- You ready for another one?
We movin' to California.
- Me and Jerris aren't together,
like, I just need some help, and I'm just sick of like,
always surrounding myself with like, [bleep] ass people.
[KP] I don't like to see
none of my artists going through it
so we was like, we can actually make
some quick cash and put together an event for all of us.
♪♪
We got a family that we can trust.
[Tim] And now that we got that in order,
it's time for us to straight just focus on music.
- I'm excited, this is one of the biggest pieces
of the puzzle.
- The next guest spot
that we have lined up is Lemeir.
- It doesn't change how I feel about him,
it's like, I've been a friend to you,
and you've shown me multiple times
that you're really not a friend to me.
[cheering and laughter]
- Welcome to our new shop!
- Whole new joint.
- What's your situation like with...
- We don't really have a situation currently...
- Can y'all talk right now?
Nessie, can I talk to you for a second?
- ♪ I be fishin' wit you bish ♪
♪ I do what I want, hey ♪
♪ Tryna get a-- I do what I want ♪
♪ Hey, telling you ♪
♪ I do what I wanna ♪
♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪
- Now, let's get into this.
♪♪
As a boss, I have to do right by the brand
and bring in the best artists that I possibly can.
Lemeir's a great tattoo artist,
and I do want him working for me.
But I do not want whatever him and Nessie got going on
to disrupt my business,
so I'm hoping I can help them move forward.
I'm just gonna be straight up
about his lingering guest spot,
like you said you were completely cool with it,
but before we really bring him in the shop,
I'm not trying to create an unhealthy environment.
[Lemeir] For sure, I'm not even thinking about trying
to start any drama with you, or have any bad energy with you.
- Like, when you tell me I'm wrong about certain [bleep],
like, "Nessie, you need to be doing this,
you should be doing that,"
I feel like you mean well for me.
So vice versa, when I try to tell you
when you're wrong in certain areas morally,
integrity wise, not everything is about logic.
- What are you talking about?
Why are you talking about you can
teach me things about morally?
- Like, I can even tell, you really don't care,
you just saying what you gotta say to get past this.
- I cared about you, I care about Ken.
Ken never tells me don't do--
not do anything with you, Nessie.
- I never said to not be around him either, bro.
I just asked you to respect my boundaries
so like, when people don't acknowledge where they
were wrong or what was really the issue,
like, that thing can happen again.
- Do you just want an apology
for him bringing him around?
- Yes, that's it. I just want you to admit
that that wasn't right, bro, like, it makes sense.
- I'm not gonna bring him around.
[Nessie] Nothing Lemeir is saying is genuine right now.
He's just saying whatever he has to say in order
to look good in front of Kat
and so that he has a place here,
but my feelings mean nothing to him.
It's not a part of his business regimen.
- If you literally subtract him from the whole equation,
can you guys have a good relationship?
- I've been a good friend,
I just can't say the same in return all the time.
That's all I'm saying.
- I don't even wanna even
go back and forth with you, bro.
- Okay, cool. - If I'm not a good friend,
I ain't a good friend, just... cool.
This conversation is going nowhere.
And I'm really annoyed that she even sitting right here
playing victim in front of Kat
about a relationship that was only four months
that ended two years ago,
so if I didn't give a [bleep] before,
but this right here got me really turned up on my level
of not giving a [bleep].
- Might need to schedule another session.
- I'm gonna get set up my station.
- Okay.
- See you, 'Meir.
- A'ight, yeah, a'ight.
- I need to have my own talk with Lemeir
after what happened at the rose seminar.
But I'm gonna save that for another time,
I don't wanna get in the middle
of him and Nessie's tension again.
But I'm starting to worry
that Lemeir working here
might not just throw off Nessie's energy,
but the whole team's energy.
- I can see where both y'all stand with it.
Like I said, I want you here,
I've always respected you as an artist,
and I do see potential there for growth.
This did not go as planned.
I can feel Lemeir's energy, and I can feel Nessie's energy,
and it's clear as day that they don't [bleep] with each other.
Nessie is part of Enigma family now,
but it's not just up to Lemeir to make this guest spot work.
Both of them say they can keep [bleep] cool,
so I'm expecting them both
to put in the effort to put the drama behind them.
Whoo!
It's thick in here.
- ♪ We do my thing, while I woop, 'ey ♪
♪ Watch me do my thing while I woop, 'ey ♪
♪ All eyes on me ♪
♪ While I woop, 'ey ♪
♪♪
- Hey! - Yo, hey, how you doin'?
- Thanks for coming. - Definitely, anytime.
I've been going hard promoting my new music
and getting the word out
about all the good stuff going down at Ink Art Music.
So while the artists in there booked and busy,
I'm heading over to the homegirl Telli Swift
and do her podcast, "Telli Talks."
Telli, she a dope actress, philanthropist,
entrepreneur, so I think it'd be
a cool look for Ink Art Music.
- Hello, everybody, welcome to "Telli Talks."
