(Ryan) With the addition of new artists along with some
day one artists, I have to elevate this to be
one of the world's greatest tattoo shops.
Ceci becoming part of the team.
- So how you adjusting? - Transitioning has been
hard for me because my family moved to Mexico, so...
I don't have family here anymore.
♪♪♪♪
(Don) Orlando was amazing.
By winning, I mean, I came home with my pro card.
Now these shows is worth bread.
I'm excited because my family gets to see what
all of these sacrifices have been for.
(Shy) So how is things with like, you and Phor?
Co-parenting... - We've actually been doing
really like, currently we are in a good place right now.
- So, let's talk about this EP you got dropping.
I can't wait for it to drop. You got a listening
session coming up. - And it'll be almost
like a casting call 'cause you have to look good in lingerie.
(music, chatter)
Why you wanna try to put the attention on some (bleep)?
- Don't be clocking me when you were out here
feeling up on all these chicks.
We're just not gonna do that all that gender switch thing.
Like you can do it but I can't?
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ There's no more ordinary lifestyle ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ We livin' for the moment, talkin' right now ♪♪
♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪
♪♪ We livin' for the moment, talkin' right now ♪♪
- ♪♪ While it was Barry Allen wanna flash out ♪♪
♪♪ Mario Andretti on the fast track ♪♪
(power tools grinding)
♪♪♪♪
- How do y'all feel about Phor's party?
- It was lit.
- That (bleep) was giving Playboy Mansion vibes.
- Definitely - My man's
opened up the paradigm some type of way.
- Man, he definitely did.
- The shop looking real different right now.
I don't know where I'm supposed to be working there right now
'cause I don't even know where the (bleep) booth at.
But we gon' worry about the shop when the shop
is ready to be worried about.
Right now,
we still going through the goddamn
Phorplay, Phorplay, Phorplay.
I been getting a bunch of DMs ever since Phor party,
like, my (bleep) bussin' all day.
I need my next party to be (bleep) directed like that.
- Ay, so, uh, what y'all think about the booth?
- Well, I was gonna say, booth should be right there
when you first come in. - I'm calling this one.
I mean, I don't wanna get back in my (bleep)
already took up all the booths.
- I feel you, I feel you.
- Where you going? - Uh, I'm gonna be spending
some time with my sister. She's gon' be in town.
- What sister, you got a sister? - No, listen, okay?
Call the (bleep) off. - Know what I'm saying.
Like, this your real sister?
- I don't know.
'Cause I honestly, I ain't know I had a sister
until like two years ago?
- Oh, yeah?
- Thank social media 'cause she found my ass on Facebook.
- Damn. - Mm-hmm.
- Is she older or younger though?
- She's younger. She's like 21.
She doesn't look anything like me, but then when
she showed me pictures of her dad, I was, like...
That mother(bleep) look just like me, bro.
- You've never met your dad? - No.
- Wow. - No.
Right now I'm trying to figure out...
We need a DNA test.
Anastasia and I tried to meet in person.
But then, yeah, the whole pandemic happened.
And it was a eye-opener for me knowing who my biological
father might be and if I had siblings out there.
These are things that I feel like I really wanted to know.
But if I'm even gonna give this situation any more of my energy,
I need to know.
- She for real?
(laughing) - Yo, he asking...
- I'm trying to see where is she from?
- He's trying to figure it out. - She's from the Bronx.
- What she like to do? What she like to eat?
- I don't know what she likes.
And this is why it's so important
for me to take this week off to like really sit
and talk with her and get to know her
because I don't know nothing about this girl.
- Take her to the club. She gon' show you
who she is for real. - (Shogun) That's facts too.
That's facts.
- Hey! Is that who I think it is?
- What's happening? - What's happening?
- How you gonna figure out who goes in what booth?
- Oh, I will.
I see y'all notice that I didn't tell y'all
when it was, uh, getting done all weekend.
- No, definitely a surprise. - Surprise.
- (Ryan) What y'all think?
- It's... - I like it.
- I brought in the contractors
and the construction crew
to start finishing up the booths
while everybody was out at Phor's party.
I already had the idea how I wanted to do it.
And ultimately, you know, I mean, I just wanted
to get it done and surprise everybody.
Over the next couple of days, we gon' finish the booths.
But I also feel like we should, uh, do something
to commemorate one of the first big changes
in the shop in the last three years.
What y'all feel about
bringing everybody out, let 'em see a new part of 9MAG.
But like, do a Chicago tattoo special, you know,
maybe some Sears Tower... - I like it.
...silhouettes, some Bulls and Bears or whatever, you know?
- I'm doing Wicker Park and Wicker Park only.
