[overlapping chatter]
- Hey, party people. - Hey, what up, what up?
[Kevin] Think I see the bus.
We are headed to San Diego
for our first-ever tattoo convention.
I slightly got into it with Nelly last night.
I'm tired of like, beating around the bush.
When it comes to Sayir,
it's very much [bleep] that [bleep].
- I did ask Alana to be my skin for the weekend.
I hope you don't feel a certain type of way
if I do tattoo her.
- No, even if I see her at the convention,
I'm not gonna make us look crazy.
- What's going on with Alana, where she at?
Okay, I might have to come by.
She's single, I'm single...
- Ahhh! - You feel me?
- What you think about going to the convention,
think we should pull up? - Why I'ma focus on
people who don't appreciate what I'm doing?
- Honestly, I think it's important just to show up.
But I'ma stand with him,
so I just hope and pray that our artists
keep it together.
- Tension in this booth is thick.
Are we good? - I never wanna disrespect you,
and I don't ever want you to disrespect me.
We movin' past it... - We movin' past it, yeah.
- And let's get the [bleep] over it.
- This is an Ink Art Music booth,
this isn't an eyebrow booth,
so I'm staying in this booth.
I'm still shocked by all the stuff that
Amber was saying about me, that she could tattoo
better than me and that I get everything handed to me.
But I'm not gonna let that bother me.
- Are you bringing money into the booth?
- You are so [bleep] disrespectful.
- Bye, bitch.
- ♪♪ 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 ♪♪♪♪
[Alana] You know what, Amber, you are so [bleep] disrespectful and you wanna bring up like... - Bye, bitch!
[tense music]
♪♪♪♪
Come on, bitch!
♪♪♪♪
[overlapping chatter]
[security] Amber, let her go.
Alana, let go.
[Ink Bomb] I'm in shock right now.
Fighting in the middle of a convention,
are you [bleep] serious?
I came to represent myself and IAM,
I'm totally embarrassed.
I can't [bleep] believe it.
[Alana shouting/bleeps]
- ...with her [bleep]-up ass weave, stupid-ass bitch!
- [gasps] Oh, my God.
- This is em-[bleep]-barrassing.
- I don't have none of her [bleep], bro.
Get that bitch off me before I [bleep] her up.
- What the [bleep]?
I know Alana had issues with that girl who do eyebrows,
but I don't understand how it can escalate
to a fist fight.
Like, I know me and Nelly,
we've had our problems,
but we just care too much about Katrina
and the Enigma brand to bring
something stupid like that to a convention.
- Dumb-ass bitch... [indistinct shouting]
You stupid-ass ho! That's why your weave lost,
you dirty-ass bitch!
- Embarrassing as [bleep].
This is [bleep] stupid.
- [sobbing]
- What the [bleep]?
- Sorry, I had to come this way.
[overlapping chatter/bleeps]
- This crazy-ass bitch threw grease up in my eyes,
which is made to clean up tattoos,
it has so much chemicals,
and she just threw it in my face.
If security wasn't there and I could actually see
what's going on, I would've beat the [bleep] out of that bitch.
[crying] I need to rinse my eyes.
- Okay, come on, come on.
[Barbie] Alana's my girl, she did not deserve that.
I remember being in the crossfire
of drama going on at IAM,
and it doesn't feel good at all.
♪♪♪♪
- They broke my [bleep].
[Deshay] Man, I don't know what the hell just happened
between them two girls, but the booth is [bleep] up.
And my girl Ink Bomb is over there looking real distraught.
I mean, the whole convention just watched this [bleep]
go down and it's definitely not a good look.
You good? Good? What's going on?
Whole buncha bull[bleep]? - Stupid-ass [bleep].
This is so embarrassing. - Oh, you know that [bleep]
[bleep] up your [bleep].
You need some help?
You need some help with some [bleep]?
'Cause I already know you like to run a tight ship...
- Yeah, and everybody here that know me--
- That's what saying, but I know at the end
of the day, your brand means everything to you.
Don't let that [bleep] deter you and think that [bleep]
gonna [bleep] up anything more, you feel me?
- Right.
I appr-- I appreciate you
for coming and checking up on me.
[Ink Bomb] It's unreal to me how the other shop
is checking up on me when the owner and manager
of the IAM shop didn't even bother to come.
What am I doing at IAM if they're not even
supporting me and letting artists come to blows?
I'ma need to speak to Tim and KP once the dust settles.
- You can't be around people
that's gonna detriment your brand.
- Right. - [bleep] all that other...
- I gotta separate myself.
But this is one reason why you always
see me grinding by myself.
This is one of the reasons why.
[Denai] Did eyebrow girl really just lose her weave?
- Yeah, she took the whole wig to the bathroom.
- She tried to fix it up.
[Denai] What in the wig?
