- I got an email here from Imari.
"My career is on the line."
- It's a rapper.
- This person has been on your show before.
- So you're talking to someone who was on "Catfish"
as the catfish.
- Yes. - What?
- Wow. This goes way back.
The last seven years.
- People are coming for you.
And they have been for years.
- It's time to get to the bottom of who's doing this.
- It could literally be anyone.
- I'm not ready for this.
[line trilling]
- Hey.
- So you're the one.
[dramatic musical sting]
- ♪ Girl, if you don't wanna ♪
♪ You better let him know ♪
♪ Let him know ♪
- Aye-yo.
♪ ♪
[laughs] [doorbell chimes]
[laughs]
What's up, Kamala?
- It's Kamie-la.
- Kamie-la. - Thank you very much.
- [laughs] I think it's safe to say
that Joe and Kamala watch "Catfish."
- It feels like a lot of the stuff they ran on
is based on what we do.
- [laughs] - Seek a truth
and hold people accountable.
And encourage unity. - Unity.
- So we are an extension of the executive branch.
- We're there. I mean, we should be
filming this from the White House right now,
but COVID restrictions. [laughs]
- Let's open the old email here.
Here we go.
I got an email here from Imari.
"My career is on the line.
- Oh, God. It's a rapper.
- Oh, boy. - Or a porn star.
- "Dear Nev and Kamie,
"My name is Imari.
"I'm a 22-year-old singer/songwriter from Ohio.
"And three months ago, I reached out
"to a fellow artist online who I really look up to.
"At first, I just thought it could be cool to talk to her.
"But we really hit it off,
"and now we text every day.
"She even asked me to send her some of my music,
"and after hearing it, really wants me
"to record with her.
"I'm thrilled, of course.
- ♪ Not right now, but maybe down the line ♪
- "I was really looking forward to going to"--guess where.
Recording artist, possible catfish.
- Atlanta. - Yeah!
- Of course.
- ♪ Not right now, but maybe down the line ♪
- "Something feels off,
"and I don't know if I should go.
"She refuses to videochat or talk on the phone.
"Now normally, I wouldn't be this suspicious.
"But this person has a shady past.
I know she's catfished people before..."
♪ ♪
Because she was on your show."
- What are we doing here? - What?
"That's why I'm writing to you
"because you're probably
"the only people who could help.
"I would love for you guys to help me know the truth.
"I really am putting my music career on the line here.
Hope to hear from you, Imari."
- ♪ Maybe down the line ♪
- First of all, Imari, you're playing yourself.
You want to be hooked up with a catfish--what?
- Let's just get in touch with Imari.
"Just read your email and have so much questions.
Jump on our Zoom."
Wait a second.
Who was on our show that's a musician?
- You guys did an episode
where you went to a recording studio, right?
- Well-- - But that was a guy.
- That was Kidd Cole.
Is someone catfishing Imari,
pretending to be a catfish?
This is so confusing. - I don't get it.
[doorbell chimes]
Hey! - Hey!
- You look gorgeous.
- So do you.
- I wanna copy/paste those braids
onto my head right now.
- Imari, you are in Ohio. Is that right?
- I am. I'm in Columbus.
- Is the music industry popping in Ohio?
- Not as much as I would like.
We have a few stars out of here.
- Well, I was born in Cleveland.
Stars can come out of Ohio.
- Of course. Of course.
- Okay, so wait a second. Enough small talk.
If I read your email right,
you're saying that someone who was on "Catfish"
as the catfish... - Yeah.
- Is seemingly catfishing you
even though they are already known to be a catfish.
Give us the whole story.
- This person has also been on other shows,
"106 & Park," to be specific.
I used it to watch it all the time when I was a kid.
- Okay. - It was, like, the thing to do
in the morning before school.
- I'm trying to figure out who this person is.
- Okay, so obviously when you say "106 & Park,"
that, for me, meant okay--
it has to be from the Bow Wow episode.
Is it Dee Pimpin? - Shut the [bleep] up.
- Is it Dee Pimpin or is it Keyonna?
- It's Dee Pimpin.
- Oh.
- I'm the type I like a challenge.
I like straight girls to see what I can do.
- I mean, the last time we heard from Dee Pimpin,
we did, like, a "Where Are They Now?" episode.
Someone tried to break in or steal her bag or something,
and she got shot.
- My little self with a .45 caliber.
The bullet hit me right here, and it went out my back.
- Why are they trying to take out Dee Pimpin?
- He was trying to rob me,
trying to go in my pockets, take my chain, and everything.
- She survived. She was okay.
But, like, I didn't know she was still rapping.
I can't believe it. - What?
- How did you come across Dee Pimpin?
- I've messaged celebrities before
to just say, like, "Oh, hey. I love your stuff"
or "You inspired me."
