[Alex] - Since my relationship has ended, a lot of people are asking if I've got OnlyFans.
I just went ahead and made one one day
and it's blowing my mind.
- We're engaged. - Y'all are engaged?
- Yeah, we're engaged.
[Tatti screaming]
- I'm no longer allowing certain [bleep].
- But that's every tattoo artist's dream
to have their own studio.
- If you ain't Black Ink, what is you?
- All right, so I-- I quit.
Please let everybody know.
Rok, you do what the [bleep] you want with your life.
- You don't want to be here. You don't seem happy.
- 'Cause I'm not!
- So I wanted to run something by you.
You know I have sickle cell anemia, bro.
- Right.
- I don't feel a lot of people have enough education on it.
- Right.
- Are you here for the sickle cell event?
- Yes. - [all cheering]
[Spyder] - Yo, man,
I'm super proud of Bux.
I brought him into Black Ink because I knew he had
what it took to succeed.
- I'm proud of you. This is all you.
[man] - The heart...
[man] - Hey, yo!
[Ceaser] - If you can't be a part of...
then y'all just become my competition.
- I really hate being caught between Ceaser and Krystal.
I feel loyal to both of them.
- And I just open up right next to you
and then just whup you.
- ♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Got me wishing every day could be the weekend ♪♪
♪♪ Working all week can't wait 'til the weekend ♪♪
♪♪ Party all night in the morning we could sleep in ♪♪
♪♪ Got me wishing every day could be the weekend ♪♪♪♪
[woman] - Would you like
some water, honey?
- Nah.
I mean, you could make me a sandwich or something
if you're in the mood.
[woman chuckling]
All right, we'll go order out.
- I'll make you a sandwich, baby,
if you really want me to make you a sandwich.
- No, we'll go out to eat. - Oh, even better.
[Ceaser sighing]
- What's going on? 'Cause you took a deep breath.
What's up?
- Oh, man.
This is not something I even thought I'd ever say but...
[Ceaser sighing]
...I'm really thinking about closing up 125th.
- Oh, man.
Why?
He's not even willing to give me a year.
He wants a month-to-month lease.
- Oh, no.
'Cause then next month he could come with some new [bleep].
- Exactly.
- They're just trying to get you out of there
because they know when you leave,
they can double what the rent is.
- I don't know what's going on, man.
- Because that's-- that's what's going on
in the market right now in general.
- But that [bleep] hurts. Like-- like--
- You was hurt over 113, so I know it's, like,
those are, like, your first two...
- Yeah. - Right.
- But the 125th was like I finally felt like a boss.
Like, I finally felt like, yo, I did this, yo.
I made this.
That's when I knew it was like, yeah, I can do this [bleep]
of a-- on another scale.
Like, right now, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I wanna stay in Harlem, right?
But I don't know if I can do that.
- Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- ♪♪ When we rolling down the block it go boom, boom ♪♪
♪♪ If I take it out my girlie go boom, boom ♪♪
♪♪ Boom, boom ♪♪♪♪
[Tatti] - Yo, you got flowers
and chocolate from another fan, Alex.
- So Alex just got girls just randomly coming over here,
dropping [bleep]?
- Yeah, that's the second time this month, bro.
- I liked the first girl. That was better.
Smell it.
- I'm here.
- Oh, Spyder! - What's going on?
[Puma] - What's this?
- Puma, I'm glad you asked me.
Me being the good friend that I am,
and also being a member of
the Wildlife Society For Young Brooklyn Endangered Fellas...
- What? - It's new.
- So Wildlife Society For Young Brooklyn Endangered Fellas
is one of those exclusive clubs
where people come and learn survival techniques
from the up-and-coming mean streets of Brooklyn.
So with Puma turning 40 and all,
it's like a weird time in his life right now.
Some may say a midlife crisis.
I figure I'm gonna bring him a gift,
something to show him that you're still in the wild, baby.
You know what I mean? [Spyder growling]
So-- so you said you've got a hold--
[Spyder stammering]
[Spyder and Bux shouting]
- Get him up!
- You're on the-- watch out for the...
- Be careful! - We've got a wild gator here.
- I'm the luckiest man in the world
to be an artist at Black Ink.
[Spyder shouting]
Plastic alligators and all.
- Hi, everybody! Yo!
[Spyder] - Young Bae!
- [bleep] Bae come in here looking like a different person
every [bleep] time.
- What-- what the [bleep]? What is that?
[Alex] - Spyder bought him a gift.
[Young Bae] - Whose chocolate are these?
- Some stalker lady came and gave Alex some flowers.
- Oh... - He has an OnlyFans fan.
[Spyder laughing]
- This was sealed or this was...
Alex as a tattoo artist,
I've never seen him getting anything.
But with this OnlyFans [bleep], he found his talent.
[Spyder] - Is Michelle-- did she go--
is she back in Dallas?
- Yeah, she went back to Dallas.
I'm hoping that Ceaser was serious about bringing her back.
- I like her. - I like her.
- Yeah, she was cool.
- Business with the pleasure.
- Can you do this for me? This the light, right?
