[Puma] Today is gonna be a competition day. [all exclaiming]
- I'm finna smoke all you mother[bleep].
- King Kong ain't got nothin' on me.
- The winner is AMH.
[all cheering]
- What's going on with you and Santana?
- She and I are going on a date.
- I kinda thought Santana was in a relationship.
- Dreamy says that you have a girlfriend.
- So basically, you gonna trust them.
- I don't trust nobody.
- But it was 'cause it [bleep] my date up.
- So you the drama.
- My birthday is coming up,
the best gift y'all can give me,
that we all come together, you guys and the OGs.
[laughter]
- Alex, are you here to keep the peace,
or get with Nychelle? [all exclaiming]
- Alex, handle him! - I'm the OG here.
- My name [bleep] rings bells!
- ♪♪ We are the new wave ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
♪♪ It's getting hot bubbling to a boil ♪♪
♪♪ Fingers in the dirt too, we hit that oil ♪♪
♪♪ Word of mouth got it hyped up, living up to it and beyond ♪♪
♪♪ Got it sewed up, word is bond ♪♪
- Game over. - Uno out.
[laughter] - [bleep] you!
Take that one back, take that one back.
- That's Uno out. - No, you have four and a one.
- Your math is not mathing. - You need glasses,
you need me to go get your glasses?
- Here's my... - Nah, bro--
[overlapping arguing/bleep]
- Nah nah nah nah, come on, bro!
- First of all, it's the reverse.
- So how y'all feeling about last night?
I mean, I'm still [bleep] up.
- Are you?
- I bet you are.
- Bro, I don't even know
where to start about last night, man.
Yeah, that [bleep] really shook me.
The nipple rings...
[laughter]
Sick.
Rich really kinda blew me away with that [bleep].
- Woo! - Agreed.
- I ain't gonna lie, he kinda dropped [bleep]...
- I wish, I was like, you didn't even [bleep] tell us?
- Yo, why you ain't let us know you was gonna do that?
- Bro, like, sometimes as an artist,
I feel like you gotta keep your tricks up your sleeve.
- I was blown away, I was like,
looking in the blue lens, in the red lens,
I'm like, oh my-- this is about the OGs.
- [bleep] is getting real.
- This [bleep] is throwing shade on everybody.
- Yes, he was. - Ain't us.
- Rich's little stunt was creative,
but I just feel like we're supposed to be leaders
because of our experience and our professionalism.
And that [bleep] was not a good look for him
or the people he's supposed to be leading.
We going in there with the mindset that
we're suppose to be cool... [overlapping chatter]
- And then you at war. - I know he wants to play
this like, alpha role, he got the experience,
you know, whatever, whatever,
but he's not giving, like, leadership.
He lost the competition. - Who won?
- You took the room, period.
Then it's like, you do this [bleep],
you don't fill your team in on what the [bleep] you're doing.
- Yeah, all that male energy last night was too much.
You got into it with Dreamy.
- How did that even get started?
[Miracle] I'm gonna-- I'm gonna slide by you...
- But it was 'cause it [bleep] my date up.
- So you told her you like her?
- Bro, she's an attractive woman.
She ain't feel no pressure yet.
When I pursue somebody, she gonna know.
If I come for you, Miracle, I promise you, you gon' know.
- That's the thing, though. Dreamy has been coming for me.
He keeps sending me inappropriate texts
trying to get me to come to his room.
Before he started texting me the weird [bleep],
he was a cool person, he seemed very genuine to me.
But that makes me extremely uncomfortable.
- But that's also a part of just my dynamic, bro.
I'm sorry, my mentality's a little bit different
than a lotta y'all monogamous, you know, brain styles.
♪♪♪♪
- Honestly, I'm just sick of him running his mouth,
and not standing on his [bleep].
- He can never take accountability.
Even presented with the problems,
accountability is just out the window.
- Right.
This is not the first time Dreamy has pissed off
the house by starting drama,
and then he flips out.
It's like, you trying make people feel bad.
- I didn't make nobody feel nothing about nothing.
I said exactly what the [bleep] I said.
[bleep] this [bleep], bro. I'm over it, bro, it's a wrap.
- He drinks a lot and becomes very inappropriate,
and we're all sick of it. - Nobody like that [bleep].
I don't know where the [bleep] he came from,
but he need to take that [bleep] back over there.
- I don't know what [bleep] planet
you done shipped in from,
but bitch, around here, we not doing that.
And for real, they need to be put in check.