I have a very special guest today,
he is an artist and owner
of Compton's first tattoo shop,
IAM Compton.
- Yep, yep, what's happening?
- Legend in the building. - Yes, yes.
Okay, so you've tatted a lot of people.
I mean, I know there's Trey Songz,
Taraji...
- Ross.
- Ricky Rossy.
- Yeah, those are names, now.
Okay, so tell us about your journey and how
you got to where you are today.
- Journey, it's a long journey,
you know, we'd be here all day.
♪♪
- ♪ I'm in my bag ♪
♪ Anything I want, I take ♪
♪ All because I got the swag ♪
♪ I got the swag ♪
♪ I'm in my bag... ♪
- What the [bleep], man?
Always something.
Ever since the open house,
the boys have been in and out the shop,
and it's been messing up everyone's schedule.
I have a client coming in early today,
and I gave a head's up,
and they still not here to open up the shop.
They getting on my damn nerves.
- The sports, and me... - [phone vibrating]
- ...and Compton really saved my life,
and now pursuing what I love to do, which is music.
- [bleep].
[dial tone]
[Telli] Okay, so for the people that live
under a rock, you got a song coming up.
- Oh yeah, um, "New New".
- "New New", what is "New New" about?
- I was like, in a vibe with that one.
We made the beat, from there we built,
and then "New New" came out, it was just an energy,
and we was like, oh, that's it.
- Tune into all his songs.
"Go Numb" out now, "New New" coming out soon.
And that is it for "Telli Talks".
♪♪
[KP] I really want this single to go.
Even though we bein' pulled in multiple directions
with the work at the shop, or the music,
I know if we keep going, it'll all pay off.
They kept calling?
- I think Ink Bomb needs the key.
[Tim] It's so much [bleep] going on
between shop events, press looks,
and pushing KP music.
It totally slipped my mind
that Ink Bomb gotta get in the shop.
IAM's still got a little kinks,
but I'm management, so I'ma figure it out.
- We gotta get to this meeting.
- Yeah, I'll just shoot her the location we're about to go.
- Good. - A'ight.
- ♪ I stand tall ♪
♪ I stand tall ♪
♪ Never back down ♪
[dial tone]
- Hello? - Hey, what's up, Cory?
Man, you not gon' believe this [bleep].
I can't get in the shop, and I texted Tim and KP.
Do you know these mother[bleep]
dropped me a pin to meet them?
And I already drove an hour and some change to get out here,
now I have to drive, what, 45 minutes
just to meet up to get a [bleep] key?
My blood is boiling.
[Ink] It's been multiple times where
me and other artists have to go search for Tim.
And we've been asking for spare keys,
and we still haven't gotten them, I'm over it.
Exactly.
My attitude shifted to the left,
so I'ma try.
Alright, bye.
- ♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Yeah, I know you lookin', are you lookin' at me? ♪
♪ Everybody talkin' when I step up on the scene ♪
♪ Real nice with it but my attitude mean ♪
♪ Step off your feelings go get to the green ♪
♪♪
- Life is kind of a huge roller coaster right now.
Professionally, I'm killing [bleep]
and everything is going good on that end.
But with Lemeir backstabbing me again,
and bringing Ken around,
and then I woke up this morning
with a dent in the side of my brand new car,
and one minute I'm flying high,
the next minute I'm crashing and burning,
and it sucks sometimes.
- What the [bleep]?
- [sighs] Girl...
- Ma'am! - I know, I know.
- What happened?
- What doesn't happen in my life...
- Girl, when did this happen?
- Last night, I backed into something.
- [bleep], you just got this.
- Now the [bleep] charge won't work right like...
- So you can't even charge it.
- Yo, I'm over at the charger looking stupid.
- Girl, it's hot, let's get in the car.
[Nelly] I'm at a loss for words right now
'cause Nessie's reckless behavior lately
has been a little bit concerning.
I think I kinda felt the difference
when he started drinking, and you too,
'cause it didn't need to escalate to that point,
and a lotta times when alcohol's involved, it does.
I understand she's going through a lot,
but I really wanna help her find a better way
to manage her frustrations.
So here's my thing, right.
I feel like life's tryna give you some signs,
you know what I'm saying?
Like, I really don't wanna see you get into a predicament
because of these habits that you can't get yourself out of.
- Honestly, and that's why I called you too,
'cause I'm like, at this point, like,
I become so unbothered by [bleep] that I can fix,
and I'm not fixing like, the root problem.
- Right. - Which is like,
[bleep] that's causing all this [bleep]
to be happening would be fixed in the first place.
- The root of the problem, you already know is the alcohol.
At what point is the responsibility
gonna click in? - Yeah.
- And the only way you gon' get there
is to truly self reflect. - Right.
[Nessie] I'ma kinda disappointed in myself,
because I do know better, it's just like,
sometimes I can't manage with how to cope with how I feel
so I just start drinking.
But it is not healthy,
and it could really jeopardize
everything I worked for my entire life,
so I gotta get a grip on it.
