(Ceaser) Last year, the world was turned upside down.
- ♪♪ We've been down this road ♪♪
- (Ceaser) It's important to remember what we lost,
and also be grateful for what we hold on to.
- ♪♪ I'm already knowing the son was born chosen ♪♪
♪♪ Movin' through the streets of New York, home of the golden ♪♪
(Ceaser) With the city shut down,
I took my crew down to Atlanta.
- Black Ink! (cheering and applause)
- Go, Alex! Go!
♪♪♪♪
(Ceaser) We were tested as a company,
as individuals.
This is your opportunity to shine.
Show me that you really ready for this.
Some of us grew closer together.
♪♪♪♪
- Just me and you. Got me a Bronx girl.
That's right. - The king and the queen have arrived.
- Thank you for supporting me. I love you.
(Ceaser) Some of us grew apart.
- I'll smack the (bleep) outta you, Tatiana.
- Y'all chill the (bleep) out! No, no, no, no, no!
You want credit for being
the worst tattoo artist in the history of Black Ink?
- You all right, man? - It's just got me in a (bleep) up situation.
- He has a scratch on his lip,
and honestly he did that himself.
(Ceaser) And some of us made choices
that can't be undone.
- Somebody broke into 125th Street.
- This (bleep) is definitely an inside job.
- I tried to do some dumb (bleep),
but I had nothing to do with that break-in, bro.
- Get the (bleep) out. I don't wanna hear that (bleep).
Through our triumphs and our troubles,
we faced the unimaginable.
- Eight people shot dead in Atlanta area massage parlors,
including six Asian women.
- I'm a Black man in America,
and every time I turn on my TV screen,
I see another Black man in America getting shot.
(Ceaser) But if this crisis taught us anything,
we need to strengthen our communities
and support each other.
- Brooklyn, welcome to Vax the Block.
(Ceaser) And no matter what
the challenges we're facing now...
- Ceaser's daughter Cheyenne goes on Live,
saying that he laid hands and feet on her.
(Ceaser) ...we're never gonna stop.
As a family, as a business, as a community,
we're coming back bigger and stronger than ever.
- I would love to bring Ceaser from Black Ink to the stage.
- ♪♪ We've been down this road ♪♪
- Brooklyn! What's up, y'all?
Love y'all, yo.
This block party ain't just a regular block party.
This right here is to let y'all know
that we at Black Ink care about y'all.
This event is (bleep) amazing!
We registering people for their vaccination shots.
And to motivate them, we giving out some free tattoos.
I need to let people know, like, listen, this is the only way.
We gotta get past this COVID thing.
We gotta finish taking over this world.
We're at Brooklyn!
- ♪♪ We make, we create ♪♪
♪♪ We are the homegrown hero ♪♪
- It's a beautiful day in the (bleep) neighborhood.
- To do things like this in the community,
I think it's kind of dope.
- It's been so crazy.
We've been down in Atlanta. Come back to New York.
I've been really missing Atlanta, I'm not gonna front.
So it's been 30 days since I been back in Gotham,
and I know Quani kinda wants to leave to go to Atlanta.
- Look at this, Paul. - It's really nice.
- I do not want to set my roots in New York.
I've been up there for 34 years. I'm good.
- I'm still not ready to move there yet.
Because from Black Ink to Art 2 Ink Studios,
business is blowing up right now.
I'ma take the money, baby.
- Yo. - Yo.
- Whew! - We were just saying
how this is another great Black Ink event.
- Yeah, we got people registering for the vaccine.
- You got your shot, right? - Yeah, I got--
I got vaccinated fully. - Bro, we're done, we're done.
- You're done already? - Yeah.
- I'm just happy we got this event,
'cause today's just-- I been stressed, yo.
- What you stressed about? It's a beautiful day.
- Bro, you ain't-- you ain't see the Internet?
- (bleep), what happened?
- Crystal is still on Live,
throwing wild accusations.
I thought everything was back to normal.
My shops are back open.
My relationship is back on track.
And that Child Protective Service case
that Crystal threw on me in Atlanta got thrown out.
Child Protective Services for Atlanta.
- "This finding means there's no evidence of maltreatment."
Case (bleep) closed.
- I can't talk to my daughter Cheyenne
because of my open CPS case in New York.
I try not to talk about this situation with my daughter
on TV no more, but something has to change.
I just need to be busy.
Like we got wild (bleep) we gotta do.
♪♪♪♪
- Mad people showed out. - Yeah.
- I think the only reason why they got registered was...
- They wanted a tat. - ...you know, to get the tattoo, yo.
- That's the only reason? They want--
- You better get that shot.
- My relationship with Rok has definitely been working out.
Like we're in a good place right now.
I feel like our relationship's healthy now.
We finally get some space to ourselves,
even though I did move down the block from you.
- To be honest, I feel like (bleep) was just going downhill
while we were in Atlanta.
