- For the past month or so, I've been going home an empty house.
Zahir was all I had.
- I didn't wanna pull you in.
But this is something I spent $30,000 on.
- [bleep] the money, Kevin. [bleep] all of that.
Not once has my [bleep] friend asked "are you okay?"
- I met Barbie and Denai one time.
If I had to pick one, who?
- You gotta come back 'cause this is actually your job.
- As soon as I get clearance to travel,
I'm on the next thing smoking.
- My microblader threw grease on my tattoo artist.
- This is em-[bleep]-barrassing.
- You gotta put your foot down right now to let 'em know
this some [bleep] I'd never [bleep] tolerate.
- I know it's a lotta mixed feelings.
So we kinda just putting everything on the table.
- I'ma always love you guys,
but I just kinda seen how things are going,
I just don't think it's for me.
- I'm walking as well.
- She was talking about the managers.
So I mean, it's still up in the air.
- I just heard something different from Oliver.
- What was that? - That I got the job.
- ♪♪ 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 ♪♪♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Let's get it straight ♪♪
♪♪ Felt in spades ♪♪
- Mmm.
Watch out, Jackson.
[Kat] This view is amazing.
You can see, like, all of California.
- No, you cannot. - Yes, you can!
I can see the shop from here.
[laughter]
- It feels like it's been forever,
but I'm back in LA.
While I've been away in Florida,
Rashad kept looking at a million houses
around California, and he's finally found
the perfect house.
♪♪♪♪
Mm-hmm...
And of course, we got back
to LA the right way-- in the private jet.
Jackson, you don't know how good you got it.
It's a very surreal feeling and I could not be happier.
California livin'.
Yeah, it's time. - You can't have the babies,
now it's my turn to have the babies.
- Yeah... - Switch.
- It's great having Jamie here
because while he's been rehabbing his ankle
and getting ready for next season,
he's been able to full-time take care of the babies
because I need to get back to take care of the shop ASAP.
- It's your first day of school though.
- I know, I gotta come back. They don't know I'm coming back.
I didn't tell nobody when I'ma be back.
- What?! - No,
I've been gone for too long.
[Kat] I decided to just pop up in the shop
because I wanna see what they really got going on.
I don't want them scrambling tryna to save face because
they know I'm back in town.
I popped these babies out,
now I gotta go check on my other baby.
- Yeah, yeah, you right.
- While I've been away,
the shop has done a great job
of holding it down on the business front.
- Look who got third and first place in cover ups.
- What up! - But on a personal level,
things have been messy as hell.
I know that you and Nelly have your tiff,
but you think that everybody in the shop
also feels a way about her?
- Everybody feels a way, yes.
- And from what I've heard,
Oliver overstepped by making the decision
to hire Barbie as the shop manager
before even finalizing that with me.
- Oliver cannot make decisions
without the boss, which is Kat.
- Oliver is saying it came from Kat.
- But I'm here, and I'm ready to be the boss
that my team needs me to be.
I'm just really excited for this next chapter,
I feel like California's gonna be something great for us.
- If you're happy, I'm happy.
- ♪♪ Boss energy, mentality ♪♪
♪♪ Oh, they like that, wanna follow me ♪♪
♪♪ Making life still hard for my enemy ♪♪
♪♪ Everything's fine when they mention me ♪♪♪♪
- What y'all doing this weekend?
- I'm going to the Golden State tattoo convention.
- Bring home some more trophies?
- Well, I would hope [bleep] so.
[laughter]
- Oh, speaking of awards, I got something.
Since me and Nessie were the only ones
that didn't get a chance to win one,
I got us two trophies.
[all exclaiming] - I love that.
[Bookie] In order to fit in with the rest of the crew
I decided to take it upon myself
to go out there and get me and Nessie two trophies.
I heard she was super bummed about not winning,
and since I wasn't able to attend,
we deserve our accolades too.
Mine is blank 'cause I was absent,
so that makes it... - [laughter]
- And then Nessie's, it said "you tried".
[laughter, cheering]
- Baby, I ain't never gonna back down from a challenge.
Enigma has been nothing but encouraging and welcoming.
And I know Bookie's coming from a good place
with the little trophy joke or whatever,
but I'ma make a promise to myself that I'ma
have an earned trophy to put on that shelf like everybody else.
- Y'all just gonna replace 'em
when y'all get the other ones, that's all.
- ♪♪ Bring them ballers out, make 'em stand in line ♪♪
♪♪ Bring them ballers out, make 'em pay a fine ♪♪
♪♪ Bring them ballers out, 'cause you know we fine ♪♪
♪♪ Bring them ballers out, lemme see who mine ♪♪♪♪
[all exclaiming]
[cheering]
- Not y'all locking me out my own [bleep]!
[overlapping chatter]
I'm back in this bitch like I never left.
What the [bleep] is up?
It feels so good walking in the shop.
