- Mr. Bux that likes to [bleep]. So let me tell you how your boy tried to play me.
- Get this girl out of here, bro.
- Oh, and the [bleep] you talked about Spyder's wife.
- Easy, easy, easy!
I feel everything about Bux right now--
disappointment, anger, betrayal.
Put all that [bleep] in a soup and serve it.
[Ceaser] - I'm closing 125th up.
So the whole squad is gonna be in the Brooklyn shop.
- Here's to the merge!
- There's not enough booths for as many artists as it is...
and everybody has appointments.
[Tatti] - Not for nothing, I'm the AP,
but, like, I'm managing too.
It's just not fair right now. I feel some type of way.
- All right, where the [bleep] Tatti?
- We called. She didn't pick up.
- Oh, this [bleep] piss me off now.
- Hi! - We're back!
[Alex] - How is everything?
- We talked to Ceaser and we agreed to be Black Ink: Jersey.
- Here are your contracts, y'all.
[cheers and applause]
- Now, what's the difference between
Black Ink and Black Inc.?
- You're [bleep] losing your [bleep] mind.
- We should get to know everybody a little bit more
before you start giving them shops.
- So what you suggesting?
- Maybe a bootcamp.
[Ceaser] - I'm taking y'all on a trip
to my Orlando shop and teach y'all the Black Ink way.
The only person that definitely not going is Tatti.
- So I miss one day and I'm being punished?
I'm going.
- ♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Wake up every day like the world is mine ♪♪
♪♪ Then reality hits as I open my eyes ♪♪
- We here. - It's lit.
- And it's hot. I'm mad I wore this.
[both laughing]
- ♪♪ We could live forever if we try ♪♪
♪♪ Leave our mark on this world before we die ♪♪♪♪
- Welcome to Florida.
- Ooh, [bleep], it's hot out here.
- It's [bleep] Florida. What did you expect?
[Puma] - We're down here in Orlando
for what has been dubbed "The Black Ink Bootcamp."
This is where Ceaser opened up his first shop
outside of New York.
So we're gonna go check out that shop
and find some Florida-man activities to do with the crew.
- This is the perfect place
to really put everybody really through it.
Because this was honestly the first place
I really expanded to outside New York...
and I really never gave no light to it
because, you know, a month later,
I opened up Atlanta.
So, this is where I really have to figure it out.
- Everybody always thinks Atlanta is the first shop
we opened out of state, but actually Orlando was.
Orlando was a test to see if we can even open up shops
in other states.
That's why we're here now,
to show everybody where the franchise really started at.
[Ceaser] - I failed a lot with Orlando.
But I've done picked it back up,
and I know how it is to resurrect a business, bro.
How to restructure, how we even got to where we got.
A lot of [bleep] comes from this Orlando shop.
- They don't understand the work we put in
and, like, you don't speak on failing.
- They don't know about the heartache,
the pain, the struggles.
- This is the perfect time to do a bootcamp,
especially with 125th Street just closing.
This is definitely gonna show who can continue with us
and who's not gonna make it.
- This is our fork in the road.
A lot of people that we have in the company have potential.
But us putting 'em through this whole bootcamp
will show who's really mentally there.
'Cause we're gonna test them, bro.
- Oh, I like the way you're talking.
So it sounds like Black Ink Hell Week!
- Yes! - Yeah!
♪♪♪♪
- Ah, we're here! Yes!
- [Young Bae gasping] - [bleep]!
[Vanity] - Look at this!
- Ceaser!
- That looks nice. - That is your room, though.
- Yo, I'm in the dog house.
- What's up, y'all? Welcome.
- Oh, what's good? - Yeah, sit down.
[Ted] - Hello, everyone.
- Ah, yes! - I don't like these...
[Ceaser] - Yeah.
I'm glad-- I'm glad all of y'all made it.
Let's get right down to it. So--
- Wait, wait, wait, before you start, where's Tatti?
- You tell me where Tatti is.
- You really didn't invite Tatti?
That's [bleep] up.
- What's [bleep] up is she didn't come to
a mandatory meeting and thought it was cute not to.
So, welcome to Orlando for Black Ink Bootcamp.
- All these little trips always starts up some bull[bleep].
I mean, the food was good
but I feel like the vibes is off a little bit.
Tatti causing it.
- [bleep] y'all! I don't give a [bleep]!
Here's your horchata. [bleep] you guys.
- So I'm definitely looking forward to avoiding
any kind of drama.
- So this is what's happening, right?
We're doing a little suggestion card.
- What?
- Everyone talk about what you think is wrong with the company,
what you think is right with the company,
and what you think would improve the company.
- Um, what will improve the company?
I don't know, maybe inviting hard workers
who's been loyal for years on the trip.
- Whatever you feel like saying,
I'm not gonna hold it against y'all,
I'm not gonna discipline y'all,
I'm not gonna fire nobody.
- Ooh, he's lying.
[all laughing]
- This is a great way to start Black Ink Bootcamp.
A lot of people don't really know how to express themselves.
So you can tell us how you feel
and what you think we need to do to improve the business.
Tonight when we have dinner...
we'll read off all the suggestions.
[Ceaser] - This trip is about growth.
Some of us are gonna grow together,
some of us are gonna grow apart.