- Of course, yeah, I got you. - Appreciate you...
- Bux has a girlfriend who cooks his meal and...
[Spyder shouting]
- ...every day.
- First off, she's lying.
- Thank you for letting me know that.
- And plus, you know, I don't know what's gonna happen
with Rok and Krystal, not for nothing.
- Has anybody heard from them? Have you heard from Rok?
- I haven't heard from Rok.
Rok listened to me and he talked to Ceaser
about the whole situation, but that went nowhere fast.
Bottom line is Ceaser wants Rok and Krystal
to close down the Gods of Ink shop and make it a Black Ink.
And if they don't do it,
gotta pack 'em up and get 'em up out the brand.
- Hello, hello, hello.
Mr. Bux that likes to [bleep].
Hello.
- Get this girl out of here, bro.
- Get me out of here? - Yo, if you do-- bro--
- What-- if I do what? Get out of my face!
- What is happening?
[woman] - Back up out of my face.
- Why are you even here?
- You wanna talk [bleeps]?
So let me tell you how your boy tried to play me.
- Yeah, that's-- that's crazy, bro.
- Let's talk about how loyal he is
and got [bleep] to say about everybody in the shop.
- Time!
- I'm about to air you out, mother[bleep].
[Puma] - Well, Bux has finally become
a Black Ink member because we've all had somebody
pull up on our ass.
[Rok] - You really came all the way
here to really ruin my life some more?
- Go home. - Bitch-ass [bleep].
[all shouting]
[woman] - She spit on Rok.
- You kind of get used to the [bleep], man.
Yeah, it's not the most professional [bleep] to do
while you've got customers sitting there
but it's good entertainment.
Enjoy the festivities.
- Now let's get it popping.
Since your boy wanna front like I'm this nobody,
we were [bleep] around for a whole year.
- Calm down.
- But I-- that's not even my girl!
Me and this girl had a brief thing.
She started out as a client.
I had drawn up this rose here.
That's the lip as the stem.
I wanted to break things off
because she wanted things I didn't want.
She was texting me, I was ignoring her.
The fact that she came in here,
blasting my personal business, is insane.
[Tatti] - I don't know what's
happening right now.
- Oh, I can tell it all. - You came in hot, girl.
- Where should I begin? Where should I begin?
Um, okay, let's talk about how unloyal your friend is.
- The way that Bux made it sound,
you would have thought that they had nothing going on.
But [bleep], let her tell the story.
- You tried to play me.
That [bleep] ain't happening no more.
Oh, and the [bleep] you talked about Spyder's wife...
- Hey, easy.
- ...and her [bleep] tummy tuck, how that [bleep] was wack.
[Spyder] - Easy, easy, easy, easy...
- I'm sorry, but that's what he said.
I'm sorry, I-- nothing against you, nothing against you.
[Bux] - I said what?
- Easy!
- Is Bux breaking the laws of Black Ink?
Pillow talking! Shame, shame!
- Yo, I have conversations-- - Easy!
[woman] - I warned you.
I said to you, "Don't play with me," right?
You [bleep] piece of [bleep].
- We should, like, set up some type of, like, audition
to get a bunch of girls for OnlyFans.
- I'm gonna get on that.
- I love you more than my real brother, bro.
Are we cool?
- If I tell you some [bleep], you keep it to yourself.
Period.
- Rok brought me as his plus-one.
- I definitely wasn't expecting Krystal and Rok to be here.
Don't go full Ceaser.
- Me?
[Ceaser laughing]
♪♪♪♪
[Tatti] - I don't know what's
happening right now.
- Oh, I can tell it all. - You came in hot, girl.
- You tried to play me.
That [bleep] ain't happening no more.
Oh, and the [bleep] you talked about Spyder's wife...
- Hey, easy, easy.
- ...and her [bleep] tummy tuck, how that [bleep] was wack.
[Spyder] - Easy, easy, easy, easy...
[Bux] - Wait, what?
- Sorry, but that's what he said.
- I'm sorry, I-- nothing against you, nothing against you.
[Bux] - I said what?
- Easy!
I don't feel no type of way toward her
and what happened in the situation at all.
I'm more concerned about
the information that you know and how you obtain it
because you are talking about
[bleep] that don't even pertain to you, like my wife.
- I warned you.
I said to you, "Don't play with me," right?
I said I will come embarrass your ass.
- Spyder and Bux are like brothers, man.
This young lady,
she may have knocked Bux the [bleep] out.
Down goes Bux! Down goes Bux!
[woman] - Don't [bleep] play with me!
Don't [bleep] play with me! Show your face, bitch!
You got all that [bleep] to talk
and you wanna come and embarrass me?
[bleep], don't ever in your [bleep] life
text me about the next bitch!
Enjoy the rest of the day.
- Damn. - Bye, baby.
- It's not the stab in the back that kill you.
It's when you turn around and see the [bleep]
that's holding the knife.
- I don't wanna be in a relationship
and she's upset about that.
What type of [bleep] is that?
