♪♪♪♪ [Ceaser] Welcome to Orlando
for Black Ink Boot Camp.
This is not a vacation, we here to work, yo.
- Sounds like Black Ink Hell Week.
[Ceaser] Let me introduce the captains.
Draya and Nyssey!
[all cheering]
Y'all are gonna go on a scavenger hunt.
[overlapping shouting]
- Wow, y'all didn't even wait for me to eat?
- I mean, I don't remember inviting your ass.
- I'm tired of always having to put Black Ink first,
and Black Ink don't put me first.
- 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]! [bleep] that.
If you wanna sit and talk about this...
These mother[bleep] do not like you, yo.
- Nah, [bleep], don't do that.
I did have my issues,
but [bleep] unprofessional.
[overlapping shouting]
- I attempted to be the bigger person
and talk to Tatti, and then she flipped out.
Now it's her turn to come and talk to me,
I'm not trying that again.
- Welcome to Hawaii.
[Alex] We decided that we should go to the bar,
so that we could continue to have a good time.
[all toasting]
[slurping]
- Ceaser said something yesterday
that has been on my mind all day.
Do y'all [bleep] with me or not?
- You got riled up, you fell into the trap
and then you came at us...
- I feel like I asked generally.
Vanity, you acting real mad.
- Don't do that. - Don't do what?
What're you-- what're you--
- [stuttering]
[overlapping shouting]
- My [bleep] business?
[shouting continues]
- What're you doing?!
[Krystal] Bae, Bae, mind your business.
- Mind my [bleep] business? What you mean?
[overlapping shouting]
[Alex] What are you doing?!
[shouting/overlapping bleeps]
- This is my mother[bleep] business.
You should mind your business and sit down.
I'm the veteran, and you new.
You don't disrespect me.
- You hit me in my [bleep] face, now we got a problem.
- I'm sorry... - You stupid bitch!
[overlapping arguing]
[Vanity] Are you [bleep] kidding me?
Did Bae really just throw a glass?
I would've expected it from Tatti after last night's dinner.
- We can't even be doing this no way,
'cause we don't wanna lose our jobs.
[Tatti] Hey, yo...
[indistinct chatter]
- You hit somebody?
- No! - She hit me.
Threw a [bleep] drink in my face.
[Bae] No, no, I did, I did.
It's not their fault,
like, it's my fault.
[overlapping arguing]
[distant siren wails]
- My face, run the footage back...
[overlapping shouting]
- Let everybody go on [bleep] record
and understand this--
one person action's on camera,
I don't care what, can [bleep] up this whole thing.
This whole [bleep] show gets shut down...
- Run that footage, check my eye.
- Oh, I'm about to run the video.
I wanna see footage. - Please do.
- When I got on this show, fighting was a thing.
Everybody was doing it, but we've come so far
we're not even trying to tolerate any violence.
[Treiva] What do I say all the time?
Conflict, no combat, words.
Y'all cannot stay in the house tonight.
[birds chirping]
- ♪♪ I just came off the long celebration ♪♪
♪♪ Go outside, check the new mutation ♪♪
- [Ceaser] Yo... - [Spyder] What's good?
- Chillin'?
- Y'all seen Puma today?
- Uh, Puma, Puma's somewhere around here.
- Oh, he in the pool.
I wish I could do that.
Yo. [knocking]
- Uh-oh, [bleep].
Ceaser look like he in war mode today.
- Yeah, 'cause [bleep] be blowin' up my phone yesterday.
What the [bleep]?
♪♪♪♪
- I am still in shock about what happened last night.
This is not what I expected
when Ceaser invited us to come down here.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
[laughter]
- I mean, I'm okay, I'm okay,
tryna wrap my mind around what the [bleep]
happened last night.
- I just hope Bae and Krystal are okay.
♪♪♪♪
- Tatti. - Hey, girl.
- You got my tea already? - Yeah, I got you.
So after our producers told Ceaser about
the bar disaster last night,
everybody that was part of the fight,
including Krystal, Vanity, and myself,
were put into separate hotels,
and Bae ended up going into the hospital
to get stitches on her ear.
- Look, it's swollen. - I see, damn.
Yo, what the [bleep] happened?
- Last night, I tried to chill after this [bleep] boot camp
and [bleep] be blowing up my [bleep] phone.
I gotta send the girls to [bleep] hotels and [bleep]
and burn my [bleep] money, so now I wanna know
what the [bleep] happened last night?
♪♪♪♪
- So, uh, it was just a little altercation.
- We were having fun. - We were all having fun.
- I was having fun.
There was no beef.
Tatti was cool, Bae was cool.
