1 00:00:00,667 --> 00:00:02,035 ♪♪ 2 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:03,370 [Ryan] With the addition of new artists 3 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:05,138 along with some day-one artists, 4 00:00:05,138 --> 00:00:06,773 I have to elevate this to be one of the world's 5 00:00:06,773 --> 00:00:08,041 greatest tattoo shops. 6 00:00:08,041 --> 00:00:09,843 - What y'all think about the booth? 7 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:12,746 [Ryan] Part of this expansion is revamping this whole shop. 8 00:00:12,746 --> 00:00:14,514 - Do we have more workers as well? 9 00:00:14,514 --> 00:00:16,349 - There's a level of complacency 10 00:00:16,349 --> 00:00:18,618 that's starting to affect the way the business is run. 11 00:00:18,618 --> 00:00:22,722 Look, booths built, booths empty. 12 00:00:22,722 --> 00:00:24,758 I'm literally sitting here paying bills. 13 00:00:24,758 --> 00:00:27,894 - Well, I know who I'm apprenticing under 14 00:00:27,894 --> 00:00:29,396 is in New York right now. 15 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:30,830 - You our apprentice now. 16 00:00:30,830 --> 00:00:34,000 - So what about your pops? - He's in New York. 17 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,835 - If you go, I'll fly with you. 18 00:00:35,835 --> 00:00:37,270 Hey, man, I love New York... 19 00:00:37,270 --> 00:00:38,872 - That's the Empire State Building behind you. 20 00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:39,939 - Where the Empire State... 21 00:00:39,939 --> 00:00:41,241 [overlapping chatter] 22 00:00:41,241 --> 00:00:42,675 - I stopped by Puma's shop today 23 00:00:42,675 --> 00:00:45,311 just to pick his brain on opening up a shop. 24 00:00:45,311 --> 00:00:47,614 - Well, I mean, you are a part of a brand already. 25 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:51,017 - I don't want Ryan to like, feel like I'm competition. 26 00:00:51,017 --> 00:00:52,619 - You want his support. - Exactly. 27 00:00:52,619 --> 00:00:55,822 - I talked to Stasia and she, she's showing me pictures. 28 00:00:55,822 --> 00:00:57,757 And you fought for them, and you didn't fight for me. 29 00:00:57,757 --> 00:01:01,428 - [stammering] I did-- I couldn't find you. 30 00:01:01,428 --> 00:01:02,896 - I still got dreams too. 31 00:01:02,896 --> 00:01:05,198 - I need you to lay a blueprint out for me. 32 00:01:05,198 --> 00:01:06,366 What's each step. - Did you do 33 00:01:06,366 --> 00:01:07,901 those things for me too? 34 00:01:07,901 --> 00:01:09,235 With your dreams and stuff? 35 00:01:09,235 --> 00:01:10,937 [Ashley] You be makin' it feel like 36 00:01:10,937 --> 00:01:12,806 what I'm doing is not as important as what you're doing. 37 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:14,808 - How? If that's what the [bleep] y'all feel, 38 00:01:14,808 --> 00:01:16,576 cool. 39 00:01:16,576 --> 00:01:18,945 So overall, I don't feel like 40 00:01:18,945 --> 00:01:22,482 anything she does is directly connected to me. 41 00:01:22,482 --> 00:01:25,718 - What I heard you say is, "You are not a good wife." 42 00:01:25,718 --> 00:01:27,287 - Yeah. - You think I'm finna sit here 43 00:01:27,287 --> 00:01:28,922 and let you tell me I'm not a good wife-- 44 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:30,723 - No, again-- - So, 45 00:01:30,723 --> 00:01:32,325 are you gonna be here permanently? 46 00:01:32,325 --> 00:01:33,660 [Phor] The more I make happen in Dallas, 47 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:35,395 the more I need to be here in Dallas. 48 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:37,797 Nina and my son are moving to Atlanta, 49 00:01:37,797 --> 00:01:38,798 and my plan will be to be in Atlanta as much as I have to. 50 00:01:44,033 --> 00:01:45,835 ♪♪ 51 00:01:45,835 --> 00:01:47,737 - ♪ There's no more ordinary lifestyle ♪ 52 00:01:47,737 --> 00:01:49,972 ♪♪ 53 00:01:49,972 --> 00:01:52,375 ♪ We livin' for the moment talkin' right now ♪ 54 00:01:52,375 --> 00:01:55,378 ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 55 00:01:55,378 --> 00:01:58,180 ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 56 00:01:58,180 --> 00:02:00,549 ♪ We livin' for the moment talkin' right now ♪♪ 57 00:02:03,619 --> 00:02:06,355 - ♪ Yeah, where they wanna take this? ♪ 58 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:08,858 ♪ I can see the foes up close, they debatin' ♪ 59 00:02:08,858 --> 00:02:12,194 ♪ They coughed up what's already done ♪ 60 00:02:12,194 --> 00:02:14,830 ♪ I'll always be number one ♪♪ 61 00:02:14,830 --> 00:02:17,666 - The way that this is set up is what we call a duplex down. 62 00:02:17,666 --> 00:02:19,535 - Mm-hmm. - So the kitchen, 63 00:02:19,535 --> 00:02:21,604 living room, living area up, 64 00:02:21,604 --> 00:02:24,340 there is one bedroom up, and there's a powder room. 65 00:02:24,340 --> 00:02:27,543 - Opening a shop in London is definitely still a go 66 00:02:27,543 --> 00:02:31,046 but Chicago's the most beautiful city 67 00:02:31,046 --> 00:02:33,115 I've ever been to. 68 00:02:33,115 --> 00:02:36,385 I'm definitely settling into my apprenticeship at 9MAG, 69 00:02:36,385 --> 00:02:38,454 and my acting career is here. 70 00:02:38,454 --> 00:02:41,557 I just have a lot going on here. 71 00:02:41,557 --> 00:02:42,925 - Ooh, girl. 72 00:02:42,925 --> 00:02:44,260 You about to get this house, 73 00:02:44,260 --> 00:02:47,062 you about to be a homeowner, ahh! 74 00:02:47,062 --> 00:02:48,431 - Yeah, I've just, I've really been 75 00:02:48,431 --> 00:02:51,534 considering making Chicago home. 76 00:02:51,534 --> 00:02:53,502 - What made you like, come to that conclusion? 77 00:02:53,502 --> 00:02:55,337 - Well... - Not too long ago, 78 00:02:55,337 --> 00:02:56,672 your ass was ready to move to London. 79 00:02:56,672 --> 00:02:58,441 - I said I was gon' work in London 80 00:02:58,441 --> 00:03:01,410 and I was gonna be in London part-time. 81 00:03:01,410 --> 00:03:04,280 But, uh, speaking of relocating, 82 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,282 how was New York, though? 83 00:03:06,282 --> 00:03:07,716 - New York was interesting. 84 00:03:07,716 --> 00:03:10,953 Um, [bleep] did not go as planned with family. 85 00:03:10,953 --> 00:03:13,022 - What happened? - Well, 86 00:03:13,022 --> 00:03:15,458 my sister put together like, a meet and greet 87 00:03:15,458 --> 00:03:17,993 with like, a couple of my cousins, my aunt, 88 00:03:17,993 --> 00:03:20,162 and nobody showed up. 89 00:03:20,162 --> 00:03:21,497 - You are [bleep] me. 90 00:03:21,497 --> 00:03:22,731 - I kid you not, nobody showed up, girl. 91 00:03:22,731 --> 00:03:26,402 So... only expecting you today? 92 00:03:26,402 --> 00:03:31,173 - I don't wanna lie, but really, it's just me. 93 00:03:31,173 --> 00:03:33,776 Me is all I got for you, I'm sorry. 94 00:03:33,776 --> 00:03:36,145 - What happened with your dad though? 95 00:03:36,145 --> 00:03:37,947 - He actually did come, 96 00:03:37,947 --> 00:03:41,083 and he just was not taking any responsibility 97 00:03:41,083 --> 00:03:43,219 for anything that he did, everything was an excuse, 98 00:03:43,219 --> 00:03:46,255 and it was somebody else's fault, know what I'm sayin'? 99 00:03:46,255 --> 00:03:48,290 It was just-- - Are you alright? 100 00:03:48,290 --> 00:03:50,326 - I'm okay, yeah, I'm okay. 101 00:03:50,326 --> 00:03:52,361 - That breaks my heart. 102 00:03:52,361 --> 00:03:54,330 - Meeting up with my father went exactly 103 00:03:54,330 --> 00:03:56,065 as I thought it would-- pretty disappointing. 104 00:03:56,065 --> 00:04:00,703 - Are you seriously considering relocating to New York? 105 00:04:00,703 --> 00:04:03,672 - I mean, I can't say that it's not on the table, you know? 106 00:04:03,672 --> 00:04:06,408 Right now, I have my family out in Virginia, 107 00:04:06,408 --> 00:04:08,878 which is my mom's brother, Uncle Dino, 108 00:04:08,878 --> 00:04:11,447 and his lovely wife, Aunt Tiffany. 109 00:04:11,447 --> 00:04:15,351 And they've been my rock for a long time now. 110 00:04:15,351 --> 00:04:18,254 They gave me, you know, that family unit 111 00:04:18,254 --> 00:04:19,688 that I never really had. 112 00:04:19,688 --> 00:04:23,192 But then, I got news that my uncle's wife 113 00:04:23,192 --> 00:04:24,426 was very sick. 114 00:04:24,426 --> 00:04:26,795 If my auntie's health keeps degrading 115 00:04:26,795 --> 00:04:28,664 the way it is, my uncle needs help, 116 00:04:28,664 --> 00:04:30,533 you know what I'm sayin', like, I gotta get 117 00:04:30,533 --> 00:04:33,302 closer to home and I might have to go home 118 00:04:33,302 --> 00:04:36,071 while I kinda figure out all this new information 119 00:04:36,071 --> 00:04:37,740 that I didn't know before. 120 00:04:37,740 --> 00:04:40,342 I really haven't made up my mind yet if I wanna 121 00:04:40,342 --> 00:04:42,378 move back to the east coast. 122 00:04:42,378 --> 00:04:44,313 Whether I move to Virginia to be closer 123 00:04:44,313 --> 00:04:46,815 to my aunt and my uncle, or if I decide to go 124 00:04:46,815 --> 00:04:49,585 back to New York where I pursue a relationship with 125 00:04:49,585 --> 00:04:52,288 my sister Anastasia. Either way, 126 00:04:52,288 --> 00:04:55,524 it's gonna be a tough choice and both options are on the table. 127 00:04:55,524 --> 00:04:58,427 - You know I support you a million percent 128 00:04:58,427 --> 00:04:59,828 every step of the way. 129 00:04:59,828 --> 00:05:01,730 [Draya] I'm gonna have to talk to Mr. Henry. 