Why is her hair in her hand,
and no longer on her mother[bleep] head?
I would've been hot. Honestly, we came
to win trophies, we came to show up and show out,
and that's exactly what we're gonna do.
The show must go on.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Slowly ♪♪
♪♪ Time is moving slowly now ♪♪
♪♪ Slowly-y-y ♪♪
♪♪ I've been getting to know me ♪♪
[Jamie] Ooh...
Nice, nice...
He was doing a lot of squirming.
- Yeah.
He was just asleep.
[overlapping chatter]
[babies cooing]
- Can't believe they're there without me.
In the four years that we've been open,
this is the first convention
that we're doing together as a shop.
- No, it's exciting,
but it's... it's kinda sad, huh?
- I know, I got some FOMO.
[Kat] I'm excited to have my team out in San Diego
competing at this convention, it reminds me of when
I used to conventions by myself.
- Hey, Miss Kat Tat. - What's up?
- Girl, this looks beautiful.
Oh, my God, look at her banner.
That's worth it.
- So to have a whole amazing group of artists competing
at this convention representing my shop,
it makes me wanna be there right with them
to show up and show out.
If only I could figure out how to be two places at once.
They're talking about they're gonna compete,
I just wish I was there to bring home a trophy.
I ain't tatted in so long. - Everybody?
Everybody competes... - Yeah, so there's
different competitions that you can enter.
So like, I would want to witness that, you know?
- I know you wanna be there, you wanna tat,
you tryna Kat Tat on they ass.
- I wouldn't trade this for the world,
this is literally everything I've ever dreamed of,
but, you know, it's just the first convention.
I just almost wish they would've waited.
[music winds down]
Until we made it back.
- Postpone the game?
- No, I don't want-- no, I'm just,
you know, I'm hatin' a little bit.
- No, I know, but you just missing the game.
- Yeah, you know, it's just trying to balance it, you know?
I wanna be here, and I wanna be there at the same time.
- Yeah... - You know...
I wanna believe that you can do it all,
you know what I'm saying? - Yeah.
'Cause you a big dog, I get it.
It's your time to shine, and you gon' shine.
♪♪♪♪
[seagulls cawing]
[loud snoring]
[snores continue]
- Like, I desire to be that level of tired
where I can just sleep like that...
- Dog-- - Where life is just
going on around me and I'm not.
- I need that type of sleep right now.
That [bleep]'s funny, she looks so peaceful though.
Yesterday was a long-ass day,
and after our neighbors went all ratchet on us,
we managed to finish up on a good, but tired-ass note.
- After all that, I'm tired.
Tomorrow is a new day.
- By the time we got home that night,
there was some folks that needed to let off some steam.
[overlapping shouting]
[laughter]
But I'll take this kinda wild
over what went down in Ink Bomb's booth any day.
Enigma knows how to play hard but keep it professional,
especially when it comes down to handling business.
- So, Nessie, how do you feel
about the fight yesterday with Alana?
Nessie, wasn't it crazy?
"Yeah, that [bleep] was wild".
[laughter]
No words, huh? I know... - Speechless.
- I'm right there with you, girl.
- You think Alana coming back today or no?
- Is she okay? - I don't think so.
When I see some stuff like that happening to her,
I be wanting to stick up for her.
Like, I feel like, no, don't mess with Alana,
she don't want that beef, she's not that person.
- She don't give me that.
- Like, mentally, it really messed her up too.
- We not dealing with that [bleep] today.
[bleep] all that.
- Yeah, we gonna win these awards today.
- Look, you on the right side of the fence this time.
- Facts. - [bleep], let's get inside
and check on these people, see if they up,
'cause we gotta get to go.
- Good morning, I knew you'd be up early.
- Hell yeah, too hard to sleep.
You know we got [bleep] to do.
- Yeah, so how did it go yesterday?
- The managers is on top of everything,
it's fun as hell, but our booth
is next to the Compton booth.
It was Ink Bomb, and then they have
the eyelash girl that we met yesterday named Amber.
And Alana showed up, I look over,
they talkin' [bleep], Alana swinging hair,
next you know, she had green soap
poured all over her. - What?
- Yes, green soap, fighting in
the middle of the booth...
Better them than us, straight up.
[overlapping chatter]
[all shouting]
- [banging pots] - [Kevin screaming]
[banging continues]
- Wake up! - Come on, y'all,
wake up, it's award day, baby.
[Kevin] I don't have my wig on!
I don't have my wig on!
[Lemeir] Big day, let's go!
- ♪♪ Yeah ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ I'm working, working, girl ♪♪
♪♪ Gotta catch him earnin' ♪♪
♪♪ I'm workin', workin' to keep that connect with sterlin' ♪♪
♪♪ I'm workin', workin' while they lost, still searching ♪♪
♪♪ I'm workin', workin' ♪♪
♪♪ Now I might need some luck... ♪♪
- Hi. - Hi.