I'm trying to figure out who
gonna grow together with Black Ink.
- Once you're done... drop it in the basket.
[Alex] - Yup, I'm done.
There's a bunch of stuff that I've been contemplating on
that needs to be changed around here.
I figure, why not get that down real quick,
hurry up and get it in there so that-- keep it while it's hot!
- Krystal, you good over there?
- Trying to get my thoughts together.
- And is Rok spelling everything right?
He look like he's counting letters, yo.
Why does he look like he's counting...
- You can use your spellcheck. He never said you couldn't.
- Yeah, go ahead and use your spellcheck--
[Rok] - No, I don't need that.
I bet you I can spell every word on there.
My goal for this trip is to show everyone
that I'm more than just a tattoo artist.
I have a lot to offer as a businessman.
But I'm not off to a great start
in terms of everyone taking me serious, though.
- Like, this house is nice and big...
and this is the girls' house.
- So much room for fun and activities.
[Young Bae] - All this is just
for three us?
- Yeah, Bae.
If you wanna go back to the old days,
I'll gladly put you in that [bleep].
- He put me, uh, in a bunkbed my first year.
[Alex laughing]
My first trip with Black Ink, uh, I was in a one-room cabin
with three other girls.
[woman] - Ladies!
- This is cute. - This is nice.
- So a house this big for three of us... I don't trust it.
- There's no overnight stays, Rok.
- Not-- no overnights? - [Alex laughing]
- This is not a vacation, this is bootcamp.
So we here to work, yo.
Who are you [bleep]?
- I'm just saying. - No.
- This ain't booty camp.
[all laughing]
- This is not our first trip,
so the idea of having separate homes--
one for the guys and one for the ladies--
is try to alleviate all the drama.
- Ladies, as I said, this is your house.
Go upstairs, pick a room that's fancy for y'all.
- You know, like, old-school Black Ink,
we used to run to the room before everybody else got there.
Look like that's why-- you see Bae?
Yeah, yeah, see that?
Yeah, Bae, there you go, Bae, there you go!
Go for that room, Bae!
- Hurry up...
- You bitches.
[Young Bae] - That's my room!
- I just wanna know what's gonna get us together, bro?
- You should've thought about that
before you betray [bleep].
- I didn't betray you.
I would never do nothing to hurt you.
- I brung you in this [bleep]!
- Y'all are gonna go on a scavenger hunt.
- How are we gonna know?
- Hold your breath, Rok, hold your breath, Rok.
[Spyder laughing]
[Rok] - Where is it?
- Y'all didn't even wait for me to eat?
- I mean, I don't remember inviting your ass.
[Tatti] - Why wouldn't I be here?
- Same reason why you wasn't at the meeting.
- I took a mental health day.
- Tatti, you don't have to be in Black Ink at all.
♪♪♪♪
[Rok] - Watch out, Orlando.
We rolling through.
♪♪♪♪
[Spyder laughing]
- Oh... - [tires screeching]
- Stop, stop, stop!
[Bux laughing]
- ♪♪ Stepped in a lot stocked wheels on a drop ♪♪
♪♪ Honey something I'm gonna stop ♪♪♪♪
[Ceaser] - We're here, fellas.
♪♪♪♪
[Young Bae] - This is amazing.
Hello, world!
- What? I've got a deck!
Oh, my God!
[Vanity] - Yo, we've got a bar, dog.
- Where the liquor at?
[Young Bae] - Oh, I love pinball.
Thanks, Ceaser. What the [bleep]?
Do you have to really put money in here?
- Damn, this is really a bootcamp, bro.
There's no liquor.
We've gotta stock this up.
♪♪♪♪
- So, fellas, as you can see, this is our house.
Everybody hurry up and choose your room.
[Spyder] - Oh, [bleep].
[Spyder grunting]
[Bux laughing]
- Oh, [bleep].
[all shouting]
No, wait! Oh...
This is my room!
- I've got my room.
Hey, yo.
[Spyder laughing]
- What the [bleep]?! Nope.
- That-- that room is looking like yours down there, Rok.
- No, no, no! There's no way!
- No, Rok, this is about right. This fits you.
- Nah, nah, this ain't-- this ain't me.
[Spyder] - That's Rok room?
[Ted] - You've got a coloring book.
This is so perfect for you.
You can slide down a slide.
You've got the nice building blocks.
You can do your A-B-Cs.
All the things you learned as a child
that you obviously didn't.
- Y'all got your rooms and [bleep] like that.
You got the coloring book.
Ha-- have fun.
[Puma] - Welcome to bootcamp, Rok!
[Rok] - Nah, this some bull[bleep].
- ♪♪ One time for the ones getting loose ♪♪
♪♪ One time for the ones getting loose ooh ♪♪
♪♪ Two times for the ones with the juice ♪♪
♪♪ How, how, how you do that, how you do that? ♪♪♪♪
[Young Bae] - What you think this
bootcamp will be like?
- They're gonna put us to work, son.
[Alex] - I've got a doctor's note.
I've got a lot going on with my body and [bleep].
- Oh, all day OnlyFan [bleep] what you've been doing.
Now your heart's about to stop.
[all laughing]
Listen, if I got around like Alex does... [bleep]!
I'd worry about my heart too.