Everybody's happy to see me,
I don't see no fistfights going on,
I'm just hoping everything can go smoothly
from here on out so I can finally get back to business.
- How you feeling? - I feel good.
It feels great to be back.
So what the [bleep] is going on?
I love it, I love to see it...
First of all, I have never even won a goddamn trophy,
so y'all just trying to [bleep] on me,
but it's cool. [laughter]
And how has everything been going?
- You know, everything's cool, we've been bonding.
- Kevin, Nelly, have y'all unpacked y'all [bleep]?
Nelly, you've been real quiet over here,
I'm not used to this. - I know.
We could talk in private though.
- Are you good? - I'm good.
[Nelly] I'm so glad Kat is back,
and I definitely got a lot to talk to her about.
But right now in front of everybody at the shop
is definitely not the time and not the place,
so I'ma just stay quiet for now.
- Let's talk about this front desk situation.
- What you wanna talk about? - Let's talk about it.
- You know, I heard that there was information relayed
that did not come from my mouth.
I understand that Oliver made
a phone call that he should not have.
- What're you talking about? I mean, at the end of the day,
we needed some things...
[overlapping chatter]
- Ah ah ah ah ah.
We talk about business decisions,
and I make the final decision.
- How you gonna make the decision if you not here?
- I'm here now.
[Kat] Oliver definitely overstepped by making
the decision to hire Barbie
before even finalizing that with me.
I just got back, I haven't even had
a chance to talk to the two girls.
Now I'm forced into finalizing this position
and sorting all this back,
and I ain't even been here for two seconds.
I do the hiring and firing around here,
but we are hiring just one.
So if there's any confusion about what this position is
and who's got it, we can talk about it now.
[Denai] So can I say something?
Initially, the position that was communicated to me
was a shop manager position.
Even at the interview, it was a shop manager position.
But as we actually got into the thick of things,
Oliver communicated to me that it's not actually
a shop manager position,
it's more of a receptionist position.
So I wanna play on my strengths, I wanna give Enigma my best.
I don't wanna answer the phones, if Barbie wants
to do it, like, if that's the job that she wants,
initially, I thought it was the shop manager.
♪♪♪♪
- The position is the shop manager.
You have to be well rounded.
I'm the owner and I answer phones when I'm in here.
- Exactly.
- My thing is just don't count me out because--
- Well, if you can't answer phones,
you're counted out.
- I started getting a couple phone calls.
- From teams? - Yep.
- I figured that was gonna happen.
I hope you go close.
- I'm tryna manage this shop.
- Mmm. - But two of my artists,
they done walked, and I can't even get in my vibe
with the music, so I be feeling disconnected.
And I'm like, damn, is the shop
taking me away from what I love?
- Y'all asked me to be open and honest with y'all,
and, um, I think the best thing for me to do right now
is to take some time to myself...
- Can I be honest? - Yeah.
- Like, dog, that's bull[bleep].
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- My thing is just don't count me out because--
- Well, if you can't answer phones, you're counted out.
♪♪♪♪
I gotta say, it's not the best look
for Denai to be acting like she's too good
to answer the phones right when I'm about to make
the decision on who I'm gonna hire.
I mean, do you want the position,
or you wanna be shown the door, which one is it?
- I didn't say that I wouldn't answer the phones.
I just said I wanted more job responsibilities.
- And I'm fine with that,
but my thing is, it's one position.
Call it a receptionist, call it a manager,
there's room for growth.
But Barbie, she came prepared with all of that stuff,
and not acting like, you know,
she's too good to do the receptionist work.
- What I'm saying is there's a whole list of things
and responsibilities that I would love to do,
and from my understanding, the receptionist,
there was like, a cap.
- Come on, Denai, like,
if you ain't wanna answer phones,
why'd you apply for the job, baby girl?
And then you gonna throw shade at Barbie
for being in the same position that you wanted to be in?
Weird.
- Denai, I appreciate every single thing
you've done for this shop, but like, I can't just
have anybody say, like, "I'm not gonna just answer phones,"
or "I'm not here to do this type of work."
Like, no, this position is that type of work,
you know what I'm saying?
From everything I heard,
Barbie...
you got the spot.
- Thank you. Thank you, guys...
- [all cheering] - Happy to be here.
Your girl got the job,
and I knew I was gonna get it.
And Denai, she kinda helped me a little bit by putting
her foot in her mouth, so thanks, Denai,
for not wanting to answer phones.
I'ma answer them all day while
I'm the manager here at Enigma.
- So Denai, much appreciated,
but unfortunately, we're only hiring one,
and the decision has been made.
- Yeah, that's fine, you definitely did
but we're not gonna even address him.
- That's 'cause she Deebo'ed herself in here.
- Oh, no, sweetie, don't do that.
- I already made the decision.
I hired her, and I didn't hire you so...
- What'd you say? You don't make any decisions.