- Can I just say this? - What?
- I'm so [bleep] happy I didn't drink.
- Yeah, no.
- It caught us all by surprise.
- The vibe was just all-- was cool.
- I know Tatti came in
and she was like, you know, "I heard that...
- "Y'all don't [bleep] with me?"
- Oh, right, that's what it was.
- That's what ignited [bleep]. - From the dinner.
When you said that...
- These mother[bleep] do not like you, yo!
What?
- I really wish Ceaser handled the whole Tatti situation
much better, you know? Bring her to the side rather
than yelling at her in front of everybody
and throwing us all under the bus
saying that we don't like her.
Just was a bad look.
- Are y'all serious?
Yo, this [bleep] breaks down into some high school [bleep]?
- Yeah, no, if Ceaser didn't [bleep] say all that [bleep]
in front of everybody like that, we wouldn't be here.
- Which is crazy, 'cause it's like,
you tryna build a healthy work environment, then...
kinda sounds like instigatin' some [bleep].
When Ceaser invited me out to Orlando,
it wasn't just for the boot camp.
He actually invited me to work at Black Ink Brooklyn.
But after everything that happened
at the tiki bar last night,
how am I supposed to be a part of something
that is literally breaking apart at the seams?
I mean, look, I'm from New York,
so I know how New Yorkers get down,
but as a crew, I thought they kinda,
you know, like, [bleep] past all that.
- Right, that was crazy.
I thought everybody was friends.
- So it was Vanity, Tatti, Bae, and Krystal.
- Were Nychelle and Draya there too?
- Yeah, but they got out the way
once the drinks started flying.
- Wait, this [bleep] happened in front of our guests?
- Yeah.
- This was some [bleep].
- No, it was very embarrassing.
- I mean, if that was the energy that was
going on before we got there, we kinda just walked into--
- Some other [bleep] that we had nothing to do with.
- And then the ambulance came.
- Ambulance came for who?
- Bae. - Wait, what happened to Bae?
- [bleep], her ear,
it was like, leaking.
- Wait, her ear was leaking from what?
- Wait, what? - Glass.
- Wait, they was throwin' glass at each other?
- Yeah.
- We all know that Black Ink
had its fair share of fights.
[overlapping arguing/bleeps]
But as a brand and a team and even the network,
we all came to an agreement that there's a zero tolerance
for any kind of violence.
- They don't invite us to places 'cause
we're known to be violent, yo.
And I can sit here and say, yo,
some of that [bleep] is my fault,
but when I'm trying to mend this [bleep],
now we in [bleep] bars having bar fights, yo?
[Puma] "Black Ink Crew" is more than just a TV show,
it's actually built a legacy for the tattoo culture
to let Black artists be seen across the world.
[Ceaser] This is why I'm doing what I'm doing.
It's not for individual glory,
it's for us, yo.
I think it's time for unity.
- This is a legacy that we don't wanna ruin.
Who threw the first glass?
- Bae threw the first glass.
- Bae?
I really can't believe this.
I mean, in the past, Bae had a tendency
of lashing out.
- What the [bleep] is this bull[bleep]?
[overlapping arguing]
- Let go of her head. - [bleep] bitch!
- I really thought she grew up and learned from all that.
I expect this from the new people,
definitely not Bae.
- It wasn't intentional, but, you know,
but still, I [bleep] up.
You know, I'm the one... - This is so crazy.
- I'm the one who started [bleep], right?
So I got hit, I got hit, whatever.
I'd rather get hurt myself,
it's my mess.
I didn't wanna throw a [bleep] glass cup at somebody.
And I didn't plan that, that just happened.
Intentionally, unintentionally,
I did that, you know?
Whatever comes after that,
I gotta deal with that.
- I know that your intentions was not...
- At all. - To hit Krystal,
you know, maybe it was to splash on Vanity for sure--
- That was-- no, for sure, 100% it was that.
- And I know for sure that my intentions
were not to [bleep] cause all that [bleep] ruckus
'cause my probation officer made it so [bleep] clear to me
that if I get into any type of trouble,
any type of fighting,
that's automatically four years, bro.
♪♪♪♪
If I'm being completely honest,
I feel like Bae...
Bae did the most, and she put me in
a compromising situation last night,
and I'm not with that.
- I wanna talk to Ceaser, you know?
Of course I wanna say sorry for what I've done,
'cause I made a [bleep] mistake
and it was a huge one, you know?
- Yeah, I made a mistake too,
when I showed up.
- This [bleep] feel like
I'm running a [bleep] circus, B.
- Yup, and it sounds like the clowns have taken over.
[Nychelle] What do you think is gonna happen?