Atlanta was driving me crazy.
I feel like that (bleep) was just testing
me and Krystal's relationship.
Don't disrespect me. - Hey, what it is.
You don't even deserve to keep her.
- Bro, stop letting people talk to you like that.
'Cause how you think I'ma talk to you?
- I learned a lot from that experience.
And to be honest, I don't think I'm gon' let
anything ruin me and Krystal's relationship.
Like I'm gonna do whatever it takes
to make sure me and her are good.
- Finish your tattoo. - All right.
Yo, (bleep), my bad.
♪♪♪♪
- A'ight, y'all, I wanna tell y'all a little something
before, uh, we finish this event.
There's a little change in the company.
- Oh, boy. - We all know
that Walter is no longer with us.
So there is a vacancy on 125th.
I have to give props where props is due,
and Tatti is now the new manager of 125th.
- Okay! Okay, Tatti! - (bleep)!
- Congratulations, Tatti!
(applause)
- I am so glad that Ceaser has finally trusted me
with being in charge of one of his most well known shops.
After surviving Atlanta and surviving Donna,
I think that he finally sees
what I've been trying to show him this whole time.
- Tatti will officially start there next week.
- Good job, babe! - Let's hope she doesn't (bleep) up.
- Black folk, Black folk, what's going on?
What's goin' on? Chillin'?
♪♪♪♪
What's happening?
- Alex, where the (bleep) have you been?
- Yeah, where the (bleep) you been?
We ain't seen you since Atlanta. (bleep), what up?
- So it's been a month since we got back from Atlanta,
and I've just been trying to get back into the groove
of being back in New York.
No funny (bleep). I'm good.
I'm chillin'. I'm ready to get back to work.
- Uh, unh-uh, are you good-good?
Because last time we seen you, you was looking like, uh...
- That night at the gallery?
- My (bleep), look at his face!
- Honestly he did that himself.
I don't even have nails to scratch him.
- Wait, I did this myself?
- I'm not condoning domestic violence.
I'm not filming with domestic violence!
- I was being a little, you know, extra.
Nothing happened. The cut on my face?
I was trying to shave before I got there.
- What happened at the gallery event in Atlanta
was definitely disturbing.
It was domestic violence.
They can hide it. They can talk about it.
Try to flip it and bounce it.
But it is what it is.
- It seemed a certain way, but it really wasn't that.
I promise you that. If I was gettin' abused,
I would've been out of the relationship.
That's a fact.
- All right, so I definitely lied
about the whole cut on my face.
Big Mama didn't do it. She was beefin' me.
I was trying to shave my mustache.
One thing led to another.
I wound up cutting my top lip.
But because she kept irritating me
throughout the day,
I dragged her and I said she did it.
- Yeah, I can understand why people would think I was lying.
All I'ma tell you is that I was being dramatic,
I did too much, and that was it.
- That (bleep) don't look healthy.
Your personal life is your personal life.
I'm never gon' tell you to dump her,
but at the end of the day, Donna has become too toxic
for me to even sit here and have a cordial conversation.
- She's a liability now, bro. She's laughing at Ceas,
what he's goin' through.
- I'ma say 'cause I know he's not.
Bro, this man is goin' through something in the last 24 hours.
Do you know your girl is liking the comments?
- Today, bro. - I didn't know that.
- She's liking comments that are against him!
- Donna, you wanna sit there and start liking
my baby mother's negative posts about me?
Seems like as soon as I'm goin' through something,
you the first one to sit there and rave and clap.
- Then after that, it's the Asian (bleep).
Now you buggin' the (bleep) out.
- Her actions are reflective of us.
When Asians die in Atlanta, three, four blocks away
from the shop and you say some crazy (bleep)
on Shade Room, that reflect all of us, bro.
- Yeah, don't get me wrong.
Yeah, she shouldn't have said it.
But everybody make mistakes. We all grown.
We make mistakes. She's trying to right her wrongs
in every part of her life, you feel me?
- She could've called me. She could've done anything.
As of today, Donna has not apologized
or anything like that.
I'm not even looking for an apology.
I'm just looking for an explanation,
like what went through her head.
Me and Donna, you know, we're like this.
And I don't know how, like,
she could just ghost me like this.
- She didn't feel like she did anything wrong
until somebody broke it down to her.
- Alex, this is the problem, bro.
She doesn't feel like she does anything wrong, bro.
- And I understand that. - And it's starting to--
- Listen, you talking to me, my (bleep).
I know that. She's struggling right now
because she got a lot of (bleep) that's going on.
She's in therapy now.
Big Mama, she's been in therapy
since the night at the gallery in Atlanta.
- I have been trying to explain what's going on
rather than just being mad.
- Alex, man, at the end of the day,
(bleep) ain't trying to bash you for who you be with.
You feel me? But as far as her
coming around, (bleep),
that (bleep) ain't happening no more, bro.