Let's make this very clear, this is my shop.
- Alright, whatever. - First of all,
for you to call her and tell her she got the job and not
communicate with me, that is very ghetto to me.
I don't like the way you trying to play me, honestly...
- Like you thirsty... - Yeah, 'cause I'm definitely...
- Man, I'm not finna have this conversation with you.
- Is there something I should know?
[overlapping chatter] - Just know this,
he didn't have that energy when my mother[bleep] toes
was in his mouth, just know that.
♪♪♪♪
- Cuz, you [bleep] up the church's money.
- At the convention, Oliver was acting mad thirsty.
Typically, I would not like, put anybody's business out there
but nah, in this moment, I do not like the way
that he handled the shop situation.
So, yeah, like, you petty, yeah, I'm petty too.
- Oliver, Oliver, let's cut the [bleep].
Let's cut the [bleep]. Where the [bleep] is that
coming from, like... - What are you saying?
- Since when do you [bleep] with the people that
we're trying to hire, that's not-- like, who are you?
- You wouldn't put them toes in your mouth...
[all exclaiming]
- Take the L, friend.
I can't believe that Denai actually took it there,
but at the same time, I also don't blame her,
because Oliver did not handle this hiring process
the right way at all.
- You're right, you're right, it's your shop,
whatever, like, we didn't hire her...
[overlapping chatter]
- But she was in the process, bro, you can't do that.
- Somebody that's gonna put their toes
in the boss' mouth doesn't deserve the job.
[laughter]
- First off, she didn't put her toes in your mouth,
you took that foot...
[laughter]
[overlapping chatter]
- Okay, let's stop, let's stop,
let's end this conversation right now.
I got two babies at home,
I ain't got that much time to sit here and talk about
what [bleep] sucking toes.
Inappropriate as [bleep].
Like, seriously, like I leave you
in charge for a goddamn reason.
I had no idea that all of this was happening,
and I'm not gonna lie, I do feel bad for Denai.
None of that should've happened, and Oliver was out of line
for hiring Barbie without telling me,
and for playing Denai like that, not cool at all.
I've seen plenty of all kinds of [bleep] going on in the shop,
and it leads to failure.
But ain't no [bleep] your way in this shop,
it ain't no [bleep] your way up this shop,
leave it alone, alright, we good?
- Aye aye, captain.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Loyalty to business, trust is the commodity ♪♪
♪♪ You roll the dice so you can play it like Monopoly ♪♪
♪♪ Ten toes down, fill the gap ♪♪
♪♪ Fellas, you don't see me lettin'... ♪♪
- Crazy. - What happened?
- "New New" edits just came back.
- You got some "New New" edits for the video?
- Yes, sir.
- They ain't gonna be able to show everything.
- ♪♪ On my way up ♪♪
♪♪ New New ♪♪
♪♪ I got a new ♪♪
♪♪ I got a New New ♪♪
- It's flowin', cuz.
[laughter]
[KP] It's been a tough time for IAM lately
with Alana and Ink Bomb quitting in the same day.
We still got some fighters left in the ring.
Cory, Amber, but I really feel like
I need to regroup.
Now I just need to figure out
my next steps with the shop
and how to balance that with my music.
- How you feel about bringing some more people here?
- Yeah, I'm like...
which way I wanna go?
We dealt with Alana like a little sister...
[overlapping chatter]
Like, I'm tired of coming and tryna save you, I'm tired.
- That's almost, like, a spit in your face.
Alana quitting, that [bleep] came out of left field.
I mean, we gave Alana everything,
and then for her to just quit,
I just thought we was better than that.
I guess not.
- On the business side,
we'll fill them chairs up easy.
- We just gotta get more certified artists in here.
- Once we spread the word and say that we even looking,
I'm pretty sure we gonna get some dope people.
We need top tier.
- ♪♪ Everybody on they beat ♪♪
♪♪ Clapping their hands for me ♪♪
♪♪ Claimin' my victory ♪♪
♪♪ All my people on they feet ♪♪
♪♪ Victory, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ Deep breath, I think I need a minute ♪♪
♪♪ Hands up, strike a pose, let 'em know we did it ♪♪
♪♪ Big cheese to the one, said we couldn't do it ♪♪
♪♪ This for the ones who believe we ain't have to prove it ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- What a view. - What a day.
- I'm talking about you.
[laughter]
- What you got there?
- Little bit of Chardonnay.
[Kat] Now that the babies are asleep,
it feels so good to just take a minute
and chill next to my man,
enjoy this view, and just really absorb
how wonderful our lives are in this moment.
[sighs] Feels good to be back.
- Yeah, it do feel good. - Now that we're moved in,
it's only right that we have a housewarming.
- We ain't got [bleep] in here.
Everything ain't even set up.
- It'll be here, we don't need much.
[Kat] I think throwing a party for our LA people
will be really, really good.