- He's gonna be Jefferson Park, Wicker Park, Irving Park.
- Yeah, I'm down. - Definitely a good idea.
- We'll start when, what?
- Next week. Y'all down with that?
- Yes. - Are we gonna throw
a juke party in this bitch? - (Ryan) Juke party it is.
Out west, over east South Side.
- I'm always excited to have parties, like, what the (bleep)?
We always be working hard and (bleep).
When we gonna have some fun in this bitch?
So this one is just a little bit like controlled,
you know what I'm saying? We in the shop so it's gonna
be like hey, don't break (bleep).
You know what I'm saying? Or we gon'
(bleep) you up up in here.
Mother(bleep) need to do some artwork right here.
- Prime real estate 'cause right now
it's giving Home Depot we sell wood.
- Yes, I agree. It needs to be done
before that special day. Yo!
- What up, you a'ight? - Yup.
Ay, man...
That mother(bleep) party, man.
- Nah, I didn't like it. - Thank you, thank you.
(chuckling)
Drop another album now.
- It's on the way, thanks for coming, man.
Bro here? - Uh, yeah, he's in his office.
- We should put some big ass titties right here.
- Pierced titties. - Big ass piercing titties.
- Okay, now, see now you're thinking!
Use the left side of your brain.
- Yo, yo, what up, bro?
Tired as a mother(bleep). - We all...
- Still recovering, man. - Dragging in this joint.
You did one more after we left, huh?
♪♪♪♪
- Yeah, I did. I did one more, G.
Well, thanks for coming to my listening party.
- I had a Versace joint sitting in the closet that
I wasn't touching yet 'cause my money wasn't running up
to feel like I could walk around in that.
'Cause I want people--
Oh, I was gonna wear that. I swear to God...
You know, I've been waiting to throw this on.
- I've been waiting to throw this on, man.
You know what I'm saying? So how you feel about it?
- I feel like, you know, the whole event was cool.
It was peaceful until like...
you know, my-- Nina came in there.
The thing was like, she came late, bro.
I took that-- That was strike one.
Then she had a dude she invited...
come too...
(overlapping chatter)
- Or did she come to stunt? - You feel me?
The crazy part is I happen to know this (bleep).
So when I saw him, I'm, like, yo, who the (bleep)?
- Gotta keep it player. - Gotta keep it player.
- But why would she-- - Are y'all cool?
- Yes, me and her cool, we on good terms.
- But y'all not dating? - No, no, no.
No, we single, like, she-- I'm not mad at her
for doing her thing... - No, no, do your (bleep) thing.
But this is my (bleep).
- So since that night I haven't been (bleep) with her.
I'm ignoring her, ain't answer no text, nothing, right?
So she do the most, she posts on Instagram tagging me.
- She posted on the internet?
- Look, she did that just to get my attention, right?
Is that really called for?
♪♪♪♪
Going on Instagram,
tagging me and everything like,
do you think I really want the world in our business like that?
The biggest betrayal I felt like if we wasn't
filming this TV show, I feel like
she would have never brought the dude.
This my show. This not your show.
- So... I been seeing y'all, you know, look, um...
What's the words? Subliminals.
- Ohh... - On the internet,
you know what I'm saying?
And I been seeing it ever since the listening party.
And the night of so I... - That's valid, that's valid.
So this is what happened, right?
We pull up to the party. I brought my people.
- As you should, you, yeah, you should at least
have somebody with you. - I had a few other friends.
I got my best friend. My sister came.
Then one of my friends which happened to be a guy.
- Whoo. Did they know Phor?
- Apparently he did. He told me.
So I'm like, oh, this is great. We 'bout to turn up.
I literally came to have a good time.
I didn't come in there on bull(bleep).
My energy was good. But all of that
and was real mad at me.
I'm, like, "Why you mad?"
Girl, he like, oh, you're dating this guy.
He's calling me a ho.
The party's over and the cameras are cut off.
And Phor confronts me about
me being on the dance floor with my friend.
Like (bleep) me.
Like, check up on yourself.
I don't give a (bleep) about what you think about me.
That's really what this be about.
'Cause he wasn't responding, I was asking him.
He started (bleep) so I did take the IG
to try to get his attention, and I guess it worked.
- You didn't feel no type of way about inviting this guy?
- No, first and foremost, let me just say this.
We both single as (bleep). Why does it matter
if we're not together? - Right.
- I've taken all your (bleep) my (bleep) for you to be (bleep)
me about me bringing a male friend to your (bleep) function.
- But when you say that you make it
seem like kinda like revenge. You know what I'm saying?