Like, I wish her the best, but at the end of the day, man,
she can't come to Black Inks, none of them no more.
No events, no nothing.
- All right.
- I've been dealing with Donna's (bleep) ups
since she started in Black Ink.
Every time I turn around, she's fighting with Tatti.
And then on top of that (bleep),
the insensitivity of her comments on social media
to her domestic violence issues with Alex,
all I'm seeing is a downward spiral
that I will no longer allow around Black Ink.
- I'll make sure I'm there the next day at the shop.
You feel me?
- Well, nice to have you back, Alex.
- My (bleep).
- Good to have you back, Al.
- You already know, man.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Somethin' slippin' underneath the sheets ♪♪
♪♪ I can feel the secrecy beneath it come between us ♪♪
(cell phone ringing)
♪♪ Think this time we both say what we gotta say ♪♪
(cell phone continues ringing)
- Big mama.
- What you doing?
- Nothing, just left this event,
the block party.
- What was it? How was it?
- I mean, you know, of course, (bleep) is like, yo, you okay?
Doing all that (bleep).
But I let them know exactly what's going on.
- I didn't do (bleep).
Me and Alex argue.
Alex is (bleep) dramatic.
But I don't put my hands on Alex.
- They just feel like you don't--
you don't take accountability.
Well...
they told me I could stay here and work.
But... they just don't want you around.
- It's just very annoying to me that, you know,
I know that I've grown and I'm in therapy.
I know my anger is being managed
much better than it used to be.
And I just know I'm focused on bigger and better things.
- Don't do this. Don't do this.
- Yeah, like (bleep) been wanting me
out of that shop for how long?
So I'ma just take it for what it is
and I'm going to take my exit like
I don't want to be around people like that anyway.
- At the end of the day, we gonna do our thing
and... move on. That's it.
- For real, for real?
- We just gotta do what we gotta do.
- This morning we got woken up by police.
- When I got downstairs,
Tatti's in handcuffs already in the kitchen.
- He allegedly arranged for three kilos of cocaine
to be shipped to Tatiana Ritter.
- I made an appointment for you for the specialist.
- I'm scared.
- You gonna be okay? - My biggest fear is leaving you
out here by yourself.
- You say dumb (bleep) like that online.
It hurts, bitch! - Okay, you talking about--
you talking about that one specific statement.
- No, no, no, oh, my (bleep) God!
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Everywhere you look everyone you see ♪♪
♪♪ Is hiding something deep ♪♪
♪♪ And I'm ready to wake up ♪♪
- Linda!
Pedro!
Hi, babies.
Just us.
Since I've gotten back from Atlanta,
things just haven't been going as I thought they would.
You know, I started with a full house,
and before I even got back, two people have moved out.
Michelle left and now Francesca's decided to move out, too.
- ♪♪ Be still ♪♪
(all) Salud!
(cheering)
- It's super heartbreaking for me
because my dream was to bring everybody together.
- ♪♪ All the times I laid awake for you ♪♪
- I just want you guys to be happy.
You have nothing to say about this, Aladdin?
(dog whimpers)
A lot of people are always complaining
about how they got problems
and they're always going through (bleep).
But best believe you guys have no idea
what the (bleep) that I'm going through.
(Puma) Welcome to the Black Ink family auction.
(Tatti) You deserve to be celebrated.
(Teddy) Don't give Tatti no more liquor.
- When I actually visited home when I was in Atlanta,
something happened.
(sirens wailing)
- This morning we got woken up by police.
There's a cop in my room.
In gunpoint, "Put your hands up."
- When I got downstairs,
Tatti's in handcuffs already in the kitchen.
- Oh, my God. - And they took her out.
- But, what's going on?
Nobody's giving you any information.
- We went to the precinct in person.
- There's no way of us getting in touch with her.
- Relax. - Like there's no way.
(knocking on door) - Who's that?
- I don't know. (dog barks)
- Aladdin, come here!
(dog barks)
- Yo! - Are you okay?
- What's going on?
- So I was like half asleep and I heard
a bang on the door and I see mad police.
They said that they had a warrant out for my arrest.
- What do you gotta do?
You gotta go back to court or something?
- Well, I was ROR'd. - What's that?
- When you're released on your own recognizance.
- Okay, all right.
- So I do have to go back to a court date.
- Oh, boy.
- The charges against me are public information.
But they haven't hit the blogs yet.
I'm super hesitant to even talk about
what I've been charged with
because I'm afraid that this may be used against me.
- Today we're here to announce the culmination
of a massive, long-term investigation
into drug trafficking in the Hempstead area.
He allegedly arranged for three kilos of cocaine
to be shipped from Puerto Rico to the post office box
owned by his friend and co-defendant Tatiana Ritter.
(dog whimpering) - I know, Aladdin.