I'm trying to find a healthy boundary with all this [bleep],
not even just drinking, but even with people,
you know what I'm saying, I'll be like,
no, no, no, this person [bleep] me,
know what I'm saying, it's cool, you know what I'm saying,
relationships... - But Lemeir
is coming to the shop as a guest spot,
and I feel like you should
have a positive outlook on that because
it's gonna be different.
- I never had a negative outlook
on him coming there,
it was just our personal relationship
is not what I thought it was, and that's it.
- You have an opportunity right now to really,
really flourish,
but don't let you be the one
that gets in your own way.
Nessie fits right in with the team,
and I definitely wanna help her as much as I can.
I'm not just concerned about her wellbeing,
but the wellbeing of the shop as a whole.
We've worked hard to create the vibe that we have,
and I'm a little bit concerned that it might throw us off
if we don't keep healthy boundaries in place.
- If I look at this car for any longer,
I'm gonna have a heart attack.
- Let's just get outta here, though.
♪♪
[door buzzing]
- Hi! - Hey, boo.
- What you doing? - We adding on to her sleeve.
- How was your day so far? - Frustrating.
Like, I was outside standing this morning
calling Tim back and forth tryna get in here,
and we don't have no key, like how we gonna get in?
- I've had multiple situations where I've had to do that.
KP and Tim did set up a tattoo event
for all of us to earn a little bit extra cash.
- Y'all ready to make some change?
- Looking busy today, guys.
[Alana] But ever since then,
it just seems like KP and Tim prioritize KP's music
and their absence in the shop has been a problem.
If we can't get in, then we can't make money
and I can't be messing around right now,
I got bills to pay.
- [door buzzes] - Hey, y'all.
- Hi. - What's up, Amber?
- I'm glad we finally here.
- It's like, I don't understand why
I just can't get in by myself.
- Especially when you have clients
booked early in the morning.
- Yeah, I ain't gon' lie,
'cause I had a really high profile client
standing on the block in Compton.
I was mad as [bleep]
'cause I can't get in the shop.
- I don't know if Tim and KP
not giving us a key is a trust issue
or a control thing.
But if we're constantly late
and have to re-book appointments,
we lose clients, we don't make money,
and neither does the shop.
That makes no damn sense.
We need to talk about this key situation
with KP and Tim.
It makes us as a shop look bad.
If one person is having that experience,
then they're gonna tell another person.
- Yeah. - There's some slacking
going on somewhere, and it ain't us.
- You know you opened up to me
about the drinking thing.
I wanna ask if you're okay letting Nessie in on that.
[Kat] This has kinda like a Miami vibe.
How do you feel? - It's nice, but it ain't me.
- Honestly, I don't even know,
I don't think I can trust y'all with keys.
- For real?
- Wow!
- ♪ I do what I want ♪
- ♪ Yo ♪
♪♪
♪ If you don't already know ♪
♪♪
♪ I brag so much 'cause I am so much ♪
♪ Next day froze but I'm hot to the touch ♪
♪ You ain't talk about me you ain't talk about much ♪
♪ I stay on call but it ain't no bluff ♪
♪♪
- How are you? - Good, how you doing?
- As someone who practices Neoshamanism,
the energy at the shop is very important to me.
The shop's renovations displacing us
was a little tough on everybody.
And Lemeir came in right after
the blowup at the rose seminar,
and now Nessie's going through more personal battles.
So I reached out to Bookie 'cause I wanna bring him
in on what I've been feeling lately.
I'll have a water please.
- Water? - Two waters?
Yeah, yeah. A'ight, thank you, bro.
- I know he's had his own battles in the past,
and he cares a lot about the shop
and the people in it, so I figure
he may be able to help out.
I'm so happy to be back home.
Like, it looks so dope. - Yeah, they did a great job.
- The vibe is everything. - Yes.
And then, you know, Lemeir, I'm excited...
- No, for sure. - That we gonna have him,
but then we also gotta get to that conversation
about that night.
- Yeah, I'm so ready to apologize to him.
That's what we're about...
- Yeah, versus holding grudges,
and letting [bleep] just...
- No, we don't do that [bleep].
But one of the things I wanted to you too is like,
this whole Nessie situation, right,
she hits me up, she got in a car accident,
so like, her car [bleep] up
and I had to go pick her up.
- Wait, she got in her new car?
- In her new car, and that's after she made
a scene at the rose seminar
and she's been drinking a lot more lately.
So like, for me, I'm just like...
I wanna help you, but you gotta help yourself.
- Yeah, that's not okay. - It's not.
And I didn't wanna have this conversation with you,
clearly, at the shop... - No, yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause it's super private
but I feel like talking to you,
maybe we can have a conversation with her.
Maybe you could share your struggles
on the drinking thing.
You know, you've opened up to me about a lot of personal stuff.
I wanna ask if you're okay letting Nessie in on that.
Because I feel like if you let her in on that,
she won't feel like it's just her struggling.
But also, I don't wanna impose on your private life either.