[Ted] - Hello again, everyone.
- Yeah. - Hello.
[Puma] - Salutations.
[Bux] - How are you doing, guys?
- So how are you guys doing?
[Young Bae] - We're doing hungry.
[Ceaser] - Come on, let's eat.
- Ah, yes!
♪♪♪♪
Don't lose your tooth.
- Yo, [bleep].
[Puma] - You didn't crack a tooth
just now.
[Ceaser] - Yeah, he did.
[all shouting and laughing]
[Ceaser] - Let's get to
the suggestion bowl.
[Young Bae] - We always have fun.
Like, it's always good vibes.
But when Ceaser come around-- ugh.
- Yo, pick one of these.
- Okay, this is a great one.
"Ted needs to stop making fun of Rok."
[all laughing]
[Young Bae] - Oh, that's cute!
- No, no, I refuse to. What are you talking about?
You make it-- you make it so easy.
I am not gonna stop doing this to him.
He makes it so easy to just crack jokes on him,
and I'm a funny guy.
- Oh, let's look at some more of these suggestions.
- "Alex needs to take me out of his Close Friends."
- Hey, yo.
- That's an HR problem.
- Wait, who's in my Close Friends?
- I'm tired of seeing that little thing all over the 'gram.
- It says, "We need AC in the dead-ass garden."
- Y'all trying to put cold air outside?
[all laughing]
- Some of these suggestions are just plain-ass stupid!
Like, y'all need to talk this [bleep] out
amongst y'all selves.
Ain't got nothing to do with Black Ink.
- "I believe that we should start doing Secret Santa."
[all laughing]
- "The hours of the shop need to be extended."
- I second that motion.
- [bleep] say who is it. Who would say that?
- I-- I-- I think that's a priority to me too.
Oh, Bux.
- Bux just said, "[bleep] the anonymous."
- "It's kind of hard to accept that
I lost a friend in the shop."
- I'm hoping to clear the air here with Spyder
and everything because while we in the shop,
we walk past each other like strangers,
and this is actually bothering me.
It's been weighing heavy on my head.
So I've just gotta know, like, where do we stand?
- All right, so let's talk about what's up--
- There ain't even nothing to talk about at this point.
- That's your road dog, yo.
[Spyder] - Was my road dog.
♪♪♪♪
- Damn, bro. Like, you're my brother.
- You should've thought about that
before you betray [bleep].
- Bro, I didn't betray you.
I would never do nothing to hurt you.
- Yo, my [bleep], you divulged secrets about your brothers
to somebody that you don't even [bleep] know
for more than two months.
- But certain [bleep] she said that I said
was totally a lie.
- Everything that she said in there, was it bull[bleep]?
- Half of it, yeah!
- Get the [bleep] out here, bro.
Stand tall, [bleep].
- I didn't say none of that [bleep].
- Man, you playing stupid, bro. - I'm not.
- You're on some sucker [bleep] right there.
- I'm not though, bro. - Man, [bleep] out here, bro.
- Yo, shorty only knew things that I told Bux.
So he can keep lying, but that don't change the facts.
And not only are you talking about me,
you're talking about my wife, and that's a dub.
Our friendship ended that day in that shop.
What Bux did was unforgivable.
The moment that that lady mentioned my wife in there,
all bets was off.
- I just wanna know what's
gonna get us together, bro, like--
- Ain't none of that "together" [bleep], bro.
I brung you in this [bleep]! You betrayed the trust--
- Bro, I'm trying to mend this, bro.
- Ain't nothing to mend.
- Bro, you-- - Ain't nothing to mend!
♪♪♪♪
[Bux] - Knowing that I might lose
my best friend over some nonsense like this,
this [bleep] hurts.
I'm sorry that I let a woman come in between our friendship.
[Ceaser] - Listen, man.
Time heals all wounds, bro. I guess--
- Wow, y'all didn't even wait for me to eat?
[Vanity gasping]
[Tatti] - Wow!
Wasn't gonna show up to a--
- I knew Tatti was gonna come, bitches!
- Very bad timing. Just go back out.
- What's up, family?
Y'all look so excited to see me.
- There's a lot going on--
- Yeah, there's-- you just missed a lot.
- I mean, I don't remember inviting your ass.
- What you mean? It's a bootcamp.
Why wouldn't I be here?
- Same reason why you wasn't at the meeting.
- I should've brought some sage or something,
because the energy in this room right now is just bad.
Well, you could've called me about the day I didn't come.
- I don't call people about that.
I've got too many businesses to run
to worry about an apprentice.
[Krystal] - Me and Rok have definitely
been on the [bleep] end of this stick,
and I feel like, Tatti, you better back off
because he might go off on you.
- An apprentice that's at Black Ink seven days a week,
all day, every day--
- That's what apprentices do. That--
- I took a mental health day.
- Tatti, you don't have to be at Black Ink at all.
♪♪♪♪
Yo, I'm done with this dinner. Y'all have a good night.
[Ceaser sighing]
- Lately, it's really been feeling like Ceaser's
just giving me an extra hard time
and it's like I know I went through what I went through
with my legal issues, but I got through it.
Why are you still giving me a hard time?
Like, why can't we move forward and grow?
You wanna grow with everybody else.