(dog whimpering)
My current legal issues definitely takes me back
to that feeling of being arrested before.
I'm so scared because I don't even know
like what I'm supposed to do
or how I'm supposed to get out of it.
I literally have no idea what's gonna happen in a month.
So I'm (bleep) overwhelmed. I'm depressed.
I'm stressed out. I'm manic, I'm scared.
It's terrifying.
I definitely did not want to put y'all through that.
- It's all right. Okay?
- Aww... - All right?
You know Daddy got your back. - I know.
- ♪♪ Go time ♪♪
♪♪ Game on the line ♪♪
♪♪ Ball in my hand I'ma score one more time ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I'm the truth... believe in the truth ♪♪
♪♪ It's a wide-open guarantee that I'ma shoot ♪♪
- Thank you so much for meeting me here today.
- No worries, Ceaser. Thanks for coming in.
I appreciate it. I know you're a busy man.
Let's recap where we were before.
We talked about how we could get Krystal
to stop from the false accusations over social media.
- So I served Krystal the nicest cease-and-desist letter
a human can send to another human
talking (bleep) about them.
She read the cease-and-desist letter on Instagram.
- (chuckles) - And said, "(bleep) you."
I don't think it worked. No.
And then on top of that (bleep),
every time she goes on Live, it's like blogs pick it up
and then there's a chain of blogs picking it up.
- Got it. - And now it's almost
to the point that it feels like cyberbullying.
People sitting there saying, "You're a piece of (bleep).
You beat your daughter."
She's put a police report out with my home address on it.
I don't feel safe in that house now.
You think losing contact with my daughter
would be enough for Krystal.
For her to keep bashing me,
and I'm supposed to sit there and be like,
it's okay, smack me on this cheek now.
What?! The (bleep) outta here.
- That's a lot to take in, Ceaser.
- It is, yo. - We can put a lawsuit together
that's directed solely at Krystal, not your daughter.
And if you can't get her to be quiet
by asking her politely, maybe a judge can.
- ♪♪ Fruits of my labor ♪♪
♪♪ Brought it straight from the dirt ♪♪
♪♪ Double my grind just to triple my work ♪♪
♪♪ I'm in the same clothes from the first to the dirt ♪♪
♪♪ You can say what you want but I'm making it work ♪♪
(dog barking)
- Kevin, shut up!
- You know, coming into a new house,
you know we gotta... sage this house.
- We just moved out of Marcy to Jersey.
Originally, the plan was to bring my family
down to Atlanta while I was there
just to get away from New York period.
It was sizzling up up here.
- Yeah. - I mean, like as far as
the vibe and the money.
But Ceas basically gave me an ultimatum.
- If you leave Brooklyn, you're fired.
- I could understand why, as far as me
being able to be that anchor in the flagship.
You know what I mean? So I respected it.
At the end of the day,
Jersey is everything that we need right now to flourish.
- You still in class?
Okay.
Anyhoo, I meant to tell you
that I made an appointment for you for the specialist
because of your situation what's going on.
- Mm-hmm. - No, I'm serious, Spyder,
because you cannot keep putting that off.
You know what I'm saying?
That (bleep) is like so important.
- I'm dealing with what feels like electricity
shooting through my jaw, my neck.
It complicates things, especially being a tattoo artist
and having to sit there
and focus on your client at the same time.
And at this point, I just want to find out
the answers and figure out exactly what's what
and how I need to live my life going forward.
- You need to like really like slow down
'cause you like, you're doing the most right now.
- I can't depend on no other artist to hold it down
in Black Ink Brooklyn.
Who? Rok? Krystal?
We been having a few clients pop in
to basically try to figure out what's up
with they artist that they booked for whatever--
Rok, Krystal.
We gotta do what we gotta do. Gotta pick up the slack.
That's the life of a tattoo artist, you know what I mean?
- You're gonna be okay. - I don't know, I'm scared.
- You're gonna be okay. Scared for what, babe?
- I don't know, like...
(pan scraping)
If it's something more serious.
My biggest fear is leaving you out here by yourself.
- No, babe. You gotta--
you gotta stay positive about it, okay?
Everything gonna be okay?
All right?
You hear me?
Gotta stay positive about it, babe.
You got this, babe.
- Ay! - Hi!
(Tatti) Oh, my gosh, he's so cute!
(Puma) What's your dog's name?
- We thinking Kimchi.
- Kimchi! (dog whimpers)
- Everybody crossed the line.
- Stop right now! (overlapping shouting)
- (Ceaser) If y'all can't grow the (bleep) up...
- Stop! Stop! Get out!
- 'Cause either y'all do that
or y'all ain't gonna be part of this company no more.
- Man, (bleep) you, pussy (bleep)!
(overlapping shouting) - Yo, yo!
- Ceas! - No.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ What's good let's see ♪♪
♪♪ All the pain is life around me ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, in the heat of the night I might be, unh ♪♪
♪♪ In the heat of the night I might be ♪♪
(Tatti) It's so hot outside!