Jamie loves to entertain and host,
so I think it'll be a great way to just
ease him into his new life here in LA.
And it's good for me too, 'cause I ain't had a chance
to party in a minute.
That first day back was crazy.
I don't think nobody expected me to come back.
- Yeah? - Everybody looked surprised.
I had to straighten out the situation
with the two shop managers.
- Be a boss. - Exactly.
I checked what needed to be checked.
That's what bosses do.
Nelly seemed a little off.
You know, I know she's going through a lot.
- Did y'all talk about it? - No, I didn't wanna talk to her
about anything in front of everybody,
I wanna maybe pull Nelly aside,
or just talk to her one on one
and make sure she's good,
you know, I don't need no more surprises.
I think everything's better when I'm here.
- Yeah? - Mm-hmm.
That's why I'm grateful that we here.
- Yeah, well, look, we here, but...
I started getting a couple phone calls.
- From teams? - Yep.
- I figured that was gonna happen.
- So's you know we can't get too comfortable.
- I knew it, I'm like, God is gonna have you be here
while Jakobi's being born, while we get settled,
and just when I think we settled,
you gonna get a call.
I honestly felt like something like that was gonna happen.
Jamie's a free agent right now, which is good
because technically, he can sign with
any team in the league that offers him the best position.
Which is exciting, but it's also a little scary
because he's getting calls from all over the place.
So what if he gets the best offer
from way across the country?
Well, it wasn't easy, but I was able to travel
with Jackson, and that even got hard.
But I can't imagine traveling with Jackson and Jakobi
to come see you every week.
Like, that's gonna be a lot.
I hope you go close.
I can't imagine being away from you
for a long period of time, we haven't had to do that.
- Yeah, we'll figure it out. - I hope so.
[sighs]
I hate that you're going through so much.
- So much, dog, like, it's been a lot.
- Are you okay?
- Saying it right now is gonna make it real...
but...
I got served divorce papers.
- I have an aggressive hustle,
and I feel like it's important when you have a business
to have people on your team who has an aggressive-ass hustle.
- Look, I'm just gonna be up front,
like, I'm not with any of the awkward [bleep].
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Lost sleep and many deals ♪♪
♪♪ Have -- fake, they ain't even real ♪♪
♪♪ Had to watch snakes lay in the field ♪♪
♪♪ Unless it's God, then it's nothing that I fear ♪♪
♪♪ I had to do it, had to do it on my own ♪♪
♪♪ Just have to live a little less up in my home-- ♪♪
- What's that?
- [exclaiming]
[overlapping chatter]
My brother Eric Bellinger hit me up for some new ink.
Eric is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, he produce,
and he's a singer.
- That's an anthem...
[overlapping chatter]
[KP] So I thought it'd be a good idea
to swing by the studio and let him hear
some of the stuff I've been working on
before we get the tattoo started.
- Play some more, man...
- Play some more? - I wanna hear some more,
that [bleep] crazy. - Hold on, hold on.
I almost switched up the vibe, lemme see.
- ♪♪ If I'm not coming down ♪♪
♪♪ I'm on my way up ♪♪
♪♪ New New ♪♪
♪♪ I got a new ♪♪
♪♪ I got a new new ♪♪
[music fades]
- Man, the momentum is crazy
just going from the tats to the music.
It's like, I couldn’t be more proud,
like, grown man handshake.
For real, for real, dog.
- You already know what time it is.
Back in like 2002...
- We had the crib,
we had the bedroom, that was the studio.
- Man, no bed, futon, and I'm tatting.
You see girls getting tatted.
- We really put the time in.
[KP] You know, back in the days,
Eric was out pursuing music while I was trying to get
IAM off the ground.
There were so many sacrifices being made,
but if you look at where we at now, it was well worth it.
I thought I'd be done making sacrifices at this point,
but it looks like I'm at a crossroads right now
with my music and my shop.
In life, I be going through so much stuff,
and then sometimes I just be wanting a new start,
you know what I'm saying? See, I've been trying
to manage this shop,
but long story short,
two of my artists had altercations.
Called a meeting with them after that because
the energy was just weird, and then they done walked.
- Child. - Y'all stirred up
all of this...
- Now you got more obstacles.
- The obstacles don't stop.
[KP] I worked so hard to get this shop
to the level it is today.
And I know I can go out and find new artists,
but damn, is this deja vu all over again?
I wanna build a team, but I want that team to feel like a family.
- You gonna get some more people?
- I just needed to get the energy,
you know what I'm saying, the negative was draining me.
- I got some new artists coming by too
that I want you to check out.
- We got some real talent right here.
I really need to think hard about the next steps.
What's to stop any new artists
from repeating the same mistakes that the past artists did?
I just been stacking up records while I've been
trying to juggle the shop, and my artists,
and getting them clients and making sure everything
everything because sometimes it get foggy when
I'm trying to do all that, and then go in the lab,
I'm irritated... - Yeah, yeah.