130 00:05:03,666 --> 00:05:05,200 - ♪ Combos in that time zone ♪ 131 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,969 ♪ And a first touch and my mind blown ♪ 132 00:05:06,969 --> 00:05:08,604 ♪ Head in the clouds with a blindfold ♪ 133 00:05:08,604 --> 00:05:10,172 ♪ Dreamin' loud with my eyes closed ♪ 134 00:05:10,172 --> 00:05:11,941 ♪ And the wind chimed and my mind froze ♪ 135 00:05:11,941 --> 00:05:13,642 ♪ She skipped town and I was all alone ♪ 136 00:05:13,642 --> 00:05:15,144 ♪ Took stuff and my heart was gone ♪ 137 00:05:15,144 --> 00:05:16,712 ♪ My feelings too I'm numb and cold ♪ 138 00:05:16,712 --> 00:05:19,348 - Hey, dog. - What's up, gang? 139 00:05:19,348 --> 00:05:21,150 [Prince] New York was an eye opener. 140 00:05:21,150 --> 00:05:22,918 Me and Draya did a bomb-ass tattoo. 141 00:05:22,918 --> 00:05:25,020 Then we had got some chopped cheese, 142 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:26,922 me and Spyder, Spyder showed me around and [bleep], 143 00:05:26,922 --> 00:05:28,390 that's my boy, his bald-headed ass 144 00:05:28,390 --> 00:05:29,491 funny as hell too. 145 00:05:29,491 --> 00:05:30,926 That's a real bar? 146 00:05:30,926 --> 00:05:32,962 [Spyder] So that's the even iller part. 147 00:05:32,962 --> 00:05:34,630 - You get a shot with your purchase. 148 00:05:34,630 --> 00:05:37,066 - A what? Ooh! 149 00:05:37,066 --> 00:05:39,335 But I'm happy to be back in Chicago, you know, 150 00:05:39,335 --> 00:05:41,203 with my Chicagoans. 151 00:05:41,203 --> 00:05:43,839 - What's up, though, man? - It's hot as hell, boy. 152 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,741 - Boy, it's super hot, man, [bleep]. 153 00:05:45,741 --> 00:05:47,142 - Well, you used to that [bleep] already. 154 00:05:47,142 --> 00:05:49,111 - Yeah, yeah, I just got back from Dallas, boy, 155 00:05:49,111 --> 00:05:50,212 it was 95. 156 00:05:50,212 --> 00:05:53,248 - 95? In Dallas? - Yeah. 157 00:05:53,248 --> 00:05:55,851 You know, I'm just trying to fully established out there. 158 00:05:55,851 --> 00:05:57,553 I really gotta lock in. - What, like, 159 00:05:57,553 --> 00:05:59,755 on the music [bleep] or the tattoo [bleep]? 160 00:05:59,755 --> 00:06:02,024 - Just really everything, bro. Like, as far as Chicago go, 161 00:06:02,024 --> 00:06:05,694 I don't know if I really have anything... here. 162 00:06:05,694 --> 00:06:07,663 Especially now that my child's mom in Atlanta, 163 00:06:07,663 --> 00:06:08,864 my son out there, so... - Right. 164 00:06:08,864 --> 00:06:11,133 - Also my family in Atlanta anyway, 165 00:06:11,133 --> 00:06:14,069 so, y'know, I'ma just be between Dallas and Atlanta. 166 00:06:14,069 --> 00:06:18,307 - I mean, congratulations, [bleep], on your move, [bleep]. 167 00:06:18,307 --> 00:06:20,342 That's real [bleep], that's big, bro. 168 00:06:20,342 --> 00:06:22,478 - I do wanna set up like, before I leave, 169 00:06:22,478 --> 00:06:24,279 I wanna put like, a get-together... 170 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:25,681 - Okay. - ...dinner, chop it up and, 171 00:06:25,681 --> 00:06:27,016 you know, holla at the gang 172 00:06:27,016 --> 00:06:28,851 before I get up outta here for real. 173 00:06:28,851 --> 00:06:31,320 - [bleep], I'm slidin'. I'm slidin'. 174 00:06:33,789 --> 00:06:36,759 Like, you know, me being a tattoo artist, 175 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:39,695 you know, I always wanted like, a space of my own. 176 00:06:39,695 --> 00:06:41,263 Just like how you made your footprint 177 00:06:41,263 --> 00:06:42,798 in the city, bro... - It's time for you to do yours. 178 00:06:42,798 --> 00:06:44,833 - I'm ready to do that [bleep] too. 179 00:06:44,833 --> 00:06:47,603 - I feel that, respect, respect. - And we just gonna make it... 180 00:06:47,603 --> 00:06:49,972 You know, we got legends behind us, bro. 181 00:06:49,972 --> 00:06:51,740 - What, like, what you got in mind? 182 00:06:51,740 --> 00:06:54,443 - It started off as, you know, a family thing, 183 00:06:54,443 --> 00:06:57,613 me and my little brother, Johnny started doing piercings 184 00:06:57,613 --> 00:06:59,181 because of me. - Yeah. 185 00:06:59,181 --> 00:07:00,749 - Our thing was Blood Brothers. 186 00:07:00,749 --> 00:07:03,118 You know, he draw blood, I draw blood type [bleep]. 187 00:07:03,118 --> 00:07:05,487 We drawn together by blood. 188 00:07:05,487 --> 00:07:07,022 Come on now, every tattoo artist 189 00:07:07,022 --> 00:07:09,958 wanna open up their own shop, even if it's a studio. 190 00:07:09,958 --> 00:07:13,062 It's me and little bro, so I already got a piercer, 191 00:07:13,062 --> 00:07:14,596 so tha-- that's just one, 192 00:07:14,596 --> 00:07:16,465 and I got a tattoo artist, that's me, boom. 193 00:07:16,465 --> 00:07:17,700 But I'm not gon' lie, 194 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:19,535 Ryan gave me a great opportunity. 195 00:07:19,535 --> 00:07:21,136 Even though this was a dream of mines, 196 00:07:21,136 --> 00:07:23,605 I'm still a little nervous about telling him about the shop. 197 00:07:23,605 --> 00:07:27,042 I just really want my own family legacy. 198 00:07:27,042 --> 00:07:28,944 - I just feel like you should communicate it, 199 00:07:28,944 --> 00:07:30,312 at least at 9MAG. 200 00:07:30,312 --> 00:07:32,748 - I mean, it shouldn't be a competition thing. 201 00:07:32,748 --> 00:07:34,850 Me having an establishment and whatever we wanna do 202 00:07:34,850 --> 00:07:37,186 on the west side is w-- what we doin'. 203 00:07:37,186 --> 00:07:38,587 - Yeah, I mean, [bleep], that's what you supposed to do... 204 00:07:38,587 --> 00:07:40,589 - I just need the support. 205 00:07:40,589 --> 00:07:42,191 That's what I'm really asking for, 206 00:07:42,191 --> 00:07:44,660 'cause I really don't even know how to [bleep] ask for help. 207 00:07:46,795 --> 00:07:48,430 - ♪ I'm makin' trouble, you're makin' trouble ♪ 208 00:07:48,430 --> 00:07:50,165 ♪ But you don't have to worry ♪ 209 00:07:50,165 --> 00:07:53,102 ♪ 'Cause I've got, I've got ♪♪ 210 00:07:53,102 --> 00:07:55,204 - Hello. 211 00:07:55,204 --> 00:07:57,106 ♪♪ 212 00:07:57,106 --> 00:07:58,707 Hi. 213 00:07:58,707 --> 00:08:00,275 - What's up, everybody? 214 00:08:00,275 --> 00:08:03,479 ♪♪ 215 00:08:03,479 --> 00:08:05,681 [cell phone ringing] 216 00:08:09,451 --> 00:08:10,819 - Hi, Jet. 217 00:08:12,187 --> 00:08:14,423 You know, that little thing called work. 218 00:08:14,423 --> 00:08:16,225 Where the [bleep] are you? 219 00:08:16,225 --> 00:08:17,726 Where's Chelsea? 220 00:08:19,428 --> 00:08:22,831 So what time are y'all walkin' here? 221 00:08:24,466 --> 00:08:26,668 Oh, my God, I gotta go. 222 00:08:28,403 --> 00:08:30,539 - Church. 223 00:08:30,539 --> 00:08:32,040 [laughter] 224 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,143 Where y'all at with it? - Walkin' through a park. 225 00:08:34,143 --> 00:08:37,012 - That's about right. - But, Shogun, no-- 226 00:08:40,682 --> 00:08:42,251 - Yessir, hey, the cherry blossoms 227 00:08:42,251 --> 00:08:45,020 are blossoming right now. 228 00:08:45,020 --> 00:08:47,890 You hear me? It's a good day. 229 00:08:47,890 --> 00:08:51,093 - Ryan has asked me to put together a spring tattoo sale 230 00:08:51,093 --> 00:08:53,295 where people can come get discounted tattoos, 231 00:08:53,295 --> 00:08:55,731 no appointments needed because it's been 232 00:08:55,731 --> 00:08:58,200 a little bit slower compared to last year. 233 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,234 You here for the special? 234 00:08:59,234 --> 00:09:01,069 - Yes, I am. - Okay. 235 00:09:01,069 --> 00:09:03,972 - It looks much better here, I feel like... 236 00:09:03,972 --> 00:09:06,108 - So I'm expecting a lotta clients 237 00:09:06,108 --> 00:09:08,343 to come in today, but one thing I'm noticing 238 00:09:08,343 --> 00:09:10,479 is the artists are being a little bit more lax 239 00:09:10,479 --> 00:09:12,247 and they're not on time. 240 00:09:12,247 --> 00:09:13,882 Chelsea and Jet 241 00:09:13,882 --> 00:09:17,786 in the botanical gardens looking at the cherry blossoms bloom. 242 00:09:17,786 --> 00:09:20,556 Not [bleep] right now, and this is not the time 243 00:09:20,556 --> 00:09:22,591 nor the place or the event. 244 00:09:22,591 --> 00:09:24,459 Like, no, we don't have time for this. 245 00:09:24,459 --> 00:09:26,995 So this is True. - Hello. 246 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:29,631 ♪♪ 247 00:09:32,734 --> 00:09:35,237 - Alright, do you know which one you wanna get done? 248 00:09:35,237 --> 00:09:37,172 ♪♪ 249 00:09:37,172 --> 00:09:38,640 Hi. 250 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,910 [indistinct chatter] [stereo playing] 251 00:09:41,910 --> 00:09:46,915 ♪♪ 252 00:09:51,653 --> 00:09:53,589 [music stops] 253 00:09:55,657 --> 00:09:58,861 [overlapping chatter, laughter] 254 00:09:58,861 --> 00:10:01,296 - Why they yelling so much? - They havin' fun. 255 00:10:17,179 --> 00:10:19,548 - Like, Jet literally got yanked out 256 00:10:19,548 --> 00:10:21,884 of the botanical garden to come to work, 257 00:10:21,884 --> 00:10:23,685 and he hasn't had a client. 258 00:10:23,685 --> 00:10:26,355 We're not hourly employees, 259 00:10:26,355 --> 00:10:29,591 so we don't get paid if we don't do a tattoo. 260 00:10:29,591 --> 00:10:33,695 [screaming continues] 261 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,284 - At first, I just thought Jet was joking. 