I've been trying to grow with you for years.
I'm tired of always having to put Black Ink first,
and Black Ink don't put me first!
How long I've been trying to open up a shop?
And he handing out shops to everybody!
- What is this I heard about-- what-- opening up what?
Opening up shops--
- Bro, I've been trying to talk to you about
opening up a shop for how long?
- You just be the [bleep]...
- Let's just keep it 100! - And I did!
- I owe you nothing!
- I kind of understand your point, but then you show up
at a trip that you wasn't invited to.
You keep overstepping boundaries
and wonder why you don't have a shop yet.
- How you gonna deny me the opportunity
to continue to prove myself?
- Listen, when you had to prove yourself, you didn't!
When you're supposed to be in the meeting, you wasn't there!
- I took one day off! - I don't give a [bleep]!
- I never take no days off!
- So then my fault for showing up!
My fault for trying to be a part of Black Ink!
My fault!
I gave you everything I possibly could to Black Ink!
- You gave what? What you gave?
What do you give? No, [bleep] that!
If you want to continue to talk about that...
This [bleep] don't like you! She don't like you!
These mother[bleep] do not like you, yo!
- That-- no! No, no, no, don't do that!
I did have my issues but--
- [bleep] out of here, nah.
- That had nothing to do with our personal relationship.
- I don't give a [bleep] about people liking me!
- [bleep] out of here!
- Yeah, I came here to support y'all
and y'all doing the most.
- Tatti and I did have our problems at the shop,
and I spoke to Ceaser in what I thought
was a private conversation.
- How's Tatti been doing as a manager on '25th?
- I feel like I'm literally doing every job here.
We can talk this out. We have to talk this out.
We're friends, no? That's what friends do.
- No, [bleep] this.
- Tatti, listen. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
'Cause I wanna clear this [bleep] up.
No, no, no, don't do that.
- I'm not in the mood right now, I'm not in the mood right now,
I'm not in the mood right now!
Vanity, please, respectfully, I'm not in the mood right now!
- I attempted to be the bigger person and talk to Tatti,
and then she flipped out.
So now it's her turn to come and talk to me.
I'm not trying that again.
I ain't got a damn thing out so I came the [bleep] out--
- Yeah, try to walk away!
- Welcome to the first day of Black Ink Bootcamp.
Today is gonna be one of those days that
by the end of it you'll probably hate my guts but--
[Young Bae] - Oh, we already do.
You don't have to try harder.
- Did she say that to me?
- So I'm gonna just be straight up.
Ceaser said something yesterday
that has been on my mind all day.
Do y'all [bleep] with me or not?
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I've been at lows and I turn 'em into highs ♪♪
♪♪ A lot of noes but I never wondered why ♪♪
♪♪ From the bottom yeah I came up from the dirt ♪♪
♪♪ And keeping tabs but my tabs they don't hurt no more ♪♪
♪♪ I ain't down now I'm bad at my worse no more ♪♪
♪♪ I know you see it, I know you see it ♪♪
♪♪ Ha ♪♪♪♪
- Well... about last night.
- Girl!
But I'm glad you stayed, though.
- Yeah, I mean, I didn't really sleep.
- After Tatti's fight with Ceaser last night,
I went outside to talk to her.
Relax.
And I've got a master bedroom.
[Tatti laughing]
Would you like to come to my master bedroom?
I convinced her to stay the night,
but now I wanna make sure she stays longer
'cause she deserves to be here.
She works harder than anyone at Black Ink.
- I don't even know what happened.
Like, all I knew was that, like, I was super excited
to, like, surprise y'all and--
wow, the faces were so like, "The [bleep] is she doing here?"
I don't understand anything that happened last night.
I miss one meeting and got bombarded with all this anger.
- You know what shocked me?
Remember he said, "She don't like you, he don't like you."
Where did that [bleep] come from?
- I have no idea.
And then to make matter worse,
everybody just sat there and watched.
Bae was the only person that had my back.
So maybe Ceaser's right.
- First of all, first of all, uh-uh.
So you're gonna leave me... over there
all alone is what you're saying?
- Wow, the manipulation.
I did not deserve to get treated like that,
and I think everybody knew that but...
For you I'll go. That's it, though.
- Okay, thank you.
- Plus, if I leave, Ceaser's gonna take it as
that I walked out on him.
So I might as well stay and prove myself once again.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Wild and dangerous ♪♪
♪♪ No need to worry about me 'cause I'm wild and dangerous ♪♪
♪♪ And I've been living on the edge ♪♪♪♪
- Yo. - Yo.
- Oh, you out here extra chilling.
You damn near naked.
How you feeling, man? Last night was interesting.
- Last night was definitely a--
- You good, though?
- Yeah, I'm straight, I'm straight, man.
No, man, I learned my lesson, man.
I've got restraint.
Bux is lucky that I've been working on my equanimity
through this whole [bleep],
because that [bleep] that happened at the table
could have went all the way left.
The new Spyder knows how to, um, assess the situation
before just, you know, flipping out.
- How can y'all be in the shop
with that type of tension all the time?
How do y'all fix it?
- We can stay professional.
At the end of the day, he's just a coworker.
- I respect Spyder saying that he can keep it professional,
but let's be serious, this is Black Ink.