- I don't know, girl, I know one thing's for sure.
Before we go hang out with the New York crew again,
I need to know what the hell I'm walking into.
- This [bleep] just [bleep] up everything, yo.
This [bleep] has me looking at everybody different now.
There's gonna be some [bleep] changes, yo.
This [bleep] boot camp is over.
- Welp, it's out of our hands now, pimp.
- Jesus, take the wheel. - Facts.
[Krystal] Since I'm stuck at the hotel until
Ceaser decides what to do with us,
I'ma go visit my dad.
- What's up, baby?
Who's this?
- Oh, this is Rok.
- I really don't like meeting nobody, man, you know?
[Puma] Come on, man, we gotta do something fun in Florida.
[handler] Nate's gonna bring up Buster right here.
- [growling] - Oh, this is crazy.
- You guys wanna feed 'em?
- Yeah. - No!
- Oh! Oh, [bleep]!
[Ceaser] Y'all put my brand at risk.
I've been here ten years strong, yo.
And you think I'ma let y'all [bleep] destroy this [bleep], B?
Effective immediately,
y'all officially fired.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ This world, this world ♪♪
♪♪ Is such a blur ♪♪
♪♪ I'm holding on to what I know ♪♪
♪♪ Just me and my girl ♪♪
[Krystal] I can't believe what happened last night.
I haven't spoken to Tatti or Bae since all this happened.
But hopefully Ceaser fires them because of this.
And since I'm stuck at the hotel right now,
I might as well just go visit my dad.
He has a tattoo shop close by,
and I feel like I need his opinion on
this contract I'm having with Ceaser right now.
And then on top of that, he hasn't met Rok.
[speaks foreign language]
- What's up, baby?
- This spot's nice. - Oh, [bleep].
Been a minute. - I know.
- Been a couple years.
The last time I saw my dad, we were in LA
and I feel like we had some problems
just because we had so much that we didn't talk about.
[sobbing] I wish I had a dad
like I have a mom.
- It's not that I didn't wanna be there,
I had a lot of things I had to pay in life.
- Since that conversation we've definitely been a lot better.
Like, he checks on me a lot,
he makes sure he calls me on my birthday.
And he's trying to be present.
Oh, no, I got makeup on you.
- Oh, damn, baby.
That's alright.
♪♪♪♪
Who's this?
- Oh, this is Rok.
- Right? - Rok.
- You know. - Yeah.
- The boyfriend... - Oh, I heard about you a lot.
- Hold up, boyfriend? - [tape rewinding]
- The boyfriend I've called... - Oh, I heard about you a lot.
- Last I remember, we just got engaged.
- Y'all are engaged? - Yeah, we're engaged.
- [screams]
- Honestly, I'm kind of too nervous
on meeting Krystal's pops right now
to be thinking about titles.
So hopefully I can turn on the ol' Rok charm
and prove to him I'm the perfect guy for Krystal.
- He's my business partner too, you know I opened that shop.
- Okay.
- We're 50/50 partners. - Yeah.
♪♪♪♪
- This is my baby.
For the first time you ever brought somebody.
- Yeah, I heard I'm the first.
- I really don't like meeting nobody, man, you know?
And I told her the day she was gonna introduce me,
make sure it's something that she really takes it
to the heart, you know?
♪♪♪♪
- So far, so good.
Anyway, we're not here to talk about Rok.
I was worked up last night, that's why I called you.
What, I was crying... - Yeah, I was worried about you.
- I was like, ahh!
Should I beat these girls up?
Or let it go? I'm a business owner.
- I'll be honest with you, it's a liability
if you [bleep] engage in something.
You can lose not just your business,
a lot of money if you hurt somebody.
So sometimes, you know, you gotta let grudges go.
- Okay, pops-- I mean, Mr. Morales.
Like, this is exactly what I've been trying
to get into Krystal since we first started going out.
Like, you don't gotta give your energy to everything.
- How's that business going for you guys?
- It's going great. - It's going good, I feel like
the community is responding well to us.
Now we're at a position where Ceaser's talking about
bringing us in as a partner for Black Ink.
- But that's a separate business.
- But-- no, the circumstances
are Ceaser wants us to close down Gods of Ink
and re-open as Black Ink New Jersey.
The lawyer's looking it over... - We just got the paperwork.
- Will you look at it? - Yeah, let me see.
- To check quick 'cause I was like,
I don't know, there's a whole bunch
of numbers in here, it's not adding up.
Here, these two.
Okay, so when we spoke,
he said that we would be 33 partners all around.
- 33 across the board.
'Cause that's a fair split, it's three ways.
- Okay.
