- Donna's become too toxic. She can't come to Black Ink no more.
- What's up with the Big Mama situation?
How you feelin' about that? - She was my voice.
So without Donna here, it's been a little depressing
for me at the shop.
- Black Ink was supposed to help me elevate my career
as a business owner.
I don't wanna get stuck running the front desk.
- My biggest withdrawal with everything is your case.
- He allegedly shipped 3 kilos of cocaine
to codefendant Tatiana Ritter.
- I gotta go to Atlanta real quick
'cause I gotta pick up this movie that I did.
- A movie? I told him
to get Black Ink Milwaukee opened.
- Next week, I'm doin' a premiere in the city.
I need y'all to be there.
(all shouting, cheering)
- I've been waiting for this moment.
I'm goin' to Atlanta to pursue acting.
- I thought Ted and I was on the same page
about the future of Black Ink. What the (bleep)?
- My boy's in Hollywood now.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Help! Help!
- You gonna call 911 or not?
- This is not how today was supposed to go at all.
It all started this morning when the bosses and Spyder
went to Milwaukee to open up the new shop.
- ♪♪ I feel so high ♪♪
- Milwaukee, we on our way. Spyder, what up?
- Hell yeah, yeah. - Yeah, grand opening.
Black Ink brand expanding.
- Honestly we all could've gone
'cause the shop was completely dead.
- Ah, yes, set that up right there
for when my customer comes in.
Hopefully one does come in, you know?
- Oh, we taking walk-ins today, y'all...
- We taking whatever comes in this mother(bleep).
♪♪♪♪
- How you feelin', Ted? You feeling good?
- I just wanna get through this grand opening, man.
This was a long time in the making.
- I'm surprised as anybody Ted is finally ready
to open up his shop in Milwaukee.
He must have found time between his movie career,
his music career-- oh, yeah-- and movement to Atlanta,
to finally make some time for something
that actually pays him: Black Ink.
- This your first time in Milwaukee?
- This definitely my first time. - I think I've been
to Wisconsin before but never Milwaukee.
- Ain't this like the capital for serial killers
and (bleep) like that? - (both) What?
- I'm outta here. - I'ma be honest.
I don't know (bleep) about Milwaukee.
I wouldn't have picked this city,
but Ted was persistent, and the rent was cheap,
so I said okay.
But this location better be it
because it ain't too late to pull the plug on this (bleep).
- There's Black people in Milwaukee?
- There's a lot of Black people in Milwaukee.
- Yeah, (bleep). - You gon' see.
- Feezy meetin' us out here, right?
- Yeah. - Um, so who watching Brooklyn?
- Don't worry, Tatti's holding that (bleep) down.
♪♪♪♪
- So here we are, sitting around, bored as hell,
and then Rok says...
- We should do somethin' today. The day is dead.
- (bleep) is slow.
- Let's just play hooky.
Yeah, I admit it, the idea was mine.
But come on, what Ceaser don't know won't hurt him.
And if he does find out, we'll just make up a great excuse.
Come on, we good at that.
- If we're gonna play hooky, we gotta do some classy (bleep).
- Kinda like what you mean?
- I have been dying to go wine tasting.
- Oh, we gettin' fancy. - That would be dope!
- Look, I am totally down to play hooky.
I've been super stressed because my court case
is being decided this week.
So this may be my last chance to even be able to play hooky,
so I'm playing.
Oh, my God, (bleep) yeah.
- So Tatti hooks us up with this private wine tasting.
Real bougie and (bleep).
30 minutes later, our party bus pulls up.
- Hey, y'all, our ride is here. - Ohh!
It's time to roll out!
- So we are trusting you guys to hold it down.
- What?! - That's bull(bleep).
- We leave our apprentices in charge to take walk-ins.
Bye. - (bleep) said...
♪♪ Let my people go ♪♪ - ♪♪ La la laa ♪♪
- I'm smiling, but I'm not happy.
♪♪♪♪
- So this is actually a good trip right here so far.
- Yeah. - Out here with the bosses
of the bosses. - Word, this your first.
- This your first time out with us, right?
- Yeah. It means a lot to be
the only artist invited to the Milwaukee trip,
just in case they need me to step in, you know what I mean,
with them Ol' Spydy... pop-pop-pop!
Get everybody tatted, everybody inked.
(phone chimes)
- Yo, this (bleep) startin' to piss me off now, yo.
- What's wrong? - What happened?
- Breezy just hit me, and...
my Atlanta crew, ain't no one in the shop.
- What? You don't got no artists in Atlanta?
- I ain't got no one in my shop right now.
- Said ain't nobody in the shop? - Bro, that's crazy.
- Yeah, she saying everybody goin' away for the weekend.
I'm like, what? - Even Tro?
- I was about to say, I just seen Tro.
Where was he at, Denver or some (bleep) like that?