Being hurt
by someone that you loved
and probably still in love with,
it can definitely motivate you to do some things
that you probably wouldn't do.
Like, hey, look at what you missing out on.
Men play these games,
and women play these games as well.
I don't wanna take sides.
As you being a woman and me being a woman,
I totally, totally do hear and understand,
you know, the things that you're saying.
You know, me and Don was in a real bad place before.
We knew that our love was still strong.
So I guess like after all this going on,
do you still got hope that, you know, y'all will be a couple?
Do you wanna be a couple?
♪♪♪♪
I don't think about that, um, I just want us
to be great parents to Phorever.
- Right, so, like with that being said,
I think that you all both need to have a mature conversation.
Because at the end of the day, it's all about co-parenting.
That's just all what it's about.
It ain't about the dude, it ain't about the girl.
It's about baby Phorever and co-parenting.
- For sure, I'ma try it.
We can sit down, and we can talk and...
I'ma be open to, um, listen to him and how he feels, but...
- Have you heard from Ceci?
- Mmm... no.
- She's gone. Her booth is empty.
♪♪♪♪
- You cross all my (bleep) boundaries but when it
come to yours you want me to step aside!
I want to!
I will! I will! I will!
- Girl, how did you find me?
- We all like knew about you.
You know, my aunt, she had said that
she had seen you when you were really little.
- This stings a little bit, you know?
He just never came to look for me.
I'm just ready to take these tests, girl.
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ We can live it up like it ain't promised ♪♪
♪♪ This the good life special, no stressing out ♪♪
♪♪ Put your best dress on when we stepping out ♪♪
♪♪ And if it ain't positive we gon' exit out ♪♪
♪♪ Only one life we get to live and we gon' make it count ♪♪
- Girl... - Girl...
If I woulda see my man...
He don't even look like he got no drawers on, unh-unh.
Mm, I'll be surprised that didn't get him in the doghouse.
(laughing)
So my maybe half-sister
flew in earlier tonight.
And we decided to just have some dinner, keep it low-key.
And I really want some one-on-one time with her.
Something a little bit more personal and intimate.
So I figured we'd keep it a warm night in
and watch Don's new movie "Paper Heart",
and just try to figure some things out.
- So I've known about you since like third, maybe fourth grade.
- Did he talk about me? - And...
Yeah, like, he brought you up, like,
oh, you might have a sister out there.
I heard stories about you.
And then one time, my sister, Jasmine,
we said when I turned 18 we were gonna find you.
She actually was the one who found you on Facebook.
We all like knew about you, you know, my aunt,
she had said that she had seen you
when you were really little with your mom.
She said that she remembered you being so beautiful
and looking like my dad. - So like everybody else knew
except for me, I guess. - Yes.
- So was he in your life?
Growing up, he was in and out of jail.
He wasn't really there. You know, he would call me.
He would say he loved me and how much...
- It was like everything to you. - That was everything.
- It stings a little bit, you know?
I mean, he talked about me for years, but, you know,
out of all the kids, he just never came to look for me.
But I don't envy the relationship
or that dynamic that he had
with any of his children, you know, so...
It kind of validates why my mom kept him away from me.
I spent my whole life thinking I was an only child, so...
And when my mom died thinking that was, that was it.
I had really given up hope, and I guess, you know,
when you reached out, it was just that, that sliver of hope,
like, maybe there's a whole
other half of me out there.
And I don't wanna miss out on the opportunity
to know my, my siblings, you know what I'm saying.
But, you know, at this point, it's so heavy on my heart.
Like, I don't even wanna guess about it no more.
I'm just ready to take these tests, girl.
- Get this done. Figure it out.
Before 'Stasia came, we agreed that
we needed to know if we were related for real.
So I picked up some of those over-the-counter tests
for us to take together.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I don't wanna be another number ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ I don't wanna be another case ♪♪
(sighs)
- Well, here's to possibly changing the rest of our lives.
Okay, boom, okay.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I don't wanna be another number ♪♪
♪♪ I don't wanna be... ♪♪
- If the test come back negative,
a part of me is a little sad...
- ♪♪ I don't wanna be another number ♪♪
- ...because it's like, alright, if this guy
isn't my father, then who is,
and will I ever find them?
- ♪♪ No no no ♪♪
- Whew.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Sometimes you grow and you just have space ♪♪
♪♪ Sometimes you think the things you don't say ♪♪
♪♪ Sometimes your pride can get in your way ♪♪
- (Don) What up? - (Ashley) Oh Lord,
I gotta catch my breath, I'm so tired.
Kids, kids, kids. - (groans)
- Can you carry me the rest of the way?