But then on the paperwork,
it says since he owns Black Ink,
he owns 50% of the shops.
We're just splitting 33 in profits.
- 33 in profit. - Yeah.
[Krystal] At first I was completely on board with
changing Gods of Ink to Black Ink New Jersey,
but I feel like after that incident last night
and all these surprises in the contract,
I'm definitely having second thoughts.
- So he's taking 50% under his name.
- Yeah, so that means I'm getting 25.
- 25. - A little bit.
- It's a little, but, you know, I'll be honest with you...
- What would you do?
- The name is already established.
So you guys are gonna benefit from it, you know?
- But it's like, do I really wanna be
attached to all the bull[bleep] that comes with Black Ink?
'Cause I feel like everything I've been
showed up to this point, it has been bull[bleep].
I get it why my dad feels like it's a good idea
to do business with Ceaser,
but it's not all about the money for me.
Like, he sees dollar signs,
and I'm seeing glasses flying.
I wanna work in a calm and professional environment,
and I feel like dealing with Ceaser,
it comes with a lot of bull[bleep] and drama,
and I feel like I don't want that in my shop.
So I'm still unsure about what I'ma do.
- Look, I'll be honest with you,
I want you safe always.
So you gotta make sure who you surround yourself with,
that you gotta always be careful, you know?
- Of course, but it's more so like,
the emotional turmoil.
Like, I'm-- it's like always up and down.
One day it's good, I'm winning the competition,
now the next day I'm having a [bleep] breakdown.
I still feel like I need to think
about signing this contract.
I don't really know what I'ma do.
- Talk to your lawyers and have your lawyers postpone it.
- Ceaser knows about yesterday,
so I'm pretty sure he's not gonna
rush you signing that right now.
I know that Krystal's worried about
the details in the contract,
but even her dad thinks this is the right move.
After the heat dies down from last night,
hopefully we'll be able to make everything official
when we get back to Brooklyn.
- But let's get my mind off this drama.
- Yeah. - You want a tattoo?
[overlapping chatter]
- But I wanna work-- look, I wanna work on my head,
and then we'll go through the back.
- You know what you want?
- I'll let-- I'll let you pick it out, Krystal.
I'm just covered with a bunch of stuff,
you pick something out.
- Okay, I'ma design something.
Gonna go crazy, gonna have the best tattoo
I ever done in my life.
- Well, since you're gonna tatt your pops,
I'ma let you get some, you know, quality time alone.
I'ma talk to Cease right now,
so he knows this ain't the right time to sign.
- Okay. - I got this.
It was nice meeting you again.
Pleasure. Love you, baby.
I'm still in one piece,
so I guess it wasn't so bad after all.
[Angel] He looks like a good kid.
♪♪♪♪
- I Googled all the safest things
that you can throw at a person
without it being a lawsuit...
- [laughs] Yo... - Hey, man, can we stop
talking about throwing things at people, man?
It's triggering, you know what I mean?
- This is some bull[bleep], man.
We supposed to be out having fun,
enjoying the sunny weather,
now like, a dark cloud came over this whole trip
since that [bleep] happened.
- At least we still got palm trees.
[angelic music]
Them [bleep] look sad too.
[sad violin music]
[Puma] Yeah, look at that [bleep] all dry.
Look at that one, he just-- leaf just bent up.
♪♪♪♪
[Puma] I understand this is not
what the trip was supposed to be,
but we're still here
and we got two more days to go.
So Ceaser's mother's gonna come by
and cook us an awesome, homecooked meal, man,
which we all need right now,
and maybe get everybody up in better spirits.
We're just gonna have to make the best of it,
and deal with the bull[bleep] once we get back to Brooklyn.
I wanna see how Ceaser feels, man.
I wanna feel his energy out.
[Ted] Have you spoke to him?
- Nah, man, but I know he's upset.
- How he gonna figure out a way to blame this on us?
- You know what, this time, Ted,
this ain't our fault.
♪♪♪♪
- [sighs heavily]
- Yo, boss man. - What's up?
- Y'all chillin'? - Yeah.
[overlapping greetings]
[Puma] Have you heard back from anybody?
- Listen, that's how I know they know they [bleep] up
'cause nobody hitting me up.
- It's crazy to me that nobody has reached out to Ceaser yet.
What they think, we just gonna travel
back to Brooklyn and act like this never happened?
- I don't want y'all to feel like,
know what I mean, I'm punishing y'all too,
but I gotta figure this [bleep] out.
- ♪♪ Heavy, roll heavy through the block ♪♪
♪♪ 'Cause I'm heavy ♪♪
♪♪ Roll heavy through the block ♪♪
♪♪ You know you can't handle when the hammer drop ♪♪
[cell phone rings]
♪♪♪♪
- [chuckles] Vanity.