♪♪♪♪
[Amber] Yesterday, after Alana pushed me over the edge,
I just decided to leave.
I was humiliated,
I was emotional, and I was mad as hell.
I haven't talked to Ink Bomb since the fight,
but I had the whole night to think about it,
and I feel like she deserves an apology.
I just hope she's willing to talk.
Mika, I am so sorry that that happened like that.
Like, I just wanna apologize
for having you in the middle of that [bleep],
even doing that in our booth in front of, you know,
other people, and I'm just like, I feel terrible.
- My feelings right now towards everything,
I'm just so embarrassed.
- I feel like I let you down,
like, you're somebody I respect.
I would never, ever wanna put you in that position.
Like, that [bleep] was dumb as [bleep].
- I'm disappointed in both of you guys 'cause
the whole situation could've been handled differently,
and like, it's not just the shop's name like,
riding off of this, it's mine too.
- I'm sorry again.
I put my whole life into my career,
and I feel like I just took ten steps back.
And I know you have way more [bleep] going on than me
as far as like, you have a child,
it's different, so you have a little more to lose,
and you have something that kinda keeps you grounded.
- And he looks up to me.
He don't have no father figure.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's hard raising
this little Black boy by myself.
This hurts that much more
'cause Amber and Alana know
that I'm a single mom.
I don’t like nobody playing with me,
my money, or my time.
At the end of the day, I got a child to feed.
I done made a way for myself,
especially in this industry,
and I worked so hard to get here and be accepted.
As a Black female, I took so many years
to get to where I'm at today.
To have some bull[bleep] like this, you know what I'm saying,
I just can't deal with the bull[bleep] right now.
As far as me and you working,
I feel like I need to separate myself
from, uh, at least the rest of the convention.
[Amber] Seeing Ink Bomb like this makes me realize
I didn't make the best choices.
I can't stand Alana and her BS,
but there's really no excuse for the way that I acted.
It should never have affected Ink Bomb.
I'm sad, I'm embarrassed, and I'm pissed,
but I understand where Ink Bomb is coming from.
[crying] I don't like the fact that I feel like
I let you down 'cause it's like, at the end of the day,
like, in the shop, we all we have.
- I appreciate your apology.
Give me some love. - I'm so sorry.
I hope you understand, I'm not just saying
that [bleep], like, I'm terribly sorry.
[Ink Bomb] After yesterday's BS,
I have to try to salvage this convention.
So I hope Alana's okay,
but I can't have her or Amber at this booth.
I've been so frustrated with the IAM shop lately,
this fight just added to it.
It's just amateur hour over here.
♪♪♪♪
- What's poppin'? - [bleep] Amber pulled
some dumb [bleep], and I don’t even wanna be around her.
- And if whatever side you choose,
if it ain't with us, alright,
well, Alana, [bleep] you too then.
- The party is [bleep] here!
I had to bring my homegirl Lexi...
- Whoa!
[overlapping shouting]
- Damn, y'all don't know who I am?
[laughter]
[Barbie] Is that KP?
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[Barbie] Hello, how are you?
Deshay, he's really, really good at anime...
- Large black and grey... - Yes.
- Leg sleeve. - Yes.
- Colors, black and grey.
- Yes.
- Day two of the convention,
and everybody's working super hard
on the pieces that they brought here to win.
I love the fact that Denai is taking initiative
and hustling her ass off.
She's signing everybody off, just being a good face
of the Enigma brand.
- Alright, cool, yeah.
- So we're all here focusing on what we do best.
Lemeir's doing black and grey,
Nelly has two cover ups,
Nessie's doing medium color,
I'm doing extra large color,
and I got some friendly competition with leg sleeve
with me and Deshay, so you know, may the best man win.
♪♪♪♪
[Ink Bomb] Is that gon' be in the competition?
- Oh, you know it,
and one I'm doing for Barbie.
[Nelly] I've built a name for myself doing cover ups.
So when clients come to me to change something
on their body for something new
whether it's a scar or old tattoo,
I'm the person for the job,
so it'd be really cool to win an award
for something that I'm actually passionate about.
Kevin Laroy, that [bleep]'s fire.
- Okay, okay, I'm with it.
This being our first convention,
I was truly worried that the beef between
Kevin and Nelly would affect the overall vibe
between the team, but over here at Enigma,
we know how to make sure we're professional
and put our best foot forward and stay focused,
because we representing Kat.
- May we can put our awards,
once we start winning awards together.
- Now we just gotta focus on
filling our trophy wall.
We locked in.
♪♪♪♪
[Alana] Pick up the phone, KP.
♪♪♪♪
After the fight with me and Amber,
I haven't even talked to anybody because
that whole situation landed me in the ER.