Like, to me, I think she's just trying to sabotage [bleep]
'cause I just let her go a couple of hours ago,
so she's tight.
[Tatti] - Welcome to real Black Ink!
[Alex] - Welcome.
[Puma] - Welcome.
- ♪♪ Uh yeah boy don't even front ♪♪
♪♪ Real recognize real so I know you a chump ♪♪
♪♪ You can tell them boys you roll with whatever you want ♪♪
♪♪ But you know and I know this ain't the problem you want ♪♪♪♪
[arcade beeping]
- Oh, mother[bleep] got me.
- Must be nice playing games at work.
- This is why we bought them, right?
I'm just trying to beat this score.
- Rok playing these games in front of clients is not it.
He really needs to transition from employee to boss.
Being a boss is not a free ride.
There's always work to do.
Have you heard from anyone at Black Ink?
- I stopped by the Brooklyn shop,
you know, to see how [bleep] was over there,
you know, from Bux and the sickle cell event.
- Okay. - And Ceaser was there.
- What did you guys talk about?
- That he [bleep] with us at the end of the day,
but, um, if we don't wanna switch it
to, like, a Black Ink,
that he'll, you know, put a shop in Jersey and all that [bleep]
'cause that's what he wants.
He wants to make a Black Ink in every single state
and all that [bleep].
- You can't just give me an ultimatum like that.
I feel like I haven't done anything wrong
for him to come at me that way.
It sounds like nothing has been resolved
and Ceaser still wants our shop to be a Black Ink.
I don't believe in ultimatums.
I bring enough to the table
that you should respect my [bleep] on entrance.
All these people were allowed to keep their names.
Like, you see Puma going to Art2Ink.
You see Bae going to Diamond Tattoos.
Why are we pushed to change, bro?
- I forgot all about that.
- That should've set the tone for the conversation, bro.
- I already know that Bae and Puma opened up their shops
without even being a part of Black Ink,
and we opened up our shops while being a part of Black Ink,
and I also know that Ceaser's not gonna change his mind.
So it's really up to Krystal to make a decision,
and I'm gonna support her 100%.
- I feel like there's been a lot going on
and within all that
we've pretty much neglected our relationship.
I feel like I've communicated myself on so many occasions
and yet it's like you don't process it, you know?
- Process what?
- And that's a shot at me and my feelings
and I'm feeling like it's not getting noted, bro.
There's been a couple times where Rok could've stepped in
and defended me.
What if we did Black Ink presents Gods of Ink?
- Oh, that works.
- Nah.
I don't have no Black Ink like that.
- He let Ink Daddy talk to him however he wanted.
- You know you to come and get with a real [bleep].
Honestly.
- And they should've both got chucked right there.
I feel like we've gotta be on the same page with Gods of Ink.
- Krystal can't keep bringing up the past
and mixing our relationship with how we run our business.
Like, I changed, I manned-up.
I even went to go meet up with Ceaser on my own.
I probably wouldn't have done that a year ago
but Krystal don't even see that.
Dead ass. That's how you feel?
[Krystal sighing]
♪♪♪♪
- Rok, you really need to take care of your responsibilities.
[arcade beeping]
- Thanks.
Uh... I gotta go for a walk.
I'm really hating how this Black Ink
and Gods of Ink bull[bleep]
is literally tearing me and Krystal apart right now.
Like, Gods of Ink was supposed to bring us together.
- ♪♪ Nothing ever comes easy ♪♪
♪♪ Easy ♪♪
♪♪ Every little heartbreak ♪♪
- Krystal has her own way of handling things
and I have mine.
So until she talks to Ceaser herself,
I really don't know what this means for us or Gods of Ink.
- ♪♪ Every little thing, every little thing ♪♪♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ They can't stop me they pay to watch me ♪♪
♪♪ Just watch me zoom right past you, past you ♪♪♪♪
- Since I started my OnlyFans,
my monthly subscriptions have been steadily growing,
which means more and more money for me,
but I still feel like I need to step it up.
So I wanna give the same attention
that I did to tattooing to my OnlyFans
to get to the top of my craft.
I could really, like, take over.
I just need to find some sexy ladies to collaborate with
and keep the fanbase going.
- Champion, champion! - [Alex laughing]
- What's good, baby? - All good.
- Chillin'? - What's the deal?
- How can we talk about OnlyFans numbers
and not talk about Safaree?
He's, like, the OG male OnlyFans superstar.
He was one of the first male celebrities
to make an account and show that
you could really make bank off of it.
Lucky for me, Safaree and I have a very good friend in common
and he was able to link us up.
- Wow. Poon-poon slayer.
- Poon-poon slayer. - Yo.
[Alex laughing]
- Listen, I've been into the OnlyFans [bleep] lately, okay?
Right now, I'm top-three percentile.
- You feel me? - Okay.
- So that's good. - Yeah.
- But now it's like my fans, they want new content.
So I'm on some [bleep] like, "Damn, I-- I don't really know
what the [bleep] I'm supposed to do."
- I'm gonna keep it all the way 100.
I put a bunch of coconut oil all over myself,
I put on a fur coat with no shirt and it just--
it just became the biggest thing ever.