As much as you wanna keep things professional, it doesn't work.
I think at some point y'all squash that [bleep].
Who would think that Ceaser and Puma
could be in the same room?
They went through some real [bleep],
and look where they at.
- As men, we straight handle it man-to-man.
So stand up.
- Now, as men--
- Stand up, man. - [bleep].
- So don't just completely write it off
or put it off the table... and figure that out--
- Let me tell you something, Ted.
Once my wife say a [bleep] clipped... that's it.
Bux had every opportunity to say what we all know he did,
but he chose to stick with a lie.
So I hear what the homie Ted is saying and everything--
whatever-- but I ain't buying that [bleep].
Me and this [bleep] never be on
some personal [bleep] ever again.
And once a friend becomes an enemy, you leave them there.
♪♪♪♪
[woman singing in foreign language]
- ♪♪ We smoking lighting up the party ♪♪♪♪
[woman singing in foreign language]
[Puma] - I like this shop.
I like the decor.
[man] - It had a stripper pole.
- Okay, so at least they're still living up
to traditions of Black Ink.
Even though this first dinner in Orlando
went a little bit left-- no, excuse me--
a lot [bleep] left,
we're gonna try to steer this mother[bleep] right.
What if your good friend Tatti pulls up?
- She's here. She's here to work.
- Me and Ted had to remind Ceaser why we came to
Orlando in the first place,
and he has to agree to put his whole beef with Tatti
to the side while we're still out here.
So we're gonna bring everybody down to the shop
and hopefully everybody can get their minds right
and get back to the bootcamp.
♪♪♪♪
- Walking into the shop right now
after last night's fiasco is weird.
I am not here to fight, I am not here to argue
and I hope that Ceaser is on the same energy.
- Well, everybody, welcome to
the first day of Black Ink Bootcamp.
- Okay, okay, okay! Oh, oh, oh!
[Ceaser] - Last night's behind us.
What we're worried about right now is all about Black Ink.
This is how it all started.
From this one shop, I developed multiple shops out of state.
I need y'all to get back into the Black Ink mojo.
I want Black Ink to be more of a family.
I want Black Ink to know, as we grow as a unit,
every single one of y'all have to grow too.
Now, we're gonna talk about us as a unit.
Today is gonna be one of those days
that by the end of it you'll probably hate my guts but--
- Oh, we already do. You don't have to try harder.
[all laughing]
- Did she say that to me? You know what?
- The confession bowl was yesterday, Bae.
[all laughing]
- Getting back to what I was saying,
today is about a group effort.
It's gonna be teams.
And in these teams, y'all are gonna go on a scavenger hunt.
And in the scavenger hunt, it leads to a tattoo.
- Oh, boy.
- But guess what?
Captain gets to pick who's on the team.
Definitely not you.
- Oh.
- Let me introduce the captains.
Draya and...
- Hey! - Hey!
- Draya? - Hi!
- We brought Draya and Nychelle down
to see how they fit with the crew
and, you know, add a little bit more spice
to the whole situation.
And with Draya being the Tattoo Titan champion...
[Ceaser] - Draya, you are the winner of
Black Ink Battle of the Tattoo Titans, girl.
[cheers and applause]
- And Nychelle being the super-awesome artist
that she is...
- She's a tremendous artist.
- How long have you been tattooing?
- Almost nine years.
- ...it lets everybody know that nobody's job is safe.
- How you doing? - Hey.
- Good to see you. Hi.
I was living in Chicago, working at 9MAG for a while,
but I just recently moved back to New York
to be closer to my family.
So when Ceaser hit me up with this opportunity,
I jumped right at it.
- I had a lot of fun during my short time at Black Ink.
So when Ceaser hit me up to come,
of course I said yes.
Captain Nychelle reporting for duty.
- All right, Draya and Nychelle, please pick your teams.
[Draya] - Okay.
Um, I'm gonna go with Tatti.
[Nychelle] - Dang.
- This couldn't have been more perfect, right?
Nobody likes me, nobody [bleep] with me,
but now we've got the team captains fighting over
who gets to pick me first.
Let's think about that.
- Krystal, Krystal.
- Come here, Bae. Come here with your fine ass.
- Alex.
- I'm gonna take Rok. - Whoa!
- Come on, Vanity. Let's go.
- Yay, thank you.
[Puma] - Aw, [bleep]!
[Spyder] - Me and Bux?
I better not get picked last in this bitch.
But this is a silver lining.
At least I ain't got to be on
the same team with that [bleep].
- Who's gonna be the last one?
That's what I'm wondering.
Look at Spyder like, "Don't let me be the last one."
[Ted] - Spicey.
- What is that? - Whose is that?
- Whoa!
- These people are just jealous.
Y'all should've looked at the menu.
Look at this [bleep] drink. It's so pretty!
[Young Bae slurping]
♪♪♪♪
- Who's gonna be the last one? That's what I'm wondering.
Look at Spyder like, "Don't let me be the last one."
[Ted] - Spicey.
- Spyder, come here, my boy!
[Puma] - Yeah, Spyder!
- They're crazy.
They picked the people that know the least [bleep].
- I've got the best team because I've got the best artists.
Well, second to me anyway. Talking about Bae.
And then Tatti be in the gym
so I know she gonna run up and down this bitch.