And sometimes they do respond,
and sometimes they do like the message.
So I messaged her on Facebook,
and we started messaging pretty frequently.
- So you saw Dee Pimpin on "106 & Park..."
- Dee Pimpin.
- Became a fan, and eventually decided to reach out?
- Yeah.
- There are obviously a lot of artists
that you could reach out to.
What was it about her?
- I really liked, you know, her style of rap.
This is a person that I think is really cool and talented.
And then I started following her on Facebook.
And I seen her engaging with people,
so I thought, like, she would be the type to respond.
And we started messaging pretty frequently.
- You said she has a lot of followers on there?
- Yeah, yeah. - Do you have your phone handy?
Can you plug it in and show us?
- This is it. both: Okay.
- She's got almost 20,000 followers.
- You messaged her first? - Mm-hmm.
- And then she messaged you back from this page.
- Yeah. - Have you talked to her
on any other social media sites other than Facebook?
- No, after we started messaging on Facebook,
we moved to text messages.
We started talking every day.
She was super nice and sweet.
She was really down to earth,
so I found it very easy to talk to her.
- Have you been asking her to FaceTime?
Have you pressed her to get on the phone
or to videochat?
- One time, when I tried to call her, she didn't answer.
Then she texted me later on saying, like,
"Oh, I just caught up in some stuff.
You know I'm gonna call you back later."
But she never did call me back.
But I was just like, I know that she's busy,
so I'm not gonna take it personally.
- And when you guys text, is it just friendly,
or is it--what's the content of your messages?
- We just talk about life
and mainly music.
- Do you date girls? - I don't.
- But you know that Dee tends
to hit on straight girls.
- Mm-hmm.
- Now that's something I didn't know.
- Wait, so--okay, so wait a second.
I mean, you saw her episode of "Catfish," right?
- I did know that it was out there,
but I haven't seen it myself.
- What? Why didn't you watch it?
- I'm kind of scared to watch it.
I don't wanna know what was, like, on there, you know?
- Well, let me fill you in.
She would oftentimes find girls
who thought she was a guy
and even go as far
to secretly put on a strap-on dildo underneath...
- Strapping up. - No.
- Underneath a pair of boxers. - No.
- And then have sex with the women.
- It's, like, a real lambskin dildo.
It's like human skin.
But it's lamb.
And, like, it feels real.
Like, I've fooled a lot of chicks like that.
- Oh, my God.
- I don't know if she's still doing stuff like that
or if that was a little phase she went through.
We just got the impression that, you know,
Dee was a bit of a scoundrel.
She's a scoundrel.
- I'm a bit taken aback by this information.
Wow.
- So she saw your messages.
You just said, "Hey, I'm a fan.
I'm an artist, like, I'm inspired by your work."
And then she responded. How did it progress?
- So she was just asking me about my music
and where I'm from.
I sent her my music, and she was like,
"This is good. We should collab."
- And your email said
you're planning on going to Atlanta to visit her.
- Yeah, I am planning a trip to go to Atlanta.
She was like, "I could show you around.
We could go to the studio."
And I got really excited.
I hold my music very, very near and dear to my heart,
but making music is expensive.
When I made my first EP,
I put, like, every cent I had into that.
- And you're spending your last dime on a trip
to meet who the hell knows in Atlanta?
- Yep.
- You're not just putting your whole career on the line.
This could be dangerous. - Right.
- I know that, um,
it's weird to talk to somebody for months and not see them,
but they really can jumpstart my musical career.
[tense music]
- [laughs] - [sighs]
I mean-- - Not the sighs.
- No, I mean, look-- - Not the deep sigh.
- Even--okay, look. - The deepest sigh.
- Even if there was no shadow of a doubt
that it was her, I'd still sigh
because, like, the last impression I have of her is,
like, she's not the kind of person you wanna count on
to deliver on what she says.
But that was a long time ago,
so I wanna give her a second chance.
And I wanna believe that she's not just telling you
all this stuff because she thinks you're hot
and wants you to come to Atlanta so she can...
- Strap up. - Child.
- I'm just saying. - Mm mm mm mm.
- That was the last thing I saw.
- Right.
But here's what's so interesting.
If that actually is Dee Pimpin's
actual Facebook page,
there'd be no reason why she'd be shady
and not, like, calling or videochatting.
So does that mean that someone's got a catfish page
of Dee Pimpin
and that you're not even talking to the real Dee?
- If you're not talking to Dee,
and you're not talking to some rando in Atlanta
who has plans on picking you up from the airport
and taking you to God knows where,
that could be very dangerous.
- Always a safety thing.
If I'm going to come and meet you in person,
I feel like I need to be able to trust you.
- Right, well also, you are trying to take your career
to the next level
if you're gonna be sending someone your music.
- Right.
- Like, the industry is sheisty.