- The (bleep) he doin' in Denver?
Supposed to be in Atlanta tattooing.
- What's in Denver right now? Isn't there like a convention?
- Yeah, but that can't be it.
Yo, there must be some type of miscommunication
because I let everybody know that work for Black Ink
that we're no longer (bleep) with the convention
that's goin' on in Denver anymore.
Matter of fact, we're no longer
(bleep) with the convention circuit.
Point-blank, period.
The last (bleep) we went to was Chicago.
Chicago, they was treating us like basic (bleep).
It's insulting how these tattoo conventions
treat not just me but all Black artists.
- I have three artists in this small space with a pole.
- That's crazy. - That's crazy.
- I'm no longer gon' put up with the disrespect.
Them feeling they could talk to us any way.
They put us all in one (bleep) row
and then put Black Ink at the last of the (bleep),
after we sat there, told 'em like, yo, listen,
we're tired of being discriminated against.
I have a personal relationship
with the owner of the convention circuit,
so I tried to talk to him, tried to tell him how
just moving us would settle everything.
But what he tells me is,
that will disturb the other artists
who are predominantly white that have a problem with us
gettin' so many clients.
That's why no longer will Black Ink
or anybody affiliated with Black Ink
be associated with this convention.
I'ma get to the bottom of this later, y'all.
I got this to deal with. I can deal with Atlanta later.
But they-- what the (bleep)? Breezy got it.
Them mother(bleep) gettin' out of control.
♪♪♪♪
- Wait a minute. Are we here already?
This don't look like no winery. - Now listen up.
Tatti had a surprise, and so do I.
- What kind of surprise? - Surprise?
- You have a surprise? - Yes, I do.
Excuse me, Bae.
- You're leaving to get it? - Yes.
- Oh, he got the stripper.
- So, as soon as we committed to playing hooky,
I knew what would make this day
the perfect old-school Black Ink outing.
So I started texting to make the arrangements.
Y'all ready? - Yeah.
- Surprise. - Aah!
- You fake-ass hos! - Oh, my God!
- I missed y'all!
- Oh, my (bleep) God.
We're in trouble trouble, aren't we?
But I'm so happy to see Donna. I love Donna.
- This is a surprise. Wow! - Hey!
- Wow, Alex, this is definitely a surprise.
And not for nothing, I wish you would've asked me
how I felt about it, 'cause last time Donna and I
got together, it wasn't exactly a fun time.
You're talking about slapping me and then you get in my face.
You don't slap me and then you throw things at me.
And it's like, what kind of friend is that?
- That's the friend that didn't smack you because we friends.
- I really don't need the added stress of having drama with her
on top of all the other things
I have going on in my life right now.
While I'm trying to put on a happy face,
just know I am not happy about this at all.
- I'm so happy to see
that "Massa" Ceas has let y'all out the house.
Oh, my God. - Ohh!
He really didn't. - Not gon' say
he let (bleep) out the house. - I am so happy.
- Look, I know Big Mama ruffled some feathers,
but we gotta get over that, because balancing my work life
and my home life is gettin' played out.
I need everybody to practice some equanimity, for real.
- Y'all ready to sip some wine now? - Right!
Even though everybody here is fake as (bleep),
I'm happy to see them. Even Tatti's hatin' ass.
I'm happy to be here. (laughs)
- All right, now that the party can fully begin...
- Word up. - ...let's get it started.
Driver, take us to our destination, please.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ We on top, they can't slow us down ♪♪
♪♪Warriors, we gon' shake the ground ♪♪
- Black Ink Milwaukee! - This is it?
- This is it. - This is it.
- It's not bad. - This is nice.
- Not bad at all. - That's a good front, bro.
- Is it open? - Where the (bleep) is Ted?
- You got the key? - Who got the key?
I ain't got the key. - You don't got the key?
- No, I ain't got the key. Ted ain't give me a key.
Ted tells us he has things to do,
and, after we pick yup Feezy, meet him at the shop.
We're here at the shop now.
There's no Ted, no keys, and nobody in the shop.
This is why I assembled my A-team of bosses,
so when Ted finally (bleep) up, we could try to fix it.
- Oh, (bleep), that might be Ted now.
Oh! Here we go! - Hey!
- I finally made it, man. - Young Van.
- Goddamn. - Here we go.
I invited Van because he's an experienced boss.
He knows how to open up a shop on time
with the support and love of a community.
Ted needs to take some mother(bleep) notes on him.
- It's cold as (bleep) out here, man.
- Uh-oh, here come Ted. - Hey!
- And Ted wearin' shorts. - Brother Ted.
- Now you know it's not that cold out here.
- He's used to this (bleep). - Milwaukee (bleep).
- My brother, what's up? How was your flight, man?
- It was good. - Y'all (bleep) with it?
- Yeah, man, I like it. - I like it, like it.