- Nah. - Ugh!
- Being a parent takes multiple effort.
On top of all the other things I partake in,
it's one of the hardest, but it's the most enjoying
part of my day, man, it fills me up
just to know that I'm here with my kids.
- I ain't get a chance to talk to you
and tell you about when me and Nina went out
for our little "girls night".
She was telling me about all the (bleep)
that was going on at the listening party.
And... (sighs) you know...
- What'd she tell you about tonight?
- So from my understanding,
she said she came in very late and she said
that Phor was very upset with her for bringing
a guy there that's supposed to have been her friend.
- Now, why would think-- okay--
- I know! - My thing is,
why would you think it was cool to invite him
in the first place?
- She did mention that her and Phor are single,
so I do understand that and totally respect
them being single. - Right.
- But what I didn't understand
was that you couldn't bring a male friend
to an all-females event.
- Be honest with you, they so fresh into co-parenting,
I don't think she kinda understands the concept
of co-parenting, like, it's kinda like, yeah,
we may be tryna work through this single, but I think
there's a level that gotta be created before you even
feel comfortable enough to be doing them type of things.
- Exactly. - Phor being an artist,
this was a part of a theme.
So the lingerie was literally
part of his album dropping.
Nina, on the other hand,
bringing a guy to the party,
this would seem a little bit more,
like, let me see if I can get under his feathers a little bit.
But I understand when you're freshly like, parenting,
nobody wants to see the other person
literally all up on somebody else.
- The only person that matter is baby Phorever, that's...
- True, but it's never gonna be a walk in the park.
- Right. - Even in my shoes
of co-parenting, like, Kenley's seven,
and, you know, it might be a spurt of smoothness
between me and her mom, and then sometimes she on
some other (bleep) with me, you know what I'm saying?
- Girl, what he got here?
He got a new Benz truck. - You can't halfway
afford Kenley, how you got a Benz truck?
- I'm just wanted to get Kenley, that's all.
- You want me to do everything as one parent,
and it comes to the fact like, I got bills.
- No, that's not a fact... - And you come and pick her up
in a new mother(bleep) car.
- There's weird months, there's good months,
sometimes I'm cool with her, and there's other months like,
you saw kinda take place around, you know, the holidays,
like, around my competition, everything was cool,
and then something just wasn't going her way
and it's like, me and her could not talk for weeks,
and then that's the text I get like, "Hey, yo,
when you sending that money?"
I can't get y'all to answer to the phone
when I need to, but you can communicate to me for that?
But her moving to Dallas was presenting me like
this was gonna be an opportunity for a better life for her
and my daughter, and I respected that
because I don't want you to feel like
I made you stay close to Chicago, now you expect
like, the same rotation that we had when
you was up the street in Milwaukee, that's not realistic.
I kinda want there to be a respect factor of
the love that's coming from this household for Kenley,
from this part of our family.
It's not just her half that loves Kenley.
Whitney wanted to start a fresh life.
But I believe that once she moved to Dallas,
she didn't really have a radar on
what it means to move away from family.
So now that she has to be more of a hands-on mother
all the time, out of frustration,
I think she kinda takes it out on me sometimes.
- The boys miss her. So I really do hope that
y'all can at least talk and communicate.
So I think the first step is
straight up just calling her.
- You right.
(Ashley) Just like I told Nina,
my husband need to do the same.
He needs to communicate with Whitney
for the sake of Kenley.
Kenley is my boys' sister,
and they deserve for their father
to put in the effort to make them
spend more time with each other.
I know I hear those kids still.
(laughing)
Oh, Lord.
Well, I'ma check on these kids
and really put them to bed.
- ♪♪ Live for today chasin' my place ♪♪
♪♪ Been out from the states ♪♪
♪♪ You could tell by the -- on my face ♪♪
♪♪ No, I don't play, you can tell from my action ♪♪
♪♪ Due to the Bay... ♪♪
(power tools whirring)
♪♪♪♪
- You see, this is what we talkin' about,
but we gonna brace it off now.
- That's what he was telling me, okay.
A'ight, lemme get out y'all way, man.
Thank you very, very, very much.
(Ryan) Trying to reshape 9MAG, you know, I just wanna
do things the right way.
What I wanna do is become a better business leader.
That's from stepping up and marketing and making sure
that the brand is growing the right way
and making sure the artists are taken care of.
- Have you heard from Ceci?
- Mmm, no.
- Okay, yeah, she's gone.
- She a'ight? - I have no idea,
but I know I came in today and her booth is empty.
As in her tattoo equipment, her inks, her everything.
- Did she get an offer from somebody...
- I have no idea.