- Like, honestly, I haven't completely stopped,
you know what I'm saying, but I definitely had to--
you know, rejustify some things in my head
when it comes to the shop, the business.
For Ash, for the kids...
- Helps you be present.
- And just all around better health.
[Bookie] When it came to my drinking,
the reason why I kept it so close to my chest
was because as an individual, it was my business,
it was something that I had to,
you know, come to terms with.
It was the support from my family
and close friends like Nelly
that helped me manage this and get through it.
If I can help Nessie through what Nelly's helped me with,
then it should be a no-brainer.
I have no problem with, you know, sharing, you know,
my situations that I've had. - Okay, cool.
- And my [bleep] ups here and there with [bleep].
- Okay, I appreciate that,
'cause it's getting to a point where it's too critical
for us to just let it slide.
- Bet.
- ♪ Shut your mouth and listen ♪
♪ I'm about to run it up ♪
♪ I'm applying all this pressure ♪
♪ And I'm never giving up ♪
♪ You can tell me nothing ♪
♪ You can tell me nothing ♪♪
- I'd go right here.
- Mmm. - Push that up.
- I want a stomach tattoo so bad.
- [door buzzing] - [Tim babbling]
- Hey, y'all, what's up with y'all?
- Alana, you getting a tattoo on your stomach?
- Stop looking! - She's getting
"Compton" right here. - [bleep].
- Then she gonna get an "I" beneath it.
[laughter]
What's up with y'all? Where have y'all been at?
Y'all be on tour, traveling,
I can't keep up with y'all.
- We been doing a lotta stuff.
- We doin' pop-up shows,
interviews, pushing the record,
and bringing that attention back to the shop,
you know, that's why we be gone.
- Yeah, and while y'all be gone, we need a key.
[Ink] I reached out to everyone
so we can all discuss this key situation.
So I hope Tim and KP are ready because
after I get done with what I have to say,
I better get a key today.
You know, the other day, I couldn't get in,
and I shouldn't have to drive around town
just to get some keys.
We just gotta figure this out.
'Cause at the end of the day,
it fall back on not just me,
it fall back on the shop as well,
'cause they gonna be like,
that Ink Art Music shop,
you know, "[bleep] don't be on time,"
so we all need some jingle-jingles.
- Honestly, I don't even know,
I don't think I can trust y'all with keys.
- For real?
- Wow, that's crazy.
- It's better and safer for everyone
if I hold onto the keys.
[Tim] I gotta be honest,
when Barbie stole our [bleep] back in the day,
it's been hard to trust anybody with some keys.
- Take everything out this mother[bleep].
Couple more chairs over there.
[bleep] you, IAM.
- Me and KP ain't lettin' that [bleep] happen again.
I get that it can get a little tricky and complicated
with us having the keys, but safety first,
so that's just where I'm at with it.
If everybody had a key...
- Ain't no everybody, this is the only people here.
- You pay rent, though, right?
- Yes. - Okay, she pay rent...
- Girl, you don't get a key 'cause you give up money.
- Wow!
I'm shocked and a little hurt that KP and Tim
don't trust us enough with the keys.
Out of all people, you don't trust me?
You've known me the longest,
and I've stuck by you even when the OG crew didn't.
You'd think you'd show me
a little bit more respect than that.
- Everybody that belongs to the shop needs a key.
- Listen, I'll have to figure it out.
♪♪
- Excuse me, can I pull you away for a second please?
- Oh yeah, for sure.
[Nelly] I don't want Lemeir to come to the shop with
that same energy at the rose seminar.
I just wanted to talk to you face to face.
- You're dealing with hustlers.
Amber and Ink Bomb are little grinders.
I don't want that issue with the key
to start stifling them even wanting to come to the shop.
That's gonna be a problem.
- ♪ I do what I want ♪
- ♪ I call the shots ♪
♪ You know I'm comin' for ya ♪
♪ Ready or not ♪
♪ You either go big or you goin' home ♪
- Well, babe? - It's a nice area.
- My fiancé Jamie has finally decided to make
that cross country move to LA,
and I'm so happy about it
because I can focus on my business,
and focus on my beautiful family here in the city that I love.
But the only way that Jamie's gonna love LA
as much as I do is if we find the perfect home.
So I've been on the hunt,
and at this point, I've seen so many houses
I feel like I can be one of those real estate shows.
♪♪
[seagulls crowing]
[Kat] Oh, wow.
This is beautiful.
This feels "player".
The first two houses were nice,
but this one has real potential
to hook Jamie.
Time to do some convincing.
Welcome to our new humble a la mode.
- Right... - This has kinda like
a Miami vibe.
- Man, I don't know.
[Rashad] Limestone floors.
- Mm-hmm.
- Got a fireplace here,
and one outside, really nice.
- Space is the number one selling point for Jamie.
Hopefully 5,000 square feet is enough space
for him to stretch out,
and a mega bonus, it's already furnished.
Ka-ching!
- The furniture can stay,
except the piano.