- Oh, definitely, definitely.
- Like, my boyfriend's in the music industry.
People steal [bleep] all the time.
So, like, you sending, you know, beats
or music, lyrics, whatever,
somebody could easily take them and use them for themselves.
You can't ever be too safe.
- Exactly.
Like, if I just went, it could be anybody.
And I have to know the truth.
- Well, look, I mean, the good news is
if it is Dee,
it should be really easy for us to prove that
because I have her number still
from when we made the episode.
So we could just call her
and save ourselves a lot of time.
- This is it. This is crunch time.
- This could be the shortest episode we've ever done.
- Let's call and see.
- I'm not ready for this right now at all.
[line trilling]
[tense music]
- Hello. Is this Dee?
- It's Dee!
- [laughing]
- Oh, my God.
- I can't believe--
I can't believe I'm talking to Dee Pimpin.
- Hold on.
Can you get on a Zoom call?
- Great, I'm gonna send you a link real quick.
- All right, all right. Great, great, great.
Oh, my God.
- I'm sweating.
- As soon as she comes on the Zoom,
she should know who you are, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- If not, she's definitely gonna want you.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
[doorbell chimes]
- Uh! - [laughs]
- Oh!
- Hey. What's good?
What's good, what's good, what's good?
- What's up, Dee?
- What's up, Nev?
- [laughing]
- How you doing, Kamie? It's good to see you as well.
- And this is Imari.
- Nice to finally see you as well.
[dramatic music]
- Now wait a second.
Do you know Imari?
♪ ♪
- What's up, Dee?
- What's up Nev? - [laughing]
- Good to see you. I'm Kamie.
- How you doing, Kamie? It's good to see you as well.
- And this is Imari.
- Nice to finally see you as well.
- Now wait a second. Do you know Imari?
What do you mean when you say, "Nice to finally see you?"
- I don't know. I'm just saying
nice to finally see you as well.
- [laughing]
- You know, that's the charm.
You know, it's just the charm.
- It is. It's the charm.
Okay, so hold on a second.
We've got something serious we need to discuss.
Imari, who is a singer and songwriter,
was a fan... - Okay.
- And started messaging someone off of a Facebook page
that she believed to be yours.
[dramatic music]
And then they've been texting.
They've been talking about making music together,
and Imari was thinking about going to Atlanta
because you had said
that you would want to do a collab with her.
- I'm sorry.
It's definitely not me.
Like, that Facebook page,
people been trying to extort me for money and everything
for years about that page.
- Oh, so you've heard of it?
You can give us - Thfive bands for it."eah.
Like, nah.
- So the Facebook page I that has, like,."
19,000 followers, that's not yours?
- Yeah, like, he took my name on Facebook--
he or she, whoever it is-- they took my name,
so now I can't even use my name on Facebook anymore.
And, like, Facebook, like,
they thought that that was the original one.
Which it had a lot of followers,
so I wouldn't blame 'em, but it's not me.
Like, could you tell whoever it is, like, give it to me
because it's not me?
- So somebody is, like, dedicating their life and time
to, like, being fake you.
- Yeah, basically. - Wow.
How--and that page has been up a while.
- Yeah, it's been up a long time.
- But do you have a page for yourself?
- They took my name, so now I can't even use
my name on Facebook anymore.
- We gotta get that page. - Yeah.
- So you're saying when you first found out
that there was a fake Dee Pimpin page,
you got in touch with them, and they said,
"Oh, we'll give you the page if you give us money."
- Like, I had a manager at the time.
But I don't work with Tony anymore.
- Was it a bad falling out? - Yeah.
He still think we cool.
He still think, like, everything is good with us
but I can't trust him anymore.
- Man, I wonder how do we even know
that your manager really did talk to them?
- That's what I'm saying too, like--
- Or that your manager didn't make the page?
- Or that your manager wasn't just saying that
to get whatever money
from you that you were gonna send to them.
- What's Tony's phone number?
- Uh...
- Imari, I'm just curious to see
if it's the same phone number you have for Dee.
[dramatic music]
- Um, 404...
♪ ♪
- Uh-oh.
- 599.
- Oh. - Okay.
- It's not the same number.
- Whew! - Not the same one.
- Well, this is now much bigger
than what we thought.
- Well, I wanna find out though.
- Yeah. - You're not the only one.
- Have they ever asked you for money, Imari?
- No. They haven't.
They only just asked me, like,
when I was coming, if I was still coming and...
- I'm sorry.
- It seems like this
is completely out of your control so...
- You didn't ever try to, like,
videochat them or anything, like?
- No, I mean, I tried to call.
No answer.
I didn't wanna really press it
because I thought I was talking to you.
You might be busy doing things, you know.
You're in the mix,
so I didn't wanna press down, you know, too much.