Hey, y'all, have any of y'all heard from Ceci?
- I seen Ceci and Gina moving tattoo stuff.
- She was with Gina? - She was with Gina.
When I see Gina, I'm like, what's up, Gina?
What's going on? She didn't say nothing.
- She didn't say nothin', no words, no nothin'.
What's the vibe you got from it, though,
what you, what you-- - Uhh...
- Sneaky? Because when I was here last night,
her (bleep) was here, so it had to be
in the (bleep) morning when the contractors came
to build (bleep).
- Did we do something wrong?
- I haven't heard from her since Monday.
She told me she was a little bit flustered,
I don't know if I'm built for this,
and I'm like, uh, okay...
- Y'all done scared her away, man.
- It doesn't make sense. I seen you on Sunday,
hit you up on Monday,
Tuesday no answer, Wednesday, you gone.
What happened in between them days?
Like, that timeline just don't add up to me.
- I've seen some of y'all storm out before.
- Not like this. - No, definitely not like that.
- It look like somebody that can't control
they emotions that well. - That look like emotions,
that's all I'm saying... (overlapping chatter)
So I don't feel like it's fully undone.
That's all I'm saying, so give her her time
and like, we don't know.
Before we assume, somebody check on her
and see if she a'ight.
- I'm a little disappointed, I ain't gon' hold you,
'cause like, you know, I got a lotta love
for the shorty, for somebody who only been
tattooing the time she did, she's really good,
she has a great personality, and that's definitely somebody
I think is an asset to the team.
So for me, it was a little hurtful
not even to say something.
- Ceci did have a lot of personal things going on
and I probably wasn't there for her as much as I needed to,
and maybe 9MAG hadn't just fully set in
on being comfortable for her. Hey, what time is it?
Is the shop not gonna (bleep) run
because she not here?
- Yeah, never. - Are we about
to depend our whole (bleep) day on this?
- Never. - A'ight then,
so we'll figure it out, but until then,
we can get the (bleep) back to work.
♪♪♪♪
- I came with good energy-- - But why would you bring
somebody I don't know to my event--
- Clearly you did know him.
You want your (bleep) cake and eat it too,
no, (bleep).
- "Based on the results below..."
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪
- ♪♪ Dark times, yeah, we feel it all around us ♪♪
♪♪ Feels like there's nobody that you can trust ♪♪
♪♪ Bad news came and hit me like a fast truck ♪♪
♪♪ Chewed my back up ♪♪
♪♪ Don't forget about me ♪♪
- It's gonna take a few days to get
the results back from the DNA test.
Waiting has my anxiety through the roof,
but I'm still exploring the city, so we just both
looked up things that we could possibly get into
and she's 20-something years old, so I get
to do all the stuff that keeps me feeling young.
- ♪♪ When the rain is fallin' down ♪♪
♪♪ When you're lost, you will be found ♪♪
♪♪ You can lean on me ♪♪
- Without the idea that she might be my sister,
I don't think we would be as close as we are right now,
but there's an odd bond there between me and 'Stasia,
and though I can't explain it, I just feel
a certain closeness to her,
and I value the fact that I'm somebody
that she aspires to be like one day.
♪♪♪♪
- Whew, so this is 9MAG.
- Yes, it is big.
- So you can see where I be working at.
So we got all these new booths here
they just built, we have like, the sitting area
when people come in.
He went all out with the decor in here.
This here is Glacier. - How y'all doin'?
- We doin' good, we doin' good.
- You finna get some work? A tattoo?
- Yeah, oh, yeah. - What you finna get?
- I want a cherry blossom,
it's a really strong chi.
- We got you. - We gon' do something
real cute coming off the shoulder,
you know, something that she could be proud of
so when everybody like, ooh, that (bleep) my sister.
- I see y'all sisters, y'all got the toothbrush action.
- Yeah, we got the baby hair.
- That boy need glasses.
He can't see.
I appreciated the sentiment.
People be like, "Oh, yeah, I see the resemblance."
No, you don't.
- ♪♪ Lean, lean, lean on me ♪♪
♪♪ You can lean, lean, lean on me ♪♪
(Draya) I think no matter what happens,
this tattoo still represents
a moment, you know, that we shared.
You know, it's been a long road,
and whether the test comes back negative or positive,
there's gonna be that one time I thought I found my sister
and my father, and maybe I could just live in that feeling.
Alright, looks like you're all done.
- Oh my gosh.
Ohh!
- You like it?
- I love it.
The branches and everything,
I love that it's strong
and pops up way more than the flowers do.
I absolutely love it.
- So happy you like it.
- Thank you so much.