262 00:10:55,284 --> 00:10:57,853 Then once I started to really listen 263 00:10:57,853 --> 00:11:00,822 to what he was saying, I feel like one of 264 00:11:00,822 --> 00:11:04,059 the reasons that he went so crazy 265 00:11:04,059 --> 00:11:06,762 is he was talking about production. 266 00:11:09,431 --> 00:11:11,300 When the artists come in sometimes, 267 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:13,168 if they're setting up to do a scene, 268 00:11:13,168 --> 00:11:15,170 and then, you know, if they're playing music, 269 00:11:15,170 --> 00:11:18,740 the music is so loud sometimes. 270 00:11:18,740 --> 00:11:20,909 And you know, production might ask them 271 00:11:20,909 --> 00:11:23,178 to turn the music down, or turn the music off 272 00:11:23,178 --> 00:11:25,414 and, you know, they feel some type of way about it. 273 00:11:25,414 --> 00:11:28,483 I do feel he could've gone about it another way 274 00:11:28,483 --> 00:11:30,752 instead of losing his [bleep]. 275 00:11:30,752 --> 00:11:32,854 - Girl... Ryan... 276 00:11:32,854 --> 00:11:35,023 - Has anybody talked to Ryan? - I don't think so, 277 00:11:35,023 --> 00:11:37,592 but he gon' be mad when he find out. 278 00:11:37,592 --> 00:11:40,429 - Let's jump! Let's jump! 279 00:11:40,429 --> 00:11:42,564 [overlapping shouting] 280 00:11:42,564 --> 00:11:43,899 - Jet, come on. A'ight, right here, 281 00:11:43,899 --> 00:11:45,667 right here, a'ight, check this out. 282 00:11:45,667 --> 00:11:47,202 You got your moment to say everything 283 00:11:47,202 --> 00:11:48,904 you [bleep] wanted, where the boom mic at? 284 00:11:48,904 --> 00:11:50,605 Talk about it. Right now, [bleep]. 285 00:11:50,605 --> 00:11:52,040 Everything you just said, 286 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,809 talk about it but make it make sense, 287 00:11:53,809 --> 00:11:56,044 how you feel, this your time. 288 00:11:56,044 --> 00:11:57,279 No, we ain't stagin' [bleep], 289 00:11:57,279 --> 00:11:59,014 either you talk or not gon' talk. 290 00:11:59,014 --> 00:12:00,649 Don't talk when ain't nobody listenin', 291 00:12:00,649 --> 00:12:02,985 talk when it's your time... 292 00:12:02,985 --> 00:12:05,654 Then say it again, [bleep], so the world can hear. 293 00:12:09,558 --> 00:12:11,193 - Oh, my God... 294 00:12:11,193 --> 00:12:13,195 - Just make sure before I got outta here 295 00:12:13,195 --> 00:12:14,863 we had a time to kinda catch up 296 00:12:14,863 --> 00:12:17,065 before, you know, I went my separate way. 297 00:12:17,065 --> 00:12:18,934 - This damn near feel like separation. 298 00:12:18,934 --> 00:12:21,136 I don't even know where to go from from here. 299 00:12:24,106 --> 00:12:26,008 - [bleep] that [bleep]. [bleep] this show, bro, 300 00:12:26,008 --> 00:12:28,844 we don't have to have a show for people to respect us. 301 00:12:28,844 --> 00:12:30,345 - I'm payin' out my [bleep] pocket because 302 00:12:30,345 --> 00:12:32,948 [bleep] not doin' they [bleep] all the way. 303 00:12:32,948 --> 00:12:33,949 I got back rent going on here. 304 00:12:39,066 --> 00:12:47,041 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 305 00:12:47,041 --> 00:12:48,809 [Shogun] Jet, Jet, Jet... 306 00:12:48,809 --> 00:12:50,945 One thing I said, bro, that we talked about-- 307 00:12:50,945 --> 00:12:52,413 We can talk amongst each other. 308 00:12:52,413 --> 00:12:53,848 This is your time to say 309 00:12:53,848 --> 00:12:55,549 whatever the [bleep] you wanna say 310 00:12:55,549 --> 00:12:56,917 and get it off your chest. 311 00:12:56,917 --> 00:12:59,186 Since Ryan isn't here, I'm taking the lead 312 00:12:59,186 --> 00:13:02,690 to get our team of artists back on the same page. 313 00:13:02,690 --> 00:13:07,328 I really want people to get everything off their chest. 314 00:13:07,328 --> 00:13:09,163 If you feel like you've been slighted, 315 00:13:09,163 --> 00:13:11,165 if you feel like you've been looked over, 316 00:13:11,165 --> 00:13:13,167 this is your time to voice it. 317 00:13:13,167 --> 00:13:14,902 - All these new artists that's getting hired, 318 00:13:14,902 --> 00:13:17,204 that's cool, but the real artists 319 00:13:17,204 --> 00:13:18,939 that's been here for [bleep] years, 320 00:13:18,939 --> 00:13:20,741 they need to be acknowledged, bro. 321 00:13:20,741 --> 00:13:22,243 Not just get swept under the rug, boy. 322 00:13:22,243 --> 00:13:24,278 [bleep], I been doing this [bleep] since 323 00:13:24,278 --> 00:13:26,247 [bleep] 2013, boy. 324 00:13:26,247 --> 00:13:27,815 Let's acknowledge the real artists that's 325 00:13:27,815 --> 00:13:29,583 been here for [bleep] ten-plus years. 326 00:13:29,583 --> 00:13:31,452 Not [bleep] that just came in this [bleep] like, 327 00:13:31,452 --> 00:13:33,821 "Ooh, woop-dee-doo, let's go, let's [bleep]...." 328 00:13:33,821 --> 00:13:36,157 I'm not doing that [bleep]. 329 00:13:36,157 --> 00:13:39,827 - Jet's not getting enough shine because I work here? 330 00:13:39,827 --> 00:13:42,630 I've been doing this for 13 years, tattooing, 331 00:13:42,630 --> 00:13:44,532 this ain't no made for TV [bleep]. 332 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:46,000 - I'm a solution driven person. 333 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,902 I'm not one to go dwell on a problem. 334 00:13:47,902 --> 00:13:49,937 So how do we give the people that's been here 335 00:13:49,937 --> 00:13:51,839 for the longest acknowledged? 336 00:13:51,839 --> 00:13:54,074 - I think [bleep] can start with some respect. 337 00:13:54,074 --> 00:13:56,210 We come in here every [bleep] day, 338 00:13:56,210 --> 00:13:58,379 we be in here working, [bleep] come in, 339 00:13:58,379 --> 00:14:00,214 "Be quiet, turn the music off..." 340 00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:04,251 When people walk in the front door, 341 00:14:04,251 --> 00:14:06,253 let somebody come in, put their [bleep] down, 342 00:14:06,253 --> 00:14:07,788 you know what I'm saying? - I do. 343 00:14:07,788 --> 00:14:09,790 - Then say "hello." [bleep] walk in, 344 00:14:09,790 --> 00:14:13,294 right past here, through you like you don't even exist. 345 00:14:16,464 --> 00:14:18,899 - When Ryan decided to let the show come back in, 346 00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:22,136 I asked his permission for, who in your shop 347 00:14:22,136 --> 00:14:25,306 is accessible to me for me to even approach and film? 348 00:14:25,306 --> 00:14:27,842 That's for him to find out from all of you all 349 00:14:27,842 --> 00:14:29,210 who's down and who's not, 350 00:14:29,210 --> 00:14:30,444 and then he comes back and he tells me. 351 00:14:30,444 --> 00:14:32,746 - No, it's not that they wanna be on it, 352 00:14:32,746 --> 00:14:35,983 it's just the general respect when they first come in, 353 00:14:35,983 --> 00:14:37,485 everything is like, in a rush and a frenzy. 354 00:14:37,485 --> 00:14:38,953 They walk through the doors, like, "Oh, no, you can't 355 00:14:38,953 --> 00:14:40,654 go through here," and then today, 356 00:14:40,654 --> 00:14:43,290 they're telling me it's 10-15 people waiting here. 357 00:14:43,290 --> 00:14:46,060 So I'm texting my artists, you know, to get here. 358 00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:49,096 And when they get here, it's only five people here 359 00:14:49,096 --> 00:14:51,999 and now they sittin' around like, what? 360 00:14:51,999 --> 00:14:55,803 - The beef isn't really with production, 361 00:14:55,803 --> 00:14:57,905 you have to talk to Ryan about that. 362 00:14:57,905 --> 00:14:59,573 - That's facts. - [B-Slam] If the artists 363 00:14:59,573 --> 00:15:03,477 had reservations or concerns about things prior to, 364 00:15:03,477 --> 00:15:06,247 they could've brought that up with us before 365 00:15:06,247 --> 00:15:08,215 instead of blowing up right now 366 00:15:08,215 --> 00:15:10,651 with production about production. 367 00:15:10,651 --> 00:15:16,390 The other half of the battle is talking to Ryan. 368 00:15:16,390 --> 00:15:17,925 - Can we get an amen on church [bleep]? 369 00:15:17,925 --> 00:15:19,426 I gotta work, y'all [bleep]... 370 00:15:19,426 --> 00:15:22,062 - Let the church say "amen". - [all] Amen. 371 00:15:22,062 --> 00:15:23,998 - Let the church say "amen" again. 372 00:15:23,998 --> 00:15:26,400 [all] Amen again. 373 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,303 ♪♪ 374 00:15:29,303 --> 00:15:31,338 [phone ringing] 375 00:15:31,338 --> 00:15:33,040 - [B-Slam] Hello? - Yo. 376 00:15:35,943 --> 00:15:38,045 - I mean, I literally-- I literally just finished 377 00:15:38,045 --> 00:15:39,713 working about 9:00 AM this morning, 378 00:15:39,713 --> 00:15:41,916 and I needed to take a nap, so I'm just like, you know, 379 00:15:41,916 --> 00:15:43,150 leave me the [bleep] alone. 380 00:15:43,150 --> 00:15:44,852 But what the [bleep] is going on? 381 00:15:44,852 --> 00:15:46,387 Everybody keep calling. 382 00:15:50,925 --> 00:15:52,326 What the [bleep] happened? 383 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:00,167 [Jet] Where the cameras at?! 384 00:16:07,107 --> 00:16:08,709 Call my [bleep] brother! 385 00:16:08,709 --> 00:16:10,878 - That [bleep] crazy. 386 00:16:10,878 --> 00:16:12,379 The more people that I bring into it, 387 00:16:12,379 --> 00:16:14,515 the more personalities I'm gonna have to deal with. 388 00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:16,617 So the times that I feel that I wanna take off, 389 00:16:16,617 --> 00:16:19,653 somebody outta these 20 people gonna have an attitude, 390 00:16:19,653 --> 00:16:21,889 if something gonna happen in the time that I just 391 00:16:21,889 --> 00:16:23,157 wanna go home and sleep. 