But they never called me back.
- I saw your episode, and you know,
you was up to no good.
- I know, I know, I know, I know.
- So could it be someone trying to get revenge on you
for how you were back in the day?
- When was the last time you communicated with that page?
- Sh, uh, it's been years ago.
Like, after they kept saying about the money,
pushing the issue about money, I left it alone.
- It's time to get to the bottom of who's doing this.
- Just give me my main. It's only me.
Just give me back me. Give me me!
- All right, so you get in touch with Tony.
- Okay.
- We'll start doing some research.
And then collectively, I think we can figure this out.
- Yeah, we got to. We have to.
- Thanks, Dee. - All right, y'all welcome.
- [sighs]
- This sucks. - Yeah.
It's whack that you've wasted time.
What are they trying to get out of this?
- Apparently me to come to Atlanta
because they kept asking about it.
- The fact that this person has been so adamant
about getting you to come to Atlanta
right from the bat.
And you have no idea
who would've been there waiting for you.
That's so dangerous. - Right.
- All right, well look. Imari, hang in there.
We'll start working and let you know
as soon as we find something.
- You got it. - All right.
- Wow. What do you think?
- You said it yourself.
Like, Dee has a reputation for being up to no good.
She could just be pretending not to know Imari
because she knows that she's been up to some [bleep]
on this Facebook page.
Maybe this is, like, her way of trying
"to clear her name,"
but it is actually her.
She has a reputation.
Whoever is behind all of this
is up to no good, that's for sure.
[dramatic music]
- Okay, so we got some work to do
although this is different
because we already know right off the bat
that Imari is not talking to Dee Pimpin.
- Allegedly.
- Right. - I don't know.
I don't wanna throw Dee under the bus
'cause she could very well just be a victim in all of this.
But, like, Dee has a reputation
for being up to no good.
[computer chimes] - Oh, wait.
Okay. Texts from Dee.
"I tried to get in touch with Tony.
I don't know if he'll want to talk to you."
She gave us his number and his Facebook.
So we can, I guess, reach out
to Dee's former manager, Tony.
And then Imari sent us
the phone number that she has for Dee
and the Facebook page.
All right, so I'm gonna copy the phone number
that Imari's been talking
"to the fake Dee on."
All right, and I'm gonna search the--
so this is the fake Dee Pimpin number.
Let's see who comes up.
[dramatic music]
- Eric Johnson. - Hm.
Georgia--Atlanta.
- There's probably a million Eric Johnsons
that live in Atlanta.
- I know.
Uh, all right.
Well, let's just go to the Facebook page.
- Yes. - All right.
So this is the page
that Imari has been talking with.
Wow. This goes way back.
For the last seven years,
there's been a lot of people commenting on this page
thinking it's her.
"I love your music. Get at me."
Wow.
This page has some serious engagement.
- Now it just looks like somebody else
has had this page for seven years.
Could it be the manager that she had during that time?
- Right. Tony.
- Maybe Tony felt like
he didn't get X, Y, and Z
that he felt like he deserved to get,
and maybe this is his revenge?
- Let's hit up Tony.
"Hey, Tony. This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"Hoping you could help us out.
Let me know." Okay.
All right. Texted Tony.
All right. We're back on the Dee page.
We haven't really looked through it that closely.
All right. So here are the pictures.
- She got a lot of comments and engagement back in the day.
- Yeah, right?
I mean, it feels pretty legit.
- It does.
- I mean, I would assume this was her page.
- Look. Two of Dee's songs.
And a song called "CatFish" that features KeeZY.
Who is KeeZY?
- And then they tagged this Jaylenz person.
Who is this?
Hmm. Nothing really on this page.
- Let's check out those videos.
Click the BET one.
- ♪ Yeah, it be like step, step back ♪
♪ Who that is, Lil Pimpin ♪
♪ It's like a damn movie ♪
- Yep, yep, yep.
♪ Head held high, got my ego talking to me ♪
- Okay, I'm not even trying to be funny.
Dee Pimpin does sound like a young Bow Wow.
Okay, so now let's listen to Dee's other track
with KeeZY and Jaylenz.
[distorted rapping]
- ♪ Snatch snatch your CV on ♪
♪ Dee Pimpin press-- ♪
- That's not Dee's voice.
- It didn't really sound like her, right?
- Who the [bleep] is that?
- ♪ So I sleep by the phone ♪
♪ MCB, I got DMs--♪
- Not even a little bit. - So that's weird.
So that means that the fake Facebook page for Dee
is posting fake Dee Pimpin music.
- Right. - So it must be trying
to promote music that has some connection
to the person who's actually behind the page.
- Jaylenz and KeeZY.
These two have songs "featuring Dee Pimpin"
that aren't actually featuring Dee Pimpin.
- Yeah.