And Spyder and Rok, they're here
and they look like they've got a little bit to prove right now.
Team Nychelle might as well give up right now.
- Team Nychelle is clearly the better team.
We've got Krystal, who's an amazing artist,
Alex, who gonna find them clues,
and Vanity and Bux who will help with anything that we need.
Our team is a well-oiled machine.
[Ceaser] - Now that we've got
our teams together, these envelopes are clues.
Clues that lead to more clues that lead to a puzzle,
which is a tattoo.
- So Ceaser right now is giving everybody their first clue.
These clues are all about moments
that have happened in Black Ink.
Once they solve it, it leads to a puzzle piece
that goes to the next clue.
Once they collect all four pieces,
it becomes a tattoo that each crew has to do on their client.
They have to work together to get this all done.
And the way it was looking yesterday,
this looks like it's about to be a [bleep] show.
- You have an hour and a half to complete the scavenger hunt
and the tattoo.
Here you go, ladies.
- May the best team win.
And that is Team Draya. We are gonna win.
"Your next riddle can be found locked safely within a 'blank.'
Keep your hands off the cash or be exiled like Walt."
- The whole bull[bleep] with the whole register [bleep], man,
I definitely have something to do with that.
- Let's see if it's in the register.
- "A trip down memory lane can bring up strong feelings.
Just make sure when Don's in the shop you have high..."
- Down here at Black Ink, we like to spread the love.
So one time we invited our friends down at 9MAG
in Chicago to come out for a holiday party
and you could say things went a little bit left.
[Don shouting]
[bleeps].
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, he punched the ceiling.
- Yeah, he punched the ceiling. Damn!
- Uh, maybe look right there.
[Krystal] - Oh, yeah!
[Tatti] - Okay...
- What's it say, what's it say?
- Okay.
"This place is deemed exit only,
"not meant for boom-boom,
but even love can happen in the..."
- Bathroom. - Bathroom.
- Oh, it's locked!
- For some odd reason-- I don't know--
but it be going down in the Black Ink bathrooms.
- They [bleep] in my bathroom.
- [bleep] in my bathroom. - Like that?
[Ceaser] - Yo, I've gotta pee.
What [bleep]...
[man] - Yo!
[Walt] - Yo, look at this.
And they're in a bathroom.
- Wait, hold the [bleep] up. That's Alex.
- Now, have I had sex in a Black Ink bathroom?
[bleep].
One, two, three, four, fifth.
I'm pleading the fifth on that one.
[Spyder] - Hey!
- We need the bathroom.
- "Possibly the shop's best artist--
"talent is hard to fake--
she's full of surprises like jumping out of a..."
- Window. - Window.
- Window?
Where the [bleep] did they get "window" from?
Everybody knows that when Bae came to Black Ink
she jumped out of a cake.
Duh!
- Three, two, one!
- Let's party, bitches!
Whoo!
- These are the only windows in the shop?
[man] - Yeah.
- Um, yeah. - They've gotta be somewhere.
[Rok] - But...
- Hold your breath, Rok, hold your breath, Rok.
- Come on, Rok, you got this. - Oh, [bleep].
- Rok, close the door-- Tatti-- so it don't get out.
[Spyder laughing]
[Rok] - Where is it?
- Oh, look, it's right there. Alex.
- Where? - Under the-- the register.
[Nychelle] - I knew it!
[Alex] - Where?
- That's not it? - That's a [bleep] nail file.
- It looked like it. It was thick like it.
- I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.
- "Forever a day one, never a zero,
calling all the shots, she's the crew's..."
- What? - Hero?
- Let me see it. - No.
- Okay, this one might be a little insider for you guys.
Treiva's the head show runner
for the whole Black Ink franchise.
She's the person that keeps us all in check.
- That makes--
- Hero. Oh, my God, it's Treiva.
- Be a cake, not a cake?
- She jumped out of a cake, she jumped out of a cake!
- She jumped out of a cake.
- Oh, [bleep]. Wow, so we got it.
- Great job, Team Nychelle.
Yeah, it took you guys a little moment,
but you finally got it.
- "From the windows to the wall, the floor to the sofa,
more cushion for the pushin', just flip them [bleep] over."
- Oh!
[Spyder laughing]
[all shouting]
- Okay. - She was there the whole time.
- What? "He's all about his greens..."
- "He's all about his greens, his bread, his..."
- "Cheese.
You might be thinking salad..."
- Cease! - Cease!
- Oh, my God.
- Of course Ceaser made himself a clue.
He couldn't resist that.
We probably should've just went straight to Ceaser
and avoided all these extra steps.
- "Rome wasn't built in a day.
"Black Ink wasn't either.
- "Go find..."
- "Go find your king. All hail..."
- Ceaser. - Hell.
- Cease making himself a clue is a Cease move.
He got big cut-outs, big posters,
big pictures, big banners of him everywhere that he owns.
He's conceited.
- Um, are y'all ready for the last--
- Yes!
- "A tattoo is a work of art.
"Brushes and paints are your tattoo kits.
You'll find your next clue where your money sits!"
- Oh, [bleep]. - Sorry.
[Krystal] - Wait, wait here.
- Yes, yes, yes! - We've got it first.