My tits are sweatin'.
(laughter)
- It's a great day. I feel really good.
How's everybody feeling, though? - Good to be back.
- Yeah, you know what I mean? Good to see you back.
- Glad you back, man.
(bleep) in here bombarding me.
(laughter)
Krystal and Rok, they missing in action.
- They bull(bleep). - Missing in action.
I don't know what the (bleep) they doing.
- Maybe we should separate them.
- One in Brooklyn and one in Harlem?
- Which one would you take? - Taking an artist?
- Which one would I take? - Okay, being a specialist
in (bleep) up workplace relationships,
not matter what name come out of Tatti mouth right now,
it's gonna be a (bleep) show.
- I would take Krystal. - Gotta find her first.
- Ay! - Hi!
- Oh, my gosh, he's so cute!
Oh, so cute!
(Puma) What's your dog's name?
- We thinking Kimchi.
- Kimchi!
That's a good name to yell at something.
- To everybody, this is the new member of my family.
Her name is Kimchi Ang.
She's a micro Bully, aka my daughter.
- Aww! So cute! - Look at her!
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ No matter how I do it ♪♪
♪♪ Look, I do it for the love ♪♪
- ♪♪ Love love love love... ♪♪
- ♪♪ I gotta show improvement 'cause I do it for the love ♪♪
- ♪♪ Love love love love... ♪♪
(cell phone chiming)
- Let's take a break real quick, brother.
- All right, I'm going in the back real quick.
(cell phone continues chiming)
- What's up with you? What's new?
- Babe, 79 degrees outside.
- It's beautiful. It's hot as...
It's like 88 degrees in here.
- Well, I hope the (bleep) client don't pass out.
And if he do, make sure he sues Ceas.
- (laughing) Facts, hon.
- Um, who else in the shop? (needle buzzing)
- Bae, Spyder...
- Um, can you put Bae on the phone?
I wanted to talk to her real quick.
And might as well do it now.
- All right, I got you.
- Young Bae and I are friends outside of the shop.
So I don't really feel the need
to make amends with anybody other than Bae.
- I stopped. - All right, well,
I've been trying to speak to you for months, Young Bae.
- You got my (bleep) number.
You never-- you never called me.
- Girl, you could've called me.
- Why I gotta call you? Why I gotta call you? For what?
Call you for what? - All right, that's okay.
I'm not trying to argue with you.
I called because I feel like,
of all the relationships in the shop,
that you're one of the only people
that I really care to have a conversation with.
So, if you want to have a conversation with me,
if you're down to have a conversation with me,
I would like to meet up with you
and we have a conversation.
- I know Donna is a (bleep) hardheaded bitch.
But the friendship that we had was different.
So I would love to hear her side.
Okay.
You got it. Let's do it.
- Um, I guess I'll come to where you at.
Or you can just let me know where you gonna be at.
- All right. - And we can meet up.
- Okay. Bye. - Bye.
(needle buzzing)
♪♪♪♪
(automated voice) Front door.
- Yeah! - Oh, hello!
- Well, hello! - It's hot as hell out there.
Even though Ceas says we're officially working
at the Brooklyn shop, I like 125th better because
it still feels like I'm at 113th
and it feels like home a little bit.
But after the Vax the Block event,
we thought it'd be a good idea to stop by the Brooklyn shop.
- Oh, (bleep). Rok and Krystal.
Welcome to work, guys. - What up, Spyder?
- Yo, what's up, Spyder?
- It must be real nice to
stroll in the shop when you feel like it.
(bleep), I wish I could.
- You know what?
You (bleep) come in late as (bleep),
and everybody's been complaining.
So the best bet is that they separate y'all.
(Tatti) So you guys can miss each other.
- Wait, what? How's that gonna work?
- You gonna stay behind.
- Oh, what?!
Rok, you're staying in Brooklyn?
- Don't get too comfortable, B.
That's all I'ma say.
- Mad people been coming for ya.
Y'all clients been coming in, (bleep) like that.
They cover for you a lot.
- What are you talking about, my clients coming?
- Your clients.
I would totally rather not get involved
in Rok and Krystal's business.
But they definitely need to hear from someone
dealing with all of the fallen pieces from what's going on.
- (Krystal) Y'all booking me throughout the week?
- I ain't book (bleep). - Okay, but yeah--
- I didn't book nothing. - All right, okay.
That's not what we're gonna do right now.
- Okay, first of all, Spyder,
most of my clients that are showing up
are showing up to 125th because that's where they're booking.
You had one client show up to Brooklyn
and you're blowing it out of proportion.
I feel like the issue is deeper than that.
We had our issues in the past.
You was calling me trash when I put ten years in.
- You could definitely take a few pointers, young Krystal.