- What if it's this KeeZY person
trying to use Dee's name to push their music?
- It could also just be that
the doofus running this fake page
didn't even realize
that those are not actually Dee Pimpin tracks.
And they just saw those... - Ooh.
- And were like, "Oh. I should share this
"because I'm supposed to be Dee Pimpin,
so I should share it." - Mm.
- And they didn't even realize it wasn't her
because they don't even know what she should sound like.
- We should ask Dee about these two.
[phone ringing] - Oh.
Now I'm getting--wait, hold on.
I'm getting a phone call from Georgia.
Hello?
- Hey, this is Tony.
I was looking to speak with Nev?
- Hey, Tony.
We're, uh, trying to help someone
who's become friends with Dee Pimpin.
- Uh-huh.
- And when we talked to Dee,
she said that when you guys were working together,
you were in contact with someone
who was controlling the Dee Pimpin Facebook page.
Do you remember all that?
- Okay.
Have you ever heard of KeeZY or Jaylenz?
- Okay. I appreciate the help.
- All right. Thanks, Tony.
- Bye. - Bye.
All right, so we know that
shortly after Dee's "Catfish" episode aired,
her business email got hacked.
And whoever hacked it tried to get Tony
to buy it back.
- If we believe Tony. - True.
But even if he is telling the truth,
we don't necessarily know
that it was the same person who then started the Facebook page.
- What doesn't help us is the fact
that Dee at the time had so many enemies
that it could literally be..
both: Anyone.
[dramatic music]
- So let's get Imari back in here.
And then maybe we can bring in Dee.
Explain everything to everybody.
And collectively decide what we think the next best step is.
'Cause this is a team now.
We got, you know, we got a whole squad.
- Let's collab. - Yeah.
[doorbell chimes]
- Hi.
- Hey. - How's it going?
- We wanna bring Dee in
and kind of debrief both of you on what's been going on.
- And we wanted to talk to you alone
because for a minute, we were thinking--okay.
Is it possible
that even though we spoke to Dee,
and she seemed very transparent and honest
about not knowing you,
we thought is there a chance that maybe
she could be somehow behind this or involved?
- What does your gut tell you, Imari?
Do you feel like Dee could have something to do with this?
- I don't know, the whole story she told earlier
about not being able to get the page
and other people messaging her asking for money about it,
I--I believed her.
- I don't want to think that that is the case,
but we can't rule it out.
She has a history of dishonesty.
We're stupid if we're not a little suspicious.
- Hm.
- Right, so let me text Dee.
- You gotta be careful. - Well, yeah.
I mean, especially if you're
pursuing a career in the music business.
People are gonna try to scam you all the time.
- Right.
- All right, well let's bring in Dee.
And we'll kind of just fill you in on the rest
and some of the things that we're thinking.
- Yes, sir. - What's up?
- Hi. - Okay.
So here's what we've been doing.
Obviously, we ran the number that Imari gave us,
and it did come back to someone named Eric Johnson.
But that's a pretty generic name.
There's no way we can really search it.
Anyway, so when we went
to the fake Dee Pimpin page...
- Okay.
- We were just scrolling through
to see kind of what was on there,
and we saw that they had posted a link
to a YouTube music video for a Dee Pimpin song
featuring these other two artists,
Jaylenz and KeeZY.
And when we listened to it, there was a verse by Dee
that didn't really sound like you.
- ♪ Snatch snatch your CV on ♪
♪ Dee Pimpin, press won't leave me alone ♪
- Dee, is that your voice on the track?
Do you know these guys? - Mm-mm.
I ain't never of them until today.
- Now why would the fake Dee Pimpin page
post fake Dee Pimpin music?
In my opinion, there are two possibilities.
One is because they're dumb
and didn't even realize that it wasn't actually Dee.
They just posted it to make the page feel more real.
Or whoever's behind
the fake Dee Pimpin page
is or knows that artist
and clearly realized that
by pretending to be Dee or to make music with Dee,
they could get a lot of fans and followers and views
and potentially make some money.
- Yeah, it gotta have something to do with it.
- But I don't know.
Dee, you have made enemies.
People are coming for you,
and they have been for years.
- I ain't think of that. But you right.
- If this person is trying
to get back at you for something, Dee,
why drag Imari into it?
- That's what I'm saying.
- Well, and Imari, I mean, you're--
you've become really good friends with this person.
- Yeah. - And to some extent, Imari,
they've been encouraging, you know, and like, supportive.
- Definitely. 100% encouraging
all of my endeavors.
- Whoever it is isn't all bad.
[tense music]
Dee. - Mm-hmm?
- It's not you, is it?
- Yeah. Stop playing with me.
Come on.
- You're telling us the truth?
- Definitely, definitely.
- Because it's definitely not you.
- [laughs]
- All right. All right, so look.