- I really didn't wanna let y'all in yet,
but y'all can see what's going on.
My timing was a little messed up.
It was supposed to be opened,
but I got something else planned for y'all.
- Hold on, wind back to the first part.
We not gon' go in? - We not goin' inside?
- No, we not goin' inside yet. - Oh, (bleep).
- Not yet, not yet, not yet.
I've been scrambling to get this shop together
so I don't want to Ceas to see the shop
and panic over little things that's not done yet.
So nobody's allowed inside the shop
until the grand opening, but I do have something else
that I want everybody to see.
- Oh, yeah! - What the (bleep) is that?
- What's goin' on here?
(engines revving)
- See, look at what happens in Milwaukee.
♪♪♪♪
- I like that right there. - That is a big-ass wheel.
- What up, what up, what up, y'all?
- What's goin' on, Skinny? This is the homey Skinny Pimp, man.
- Okay. - What's up?
What's up? What's up? What up, baby?
What up? What it do, y'all?
Welcome to the Mil. You know what I'm sayin'?
- A lot of y'all might have met him yet, but that's Shorty.
That's our lead tattoo artist. - (all) Shorty!
- Milwaukee is a dope city.
There's a lot of young Black business owners like myself,
so it feels good to finally be a part of that.
I just have to convince Ceas because he's thinking
it's a white city.
It's completely different, brother,
and I'm gonna show you that.
They gon' show us what's goin' on in Milwaukee.
- Let's do it. - You know what I'm sayin'?
We got some Slingshots in the back.
Those are for us. - Let's go!
Let's get it, baby!
(engines revving)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Rough riders for life yeah ♪♪
♪♪ (bleep) ride or die side by side ♪♪
♪♪ You know why? Rough riders for life ♪♪
- I'm not gon' lie. I didn't even think
that Milwaukee had this many Black people.
But with everything that's going on in his life,
I really don't know if Ted could pull this off.
- Yeah! Oh, man.
It's so good.
- But Ted did do a good job with the Slingshots.
- I'm out here now, you know what I'm sayin'?
We're deep, baby, slidin' through Milwaukee streets.
♪♪♪♪
- Ah, that was fun. - That (bleep) was a lot of fun.
- Good times. - I really liked the part
with the wind blowing through my head.
Probably my favorite part. - Yeah, right?
- Yeah. - Wow.
- The bikers was a big success,
just like I thought they would be.
And now it's time for part two of my plan.
- Welcome to SkyBox. I appreciate you guys.
Welcome to the neighborhood. A lot of my staff
are excited about getting tattoos down here.
- So you're the owner of this spot right here?
- Yes, I am. - Oh, that's awesome, man.
- Oh, I see what's going on.
Ted sent this man to tell me everything I want to hear.
Ted, we grew up together.
This is one of those old things that we did around the block.
You know, I ain't stupid. What the (bleep) you thinkin'?
- Appreciate y'all coming. - Ceas, are you finally starting
to see Milwaukee through my eyes?
- I don't know, man, 'cause I'm used to us
moving in the big city.
This (bleep) like a small town.
To me it's like backwards
until he brought me on this damn ride right here
and then come in here talking to another Black business owner.
I'm partially sold, but at the end of the day,
this (bleep) really gon' be on you, bro.
I just wanna see what's gon' happen after this grand opening.
That's the real test.
♪♪♪♪
- Bitch, we missed you. - I'm so excited.
I'm mad that I'm so excited to see y'all.
But I didn't miss y'all's toxic environment.
- Donna, you created the toxic environment.
I don't know if you forgot. - Girl, bye.
- Thank you, Bae, for speaking the truth.
Because not for nothing, Donna is the one
that is always toxic.
I am really trying not to get involved,
but maybe I can't help it.
I'm sorry, but Bae's right.
You don't realize the way that you say things.
- She said it was toxic 'cause of me.
Girl, I wake up happy and praising God every day.
- Hey, let's stop talking about the same (bleep) over and over.
- You know, it's just nice to not have somebody constantly hating on you all day.
- Come on, come on.
- It's some bull(bleep) goin' on.
My Atlanta crew-- ain't no one in the shop.
So I fired the whole damn shop.
- So then who's working at Atlanta?
- Let's go, y'all. ATL, shawty!
- Where is Rok and Krystal? - In New Jersey.
- What the (bleep)? I said, yo, I need y'all.
If they ain't here, they ain't with us no (bleep) more.
(phone ringing) - This is my lawyer.
- I just wanted to give you some news.
- (sobbing)
- You don't realize the way that you say things.
- Girl, I wake up happy and praising God every day.
- Let's stop talking about the same (bleep) over and over.
- You know, it's just nice to not have
somebody constantly hatin' on you all day.
- Come on, come on.
- I don't know what's wrong with Tatti.