- ...with the business of the day, and I can't even
get in my vibe with the music, so I be feeling disconnected
and I'm like, damn, is the shop
taking me away from what I love?
- Only thing I can tell you is once you let go
and just start living the life that you want,
and embody music, it's like, I'm already here mentally.
That's when I really started to see some traction,
when I was just able to focus a-- and lock in.
- Yeah.
♪♪♪♪
- Alright, let's get this ink going.
- ♪♪ All my life, grinding all my life ♪♪
♪♪ Sacrifice, hustle paid the price ♪♪
♪♪ One slice, got to roll the dice ♪♪
♪♪ That's why all my life, I've been grinding all my life ♪♪
- Becoming a tattoo artist over 15 years ago,
it changed my life in ways that I never thought was possible.
- ♪♪ '96 Impala, thug life on wheels ♪♪
♪♪ Up against the walls, squabble at Fox Hills ♪♪
♪♪ Like a boss, ask me how I feel ♪♪
♪♪ Successful street touchin’ them first mils (whoa) ♪♪
- I made history by opening the first tattoo shop
ever in the city of Compton.
And through that, I got to help the community
I love more than anything.
- I thank y'all for even coming and having
a sit-down with us 'cause this is the first step
to save our community.
- We at IAM Compton, Ink Art Music,
celebrating Black and brown.
That's Compton, I can't do it without 'em.
- This is not just a tattoo shop.
This is a house of healing.
- I appreciate you.
Even though the shop is important
and close to my heart,
I've been writing music since a kid.
So I just don't wanna regret not giving myself
the opportunity to make a name for myself
in this music business.
I'm starting to think, maybe I should just
walk away from the shop and focus on the music.
Especially with somebody like my brother
Eric Bellinger hyping up my song.
- ♪♪ I got everything I said I was gon' get ♪♪
♪♪ On my kid, in addition to that fact ♪♪
♪♪ I went legit, I’m the -- ♪♪
♪♪ Now accordin’ to the way that I’m positioned in this biz ♪♪
♪♪ It look like I'm just gon' keep on gettin' rich (ahh) ♪♪
- I wanna maintain this momentum and build-up I got going on,
and sometimes, you just gotta let go to move on.
I just don't know if I'm ready.
Whew, check him out.
- That dang too smooth. Like, "Yeah, nice to meet you,"
I'm gonna start shaking with the left.
- The left. That's crazy...
[overlapping chatter]
- My brother. - Yessir.
- ♪♪ 2020, when I take a hit, never miss ♪♪
♪♪ We we never miss ♪♪
♪♪ Thunderclap, when that hit ♪♪
♪♪ We don't never miss ♪♪
♪♪ Never miss, never miss ♪♪♪♪
- I know Nelly's been going through a lot
with the Kevin stuff and her issues with Zahir.
I mean, the other day at the shop,
she just wasn't acting like herself,
so I just wanna connect with her one on one
and really make sure that she's okay.
- Hey, boo. - Hey, girl!
I missed you. - I missed you too.
[overlapping chatter]
How's Jakobi? - He's great.
- You had the best luck with both of them, girl...
- That's what everybody says, like, you have
really chill babies. - Okay!
I'm glad Kat reached out to me
so we can finally sit down and talk face to face.
I know she's been dealing with a lot with the whole
baby situation, and after everything I've been
going through, I'm just glad she made time for it.
- You been good? You been holding up?
- Holding up.
[bleep] has been
a little bit of a roller coaster at the shop,
but things are back smooth sailing.
- Yeah, you and Kevin, I heard a lot from his side
and stuff, but I know-- I'm just glad y'all
were able to unpack it from what I heard.
- Yeah, the biggest thing with Kevin was if our friendship
was gonna move forward, you can't talk to me
about Zahir no more, like, let's just
make it a boundary for me.
[Nelly] I'm glad Kevin and I have been keeping things civil,
but I think it's important that Kat hears my side
of the story too because the energy at the shop
has definitely been off since Kat's been away,
so hopefully things will be balanced again
now that she's back.
- But I hate that you're going through so much.
- So much, dog, like, it's been a lot.
I don't wanna get emotional. - It's okay, you can.
You gotta let it out, like, you have to, you know?
- It's just been a lot.
- I'm sorry, Nell.
♪♪♪♪
Are you okay?
- Saying it right now is gonna make it real
but, um...
I got served the divorce papers.
[sniffling]
That's where I'm at with it.
I'm going through a divorce, and...
- I love you dearly, you know?
And I can tell you're hurting, like,
this was not just some fling off the street,
like, you married this woman.
You know, like I don't feel like you deserve any of this.
- Kat was the first person that I trusted
in telling when this whole situation
with Zahir started happening, and it only felt right
for her to be the first one to hear that I'm getting a divorce.
And it's just something that I'm still tryna to accept.