We gotta figure out what we wanna do.
I think we could just call.
I mean, I don't--have you ever just tried calling, Imari?
- Yeah, and it rang, rang, rang, voicemail.
- But they know your number.
They wouldn't know our number.
- I'm gonna call. You guys good with that?
- They won't be able to hear us, guys,
but Nev will be able to hear us.
- Right, so you can talk to me.
[line trilling]
And you can hear them, but they don't hear you.
[tense music]
[whispers] Who should I ask for?
♪ ♪
- [whispers] Dee.
- Hey.
[dramatic music]
How you doing?
[line trilling]
- [whispers] Who should I ask for?
[tense music]
- [whispers] Dee?
- Hey.
♪ ♪
How you doing?
- I am, uh, I'm good.
Um, my name is Nev. - [laughs]
- And I'm on the show, "Catfish."
Do you know about that show?
[line disconnects]
Oh. - [Dee laughs]
- That might've been it. - Mother[bleep].
- [cackling] - No way.
- Mm-hmm. - She hung up.
- Maybe it's not Eric Johnson.
But it can't also be KeeZY or Jaylenz,
so who the [bleep] was that?
- It sounded like a younger woman.
- Yeah. That did sound like it.
- She didn't even disguise her voice.
- I'm gonna send her a text message right now
with a picture of all of us.
[camera shutter snaps]
All right.
- [laughing] - Ah, yeah.
- Dee's face.
- Like, yeah. Stop playing with me.
- This is good. - Come on.
- "Hey, we're making an episode of "Catfish" now
"and would love to speak with you.
"Obviously we know you're not the real Dee Pimpin,
"but Imari still wants to know who you are,
"and Dee is very curious about why
"you've been impersonating her for so long.
"We're all ears and excited to hear back from you.
Thanks."
- Yeah. Let it be known.
- Well, Dee, at least we know it's definitely not you.
- Yay yay.
- Obviously, whoever this girl is,
she has my number.
We sent her that message.
So let's all just sit tight and regroup in the morning.
- All right, gang.
- See ya. - See y'all in a minute.
[dramatic music]
[exciting hip-hop music]
- Okay.
Check my ph--Oh!-ne.
I just got a text here
from our catfish.
So let me--let me get Kamie on the old chat,
see what she's doing.
Got a bite.
♪ ♪
- I thought you were never gonna get here.
- Heyo. Hold on; I have an update.
In response to the text we sent to the fake Dee..
Her response was,
"Dee is in that screenshot.
"Is she pissed?
What is she gonna do?"
- Why don't you Zoom in
and see for yourself, ma'am?
- I think it's understandable that they're concerned
that, like, Dee might be upset.
- Well, what do you expect?
- No, of course. - Like, what are afraid for?
- Of course. - A virtual rumble?
- Well, what if this person is someone that Dee knows?
- It could be one of the girls from back in the day
when Dee was up to no good.
- All right. So I'm gonna reply.
I'm gonna say, "Hey.
"Thanks for getting back to me.
"Yes, haha.
"Dee is in the screenshot.
But don't worry."
- She's not as mad as she looks.
- "Of course, Imari is also a bit hurt
"that you lied to her.
"We would all love to hear
your side of the story."
All right.
Sent.
- I think we should check on Imari especially
because she did seem kind of bummed out yesterday.
She said they were talking every single day.
Like, that's-- - Right.
- That's a friendship.
That's a long time to be talking to someone.
- "Come join us in the Zoom."
♪ ♪
[doorbell chimes]
- Hello. - Hey.
What does your tattoo say?
- Whatever you believe, you become.
- Amen.
- What do you believe, Imari?
- I mean, I felt better yesterday
about the entire situation
just because I did actually get to meet Dee,
and she was very sweet.
But when I woke up this morning,
I just--I feel like
I really just wanna know who this person is
because I really trusted them,
and I don't trust a lot of people with my music.
They were really encouraging me,
which is something I don't get a lot
from the people around me, especially where I live.
Like, who knows what this person's motives are?
- Like, why ask you to send things?
Is it just to try to, you know,
make their story seem more believable,
or are they doing something shady with it?
- So many questions. So many unanswered questions.
- We do have one thing to report.
Should we get Dee on and tell both of you, I guess?
- Double trouble. Two birds, one stone.
[suspenseful music]
- "Got a little update."
[doorbell chimes]
- Hey, Dee. - What's up?
- Hey. - What up, gang?
How y'all doing today? - [laughs]
- We got some good news today, don't we?
- Well, we got a little news.
- Oh, man. Okay.
- Now that I have you both here,
in response to the photo that we sent
with all of you guys on the screen
and that long message I wrote,
she wrote back,
"Dee is in that screenshot...
"is she pissed?
What is she gonna do?"