- There's not too many mother[bleep]
with the confidence to even do some [bleep] like that.
- Bro, but even when it comes to confidence,
when everybody was talking about me
and they're putting me on The Shade Room and all the--
"Oh, Safaree's got an OnlyFans and all this other stuff,"
I'm like, yo, look, yeah, I've got it
but I made $80,000 my first week of OnlyFans.
- That's tough.
Dollar sign, dollar sign, dollar sign.
Let's do it!
Oh, man, I'm super excited now.
It's like I could be a millionaire in no time.
All right, so-- boom-- as far as going towards the new content--
- Mm-hmm.
- Like, do you have any, like, fetishes?
- If a girl has a long tongue, I'm-- I'm--
I'm gonna have to file for bankruptcy.
[Alex laughing]
- Like, what are the ladies out here looking for?
- You've just gotta oil up. - Okay.
- And you've just gotta wear things that you know that
when a woman is looking at it...
it's provocative but you're doing it in, like, a sly way.
- For real.
- Like, for the rest of the summer,
I'm only wearing gray sweatpants.
- That's smart.
So the gray sweatpants shows your figure as a man.
Do you feel me?
So the women get to get a little sneak peek
before actually seeing it outside the pants.
He's smart. I'm gonna take note.
I might own OnlyFans by the end of this year.
Let's talk about it.
- I just got a good idea.
I think we should, like, set up
some type of, like, audition or call
to get a bunch of girls for OnlyFans.
- With our forces combined,
my analytics is gonna be on fire.
Top zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero...
Auditions for the OnlyFans.
I think-- I'm-- I'm down.
- That's out of here. - I'm definitely down.
- Yo, I think me and you together
will really cause some trouble.
- We'll [bleep] some [bleep] up.
[both laughing]
- I'm gonna tell you something I ain't tell nobody--
nobody yet.
- Wow.
- I wanna know why I didn't hear from you yet?
It's either you here, you Black Ink or you not.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ We out of control ready to go ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah I'm ready to go ♪♪
♪♪ Out of control ♪♪♪♪
[computerized voice] - Front door...
- Ceaser!
- What's up with y'all? Man, what's up?
Why's my guy's jacket on?
[Puma] - 'Cause Bux went full
Black Ink style and had a pull-up.
- A pull-up?
- He had a pull-up.
He had one of his old ladies come up in here--
- It got the hottest it's ever gotten in here.
- And she called him by his government name.
Threw my man Spyder under the bus for no goddamn reason.
- What the hell? Bux, what you got going on?
- When we had first met, I told her,
"Yo, I'm newly divorced.
I'm not looking for no serious relationship."
Me and her had an understanding. I'm like, listen--
[Ceaser laughing]
- You had an understanding?
Your ass was the one with the understanding, [bleep].
- "We had an understanding." Apparently not.
You know what I mean?
- So I see how the guys can joke about it, but deep down inside
this [bleep] is really messing with me
because my friendship with Spyder is at jeopardy.
It ain't funny to me, yo.
- Oh, oh... Sorry, boss.
- How you doing?
Damn, you came in kind of hot there, you know what I mean?
You all right?
- Yeah, I'm straight.
So I'm not gonna do what everybody thinks I'm gonna do
and flip out and [bleep].
Especially not in front of the boss.
But I feel everything about Bux right now--
disappointment, anger, betrayal.
Put all that [bleep] in a soup and serve it.
That's how I feel.
- So tell me, what you gonna do now, Bux?
It sounds like you've got a little problem-problem.
- What I wanna get straight is the situation with my brother.
She said some wild [bleep]
and I just need to talk to my brother.
- Everybody knows you don't break the bro code,
and one of those codes is if I tell you some [bleep],
you keep it to yourself.
Period.
You've gotta understand, my [bleep],
I've been telling you forever.
There's always consequences to everything.
- I couldn't sleep, bro. Like, for real.
Like, this [bleep] was [bleep]--
and then the fact that you wasn't, like,
returning my calls.
Like, my [bleep], I love you more than my real brother, bro.
Are we cool?
- You know me.
I'm a tick-tick-boom type of [bleep].
So I just-- I'm-- we good, bro. There ain't nothing.
- That's all I needed to hear. This-- that [bleep]...
- You know what I mean?
You just need to have your [bleep] a little more tighter.
When a [bleep] say, "I'm good"
after some bull[bleep] that went down,
translations mean, "I don't [bleep] with this [bleep]
and I'm not gonna [bleep] with him again."
So is me and Bux good?
Yeah, I'm good. Off everything.
- You need to get your [bleep] a whole lot tighter, man.
- It's all that mother[bleep] fault.
[Alex shouting]
- Boo!
- You might have to take your teeth back, yo.
- Out of respect for Spyder,
I don't even wanna talk about the situation no more.
I just wanna get past this.
- You know what, man, you know what this makes me think?
We need a little get-together, man.
I feel like another Puma Production--
- Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Your last Puma Production,
that [bleep] was like a burn and crash.