That was some messy-ass [bleep],
and it's gonna catch up with them.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Gonna do it my way ♪♪
♪♪ Gonna do it, gonna do it my way ♪♪
♪♪ Going for the gold ♪♪
- Hello. - Hi, welcome to Gods of Ink.
- How are you, is Rok here? - Yeah, he's right in the back.
- Alright, thank you.
Rocky... - Yo!
- Yo, this [bleep] is hard.
- Welcome to Gods of Ink, my brother.
- This is fire.
It's a lotta drama going on.
From Nychelle calling me out and leaving,
to me going toe to toe with Rich at Ted's party,
to me not having a shop to tattoo out of.
Please, somebody help me.
- What you doing around these parts?
- I came to check on you, everything good?
- Ehh, just wrapping up some stuff, you know,
just trying to clear out my station for a bit.
♪♪♪♪
- Like, you're packing-packing?
- But I'm not gone for good. At the end of the day,
this is still my business and all that [bleep],
but just to make sure my head ain't [bleep] up,
I'm just gonna take some time and get outta here...
- Wait, so this is about Krystal?
- Isn't it always about Krystal?
Even though me and Krystal both went to Teddy's
birthday party last night,
we didn't show up together.
And I'm not gonna lie,
things haven't been good between us.
First Krystal wanna embarrass me by
being all jealous at the mansion party...
[overlapping arguing/bleep]
- I just wanna know why you up there with my man
when he was [bleep] my [bleep] last night.
[all exclaiming]
- [bleep] was awkward at the shop,
and then Rich wanna try to put us on blast
at Teddy's birthday party...
- There go Rok...
doing what he do.
- Hey, yo! - But Krystal,
she'll filet ya, off with your head.
- Everywhere I go, it's like my life
is on display for everybody.
It's just like, too much for me to deal with.
She's giving me mixed signals, bro.
You don't wanna be with me,
then you over there telling people you're with me.
I'm confused, bro. I just feel like
I really just need some space.
What's that [bleep] called?
Uh...
[music winding down]
I forgot what it was called,
but it was some [bleep], I think it's like,
mental health break or some [bleep].
- Okay, you need a mental health break, okay.
Maybe you taking time away would actually push
Krystal to realize she actually
lost something good, you know?
- I think it's better for the both of us
if I just step away for a minute.
This way, she can clear her head
and I can get my mind straight,
just so we can focus on the business
and stay away from all that drama.
Other than that, what's up with you, bro?
- I mean, I got my own stress going on right now, honestly.
Rich doing the [bleep] that he did,
drawing all of us talkin' mad [bleep].
For a dude that's not even a part of the crew yet,
Rich's ego is out of control.
I'm better than you. - At what?
- I'm the OG here.
[overlapping arguing]
- But my name [bleep] rings bells!
- I'm here, you tryna get here.
And that's what's pissing me off 'cause it's like,
Puma's putting all of this energy into these new cats
and it's like, he don't know nothing about what we doing.
He don't know where we're tattooing,
how we're making our bread, if everything is good
in our lives or not, you feel me?
Right now, I'm not even really tattooing, you feel me?
I don't have nowhere to tattoo.
I'm already having a hard time keeping up
with my clients, and I would hate to lose them
waiting on Puma to figure things out.
A part of that is, you know, really why I'm here.
- You tryna run with the Gods?
- I'm just saying, man, like, let me in.
♪♪♪♪
- If I ain't gonna be here for a little bit,
you could probably use my section and [bleep], feel me?
This is perfect, if I'm not gonna be here at the shop,
at least Alex could be over here
making me some money taking over my booth.
And Krystal thinks that I'm not a good businessman.
- Ahem.
Is Krystal gonna approve of that?
Like...
- Bro,
mi shop su shop.
[Krystal] What the [bleep], Rok?
♪♪♪♪
- Shouldn't be no issue.
- Okay, now, if she swing on me,
y'all got insurance, right?
- Hey, I'm just a phone call away.
[Alex] That doesn't sound like a yes, Rok.
- ♪♪ Now this has been created just something collaborated ♪♪
♪♪ Why the greatest off the straight end ♪♪
♪♪ I know it because I made it ♪♪
♪♪ While you procrastinatin' and waiting ♪♪
♪♪ I got it started... ♪♪
[laughter]
- You said you wanted a giraffe, right?
- I did. - And we got
a gem on the head, some filler green on the bottom.
- It's quiet here. - I guess you could relax
and get comfortable. - Okay.
- We're putting this on your leg, right?
- Yep, right here.
- Sup, champ? - What up, what up?
- What? - Yo, what up?
- Surprise, surprise.
- We're gonna just talk some business a little bit.
- Say that.
