrested like two years ago?
- Yeah. - So, apparently,
that was, like, a lot bigger than I thought it was.
And when I got arrested, my phone got tapped.
And I'm facing some felony charges.
This is a setback for me, but I don't want it to be
a setback for what we've been building.
- So, listen. I, um...
I'm facing some felony charges.
And... - Okay, what type of felony?
Like F1? - "A."
- "A" felony?
You know how much time that comes with, right?
- I mean, an "A" felony is like, what, 7 to 15 years?
- It's more like three to seven, some (bleep) like that.
- Well, it's two of 'em. - And the feds-- there's two?
- This is a setback for me,
but I don't want it to be a setback
for what we've been building.
- Nah, it ain't no setback for us, yo.
'Cause I know how you feel about the job and (bleep) like that.
I know how you feel about Black Ink, you know what I mean?
All I could say is we always gon' be here for you,
no matter what you goin' through.
I grew up in the hood.
I have been through this situation...
(scoffs) ...more than once.
Tatti doesn't need to be scolded.
She needs to be supported.
- So if you can add me in your prayers...
- (bleep), we might have to add each other in our prayers.
- I got you, bro! I got you!
- My (bleep) ain't no (bleep)...
(both laughing)
- I feel so grateful.
Like I definitely was not expecting him
to say that to me and it just makes me wanna work
ten times harder for him, for Black Ink,
for myself, and all that.
So, thanks, Ceas.
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- ♪♪ She know her angles, she know we argue ♪♪
♪♪ Throw it back, it's your drop, shh, let it pop ♪♪
- (smooching) Kimchi.
Let's go, girl. Let's go, girl.
It's been a few days since the press conference
and I still haven't spoke to Ceas
despite of him reaching out.
Even though I might have not been the best friend
or a brother, I still don't know what to say to him right now.
Baby, where the (bleep) are you going?
What you doin' under the car? Come here.
Well, I guess I need to figure out these words,
'cause Ceas texts me and say he about to pull up to my crib.
I can't duck him no more.
The band-aid had to come off at some point.
Let's figure this (bleep) out.
- That press conference was some weird (bleep),
and I really wanted you there.
Never would I put... anything crossed my mind
that Ted would betray me.
But part of me feels like...
he basically just stabbed me in my back.
And on top of that, this (bleep) been ghosting me for days.
What the hell is up with him?
- Yo, first, my fault for not responding to your texts.
You know I'm 1,000% in your corner, I never cross you.
But when I woke up in the morning
on the day of the press conference,
it was like, what happens to Cheyenne?
'Cause like when the (bleep) first happened, I texted her,
"Yo, I love you."
Said, "I love you too, Uncle Ted."
We was supposed to go sit down and get something to eat,
and then (bleep) started gettin' too crazy.
You know what I'm sayin'? You know my loyalty is always
to you, but it's like it's different with her involved.
At some point, she might reach out and say,
"Hey, Uncle Ted, what's going on?"
I would love to be that bridge
to possibly bring y'all back together, man.
And at the end of the day, it don't sit right with me.
I can't stand next to my brother
while he doin' that (bleep), man.
- I can't stand next to my brother
while he doin' that (bleep), man.
- If you felt that (bleep) was wrong,
you should've said something to me.
- You was too far in already.
- But how you think people felt
when they ain't see you there though?
- I felt bad. I felt like a piece of (bleep).
But what I'm thinking about, bro, is the long run.
Me standing next to you,
it would never be no fixing you and Chey, bro.
- I get what you saying, Ted, but that information
would be a lot more helpful a few days ago.
Suing my baby mother and holding this press conference
is one of the most hard decisions to make.
But what am I supposed to do?
Am I really supposed to live like a guilty man,
knowing I did nothing?
Or am I supposed to defend myself
like a man who's innocent?
How can I stop Crystal without hurting Cheyenne?
Like tell me-- I don't honestly know what to do.
I can't defend myself. You fell-- you see what I'm saying?
If I defend myself, I'm wrong.
If I try to live my life, I'm wrong.
And when I needed you the most, you wasn't there.
I can't trust anybody but my mother and Ted.
No matter what me and Ted been through,
he's always had my back.
And now, it feels like I'm by myself in this situation.
It's a lonely and (bleep)-up feeling.
- I know Ceaser's feeling kinda low right now,
and I maybe could have done this differently,
but Cheyenne is my family too.
I watched that girl grow up,
and I gotta remain neutral in this situation
so at some point I can possibly bring them two back together.
Right now, I can't tell you everything to do.
Like I told you in Atlanta,
I don't think the lawyer situation
was the right way to go, but I'm not smarter
than the lawyer, I don't think.
- So who am I supposed to talk to?
Who am I really close to, to ask for advice, except you?
- Right now, like I said, I apologize that I wasn't there.
I apologize I told you I would be there and I didn't show up.
But I'd rather figure this (bleep) out together
and you gain your relationship back with your daughter,
and you gain the world.
And Crystal win by keeping that girl away from you, bro.
- I understand what you saying with Cheyenne.
But all I want is some peace.
I been fighting with this woman for how long?
I don't even like moving like this, bro.
- You got a lot of (bleep) goin' on, man.
I know the back end of everything, bro.
It's a lot, man.
- Man... (bleep).
You knew me since I was forever, my (bleep).
You know-- - We got trauma
like a mother(bleep). - This ain't nothin' different.
- But we smile through it. We gettin' older.
You're old. (laughs)
Your gray hairs are starting to come out
because of this (bleep), bro.
(both laughing)
- Seen that (bleep) this morning.
(both laughing)
- We gon' figure this out together, bro.
Know I'll never tell you nothin' wrong, man.
I'm not, like I said, the smartest person in the world,
but I ain't the dumbest. You know, when it comes to you,
I try not to speak nothin' wrong into your path, bro.
- Talking to Ted, getting everything out,
I feel like-- I feel like the world's been lifted off my shoulder.
I don't know if that press conference the right move,
and I still don't know how the future's gonna look like,
but all I do know is, I got people in my corner
that I can trust and that have my back.
And that's all that matters.
Talk to y'all later. - Yeah.
Say, "Later, Uncle." I love you.
- There's been a lot of hate happening towards minorities,
so I decided to hold a unity walk.
This means, like, the world to me
'cause we fight the same fight.
Let's win this fight together.
- I was thinking I would try to bring the morale back up.
- (bleep). Here it comes.
- Maybe we need another Black Ink Battle.
Part deux!
The girls versus the boys.
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- Ain't nobody worried about no damn girl!
- Nobody!
I'm gonna bring home a victory for the guys.
- Seein' bitches all day, you heard?
- Yeah, it didn't go well. - What do you mean?
- Everybody's not happy. - What is it?
Can somebody tell me? - The client felt like
you made the whole situation worse.
And they legit said you.
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