(overlapping chatter)
- ♪♪ Yeah, they seen me at my lowest ♪♪
♪♪ I don't know which way to go ♪♪
♪♪ I know I got some eyes on me, though ♪♪
♪♪ I'm 'bout to blow up sticky situation ♪♪
♪♪ I'm really on my grind so I know I gotta make it ♪♪
- Hey, what's up?
- (sighs) What's going on?
- Not much.
I'm glad to be here meeting you.
(Nina) Phor reached out to me
and said meet him at the park.
And I was anticipating the meetup because
he had been ignoring me for like, days.
I just wanna be heard.
I want Phor to literally ask me for the first time
what was that about instead of like, jumping to conclusions.
- After my event, I know we ain't really talk.
- Yeah. - Know what I'm saying,
it's been a couple days. Part of the reason
was because I, you know, needed some time
to gather my thoughts on what I wanted to say,
how I wanted to say it.
I just feel like me and Nina needed
to have a conversation, it was time.
I've been ignoring her messages for a couple days,
see the social media (bleep), you know,
but clearly she's missing the point
so this is what-- a conversation I think we need to have.
Part of me just feels a little disrespected,
you know what I mean? - How?
- Well, I thought what we was on
was, you know, working on, you know,
our friendship to make sure we have a better
co-parenting situation so we can always be cool.
You know, which we been on good terms,
so I didn't expect you to show up late,
but it was whatever, you know, you were still there,
I guess better late than never, the bigger part of it
is just like, if we have respect for one another,
and we cool, and we on good terms,
what was your point in bringing a male to my event?
- I came to your event with my friends.
- That makes sense. - And I brought my homie, yes.
- Your homie since when? - I'm not allowed to bring
friends to your event just because it was a male?
- It's an all-girls event.
(Nina) Phor is lying,
there were tons of dudes at that party.
See, this is the type of stuff that Phor always does.
He can have dudes at an all-girl event,
but when I bring a guy that's my friend,
it's a problem.
Every little thing that I do
is distasteful to Phor.
So I'm not allowed to bring friends to your event?
- Are you gonna let me talk? - I'm not allowed to bring--
- I'm talking to you... - Can I talk?
Stop, don't talk over me, no.
No, don't talk over me. - But you talking over me.
- I didn't bring him with the intention
to make you mad or anything... - Well, why would you bring
somebody I don't know to my event...
- Clearly you did know him.
- Yeah, randomly...
Yeah, but you didn't know I knew him though...
(overlapping arguing)
Okay, so guess what, if you didn't know
I knew him-- - I didn't think it would be--
Listen, listen...
(overlapping arguing)
I felt disrespected, so my thing is this.
- That's fine, and I can honor.
- Okay, so you can honor that, but do you understand that?
- I do, all I'm saying is don't set boundaries with yourself...
- I look out for you, bro. - Don't set boundaries
with yourself, but when it comes to me
you cross all my (bleep) boundaries,
but when it come to yours, you want me to step aside.
- How? What are you talking... - You want your (bleep) cake
and eat it too, no, (bleep).
- ♪♪ When the rain is falling down ♪♪
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪ - Why would you bring somebody I don't know to my event?
- Clearly you did know him. - Yeah, I knew him, though.
- You cross all my (bleep) boundaries,
but when it come to yours, you want me to step aside.
- How? What're you talking-- - You want your (bleep) cake
and eat it too, no, (bleep).
It's always like this.
I came here thinking that we could have
a civil conversation, I let Phor speak,
and I didn't interrupt him.
But when it was my turn to speak,
he immediately started countering
everything that I was saying,
and I couldn't even get a word in.
These are the type of boundaries that
Phor always crosses with me.
- Okay. - Don't be out here doin'
(bleep) and doin' me wrong... - What do you mean?
How am I doing you wrong? I didn't disrespect you--
- ..but when I do the littlest thing,
it's a problem. - Like, what,
bringing a guy to my event?
- You mad 'cause I brought a friend, no, no.
- Okay, if that's your friend or whoever the (bleep) he is...
- You're not gonna make me feel guilty.
- A'ight, cool, ain't nothin' else to talk about.
Nina, the way her mind works,
it's like, what she stand on, she stand on.
But why would you bring some guy
that's only there for Nina
to a Phor event?
And most importantly, the (bleep) lives
in the same building. How you (bleep) with a (bleep)
in the building I got you in?
Anybody else in this building you don't need to talk to.
Do that (bleep) another time and not on my watch.
- Look, I've been nothing but a good-ass person.
- Okay, no one said you're... - Show me some mercy.
- But you are delusional... - No, you're (bleep) delusional.