- Ain't nobody gotta prove (bleep), bro.
But bro, we both moved on from that.
- The point was made.
Let's be more professional on our time management.
Everybody needs to do their job. - That's all I do is my job.
- Okay, but enough. Enough, enough.
- There's no reason for him to come at me.
- Well, we're not doing that right now
because everyone has to do their job.
- And my job is also to cover for people...
(overlapping arguing) - That's it. That's it.
- But bro, you're not doing none of our client's tats.
Stop talking (bleep). - What do you mean I'm not doing none of your client's tats.
- I know my clients came here
and they definitely didn't get tatted right, bitch.
- (bleep) you, (bleep). - (bleep) you too, (bleep).
- (bleep) yourself!
(overlapping shouting)
(shouting continues) - (bleep) you.
- Hey, Walter.
(beep)
(Ted) What happened?
- I'm holding a press conference
to tell my side of the story.
- Wow!
♪♪♪♪
(overlapping shouting, cursing)
- Stop! Hey, hey, hey!
- Stop, stop, stop!
- (bleep) outta here, bro. - Hey, hey, chill.
- No, bro, get your boy.
(bleep) be talking mad (bleep).
- He lucky I slipped on this (bleep) walk.
- Come on, calm down, B.
I knew somebody was gonna start acting tough.
- Guess he want to get little nuts flared up
for her now, you dig what I'm saying?
Since he's a pussy!
And we don't allow bitch-ass (bleep).
- I don't know what's...
- Nah, I know what's goin' on. - (bleep), what?
- That's why I'm saying.
But this is what I'm saying.
(bleep)'s trying to act like he's taking our clients.
He's not taking our clients.
- This (bleep) tryin' to flare up like he gonna do something.
- Ceaser needs to get rid of that (bleep).
That (bleep) talk too much. That (bleep) talk too much.
Spyder, right now, is talking crazy.
He's escalating this (bleep) way too far.
And after that bull(bleep) that happened in Atlanta...
- And I want nice (bleep) too, bro. - Yeah, 'cause you got-- no!
I wasn't gonna let nobody talk to me crazy
in front of my girl or anybody in the shop.
- Clean up on aisle (bleep) three.
- That was-- oh. - What's up?
- You have to talk to Spyder. - That (bleep) got a mouth.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, take this (bleep) inside. Why we outside?
Come on, y'all.
We just did a block event
and then you (bleep) wants to be fightin' outside
in front of the community we supposed to be...
looking like something to?
Hello, everybody.
A'ight. - Hello!
- Yo, what the (bleep) happened?
- Artists in here acting like they can
talk to me a certain way.
- They wanna be small in people's faces, then.
- (mocking) "Yes, I did, I did do..."
- I've been trying to de-escalate it.
- All right, every-- everybody, cool it, everybody breathe.
Hold on, hold on, everybody's talking at the same time.
- (Puma) Yo, yo, just come, come this way.
I can tell you what happened. - (bleep).
Y'all got my floor wet.
Hello, Alex. How you doing?
- I'm chillin', man. - There's a lot going on.
- Welcome back. - Thank you.
- So what happened, Spyder?
- I'm talking to shawty
and telling him about the situation.
He jump up. Like you know what I mean?
Like you ready to dance or something, (bleep),
(bleep) you talking about?
Due to what I got going on
with my health and my medicine
and all that kinda (bleep), whatever, (bleep) it.
I take the blame for certain stuff or whatever.
But at the end of the day, Rok started that (bleep)
because of Krystal, period,
to show that he's not a soft (bleep), he ain't pussy.
(overlapping shouting)
I get it, but not with me, my (bleep), come on.
(Tatti) I mean, from what I saw,
you-- you were very hotheaded.
And I don't know if-- if you realize,
but you shoved me, you shoved Bae.
You were hurting people around you
because you were set on getting to Rok.
Spyder had an attitude, had a problem,
and looked for the opportunity to (bleep) strike.
- Already got a (bleep) headache.
Everybody have a seat.
(Puma) Just relax.
- Now, ain't gonna be no screaming.
Ain't gonna be no backup for no nothing.
- Stay here with me. - Y'all gonna listen.
Y'all are great artists!
But you have to grow the (bleep) up, yo.
If y'all feel that y'all can't be cordial at this moment,
then I don't know what to (bleep) tell y'all.
It's either y'all do that or y'all ain't gonna be
part of this company no more. Whatcha all wanna do?
(intense music)
All right. You good?
- I-- I have anxiety. I have serious anxiety.
I cannot do this (bleep) right now.
(crying) For real.
- Why you crying again?
- Because my (bleep)'s (bleep) up right now.
- What? - Listen, I got my own
legal (bleep) to deal with.
I do not got time for this old Black Ink 113 bull(bleep), yo.
We not bringing this (bleep) to Brooklyn.
- (Spyder) Watch, she gonna flip this (bleep) around.