- I can play the piano...
[banging keys]
- Stick to tattooing.
You have your own private yard.
- [Jamie] Okay, okay. - Nice little swing set.
- Then you have your view.
- Kinda like Florida, right?
Can come right out back, go fishing.
- Minus the alligators.
[laughter]
- That's very true.
[Rashad] So the kitchen-living area
is really, really beautiful.
[Kat] Wow, this look like a restaurant.
We could do a lotta cooking. - Cooking.
- Dang. - So out of all of them
that we've looked at,
I feel like you would like this one the best.
House number three is my favorite,
but will Jamie love it?
Stay tuned.
- Now only thing about this is that it's only been
on the market two days, so it's hot.
I can't guarantee it's gonna make it through the weekend.
If you really, really love it,
you might wanna put an offer in today.
- Today?
Man, I'm just now getting used to California.
- I know Jamie, and I can tell that
he's internally freaking the [bleep] out.
And I get it, this is a huge decision.
But the longer that we wait,
the fewer options we have.
And I really, really like this house.
- Right now, the price point is at 6.95.
It could easily go to seven and a half.
- [sighs] So, yeah, Rashad,
thank you so much for setting up this.
Let me talk to my man a little bit alone.
- A'ight, little man, you wanna come with me?
- You can babysit for a second.
- [sighs] So what do you really think?
- It's nice, but...
- It's not Florida.
- It ain't me.
It's tight with the space.
I feel suffocated.
- I need Jamie to realize
that this is a move that we have to make.
One of the things that he loves about me
is that I'm an independent woman
and that I do work hard.
So in order for me to keep that going,
I have to have the baby here,
and I have to be close to my shop.
It's not our forever home,
it's just a place to lay our heads
while mommy goes to work.
- Um...
it definitely ain't a forever home,
but I mean...
I'm doing this for you.
- I know you are. - I just want you to be happy.
So I will be a'ight.
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
- Alright, house three it is.
Thank you, babe, I love you.
I promise you you'll love it.
Jamie's sacrificing a lot to make this move,
btu this is really the best for our growing family.
Now I get to have my baby here
and keep Enigma at the top of its game.
- [cooing] - So what's going on?
- We want to submit a cash offer.
- Say "yay, we movin'."
[laughter]
[Kat] Is it too soon to take
a family picture in our new home?
♪♪
- ♪ If you from the 305 ♪
♪ I need all y'all to come ♪
♪ With that Latino vibe ♪
♪ And if you comin' from LA ♪
♪ All you pretty pretty people ♪
♪ Come and rock this way ♪
- Tim! - Yes, sir?
- I got you, boss.
- Man, I appreciate you, brother.
- Here you go, fam.
- Yes, sir.
♪♪
- The IAM Compton special. - Yes, it is.
All shrimp, no meat.
♪♪
There he go.
- Sup, fellas?
- Looking like Jesus.
[laughter]
[overlapping chatter]
- Walkin' through Compton with his toes out.
- What's going on with you guys?
- Just tryna make sure everybody on the same page,
they talking about keys.
- The key issue is a situation,
I just feel like people gotta like, earn it.
You know what I'm saying? That [bleep] come with
responsibilities of having it.
- Yeah, that's true, but you're dealing with hustlers.
Your shop is facilitating grinders.
We both know
Amber and Ink Bomb are little grinders.
And Alana already said that she needs some money.
So I think she's on her own grind.
So if it starts to stifle how they deal with their clients,
then that's gonna be a problem
as far as them even wanting to stay.
We gotta address that.
Ink Bomb told me about being locked out
of the shop the other day, and to be honest with you,
I feel her frustrations.
So I am glad that Tim wanted to meet,
because as an artist who's worked
in a successful tattoo shop,
the key is trust between
the artist and the owners,
but also know that the shop is KP and Tim's baby.
But something's gotta give, because if these other artists
can't get in the shop, I have a feeling
we're gonna have another mass exodus.
- We was actually thinking about
giving you a key to the shop.
You would be right there instead of with Tim doing it
and we can go do music stuff.
If not, I'ma have to find another road manager, basically.
- Yeah, yeah, well, I will give you guys a heads up 'cause
I got a phone call from my son in law,
he got laid off, and since I'm the grinder in the family,
I gotta go [bleep] grind out in Virginia,
'cause you know, I gotta take care of my grandbaby.
So I don't even know how long I'll be gone.
- Yeah, I hope all is well, man.
- Thanks, man. I'll let y'all know
when I come back, but I really hope
you guys can figure out a situation with these keys
because that's something that I know
needs to be dealt with, period.
- Now your role gotta pick up
because if Cory gonna be gone, bro,
I don't know how I'm gonna be doing the music stuff
and then you tryna help me do music stuff,
and then who gonna be at the shop?
I'ma let you think about it,
shop manager.
- I need to talk to you about something.
Me and you share somewhat of a common parallel.
And it's the drinking.