You called me a (bleep) ho about ten times, my (bleep).
- I said you're giving "ho vibes..."
(overlapping arguing, bleeps)
- I'm (bleep) single! - Cool, go do what you want...
- I will! I will! I will! I will!
- (bleep) goofy silly.
- I feel like there's so much lingering tension
between us because I know that there is still feelings there.
Look at the way you're acting,
look at the way you're responding,
look at the way you treat me.
You ready to just throw me out,
on top of your child, 'cause my baby going wherever I go.
Any man that like, throws that in your face,
that's a definite sign of control.
- End of the day, we ain't gotta be friends, nothin',
I'ma take care of my son, you take care of your son...
(overlapping arguing)
You bitin' the hand... - Did I do one (bleep) thing...
(arguing continues)
- (bleep) outta here, bro. - You wanna criticize me for it?
- (bleep) outta here. - You're toxic as (bleep).
You're not gonna (bleep) control me
and my (bleep) entire life.
(horn blaring)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Ain't nothin' ever gonna get in my way ♪♪
(Don) "You just don't get it, do you?"
"You just don't get it, do you?"
- ♪♪ Let's try to get focused ♪♪
♪♪ Look at her face but don't provoke us ♪♪
- I have a lot going on in my life right now.
My two boys keep me on my toes,
I got my businesses to run,
I'm also working on a new movie,
and Whitney has this thing when, um,
when we're not on the same page,
I kinda can get the runaround sometimes.
- At the tone, please record your message.
(beep)
- Whitney's expectations frustrate me a little bit
because I just can't hop up to a flight to Dallas
every single time she believes I'm free.
And it's not that I don't wanna be there,
but when she decided to move to Dallas,
the availability of instant help kinda changed.
And don't even get me started about the monetary issues.
Sometimes she seen certain opportunities I came across,
and she kinda was like, "Okay, you need to be sendin' it
this way, you need to be doin' this."
Soon as you get back to me, man, I appreciate it.
- ♪♪ You look in my eye you seein' a soldier ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, man, it's time to get focused ♪♪
- Her state of mind is I got her all the time,
what you gonna do? Like, if she with me,
you should be able to fly here and get here.
So my next trip to Dallas gotta happen ASAP.
♪♪♪♪
I really need to go there and holler at Whitney
kinda about what this co-parenting thing is becoming
and how it should look for the both of us,
not just what's gonna work for my daughter's mom.
- ♪♪ Man, it's time to get focused ♪♪
- It says, "Hey, Sho, I'm sorry.
"I'm just going through some personal (bleep)
and had to leave 9MAG."
You know anything about this?
- Um...
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪
- ♪♪ Great, hey, man, it's time to get focused ♪♪
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪ ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Yeah I'm the OG, everybody here know me ♪♪
♪♪ Everybody here know me ♪♪
- Alright, so look, at this party,
show out for me, look good, you feel me?
- Pele? - Jordans, Pele.
- A little hat with the clock on it?
- Absolutely, buck-fifty.
- You should get them pants
with the bedazzles in the ass part.
- The bedazzled booty pants? - The bedazzled booty pants.
What is that, $2,000 pants?
I'm absolutely ecstatic
that Ryan is rebranding the shop.
9MAG hands down is not the same shop it used to be.
It's bigger, it's better,
and we're just all excited about this Chicago theme party.
What's this, an East Side Chicago party,
a West Side Chicago party?
- Clock was the West Side Chicago party...
- Albany Park. (laughter)
Albany Park, yeah. (phone dings)
Oh, man, guess who just text me?
- Who?
- Ceci. - What she say?
It says, "Hey, Sho, I'm sorry.
"Just going through some personal (bleep),
"had to leave 9MAG.
"It's been such a pleasure working around you, man,
"thank you so much for everything
and I got nothing but love for you."
You know anything about this?
- Um, I just texted her, and I don't wanna ask too much
'cause I feel like she's going through a lot,
and I don't wanna be, like, so intrusive on her life.
She probably just needs some space.
- How do I help a person if I'm in the dark,
I'm confused, and I don't know what's going on?
So at least I heard from you,
at least I know you're okay and you're safe,
but I still really don't know why you chose to leave.
But that's not like her at all,
just to-- especially through text messages,
she's one that always call me and talk to me,
she's not gonna really just get outta there like that
unless it's something serious, so...
(horn blaring)
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ You take me higher and higher ♪♪
(Draya) Oh, this just don't feel right.
I don't feel like this is something
(bleep) should be doing.
(laughter)
I kinda wish that I had taken Prince's advice.
We should've just went to the club, honey, 'cause
we both about to be on our ass out here.
