- So it's true? You do have a sister?
[Draya] We did the Maury thing and took the DNA test.
And it makes me think about the fact that I have
a whole father out there, and I have to figure out
what I'm gonna do with that.
Wow.
[Prince] Jermaine, he's my nephew.
He's been crashing with me eight to nine months now.
Us, as Black men, we always think
we don't need no help with stuff.
I know you need this.
- She ain't feeling the filming.
So I'm just finna to just chill out with Kayleigh for the day.
I'm not saying moving to Dallas is 100%.
But it's a strong lean.
- I can make this [bleep] so dope.
- I know, how do you feel about little Phorever
being back in Chicago?
- It's good to see you [bleep]. - Good to see you, man.
- I have no hatred, no resentment towards
none of y'all, even Ryan.
- I mean, maybe y'all still need to have a talk.
- I don't know what the problem is between me and that guy.
I just do not understand or know
what his deep-rooted feelings or issues is.
♪ 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 ♪♪
♪ Diddy-drop-diddy-drop-drop ♪
♪♪
- Don and I are taking the kids out
to a trampoline gym.
We try to like tire 'em out and [bleep]
because if they not tired, then we don't get our time.
[Don] All right. [Prince] Hold this, chump.
- I'll be back, boogaman.
I don't know about your times [bleep]...
- Boy, my legs.
We need to start doing this a little bit more.
- Man, for real. - What's new, man?
What's going on? You got some new projects
lined up or something? - Got back from Dallas.
Went out there to check up on my daughter.
- Dallas? - It wasn't 100%
the way I wanted it. Her mom, um,
when she's stuck on something...
She more stubborn than me, bro.
- What? - We in the place where
as good as the person I know I'm trying to be,
most of the time my opinion and thoughts
don't go into effect with her.
I don't believe Whitney hates me any type of way.
I feel like she just wants me there more
because I think she feels alone.
I know that we both legitly want the same thing for Kaleigh.
And that's for her to be happy as a child, have a good life.
I think that when Whitney feels alone and I support it,
I think I'm the first person to get it because why?
She's taking care of my daughter.
What's good with you, bro?
- Boy, I feel like I was just going crazy.
Somebody stole the Scout, bro. - What?
- My tattoo [bleep] was in there.
- No. The machine was in there, bro?
- Everything, bro. My tattoo [bleep] was in there.
- Wow! - Everything was in there, bro.
I can't even [bleep] work, bro. I'm just tired
of taking L's bro. - Yeah.
- So my car and my tattoo equipment was stolen last week.
I can't make no bread. And on top of that,
the equipment that I got ain't cheap.
♪♪
I don't even wanna talk about this [bleep].
- You gotta start seeing the benefit
and the blessing part, bro. - What?
- The blessing. You wasn't in there.
He wasn't in the back seat. Nobody got hurt.
Nobody got ran up on.
- Don right, though, I'm not gonna lie.
Like, the car can be replaced.
But I got two boys.
I got a nephew I'm taking care of.
I'm a son, a uncle, a dad.
These the tools that I, like, use
to provide for my family and [bleep], period.
- Ay, y'all! You want some pizza?
[all] Yeah!
- Yeah? Come on.
Come on, let's go get some pizza.
- Damn! What happened to your face?
[chatter/laughter]
[Prince] You got a boo-boo.
- ♪ Day one Skin meltin' in the sun ♪
♪ Summer has begun Boatloads of fun ♪
♪ I saw you, swimmin' in the sea ♪
♪ Water past your knees Hope you notice me ♪
♪ I'm acting like a little girl ♪
♪ Who just got a new toy Overwhelming joy ♪
♪ Maybe we could take a chance and try... ♪
[phone vibrates/buzzes]
- Hold on a second.
- Yo, so, my dad just texted me.
[Andrea] Really? What's it say?
- "Hey, Draya, I got your message.
"I think we should make some time for each other.
When can you come to New York?"
I'm shaking.
♪♪
We can talk, we can talk.
Oh, man.
[clears throat]
After getting the DNA results back with Anastasia,
I was really on the fence on whether I wanted
to let my father know or even hit him up.
[line ringing]
Kind of excited for what the future might bring.
But I'm also very prepared that, you know,
there's a big possibility that regardless of the fact
that I found my father,
there might not be a relationship between us.
That's a very, very, long story.
♪♪
- This how I see people. I'm always looking down.
- Shut the [bleep] up. Come sit down here
like a normal person and stop sitting all over the furniture.
- [Bleep] your couch [bleep].
- Ryan, he acting up!