- ♪ I do what I want ♪
♪♪
♪ Do you wanna be a champion? ♪
♪ Got what it takes to be a champion? ♪
- Sup, bro? Some water?
- Appreciate it, my guy.
We got some hours to put in, bro.
- When was the last time you started tattooing?
- My last tat was...
psh, I don't even know.
When the last time you been tattooed?
- Pshh, like a year, I wanna say.
I'm ready, though, it's been a while.
- Alright, well, we almost ready, bro.
After that lame-ass conversation with Nessie,
Kat and I ironed out my details
for the guest spot over at Enigma.
So now that that's about to be official,
I figure I'll get in one last house call.
And the special person I decided to choose for this
was my employee Jacob.
He want a dope-ass Jesus piece,
so I feel like this is a good way to pay him back
for all the hard work he put in for me.
I'm excited to knock this joint out, bro.
This might be my last pop-up tat, man,
you know what I'm sayin', be going into a tattoo shop
with one of my friends,
they got a shop called Enigma.
- I'm there. - Let's get it.
- ♪ We just the same ♪
♪ I can't really manifest ♪
♪ Hopefully more intentional with it ♪
♪♪
[Lemeir] When I was a kid, I loved to draw.
We used to have family dinners,
instead of me eating,
I'd be doing live portraits of everybody
just to get their reactions.
And every time I do a tattoo now,
I get that same feeling
that I got from that dinner table.
And that's honestly what leads me back to the art
every single time.
- ♪ My -- sipping starch, we sensitive about our art ♪
♪ It's bigger, Blacker and bold ♪
♪ They figured this -- like darts ♪
- I feel like guest spotting at Enigma was a perfect
opportunity for me to get back into the swing of things.
And I thought working with talented people,
one of those being Nessie,
would've been a perfect scenario.
But things took a hard-ass left.
Those issues with Nessie at that rose seminar
was weird as [bleep] to me,
and it really caught me off guard.
- Nothing about Ken has made my life
any better in any type way, shape, or form, my career--
- Oh my God, I don't give a [bleep], bro.
[overlapping arguing]
And after that situation,
I don't even know if I can even be cool with her at all,
let alone be in a work environment with her.
- ♪ Cliff diving out the G-Wagon yelling Geronimo ♪
- ♪ High fashion, I'ma keep swaggin' ♪
♪ Out on these model... ♪
- But at the end of the day,
guest spotting at Enigma, to me,
is still a good idea.
I ain't about to let none of that
clown [bleep] from that tattoo seminar
mess up my opportunity of being around
actually solid artists
and distract me from my real purpose in life,
and that's to be the best mother[bleep]
tattoo artist in the world.
Alright, bro, this thing looking good.
- Alright. - Take a look at it.
[both exclaiming]
Ah, that's crazy.
- Oh, my God. - That look hard, though.
- I love it. - Appreciate you.
I'ma pound you, know what I'm saying?
- It was worth the pain for sure.
- ♪ Sometimes you need a little push ♪
♪ Take one shot, don't give a second look ♪
♪ Going hard ♪
♪ Gotta finish what you start ♪
♪ Go at it with your heart, gotta play the game smart ♪
- Is this your daughter? - Yes, that is my daughter.
- What's her name? - Trina.
- Alana and her about the same size.
- Pinky. - Little Pinky.
After finding out Cory had to step away
for some family issues,
I really had to check myself
about this key situation.
I don't really trust easily,
but I think I figured out a solution
that everybody can live with.
Check it out, man, I got something to tell y'all.
Huddle up.
- What's the news? - I heard y'all last time.
But I figured out a solution.
- What you got, Tim?
This long-ass process.
- Oh, my God. - Wow!
- Oh, what do you got?
- Will y'all marry me?
- Aww!
- Open y'all gifts.
Man, I'm marrying all of 'em, [bleep] it.
You know when you get married...
[overlapping chatter]
- Oh, they got the keys to the crib.
- Finally. - [laughter]
- I know Amber, Ink Bomb, and Alana been riding
for the shop, and after talking to KP
and Cory, I realized it's the wrong move for me
to be getting in between them
trying to get in and out the shop,
especially when I know they got clients.
Sharing the keys with the team,
I feel like now we can consistently get
some flow in here, keep the artists happy,
so now KP and I can just make music.
But the minute they don't respect the house,
gimme them mother[bleep] keys back.
I feel bad you had your client standing outside.
I never wanna hear you angry again.
[laughter]
But y'all put in the time.
You've been around since we've been through
all the bull[bleep], you came on, been an asset,
y'all both been assets.
So for me, it's like, those keys is earned.
So now I hope that we can move forward.
- Think this is a great start. - Yeah, most definitely.
Thanks, Tim.
It's about damn time.
We finally got the keys to the city.
As annoyed as we all were,
I'm finally glad the boys
are listening and taking action.
Now we can come and go as we please.
- Wait, where's the rest?
- Nah, that gotta come, that gotta come.
- Your ring, necklace, diam--
all that is in that key you got in your hand.