392 00:16:23,157 --> 00:16:24,558 What is he mad at? 393 00:16:28,829 --> 00:16:30,164 I mean, I can... 394 00:16:30,164 --> 00:16:31,665 I can understand his plight, 395 00:16:31,665 --> 00:16:34,101 but would he be doin' that [bleep] if I was there? 396 00:16:34,101 --> 00:16:35,269 He might be talking about the right things, 397 00:16:35,269 --> 00:16:36,737 but it might be the wrong time. 398 00:16:36,737 --> 00:16:38,973 I would've interrupted that [bleep] in the door, 399 00:16:38,973 --> 00:16:41,275 you know what I mean, because is there 400 00:16:41,275 --> 00:16:44,445 clients in the shop, is he scaring clients away? 401 00:16:44,445 --> 00:16:47,781 Having an epiphany or having a breakdown 402 00:16:47,781 --> 00:16:50,618 or something don't go along with business. 403 00:16:50,618 --> 00:16:52,319 Tell everybody there and hit everybody 404 00:16:52,319 --> 00:16:54,154 in the group and tell 'em 405 00:16:54,154 --> 00:16:57,558 there's a mandatory meeting tomorrow, no exceptions. 406 00:16:59,226 --> 00:17:01,295 A'ight, man, I'll see you tomorrow. 407 00:17:01,295 --> 00:17:02,663 - Alright, later. - Peace. 408 00:17:02,663 --> 00:17:04,031 [exhaling] Oh, man. 409 00:17:04,031 --> 00:17:05,666 - ♪ Lately I just been thinkin' ♪ 410 00:17:05,666 --> 00:17:07,601 ♪ Lately I just been thinkin' ♪ 411 00:17:07,601 --> 00:17:09,570 ♪ Lately I just been lately I just been ♪ 412 00:17:09,570 --> 00:17:11,772 ♪ Lately I just been thinkin' ♪ 413 00:17:11,772 --> 00:17:14,408 [traffic sounds] 414 00:17:15,943 --> 00:17:18,245 [Ashley] It's been a couple of days since our therapy session 415 00:17:18,245 --> 00:17:22,383 with Dr. Love, and things has been super awkward. 416 00:17:22,383 --> 00:17:24,652 If Don and I wasn't picking up the kids right now, 417 00:17:24,652 --> 00:17:27,187 we wouldn't be doing anything together. 418 00:17:28,856 --> 00:17:31,291 I know we haven't said much of nothing 419 00:17:31,291 --> 00:17:33,994 to each other after the therapy session, 420 00:17:33,994 --> 00:17:39,667 but do you really feel like I'm just this bad wife to you? 421 00:17:41,535 --> 00:17:46,340 ♪♪ 422 00:17:46,340 --> 00:17:48,342 - You just stuck on that. 423 00:17:48,342 --> 00:17:50,110 I mean, I'm trying to figure out 424 00:17:50,110 --> 00:17:51,812 what it's gonna take to make the crib 425 00:17:51,812 --> 00:17:53,881 and the home whole. 426 00:17:53,881 --> 00:17:55,783 That's the problem right now. 427 00:17:55,783 --> 00:17:58,652 This counseling session was really just a bunch of years, 428 00:17:58,652 --> 00:18:01,021 or a bunch of things built up that just 429 00:18:01,021 --> 00:18:02,756 kinda were coming out. 430 00:18:02,756 --> 00:18:04,124 And if it came out harsh, 431 00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:06,226 that wasn't the intention to hurt nobody 432 00:18:06,226 --> 00:18:08,028 or make you feel some type of way, it was just 433 00:18:08,028 --> 00:18:10,831 to let you know this is just-- I mean, I want my wife 434 00:18:10,831 --> 00:18:13,834 to make me happy, I want my wife to do these things. 435 00:18:13,834 --> 00:18:16,770 As my wife, it's not that she's supposed to make me happy, 436 00:18:16,770 --> 00:18:20,240 it's just that I don't have somebody truly having my back. 437 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,676 I have a successful gym with my team, 438 00:18:22,676 --> 00:18:24,344 I body build, I act, 439 00:18:24,344 --> 00:18:26,280 on top of the fact she has her own business, 440 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,515 she's going back to school, she's working. 441 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:32,119 By the time we get home, it's literally just energy of 442 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,956 who gon' do for the other, and nobody does for the other. 443 00:18:35,956 --> 00:18:38,625 And the reason I'd rather just keep going back to Dr. Love 444 00:18:38,625 --> 00:18:40,661 'cause it seem like that's the only way I can communicate 445 00:18:40,661 --> 00:18:44,198 with you when I say things that are serious. 446 00:18:44,198 --> 00:18:48,502 - Well, it's, I mean... [stammering] 447 00:18:48,502 --> 00:18:51,071 it's like, when we don't see Dr. Love, 448 00:18:51,071 --> 00:18:53,307 then what is even happening with us? 449 00:18:53,307 --> 00:18:54,975 There's just like a weird-- 450 00:18:54,975 --> 00:18:56,510 it's weird right now. 451 00:18:56,510 --> 00:18:58,979 Knowing that now you feel like everything has to be 452 00:18:58,979 --> 00:19:00,514 limited into counseling, 453 00:19:00,514 --> 00:19:02,883 this damn near feel like separation. 454 00:19:02,883 --> 00:19:05,719 I don't even know where to go from from here. 455 00:19:11,358 --> 00:19:13,594 [Don] You know, if we can't find a way 456 00:19:13,594 --> 00:19:15,863 to come to common ground, if I continue to grow 457 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:17,397 into this type of person, 458 00:19:17,397 --> 00:19:19,767 and if her state of mind is only focused on this way, 459 00:19:19,767 --> 00:19:21,869 there's no way we're gonna meet here 460 00:19:21,869 --> 00:19:24,605 and, I mean, we're only gonna 461 00:19:24,605 --> 00:19:26,507 essentially continue to grow apart. 462 00:19:28,675 --> 00:19:30,978 - So if you a cast member, are you here for 9MAG 463 00:19:30,978 --> 00:19:33,647 are you gonna still be here when the cameras leave? 464 00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:36,884 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 465 00:19:39,066 --> 00:19:42,603 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 466 00:19:42,603 --> 00:19:44,705 - ♪ Ballin' like LeBron I put them numbers up ♪ 467 00:19:44,705 --> 00:19:46,640 ♪ Mm-hmm, last time that I checked ♪ 468 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,709 ♪ Y'all wasn't doing much, mm-hmm ♪ 469 00:19:48,709 --> 00:19:50,778 ♪ Y'all too busy worryin' 'bout that other stuff ♪ 470 00:19:50,778 --> 00:19:53,481 ♪ Mm-hmm, should be handlin' business... ♪ 471 00:19:53,481 --> 00:19:55,182 - Let's go. - Whole team. 472 00:19:55,182 --> 00:19:56,684 Nobody left out. 473 00:19:56,684 --> 00:19:58,252 - The only people that told me 474 00:19:58,252 --> 00:20:00,588 that they were not coming 475 00:20:00,588 --> 00:20:04,558 Suerte, and Draya had a family emergency. 476 00:20:04,558 --> 00:20:07,762 - When I first heard that, you know, Jet was around 477 00:20:07,762 --> 00:20:10,398 the shop snapping, I'm like, Jet don't [bleep] out 478 00:20:10,398 --> 00:20:13,234 for no reason, so me calling the meeting 479 00:20:13,234 --> 00:20:14,502 is to be able to give a ground floor 480 00:20:14,502 --> 00:20:15,903 for everybody to be able to say 481 00:20:15,903 --> 00:20:18,873 whatever they feel they can't say regularly. 482 00:20:18,873 --> 00:20:21,442 What's up? 483 00:20:24,145 --> 00:20:25,479 I wanna hear it from all of y'all, 484 00:20:25,479 --> 00:20:27,348 because we can't get [bleep] accomplished 485 00:20:27,348 --> 00:20:29,116 if everybody not sayin' what they gotta say. 486 00:20:29,116 --> 00:20:30,918 - You know, like a couple months ago, 487 00:20:30,918 --> 00:20:33,454 we have like, meetings or whatever talking about 488 00:20:33,454 --> 00:20:35,055 what we were gonna do moving forward, 489 00:20:35,055 --> 00:20:37,691 how 9MAG is being represented. 490 00:20:37,691 --> 00:20:39,593 We should be at a certain standard 491 00:20:39,593 --> 00:20:41,695 of Black tattooers, and anybody 492 00:20:41,695 --> 00:20:43,864 who doesn't come around as much, 493 00:20:43,864 --> 00:20:46,667 they should let it be known their level of involvement. 494 00:20:46,667 --> 00:20:48,803 - You talking about people on camera and off camera 495 00:20:48,803 --> 00:20:51,172 or just people that's contracting? 496 00:20:51,172 --> 00:20:53,574 - Okay, so let's talk like that then. 497 00:20:53,574 --> 00:20:55,976 So if you a cast member, are you here for 9MAG? 498 00:20:55,976 --> 00:20:58,112 Are you gonna still be here when the cameras leave? 499 00:20:58,112 --> 00:21:02,016 Or is it a person like Jet and Kyle and Mark, 500 00:21:02,016 --> 00:21:04,285 that's really here, we really been here 501 00:21:04,285 --> 00:21:06,387 and we wanna make the brand look 502 00:21:06,387 --> 00:21:07,955 as best as possible, you know what I'm sayin'? 503 00:21:07,955 --> 00:21:09,590 We still are a real shop, 504 00:21:09,590 --> 00:21:11,892 and we still have real artists, bruh. 505 00:21:11,892 --> 00:21:13,561 - This is what I need people to understand. 506 00:21:13,561 --> 00:21:16,564 Y'all are artists down to the wire. 507 00:21:16,564 --> 00:21:19,133 This is not a show about artists. 