- At least they keeping the house together.
- Yeah, [bleep] ain't broke.
How you feeling, man?
- I mean, [bleep] could've been worse.
- There's a lot going on.
Ted's birthday party was a disaster.
It was supposed to be a night
of get togethers and hanging out,
but it got sabotaged by somebody.
Yeah, I'm looking at you, [bleep] Rich.
I don't know, man.
Each time we try to get
the youngs and the OGs together...
- Bro... - [bleep] just goes left.
This time, I'm not gonna lie, it was Rich all the way.
- We just gotta figure out a way to get these
mother[bleep] on the same page.
Over the past ten years, we've dealt with so many fights,
we grew a zero tolerance for it now.
If the newbies want a spot in the new shop
and the opportunity that's being handed to them,
they need to get they [bleep] together.
- Yo, Trilla. - Yo?
- Yo, can you go get AMH and you two come over here?
- A'ight, copy. - [Puma] It's time
to turn up the heat on these mother[bleep] rookies.
They've been living the luxury life, you know?
Nice big house, celebrity clientele,
it's time for them to start seeing
the downside of their [bleep] actions.
[overlapping greetings]
- This feels very official.
- Just wanted to let you know
I have somebody that I need you to tattoo.
- Yes! - Ooh!
- I've been waiting to work.
- A special client, this tattoo is gonna mean a lot.
- Okay. - And Trilla,
we need you to apprentice.
You're gonna have to follow her.
- [gasp] Yeah! - Nice, okay, okay!
- I get to learn!
- I'm gonna keep it 100 with you.
Like, from day one, I've been [bleep]
with you, bro, I've been paying attention
to your artwork and [bleep], you gotta step it up.
- Definitely. - We don't from day one
expect you to be the best,
but we want you to become the best.
[overlapping chatter]
- I appreciate them for believing in me,
AMH is a dope artist, and I'm excited
to shadow and learn from her.
- I appreciate the trust. - Yeah, you know,
Rich kinda wiled out a little bit,
and he was supposed to be the original person to do it...
- Oh, [bleep]!
- Even though Rich didn't win the previous challenges,
I know how talented Rich is.
And until that stunt he pulled during Ted's birthday party,
we've kinda wanted to give him the opportunity
to show what he can do, so instead,
we're gonna reward the person who did the best
in the competition: AMH.
And we decided to let Trilla tag along with her
because he's been showing that he wants to learn.
You don't get rewarded for wilin' out like that.
- That's alright, here I come, I'ma save the day.
Yes, I'm excited.
I am now kinda happy that Rich did what he did
because he didn't know that he was getting set up
for such a bomb opportunity,
and he just threw it out the [bleep] window.
But that's okay 'cause I'm standing outside that window
about to catch that ball and run with it.
- Thank y'all for believin' in me, man.
- Thank you for the trust. - Thank you.
- I ain't gonna let you down.
[overlapping chatter]
[Puma] Got this. [Trilla] Let's get it!
Yo, I've been waiting for this day, son.
- You were supposed to be doing the tattoo.
But because you stirred up some drama,
they chose me to do the tattoo instead.
- I have not heard any word of any of this.
- Yeah... yeah...
- Hey, Krystal.
- Since when you been working here?
- Um, Rok said if you had, like, an issue with it, talk to him.
- We're trying to build a team,
and you've done everything to piss the team the [bleep] off.
- How do you feel like you're supposed to be here,
when you can't respect the mother[bleep]
that's standing on this [bleep]?
- ♪♪ Ow, hit 'em with the flow, hit 'em with the flow ♪♪
♪♪ Pull it out, hit 'em with the four-four ♪♪
♪♪ Get it all back, bend it back ♪♪
♪♪ Then go to the club, let it all go ♪♪
- Yerrp. [knocks]
Heard you were looking for me?
- Welcome to my apartment in the sky.
- Damn sure is, man, you settled in.
- Absolutely. - [laughs]
- The winner gets the master bedroom.
[all exclaiming]
- Talking about me? - AMH.
[all cheering]
Y'all gotta trade rooms. Y'all gotta...
- How you liking it?
- I am never leaving.
[laughter]
- I'm never leaving this mother[bleep].
How does it feel like, not on no bull[bleep],
coming in this room?
- [sighs] Tumbling.
- I-- yeah.
[Rich] I'm still trying to find my place in this house.
And I'm still pissed that I lost this room.
But it's a'ight 'cause I know
I'm the best artist in this house.
I don't really think Ted and Puma understand that.
I'm taking this competition seriously.
Maybe too seriously.