- No, I'm happy, thank you, guys.
[laughter]
- Trina's gonna be pissed. [clears throat]
- What the [bleep] are you making that face for?
- Talk to us for a little bit.
- ♪ I do what I want ♪
- ♪ Pretty girls run the world ♪
♪ Look at what their bae do ♪
♪ I'ma get it on my own ♪
♪ Don't care what they say, do ♪
♪ I don't gotta play you, but you gotta pay me ♪
♪ Put some respect on my name, you talkin' to a lady ♪
♪ Boss, be a level, yes, yes, with the cash flow ♪♪
- She knockin' [bleep] off the table pregnant.
That look fake.
- I'm about to pop like any minute.
Thanks.
- Look like you having twins, dog.
- Yeah, and I still got a few weeks left,
so I'm only gonna get bigger.
Jamie and I, we put a bid down on the house the other day,
which has been taking up all of my attention.
So to switch gears, I wanted to treat my team
for sticking with me throughout all of this.
Some people brought their significant others,
and today's Lemeir's first day as a guest artist.
So there's a lot to celebrate.
I just want to thank each and every one of you
for reassuring me that
everything was gonna be okay,
and, you know, that we're a team.
And I want to officially welcome Lemeir
into the team.
So he's gonna start with his guest spot,
you know, just to see how the vibe is.
Hopefully you like it, we love it,
and then it turns into a permanent thing.
So cheers.
- Cheers!
[Nessie] [bleep].
After the conversation with Lemeir
and Kat the other day,
I'm still kinda hurt and disappointed by him
just 'cause I'm like, damn, bro, you really cold.
But I'm at peace,
I'm happy I have people around me that are for me,
and my growth, my wellbeing, my success
has nothing to do with anybody but me.
So I'ma keep my head down and stay focused.
- Dog, I'm telling you,
this still don't feel like home yet.
I also want the paintings,
that'll make it feel a little bit more like home...
- Excuse me, can I pull you away for a second please?
- Oh yeah, for sure.
- It's important to me to apologize to Lemeir
because I don't want him to come to the shop
and feel like he's gonna be met with that same energy
that I gave him at the rose seminar.
After all, I wasn't trying to test his manhood.
I just at that moment needed him to shut the [bleep] up.
So apologizing is the right thing to do
to set the tone, set the vibe straight,
balance out these energies
so we can get a fresh start at Enigma.
I just wanted to talk to you face to face.
I wanted to start off by apologizing
from the other night, 'cause I know
that it went left real quick.
But I don't want you to feel like
you're gonna be met with that type of energy from me.
- I appreciate that, you know what I'm saying?
I thought the same thing too.
I was like, I don't know where that came from...
- No, I know. I foremost want you
to know that I respect you.
I feel like you fit right in with us.
- For sure, for sure. - I'm glad you're here though.
- Thank you, thank you.
- I don't touch, but we can go like this.
- I forgot, I forgot.
I kinda get that Nelly felt some type of way,
and she wanted to stick up for her little sis, I guess.
So I'ma go ahead and put this behind me
and move forward with our relationship.
But I ain't gonna lie, I hope this don't come back
and bite me in the ass later.
- I'm so excited, guys.
I'm so happy to be all back together, united.
Everything is falling into place.
About to have a permanent LA residence,
gonna be a Californian.
Ain't that right, Rashad?
Back in this bitch for good,
and I'm about to drop this baby.
- Cheers.
- For too many months, I've been separated from this place,
and these people that I consider to be my home.
When I came back and seen the shop in ruins
and everybody fighting, I thought the Enigma
that I built and loved was disappearing.
- As your realtor, you know,
these are some real expensive floors.
Booth rent should go up.
- Okay, you feel me?
- He didn't mean it! - [laughter]
- But through all that bull[bleep],
we stuck it out and we're still here.
And I feel like our bond is stronger than ever.
♪♪
- Lemme take a picture.
Look.
- Oh, my goodness. I love that.
So I feel very happy being back in LA,
being with the team that I love
in this shop with these new floors that I love.
I'm grateful, I'm not tryna leave again.
[laughter]
- Yeah, come sit here, Ness.
Hope you don't mind, but I shared with him
some of the things that you and I have been
talking about with the drinking.
- Here, let me sit over here.
- Yeah. - I have a soft voice.
[Nelly] I'm glad I was able to smooth things out with Lemeir
but Nessie's struggles are something
that won't just disappear,
and part of what we do as a team at Enigma
is go through tough [bleep] together.
So since Bookie is game,
now's the perfect time to give Nessie
the support that she needs.
- If you ever hit me, you're like, "Hey, Bookie,
I need to talk to you about something,"
I'ma put down whatever I'm doing at the time,
like, you know what I'm saying, 'cause me and you share
somewhat of a common parallel
and it's the drinking.
- Wait, but you don't be drinking like that.
- Yeah, I did used to drink like that.
And even when it comes down to all of you guys at the shop,
you know, I was able to hide it, very well.