- I'll get another Puma Production.
- What? - Battle of the Sexes.
- Oh, man, why would you do that, Puma?
We're never gonna leave Puma alone again--
- What the [bleep]?! I had it, I did!
This time we're gonna take it outside of work
and I'm gonna do something that everybody likes.
- What? Smoking weed?
- Smoke some weed, man.
- Smoking weed?
That's not a Puma Production. That's just a Tuesday.
- And you know what else is going on in New York?
- What? - What?
- Roller-skating.
- Okay, I love that.
[Puma] - With legalization
in New York City, why not do a 4/20 event?
Make everybody happy, bring some new clients, have a good time.
You know, it's something different, man.
We've gotta get out the shop, go have some fun.
Hopefully, none of the red flags pull up.
It sounds like another great Puma Production.
What's up with you, though? How you feeling?
- I'm gonna tell you something I ain't tell nobody--
nobody yet.
125th, I'm about to close it.
- Damn. Why?
- The landlord trying to do some bull[bleep].
See him the other day--
"Yo, Cease, yo, I wanna renew your lease month to month."
- Wow.
- That's not even guaranteeing me that I have the spot.
You could sit there and give me a lease for 70, $10,000
and tell me [bleep] off.
- Mm-hmm.
So you wanna go back into Harlem and find a new spot?
- I'm gonna have to do something, bro.
I hate to lose 125th but...
- You also can't let nobody be taking advantage of
everything, you know what I mean?
- That's why I sat here and said what I said, bro.
It's like it's an end of an era.
- Wow.
The way [bleep] has been going down in New York City since
COVID, I totally understand what's happening, man.
But I've always had the vision of Black Ink
being, like, a Harlem staple.
You had, like, the Cotton Club, the Apollo,
and Black Ink.
This really hurts.
- Man, [bleep] business. How are you doing?
- I'm just going through, you know, husband life.
- Come on, bro.
- Otherwise, things are good.
Zaiden's handling therapy.
But that's why I wanted to get his name--
I wanna get "Rager" on my hand.
- You know, Puma, I have never tattooed you--
- I know, that's the funniest part about it.
You would think, all the years--
- All these years. No.
- No.
I've known Ceaser for over 20 years
and, oddly enough, he's never tattooed me.
It's because, honestly, I never found nothing
that I thought was worthy for him to do.
And my son's name is a real moment.
Back in the day, it was like younger Puma, "Rager."
But now older Puma, "Rager" means my son.
- You do have almost every nice tattoo artist
of our generation on you.
I think it would be an honor for me to tattoo you.
- So you would think, you know, Puma,
all these years in the tattoo industry
that I could take a tattoo like a champ.
But guess what? You're totally wrong.
I am horrible at taking tattoos.
These [bleep] hurt.
Yeah, the midlife crisis is kicking in.
Wanna know who did my Tamia tattoo?
- Who? - Dutchess.
[Puma laughing]
- Man, [bleep] you. - [Puma laughing]
- ♪♪ For the people like holidays, holidays ♪♪
♪♪ Lost all excuses but found a way ♪♪
♪♪ Found a way ♪♪
♪♪ When times are hard fairytales ♪♪
♪♪ Are for the birds in the cage ♪♪
- I really try hard to be there for everybody--
wife, family, business partner, employees.
It's a [bleep] lot, man.
- ♪♪ It'll be okay ♪♪ - [Puma groaning]
♪♪ It'll be okay, it'll be okay ♪♪
- Right now, I'm really upset about
Black Ink closing on 125th.
It was the backbone of the franchise--
steady, profitable,
and it was repping Harlem like it's supposed to.
I'm all for Ceaser wanting to open up 50 shops in 50 states,
but we've gotta focus on what we have
'cause we're losing the heart and soul of Black Ink.
[Puma groaning]
♪♪ It'll be okay, it'll be okay ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause God is good no wait God is great yeah, yeah ♪♪♪♪
[Puma groaning]
- Well, I'm guessing my 4/20 skate party has perfect timing
because everybody's gonna need to be on cloud nine
after hearing Ceaser's bad news.
Ooh!
Oh, okay, okay, okay!
- All right, you done, you done, you done.
[Puma shouting]
You're done. God!
[Puma sighing]
- Yo, that looks fire, Cease.
- I'm thankful to help you out.
- Oh, [bleep]!
Ooh...
Yeah, I was bitching but I held it down like a grown-ass man.
You know what I'm saying?
- I didn't even know that you got tattooed.
[Puma laughing]
- Lethal Lips, is it?
- Yes, it is. - It is.
- What?!
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ You're too naughty ♪♪
♪♪ You're too naughty ♪♪
♪♪ Naughty for him ♪♪
♪♪ Dirtier the better that's all I'm saying ♪♪
- The girls that I performed with before OnlyFans
are great, but I'm really looking for that special girl
that's gonna be wild and really bring the bank.
Me and Safaree, we both put the word out,
so we've got some sexy ladies coming in from all over.
I see these auditions going a little neaky.
Now, for the people that don't know what neaky means,
neaky is "freaky, freaky, freaky, freaky."