It's probably 'cause she still in that toxic soup
of Black Ink, but she needs to be careful
and make sure she taking care of herself.
- Finally, we made it!
- I thought a winery was a big factory.
- I thought a winery was a store.
- I guess it's me and you today since it's couples.
- I guess.
Don't throw up today on me, bitch.
Fingers crossed, I'm not holding Tatti's hair back in two hours.
- Girl, I'm wasted. I'm done.
I'ma throw up.
- Hey, no! - Oh, (bleep)!
- I'm good, I'm straight.
- But who the (bleep) am I kidding?
We all know how this goes.
- Welcome to Cream Ridge Winery.
So today we're gonna learn a little bit about some wine.
We're gonna do a little wine tasting.
- So how do you make the wine?
Do you step on it with your feet?
- I wish I did, man. No, we got machines for that.
- Thank God, 'cause I didn't want no toenail in my drink.
Or you know the heel of your foot,
and sometimes it's dry? What if that (bleep) shaves off?
Oh, extra flavors.
- I'm starting you guys off with a Cabernet Franc.
- I don't want it to stain my teeth.
- Go like this. - Do it like it's your B-day.
- This is gon' be a toast to us playing hooky
and actually enjoying the day with no drama.
And we got Donna here so it feels like we a family again, you know?
Toast. - Cheers.
- To all getting fired.
- I'm drunk. What are you talking 'bout?
♪♪♪♪
(phone chimes)
- Ceas, what you look so focused at, bruh?
What happened? - This text from Breezy.
I gotta go to Atlanta. - Oh, boy.
- I gotta go after this grand opening.
It's some bull(bleep) goin' on.
The whole Atlanta shop really went to the convention
and represented Black Ink. - What?!
- Hold on. After you basically said
that convention is a dud, they still there
and representing Black Ink?
- Yes, sir. Behind my back.
And wearin' Black Ink T-shirts.
They ain't tell me no nothing.
- All of 'em? - All of 'em.
- Damn, the disrespect from (bleep) that you fed.
It's (bleep) up. - Fed them, yo.
I don't even know how to feel right now.
I told y'all we wasn't doin' this no more.
I didn't want to put y'all in position
to be at this convention circuit,
but you would-- you would betray me before you sit there and say,
"(bleep) them"? Damn, bro.
What people will do for a dollar.
I'm 'bout to go down there and regulate them mother(bleep).
You don't wanna listen, go out on y'all own.
You go back to the streets now.
They gon' have to hit that unemployment line.
♪♪♪♪
- Yes.
♪♪ Time to celebrate ♪♪
- This is cool. My grandma used to have grapes and (bleep).
- Why they all shriveled up like that?
Oh, they raisins. - That's a raisin?
- Eat it, try it. - Nah, nah, nah, nah.
Those (bleep) crunchy. (laughs) Look.
No squish. - Eww.
- It feels really good right now
to have the team and Big Mama here.
It honestly feels like old times with the crew.
- It's nice to have you back.
- Help! Help!
Hello, I need help! Somebody, come here!
- What the (bleep) goin' on?
- Ohh!
- Hold on, hold on.
♪♪♪♪
- Come on, it's okay.
- You wanna lay down here? - Here, lean on me.
- She passed out. Y'all might have to go.
- She's not drunk. There's something else wrong with her.
- You gonna call 911 or not?
- Oh, man.
- I don't know. I was so scared for Tatti...
that I can't remember. It just go--
like I blacked out a little bit.
I just remember her-- her lips getting pale,
and she started goin' like this.
I got so scared for her.
- Yeah, her eyes were rolling, girl, and she was shaking.
- I don't know how this went from a day of fun
to her passing out, but this is some scary (bleep).
- The shake with the eye roll, I was like, oh, (bleep).
- I've passed out before and I hit my head on the concrete.
- I seen people pass out.
She needs to go to the hospital right now.
- I'm feeling so much pressure right now.
I have to make sure this grand opening is on point.
- What's up, y'all? - So what do you think?
♪♪♪♪
- Eh-heh!
This is D-Roc of world-famous Ying Yang Twins.
D-Roc poppin' up is definitely gon' be a good look
to get some life pumpin' back into the shop.
- (groaning)
- ♪♪ I'm trying to raise a glass up, go ahead ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I made it up and nothin' but, go ahead ♪♪
♪♪ I'm missing all my day ones ♪♪
♪♪ But ain't forgettin' where I came from, go ahead ♪♪
♪♪ I'm 'bout to make a big splash ♪♪
- So this is it. Grand opening
of Black Ink Milwaukee is finally here.
Thank you for coming to support me.
- How do you feel, bro? Like this is fire.
- I don't know yet. I'm a little nervous, man.
But ain't no turning back now. We here.