Not only was that one of the worst days of my life,
but it was also [bleep] embarrassing.
Should've never even went to that extent that it did.
Tim... - What's poppin'?
- I wish you guys would've showed up to the convention.
[bleep] Amber pulled some dumb [bleep]
and she thought it'd be funny to pour green soap
in my [bleep] eyes, and then she starts
trying to punch on me in front of me,
you know how [bleep] embarrassing that was?
That's what I'm saying.
We was trying to vet the situation
before y'all even went out there.
[Tim] KP already having doubts about this crew right now.
Especially with this Alana and Amber situation,
that [bleep] ain't making it no better.
I'm frustrated 'cause I don't want to keep starting over,
and I wanna keep this squad together.
But they not making it easy.
It's over now, at this point,
it's like, a'ight, you did what you did,
alright, over it...
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
The thing is that I didn't do anything.
The [bleep] she was saying was so out of pocket,
and then the way she embarrassed me
at the convention, I don't even wanna be around her.
- That ain't the route.
- Tim and KP said we shouldn't have gone to this convention
because something like this would happen,
but if they were paying attention to what's
going on in their shop, it would've never
gotten to this point, and Tim is just brushing this off
like it's not a big deal.
Like, what? This is literally your job.
- We doin' our best to make sure [bleep] happy.
Y'all got a shop,
so whatever side you choosin',
it ain't with us?
Alright, well, Alana, [bleep] you too then.
- That is really [bleep]-- - Whatever, I gotta go.
- Okay.
- Feel like I started late. - Oh, you putting this
into the competition? - Yeah.
- Girl, I'm putting two in.
I do not wanna go home emptyhanded.
- I'd be so sad, bro.
- Are you okay? - No, because
she poured grease over my [bleep] eyes.
I go to urgent care, and they told me--
- You went to the ER?
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ Hurry up cuz the time is ticking ♪♪
♪♪ The plot intertwines, it's thicken, I gotta ♪♪
♪♪ Go get it just how I get it, if I didn't ♪♪
♪♪ Then I'll be behind on my mission ♪♪
♪♪ I call it divine intervention ♪♪
♪♪ You got my mind and attention ♪♪
- Bitch, you moving. - I feel like I started late.
- Oh, you putting this into the competition?
- Yeah. - Girl, I'm putting two in.
Oh, you doing medium color?
This one's gonna be fire.
[Nessie] We had a ball last night.
Like, me and Kevin, we was wilin',
it was a great night, but I definitely wanna show
my new team that I can work hard and play hard.
I'ma keep my head down, and now I just hope
I get this tattoo done in time,
because I need a trophy today.
- It looks so good. Are you nervous about it?
- I might be nervous, 'cause it's like, damn,
I'm showing my work off, what's the possibility,
are they liking it?
'Cause it's my first competition,
first time I'm having somebody judge my [bleep].
So that's [bleep] big.
Black and grey's a very crowded competition overall.
But tattooing body tones, texture, muscles,
it takes fine precision to pull these things off.
So I just wanted to execute something
that I know everybody can't do.
If I get this sleeve done in time,
it's definitely gonna get the judge's attention.
♪♪♪♪
- Hey, Mika.
♪♪♪♪
- Can you excuse me for a minute?
♪♪♪♪
- I'm really not looking forward
to this conversation with Ink Bomb.
I just feel awful that she was caught in the middle
after she tried to dead the situation.
I don't give a [bleep] what you have to say
so I'ma keep it professional...
- I need both of y'all bitches to just stop.
[Alana] I just really hope our relationship isn't ruined
because of the way I reacted
with green soap thrown in my eyes.
First of all, I wanna apologize for yesterday.
I didn't expect that to happen like that,
and I didn't want it to happen that way,
um, I'm sorry.
- First, I wanna ask you are you okay?
- Well, no, because she poured
green soap in my [bleep] eye,
my eyes got infected, I go to the urgent care,
and they told me I have-- - You went to the ER?
- Yeah, it wouldn't go away.
The doctor flushed it out, it still was stinging my eyes.
The only thing that's helping me is that they gave me
these numbing eyedrops.
- Okay, so, I wanna be honest with you.
I'm not working with Amber,
and I told her that I'm not gonna be
working with you either
because of the fight.
And also, I know I asked you to be my skin,
but I'm not even gonna enter the contest anymore.
♪♪♪♪
[Ink Bomb] I appreciate Alana trying to come talk to me,
but the damage is done.
This is my career and my name on the line.
I'm not here to play babysitter.
KP and Tim can handle these two,
'cause this for sure ain't my job.
- I hate that it happened,
I hate that KP and Tim weren't here either.
Only reason why I was here is if you wanted to do the tattoo,
but if not, I'll probably just head home.
- Okay, I'm sorry. Give me some love?
- I still love you. - I still love you too.