You have to come slap him like, uh, Will Smith...
- Wow [bleep]. - Shorty.
- Shorty, look... - [laughing]
- You think Chris Rock, uh, security got fired?
How you let Will Smith smack the [bleep] out of me?
- He probably went back there and slapped the [bleep]...
- They probably was like [bleep] how you gon'
let Will Smith smack the [bleep]?
I just got back from the largest crypto conference
in Dubai a couple days ago.
[chatter]
- Came in as Jesus.
- For me investing isn't just about myself.
Let me do what I gotta do to get rich, it's...
always in a mindset of I don't have to work as much,
and I can spend my time with my children and my family.
If I do more then I can create more.
Create more jobs for artists or, you know,
create a space for these artists to grow.
- I done did his ass like this. Pow!
[laughter]
- And my mother. - Pow!
[laughter]
♪♪
[B-Slam] Hello?
What the [bleep] going on? - This is like your video.
- Whoa, what the heck? - Y'all got clients?
♪♪
- Ryan really knows how to return home from a trip.
- I have nothing to do with this.
This the tattoo shop.
- I'm honestly trying to figure out who it is.
- It probably Prince Akeem.
- I don't know what the [bleep] is going on.
This is a mighty big entrance for somebody who's not Beyoncé.
- Y'all looking for the dance club?
♪♪
[chatter]
- Well [bleep] it, 'cause I'm feeling...
- What's up, y'all?
Y'all killed that [bleep]! - Wait!
- Wait, where y'all going? What y'all here for?
- It's "Coming to America" [bleep].
- Oh, damn. Who is it?
- Now introducing your new apprentice of 9MAG.
[screaming]
- Like, he's been missing out of my life for 31 years.
- That's your pops. - He's never been a father.
That's a title you gotta earn.
- My boy is a pool shark.
- Damn...
[chatter]
- ♪ Dah-dah-dum ♪
- Somebody didn't put the option in the building.
♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
- Now introducing your new apprentice of 9MAG.
♪♪
The only and only Miss Kitty.
[screaming]
- What the [bleep]? - Damn, how you... how you do it?
Well, [bleep], that's big old entrance
for somebody who ain't Prince Akeem.
- [bleep] - Not the President.
Not the new Vice-President.
Oh, you look so good.
- Remember when I told Ryan I couldn't apprentice at 9MAG?
Well, I changed my mind.
[laughing]
Surprise.
[excited chatter]
- Oh my goodness.
You licked that [bleep]?
- The new apprentice? - I didn't know
she [bleep] come with, um...
- Bitch, I mean... [bleep]
- So for your first day, this is how you showed up.
- That's raw. - Come here.
- You gon' tattoo in that...
- Absolutely. - No.
- Yeah, I'ma work... - You look like
"Roger Rabbit" girl and Cruella de Vil.
[laughing]
- Yes, darling, yes.
I was hesitant about apprenticing at 9MAG
when Draya and Prince first came to me with the idea.
But you guys are forgetting one thing I think in this.
- What?
- Uh, the owner of 9MAG.
And then I had my sit-down with Ryan,
and I still really wasn't there yet.
The way you carry things it's, "This my [bleep].
"This my city. Your [bleep] work for me.
I'm at the top."
That whole apprenticeship,
that was Draya and Prince idea.
I'm not really ready.
It actually was Don's words that really like sunk in.
- You can't say I'm in the tattoo industry.
And then you're in Chicago, and you got the best shop
in the city, and you don't wanna be there.
Don't make sense.
- It took some time to go to London.
And while I was in London, all my friends here
just kept checking up on me
and show me despite what Ryan and I have gone through,
9MAG was where I needed to be.
We talked about the apprenticeship.
And I thought about it and...
If you still are okay with it,
I would do my apprenticeship here at 9MAG.
- Hearing about the apprenticeship thing, I'm, like,
do I trust and believe in how serious you are
about doing it? - Mm-hmm.
- Me giving the okay about Kitty coming in
apprenticing with Draya at the shop
was solely based on the fact that once, you know,
we spoke and we were able to put our differences aside.
That allowed for me to start seeing that she might
actually be able to take something like this serious.
I'm not just gonna shoot her down.
- But I'm ready, I'm ready to work, I'm ready to do this.
- Okay, you take that side, I'll take this.
[B-Slam] Oh, we don't like surprises?
- That side, that side.
- Yeah, yeah, got it y'all, got it.
- Let me go ahead and...
- Let me hand that to Annette.
- Here [bleep].
♪♪
- All joking aside, I'm really taking this seriously.