I'm just hopin' Ceas is definitely satisfied
because he's made it clear numerous times,
if he's not happy, he's definitely gonna pull his support.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪We taking over the streets ♪♪
- This feels really strange, having a grand opening
for a shop that I've never been in.
Yeah, I'm impressed with the crowd that's outside,
but I hope Ted paid attention to the details
that can make and break a shop from the inside.
What's up, y'all? How you guys doin'?
- You got T, AKA the manager.
- I ain't seen you in a while. - This is the shop.
What you think?
♪♪♪♪
- I think... this (bleep) look nice.
You did good, cuz.
- I got your approval, whew! - Real nice.
- I've been nervous. I've been nervous.
- Wait, where's my picture?
- That's-- - At least a cutout.
- Of course Ceas notices there's no cutout of him.
But if that's the only thing he's complaining about,
I'm cool with that.
- This is epic right now. You feel me?
Like you really got your shop open.
I had major doubts about Ted,
but I guess some of this business genius
done rubbed off on him because he know
what he's doin' in this city.
And that's exactly what I need.
With all the bull(bleep) happening down in Atlanta,
I need people that share my vision.
Lifting up the Black community.
Controlling narrative wherever we go
and whenever we do something.
- Just wanna say thank y'all again.
Love is real. I appreciate y'all.
I guess it's safe to say,
Black Ink Milwaukee is officially open.
- Yeah! DJ!
- ♪♪ Hey man, hey man, hey man hey man, hey man... ♪♪
♪♪ They said we couldn't make it to the top, oh no ♪♪
♪♪ So many haters now your haters lookin' -- ♪♪
♪♪ What a hater gonna say? ♪♪
♪♪ We been on top so we party all day ♪♪
- I feel great right now.
The grand opening is a huge success.
I not only convinced Ceaser that Milwaukee
is a great place for Black Ink,
I also showed him that Ted can do it all.
Acting, music. I can do whatever I want.
And that's the definition of being a boss to myself.
- ♪♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Start living life maybe ♪♪
♪♪ Let's go and reach to the sky baby ♪♪
♪♪ Buy a ticket for the ride baby ♪♪
- So did y'all have fun playing hooky?
- It was cool for a second, but then Tatti passed out.
- Like the type of pass out like where--
- Like the shake with the eyes. - Really?
- Yeah. - No, no funny (bleep).
Like dead ass. - Holy (bleep).
- Hold up. There she is now.
- Hey, yo! - (all cheering)
- I'm alive, y'all. - So we was just telling them
about our wine yard situation.
- It was so cute till this bitch passed out.
- It was crazy for me too. - Are you doing okay though?
- Yeah, no, I'm feeling better. I rested.
I guess we waited too long to eat,
and then the wine first.
I'm a hypoglycemic and I have one kidney.
With all the stress around my court hearing,
I just haven't been taking care of myself,
and I think the combination of the wine, no food,
and my condition just caused me to faint.
- At least you're okay. - Yeah, no, I'm all right.
(indistinct chatter)
- Come back around, (bleep).
(overlapping greetings)
- Hey!
- So how was Milwaukee? - Yeah.
- Real Milwaukee-ish. - Was the grand opening grand?
- Yeah, it was grand. It was a good guys' trip.
But, uh, tell me, how were things here?
- We was working our asses off over here.
- Yeah, it got super busy.
- We was really on. - It was busy.
- Right. 30 tattoos a day.
- 30 tattoos? - Yeah.
- That's crazy. - I'm glad that you guys
held down the fort.
I know you guys were really busy,
but were y'all on the online paying attention
to what's goin' on in Atlanta?
- No, what's goin' on out there?
- I don't know if I should be the one to tell.
Matter fact, let me-- I got it.
Let me have the man himself tell y'all rather than me.
♪♪♪♪
Oh, there goes Ted.
- Hey! - There we go.
I was just trying to have you guys explain what's going on in Atlanta to everybody.
I'd rather them hear it from you.
- I heard, um, some bull(bleep)
while we was in Milwaukee during the grand opening.
The artists went against what I said
and decided to go to a convention
wearing Black Ink T-shirts,
saying that they worked for Black Ink.
So I decided to fire their asses.
I went HAM on my shop.
I've learned, as a boss, once you have a cancer
in your shop, you can't let it sit there and grow.
You gotta cut it off, and that's what I did.
Snip-snip.
It was Tro, Charles, Dam--
- Tro? - I got rid of Jigga too.
- Oh, (bleep). - Not Jigga!
- My mind is literally exploding.
Like I'm shocked, but after finding out why
he chose to fire everybody, it makes sense.
He asked one thing. Come on, bro.
You should've quit, 'cause basically you quit.
- This is a company, and we ain't standing together,
we can't eat together. (bleep) 'em.
- Wow. - It is what it is.
- So then who's working at Atlanta?
- Breezy. - Breezy learned how to tattoo?