"Yo, Spyder did it. Made her (bleep) cry."
- Get to work. Just get to work.
- Yeah, but bro, but bro,
you always be talking up, though.
- Man, (bleep) you, pussy (bleep)!
- Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
(overlapping shouting, cursing)
- Ahh!
- Come on, B.
- What's up, my (bleep)? What's up?
Well, as you can see, it's gonna take
more than just a little speech.
They not really hearing right now.
I know Spyder a very long time,
and this is the first time
I ever seen him blow up like this.
So it gotta be more than just
little Rok and Krystal (bleep).
(Tatti) Take the day.
What is going on?
- Bro...
this is stressful. (dog whimpers)
- ♪♪ Mailbox money waiting on checks ♪♪
♪♪ May hold weight but I ain't gonna flex ♪♪
♪♪ Up all night so it ain't no rest ♪♪
♪♪ Lotta hard work but it ain't no sweatin' ♪♪
♪♪ It's hard work, it's hard work it's hard work ♪♪
♪♪ But it ain't no sweatin' ♪♪ - (Puma) Kimchi.
They had you in the ghetto today, huh?
(dog whimpers)
(Tatti) Yeah, that was not okay.
- I'll be honest with you,
both of them was (bleep) out of character.
So I feel like this.
Take Rok and Krystal to 2-5th, right.
Keep Spyder down here. - Yes.
- I need you to get Krystal in order.
Same thing with Rok. Train that (bleep) up.
You know what I mean?
- I'm super proud of myself
for finally being in the conversations
that I've always wanted to be in.
But I'm a little worried that if Ceaser finds out
about the charges against me,
it may affect this new promotion that I just received.
Alex will stay in Brooklyn.
- Yeah, Alex stay in Brooklyn. (cell phone ringing)
Hold on. (ringing continues)
(beep) Hey, Walter.
- Have you seen the article? - No.
Bro, send me the article now. Thanks, Walt.
- All right. (beep)
(Ted) What happened?
- Check the tabloids.
(Puma) Oh, Ceaser, what you do now?
- What it says?
- "'Black Ink Crew' star..." - Uh-huh?
- "...sues baby mama."
(Tatti) Damn, you got a lot going on.
- Wow!
How do you think this is gonna affect Cheyenne, though?
(sad music)
- Cheyenne gonna have to understand later on.
Like this ain't got nothin' to do with me and Cheyenne.
The truth has to come out.
Not one-person narrative.
Everything, yo.
So I'm holding a press conference
to tell my side of the story.
Honestly, this is the only way to clear my name.
And not just me.
This press conference is to protect all of us.
Now, regularly, I'll stay silent,
take my lumps how it is, but now it's affecting me
and my business
to the point that I can't stay silent no more.
I gotta let the world know the truth
and nothing but the truth.
- What if it doesn't go the way you want it to?
- Listen, at the end of the day,
this ship been going on too long, man.
Like I can't sit here and do nothing anymore.
I ain't playing with this (bleep).
- Well, I'ma just get straight to the point.
I still feel like you and other people are wrong.
- Oh, my (bleep) God!
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ It's easy for you to say what's wrong and right ♪♪
♪♪ It's easy for you to say it's black and white ♪♪
(knocking on door)
(door creaks)
- Yo! - Hi!
- What's up? Long time, no see.
- Corona hugs! Hi!
- Now I can see your face. - No mask.
So today my client is Havoc
from the legendary hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.
Who ever thought? You know what I'm saying?
I-- I used to pump that music in Korea,
and I'm tattooing him now.
- I'm gonna go with the middle one.
- Yeah? - Right here.
- Stop it! (laughter)
What happened?
- I changed my mind.
- Remember, you went from your forehead...
- Nah, nah, it wasn't the forehead.
- ...to your eyebrows
to the back of your head. - (laughing)
- I'll say the neck.
- (laughing)
- Okay, so come around.
- All right, all right, here we go.
How you been, though?
- I've been great, you know?
'Cause I was feeling so like (bleep) up.
Because we were going through so much in Atlanta.
- What's been going on down there?
- I was so excited to go there,
but they weren't so excited to have me and my son.
- Who wouldn't be happy to have Bae around?
- Exactly, I guess I was looking too Asian or something.
- (bleep) is wack. - (bleep) stupid.
- I've been through a lot these past three, four years.
Prodigy passing away.
And to go through this kind of stuff, you gotta be strong.
- I've been surviving all my life.
Look. - That's right, there you go.
Maybe I'll tattoo you next, you know what I'm saying?
Like... (imitates tattoo gun) - Listen...
I'm a big fan, but not that big. (laughter)
We're gonna start.
- ♪♪ In between the paper's lines ♪♪
♪♪ I'm the quiet storm who'll fight crime ♪♪
- The hardest part of being in Atlanta was having Niko and me
and people were judging me and Niko together.