- A'ight, well, I'm about to head home.
- Alright. - Bye.
- ♪♪ I'ma I'ma I'ma I'ma I'ma ♪♪
♪♪ I'ma turn it up I'ma turn it up ♪♪
♪♪ I'ma turn it up, and then I'm gonna break it down ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- There's a lotta [bleep] detail in this.
- That's why I'm really surprised
you decided to take it on.
- Yeah,, I like [bleep] that challenges me.
[Barbie] Oh, my goodness, is that KP?
♪♪♪♪
Ugh, of course.
♪♪♪♪
[Tim] After getting off the phone with Alana,
we had to jump in the whip to get down to San Diego.
We can't have the artists making the brand look bad
so if these two can't work it out,
some tough decisions is gon' have to be made.
- The whole mic thing, I didn't need no mic
to tell people, "Oh, hey, I'm here,"
and do no TV [bleep] with some fake people
that was next to my crew, like, I ain't got time for that.
- Yeah, I basically told them today, like,
look, I can't work or share this booth with y'all no more
'cause of what happened yesterday.
I guess I can appreciate Tim and KP pulling up,
but it's a little bit too late.
Not trying to shade them,
but I'm on my grizzy right now,
and I ain't tryna talk about no shop drama.
[KP] Sometimes being right is not always the best feeling.
There's no way in hell they should’ve came
to this convention, I knew it was a bad idea.
And Amber and Alana not even being here, like,
how can I solve the problem?
Like, I'm not finna hang around.
- [bleep], it's been a day.
[Barbie] These two clowns clearly haven't changed--
An absentee owner and manager showing up a day late
and a dollar short per usual.
He needs to come walk by the Enigma booth so we can
show him how it's really done.
[Nelly] That [bleep]'s crazy...
No, they would've egged that [bleep] on.
♪♪♪♪
- How it's looking, think you gon' make it for the thing?
- I'm hoping, I'm not just gonna give up,
you know what I'm saying, like, I tattoo fast naturally.
I'm feeling so much pressure right now,
and this is my first convention with a real team, you know,
and Kat put me amongst all these elite artists,
and I wanna show that I can hold my weight too.
But the clock is ticking,
and I don't know if I'm gonna get this tattoo done in time.
We gotta go over there.
- So the way the convention works is
the client that we tattoo will go up for judging,
and they do a scoresheet based on everybody’s work.
I'm here going against some of the best artists
in California, so [bleep], let's go.
- Our third place winner for extra large color...
is number three, Brian.
Second place, Skylar.
And your first place winner...
[all cheering]
- I am so happy, I can breathe,
I'm like, okay, I got what I came here for.
[all cheering]
♪♪♪♪
[laughter]
- Ahh! - I never!
My first convention, best leg sleeve category,
and up against Kevin?
This is how you do your first convention,
taking an award home, holding it down for Kat.
- You better than me, bitch!
- For real? - Yeah!
- I brought my A game for the judges to see
and they definitely rewarded me for that.
This [bleep] feels so damn good,
and I can't wait to go back.
- ♪♪ Yeah ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[all cheering]
- Second place goes to Spike Moore...
[Nelly] To win first and third place
in the same category, and first place
was on a melanated person, with color,
and it was a scar and tattoo cover up?
Child, they don't call me the Cover Up Queen for no reason.
♪♪♪♪
[all cheering]
- We're in the house! What the [bleep]?
[Lemeir] Man, the vibe out here is feeling right.
It's moments like these that make me be like,
hell yeah I'm happy I came over to Enigma.
We ran that [bleep] up.
Let's say it like they never did.
[overlapping cheering]
- Come on, Ness, we out!
- I'm so happy for you, but I really wanna finish this
so I can try to... - No, it's good.
- I'm trying to catch up with y'all.
- No, you got it, you got it, you got it, you got it.
We'll let you do your [bleep].
- Oh my God, the whole team is sweeping this,
you know what I'm saying, they're coming back
with these awards, and I'm still over here
trying to finish this damn tattoo.
Who knows how this is gonna end?
Got a tattoo done in three hours
that's supposed to take seven, which is wild.
Yeah?
Yeah, come on, let's go.
♪♪♪♪
[bleep].
[Kevin] Let me call boss lady real quick.
- Oh, please. - Grab your [bleep].
- Oh, let me grab mine. - Hey, that's mine.
[phone ringing]
- Hi!
First of all, I just won
third place leg sleeve.
But look who won second place.
[laughter]
[announcer] Congratulations to our winners
for medium color.
Our third place winner is number six,
Josh Carmichael.
Second place goes to number four, Nicole.
Matt Bourne is the artist on that, of New Bourne Tattoo.
- Look who got third and first place in cover ups.
- For the same category, dog.
- And your first place winner,
congratulations, number 19,
Kevin, Syracuse Silva, high class.