And it's important to me that they all see that.
And Ryan better take off my damn coat.
- Now introducing!
- Oh [bleep].
[fanfare]
[chatter]
♪♪
- Hey, look, this probably, this probably about
the hottest... Hey, look now.
- You sweep my area first. [laughing]
- ♪ Visions of diamonds In love with designer ♪
♪ Thinking on top but really behind us ♪
♪ Pop up or pull up and they are the finest ♪
♪ They tuck and tuck They not being honest ♪
♪ If it's a function Ima bring my Vans out ♪
- Hi. - Hi.
- Oh, look at you.
- Apprentice. - Already.
- First day. - Okay.
- Have you seen her? - I knew she had a good teacher.
Well, when you done with this,
I just got some things to show you in the front.
- Okay, I'm lasky.
[laughing]
Day one of the apprenticeship...
it's going pretty well, you know.
Draya is showing me the ropes.
I'm soaking up everything,
because I'm not gonna let this opportunity go to waste.
- Ink caps.
Very important 'cause you cannot do a tattoo with 'em.
- Absolutely. So you put those...
- You gonna dip in the little ointment.
You gonna dip it in the ointment.
The bottom of it, right? - Mm-hmm.
Oh, and stick it.
- Yeah, stick it, boom.
- Bow. Boom! - There you go.
- I am so honored to be able to help Kit.
You know, it's a beautiful thing when you have two women
that can kind of feed into each other.
And not that I have any ulterior motives,
but with helping her, I know it guarantees
my guest spot when she does open up
this tattoo parlor out in London.
- I'm so proud of you. - Thank you.
- What you up to?
[bleep] What a face.
So what you gonna do with that, frame it?
What's wrong? Why you look like that?
- I don't know, I just got a lot...
Just a lot on my mind.
- I'm sorry about your car, man.
Prince is one of those people who just have,
like, the biggest energy.
So, to see him in a space
where he just doesn't seem like himself, it's very noticeable.
I know how much Prince loved that car.
And I know how much it's bothering him.
And then to lose his tattoo stuff on top of that.
Yeah, I think it's just really starting to get to him.
- I've been talking to my Pops too
about just like, uh, health insurance and...
You know his will... - Mmm...
- Me being a beneficiary and [bleep],
and just making his request.
I don't know, I ain't ready for that conversation.
But it's like, damn, when is the right time for it?
And he just, like, "right now."
My dad recently had an accident in the house
and messed his leg up.
It kind of forced us to talk about next steps.
Watching my dad get older
and having health issues like
a blew-out knee, heart problems and diabetes
like, it's taking a wear and tear on me, I ain't gonna lie.
And I don't wanna think about that, like, I'm kind
of too young to be, you know what I'm saying,
thinking about losing my dad. - I mean, I know
it's an uncomfortable conversation.
Nobody ever wants to talk about their wills
or like things like that 'cause nobody wants to think about
their loved one not being here. And that material [bleep]
really don't mean nothing when you, you know...
But I think it's good that he wants to talk about that.
He wants to make sure that his kids are good and his grandkids
are good, so, I know it's a tough convo,
but I think it's a good convo to have.
- Draya's right. I'm not gonna lie.
I kind of feel bad just bringing this up to her knowing
that she going through what she going through with her fam.
What's up with the fam?
Your sister, how is she doing?
- She's doing good.
Back in New York, and she's been with my brother and stuff.
So I've been getting to talk to them here and there.
And my aunt as well. - Okay.
- Like, I got a whole new family.
- So what about your Pops?
- He texted me the other day.
I never even met him before.
Like he's been missing out my life for 31 years.
- That's your Pops, though.
- Is he? I mean, he is.
He's definitely like my sperm donor, but is he a father?
Like, he's never been a father.
That's a title you gotta earn.
- Where he at? - He's in New York.
- Damn! - I'ma have to take
a trip back home or something. - You gonna slide?
- I mean... - La-la-la if you go.
I'll slide with you. - Y'all gonna come
for emotional support? - Ay, look.
More than emotional support. [Draya laughing]
- Security? - If he acting bad,
we might just have to smash him. - Oh my God, I hope not.
- And I ain't gonna whoop your daddy ass and we just met him.
- I hope not.
I am so grateful that I have all these amazing people
around me to support me through this.
And it makes me feel like I made the right choice
by staying in Chicago. But it is time for me
to go see my dad in a couple of weeks.
And I don't know if I'm ready yet.
- You look like him and [bleep]?
- I look more like his sister oddly enough.