- Okay.
- Oh, my boy, you made it.
- All right. Damn, this look official.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we've got some nice ladies
coming through today.
You feel me?
- Yo, bro, so what are you looking for?
- Girls that's willing to collaborate with me.
You feel me?
Um, that's open, willing to do some real freaky [bleep].
You know what I mean?
And definitely gotta have a fat ass.
[cash register dinging]
I wanna see ass clapping,
I wanna see splits bust on the ceiling.
I wanna see all the freaky [bleep] they do in the pornos.
Show it to me, baby.
You've gotta make me believe it!
- Go on, let's start. Where they at?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
Lady!
- How you doing?
- So start with your name.
- My name is Katana. Nice to meet y'all.
[Alex] - Okay, nice to meet you too.
You're here today to audition
to be featured on my OnlyFans, okay?
What is your talent?
♪♪♪♪
Okay, all right. I like that.
- I'm bringing you to my church on Sunday, Katana.
- Yeah. - I got the perfect outfit.
- Oh...
Well, that was a great start.
What I'm hoping to find is an OnlyFans collaborator
that loves the body that she's in
and feels as empowered as I do making OnlyFans content.
I'm ready for more.
- Hello.
- You are pretty.
- You have beautiful teeth. - Yeah, the ass is crazy.
- [woman laughing] - Crazy.
- I see the whipped cream.
- Yeah, I wanna put some whipped cream on you.
- On me? - Yeah.
- Do his belly button. Do his belly button right there.
- Do the belly button?
- Yeah, boom.
Oh!
Big tongue!
Oh...
- These auditions is definitely crazier than what I imagined.
When I-- when I was thinking talent,
I was thinking like probably like some
twerking and something, like...
These girls was coming out with full-fledged
tricks and objects and [bleep].
Whoo, crazy.
[Alex chuckling]
- Oh... - [clanking]
- What the...
- Not the smoothest entry.
- So what is your talent?
- My talent is I'm going to fingerpaint with my toes.
- The big toe or the pinkie?
- It's art, honey. We're just gonna unfold.
- Bro.
- Hi, guys. - What's your name?
- Penny with a "P."
- Penny? - Yeah.
- You have an OnlyFans? - I have one.
- Yeah, I knew it.
You should've had a shirt on that says, "Subscribe now."
- Wow. - [Alex laughing]
- I should make that.
[Alex laughing]
- So what's up, what's up?
- Lethal Lips, is it? - Yes, it is.
Nice to meet you.
- Let me get this ready.
It's a little skinny but it's a lot longer
than a lot of people I've seen.
Okay.
♪♪♪♪
- What?!
With the tonsils?!
There's no [bleep] way.
- Have a good day.
- Yo, my whole life flashed before my eyes.
- Bro, me too.
- Ooh!
I think the audition was, like, a major success.
All the girls came out.
And instead of leaving with just one freaky-neaky collaborator,
I chose three freaky-neaky collaborators
to take my OnlyFans straight to the top.
All right, um, Safaree, take the signs down and all that.
And I'm gonna go occupy myself real quick outside.
Oh...
[Alex clearing throat]
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Listen I'm gonna sweep off the luck take a load off ♪♪
♪♪ Turn it up run it down when the shorty off ♪♪
♪♪ Strap it up strap it down ♪♪
♪♪ But you've gotta keep it right keep it tight ♪♪
♪♪ Like you've got good credit now ♪♪
♪♪ Shake it up and we can all see what happens ♪♪
♪♪ Settle in cause a rise and imagine ♪♪
♪♪ And have a little fun go ahead bring your friends in ♪♪
♪♪ Five four three two... ♪♪
- Man, we are in here having an Amsterdam good time.
We've got roller skates, good music,
a little bit of greenery, a little bit of edibles.
You should be here.
- ♪♪ Raise it up put your hands in the air ♪♪
♪♪ Now duck 'em down low I see you walking on air ♪♪♪♪
- This [bleep] kind of dope, Puma.
- Thank you, man.
- I haven't been to, like, [bleep] like this
since we were little.
- You know, I'm trying to bring the old-school
New York City vibe back.
Wait, Ceaser, come again? What did you just say?
Is that a compliment to me about a Puma Production?
Is hell freezing over?
Look at this.
They're edible doughnuts.
Look at that.
Come on, let's have one together.
- I wanna try the Fruity Pebbles.
- Yo, if I start clucking like a [bleep] chicken, yo,
we're gonna have a [bleep] problem, bro.
- That is a good [bleep] doughnut.
- It's a good goddamn doughnut.
- So you're going through a midlife crisis
I have to see?
- Yo, you've gotta stop judging me
for my [bleep] crisis that I'm going through.
You know what I'm saying?
- I don't know, bro.
- You went through this!
Is wanting to have a little bit of fun at 40
a midlife crisis?
Enjoy your doughnut.
- Did that bitch just skate away from me?
- He floated off for you like Prince.
[both laughing]
♪♪♪♪
- I ain't sweat like that...
[Alex laughing]
...since that one time at band camp.