Bitch...
What? Okay.
Aww, thank you.
Ain't no bruises, ain't no bruises.
Yeah, I know, that [bleep] had me tight too.
I saw that [bleep] [bleep] bounce off my cheek
from my peripheral, I was like,
[gasp] The audacity of this ho!
It doesn't make any sense to me
why all this [bleep] escalated to that point,
because me and Vanity
have never had an issue with Bae,
so I don't understand where that [bleep] came from.
How you feeling after all that?
Right.
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
Don't make no kinda sense.
- [bleep] was definitely gonna hit the fan
at one point or another,
but I didn't expect for it to be with me.
I had Tatti's back,
and then she pulled this [bleep].
- It's just so crazy just 'cause I feel like
y'all have gotten so close.
No, no.
Yeah, she don't care.
[bleep], yeah.
Did you complain to Ceaser about her?
Was that what he was talking about at dinner?
[overlapping shouting]
- These mother[bleep] do not like you, yo!
- No, no, no, don't do that.
- I don't give a [bleep] about people liking me!
- Yeah, 'cause she...
Mmm, but whatever,
she an apprentice, ain't she?
Bitch, just say in your place, stay in your place.
That's what I'm saying, she just inserted herself.
She inserted herself, and then she felt small
when you said mind your business.
That's what I'm saying, we were being super sweet
because we were here for what Ceaser wanted us to do,
boot camp, bro.
Well, like Ceaser says,
some people gonna make it, some aren't,
and I'm hoping these bitches don't make it, honestly.
- Yeah, I know you gave us that contract
to send to a lawyer,
but since all that bull[bleep] happened,
is there a way we could just like, postpone it?
- I don't know if I wanna go through with that, bro.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Feelin' like I'm Batman, fighting with my last chance ♪♪
♪♪ It's Gotham City, you could go through and get, man ♪♪
♪♪ I'm from the nice area, but the enemy... ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[Krystal] You got so much tattoos on you,
I can't believe this is the first one
that I'm actually getting to do.
Oh, what's this?
You got my name?
- Yeah. - That's cute.
I didn't know you had that.
My dad definitely inspired me to become a tattoo artist
just because he was an artist for a majority of my life.
Like, every time I got a birthday card or anything,
it had a little drawing inside of it.
So, you know, it's only right
I bless him with some good work.
Alright, I know you already got one on you.
- Yeah. - But I feel like
the candle will look nice.
- Yeah, that'll look nice, yeah.
- And I feel like it's a nice filler.
It's gonna go up your neck,
and then this'll be on your head,
and then we can build around it, know what I mean?
I picked the candle out because I feel like
a candle's supposed to guide your way.
A candle can also symbolize you getting burned out,
and that's why I have a candle on me.
It's like, sometimes I work too hard
and sometimes that gets in the way of family,
and our relationships.
It's just a reminder, you know,
to always get back to it.
Alright, you ready?
- I'm ready. - Let's get this started.
-♪♪ Handcuffed ♪♪
♪♪ On a train track ♪♪
♪♪ Five steps forward, taking ten back ♪♪
[Krystal] Ceaser has said it many times--
Black Ink is all about elevating the culture.
And personally, I feel like I've done a lot of growing since
I first entered the brand.
I ain't gonna lie, a couple years ago,
I was definitely a loose cannon.
[bleep], what's good?
[overlapping bleeps/shouting]
- ♪♪ Work too hard ♪♪
♪♪ Climbed too many heights ♪♪
♪♪ Might see the blood ♪♪
♪♪ But that don't mean you wanna fight ♪♪
- I'm trying to get away from all that ratchet [bleep]
and have a better reputation,
and I can't clean that [bleep] up
if y'all keep bringing me down.
- ♪♪ We are, we are, we are ♪♪
♪♪ We are, we are ♪♪
♪♪ Unbreakable ♪♪
♪♪ Na na na-na, na na na-na ♪♪
- I feel like I'm at a crossroad right now.
Like, yeah, I appreciate all the advice
that my dad's giving me.
But maybe now it's just time to listen to myself,
because I know what's right.
- ♪♪ Unbreakable ♪♪
♪♪ Ohh ohh ohh ♪♪
♪♪ Unbreakable ♪♪
♪♪ Ohh ohh ohh ♪♪
- You can't surround yourself with toxicity
and expect it not to pollute you too.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Nah nah nah-nah ♪♪
♪♪ Nah nah nah-nah ♪♪
♪♪ Unbreakable ♪♪♪♪
- There, you're done.