[all shouting]
- Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
[all shouting]
[Spyder] - We got it, we got it!
- Now they've gotta lay down these fire-ass tattoos,
and that's just the starting point.
- Like, little hearts and [bleep] but, like...
- A little details?
- Yeah, and they're doing it. Look, that's fire too.
- They have to evolve and elevate these tattoos
to the next level.
And, uh, time is ticking.
♪♪♪♪
[Young Bae] - Oh, that's it.
- Of course I'm doing this tattoo.
Who's gonna do it? Bux and Alex?
They've gotta sit down and take some notes first.
- I'm doing this tattoo today
because not only am I the fastest but I'm the best.
Have you seen Spyder's work?
Okay, then.
We can't risk that today.
- ♪♪ Deep up in these waters, in these waters ♪♪
♪♪ You better tread lightly ♪♪
- So I'm doing a pawn piece and my idea is just to make it
realistic and smooth black and gray
and then add a little color in the back to make it pop.
- ♪♪ I'm always ready for the showdown, showdown ♪♪
♪♪ Now I'm running high, running high ♪♪
[Young Bae] - I'm doing a tattoo of a knight
from the game of chess.
I'm putting a geometric pattern, also realistic-looking hair.
On top of that, we're gonna put
a heart in the middle for her son.
- ♪♪ Uh I don't throw in the towel ♪♪
♪♪ So what that say about me? ♪♪
♪♪ I am not going down it might be him but not me ♪♪♪♪
[Puma] - Time's up.
- You smoked that [bleep], Bae.
♪♪♪♪
- Oh, so Bae did this. Okay.
So Krystal did the tattoo.
That [bleep] is fire.
Both of them fire.
So, y'all did an excellent job.
And the fact that all y'all could come together
shows a lot, you know what I mean?
I'm proud of y'all, yo.
So... the winner...
- We all know Krystal smoked it
and she brought it home for my team.
- I know Bae killed this tattoo,
so we're definitely taking home the prize.
♪♪♪♪
- Well, guess what? I'm not picking the winner.
[Spyder] - What?
- Yeah, there's no winner from this.
This is just an exercise to see how y'all was going.
- Somebody's a winner.
- Had my nerves up for no reason.
Just to qualify.
- This is bull[bleep]!
- This Black Ink [bleep] is bigger than all of us
in this mother[bleep] building.
We're the leaders of the next generation.
- So I guess today we're all MVPs.
- No, Rok, no, Rok, no. - No, Rok, no.
- No. Krystal, you can't teach him?
[Ceaser stammering]
All right, we out of here. See y'all guys later, y'all.
- You see how everybody acting kind of funny with me?
- Let's have a conversation
if they are ready to, like, be straight up.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ It's the return that'll really back bite ♪♪
♪♪ But they still know the deal ♪♪
♪♪ I give the people something they can feel ♪♪
♪♪ Originators West Coasting ♪♪
♪♪ City by the sea you can hear the ocean ♪♪
♪♪ But it ain't all sand and palm trees around here ♪♪♪♪
- Welcome to Hawaii.
♪♪♪♪
[Alex] - We just had a long day--
scavenger hunt and all of that extra-good stuff.
So we decided that we should go to the bar and celebrate.
- All right, where the bartender at?
[all cheering]
- Get a little sippy-sip,
get everybody nice and in the mood--
especially without the bosses here--
so that we can continue this bootcamp
and continue to have a good time.
- What is that?
[Krystal] - What?!
- Who ordered this? Whose drink is this?
- It's mine. Whatever.
I had a long day.
These people are just jealous.
Y'all should've looked at the menu.
No one tell you to order this little drinks.
Look at this [bleep] drink.
It's amazing! It's so pretty!
[Young Bae slurping]
[Young Bae sighing]
[Tatti] - Wow, this is a virgin drink?
I could do this!
I could live this life... if it looks like this.
[Nychelle] - This cute drink
look like you, Tatti, though.
- Right on. Oh, man.
- That's hilarious.
[Vanity] - You guys ruined the drink.
[Krystal laughing]
[Tatti] - I got permission from
my probation officer to be here,
and I just wanna be different and better.
That's why I'm not drinking tonight.
- So, like, can I ask y'all something?
'Cause y'all all been around Cease for a long time.
Like, is it always some, like, diabolical plan?
- This intense?
♪♪♪♪
[Alex] - If you don't know,
Ceaser's a Gemini.
They've got three sides to them.
It's not two sides, it's three sides.
♪♪♪♪
The one side that you wanna see is gonna be a "ahahaha."
[man] - Oh, they're crewing up
on him, they're crewing up on him.
- What's the next one?
- And then the next side is like, "Ahhhh!"
- What's moving forward without Black Ink?!
'Cause none of us will be here without Black Ink!
- And the third side is a narcissistic side.
[Alex] - Exactly.
- It's me and Cease today, yo. What are you talking about?
- He's the general. Salute!
- Boom!
Draya and Nychelle have not seen the half of it yet.
You never know what's up.
You're gonna get a Cease, so just be on your tippy-toes.
[all shouting]
- Anytime you walk into a room...
- Yo, you guys sound like you're all, like, victims of--
- Yo, I have nightmares about this [bleep].