508 00:21:19,133 --> 00:21:21,869 It's about people who work in a [bleep] shop, 509 00:21:21,869 --> 00:21:23,737 and what they do in they [bleep] life. 510 00:21:23,737 --> 00:21:25,739 It's a [bleep] lifestyle show. 511 00:21:25,739 --> 00:21:27,541 So they not gonna see the great artistry 512 00:21:27,541 --> 00:21:29,410 that y'all do all the [bleep] time. 513 00:21:29,410 --> 00:21:31,545 If we sat around and only showed the [bleep] that 514 00:21:31,545 --> 00:21:33,414 we think is [bleep] funny and the [bleep] we do, 515 00:21:33,414 --> 00:21:35,182 this [bleep] wouldn't be here. 516 00:21:35,182 --> 00:21:36,717 - Okay... - But I got-- 517 00:21:36,717 --> 00:21:39,653 - Check it out, bro. If they want some [bleep], 518 00:21:39,653 --> 00:21:41,555 and we can't provide [bleep], 519 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:43,524 we gotta bring in other people for [bleep], 520 00:21:43,524 --> 00:21:45,459 take the [bleep] out, bro. 521 00:21:45,459 --> 00:21:47,761 [bleep] the [bleep], [bleep] the show, bro. 522 00:21:47,761 --> 00:21:50,898 We don't have to have a show for people to respect us. 523 00:21:50,898 --> 00:21:53,200 - Tell me what has been represented as [bleep], 524 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,737 between bringing cast members in like Prince and Draya 525 00:21:56,737 --> 00:21:58,372 as they naturally came in. 526 00:21:58,372 --> 00:22:00,174 [Shogun] Yeah, that's unfair, bro. 527 00:22:00,174 --> 00:22:03,143 Draya is a [bleep] monster, and I can't let you get down... 528 00:22:03,143 --> 00:22:05,312 - I'm not trying to get down 'cause I respect Prince, 529 00:22:05,312 --> 00:22:06,947 I respect Prince to the death, bro-- 530 00:22:06,947 --> 00:22:09,149 - Because little bro don't-- - I'm not sayin' none of that. 531 00:22:09,149 --> 00:22:12,019 - I already got one foot out the door thinkin' 532 00:22:12,019 --> 00:22:13,320 about my future, 533 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:14,955 now I gotta think about this guy. 534 00:22:14,955 --> 00:22:16,724 It's never been about TV with me, 535 00:22:16,724 --> 00:22:18,425 I just got on this [bleep]. 536 00:22:18,425 --> 00:22:20,494 I be at the shop working every day. 537 00:22:20,494 --> 00:22:22,630 Like I held it down at 2nd City 538 00:22:22,630 --> 00:22:24,431 during the pandemic, the cameras wasn't there. 539 00:22:24,431 --> 00:22:25,833 I come in this bitch and I work, 540 00:22:25,833 --> 00:22:27,501 camera's not there or if the camera's there. 541 00:22:27,501 --> 00:22:29,603 Regardless if they there or not, I'm gonna be there. 542 00:22:29,603 --> 00:22:31,472 [Shogun] I get the frustrations. 543 00:22:31,472 --> 00:22:33,974 But when the cameras ain't here, we are 9MAG. 544 00:22:33,974 --> 00:22:36,210 When the cameras, we are 9MAG and are, guess what, 545 00:22:36,210 --> 00:22:39,513 they filmin' that [bleep] right here at the same time. 546 00:22:39,513 --> 00:22:42,049 - And I feel like I got brought here for walk-ins, 547 00:22:42,049 --> 00:22:44,652 but walk-ins don't even wanna come in this bitch, 548 00:22:44,652 --> 00:22:46,754 'cause they gotta go through so many procedures 549 00:22:46,754 --> 00:22:48,722 just to get in this joint. 550 00:22:48,722 --> 00:22:50,958 The everyday money that I expected 551 00:22:50,958 --> 00:22:53,694 to come out here and get, I'm not gettin' it. 552 00:22:53,694 --> 00:22:56,964 It's been a time where I came to the front door, 553 00:22:56,964 --> 00:22:59,667 you know, and it was like, okay, you can't come in this way. 554 00:22:59,667 --> 00:23:02,036 I turned around, I walked my ass home. 555 00:23:02,036 --> 00:23:04,672 Is this where I thought I worked? 556 00:23:04,672 --> 00:23:06,407 - I know artists are creative people, 557 00:23:06,407 --> 00:23:09,910 they don't like a lot of rules or hurdles to jump through. 558 00:23:09,910 --> 00:23:13,414 So to come into work and have to COVID test 559 00:23:13,414 --> 00:23:16,717 or, and have to wait, it could explain 560 00:23:16,717 --> 00:23:20,354 why there've been so many empty booths at 9MAG lately. 561 00:23:20,354 --> 00:23:23,057 But I wouldn't let that hinder you 562 00:23:23,057 --> 00:23:26,126 from doing a job that you're there to do. 563 00:23:26,126 --> 00:23:27,895 - Every time I come through this door, bro, 564 00:23:27,895 --> 00:23:29,663 I make sure I check my energy before I come in here. 565 00:23:29,663 --> 00:23:31,899 And I feel like [bleep] when I go back home, 566 00:23:31,899 --> 00:23:35,469 and it's like, bro, what're we doin', bro? 567 00:23:35,469 --> 00:23:37,137 - It's gotta be a better system 568 00:23:37,137 --> 00:23:40,741 with this situation and just tattooing, 569 00:23:40,741 --> 00:23:45,012 because most [bleep] can't eat with both of 'em going on. 570 00:23:45,012 --> 00:23:46,413 - I-I'll give you that, 571 00:23:46,413 --> 00:23:48,882 and I'ma also counter that to any and everybody. 572 00:23:48,882 --> 00:23:50,784 That is what happens sometimes, 573 00:23:50,784 --> 00:23:52,419 when the clients gotta go through that [bleep] like that, 574 00:23:52,419 --> 00:23:56,824 but y'all also know we don't film in this [bleep] every day. 575 00:23:56,824 --> 00:23:59,259 We ain't filmed in this [bleep] three days straight, 576 00:23:59,259 --> 00:24:01,362 so can't nobody account for that [bleep] for seven days 577 00:24:01,362 --> 00:24:03,797 like production getting in the way of their [bleep]. 578 00:24:03,797 --> 00:24:05,065 'Cause I look in that group message 579 00:24:05,065 --> 00:24:07,167 every [bleep] day, and half the time, 580 00:24:07,167 --> 00:24:08,902 that [bleep] say, "Hey, there's clients, here, 581 00:24:08,902 --> 00:24:10,504 "[bleep], there's walk-ins here, 582 00:24:10,504 --> 00:24:12,072 anybody here, anybody coming?" 583 00:24:12,072 --> 00:24:14,074 Maybe that's my fault that I'm not giving y'all 584 00:24:14,074 --> 00:24:16,076 what y'all need to make y'all wanna have the incentive 585 00:24:16,076 --> 00:24:18,178 to come in this [bleep], or y'all so resentful 586 00:24:18,178 --> 00:24:19,947 of this [bleep] that I brought around, 587 00:24:19,947 --> 00:24:22,282 which is the cameras, but I need to know that. 588 00:24:22,282 --> 00:24:26,120 Because now, we have gotten to a point to where 589 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:27,821 this [bleep] ain't doing what it's supposed to do 590 00:24:27,821 --> 00:24:30,791 and we not even handlin' our business how we need to. 591 00:24:30,791 --> 00:24:32,559 I got back rent going on here. 592 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:33,560 ♪♪ 593 00:24:39,066 --> 00:24:42,870 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 594 00:24:44,372 --> 00:24:46,774 - We have gotten to a point to where 595 00:24:46,774 --> 00:24:48,809 I got back rent going on here. 596 00:24:48,809 --> 00:24:51,412 I'm payin' out my [bleep] pocket 597 00:24:51,412 --> 00:24:54,148 because [bleep] not doin' they [bleep] all the way. 598 00:24:54,148 --> 00:24:56,150 Everybody that works here I have talked to, 599 00:24:56,150 --> 00:24:57,918 and y'all all made a [bleep] promise that, 600 00:24:57,918 --> 00:25:00,588 yo, this some [bleep] that [bleep] movin' 601 00:25:00,588 --> 00:25:02,022 and I'm here to [bleep] move with it. 602 00:25:02,022 --> 00:25:03,758 It's lazy [bleep] in here and everywhere, 603 00:25:03,758 --> 00:25:06,127 we said we gon' do it, how the [bleep] we end up here, 604 00:25:06,127 --> 00:25:07,261 where we owe rent? 605 00:25:07,261 --> 00:25:08,662 Can't nobody in the [bleep] city 606 00:25:08,662 --> 00:25:09,830 [bleep] with us, and we sittin' here 607 00:25:09,830 --> 00:25:11,732 where we can't make it. 608 00:25:11,732 --> 00:25:13,167 I don't know business like that, 609 00:25:13,167 --> 00:25:14,935 but I'm learning it and I'm trying to grow 610 00:25:14,935 --> 00:25:17,171 and I'm trying to take on everybody else's insight 'cause 611 00:25:17,171 --> 00:25:20,141 a lotta y'all know the [bleep], more than me, but I need it! 612 00:25:20,141 --> 00:25:22,143 I can't just make it happen on my own, 613 00:25:22,143 --> 00:25:24,211 and I really don't need people sitting around waiting 614 00:25:24,211 --> 00:25:26,347 to see if Ryan gonna do it, and if Ryan don't [bleep] it, 615 00:25:26,347 --> 00:25:28,048 [bleep] it. 616 00:25:30,251 --> 00:25:33,754 I do have great plans for 9MAG and the team, 617 00:25:33,754 --> 00:25:36,257 but I can't do this [bleep] on my own. 618 00:25:36,257 --> 00:25:38,259 I honestly don't know if Jet would've had that outburst 619 00:25:38,259 --> 00:25:39,760 if I would've been there that day, 620 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,796 but I'm kinda glad I wasn't there 621 00:25:41,796 --> 00:25:44,131 because people needed to hear Jet out. 622 00:25:44,131 --> 00:25:46,934 And I woulda interrupted that [bleep] in the door, 623 00:25:46,934 --> 00:25:49,904 but there's more accountability that I gotta take as a leader 624 00:25:49,904 --> 00:25:54,175 to make my artists, especially my original artists, 625 00:25:54,175 --> 00:25:56,444 feel comfortable because it could be a way 626 00:25:56,444 --> 00:25:59,113 that we could grow this shop, as opposed to me consistently 627 00:25:59,113 --> 00:26:01,182 having to go back to the business drawing board. 628 00:26:01,182 --> 00:26:03,751 I've had people come and go, what I've always been able 629 00:26:03,751 --> 00:26:06,387 to depend on is a Jet. 630 00:26:06,387 --> 00:26:09,156 I'ma try to do my part as best as I can, 631 00:26:09,156 --> 00:26:10,791 but I also need help and people doing 632 00:26:10,791 --> 00:26:12,159 what the [bleep] we gotta do. 633 00:26:12,159 --> 00:26:14,495 And if y'all sayin' continually that 634 00:26:14,495 --> 00:26:16,730 this is that, that is that, the cameras doing [bleep] 635 00:26:16,730 --> 00:26:19,967 like that, then I will adjust. 636 00:26:19,967 --> 00:26:21,735 'Cause ain't none of that [bleep] worth losing 637 00:26:21,735 --> 00:26:23,504 the [bleep] integrity or what the [bleep] 638 00:26:23,504 --> 00:26:26,140 bread and butter of this [bleep] shop is supposed to be. 639 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:28,209 But I can't do this [bleep] on my own-- 640 00:26:28,209 --> 00:26:30,177 I need the support of the team. 641 00:26:30,177 --> 00:26:31,812 Do I have that? - [all] Yes, sir. 642 00:26:31,812 --> 00:26:33,681 - Will I have that? - Yes, sirski. 