But, you know, I'm my mom's twin so...
You know how you, like, put the kid next
to certain people, you kinda see the resemblance.
I kinda look like my auntie.
It's the long ass head, we got these...
- Long ass head? - Yeah, I got this...
- Oh, yeah, your head is long...
- See, I don't be saying nothing about your roadblock head, do I?
- Your thumb head ass.
Elbow head... - Get out of here.
No, on that cue, I'll talk to you later.
Thanks for the advice. Love you, bye.
- Miss Ma'am, unh-unh, Miss Ma'am, unh-unh...
- Hi. - Hi.
- Okay. - I'm scared.
- Why you scared? - I don't know.
What you about to make me do?
- Trust me, nothing up here is gonna hurt you.
Unless you don't know how to work a pair of scissors.
- I think I got it. - I'm just say...
Yeah, I'm like, you dealing with needles.
So first thing. We start with the phone.
[mimics ring] Hello?
9MAG Tattoo, how can I help you?
You know, you already got that voice.
- Mm-hmm. 9MAG Tattoo,
this is Kitty speaking. How may I help you?
- Bring in the money.
Bring it in.
So what if a guy is like...
Hey, my name's Ben.
I'm from Kentucky. - Ben.
- I wanna get my wang tattooed.
What you gonna say to him then?
- [bleep] Ben. - How much that cost?
[stammering] - Uh, well, Ben, I...
How much does a wang tattoo cost? I don't know.
- We charge by the hour. So it just depends
on the size of the wang.
Then the register.
It's pretty simple, you know, I'ma just give you the code.
Then we go to products.
And we got all our products.
You just go to...
the little blue bag icon.
- Okay. - It'll pop right up.
- Ow. - Uh-huh.
- Hey, this is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
- If it's a $200 tattoo,
you know, if you ring in two hours, it's $50 a hour on here.
- Okay. - You know...
You just ring it in four hours,
and it'll be 200, boom, check 'em out.
- Uh... I got it, girl.
- That's just how it is in the register.
So we can ring it up as $50 an hour.
Because it doesn't have different variants for that.
Um, and we do it by like every 50 'cause you could charge...
Some people charge 350 or 450 for a tattoo.
Like, I could put in one plus one is two.
And they'll be, like, okay, but if the one if over here
and this other one is face and it's closer,
does that mean it's one and one?
I'm not slow, you guys.
If I'm gonna open up my own shop, I...
Please believe I've done the numbers for it.
- [laughing] - No, it's not 11.
It's still two just 'cause [bleep] the face.
That's it.
Do you have any other questions?
- I do not. - Okay.
- At this time. - I'm happy.
I'm happy you're here.
- Aw, I'm actually excited to be here.
But let me go ahead and say bye to Ryan.
- Yes, please. - And I will see y'all tomorrow.
- Tomorrow, bright and early. - Okay.
Got it. - Okay [chuckling].
- Gotta say, I learned so much in just one day.
And I'm excited to see how much more I learn in the future.
[knocking on door]
- Yo. - Ay...
- What up? - How's it going?
- Okay, what you up to?
- Nothing, just coming in to tell you, you know.
Get ready to heat out. I'll be back tomorrow.
I'll see you then. Mm-hmm. - Peace out.
♪♪
- You actually got gym shoes on?
- I do.
I ain't gonna be doing no gym work in these,
but I got 'em on.
- You don't know what you gonna be doing.
- Damn! - Good shot.
[loud sigh]
- We had that conversation about the health insurance
and then with the heart surgery.
I don't want nothing to happen to you, you feel me?
You my hero, man, like...
If something happened to you, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- [Ryan] So Dallas was cool. - I did run into Van
while I was out there.
- [Bleep] man, keep that mother[bleep] away from me.
I ain't bull[bleep] you, man.
♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
♪ Chi-Town Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
♪ Running all through my mind ♪
♪ While I'm running all through her playlist ♪
♪ All the time I was shining ♪
♪ I was testing all of her patience ♪
♪ A lot of things have been changing ♪
♪ But that's likely going through phases ♪
♪ Lately I just been lately I just been ♪
♪ Lately I just been thinking ♪♪
- Back to basics.
Make him play deep.
- Damn! - Good shot.
- I'm done, Pop. - You done?
[loud sigh]
It's been a minute since we been up in here, right?
- Well, I was at a gym the other day, I think.
- You were hooping?
- No, I don't hoop, I watch.
- My dad is my mentor, my life coach,
my basketball coach, personal trainer.
Like whatever you wanna call it, like,
he most definitely made me the man I am today.