- This was, yeah, just, like, -20 minutes ago,?
- What do they mean, "Dee looks pissed.
What is she gonna do?" What do you think?
She's gonna headbutt you through the Zoom.
- I don't know. For real, I would.
- [laughing] - Don't play with me.
[laughter]
- They care how you feel, you know?
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- They care about what you think,
so maybe it's not a complete stranger.
You know what I mean? - Mm.
You have a point there.
If it's somebody around me
that's actually trying to do this,
then--yeah, I don't know how I would feel.
- I would be mad as hell. [laughs]
- I mean, I wanna be mad.
It's like I need to know who it is first.
I need to see them, read they energy
to figure out if I can even be mad at them or not, you know?
- They wrote, "If this is my chance to see Imari,
then I'm not going to blow it."
- Interesting. Interesting.
- What about Dee?
What about if this is my chance to apologize?
- Let's stick with the Imari angle.
That seems to be what she cares about.
- [laughs] Is she pissed?
- "Yeah." - I'm gonna make it happen.
- "This is definitely your best
and last chance."
- "Obviously you care about her a lot,
and I know she feels that you two have become really close."
Yeah. I think that's perfect.
- Mm-hmm. - All right.
- That's good for me.
- And Imari, you said there was
never anything romantic between you?
- No.
- Oh. - Fast.
- So hold on.
So she just wrote back and said, "How do we do this?"
So I'm gonna just send her the Zoom link.
- Okay. So it's a girl?
- I don't know.
[dramatic music]
Okay. - Now we wait.
- I'm ready.
Please don't let it be somebody that's close to me.
- You know what I just thought about?
We did talk to Tony before we reached out to this person.
What if Tony put his daughter or girlfriend
or somebody on the phone
because he knew what number we were calling from?
♪ ♪
[doorbell chimes]
- So I'm gonna just send her the Zoom link.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Okay.
- Please don't let it be somebody that's close to me.
[doorbell chimes]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- What's going on?
- Hey. What's up?
- Hi. - [laughs]
- Your name just comes up as K.
What should we call you?
- KeeZY. My name is KeeZY.
- KeeZY! - Yeah.
- KeeZY. The fake.
- So you're the one.
- You're one of the artists that--
the page posted that song.
- Yeah.
- If you wanna kind of just tell us your sort
of side of the story here
and how we all got into this-- this mess.
- Well, way back seven years ago,
the moment Dee walked out on her episode
and said she was a rapper,
I noticed that she didn't have any pages.
And I saw an opportunity.
So I made 'em all right then and there
and kind of took it to 100.
- That crazy. Wow.
- Like, a lot of people were messaging
because they like Dee, like, attracted to her.
I was like, "Hey, thanks. Blah, blah.
Check my brother out."
And sent links to my stuff.
- Damn! Damn.
- First, like, we weren't really taking it that serious.
I was just using it to post stuff.
And then we started making songs,
and I'm a vocal engineer.
So I would record my part,
and Jaylenz would record his,
and I'd record another part, and make it sound like a girl.
- So it was you doing Dee's voice?
- Yeah. - [bleep].
- I mean, we were doing some outrageous stuff.
We were creating flyers
and traveling around the country
saying that KeeZY, Dee Pimpin, and Jaylenz
are gonna be in Myrtle Beach at this club
accompanied by an MTV film crew.
- I seen that. - And yeah.
And it would be the videographer.
And he'd walk around with, like,
an MTV film crew shirt
and an MTV film crew badge
that say "Film Crew" on the back.
He had all the equipment. He'd follow us around.
So there was, like, crowds of people following us.
- Oh, hell nah.
- You actually met people?
♪ ♪
- So you have your own following now, I mean?
- It kinda gave me a spark,
the boost I needed knowledge-wise
and fanbase-wise.
- Damn.
to actually connect - Awith the real Dee?ink
- I'm just gonna be honest.
I didn't see a need to reach out to the real you.
- Because what was the point if I ran social media?
- It's my name, bro.
It's not even about the page. It's my name.
I want my name-- I can't even use my name
to create another page on Facebook.
Facebook thought it was actually me
because of the following.
I been missing out on a lot of opportunities
just because people don't really know how to find me.
Instead, they clicking on the page that you created.
- At the end of the day,
there's no way I could've missed that opportunity.
Dee was just a piece of it, like,
I look at the internet as a playground.
Just taking opportunities
and using 'em to your advantage.
- Sure.
But you--in your conversations with Imari,
had encouraged her to come to Atlanta
and to meet youpotentially wor.
- I really did plan on meeting with her.
- How were you gonna explain yourself
if she did come to Atlanta?
- I was just going with the flow.
I really did plan on revealing it in person.
- I mean, you are a grown-ass man.
- Right. - And, like,
that would have potentially put her
in a very, very uncomfortable situation.