- How many artists y'all got over there?
- Right now, I ain't got nobody.
I fired the whole damn shop. Guess what.
I need y'all to come down there.
- What? - Because that's one
of my most expensive shops to maintain,
and I can't just have it sitting here empty.
- For how long? Like are we doing the whole
two-month thing again because... - Good question.
- This is kinda last-minute. - Yeah.
- As soon as we get the shop back together,
I'll ship y'all back to New York.
- Will we be flying private again... to Atlanta?
Just a question. - No, no.
- Coach it is. I'm there, boss.
- Get everything together. I'ma get y'all flights
and send you the info asap. - Bye!
- This kinda sucks, because last time I was there,
it wasn't really fun for me, so I'm not--
I'm not really liking this news at all.
- I don't want to go. We were just in Atlanta.
My clients were tight enough
that I was gone for a couple months.
Like I'ma go again?
- It looks like the ladies wanna stay.
- I don't want to go.
Honestly I get that Ceas need help,
but I also know that Big Mama is not gon' be happy about this.
So my stress is about to skyrocket.
My equanimity is about to crumble.
- I do not wanna go to Atlanta,
but if this is what we gotta do, then...
- A'ight, so we out. We goin' to Atlanta.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - All right, come on, Tatti.
Turn that frown upside down. Come on.
♪♪♪♪
- Where's Rok and Krystal?
- Rok called me with the craziest (bleep) story.
A dog bit Krystal's stomach.
- Ohh!
- ♪♪ Uh, yeah, you don't want this problem ♪♪
♪♪ Uh, yeah, it's whatever you want but you know and I know ♪♪
♪♪ This ain't the problem you want ♪♪
- How was it with the heathens?
- Uh... (bleep) Ceas called a meeting.
- He love calling meetings. - He loves calling meetings.
So he goes on to tell us that he fired everybody
in the Atlanta shop, and now he needs us to go down there
to fill in until they can find new artists.
- Oh, you stressing me out. Every time I hear something
about this shop, it stresses me out, I'm telling you.
I just wish that you would wake up and realize your potential.
- I know my potential. - Because it's not in that shop.
- I understand that. Look, I know Big Mama
has her opinions about the shop, but going to Atlanta right now
is more so helping out the team.
But on the other hand, my relationship with Big Mama
is very important and I don't want to jeopardize that.
So it's like I'm caught between a rock and hard place.
Personally I don't know if I really wanna attend the trip,
but I'ma think about it.
- ♪♪ Uh, yeah, you don't want this problem ♪♪
♪♪ Uh, yeah, boy, don't even front ♪♪
♪♪ Real recognize real, so I know you a chump ♪♪
♪♪ You can tell them boys you roll with... ♪♪
- You here? What are you doing?
- I'm kinda like, the last time, Atlanta was super (bleep) stressful for me.
So like I have like a little bit of PTSD
of like packing right now.
I just don't want to do any of this right now.
The only thing that's on my mind is the conversation
that my lawyer's gonna have with the DA tomorrow.
Like the next 24 hours is a big deal for me.
I hope that, you know, by the time I come back,
I can get some answers as to like what direction
my life is heading in.
- ♪♪ Uh, yeah, you don't want this problem ♪♪
♪♪ Uh, yeah, it's whatever you want ♪♪
- On my way to Atlanta.
It's about to be lit.
♪♪♪♪
- All right, Atlanta, we are here.
♪♪♪♪
- Let's go, y'all. ATL, shawty!
Next stop, Black Ink, baby!
- Feels good to be back home, man.
Everybody else is complaining about this Atlanta trip.
I am super happy 'cause I am finally home.
I get to sleep in my own bed.
- Yo, where's Alex and Bae?
- Alex I have no idea.
But I'm pretty sure Bae's gonna pull up with her new boyfriend.
- I'm just hoping that everybody else pulls up, you know what I mean?
I'm hoping it's just not us, 'cause... (bleep).
- Well, I know that Rok and Krystal
definitely drove down here because Krystal don't really (bleep) with flying.
- I did not know that Krystal had a fear of flying.
This is a little weird for me, because I definitely didn't see
no fear on the PJ.
- Black Ink cares!
- I had no clue about that.
- We here. How you feelin'?
- I'm feelin' great. Oh, my God.
- You feelin' great?
- ATL, baby.
I feel so much better now that Jay's coming with me.
And whatever Ceaser needs, I'm there for him.
- You didn't like Atlanta last time, huh?
- What do you mean? I loved Atlanta last time.
It was just... I just met wrong people.
It was right place, wrong people.
- Right place, wrong people? - Yeah.
- Now you the right place, right man?
Oh, oh...
(laughter)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ This world done lost its mind ♪♪
♪♪ This world done lost its mind but Atlanta still gon' grind ♪♪
♪♪ And if you think it needs to change ♪♪
♪♪ Raise your fist for humankind ♪♪
- (voice echoing) Hello! Hello!