I still gotta worry about that car situation
when they stole the car. - Insurance gotta get you
another car, man. Don't let 'em
give you no check. Get a car.
- They can do that? - Yeah.
- Say, you musta got your car stolen before or something.
- Yeah, but that was 1979 when my car got stolen.
- You had no alarm on yours, did you?
- No. [laughing]
- It just got stolen. - Yeah.
- Hey, man, this Chicago, though, it's messed up.
Speaking of insurance...
We had that conversation about the health insurance
and then, you know, with the heart surgery,
that [bleep] just kinda...
Just brought me down a little bit.
You know, thinking about your health and...
It's like make sure nothing wrong with you, man.
I don't want nothing to happen to you, you feel me?
- I hear you.
- I just wanna stay up on you like you staying on me.
You my hero, man, like, if something happened to you,
bro, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I done had so much loss in my life from my sister, my friends.
My mom, my grandmas and grandpas and... everybody gone.
You know what I'm saying, like...
He literally all I got.
I just remember we was going to the 'burbs,
and we was whooping around all the suburb schools.
That's all I remember.
[both chuckling]
- Yeah. I'm still waiting
on the athlete. We, we don't...
He ain't coming, he ain't coming.
- Jermaine, though, Jermaine got it a little bit.
- Yeah, he do, but he ain't... He... listen.
- Yeah, Jermaine, I mean, he Jermaine.
Like, I feel what you saying. Like, you gotta do something.
- He's still... - Doing the same stuff he was
doing at your house, so... - Yeah.
It's, it's, it's, it's hard to get his feet out the concrete.
- Progress is happening with Jermaine.
It just turned out to be a 12-hour tattoo,
and it was supposed to be a five-hour tattoo.
If we switch ages right now, like,
and you was the one to be 28, what would you do tomorrow?
- What would I do tomorrow if I was 28?
Probably play basketball.
[laughing]
♪ I know the time is right for me ♪
♪ I know the future's bright for me... ♪
[dog barking/growling]
♪ Recognition I'm on a mission ♪
[phone ringing]
♪ You doing good... ♪♪
- Good afternoon, thank you for calling 9MAG.
This is Kitty speaking, how may I help you?
You can actually make an appointment
through the website. You have to check.
Okay.
Okay, thank you. Goodbye.
- What's up, man? - Hi.
- This is you up here trying to look all...
Acting like you all professional.
- I do a little something.
You know.
- This new development is, uh... It's good.
I'm glad I was able to get the family back together.
You know, I wasn't sure if Kitty was going to whoosah
and put her pride aside, you know, and walk into
this path that I was trying to show her she can be a part of.
How you feeling today so far?
- I'm okay, I'm okay. - You okay?
- Everybody's treating me well. - Good.
- Yeah, they making me do, like, manual labor and stuff.
I don't know about that. - Manual labor? It ain't
nothing but a rookie season, a little welcome into the house.
Come on, you a'ight. I'm glad you came.
Ease in here. Get your feet wet.
- Mm-hmm. - You gon' be around some
artistic energy, get your creative juices flowing.
You know what I mean? - That it has been.
And it's been amazing. - That's what I'm talking about.
- It's been amazing.
This week has actually gone surprisingly well.
Everyone including Ryan
has welcomed me with open arms. It really was
what I needed.
- You used to be my homie.
Now you acting like you don't even know me.
- What up? - Ay!
- What you was doing?
- Apprentice stuff.
- Speaking of which, I gotta go
set up a booth, bye!
- I know, man.
- I've gotta say I'm a bit impressed
with Kitty's work ethic so far. You know, she still
glam to the T.
But putting forth and showing the effort
and making some things happen, I didn't see that coming.
So... you know, let's see where thing goes now.
- So Dallas was cool.
- Yeah, it was overall cool, man.
I would say some things, small things
got accomplished, you know what I'm saying?
Still some work that gotta be done, but I'm satisfied for now.
I got to see my baby. That's all that mattered.
On a side note, I did run into Van
while I was out there.
♪♪
♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
- On a side note, I did run into Van
while I was out there. - In Dallas?
- Yeah, he, uh, ran up on me
and chopped it up with him for a minute.
But, uh, he talked about he might fly out here, man.
So I might chop it up with him again when he come
in town or whatever and, uh...
He didn't really ask too much about 9MAG in particular.
- I wouldn't expect him to. - Yeah.
We kept it really gangey vibe.
We try not to go down no dark talks, um...
- I don't... I don't think y'all should, you know?
There shouldn't be no bad blood between y'all.