This is not a joke.
That was a terrifying moment for me, when I found out
about the spa shooting that was like
right down the street from me.
(newscaster) There's shootings that are happening in Atlanta,
and it seems like they're targeting Asian people.
(both conversing in Korean)
- ♪♪ I love my pops for that, I love my -- Black ♪♪
♪♪ I'll take a -- for anybody tryna change what's left ♪♪
- Hate against Asian people is nothing new,
but I was very surprised that Donna
would say some (bleep) like that.
- Did you see this?
Look at this comment Donna made on Instagram
about the shootings at the massage parlors.
- Not funny. Innocent women were killed!
In that moment, she did some (bleep) up (bleep).
- ♪♪ And VCR, kill or be still livin' ♪♪
♪♪ Even my pops too, he taught me how to -- when I was 7 ♪♪
- I hope that Niko is proud of how I handle
all these situations,
and I want him to just love himself.
Yes!
Done. - Thank you.
♪♪♪♪
- Hey, Bae.
- Donna, come in.
- (sighs) Hey, Bae.
- Hi, Donna.
- Um... (clears throat)
Well, I'm gonna just get straight to the point.
Um, you know, I have been missing you
and it's been mad weird (bleep) going on at the shop
that I really don't even feel like trying to figure out.
But, I still feel like you and other people are wrong.
(dramatic music)
- On what? What did I do?
You say dumb (bleep) like that online,
it hurts, bitch! - Okay, you talking about--
You talking about that one specific statement.
- No, no, no, I-- Can you listen to me?
- Yeah, are you talking about that one specific thing?
- Listen to me, can I talk? Oh, my (bleep) God.
♪♪♪♪
- You say dumb (bleep) like that online,
it hurts, bitch! - Okay, you talking about--
You talking about that one specific statement.
- No, no, no, I-- Can you listen to me?
- Yeah, are you talking about that one specific thing?
- Listen to me, can I talk? Oh, my (bleep) God.
Donna is throwing just excuses,
and I don't know how to handle that.
It's all about accountability.
It's really important to say,
"(bleep), I (bleep) up. I'm sorry."
You did hurt me a lot,
'cause if you think about it...
- What, Bae? - (sniffling)
Now I feel like it's just a lot,
'cause you know they're like immigrants just like me.
(crying) They're mothers just like me.
And my friend out there on The Shade Room
talking about how they jacked him off too good.
I don't even know how to talk to you after that.
- I love all people, and, you know,
you got a special place in my heart.
And I never wanted to hurt your feelings.
I'm sorry if I hurt you,
and I never should've said it.
- I mean, for once Donna admitted her wrongs
and that's one thing she never does.
So, you know, that means a lot to me,
and I think it is genuine. I don't think it's fake.
- You know, if you want to sum this up,
I love you, and I'm sorry if I hurt you.
Um, I don't have no hate towards Black Ink,
but I'm just-- I just have to do what is gonna feed me.
And right now, that's my businesses.
- I forgive her, honestly.
Through all this (bleep), I still miss her and, you know,
at the end of the day we are all human.
- I love you. I'm sorry.
Thank you for talking to me. - Thank you.
- I'ma see you soon, I guess. I don't know, call me.
My time with Black Ink has been...
I don't know, a learning lesson.
(all) Oh!
- So, how you doing, Donna?
- I'm excited.
I moved to New York from Ohio
to pursue my dreams of being a tattoo artist.
There were some low points, you know,
fighting with people I thought I was cool with.
- I'm pissed, (bleep)! - You know nothing about this girls.
- What's good?
(slap) Oh, (bleep)!
You know, I learned I'm not gonna be appreciated everywhere.
- Did you know you misspelled the client's tattoo?
- Oh, we got a extra letter.
Don't get me wrong, I had a lot,
a lot of good times at Black Ink you know what I'm saying?
(laughter)
- Donna, you taking these condoms home with you, right?
- And they come with instructional leaflets.
But, everybody that comes into your life
is not somebody that's gonna stay in your life.
And people come in to teach you lessons,
so... I think I grew up a little bit.
But you can at least just say,
"You know what? Donna crazy, and she talk back,
but that girl persevered, period."
And, I can spell it.
- I'm holding this press conference today
to tell my side of the story.
- Mr. Emanuel is gonna share a few words.
- This is the first time I've ever seen Ceaser look nervous.
It really seems like he needs his team and family with him.
- Yo, Ted didn't pull up.
- At the end of the day, I can't stand
next to my brother while he doing that (bleep), man.
- I can't stop feeling like this is just another betrayal.
- Smells like food! I'm hungry.
What better way to put all this petty (bleep) behind us
than throwing a backyard barbecue for my Black Ink fam.
And, you know, why not spill the bad news
in a happy place?
I'm facing some felony charges.
- Somebody that used to be employed with us texts me
and wanted to meet up.
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