It's time to look at your new tatt.
- Let's take a look at this.
- Let's see what you think.
- Been a while been waiting for this.
Yeah, I [bleep] with this [bleep], I love it.
- You like it? Is it good?
- Thank you, I love you, I love you.
- I love you too.
- My baby, I'm proud of you.
- ♪♪ I'm on my way up ♪♪
♪♪ I got my changeup ♪♪
♪♪ Am I gon' change up ♪♪
♪♪ In my own lane, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ No, I won't change up ♪♪
- Enjoy, y'all getting a homecooked meal.
- We're gonna pray.
- Ceaser.
- Your hand, sir. - We holdin' hands?
- Yes.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this meal
that's prepared before us.
Help our body, Father,
to digest and dismiss what is not of us.
- Amen.
[light clapping]
- Enjoy.
- Oh!
[tense music]
- Look who's here. - Look who showed up.
- What up, Rok? How you been doing?
- Yeah, man, it was a long night
so, you know, it turned into a long day too.
- Oh.
- Seriously, Rok head?
We don't hear from you or Krystal the whole day,
but when there's a free meal, you show up?
Maybe Cease was onto something
about this eating off other people's plate [bleep].
- So what'd I miss?
- I mean, the whole damn day, where you been, Rok?
- Yeah, I think you should be telling us.
- And how your girl doing?
- Um, she's doing good, you know, her--
she said like, her eye hurts a little bit and all that.
But this morning, I was like,
you know what, she needs like,
just some space and all that.
But give her some time,
she gonna forget about that, hopefully.
'Cause, you know, business first.
We here for the boot camp.
- There ain't no more boot camp,
mother[bleep] failed,
we all failed on the first day.
♪♪♪♪
- I'm never gonna understand Rok.
Like, you just oblivious to everything.
With all that's going on,
you still think there's a boot camp?
What the [bleep] is going on under them dreads, man?
- I know you gave us that contract
to send to a lawyer,
but since all that bull[bleep] happened,
we didn't really get to get through it,
so I just wanted to know is there a way
we could just like, postpone till like,
before we leave Orlando?
Since the boot camp is done?
- See, this is what I tried to tell Ceaser
while we were back in New York,
that Rok might not be ready
to be a full-on Black Ink business owner.
You think you the only one that wanna forget about last night
and focus on the business?
We all wanna forget about last night
and focus on the business.
We can't get back to the business
without talking about last night.
[bleep] is going on with this kid?
- I'ma keep it 100 with you, Rok,
'cause I [bleep] with you.
I don't know if I wanna go through with that, bro.
The whole franchise was in at jeopardy last night.
I'm not making no business deals right now.
- Yeah, but it's not my girl's fault, she--
- I'm not saying it's your girl's fault,
but she still entangled in that [bleep].
As a businessman who's trying to clean up this company
and get that [bleep] another place,
it wouldn't be a wise idea right now, bro.
So the contract is dead.
♪♪♪♪
- I hear what Ceaser's saying,
but it's not making any sense to me.
Bae throws a glass,
Krystal defends herself,
now we're losing our opportunity to open up a shop?
Y'all trying to make it seem like it's her.
[overlapping chatter]
Krystal was chill the whole time.
- Bro, you not seeing the bigger picture.
It ain't just you and your girl losing.
We might all lose.
Mother[bleep] gotta sit here
and take accountability as a whole.
- This fight in particular
can definitely take down the show.
Of course, there was worse situations,
even worse fights in the past.
But the key word, the past.
There was no fights as of recent,
and all we do is preach is elevation.
Even if we have a disagreement,
we can definitely use our words
and not use our hands.
Right now, Black Ink go away, what happen to Gods of Ink?
Think that [bleep] gonna survive?
♪♪♪♪
Y'all not big enough to do it on your own.
Nobody gives a [bleep] about y'all.
- Everybody gotta start somewhere, man.
You can't just knock it.
- But I'm just letting you know what it is.
Nobody gives a [bleep] about y'all.
Without this, y'all not gonna make it.
Rok did not start the fight,
but he has a contract to become a Black Ink owner.
They should definitely know not to be entangled
in anything like this.
Rok, you say y'all a package,
well, this what comes along with being in a package.
Think about that. This [bleep] go away,
y'all for sure go away.
- It was a misunderstanding,
and a mistake at the same [bleep] time.
- It don't matter.
Out of everybody, I'm mad at you more.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Yeah, whoa, uh, real locked in when I pop out ♪♪
♪♪ There ain't nothing you can do, nothing ♪♪
♪♪ Got my hustle up and my muscle up ♪♪
[Puma] Are you all ready for a peak Florida experience?