I ain't never try to influence none of y'all with nothing
I got going on with that mother[bleep].
I just don't [bleep] with the [bleep] so...
- Yeah. - You know why.
- Yeah... - You know.
- I came up here to cheer. I ain't come up, bro,
for no beef. - I'm just...
I didn't come up here for no issue.
- You the one that mentioned the mother[bleep].
- No, just letting you know, man.
You know, ran into him, man. That's it.
I was just throwing it in the air.
Throwing it out there.
I'm not nervous about telling him I ran into Van.
End of the day, you know, I seen them
come together as brothers.
- Toast to a [bleep] good time.
- Vegas, baby!
Holy [bleep].
- Ohh!
Come on, come on, come on!
I got your back.
- Always. - Love, bro.
- I seem 'em fight as brothers.
Phew.
When there's a head-to-head fight with them,
dude, it's like World War Three.
- Something ain't go your way and you the only [bleep]...
- It ain't about it going my mother[bleep] way.
I help build this mother[bleep]
from the ground up since day one.
[bleep] 9MAG.
This is the Ryan Henry shop.
- More money than y'all [bleep]...
More money than y'all [bleep]...
Man, what's up?! - Then do it then!
[shouting/bleeps]
- Goofy ass [bleep]. - Get off the street!
- It ain't nothing else to be talked about.
- Man, when they finally dismantled and broke apart, man,
piece of 9MAG fell apart.
- That mother[bleep] financially traumatic to me.
- I was testing... I was testing the water, the energy.
I was just throwing it out there.
I ran into him. - I got F-PTSD.
- What?
- Financial post traumatic stress disorder.
- All right.
Yeah, I mean, since that whole legal situation, you know,
me and... me and dude ain't never even talk.
- Nothing good ever comes from a large envelope.
- Attempted cover-up calls that
would be terribly marred and damaged.
- That's a joke. That's the cover-up.
[Ryan] I got this paperwork from an attorney.
What she's suing for is
a tattoo that she was unhappy with
apparently that you did.
Now she done put 9MAG
along with the Van Johnson thing, and even if they drop
Van Johnson off, then it's coming straight to me as 9MAG.
- Yeah.
- When he [bleep] up the tattoo,
and she wanted to sue him because he would
not correct it the way she wanted to,
she thought she could come to me,
his boss and get it corrected.
At that time, I let her know
I would try to correct it on my own.
It mighta just been more suitable to realize that
you could probably just sue them and get a bunch of money.
So she stopped speaking to me and she ended up suing.
But she ended up suing
Van Johnson and nobody knew where to find him.
So Ryan Henry wasn't on there.
The business was on there.
You don't have to serve me the papers.
You can give my papers to anybody
who is a registered agent of that business
so they can go to the management office of the place where
I hold a lease and serve them. I never received the paperwork.
I don't know what happened [bleep] for sure
because it's not my court case.
When I found out, I had already lost the case
I actually shouldn't be a part of.
My lawyer Lily told me like, hey, man, just...
take this as a quarter-million dollar lesson
to never [bleep] doing it again.
So why the [bleep] would I ever go back
and act like I'ma be a part of that again?
That [bleep] took from my kids.
[Bleep], man, keep that mother[bleep] away from me.
I ain't bull[bleep], man.
♪♪
- ♪ Hoo! ♪
♪ I just came back for the win ♪
♪ Lot of new money in my hand ♪
- All in all, the entire situation with Van,
I been having to deal with the past couple years
knowing that you knew I was a part of this,
and you knew that I had to take the licking.
You didn't give no [bleep]. You just let me do it
and you went about your own business.
So knowing that somebody I cared about could willingly
do something like that to me was more hurtful than anything.
- ♪ Applying pressure somebody stop us ♪
♪ Run in my casa gon' need a doctor ♪
♪ Gon' need a doctor, gon' need a (what?) ♪
♪ I just came back for the win... ♪
- When it [bleep] happened, I was in a situation.
You know, I was buying a house for my kids.
And my money got took, and then the rest of the money
I had, I had to pay for a [bleep] lawyer.
[Bleep] at that point, I was homeless, so...
I can't take back and go back to moving my kids
from hotel to hotel every [bleep] two/three weeks
for [bleep] nine months because I didn't have a place to live.
- ♪ They say success is the best revenge ♪
♪ So now they on my body ♪
♪ Made it to the top Ain't no way ♪
♪ That they could stop me now, now ♪
♪ They gon' say I joined the Illuminati ♪
♪ I got demons all around me ♪
♪ Tell me what they know about me, ha (what?) ♪
- You gotta count certain things with certain losses
as lessons and know what type of mother[bleep]
never to [bleep] with again.