643 00:26:33,681 --> 00:26:36,784 - This meeting has been needing to happen. 644 00:26:36,784 --> 00:26:38,419 I actually appreciate Ryan, 645 00:26:38,419 --> 00:26:39,987 you know, opening up 646 00:26:39,987 --> 00:26:42,623 and being honest about the financial issues 647 00:26:42,623 --> 00:26:45,493 'cause we can actually do something 648 00:26:45,493 --> 00:26:46,961 to turn things around. 649 00:26:46,961 --> 00:26:48,696 - May the church say "amen." 650 00:26:48,696 --> 00:26:49,964 - [all] Amen. - Amen again. 651 00:26:49,964 --> 00:26:52,633 - Amen again. - We'll figure it out. 652 00:26:52,633 --> 00:26:55,135 [clapping, chatter] 653 00:26:55,135 --> 00:26:59,573 ♪♪ 654 00:26:59,573 --> 00:27:02,376 - ♪ I think about the big dollas, big money ♪ 655 00:27:02,376 --> 00:27:06,780 ♪ The big life, I know you wanna live just like me... ♪ 656 00:27:06,780 --> 00:27:08,883 - After that big meeting at 9AMG, it kinda felt 657 00:27:08,883 --> 00:27:10,317 like 2nd City again. 658 00:27:10,317 --> 00:27:12,486 - I never wanna see you back in here again. 659 00:27:12,486 --> 00:27:13,954 - [bleep] y'all, man. 660 00:27:13,954 --> 00:27:15,923 [bleep], you not workin' outta 661 00:27:15,923 --> 00:27:17,858 no [bleep] car, bro, [bleep] that. 662 00:27:17,858 --> 00:27:18,993 When I walked out that place, 663 00:27:18,993 --> 00:27:20,661 I took my brother with me 664 00:27:20,661 --> 00:27:22,730 because I don't want the drama. 665 00:27:22,730 --> 00:27:24,865 Jet bringing my name up is drama. 666 00:27:24,865 --> 00:27:26,734 I wanna open up my own shop 667 00:27:26,734 --> 00:27:31,505 to design my own atmosphere that I know that is drama-free, 668 00:27:31,505 --> 00:27:34,074 that ain't gonna have no hating-ass [bleep] around. 669 00:27:34,074 --> 00:27:37,278 It's cold as hell in here. 670 00:27:37,278 --> 00:27:39,813 Honestly, the owners is just waiting for me. 671 00:27:39,813 --> 00:27:41,682 They waitin' for me to sign that paperwork. 672 00:27:41,682 --> 00:27:43,517 [bleep]. 673 00:27:43,517 --> 00:27:46,287 ♪♪ 674 00:27:46,287 --> 00:27:48,722 - There's a lotta work to be done in this [bleep]. 675 00:27:48,722 --> 00:27:51,158 - It's always gonna be a lotta work, bro. 676 00:27:51,158 --> 00:27:53,227 It's better than being up at 2nd City. 677 00:27:53,227 --> 00:27:55,963 - Yeah, I'm with you when you right. 678 00:27:55,963 --> 00:27:57,331 - Look, this what I was thinking. 679 00:27:57,331 --> 00:27:59,867 These two sides right here, boom. 680 00:27:59,867 --> 00:28:02,970 Put a little wall right here. 681 00:28:02,970 --> 00:28:05,673 My spot, and then your spot. 682 00:28:05,673 --> 00:28:07,775 This the neighborhood, bro. It's [bleep] up over here, 683 00:28:07,775 --> 00:28:09,243 it ain't like it used to be, bro. 684 00:28:09,243 --> 00:28:12,212 Like, our old high school's right across the street. 685 00:28:12,212 --> 00:28:15,516 We could go speak to the kids over there across the street, 686 00:28:15,516 --> 00:28:18,352 like, bro, we used to be in here in school, 687 00:28:18,352 --> 00:28:20,254 now we got an establishment right across the street, 688 00:28:20,254 --> 00:28:21,889 come check us out if y'all wanna get some 689 00:28:21,889 --> 00:28:23,324 art-related talents, you know what I'm sayin'? 690 00:28:23,324 --> 00:28:26,427 - I'm with all of this as long as I know 691 00:28:26,427 --> 00:28:27,695 me and you on the same page. 692 00:28:27,695 --> 00:28:29,196 'Cause you got somewhere to work out of, 693 00:28:29,196 --> 00:28:30,864 but I don't want you doing too much 694 00:28:30,864 --> 00:28:34,134 and then something knock you off 695 00:28:34,134 --> 00:28:36,003 and you leave me high and dry. 696 00:28:36,003 --> 00:28:37,338 - How am I gonna leave you high and dry, gang? 697 00:28:37,338 --> 00:28:38,939 - 'Cause you got too much going on. 698 00:28:38,939 --> 00:28:40,274 - What you mean I got too much going on? 699 00:28:40,274 --> 00:28:41,775 - You just said you got too much going on. 700 00:28:41,775 --> 00:28:43,978 - I need your help. - A'ight... 701 00:28:43,978 --> 00:28:45,546 - I need your help, [bleep]. - I'm gonna be here 702 00:28:45,546 --> 00:28:46,880 and I'ma continue to be here. 703 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,149 - A'ight. 704 00:28:49,149 --> 00:28:51,752 Whole time, we gon' put your booth over there 705 00:28:51,752 --> 00:28:52,953 by the toilet... - Not finna be 706 00:28:52,953 --> 00:28:54,455 by no bathroom, [bleep] wrong with you? 707 00:28:54,455 --> 00:28:55,956 - Somebody take a [bleep] in that bitch. 708 00:28:55,956 --> 00:28:57,992 - You can be by the front door, 709 00:28:57,992 --> 00:29:00,027 like at 9MAG. 710 00:29:00,027 --> 00:29:01,862 Be the first face they see when they walk in. 711 00:29:01,862 --> 00:29:03,464 - That's how you feel? - You Prince. 712 00:29:03,464 --> 00:29:05,099 - What the [bleep] that supposed to mean? 713 00:29:05,099 --> 00:29:06,266 - Prince. - [bleep] you talkin' about? 714 00:29:06,266 --> 00:29:07,968 You Johnny. Johnny boy... 715 00:29:07,968 --> 00:29:09,403 - Damn, we got a leak? 716 00:29:09,403 --> 00:29:10,571 Goddamn. 717 00:29:10,571 --> 00:29:12,973 - I see the potential in this [bleep]. 718 00:29:12,973 --> 00:29:16,043 Don't get it twisted. I loved my time at 9MAG, 719 00:29:16,043 --> 00:29:18,512 I just didn't have a timeline put together 720 00:29:18,512 --> 00:29:20,180 for Blood Brothers with my little brother. 721 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,950 But after what Jet had to say about me, 722 00:29:22,950 --> 00:29:26,887 the timeline is right [bleep] now. 723 00:29:26,887 --> 00:29:28,255 And I just gotta tell Ryan, 724 00:29:28,255 --> 00:29:30,824 and hopefully he don't fire my ass because 725 00:29:30,824 --> 00:29:33,160 I'm gonna need a job in order for me to open this bitch up. 726 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,461 Taste the potential. Taste it. 727 00:29:34,461 --> 00:29:36,630 [smacks lips] Taste the potential. 728 00:29:36,630 --> 00:29:37,965 [Johnny spitting] 729 00:29:37,965 --> 00:29:39,333 - Not the drip. 730 00:29:39,333 --> 00:29:41,935 - Let's go then. - Let's get a bucket 731 00:29:41,935 --> 00:29:43,270 before that [bleep] the wood up. 732 00:29:43,270 --> 00:29:45,406 - Blood Brothers? - Blood Brothers. 733 00:29:45,406 --> 00:29:47,307 - Blood Brothers. - Blood Brothers. 734 00:29:47,307 --> 00:29:50,177 - Speak it into existence. - Yes. 735 00:29:50,177 --> 00:29:53,113 - Everything bro did, I'm actually doing that [bleep] 736 00:29:53,113 --> 00:29:54,348 for my family right now. 737 00:29:54,348 --> 00:29:56,083 Like, I put my money into a space 738 00:29:56,083 --> 00:29:58,085 for my little brother and me to work at. 739 00:29:59,420 --> 00:30:00,421 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 740 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,303 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 741 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:07,438 ♪♪ 742 00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:10,074 - ♪ Every time I give 'em heaters, give 'em heaters ♪ 743 00:30:10,074 --> 00:30:13,945 ♪ You know I'm a park it, break the meter, break... ♪ 744 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,313 - Tonight is Phor's going away dinner 745 00:30:15,313 --> 00:30:17,181 and I don't want Don walking in 746 00:30:17,181 --> 00:30:18,916 thinking about our marriage problems 747 00:30:18,916 --> 00:30:20,752 when he about to say goodbye to his brother. 748 00:30:20,752 --> 00:30:24,122 Don and I have been together now going on ten years, 749 00:30:24,122 --> 00:30:27,024 and we have been through hell and back. 750 00:30:27,024 --> 00:30:29,727 Whatever it's gonna take for us to just make sure 751 00:30:29,727 --> 00:30:32,063 we get through this together, 752 00:30:32,063 --> 00:30:33,664 we're gonna do what we gotta do. 753 00:30:33,664 --> 00:30:36,934 [indistinct chatter] 754 00:30:36,934 --> 00:30:39,137 ♪♪ 755 00:30:39,137 --> 00:30:40,805 - Whole time, though... 756 00:30:40,805 --> 00:30:45,076 [chatter continues] 757 00:30:45,076 --> 00:30:49,480 [all cheering] 758 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,681 - Don't leave! 759 00:30:50,681 --> 00:30:51,883 [Phor] It's that time. 760 00:30:51,883 --> 00:30:53,985 My last night in Chicago. 761 00:30:53,985 --> 00:30:55,787 I'm feeling a little bittersweet, you know? 762 00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:57,755 These are people I worked with for a while, you know? 763 00:30:57,755 --> 00:31:01,492 People I've grew to love and build friendships with. 764 00:31:01,492 --> 00:31:03,694 But I gotta step away and I gotta do Phor right now. 765 00:31:03,694 --> 00:31:07,131 Um, I just wanna, you know, have a toast with the family, 766 00:31:07,131 --> 00:31:08,900 you know, if that's cool. [group murmuring] 767 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,436 I appreciate everybody for coming out 768 00:31:11,436 --> 00:31:14,071 as I just make sure, you know, before I got outta here 769 00:31:14,071 --> 00:31:16,541 that we had a time to kind of catch up and just, 770 00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:18,242 you know, chop it up before, you know, 771 00:31:18,242 --> 00:31:20,511 I went my separate way and moved out of Chicago. 