- Yeah, I had no [bleep] clue. - Know what I'm saying?
But the drinking was a real situation for me
because after I get off work,
and I work 12, 13 hour days like how we all do,
but I go home, and I be drinkin' beer
for hours.
- Yeah, I feel that.
- And I had a talk with Ash.
She told me, "You come home,
"and I get it why you do it,
"you have a lot of pressure on your back,
"car notes, house notes,
"private school for all our kids,
but this is the time that me and you could be spending,"
you know what I'm saying?
- I'm extremely shocked
to hear that Bookie actually has a drinking problem
similar to mine because he holds it together so well.
You just never think that somebody that has like,
the picture perfect family man vibe
to have a drinking problem.
- I would've never opened up about this.
- Yeah, but I'm glad you did.
Like, I'm not alone.
- Now you're in a position to where
you're surrounded by a lot of people
that want truly and honestly for you to win.
Just think about moderating the drinking a little bit.
It helped for me.
- Thank you for even telling me,
because I don't know, I'm like, [bleep], just me.
- No! Hell no.
- Just me going through it.
I love the transparent dynamic here we have at Enigma.
I finally am around some people who really
seem to care about how I feel.
Unlike some people that I thought would,
like Lemeir, these people don't dismiss my feelings
or make me feel like [bleep]
if I have a weak moment about something.
And for real for real, I don't take that
kinda support and love lightly at all.
- Oh, [bleep].
I'm tired than a mother[bleep],
I'm sorry, I'm in my last days of this pregnancy.
I'm just ready to have this baby, so...
I got a burst of energy,
like, towards end of the second trimester.
Now I'm just like, I can just go to sleep.
- Felt like you need to deep clean?
- Damn, Trina's gonna be pissed.
- Not really, the rental's pretty clean already,
but I'm ready to get up outta there
and get in the new house.
- You gotta tell her. - I'll tell her.
- [clears throat] - What?
What the [bleep] you making that face for?
- Come talk to us for a little bit.
- ♪ I do what I want ♪
♪♪
- The rental's pretty clean already.
- You gotta tell her. - I'll tell her.
- [clears throat] - What?
What the [bleep] you making that face for?
- Come talk to us for a little bit.
May wanna take a seat for this one.
So you know how you know we loved the home.
I heard back from the agent.
- Finally. - Finally,
but we were outbid.
- Wait, okay, hold on.
- Just as I thought everything was great,
they took a higher offer under the table.
- They got another cash offer? - They got another cash offer...
- No, they [bleep] didn't.
- Already signed off on it.
- So we can't even counter? - Can't counter.
They have to counter us first.
- I mean, we put in one offer.
We expected to have to go up.
- We spoke with Jamie, we went up once already,
we already 200 over.
- He did that [bleep] without even telling me.
- Exactly. - He loves me so much.
[Kat] I love that Jamie went above and beyond
and put an even higher offer on this house for me.
And to hear that we still got outbid is ridiculous,
that tells me so much about this LA market,
and how fast [bleep] here really goes.
I just wish I had more time to find another house,
but at this point, I can't change anything.
But I'm just devastated that this fell through.
I wanted to have the baby here.
Like, the shop renovations just got finished,
Jamie was just really starting to get
comfortable out here. - I wanted you to stay.
- Now I really gotta have this baby in Florida.
- Come right back, we pick up where we left off.
- I just hate giving my hopes up for [bleep].
[sighs] You know what?
I just need a minute.
Can you gimme my phone right there?
- About to call Jamie? - Yeah.
[Kat] It sucks that we didn't get this house.
Now I'm gonna have to go back to Florida,
and as much as I appreciate
everything that we have in Florida,
I've worked so hard to get my shop up and running
and make it the elite tattoo shop that it is.
Who knows what might happen
now that I'm about to leave again?
[sighs] This sucks.
[dial tone]
We ended up not getting the house.
Yeah, I know, but I felt like
I was just getting back in the groove of
getting here full time, getting [bleep] together.
I don't know what's gonna happen while we're gone.
Like, new people coming in my shop.
Yeah, I know.
I love you.
- Hello. - How are you?
- I feel amazing, don't I look it?
- Since we've finished our shop renovations,
I've been wanting to put a new shop manager
behind our shiny new reception desk.
- Hi, guys. - Hi, Barbie.
- Oh, Barbie. - How are you?
- I suffer from alopecia,
and it attacks my whole body.
- This is not just a tattoo shop.
This is a house of healing.
- It's kinda coming off like you're the substitute teacher.
- At the end of the day, it's still Trina's shop.
You gotta know the whole team
ain't gonna be involved in every decision made.
- So Tim had mentioned that he's taking personal time off.
- I already have some frustration
with them not really being there at the shop.
I came into this shop like, with high expectations.
And it's not that. - Yeah.
- Really appreciate all y'all coming out to Enigma's
four-year anniversary.
- Has anyone heard from Kat?
- No, I'm blowing her up.
- Y'all think she went into labor?
♪♪
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