I get it.
The consequences of this big bar brawl
can influence all our lives.
So while Ceaser's dealing with that [bleep],
I thought maybe let me take out the crew members
that had nothing to do with nothing,
you know, and make sure that the morale is still high
and everybody understands why we came here
in the first place.
- Uh-uh, that [bleep] big.
Oh, wait, he got homies with him.
[Spyder stammering]
- Come on, man, we gotta do something fun in Florida.
That's right, we're gonna feed
some mother[bleep] gators today.
- What's up? Come on in, don't be scared.
- Don't be scared now. - Just breathe.
- They come up, I'm out that way.
- Get the [bleep] outta here.
- Spyder! Come on, Spyder.
- Come on. - What?!
- Is this really Puma's way
of getting me and Draya to stick around after the fight?
Boy, we coulda went to Disney World,
the park, on a walk, the spa, anywhere but here.
- Oh, this is crazy. Homie is huge.
- Oh, [bleep]! - You guys wanna feed 'em?
- Yeah! - No!
- So I'm gonna draw a line, okay, a line in the dirt.
That's your "you won't collect $200" line
if you pass it, okay?
- Okay, question.
I see the line, but, um,
do the gators see the line?
Because these don't look like
the respect the line type of guys.
- A'ight, see, Spyder? That's the cut line, Spyder.
- That's the good line? - That's the magical line.
- My man, look behind you.
[overlapping shouting]
- He's gonna stay.
- [bleep] about to get real.
Okay, sure, the alligator "will stay",
and I'ma stay right here.
- We're gonna take some chicken, that's what they like to eat.
- You got insurance? - Huh?
- Now, watch, Nick's gonna bring up Buster...
- Buster, big boy! - [bleep]!
- Buster, up!
Right there. - Alright, you ready?
I'm bringing him up, you're throwing it in.
- Oh, [bleep], Alex. - Throw it.
- Oh, [bleep]! - Oh, you missed!
- You missed!
- Feeding these alligators,
I'm simply thinking, is this why
fried alligator tastes like fried chicken?
[chicken clucking]
- One more. Spyder.
Come on. Do one, Spyder. - Oh, [bleep].
- They like dark meat too.
- What?!
The gators like dark meat?
I'ma let that slide.
- Come on, you got it. - Come on, Spyder.
[overlapping chatter/laughter]
[alligator hissing]
- Oh, no, no, no, no!
- You're good, I promise you.
- Throw it, man.
- Oh, [bleep]! - [screams]
[laughter]
- Come on, where you going?
- ♪♪ I'm swimming ♪♪
♪♪ In all these tears that I've cried ♪♪
♪♪ So bring my hammer ♪♪
♪♪ And crack me open wide ♪♪
- I haven't spoken to Ceaser yet
because, ehh, I'm embarrassed.
And from one business owner to another,
I want to just explain my side of the story in person
'cause I feel so, so, so responsible for what happened.
I know better, and I know what this can mean to Black Ink.
- Button downs?
Could these mother[bleep]...
Um, give me a second...
- You got it.
- What's up? - Nothing.
You've heard what happened, right?
- Yeah, I heard what happened,
and everybody else told me
besides the people that was involved.
Like, wait, first of all, are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay. - Tell me what's going on.
- First of all. - Mm-hmm.
- I [bleep] up.
It was a misunderstanding
and a mistake at the same [bleep] time.
- Okay, talk to me. - Because, like,
I felt I was just gonna sprinkle her with water.
When I grabbed the cup,
there was a thick-ass glass cup, okay?
That's been sitting there sweating.
So that [bleep] heavy,
it was full of water or liquor, I don't know.
When I grabbed it and went like this,
that [bleep] slipped away.
[overlapping shouting]
I don't know what it hit.
- So it never hit Krystal?
[shouting continues]
- I don't know because I didn't see it.
I was looking at vanity, not Krystal.
And that's what really happened.
I went and got some stitches and [bleep] like that.
And that was it.
- Mm-hmm.
Look, man, I hear you, right?
Where I stand...
out of everybody,
I'm mad at you more.
I want us to be bigger than where we are right now.
And for that, we gotta mature.
[bleep] like this can't happen no more.
So we gonna have a meeting tonight.
I heard what you said, now I gotta hear
what everybody else say and draw my conclusion.
And then we just handle it like that.
- Do you think walking into the bar
and wondering how people feel about you was smart?
- No, I think I should've never came here, I think that--
- That was maybe the best answer I've heard today.
♪♪♪♪
- It's been a couple days since the fight,
and tonight Ceaser calls us back to the house for a crew meeting.