♪♪♪♪
[Nessie] Well, this sucks.
I mean, I busted my ass this whole weekend
for this convention, and I didn't even place?
It's my first time being with a real team,
and I'm the only one that didn't win anything.
Like, I don't even wanna go back over to the booth,
like, I'm embarrassed.
- She's crying. Y'all got this [bleep] crying.
- [laughter] - Aww, don't cry!
- I know that Katrina, she's reflecting back on
her first time going to a convention
where she had to go by herself.
And fast forward to now where she has a whole shop
of people here to support her, we're all winning
first place trophies, I get it, and that's what we here for.
- We did this [bleep] for you,
if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be here, dog.
We wish you was here too!
- I need the managers to come here.
This was our first convention. - I appreciate the both...
It's gotten to the point where I would be sad
to see either one of them go.
Y'all are neck and neck.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ One for the money, two for the show ♪♪
♪♪ Three for the ones who still hatin' on the low ♪♪
♪♪ One for the ladies, one for the bros ♪♪
♪♪ We about to split the profit, go on, get some more ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, that's how it go... ♪♪
- Now we cookin' with Crisco.
♪♪♪♪
Babe? - [Kat] Yeah?
- Come here real quick like.
♪♪♪♪
Yeah, you like my setup?
- Yes, what is this?
What, we about to have a romantic massage over here?
- Yeah, I'm about to get you right.
If that's what you want, I'ma get you right.
[laughter]
- You about to tat me? - You about to tat me.
We missed the convention,
we gon' bring the convention to you.
You tryna get an award?
- Yeah, I got a big award already.
- You can always have more.
[Kat] Jamie sees that I've been down,
and that I've been missing my Enigma team.
So the fact that he set up all my tattoo equipment
to get me back in my element
just reminds me of how sweet,
and caring and thoughtful my man really is.
Okay, we gon' see if Kat Tat's still got it.
- I'm lowkey scared.
- [laughs] Why?
All of the best work on your body is done by who?
- Kat Tat. - Exactly.
- So I got all my chaps' names on me.
And I need Jakobi,
you know, I need to add him to the bunch.
- Well, you have perfect space
right here up under Jamie Jr., and right above Jackson.
- And then if we have more chaps...
- Then you got a whole lotta neck on the other side.
[laughter]
- So let's do it. I trust you.
- Jackson about to wake up any minute.
Jakobi just went down, but he gon' wake up any minute.
But we can try. - I finna go get him.
- Yeah, 'cause he about ready
to come out. - Yeah.
- ♪♪ Bad diggity dog ♪♪
♪♪ Diggity dog ♪♪
- Look at this.
I know you was planning a romantic evening,
but this is definitely a new setting for me
but, you know, it takes the pressure off.
Now I get to tattoo, and burp the baby,
get thrown up on.
[Kat] My crew for today
is a little different than at Enigma.
The apprentices, Jackson and Jakobi,
are very new to this.
Of course I made it safe for my little men to be around,
but they need to get accustomed to what their mommy does.
Just like their daddy's a football player,
they need to know that their mom's a bad bitch too.
And this is what I do, I tattoo.
- Damn, you feel like you back in your element yet?
- I do, can't you see my mood shifting?
- We got two babies.
- [babbling] - That's a lotta work.
- I just thought about something.
This is literally my second time tattooing you and...
- [babbling]
- I'm talking to your daddy.
[laughter]
This is my second time tattooing you in "Black Ink" history.
[laughter]
First time, we were just friends.
Ready, Jamie? - Oh, yeah.
♪♪♪♪
- And now you're my lover.
- Dang, you see how the universe works?
- Step into my home office.
Lay down flat, and then this is bent back.
[indistinct chatter]
♪♪♪♪
Ready, babe? Alright, here we go.
- ♪♪ I was afraid when I was younger ♪♪
♪♪ But now I'm all grown up ♪♪
♪♪ And now I believe, I believe in me ♪♪
♪♪ So I'm gonna sing out... ♪♪
[Kat] When I met this larger than life
football player back in 2013,
I had no idea that we would have this whole,
beautiful future together.
You big time now. - Trying to be.
Whatever I gotta do to make it.
- Same here, man.
I've always admired and respected
how he carried himself.
He never tried to hit on me during our tattoo sessions.
He just always carried himself like a grown man.
But in 2020, the timing was right,
and it was like a light switch went off,
and I knew he was the one.
- ♪♪ I'm a winner, no distractions ♪♪
♪♪ No excuses, I make it happen... ♪♪
[babies cooing, crying]
♪♪♪♪
[music winding down]
[Jamie] What happened, man?