I still have respect for her,
she's still on her healing journey,
you know, we still got the same teacher.
He's been our mediator,
we haven't really spoken at all,
which is what's made it harder.
- I get that, but if he's dictating her actions
and yours, and then all of a sudden
she just ghosts you and it's because of what he said...
- It's not about-- it's not because of what he said.
Like, okay, how can I explain this?
It's a process, it's...
she's on her journey, I'm on my journey.
But, um, it's just a lot. - Right.
- Because of what I've had to peel back
within myself from childhood and all that [bleep].
- I feel like you're holding so much in
and just in my experience,
talking about it is a big, big thing,
you know what I'm saying? - Okay, so,
what I'm holding in is the things
that I've had to heal from, you know what I mean?
And I never told anybody but...
I've gone through so much sexual abuse,
and I knew that I had to keep that [bleep] in.
I never had anybody I could trust or talk to.
- Right.
- A lot of things that I've endured in my childhood
that were traumatic to me, I always felt afraid
to open up to my family about it because I always felt like
they wouldn't believe me.
And a lotta times, later down in life
when you keep those things so deep rooted within,
at some point, it's gonna pop out some way.
So like, being able to talk about it
means that I'm healing from it.
As much as you, as much as everybody
at the shop wants to be there for me,
I feel like, honest and truly, the only person that could
get me through this is my teacher.
And, um, speaking of which,
I wanted to see if it was okay, um,
I wanna take a break from the shop.
♪♪♪♪
- I get that she's going through things,
but I don't necessarily agree with isolating yourself.
And I don't know too much about Nelly's spiritual teacher,
I know that she really, really trusts this man.
But it does concern me a little bit that
he's gotten in her head and allowed her to
separate herself from everybody else in her life but him.
I wanna make sure that you're okay.
Like, I'm concerned...
- Don't be concerned, though.
Like, I know that what's gonna get me through this is...
having more time to talk to my teacher.
I gotta keep doing what I gotta do
for me to get myself back in balance.
And I don't even know if I wanna still tattoo.
- I don't wanna lose you, that's the last thing I want.
- I need some time to myself.
♪♪♪♪
[KP] I got some new tracks,
some new connections,
and I'm getting a little buzz in the industry.
Right now, it's time to go full steam ahead
and follow a different dream.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ Take it to the sky and it go like ♪♪
♪♪ Hands up and celebrate ♪♪
♪♪ You already growin' up tryna elevate ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, no lines, we don't never wait ♪♪
♪♪ We at the top and I can put it on everything like... ♪♪
- Today I'm hosting my official
welcome back to LA housewarming party.
Jamie wanted to be here because he loves to man the grill
and turn up with everybody,
but he had to fly to Boston to meet with a team.
The whole thing just makes me a little nervous,
so I'm just gonna distract myself with a good time
and a few drinks.
- What's up, boots? - Hey, y'all!
- How y'all doing? - How are you?
[Nessie] The vibe is right up here.
Everybody’s having a good time, drinking, chilling.
It feels like a real solid team right here.
I can't shake ass in these, but we can try.
Unfortunately, of course, I have a family event
and I have to leave early,
even though I really don't wanna leave,
but it's probably a good idea because it's gonna help me
monitor my drinking, which we all know
I need a little help with that.
- ♪♪ Taking shots like a free throw ♪♪
♪♪ And we ride through the city ♪♪
♪♪ Like it's 'bout to be a good night ♪♪
- Hey, hey, there you go!
After everything that went down at the shop the other day,
Kat reached out to me and she invited me
to her housewarming party.
I do think some of my anger was misplaced that day,
but I do feel like Oliver was being unprofessional,
and I'm glad that everyone knows,
so now I'm really just gonna try to put him out of my mind
and show Katrina and the other team members
that they definitely shouldn’t count me out.
- You got a long way to go, Kat.
[laughter]
- Spin the bottle, spin the bottle,
everybody gather around.
- Do we just take a shot or are we asking questions?
- Asking questions. - Asking questions!
- Let me spin this [bleep].
I got some questions.
[laughter]
Was them toes really in his mouth?
- Cheers.
[laughter, chatter]
- You know he did. - Oh yeah, you--
[overlapping chatter]
- What about all you [bleep] that suck toes?
♪♪♪♪
[bleep].
[laughter]
- In the past week, I've learned more
about my cousin than I ever wanted or needed to know.
I'm gonna need to take another shot
and hopefully not remember a bit of this conversation.
- I wanna say something really quick.
I just wanna say thank you, you know, for inviting me here.
I know the last time we talked, the energy was weird,
it was a lotta built up emotions,
but I just want you guys to know that...
I really have a lot to offer to Enigma,
brand awareness, brand growth,
brand strategy, product development,
product research, and I was working on something.
This is Enigma Beverly Hills.
You guys need to have your own products, everything.
It's a natural tattoo balm.