I haven't had a chance to say my side of things,
so I hope Ceaser's willing to listen.
♪♪♪♪
- I ain't looking forward to none of this.
But I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders
now that this contract didn't go through.
♪♪♪♪
- As far as I'm concerned,
I'm already on Ceaser's [bleep] list
for even showing up to Orlando,
so I just feel like no matter what,
however which way you're gonna look at this,
I'm [bleep].
♪♪♪♪
[Bae] I don't know what to expect, you know?
I thought my conversation with Ceaser went well,
but you never know with him.
So I'm here and I'm ready to face whatever comes.
[tense music]
- So do y'all know what this is about?
- Y'all know, so, you know...
- Where's Cease at?
[Ted] I have no idea, he ain't answering his phone.
- Let's just get started.
Tell me what happened, because I've heard
everybody else's story
but the main players in the whole situation.
Vanity, you can go first.
- My situation with Tatti,
yeah, I got emotional,
because at the end of the day,
like, I thought we were friends.
So when Bae inserted herself to the whole situation...
[overlapping arguing]
- Let her talk!
- Yeah, I told her to mind her business.
The last thing I thought she was gonna do
was throw a drink at me.
- What the [bleep]?!
[overlapping shouting/bleeps]
- It hits Krystal's face.
Imagine if it would've cut her face.
- Okay. - And honestly,
at that point, like, it was just reflexes.
- Krystal, how do you feel about the situation?
- It had nothing to do with her.
- I feel sorry for her. - Or Bae.
- I didn't want that to go down.
I felt like everybody here was my friend.
- Tatti, I would like to hear your side.
Please, explain.
- Like, it happened so fast.
From my perspective,
Bae was wrong for throwing the drink.
And how it escalated...
I-I didn't drink, I was sober,
and as soon as it got crazy, I removed myself
because y'all know I can't get in trouble.
- Tatti, if you so focused
on not getting in trouble,
why are you starting trouble in the first place?
- Okay, so did you coming in here uninvited,
do you think walking into the bar
and wondering how people feel about you was smart?
- No, I think I should've never came here, I think that--
- That was maybe the best answer
I've heard today.
- Puma just loves when it's not him [bleep] up.
And when it's not him [bleep] up,
he makes sure that everybody else
who's [bleep] up really feels it.
So I don't really know if he even actually cares
about this situation, or he's just happy
that it's not on him.
[door opens, closes]
[tense music]
♪♪♪♪
- I don't know what's worse.
Quiet Ceaser or Angry Ceaser.
♪♪♪♪
- Bae, tell us your perspective of what happened.
- I mean, me and Tatti were having a conversation
about like, you know, what happened
when Ceaser said-- - Hold on.
[Puma] Bae, tell us your perspective of what happened.
- I mean, me and Tatti were having a conversation
about like, you know, what happened
when Ceaser said-- - Hold on.
I don't give a [bleep] who did what,
or how it started, or how it ended, yo.
Y'all put my brand at risk.
Y'all all know better, yo.
Y'all can't sit here and tell me y'all don't.
All y'all have businesses.
Y'all know you can't be doing this [bleep].
I been here ten years strong, yo.
There ain't nothing without this [bleep] platform
for nobody here.
You think I'ma let y'all destroy this [bleep]?
- I've known Ceaser for quite a long time,
and I'm pretty good at reading him.
But the last few months, I'm not gonna lie,
he's been on some different [bleep].
And right now, I don't know
what this man has in store for everybody.
[Ceaser clears throat]
- I'ma choose my words carefully.
We no longer can go back, and I gotta go forward.
Effective immediately,
Nychelle, Draya,
I want y'all to pack your bags
and come to New York.
As far the four in that incident,
Krystal, Vanity,
Bae, and Tatti,
y'all officially fired.
♪♪♪♪
This [bleep] too much,
and everybody else, y'all see how I'm moving.
Don't [bleep] with me, yo.
♪♪♪♪
[Puma] Oh, man, it's a cold day in Black Ink history.
[Ceaser] I came in this wanting to build a legacy. But the thing that I learned over the last few months,
never take nothing for granted.
[cell phone vibrates]
- I just got a text for something with Cease.
- It's a video? - Yeah.
- [gasps]
- What was he thinking?
- I don't believe this [bleep].
[Tatti] He possibly just threw this whole [bleep] away.
- That [bleep] is about to blow up right now.
- This ain't good.
- The network has decided
to cut ties with Ceaser.
- Damn. - What?
Are you really gonna cut him loose like that?
- Is the show cancelled?
- I don't see how there's a Black Ink without Ceaser.
[theme music plays]
♪♪♪♪