My stomach-- I get butterflies when I'm coming out to--
- Your [bleep] be bubbling, bro?
- Everybody's joking, laughing, "kiki-ing," having a good time.
- Oh, it's a round on Rok tonight!
Yeah!
- But the only person that has even talked to me
since last night or even checked on me is Bae.
So forgive me for not really being in the partying mood.
- Draya and Nychelle, what brought you guys to Orlando?
I mean, we all know why we're here,
but why are you guys here?
- I mean, obviously invited.
- Ceaser invited us to come for a--
[Vanity] - That's [bleep] up.
[Young Bae] - Yo, how y'all got the invites?
Tatti didn't get the invite.
- Hey, guys, it's like Ceaser keeps saying...
it doesn't matter what work anyone's put in,
it's all a matter of this week.
Not everybody's gonna make it.
- Y'all wanna work at Black Ink: Bayonne?
Pull up.
- Hey, yo.
- Who hired Vanity as Ceaser's understudy?
Like, all this "not everyone's gonna make it" bull[bleep],
and then Krystal talking about her unofficial shop--
[bleep] this.
- Bae, come talk to me outside. - Hmm?
- After all the time and energy I've put into Black Ink,
I'm not about to sit here and get disrespected.
So let me remove myself from this situation right now
so I can, you know, work on staying classy.
[bleep] has been mad weird today.
You see how everybody acting kind of funny with me?
And then Vanity and Krystal are trying to throw shade at me,
which is, like, whatever.
I really don't care.
- All of a sudden, you are saying that
because Ceaser said...
- These mother[bleep] do not like you, yo!
- But one thing about you, you care.
No matter what Tatti is saying, we all know she cares.
She needs to talk to them right now.
Like, put this [bleep] out in the open
so we can all move the [bleep] on.
Let's have a conversation
if they are ready to, like, be straight up.
- Half of me is, like, ready to call an Uber
and get the [bleep] out of here because I don't care,
but then the other half of me agrees with Bae
because I do have self-respect,
and I'm not about to be sitting here with people
who "claim to be real"
that aren't keeping it real with me.
So I'm just gonna address the situation.
- Calm the [bleep] down. Don't raise your voice.
You know, just talk like a... just an adult.
Be passionate but don't be loud.
- All right, let's go back out.
[both chuckling]
- You ready? 'Cause I'm ready.
[Rok] - All right, she's like,
"I'm-- you're not from the Bronx."
I said, "Ex-partner, you're not from the Bronx."
- You've been...
- Ding, ding, ding, ding!
Tatti has a question.
[Vanity] - What's going on?
- So I'm gonna just be straight up, right?
- Oh, [bleep].
- 'Cause I know we all having a good time,
we all had a really long day.
But Ceaser said something yesterday that has
been on my mind all day.
Do y'all [bleep] with me or not?
♪♪♪♪
- So I'm gonna just be straight up, right?
- Oh, [bleep].
- 'Cause I know we all having a good time,
we all had a really long day.
But Ceaser said something yesterday that has
been on my mind all day.
Do y'all [bleep] with me or not?
- I'm just chilling, watching, waiting.
- I feel like Ceaser was trying to rile you up.
I don't know what personal issues you've got with Bux
or Spyder, but on our end, I-- we never talked about you.
I don't got a problem with Tatti,
but she really needs to stop listening to Ceaser,
'cause I feel like he's just trying to get you upset
because he didn't want you here.
You got riled up, you fell into the trap
and then you came at us.
- I feel like-- I feel like I asked generally...
And, Vanity, you acting real mad--
- I came all the way outside!
- Hold on a second, hold on a second!
Vanity had all day to talk to me
and now that I'm bringing it up, you wanna clear the air?
I'm pretty sure that constitutes as "you don't [bleep] with me."
I walked away and I'm mad
and you wanna come outside and have a conversation and--
- Absolutely.
- And, respectfully, I said,
"I don't wanna talk to you right now."
- No, you didn't say "respectfully."
You said it like we weren't friends, dog!
- What are you talking about?
- You said it like we weren't friends!
You said it like we weren't friends!
[bleep] out of here!
- Don't do that, don't-- - Don't do what?!
- What are you-- what are you-- what are you--
- Don't-- Bae-- Bae, mind your business!
[Young Bae] - Mind my [bleep] business?
[all shouting]
What the [bleep]...
[Alex] - What are you doing?!
a [bleep] circus.
- You hit somebody?!
[Ceaser] - This [bleep] just
[bleep] up everything, yo.
- This whole [bleep] show is being shut down
over dumb [bleep].
- Can I just say this? - What?
- I'm so [bleep] happy I didn't drink.
- Yeah, I know.
[Puma] - Come on, man, we've gotta do
something fun in Florida.
[man] - Nick's gonna bring up
Buster right here.
[Puma] - Oh, this is crazy.
- You guys wanna feed him?
[Puma] - Yeah.
[Bux] - No.
[Spyder screaming]
[Ceaser] - Y'all put my brand at risk.
I've been here ten years strong, yo.
And you think I'm gonna let y'all
[bleep] destroy this [bleep], B?
Effective immediately, y'all are officially fired.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪
♪♪ Drop, drop ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪♪♪♪
[man] - ♪♪ MTV ♪♪♪♪