I feel as comfortable on these skates
as a giant grizzly bear
on a tricycle at the circus.
That's how comfortable I feel right now.
- Everything good with you and Bux?
- I feel like we're too tight for you just to be, like,
telling mother[bleep] that's not in our circle
a bunch of privilege information.
- Yeah.
- Sometime even when you think you know a [bleep] sometime.
You know what I mean?
I'm the one that got Bux into the Brooklyn shop
as an apprentice,
and if it wasn't for me, he wouldn't even be in the crew.
So when I share personal things with Bux
and confide in him, I expected it to stay here.
Why would I ever trust him again?
- ♪♪ ...H-E-T ♪♪
♪♪ DJs up the ghetto beat ♪♪
♪♪ Pass my head and grit my teeth ♪♪
♪♪ And look at them diamonds they shine on my feet ♪♪
[Krystal] - I wasn't even convinced
that I was coming tonight, but I feel like I can't trust
Rok to handle this conversation.
And it's clear that I need to make the next move
and have that talk with Ceaser.
Because I feel like if we don't get to an understanding,
then my time at Black Ink is over.
- ♪♪ Boom, boom, boom come into my room ♪♪♪♪
- I've got-- - Oh, [bleep], oh, [bleep]!
- What up, what up, what up, what up?
Damn, this [bleep] actually looking lit.
What the [bleep]?
This is a skate park or something?
[Puma] - Welcome the [bleep] back.
- I know, Rok brought me as his plus-one.
Yeah, I'm-- I'm glad to be here.
- I definitely wasn't expecting Krystal and Rok to be here,
but I'm hoping they don't come in here
with that [bleep] energy, man.
We don't need no [bleep] fights in the goddamn Skate Key.
We don't need that.
- I understand Cease
and I understand where he's coming from.
But I also understand
Krystal and Rok is coming from.
When Cease is in empire mode,
all he thinks is, "Black Ink, Black Ink, Black Ink."
He don't understand some people may have other dreams.
- Rok and Krystal is here.
I don't know, man, we're having a good time.
I don't know if you feel like
dealing with business and [bleep].
But try to enjoy the moment.
Don't go full Ceaser.
- Me?
[Ceaser laughing]
- This event is a stone-cold groove, man.
I don't think this is the place
to be talking hard-core business.
But the way the Black Ink brand is working,
it's probably gonna happen.
- Hey, hey, yo, look! Krystal's here.
[Ceaser] - Krystal.
Ah, what's up, yo?
- You can see with them glasses in the dark?
- I can see you spent the whole damn room
before you got to me.
[Krystal] - I'm not nervous
about [bleep].
I'm gonna be good to the people that are good to me.
And if you can't see that,
then there's no reason why we in each other's lives.
And I hope Rok see that [bleep] too.
- What's up?
- I know... we left off on a bad note.
- 'Cause either you're gonna be with me
or you're gonna be my competition.
I didn't leave off on no bad note.
I heard afterwards from other people
that we left off on a bad note.
- All right, so I-- I quit.
Rok, you do what the [bleep] you want with your life.
- But I wanna know why I didn't hear from you yet?
♪♪♪♪
- I feel like I-- I did do enough
and I can't let myself down.
- You can't let yourself down,
but you gotta tell me what you wanna do.
It's either you here, you Black Ink or you not.
I've got some bad news for y'all.
[Spyder] - Oh, [bleep].
[Tatti] - Oh, [bleep].
- Yeah, we're closing down 125th.
- Wait, what?
♪♪♪♪
- I didn't leave off on no bad note.
I heard afterwards from other people
that we left off on a bad note.
But I wanna know why I didn't hear from you yet?
- I feel like I-- I did do enough
and I can't let myself down.
- You can't let yourself down,
but you gotta tell me what you wanna do.
It's either you here, you Black Ink or you not.
I don't hate you, Krystal.
I actually [bleep] with you. But this is business, yo.
If we gonna stand total or stand together...
- Yeah.
- ...like I said, or we're gonna grow apart.
- I feel like right now I already dedicated
a lot of my time to building a brand
and I can't... give up on my dream.
It's definitely a boost being a part of the Black Ink family.
But I've always had a dream of owning my own [bleep].
Gods of Ink may be small now but it's still my baby.
- You're absolutely right,
but you understand I also have a dream too.
I'd have put the money to make a bigger spot.
- So why now we've gotta close?
- Because y'all gonna have to concentrate on that [bleep].
You can't do both.
This is what I'm trying to tell you.
Once your shop picks up,
you're not gonna be able to concentrate on another shop.
I-- I have multiple shops. I know that already.
- I'm not gonna lie, it was a little tough
working at 125th and running Gods of Ink at the same time.
If Rok would step up and show me that he can handle it,
then we can get through it.
But I feel like he's always letting me down.
- What's up, what's up?
- Ceaser stayed firm.
He wants to make Gods of Ink Black Ink: Jersey.
But our shop has to close
'cause he wants us to focus on his brand.
I-- I wanna hear what you gotta say.