We must be related 'cause we both can't
(bleep) skate worth a damn.
I-i-it was like that moment where you just click,
we ain't have to say nothin', it was just that connection
like, bitch, this ain't for me, and this ain't for you,
and we both know this.
- My life flashed before my eyes.
Too many times I knew I was just-- I was about to fall.
- But today is the day that the verdict is finally in.
Whew, Lord. How you feeling?
- I'm feeling good. Um, definitely nervous.
- Yeah.
I actually do have the results.
And, you know, I didn't wanna look at it without you.
I just feel like that's something
we should share together.
But I'm nervous, I'm not gonna lie.
- Yeah, this is gonna change a lot.
- I think I'm super worried about these results because
there's so much on the line.
If you're ready, I'm ready to open up
these results and just... - I'm definitely ready,
and just get this-- get this over with.
- Alright, let me find this email.
If she is my sister, then that gives us something
to really strive for to get to know each other,
and if she's not, then we'll all go back
to living our lives.
She probably will continue
to look for her older sister
but, you know, are you gonna be visiting,
and am I gonna be visiting you,
and are we gonna be spending time like that together?
No, I'm not in the business of having, you know,
a 21-year-old best friend.
And I have to figure out if I even wanna try
to find my dad again.
- Okay, wow. - Alright.
You ready? - I'm ready ready.
Ready, ready...
- Right now?
Oh, (bleep).
Okay.
So it says,
"Based on the results below,
Anastasia Rodriguez and Andrea H. Penzo...
- ♪♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪♪ ♪♪♪♪
- So it says,
"Based on the results below,
Anastasia Rodriguez and Andrea H. Penzo...
are related as half siblings."
67%...
(bleep).
(laughter) (indistinct chatter)
(sobbing)
♪♪♪♪
There's so many different emotions going on in my head
right now, and I just really am looking forward
to having closure.
At this point, I'm just like,
oh, my God, and I'm thinking about the future,
and already my mind is going a million places.
(both sobbing)
(laughing) So we finally know.
♪♪♪♪
I'm so happy that we found each other.
- Yes.
- We got so much time to make up for.
- Yes, we do.
That made it so real. That made it so real.
I'm so happy.
- I have two sisters and a brother, oh my God.
I couldn't have asked for like, a better little sister.
You're so pretty and cute...
- This is all I wanted. You have the fashion that
ten year old me was waiting for, oh, my God...
- Bitch, we gon' go shopping.
(laughter) Oh, God.
Uh, I have so many emotions.
It's like, now I have to deal
and address and confront my father.
And, girl, I just don't know how to do that right now,
you know what I mean, like, I don't want no money from him,
I don't want nothing from him, I just want him to be a father.
I want him to be there as a support system,
somebody that if I feel like I need to turn to,
I can turn to him and he's gonna wanna protect me
and he's gonna wanna nurture me.
You know, that's all I've ever wanted.
It's a little bit of a sadness 'cause
there's a lotta time that's already passed,
and moments that they could've been there for me,
that might have very well changed my life, you know,
but I can't help but wonder what if things were different.
Thank God that 'Stasia is so eager to wanna
have a relationship, 'cause it makes it
that much more easier for us to engage with each other.
But I'm not pressed to have anybody in my life
who doesn't wanna be an active part of my life.
Regardless of what happens with my relationship with him,
I'm more concerned about me and you
having a good relationship, you know what I'm saying?
We're gonna have a lot of fun,
and whether he's a part of that or not,
like, at least we got each other,
and that alone means the world.
Everything to me, it really does.
- Yes! - Girl, wow.
And you're 21 now, let's get...
- Yeah, we need a drink.
- Well, come on, sissy, let's go.
- I'm just looking to get like, a consultation for my girlfriend.
♪♪♪♪
- Okay.
- She'd wave but, you know, my hands are full.
- Tonight's a big night for 9MAG, we're celebrating
where we're going in the future.
- My daughter's phone got me blocked,
I can't contact Kenley... - Really?
- Yeah, I gotta go down to Dallas.
- I mean, I gotta go to Dallas too,
so I mean, any help you need...
♪♪♪♪
- Nobody's home, so...
- What's the deal, are you going back to Chicago, or...
- As long as my son out there, I'ma always be back and forth.
But I plan to be here more.
♪♪♪♪
- Well, well, well.
- Get over here, man. - What's up, (bleep)?
- When's the last time y'all spoke?
- It's been about two years.
That (bleep) (bleep) me up for a while.
I had to get away. - When you did that...
- Yeah. - It was something towards Ryan.
- That's what it was.
I don't know what the problem is
between me and that guy.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