772 00:31:20,511 --> 00:31:22,046 - Ooh, look how he dipped the head. 773 00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:24,015 - I don't like it. - Damn, man. 774 00:31:24,015 --> 00:31:25,316 - I'm just at a place now where I feel like 775 00:31:25,316 --> 00:31:26,784 I have to learn how to get comfortable 776 00:31:26,784 --> 00:31:28,686 with being uncomfortable, you know what I mean? 777 00:31:28,686 --> 00:31:30,354 You know, I feel like Chicago is a place where it's always, 778 00:31:30,354 --> 00:31:31,823 you know, we've done so much here 779 00:31:31,823 --> 00:31:33,825 and I'm just ready to expand and just, you know, 780 00:31:33,825 --> 00:31:36,093 put my son in an environment where it's a little more 781 00:31:36,093 --> 00:31:37,895 peaceful and safer... - Absolutely. 782 00:31:37,895 --> 00:31:39,897 - Definitely gonna miss you. - You know, in the meantime, 783 00:31:39,897 --> 00:31:41,365 I wanna just have a good time with, 784 00:31:41,365 --> 00:31:43,167 you know, my Chicago family and just, you know, 785 00:31:43,167 --> 00:31:44,569 make a toast and, you know... 786 00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:46,537 [all toasting] 787 00:31:46,537 --> 00:31:49,574 - Hey, to Phor going home and leavin' home. 788 00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:51,476 [all groaning, laughing] 789 00:31:51,476 --> 00:31:53,511 - I definitely appreciate everybody who came out 790 00:31:53,511 --> 00:31:54,645 to show love to me. 791 00:31:54,645 --> 00:31:56,747 They've been nothing but supportive, 792 00:31:56,747 --> 00:31:58,716 motivational people, and I'ma definitely miss 793 00:31:58,716 --> 00:32:00,117 my girl Draya, for sure. 794 00:32:00,117 --> 00:32:01,519 I appreciate the tattoo she did for me, 795 00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:03,254 putting my son on me, you know, so I feel like 796 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,856 she's gonna be with me forever. 797 00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:08,125 - You better not make no dollar Chi-town [bleep] song, [bleep]. 798 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,894 - [bleep], boy, eat your food. 799 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,363 [laughter, chatter] 800 00:32:12,363 --> 00:32:14,332 If you gonna move around, once you relax, 801 00:32:14,332 --> 00:32:15,700 how much you expect Chicago to get... 802 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:18,336 - I'm already there... [chatter continues] 803 00:32:18,336 --> 00:32:19,604 - They either fear it, they either scared 804 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:21,038 or it gonna be a problem. - Yeah! 805 00:32:21,038 --> 00:32:22,373 - I'm from the 'Raq. 806 00:32:22,373 --> 00:32:25,042 Just like this man, this man, we from here. 807 00:32:25,042 --> 00:32:28,579 So like, everything bro did to bring 808 00:32:28,579 --> 00:32:30,648 opportunity to everybody, I understand the [bleep]. 809 00:32:30,648 --> 00:32:32,483 Like, I wanna do that [bleep] for my family, 810 00:32:32,483 --> 00:32:34,352 I'm actually doing that [bleep] for my family right now. 811 00:32:34,352 --> 00:32:36,220 Like, I put my money into a space 812 00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:38,956 for my little brother and me to work at. 813 00:32:38,956 --> 00:32:40,491 Like you saying it's time for you move, 814 00:32:40,491 --> 00:32:42,860 I just wanted to let y'all know that [bleep]. 815 00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:46,464 - So you basically saying you finna open up a shop? 816 00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:49,267 - [Prince] It's time. - Hey, man, congratulations. 817 00:32:49,267 --> 00:32:50,568 - Thank you, bro, you know what I'm saying? 818 00:32:50,568 --> 00:32:54,405 It's a family spot that I want to dedicate 819 00:32:54,405 --> 00:32:57,074 to my sister that's gone, my mom, my grandma, 820 00:32:57,074 --> 00:32:59,010 this is [bleep] that we talked about 821 00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:00,545 way before I got with y'all. 822 00:33:00,545 --> 00:33:02,213 ♪♪ 823 00:33:02,213 --> 00:33:03,948 I'm still rockin', with y'all, bro. 824 00:33:03,948 --> 00:33:06,217 But I feel like I need to do it. 825 00:33:06,217 --> 00:33:08,352 - I get where you're coming from, 826 00:33:08,352 --> 00:33:12,156 and we gotta do what's best for us, you know? 827 00:33:12,156 --> 00:33:14,859 And I gotta get a little closer back to home, 828 00:33:14,859 --> 00:33:18,362 so right now, I know I gotta make a move. 829 00:33:18,362 --> 00:33:19,363 - What the [bleep]? 830 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:26,536 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 831 00:33:26,536 --> 00:33:28,438 [Prince] I'm still rockin' with y'all, bro. 832 00:33:28,438 --> 00:33:30,340 But I feel like-- but, look, this just 833 00:33:30,340 --> 00:33:33,543 what I feel like I need to do. 834 00:33:33,543 --> 00:33:35,178 - I get where you're coming from, 835 00:33:35,178 --> 00:33:38,782 and we gotta do what's best for us, you know? 836 00:33:38,782 --> 00:33:41,685 And I gotta get a little closer back to home, 837 00:33:41,685 --> 00:33:45,422 so right now, I know I gotta make a move. 838 00:33:45,422 --> 00:33:48,425 To be a part of 9MAG is an honor, 839 00:33:48,425 --> 00:33:52,629 but right now I gotta make sure my family is okay. 840 00:33:52,629 --> 00:33:55,532 I went to New York to meet my father for the first time, 841 00:33:55,532 --> 00:33:57,100 and that [bleep] was crazy. 842 00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,569 And at the time, my auntie was sick, 843 00:33:59,569 --> 00:34:02,472 and, unfortunately, my auntie passed. 844 00:34:02,472 --> 00:34:04,508 - I'm sorry for you. - I'm sorry, baby. 845 00:34:04,508 --> 00:34:07,277 - I appreciate that but, like, at the end of the day, 846 00:34:07,277 --> 00:34:10,113 it puts into perspective how important family is. 847 00:34:12,015 --> 00:34:14,518 All I could think about is making sure my uncle's okay. 848 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:19,423 With my auntie passing, right now my uncle 849 00:34:19,423 --> 00:34:21,024 needs me more than ever. 850 00:34:21,024 --> 00:34:22,592 He's alone now, and I really can't 851 00:34:22,592 --> 00:34:24,461 let the logistics of booking a flight 852 00:34:24,461 --> 00:34:26,663 stop me or slow me down from getting to him. 853 00:34:26,663 --> 00:34:29,599 And being in New York gives me the opportunity 854 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:31,868 to get to know my sister Anastasia a little bit better, 855 00:34:31,868 --> 00:34:34,237 as well as my father and the rest of my family. 856 00:34:34,237 --> 00:34:36,907 If they even want to, that is. 857 00:34:36,907 --> 00:34:39,042 - Probably before, I probably would have 858 00:34:39,042 --> 00:34:42,245 [bleep] threw a fit about this, that and the other. 859 00:34:42,245 --> 00:34:44,347 But right now, I'am support you 860 00:34:44,347 --> 00:34:45,849 in doing what you gotta do, you done came here, 861 00:34:45,849 --> 00:34:47,851 you done been real, you've rooted yourself 862 00:34:47,851 --> 00:34:51,488 and I'm just gonna keep moving forward how I got to. 863 00:34:51,488 --> 00:34:54,491 I gotta talk a step back from everything 864 00:34:54,491 --> 00:34:58,061 because how did my ten-year artists 865 00:34:58,061 --> 00:35:01,298 who down for me for the most loyal [bleep] snap 866 00:35:01,298 --> 00:35:04,367 because of what we've brought around 867 00:35:04,367 --> 00:35:06,336 makes them feel a certain way. 868 00:35:06,336 --> 00:35:08,338 So the new ways that I'm doing 9MAG, 869 00:35:08,338 --> 00:35:11,041 it might not always follow with TV. 870 00:35:11,041 --> 00:35:13,777 I might have to actually get it away from the people 871 00:35:13,777 --> 00:35:15,378 who can't handle [bleep] and who could be 872 00:35:15,378 --> 00:35:17,581 better artists and businesspeople without it. 873 00:35:17,581 --> 00:35:20,183 If that's gon' protect the integrity of 9MAG, 874 00:35:20,183 --> 00:35:22,018 then that needs to happen. 875 00:35:22,018 --> 00:35:24,187 Did we not go around the world and make people know 876 00:35:24,187 --> 00:35:25,522 that 9MAG was about great art? 877 00:35:25,522 --> 00:35:27,491 When they thought that Black Ink was just 878 00:35:27,491 --> 00:35:29,626 some [bleep] in a [bleep] shop [bleep] and fighting? 879 00:35:29,626 --> 00:35:31,962 - So check it out. - Wow. 880 00:35:31,962 --> 00:35:33,897 This looks really good. 881 00:35:33,897 --> 00:35:35,565 - So is it everything you pictured? 882 00:35:35,565 --> 00:35:37,200 - I love this tattoo, I love it. 883 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,102 - Oh, [bleep]. 884 00:35:39,102 --> 00:35:41,571 - We showed them what 9MAG was separate of Black Ink. 885 00:35:41,571 --> 00:35:43,373 You know what I mean? So if that's what we are 886 00:35:43,373 --> 00:35:44,508 and that's what we gon' continue to be, 887 00:35:44,508 --> 00:35:46,243 we gon' elevate and do more, 888 00:35:46,243 --> 00:35:48,345 whether it's with or without TV. 889 00:35:48,345 --> 00:35:50,714 [Shogun] 9MAG was able to shine a light on 890 00:35:50,714 --> 00:35:53,183 Black tattoo artists out of Chicago. 891 00:35:53,183 --> 00:35:54,351 Once upon a time, 892 00:35:54,351 --> 00:35:55,752 there wasn't a lot of us. 893 00:35:55,752 --> 00:35:57,654 And now they created these platforms 894 00:35:57,654 --> 00:36:00,056 that's known coast to coast and around the world. 