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Hold up, I'm just getting started ♪♪
♪♪ When I let my hair down ♪♪
♪♪ No one cares when we deep in the zone ♪♪
♪♪ Living that grilly life, baby ♪♪
♪♪ If you with me, come on ♪♪
- Jamie as a dad is the sexiest man alive,
and I could not have pictured
this life for us back in 2013.
I own a tattoo shop with some of the most
solid tattoo artists in the country,
two beautiful baby boys, a couple Super Bowl rings,
and now Enigma has some championship trophies too.
It hasn't been easy making our dreams come true,
but I would not change a thing.
- ♪♪ Working, loving... ♪♪
- [sing songy] All done.
- Can't wait.
Truly, I feel like I did a tattoo.
Ta-da!
That's what I'm talking about, babe,
you ain't lost nothin'.
- Thank you for doing this.
- With two babies...
[laughter]
- Wait wait wait, uh-uh, you forgot to pay.
Cash or card?
- I'll pay you later on tonight.
[Kat] Yeah, whatever.
- If KP and Tim knew I was here, they'd be so [bleep] mad.
- Who cares what they think though?
Like, you can do what the [bleep] you wanna do.
For real, what's your next move?
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[cheering]
- ♪♪ Said if you came to party like we came to party ♪♪
♪♪ Say hell yeah (hell yeah) ♪♪
♪♪ If you came to party, like we came to party ♪♪
♪♪ Say hell yeah (hell yeah) ♪♪
- Cheers. - Cheers, yeah.
- Kevin...
- What? - You always do that.
- What I did? - "Cheers."
- Oh! Cheers!
And don't even drink it.
This convention legit was one for the books.
Like, it could not have been written better.
Seeing Katrina's face when she saw all those trophies,
it brought tears to her eyes.
We all just really earned a night to just kick back
and [bleep] celebrate.
- The party is [bleep] here!
I had to bring my homegirl Lexi.
[all cheering, shouting]
♪♪♪♪
[laughter and shouting]
- Damn, y'all don't know who I am?
- Wait, is that Nelly?
[overlapping shouting]
- It's me, bitch.
[laughter]
- This is Nelly.
This is [bleep] Nelly.
Dog, like, I am in shock. [laughter]
- Hey, hey, don't play with a real one, though.
Don't play with a real one, though.
Listen, Lexi, she's a crossdresser.
No, I'm just playing, I just wanted to have a little fun,
it was my first time experimenting with this,
wanted to show everybody a different side of me
and, you know, drop it like it's hot one time.
I don't know if she's gonna come back or not but...
yeah, she was in San Diego.
- [Kevin] Nelly! - [laughter]
- Nessie, please, come here.
[Oliver] We just wanna have a conversation with you.
- I wanna say this too.
I know you was hard on yourself, I get it.
I know how losing feels to me, but it's not a loss.
- I was so upset when I didn't win a trophy...
It just felt really [bleep],
but it's way less [bleep] knowing I have a solid team
around me that's gonna support me whether I win or lose.
Maybe next time I get this trophy.
Actually, I'm definitely gonna get a trophy next time.
Deshay, I wanna say I'm super proud that you,
your first convention ever, you won awards, bro?
You beat Kevin Laroy!
- A'ight, a'ight, [bleep]...
- That did it.
I'm on a whole nother level right now.
The air is thin up here for the kid.
Kevin ain't [bleep] with me.
I'm just playing, Kev, it's all love.
[Lemeir] Yo, hold up!
We got an intruder!
[overlapping chatter]
[all exclaiming]
- Wow, what did I miss out on? - You missed everything.
- Hi, guys. - How you doing?
[overlapping chatter]
- Hi, sis, how are you? - Good.
After the [bleep] weekend ever with my team,
the Enigma crew hit me up to come to their party,
and it's really nice to have people
that actually want me around.
This is the vibe that I wanted for
the convention, but better late than never.
- Alana, can I ask you what the [bleep] happened?
- Long story short, at the convention
I just said let's just agree to disagree,
we don't gotta talk, that's it.
Then she starts running her mouth,
so then I like, snap back, and then she just throws
the green soap in my face.
I'm so embarrassed.
- Are you okay? - Yeah, how are them eyes?
- They're better now, I had went to the urgent care last night.
- Wait, you were in the ER
by yourself out here in San Diego?
- No, Brandon was there.
- Oh! Wait!
Why you turning red, Brandon?
[laughter]
Why you blushing? - I ain't blushing.
- Dog, we were all here turning up last night
and he was gone!
- I'm happy Alana decided to come by the house
after what happened at the convention.
She definitely needed it.
And I'm glad we got to the bottom
of why we couldn't find Brandon last night.
I guess this explains everything.
- How you feeling?
- Feels weird to be here.
But thanks for staying with me
when I was in the urgent care,
'cause like, I did not want to be by myself.
- Yeah. - But after all that [bleep],
I just wanna turn up, have a good time.
- You here, everybody [bleep] with you.