I don't forget a mother[bleep] thing.
I think about that [bleep] every day.
And it ain't no, oh, I'm so this, I'm so passed [bleep].
No, mother[bleep], every day.
- ♪ Lot of new money in my hand ♪
♪ Go and tell a friend to tell a friend ♪
♪ They say success is the best revenge ♪♪
♪♪
- Tell me exactly what the [bleep] I did so bad
to make me and you not talk.
♪♪
♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
♪ Gonna shock the world, gonna shock the world... ♪
[horns honking]
♪ Gonna shock the world... ♪
[sounds of traffic]
♪♪
♪ I'm your... ♪
♪ Superfast go got your speed... ♪
[chatter]
- Hello, man... - What you doing here?
Bless the bottle
- You see that's that out West [bleep]
He ain't gonna bless the bottle?
Grab us one, man.
- I put together this game night for the guys.
You know what? We been going through it.
We deserve a little fellas time.
And we deserve to kick back, let our hair down.
Have a couple of drinks, you know, do us.
- I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.
- You don't bless the bottle?
[chatter]
- Anybody that grew up in Chicago...
If you from the hood, you know you don't step on the crack
and break your mama's back, and you do not
not bless the bottle before drinking.
West side, it's your boy!
- [bleep] You from Chicago, man.
- You know what I'm saying?
- Let "em put poison on poison, man.
- We gon' have a non-bless party.
- Damn!
I don't know why Black people bless the bottle
It ain't good for you.
It ain't a blessing at all.
[chatter]
- How's everything going at the shop?
- Wow!
Y'all see how she came through. - Like a diva?
- No. - We chillin' the squad.
Came in and ran in that joint.
- Are you serious?
([B-Slam) What the [bleep] going on?
- And they started hitting that...
- Oh! - [Ryan] This the tattoo shop.
- Y'all looking for the dance club?
- "Coming to America."
[Ryan] She came in fur coat.
Heels, red lipstick.
- Rose petals. - Black dress, rose petals.
- Damn, for an apprentice? [bleep].
- I'm not surprised about the Kitty story.
Maybe I can get her to help me on my next video shoot.
It's been a minute since everybody got to really
chop it up and just check in. So, I just wanna know
how everybody doing, personally.
- [Ryan] I mean, I would say I'm maintaining.
You know, half the time, I'm losing my [bleep] mind.
You know what I'm saying? I gotta come in,
I gotta do this. I gotta have meetings.
I gotta have management [bleep].
I got [bleep] going on with the kids.
I got [bleep] going on with artists.
I got [bleep] going on with complains.
I got [bleep] going on financially.
So now I'm trying to find a medium balance of like,
locking in too much and then, you know,
not paying attention to what you need to.
- I think that's the hardest thing, though, finding the
balance to balance everything out, you know what I'm saying?
- Like [bleep] sometimes, bro, we just be defeated, you know
what I'm saying, like, you know, I'm still up and still doing
[bleep] I gotta do. I finish a [bleep] ten-hour
tattoo, but [bleep] defeated sometime.
This Black man [bleep]. It's absolutely awesome
to be able to lead and own something like a business.
But like most things, you know,
over time, it's become overwhelming.
It's kind of unbearable at times.
And even still, being in my position,
I gotta grin and just bear that [bleep].
- Come on, man, let's go to this table.
- Realistically, the bigger you are, the higher the stakes.
And that can be from anything.
Newer co-workers or new employees
to even older ones that know the situations.
- I'ma watch.
♪♪
- Oh, no, he folks.
[chatter]
- Damn, right? - Let's go, player.
♪♪
[chatter]
- Oh!
- My mother's a pool shark.
[chatter]
- Shut the [bleep] up.
♪♪
I'm mad as a mother[bleep].
[man speaking]
- Oh. - Man, what's up with what?
- ♪ Duh-duh-dum ♪
Aw... [bleep].
[chatter, bleep]
- You came through the front door?
[muttering]
[chatter]
- You know...
I thought this was a 9MAG outing.
You know, so...
Somebody didn't put the option in the building.
- What's up?
♪♪
[clears throat]
- Tell me exactly what the [bleep] I did
so bad to make me and you not talk.
♪♪
♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪
♪♪
[clears throat]
- Tell me exactly what the [bleep] I did
so bad to make me and you not talk.
♪♪
- You know, as much as it might've not been my place,
I hated to see two dope individuals
hate each other for something I felt like
they coulda talked about.