895 00:36:00,056 --> 00:36:02,425 You know, there's people in Uganda that hit me up. 896 00:36:02,425 --> 00:36:04,728 Literally, one kid said, "My dream is to work 897 00:36:04,728 --> 00:36:05,896 at 9MAG Tattoo." 898 00:36:05,896 --> 00:36:07,898 That's what Ryan and them created. 899 00:36:07,898 --> 00:36:11,301 They was able to show what Black tattoo 900 00:36:11,301 --> 00:36:13,370 art excellence looks like. 901 00:36:13,370 --> 00:36:14,471 They set a standard. 902 00:36:14,471 --> 00:36:16,072 - What's that, Ryan? 903 00:36:16,072 --> 00:36:18,174 - Hey, brother, I got you a going-away gift. 904 00:36:18,174 --> 00:36:20,810 [all cheering] 905 00:36:20,810 --> 00:36:22,979 In case you gon' miss the little parts of 9MAG 906 00:36:22,979 --> 00:36:25,649 and your brothers and, you know, [bleep]. 907 00:36:25,649 --> 00:36:27,751 Got a quick trip down memory lane for ya. 908 00:36:27,751 --> 00:36:30,520 - Oh, my God. - Take this with you. 909 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,556 - Man, for sure. - You dig? 910 00:36:32,556 --> 00:36:34,958 - Love you, man. - Love you too, brother. 911 00:36:34,958 --> 00:36:38,828 - 9MAG at one point felt like a place of no egos. 912 00:36:38,828 --> 00:36:41,364 We stood by each other no matter what was going on. 913 00:36:41,364 --> 00:36:43,166 And when you look at these pictures, 914 00:36:43,166 --> 00:36:44,634 it just reminds you of how it feels 915 00:36:44,634 --> 00:36:46,369 to do something phenomenal 916 00:36:46,369 --> 00:36:47,771 next to a group of people you truly love. 917 00:36:47,771 --> 00:36:49,372 No matter what, history will never 918 00:36:49,372 --> 00:36:51,408 take away that I did something super dope 919 00:36:51,408 --> 00:36:53,009 with my family. 920 00:36:53,009 --> 00:36:55,545 - [crying] 921 00:36:55,545 --> 00:36:57,480 To get something like this presented to me, 922 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,950 you know what I mean, it hits different, bro, 923 00:36:59,950 --> 00:37:02,419 know what I'm saying, like... - That's why we did it. 924 00:37:02,419 --> 00:37:04,888 Took pictures. 925 00:37:04,888 --> 00:37:08,325 These [bleep] memories. 926 00:37:08,325 --> 00:37:10,393 - And it's not just-- they not just pictures, 927 00:37:10,393 --> 00:37:11,695 bro, they memories... 928 00:37:11,695 --> 00:37:13,363 - Real memories in that thing. 929 00:37:13,363 --> 00:37:15,465 - That's why this means so much to me, bro, 930 00:37:15,465 --> 00:37:17,334 'cause I see everything we went through, my [bleep]. 931 00:37:17,334 --> 00:37:20,470 I've been by your side, bro. 932 00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:23,506 - I ain't quittin' on nobody, man. 933 00:37:23,506 --> 00:37:25,175 - You my dog, bro, and when I say that [bleep], 934 00:37:25,175 --> 00:37:27,577 I mean that [bleep], bro. - Listen, bro, I ain't 935 00:37:27,577 --> 00:37:29,946 got no brothers, I got y'all sitting here 936 00:37:29,946 --> 00:37:32,816 that have welcomed me in to be a brother over these years. 937 00:37:32,816 --> 00:37:35,719 [bleep], that's some real [bleep]. 938 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,221 [Shogun] Shout out to y'all, bro. 939 00:37:38,221 --> 00:37:40,857 Don, Ryan, Phor, 940 00:37:40,857 --> 00:37:43,760 like, bro, y'all created something that's 941 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,795 never been done before y'all 942 00:37:45,795 --> 00:37:48,365 and ain't been done after y'all. 943 00:37:48,365 --> 00:37:51,735 The energy that y'all brought to the city, 944 00:37:51,735 --> 00:37:54,904 this [bleep] monstrosity of a business y'all made, bro-- 945 00:37:54,904 --> 00:37:56,506 - Can't be matched. - Y'all did that 946 00:37:56,506 --> 00:37:58,308 out the mud. - Can't be matched. 947 00:37:58,308 --> 00:38:00,343 - Out o-- can't be matched, bro. 948 00:38:00,343 --> 00:38:02,579 - Can't be matched. 949 00:38:02,579 --> 00:38:05,248 - Leaving Chicago is especially hard right now 950 00:38:05,248 --> 00:38:08,752 because I have gotten so close to everybody here. 951 00:38:08,752 --> 00:38:11,655 Brittany, and Don, and Phor, 952 00:38:11,655 --> 00:38:14,891 Ashley, Shogun, I mean, there's so many different 953 00:38:14,891 --> 00:38:16,826 personalities that I've learned to love 954 00:38:16,826 --> 00:38:18,728 and they've been a great support system. 955 00:38:18,728 --> 00:38:21,931 But there's some paths you've just gotta walk alone. 956 00:38:21,931 --> 00:38:26,536 - A few months ago, I was having 957 00:38:26,536 --> 00:38:29,472 some of the worst times of my life. 958 00:38:29,472 --> 00:38:31,574 [sobbing] I can't call her. 959 00:38:33,376 --> 00:38:35,979 I didn't have any family in Chicago, 960 00:38:35,979 --> 00:38:39,549 and these people became my family. 961 00:38:39,549 --> 00:38:43,687 I really feel like I found my home. 962 00:38:43,687 --> 00:38:45,755 And no matter where we all go 963 00:38:45,755 --> 00:38:48,692 and what happens from now, 964 00:38:48,692 --> 00:38:51,327 I feel like we'll all still remain a family. 965 00:38:51,327 --> 00:38:53,396 Very dysfunctional family, 966 00:38:53,396 --> 00:38:55,031 but a family nonetheless. 967 00:38:55,031 --> 00:38:56,900 [overlapping chatter] 968 00:38:56,900 --> 00:38:58,968 - Everybody's going their separate ways 969 00:38:58,968 --> 00:39:00,737 and everybody doing their own thing, 970 00:39:00,737 --> 00:39:02,205 I feel like it's a beautiful thing. 971 00:39:02,205 --> 00:39:05,308 I don't even look at this [bleep] as a bad thing 972 00:39:05,308 --> 00:39:06,843 because at the end of the day, 973 00:39:06,843 --> 00:39:08,845 y'all saw what y'all can do together. 974 00:39:08,845 --> 00:39:12,048 But when we separate, we know we putting in work. 975 00:39:12,048 --> 00:39:15,251 Phor, I know you learnin' from his mistakes. 976 00:39:15,251 --> 00:39:18,154 His accomplishments, your accomplishments, bro, 977 00:39:18,154 --> 00:39:19,823 wishes to you, bro. 978 00:39:19,823 --> 00:39:22,092 - That was a terrible cheers. That was a terrible cheers. 979 00:39:22,092 --> 00:39:24,060 - I was warmed up. [overlapping chatter] 980 00:39:24,060 --> 00:39:27,197 I wasn't done, I was finna say some sexy [bleep]! 981 00:39:27,197 --> 00:39:29,699 [overlapping chatter] - This is for Phor... 982 00:39:29,699 --> 00:39:31,701 - He gave us the Chi-town anthem. 983 00:39:31,701 --> 00:39:34,270 - ♪ There's no more ordinary lifestyle ♪ 984 00:39:34,270 --> 00:39:37,073 - I mean, this show is [bleep] crazy, okay, guys? 985 00:39:37,073 --> 00:39:38,641 But I learned a lot, 986 00:39:38,641 --> 00:39:40,477 been through a lot, you know, 987 00:39:40,477 --> 00:39:42,412 and I'm proud to say I was a 9MAG artist, 988 00:39:42,412 --> 00:39:44,114 you know, and that's gonna remain with me. 989 00:39:44,114 --> 00:39:45,648 It's tatted on me, it's gonna stay on me. 990 00:39:45,648 --> 00:39:48,852 Was it worth it? Yeah. 991 00:39:48,852 --> 00:39:52,388 ♪ She wanna -- with a -- from Chi-Town... ♪ 992 00:39:52,388 --> 00:39:54,090 - When I first came into the circle 993 00:39:54,090 --> 00:39:57,594 with Ryan and the guys, we were young, party animals, 994 00:39:57,594 --> 00:39:59,529 and now, you know, we're older, 995 00:39:59,529 --> 00:40:01,698 we're entrepreneurs, we're fathers. 996 00:40:01,698 --> 00:40:05,001 And part of that was having each other's backs. 997 00:40:05,001 --> 00:40:07,637 Me and Ashley have been through way worse stuff. 998 00:40:07,637 --> 00:40:09,239 I mean, it's been ten years. 999 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,274 These type of things that we're dealing with right now 1000 00:40:11,274 --> 00:40:13,777 are gonna keep happening, but it's all about 1001 00:40:13,777 --> 00:40:15,712 putting in the effort to work through them. 1002 00:40:15,712 --> 00:40:17,814 I know that we're gonna be okay, 1003 00:40:17,814 --> 00:40:19,749 and we have to remember, til death do us part, 1004 00:40:19,749 --> 00:40:20,984 we gotta fight for each other 1005 00:40:20,984 --> 00:40:22,719 and we gotta keep pushing through. 1006 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,287 - ♪ She be like man, Phor, you be litty ♪ 1007 00:40:24,287 --> 00:40:26,689 ♪ Just left over East, now we right on LA ♪ 1008 00:40:26,689 --> 00:40:28,858 ♪ I been drinkin' behind the museum... ♪ 1009 00:40:28,858 --> 00:40:31,361 - I did bring the world to 9MAG, 1010 00:40:31,361 --> 00:40:33,930 and I definitely have zero regrets for doing that. 1011 00:40:33,930 --> 00:40:40,236 Everybody played they part in growing 9MAG to be what it was. 1012 00:40:40,236 --> 00:40:45,408 Myself, Phor, Kat, Van, we all played a part in that. 1013 00:40:45,408 --> 00:40:48,478 And in that, I developed some friends and some family 1014 00:40:48,478 --> 00:40:53,149 and I developed another layer of loyalty that allows for me 1015 00:40:53,149 --> 00:40:56,519 to be so dedicated to growing others. 1016 00:40:56,519 --> 00:40:58,688 I didn't even focus on myself. 1017 00:40:58,688 --> 00:41:00,757 With that being said, it's time for me 1018 00:41:00,757 --> 00:41:02,392 to move forward with my own life. 1019 00:41:02,392 --> 00:41:04,928 [all cheering] 1020 00:41:04,928 --> 00:41:08,231 - To Phor leaving home and goin' back home! 1021 00:41:08,231 --> 00:41:10,834 - To growth! 9MAG! 1022 00:41:10,834 --> 00:41:14,000 - ♪ Chi-Town, Chi-Town, Chi-Town ♪ 1023 00:41:15,101 --> 00:41:19,038 ♪♪ 1024 00:41:40,726 --> 00:41:41,727 - ♪ MTV ♪