Feels real... - Empty.
- Open?
♪♪♪♪
Did they take the basketball hoop with them?
- Yeah.
- Ohh!
- Goddamn. - That's petty.
- But I mean, we're here.
We're gonna bring good energy to you, Breezy.
You know what I'm sayin'? - Here to help.
Breezy has nothing to worry about.
We've already put out there that we here,
and our DMs are being flooded with clients.
Ceaser is handpicking new artists as we speak.
- This is great!
- The only issue is that Ted and I
might actually have to learn how to tattoo
within the next ten minutes
because most of our artists are absent.
(laughter)
- Oh, yes! - Young Bae!
And then there were two artists!
Young Bae's in the building. I feel some kind of relief,
'cause at first I'm thinking I was the only artist
on this Atlanta trip, again.
- Why don't we check out the rest of the shop
and see like... - What's gone and what's here.
- ...what we're dealing with. Wow.
We lost a few stations. - Where's my booth?
- It's like, where's the soul at?
- Welcome home, guys. - Okay, I'm gonna set up over there,
but I'm taking this mirror. - I'm gonna get my arm rest
that I left for the past six months.
Yo!
- Are you mother(bleep) happy to see me, baby?
- I'm definitely happy to see you.
- Hey, you were allowed to come? - First of all--
- You ain't got no smoke behind you, huh?
- First of all, I'm grown. - You good, huh?
- I do as I please, you feel me?
So I decided that coming down to Atlanta
was the right thing to do, and even though Big Mama
is not so happy with my decision,
she definitely understands.
I think I'm finally figuring out what the balance needs to be.
It might take some time, but equanimity always shows you the way.
- I'm glad Alex made it here.
Where the (bleep) is the rest of our tattoo artists?
Where is Rok and Krystal? We're missing two people.
- I know where Rok and Krystal are.
- Where? - You do?
Because they have not answered any of my texts or my calls.
- Rok called me with the craziest (bleep) story...
and I don't really know how to take it.
What's goin' on, pimp? You all right?
- Yeah, I don't think we're gonna make it to Atlanta, man.
This (bleep) dog decides to jump in the front.
Krystal got bit twice.
- I was waiting to tell Ceaser,
but I think I gotta tell everybody to make sure
I ain't buggin' the (bleep) out.
Yeah, so what had happened was...
- Uh-oh. - ...they were driving down here.
- They were? - Were?
- They were driving down here.
- Past tense. - Yeah.
- But what Rok said, they made it to...
Virginia or North Carolina, and it was the first time
these mother(bleep) took the dog...
- ♪♪ Rockabye baby ♪♪
- ...on a road trip. - Stop.
- The dog tried to jump into the front seat.
Krystal tried to stop the dog with her arm.
And when she did one of those, the dog bit her arm and (bleep).
- What?! - Stop!
- So then Rok had to help her.
And when he tried to help her,
the dog then bit Krystal's stomach.
- What?! - (gasps)
- And then when it bit Krystal's stomach,
they almost crashed the car.
So, what his logical brain was...
drive from Virginia back to New Jersey,
and Rok doesn't want-- - Wait, hold on, hold on.
This is the funniest (bleep) I have ever heard in my life,
but it also sounds like, "Dog ate my homework."
- Right. - Okay.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I thought maybe I just hit the Zaza too hard.
But I'm not trippin'. Okay.
Yeah, (bleep) sounds (bleep) crazy.
- She got bit for real or this is a made-up story.
- I need to see some blood.
- Ohh, it's a bluff?
- She's saying that they're not coming.
And I mean, let's think logically.
If you drove to Virginia, would you go back to New Jersey
or would you keep on to Atlanta?
- You got about four or five hours left.
You might as well just keep going.
- I'm driving to the hospital. - Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, if I got bit by a dog...
- On my stomach and my arm? - ...on my stomach and my arm.
- You crazy. - And I would've swore
I saw them tattooing.
They like-- I don't understand.
This whole situation got me feeling some type of way.
Because I got two dogs, and I could've picked one of 'em
to bite me so I could've kept my ass in New York.
Sounds like they want to be fired.
Because especially knowing why we're all here right now,
because Ceaser just fired the whole shop for disloyalty,
and then you make up some crazy-ass story?
- 'Cause I didn't wanna come and I came.
I had to do what I had to do.
(phone ringing) - (bleep).
This is my lawyer. The fact that the next few words
that come out of my lawyer's mouth
is determining my future, I'm terrified.
- Just wanted to give you a call and give you some news.
♪♪♪♪
- What?! Ehh!
- Ehh! - (laughs)
- What's happening?
- Brother D-Roc, what's good, my guy?
- How you doin'? - How you feelin'?