- [bleep], we're at my house,
we're kicking it, we're drinking.
You know, I'm not in the right headspace to be
presented a whole product.
- Look at Denai, Deebo'ing herself in here too.
But you know what, I'm not even mad
especially now that I'm the manager here.
You know, me, the manager.
- Katrina, let met talk to you for a second.
You know me, I don't wanna tell you how to run your business,
but I feel like you're missing an opportunity
to really, really grow Enigma.
Barbie is there, she's there to do everything
of the front desk position,
that's the job that you're asking her--
- Right. - But I'm telling you...
- You think now we wanna add a new position?
- To me, I think you should just hear her out.
Just hear Denai out.
- Nai Nai.
This is my first time actually being able
to be around these girls. - I know, I know it is.
And I'm telling you, I feel like-- I feel like
you gon' see what I see.
- Hi, guys. - Look, I'm sorry,
I'm just gonna be upfront, like,
I'm not with any of the awkward [bleep].
When I left, it was, okay, we need a front desk person,
we need somebody that's going to, you know,
run the social media, we need somebody
who's going to do all the [bleep]
that the artists cannot do. - Right.
- It was one position.
- I'm glad that Barbie got that position,
and I'm okay with that, but I just feel like
there's like, a role that's missing.
I have an aggressive hustle, and I feel like it's important
when you have a business to have people on your team
who have an aggressive-ass hustle.
- I need to see it for myself.
♪♪♪♪
I would like to hear you out,
and get to know you more one on one,
maybe me and you can go out and talk about it,
you know, and figure it out.
- Don't count me out, like, don't count me out.
- I'm not counting you out at all.
You know, I wanna just hang out here.
It's family vibes here.
Let's just kick it, you and I will talk...
- Okay, well, thank you, I appreciate this time.
- And thank you so much for this trial period
and everything that you did for the shop,
like, I get it, we'll figure it out.
- I'm actually really happy that Katrina listened to me
'cause it's like, Katrina's a Taurus,
and sometimes it be hard for her to listen to me.
But at the end of the day, I only want what's best
for the shop, and in this present moment,
that's Denai.
- Alright, Enigma, I want everybody with a cup.
Take your drink, throw that [bleep] back right now.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Good views, good vibes.
- Cheers.
- I'm sorry to cut this off. I'm so sorry, but I really
gotta catch my flight. I love y'all.
- Um, I... hello? - [overlapping chatter]
- Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
Can I have the floor?
[sighs] Okay.
If I get emotional, excuse me.
But, um,
when we got back from San Diego,
I got served divorce papers.
So I spoke to Kat,
and I think the best thing for me to do right now is...
to take some time to myself.
So I'ma step away from the shop for a little bit.
It's the only logical way that it's gonna work for me.
[Kevin] Can I be honest?
- Yeah? - [bleep] pulling out
and saying I'm not gonna be part of Enigma no more,
like, dog, that's bull[bleep].
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- I'ma step away from the shop for a little bit.
It's the only logical way that it's gonna work for me.
- Can I be honest?
- Yeah? - [bleep] pulling out
and saying I'm not gonna be part of Enigma no more,
like, dog, that's bull[bleep].
I really do feel like you not taking into account
that you got a whole group of people here
who actually care about you.
And I feel like you putting a lot of emphasis on one person,
and how they feel about certain [bleep].
- My teacher is somebody that I respect and has truly
been saving my life before I even met you.
- And that's fine. - And I get it,
but I just need some time to get me together.
[Nelly] I know these people are my friends and family
and they care about me, but there's just some things
about my journey that they just don't understand.
And that's okay, but you can still support someone
without understanding their decision,
and that's honestly what I'm hoping will happen.
- Why did you distance yourself from us?
Was it your decision, was it something
that you and Zahir had agreed on?
- We don't know if that was personal,
we don't know if that came from your teacher.
- I-- no, it came from me
figuring out the next steps for myself on my own journey.
- I'm sorry, I ca... - [Kat] Kevin, sit down.
Kevin, sit down, Kevin-- - Nah, dog, like--
'cause it's like, nah, like-- - No, no, no, I get it.
- I've been honest with all y'all [bleep] about everything.
[overlapping shouting]
- It's some bull[bleep]... - No, no, no, sit down.
Kev, sit your ass down. - Let him go.
- These last couple weeks, and I swear it is nothing but
the grace of God the way this [bleep] has happened,
but I ran into your friends at a party, and in their eyes,
they're like, "well, yeah, she completely
cut me off for no reason," and to me, I'm like, dog, like,
that's kinda the same [bleep] that's going on at the shop.
So I'll say this. Whatever you and your teacher
got going on, that comes off as funny and weird to me.
I get upset because when you give, you know,
your entire life to another human being,
I feel like you not always seeing the full spectrum
of what's going on, and it's like,
her whole personality is changing.