- I-- I-- I already told you.
Whatever-- whatever you wanna do, I'm-- I'm with you.
♪♪♪♪
I ain't gonna lie.
We would be losing something that we worked hard for
but Black Ink is perfect for business.
So I really-- I really don't know.
- It's gonna happen with y'all or without y'all.
So it-- it rather be with y'all.
33 across the board.
'Cause that's a fair split. It's three ways.
So... we make a deal?
♪♪♪♪
- Yeah, I want a bigger spot. Yeah, okay.
- All right?
- Okay. - See, was that so hard?
- It took me a minute to realize
that me partnering up with Black Ink
wasn't me giving up on my dreams.
I am giving 33% of my business,
but I feel like Ceaser's been doing this for awhile--
he's a mogul.
He's been in the business for, what, 10, 20 years?
So I feel like if he can sprinkle
a little bit of that knowledge onto me,
then it's a good deal.
- Black Ink: Jersey. Summertime about to be crazy.
♪♪♪♪
- I'm glad that everybody got to come.
The 125th dozens are here.
- Y'all all gonna be high as [bleep].
- Look, you see Ted, right? They had one earlier.
- This is a festive moment,
but I've got some bad news for y'all.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Yeah, we're closing down 125th.
- Wait, what?
- Why?
- Now listen.
This [bleep] landlord,
he's just acting like a whole [bleep].
I'm tired of dealing with his [bleep].
So the whole squad from 125th
is gonna be in the Brooklyn shop
until I figure out what we're gonna do with a new shop.
- You've gotta share the same bed.
Your Harlem cousins are coming to stay for the weekend.
- Bringing the Harlem shop inside the Brooklyn shop?
This is a bad idea, Ceaser.
We don't even know how these mother[bleep] are gonna react.
Do we have enough insurance for this?
- Here's to the merge.
- The merge!
- Cheers to that. - [bleep].
- Cease just said he's closing down 125th Street
and nobody reacted in no type of way.
I can't tell if everyone's not taking this news well
or they're just the biggest stoners.
[Bux laughing]
- Bux is gone.
He's not coming to work tomorrow.
- Whatever it is, I hope they keep the same energy
when we get back to the shop in Brooklyn.
- He needs some milk!
[Ceaser] - No more doughnuts for you.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Welcome to the future ♪♪
♪♪ Let it go ♪♪♪♪
[Ted] - I remember when we
signed the lease for here.
- We are moving out of the projects
to a deluxe apartment in the sky!
Let's go get our keys.
- Welcome to Black Ink.
This is, like, the second baby.
Like, this was the first step out of the comfort zone.
- Remember our toga party we had in here?
I wanna thank all y'all for coming to this 125th shop.
- Didn't you do the late, great DMX's tattoo in here,
the one that's on the album cover?
- Yeah, right in that corner, bro.
- There's nothing wrong with-- with-- with-- with--
with making it big in the hood but you don't wanna lose a...
Remember where it started, how it started, why it started.
- I love Harlem.
We always gonna be representing Harlem.
You feel me?
- But the Black Ink brand in Harlem,
it's like peanut butter and jelly, low-key.
You know what I'm saying?
[Ted] - 125th Street.
To see this one close, like,
this one hits a little different.
I know Ceaser's trying to play this off
like this is not a big deal, but it definitely is.
Black Ink is attached to Harlem,
and there's no more Harlem shops.
- ♪♪ Go hard I be trying to go hard ♪♪
♪♪ For my family and my homies and my cousins yeah ♪♪
- Hearing Harlem with no Black Ink is like
hearing Ashford with no Simpson,
Martin with no Gina, Jay-Z and no Beyoncé.
It just don't make sense.
- ♪♪ You tell me what it means to be faithful ♪♪
♪♪ Whoa oh yeah ♪♪
♪♪ I'm forever ever grateful ♪♪♪♪
[Puma] - I'm all about
expansion and growth.
Maybe 145th, maybe go back to 110.
'Cause I'm not leaving my baby Harlem.
No, never, I'm not!
- And I would just like to officially welcome
125th up in the building.
Thank you, thank you.
- This is gonna be a problem.
Um, ain't enough booths for everybody to set up,
so where are y'all gonna tattoo at, bro?
- Oh, [bleep].
- We're back!
- So what about Gods of Ink?
- So we talked to Ceaser and we agreed
to be Black Ink: Jersey.
[woman] - Oh... oh...
- I don't wanna be the [bleep] AP/manager.
It's just not right. [bleep] crazy to me.
Y'all good, right? Y'all can handle the shop?
- I-- I-- I feel like we all going through some [bleep].
- Talking about your situation with Bux?
- We both literally nurtured this [bleep] boy.
No backtracking. He's clipped.
- I think that we should
get to know everybody a little bit more.
Maybe a bootcamp.
- We about to go to Orlando and teach y'all
the Black Ink way.
The only person that's definitely not going is Tatti.
- Why?
- So I miss one day and I'm being punished?
This-- this is trash to me.
- ♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪♪♪
[man] - ♪♪ MTV ♪♪♪♪