- Yeah, everyone's cool.
Obviously, I know Barbie,
Lemeir, Nessie. - Yeah.
- But I just know if KP and Tim knew I was here,
they'd be so [bleep] mad.
- Who cares what they think though, like,
they don't really care about your side,
they don't care about how you feel.
- Yeah.
[Alana] After my FaceTime with Tim,
I'm not feeling supported by the IAM team.
KP didn't even answer my phone call,
and Tim's trying to brush it off like it's not a big deal.
But it was a big deal, I was assaulted.
I really thought they had my back
but it doesn't even feel like that.
I have a lot to think about before I see them,
because this is situation isn't over.
- See, I be wanting to say some [bleep]--
- Why don't you say it? Just say it?
Go ahead.
- Oh, man.
You look too good,
too much of a creative,
you could do what the [bleep] you wanna do.
For real, what's your next move?
- Doing what I wanna do.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
[Deshay] I know everybody having a nice moment,
but I need the managers to come here.
At the end of the day,
I wanna talk about the managers because
this was our first convention,
this was really big for the brand,
and we went to extensive measures to make sure
we have the right people.
And we wanted one person, we ended up with two.
And y'all came in and did everything that you needed,
'cause it's a lotta artists
and we all have a lot of demands.
And we made sure y'all knew that,
and y'all executed.
- I appreciate the both of y'all,
but at the same time, y'all are neck and neck.
Y'all are neck and neck, but I ain't got
nothin' but good news to bring back to Katrina,
so, yeah, we'll see how that goes.
- Cheers to that.
[overlapping chatter]
[Kevin] Barbie and Denai killed it this weekend,
like, they made sure everybody was good,
everything was so easy,
and honestly, I don't envy Katrina.
I'm like, it's gonna be such a hard decision for her.
It's gotten to the point where, honestly,
I'll be sad to see either one of them go.
Whoo!
Put all the [bleep] trophies on this table.
- Put those trophies wherever the [bleep] you want to.
- We need a good song.
Barbie, what you wanna dance to, Barbie?
'Cause you gonna shake that ass tonight.
This weekend was very tiring,
I honestly felt mad pressure to show everybody
that I'm a good asset to the team,
but it is really nice now that we're back at the house,
we can turn up, you know what I'm saying, yeah,
we gonna get it together. [laughter]
- Can we cheers real quick?
- What we toasting to?
- Let's toast to [bleep] trophies.
[overlapping chatter]
- ♪♪ We ain't gon' stop ♪♪
[overlapping shouting]
[Deshay] The first convention is done,
and it feel real good to represent myself and Enigma.
This is it right here,
now I'm ready for the next one.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ You mixing with us, we dishin' 'em out ♪♪
♪♪ Ain't had enough... ♪♪
[Lemeir] I'm feeling like Lemeir Mitchell right now,
you know what I'm saying?
That [bleep]. [laughs]
I'm hella happy I'm working with Kat and Enigma's team.
I ain't never had a good time like this at IAM,
this what I was looking for the whole time
since I moved out here to LA from Philly.
- ♪♪ You ain't no higher than me ♪♪
♪♪ You ain't no higher than we ♪♪
♪♪ All of y'all out of our range ♪♪
[Kevin] Enigma came to San Diego,
and we ate that [bleep] up.
Now we can go back to LA
with a new winner-type mentality.
The only thing missing was Katrina,
but she ain't gonna miss the next one,
I promise you that.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ All them bottles on me ♪♪
♪♪ Sting like some of them bees ♪♪
♪♪ We all know Muhammad Ali ♪♪
♪♪ Look, I don't even need no box of love ♪♪
♪♪ Got lots of love, we box 'em up ♪♪
♪♪ Y'all come around that's not enough ♪♪
♪♪ We box 'em up, no crossing us ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ I'm going higher ♪♪♪♪
- You and Nelly, it's clear to me that y'all don't like each other.
- I don't know if I would say that...
- Either fix it or figure it out,
'cause if y'all can't get that [bleep] together,
then one of y'all gotta go.
- Y'all acting like this,
and y'all know what I just overcame.
- You gotta put your foot down
even ten times harder right now to let 'em know
this some [bleep] I'd never [bleep] tolerate.
- You're not happy, you 're not happy...
- It has to be something wrong. - It just boils down
to the common denominator-- if you don't appreciate me,
why the [bleep] am I gonna [bleep] with you?
- Enigma!
- [cheering] - Where were you?
- I went to go see Katrina and [bleep].
We was talking about the managers.
I mean, it's still up in the air.
- I just heard something different from Oliver.
That I got the job. - Oh!
- I've stood by you and supported you guys
for three years now, and it sucks that
you didn't do the same for me.
- Come on, we wrong. - I just kind of see
how things are going, and it's just--
I just don't think it's for me anymore.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