For her to say she's gonna step away from the shop
and all the people who genuinely care about her,
I can just tell that it's only gonna get worse.
- It's like, I understand that we are like family with you,
Nelly, it's just you done showed us at this point
you'll cut off family. - I'm not gonna cut y'all off--
- We're not saying you getting ready to cut us off...
- I'm not gonna cut y'all off.
- But you already did.
- I'm very understanding when it comes to
black and white business and personal, right,
but the fact that Kevin, Deshay,
me, Bookie, like, we've all confided in you,
literally given it all to you in kinda the same way that
you've given it all to your teacher.
But from a business aspect,
it's like, you need space, take the space,
you know, but at the same time--
- That's the only space I'm coming from is from
the business part, about the shop.
I'm not saying that I'm cutting you off
as friends, as family, I'm not saying that.
- I've had a chance to talk to Nelly one on one,
so I'm more understanding that
she wants to take a break from Enigma.
But hearing Bookie and Deshay
and everybody's concerns about her teacher,
I understand where they're coming from too.
I'm gonna respect and trust
that she's doing whatever's best for her.
I just hope that she's making the right decisions.
It is what it is.
Nelly's gotta take a break. Y'all good?
- Look, I'm quick to be like,
[bleep], you said it, you got it, bro.
Look, you wash your hands, you got what you want...
- I'm not walking away... - We all done openly
tried to tell you we wanna [bleep] with you,
we wanna help you, we want you to open up to us,
we want you to come have a support system,
we want you to have a safe space where you can be happy
and get away from that type of [bleep],
but if you wanna tell and reiterate that,
I'm quick to be like, you got it, bro.
- Okay, so let's not dwell on that,
let's not dwell on it, I invited y'all
to my mother[bleep] crib,
take a goddamn shot, jump in the pool,
get [bleep] up, we good.
[bleep], y'all stressing me the [bleep] out.
[overlapping shouting]
[laughter, chatter]
- It's your pool! It's your pool!
[shouting continues]
- ♪♪ I don't know what you keep going through ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ I can go, this game ain't no more fun ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ Shot my heart just like a hit and run ♪♪
♪♪ Now you run run ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ I had to do it, had to do it on my own ♪♪
[KP] Even though the shop done hit some rough patches lately,
Tim and I done worked too damn hard
to make this dream a reality
and a place the community can be proud of.
So while I'm still chasing other things,
we gonna keep the shop open
and rock with the couple artists that we got left
and take a long look at what the next move should be
before we think about adding anybody to the team.
- ♪♪ I had to separate the prince from the block ♪♪
♪♪ I had to move my way like a box ♪♪
♪♪ Turn 'em down, kill the hype... ♪♪
[Kevin] The energy at the shop has definitely shifted
since Nelly decided to leave.
And it's like, while I do care about her,
I feel like she's made the wrong decision.
And at this point, there's nothing more
I can do except hope that one day,
she comes to her senses.
Now that Katrina's back, I feel like the energy
at Enigma is only gonna get better,
because business is always booming.
We have the best artists in the city,
and I'm just honestly excited to see
what's in store for us next.
- ♪♪ I had to do it, had to do it on my own ♪♪
♪♪ Just have to live a little... ♪♪
[Nelly] It was really difficult last week
when I told the team I needed some time away from the shop.
It really had me upset that no one was really
listening to me, but now that I've had
some time to think, I'm honestly not gonna hold any grudges
because in their own way, I feel like
they're just looking out for me.
And since then, Kat has definitely
reached out to check on me,
so I'm feeling better about that.
I'm still processing my divorce
and how things ended, but I'm also trying
to look ahead and further my healing journey.
Honestly, I don't know where I'm going from here,
but I'm not afraid of the unknown.
[Kat] There were some rough patches for
the Enigma team these past few months,
but my crew's potential is unlimited,
and we're on the way to being the best shop around,
if we're not already.
Just like I'm back with my Enigma home town,
Jamie's about to be back with his home team,
the New England Patriots.
And honestly, it's a struggle
sometimes to be away from him, but at the same time,
our bond is stronger now because of what we had to endure.
I've always wondered if it was possible to have it all.
And I'm not gonna lie, there were a few times
where I thought I can't.
But now I'm realizing that with a lot of hard work
and little bit of compromising, I can.
- ♪♪ Had to watch the snakes laying in the field ♪♪
♪♪ Unless it's God then there's nothing that I fear ♪♪
[KP] Right now, it's time to go full steam ahead
and follow a different dream.
My music.
I got some new tracks,
some new connections,
and I'm getting a little buzz in the industry.
I know I need to strike right now while I'm hot
and see how far I can take it.
But everything I do is for the IAM brand,
and I'm always gonna be reppin' me, my shop,
and Compton, and that's never gonna change.
- ♪♪ I had to get it, had to get it while it's good ♪♪
♪♪ I had to separate the business from the hood ♪♪♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