- When I stopped by the shop, you know what I mean,
I was trying to do a temperature check
just to see how he felt about the Van topic.
Ryan knows I have no ill intentions towards him.
Regardless, he's still holding onto that energy
towards Van all the time, and it's eating him up.
[clears throat] - It's been a long time.
You know?
- All I'ma say from the jump is,
I feel like me and you ain't got [bleep] to talk about.
♪♪
I feel like ain't no point of picking up [bleep] like...
I'ma just take whatever it is and move the [bleep] on.
♪♪
I feel like the past is in the past, you know what I mean?
I left it for what it was. I showed up for my people.
He showed up for a reason.
I'm on my tunnel vision [bleep] with me and mine.
I think you understand what got us this [bleep] far.
- I don't. - You don't know why me and you
not connected as we used to be? - I don't know why
me and you are not connected. Tell me!
Just totally thrown off.
I didn't feel welcome.
I didn't feel like I was supposed to be there.
♪♪
I would just hope to get some clarity
out of the conversation.
Just to be honest with one another
without any lying, fault, any flaw.
Move past all the bull[bleep] that we've been through
and talk like men.
- I think what the real issue was, bro, was that tattoo
from years ago 'cause Shorty came back after him.
- She, she actually sued me for over $600,000.
- And Ryan ended up having to pay that bill.
- I ain't know that. - And, and guess what happened?
See how...
- I know, I get it, bro. I know what you, but...
- So without me knowing or without me getting
certain paperwork, when we didn't show up
to none of them court dates, we lose by default.
And out of nowhere, you owe half a million, and I do too.
When they was sending [bleep] to you and you never
showed up to court, they said [bleep] that.
We taking they ass to the cleaners.
- Did not know.
And you know me not to be a liar.
I don't come here and playing games with you or anybody else.
You know, everything that Ryan said to me, if it was true.
It's like, and you waited this long to tell me
that somebody was suing your company,
and it was because of me?
- You telling me you living your life so [bleep] lavishly,
you don't know what's going on with you legally?
- [Don] What would it actually take for him
to fix that situation? - I don't...
I don't even want it, like, this was never a conversation
I didn't even want to have because to my knowledge,
you knew all this [bleep].
The old me would rather accept that you just said
[bleep] me and let me take that lick.
Now I gotta be able to think about [bleep] like, damn.
You know, maybe he just was too [bleep] stupid to know,
and he didn't say [bleep] you.
- Come on, Ryan.
Where you doing?
Come on, Ryan.
- [bleep] what am I supposed to say?
- You doing all right. Breathe, man.
- But I can't say that [bleep] because he also
moved in a certain type of way.
You know that you was over there putting on Black Ink and doing
[bleep] like that with me and Ceas wasn't rocking.
And so you can't say it just a fact that you didn't know
because you was doing [bleep] in spite.
- You don't know [bleep] was going on in my life,
and I didn't know what was going on with you.
I did not know, bro. - All I know was that
you left that [bleep] on me.
And it hurt! And it hurt!
I loved and I cared about you. You left that [bleep] on me.
Not know nothing else about what I didn't care about.
[bleep] If I moved to a new... I just couldn't conduct business
with you as we moved in different business because...
- Listen, listen, listen, listen.
I'm sorry whatever damage that brought to your life.
♪♪
I mean you well, and I want you to prosper and keep doing you.
- I don't feel like he walking away scot-free
because my love and my loyalty and my genuity to him
was something of value.
And so we ain't gotta work together.
We ain't gotta do this, and we ain't gotta have no beef
and no [bleep] like that, but you'll never be able
to [bleep] me again or any of mine so, you know what I mean?
To me, I feel like that's a [bleep] loss.
- Continue to lead, and continue to do great.
♪♪
- Me and Ash, we trying to go for the same goal,
but we just riding different. Maybe we need a mediator.
- I might need it too. You know, me still being,
you know, one foot in Chicago, one foot in Dallas.
- They're not your friends. They're your employees.
You mess up, you get written up.
You get warnings and then you get fired.
- So I gotta be the bad guy. - You the bad guy.
- Reality is really setting in for us.
- It hurts, it hurts.
I don't know, I almost feel like I failed him.
[Ashley] The way you been making it feel like
what I'm doing is not as important as what you're doing...
- How? What the [bleep] you doing?
- That doesn't matter! I just wanna know that you
believe in me and mean it! - I say that all the time!
- Don! - If that's what the [bleep]
y'all feel, then cool.
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