- Yeah-- - So how many
other Imaris are there?
- There aren't any other Imaris.
She's genuine,
enthusiastic,
and she makes good music on top of that.
There's nobody else I'm having those conversations with.
- So what you wanted to gain
from me was just a collab?
- A collab and, like, the whole package--
the video, everything.
Like, it wasn't just gonna be a collab.
- To me, it just doesn't feel like
it's just about wanting to work together.
I'm assuming you liked what you saw,
so that's why you responded to her?
- I'm glad you said it.
- [scoffs]
- Do you have something you want to say?
- [laughing]
- Aw, man. I'm sorry.
I'm definitely sorry to both of y'all.
- Are you really? - Yeah.
Because I really do wanna work with you.
And I wouldn't even have carried on if I didn't.
The friendship is valuable too.
You know what I mean?
I'm not pushing for it, of course,
because, like, how she probably perceives me now.
But like I said,
what was on my mind was making a song, collaborate.
- So it was all about the clout?
- Even to this day. To this day?
- It's all about the opportunity.
- The Dee Pimpin page has always been about clout.
It was never about manipulating anybody
or relationships.
- Is being here right now about doing the right thing
or is it about the clout still?
- It's about doing the right thing.
I understand it was wrong, but I mean,
like I said, I had to do what I had to do.
And if I went back-- back in time,
I would probably still do it.
- Who answered the phone?
Was that your girl voice? Who was that?
- [laughs] No, that was my stylist.
And this is my business line, so I was with her.
- Mm.
- So... - I feel used.
I think that it's time
for another transfer of clout.
I think we can just do a clout triangle.
How about that? [both laugh]
Give me some of yours. - Here we go.
Yes.
- Give me some of yours. - I love this.
- That's true.
KeeZY, I mean, you've obviously
got a lot of followers now.
I mean, you could direct people to Dee's real music,
and you could direct people to Imari's music.
- I think it's the least you can do at this point.
- [laughs] Whatever you want me to do.
- I knew that fire was in there, bitch.
I knew it was there. - Yes, of course.
- I'm not gonna be the only one left high and dry now.
Wait a minute. - Great.
- That's not how this is gonna go at all.
- [laughs] - Exactly.
- Did you say that you also engineer?
- Man, I don't-- - And he do video too.
I didn't forget. He said video.
- He's a videographer. - I like videos.
- I'm open or whatever.
- Reparations.
- I think that's a good idea. - Yep.
- Now look--there are a lot of people who will say, like,
you know, do whatever you gotta do
to be successful and promote yourself
and all that.
But at the same time, we have to consider that...
- There's a right way to go about things.
And other people were involved. - Right.
- I was collateral. Dee was collateral.
That's not fair. - Right.
- I know it's wrong.
- All right, well look.
I feel like it's as close to a happy ending
as we're gonna get.
For me, it seems pretty obvious
that the page should belong to Dee.
She should have the option to do with it what she wishes.
- You could use it, like, it could benefit you.
- Nah, I want it. I definitely--I want it.
- I always think you should take any music
that you've produced where you've claimed Dee was on it
off of the internet. - Yeah.
- Imari knows who she's been talking to.
And hopefully, you do really sort of honor your promise
to help her with some music
and give her a jumpstart and--
- That was my goal from the jump.
- Right.
And obviously, Dee,
you got your page finally.
And you can now
send people from that page to your Instagram,
or you could really get into that page
and maybe even ask KeeZY
to help to promote yourself, you know?
- Like I said, I'm down for whatever everybody wants to do.
- All right.
- Well, KeeZY, I hope you don't get any more,
you know, bright ideas
to seize any more opportunities.
- It's no need to do that type of stuff anymore but...
- Dee felt dee-srespected.
- Yeah, I'm like, that's me.
- Thanks, guys. - Thank you.
- All right. - Thank you.
- Thanks, everybody. - Good luck to everybody.
- All right, Kamie. See y'all later.
- Good luck. - All right, thank you.
- Good luck. - All right.
- ♪ That's a ride ♪
♪ Keep your--tip-top shape ♪
♪ I'm great ♪
♪ Need Betty not Becky ♪
♪ I want that real cake ♪
♪ Make moves like I'm on skates ♪
♪ Finessing all of my plays ♪
♪ On the block for a few days ♪
♪ And I'm still doper than all
the HDZ boys that disgraced ♪
♪ Menace, though ♪
♪ ♪
- Brian has been talking to Stephanie for a year.
- If somebody can stimulate my brain and my heart
just through a phone call,
imagine what it could be in person.
- He said she was staying at the hotel.
- [gasps] - Let's give him a call.
- When you can't go up to doors and knock on 'em,
you sure find other ways to be invasive.
[doorbell rings] - Oh, [bleep].