- Hey, I'm blessed. - This is D-Roc
of world-famous Ying Yang Twins.
- Yes! - Heh!
- D-Roc and Kaine, Ying Yang Twins,
I mean, everybody knows them.
They're a big deal, you feel me?
But we been rocking out for years.
D-Roc poppin' up is definitely gon' be a good look
to get some life pumpin' back into the shop.
So what's good, brother? - What's goin' on, now?
- How you feelin'? - Hey, man, I'm blessed.
- You got any ideas? - Yeah.
I'ma get my grandmama name and my mama name.
- That's a hood classic. - Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
- Word up. - Okay, so what are we doing today?
- Okay, I'm gonna get three Buddhas.
- Okay. - What do you want?
- A spaceship and like a real sexy woman
being beamed up into the spaceship.
- You wanna add something with it or you just wanna put the name there?
- Nah, I just want the name. You know I'm scared of needles.
(laughter)
- At the end of the day, family always come first.
- Always. - That's why we down here now.
To help out. - Oh, yeah.
- Help the Black Ink family with Ceaser (bleep).
- We 'bout to turn up.
- Yeah, son.
♪♪♪♪
- (groaning)
(groaning continues)
- Make you strong, boy.
♪♪♪♪
Bow! - A'ight.
- That's it, brother. - Huh?
- I love it. It's so nice.
- Don't cry, girl. I know it's nice.
(laughs) - Nice body.
Her boobies. I love this.
- Oh, yeah, I'm (bleep) with it.
My brother.
Everything that I was thinking about.
- You good to go, brother. - Ehh!
- Oh, (bleep).
- Ohh! - Look who it is.
- Hey! - I just wanna let y'all know
that I deeply appreciate everybody,
you know what I mean, showing up on short notice.
Wait, wait.
Where is Rok and Krystal?
- I have the answer to this one.
So they were driving here, right?
- Okay. - Right when they got to Virginia...
- Yeah. - ...their dog
started flipping the (bleep) out, right?
- Uh-huh. - So Krystal was like,
"Nah, you can't do that."
It just bit her in the gut.
And then they drove seven hours back to New Jersey.
- Right. - Go to the best part.
- This the best part. You wanna know what they doin' in New Jersey?
- What? - Tattooing.
- Am I hearing this right?
Because this (bleep) don't make
no mother(bleep) sense to me.
Does it make sense to you?
- They probably just playing hooky.
Wouldn't be the first time we all did that.
- What? - What?
- Dude! Ceaser just fired a whole shop.
And now is the time you think it's appropriate
to talk about us playing hooky?
- A'ight, this is how it's gon' go, right?
I love the (bleep). I love 'em.
But this (bleep) is bull(bleep)!
Yo, look, I'm not (bleep) around, yo.
And as far as Krystal and Rok,
I done fired mother(bleep) for less.
They got 24 hours to get they asses here.
This is unacceptable, and if they don't fix
this situation sooner than later,
they ain't with us no (bleep) more.
♪♪♪♪
- (humming)
♪♪♪♪
(phone ringing)
- (bleep). This is my lawyer.
Good morning, Mr. Niles.
- Good morning, Tatiana. How are you?
- I'm all right. How are you?
I've been waiting for a call from my lawyer all week.
The DA has finally made a decision,
and now I'm finally gonna find out my fate.
I don't even know what to think right now.
- Uh, I just wanted to give you a call and give you some news.
- And the fact that the next few words
that come out of my lawyer's mouth is determining my future,
I'm terrified.
- Um, we have made progress.
And, uh, we've negotiated an offer
that does not include any jail time.
- Oh, my God. - (laughs)
- Wow.
Holy (bleep).
I don't even have the words
to express what I'm feeling right now.
(squeals)
Oh, my God.
I feel like I'm (bleep) melting.
(sobbing)
I'm overwhelmed with so much gratitude
and I'm like relieved.
The past few months was a huge reality check for me.
- You gotta really start thinking about what you're doing
to keep putting yourself in this goddamn scenario.
- I underestimated the people who care about me,
and I underestimated the support that I have.
- All I could say is we always gon' be here for you,
no matter what you goin' through.
- I appreciate you.
This news changes everything for me.
I'm back and I'm so ready to be better than ever.
♪♪♪♪
- Welcome to Black Ink Atlanta, y'all, after dark.
- Yo, yo!
- Look, y'all not showing up was disrespectful.
If y'all ain't gon' be here, then get the (bleep) outta here.
♪♪♪♪
- Isn't that, um... - Chicago.
- Wait, hold up.
- So we got New York, Chicago, and Compton in the house?
This needs to be celebrated.
- I decided to throw a contest.
- Oh, (bleep).
Is it a Black Ink Battle? - Yes.
Tomorrow...
we fightin', y'all.
(laughter)
- Let's get ready to battle!
(cheering and applause)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