- I know you see I'm packing
my tattoo stuff up right now, um,
I had a conversation with Puma and Ted.
- Okay. - And there is a VIP client
that I'll be tattooing, but the way that it was
presented to me is that you were supposed to be
doing the tattoo, but because you stirred up some drama
at Ted's birthday,
they chose me to do the tattoo instead.
And, um, I'm assuming you didn't know that.
- I have not heard any word of any of this.
- Yeah... yeah...
- Um, how did I stir up any drama though?
- Um, the portraits that you did,
I don't think they liked that because
I guess, you know, it hurt some people's feelings
and we're supposed to be a team and a family.
It turned Ted's party into chaos.
- I do a dope display that the majority of people enjoyed,
and I'm being punished.
- [exhales] Well...
- This doesn't make any sense.
- I did not know they were gonna take it that heavily...
- Super heavy. - But I do think
you do have to take some, you know, sort of accountability
for that changing the atmosphere of the room.
[AMH] What Rich did at Ted's party was embarrassing,
but I really want Rich to succeed.
Him and I need to lead this new generation,
but I need him to understand
that there's consequences for his actions.
- [bleep] was lighthearted. Everything that was on there
was a [bleep] laugh...
- I said that's true. - It's [bleep] artwork,
feel some [bleep] emotion,
and take it, take it on the chin.
- Um, but, I'll send you pictures.
- Yeah, whatever, I don't need no [bleep] pictures.
- I'ma send 'em anyway.
[laughter]
- [bleep], leave 'em on [bleep] read, enjoy.
- I will.
- ♪♪ I got no worries in this world ♪♪
♪♪ I got everything that I want ♪♪
♪♪ I'm too blessed to be stressed... ♪♪
- I really appreciate my boy Rok for letting me
post up at Gods of Ink until
Teddy and Puma figure things out.
I know that I said I was riding with them,
but I just don't want the wheels to start falling off.
- Hey, boo, good morning.
Feels good to be here.
- Hey, Krystal.
- Since when you been working here?
- Um, so, I had stopped by
just to check on Rok or whatever.
And then also to ask him if I could guest spot here
while Ted and Puma lock down a space.
And he said if you had, you know, like,
an issue with it, talk to him.
[Krystal] Rok confuses me.
I don't have any issue with Alex being here
but it's like, you coulda did this a little differently.
It's like, just hit me up and let me know
what's happening in this shop that we own together.
I don't mind you working here.
- Thank you, I appreciate it.
- We got empty booths. - Thank you.
- But where's Rok's banner?
- Uh, he took it with him.
♪♪♪♪
- Took it with him where?
- Um, he basically said he was going on a...
a mental health break?
- Hmm. - Just to like,
clear his mind, figure things out.
Um, so what's good with you?
- Yo, like, honestly, Alex,
for a little while, I wasn't really [bleep] with you.
I'm hearing you takin... - Who, me?
- Yeah, like, how you thought I felt that he was
going out with somebody from work
and y'all picking up bitches together?
- Now, I don't know what Rok has been telling Krystal,
but why does she know our every move?
I thought he was over her,
but clearly he was using me to get her back
and make Krystal jealous.
And with the energy that Krystal's bringing...
[tense music]
It might've worked.
He's pulling up with the sad dog...
- I show everybody a smile,
but deep down, sometimes I be hurt.
- "What's wrong, Rok?" [mock muttering]
"[bleep] is crazy, man". Like, I don't wanna hear that.
- So you tryna hook him up with girls?
- No, wait, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, no no no, no, no, no, no, no.
I was taking him out
so that he could get his mind off of you.
Hey, the man of the hour!
[all exclaiming]
- Welcome to speed dating.
[all cheering]
- Where do we go from here?
Like, how am I supposed to make things better?
- I feel like you gotta stop playing around with Rok,
for real, for real, like, sometimes,
you showing him love, and the other times
you showing him that you don't really [bleep] with him.
And that's the [bleep] that [bleep] up his...
- Yeah, but he gotta remember too that
relationships first are based on friendship.
- So what it really sounds like
is that you can...
soften up a little bit with him when you talking to him,
and in the end, if you lighten up,
maybe he'll be, you know, a little more vocal.
- I thought I was done with Rok.
I sold my ring, I covered up my tattoo,
but after spending so much time apart,
I realized I missed him.
Not for nothing, I've...
hurt a lot the last few days.
I talked to my dad, I talked to Vanity,
now I talked to you, so I get it.
If I still love Rok, I gotta fix things.
How do you win somebody over after you broke their heart?
- ♪♪ Oh, I was born for greatness ♪♪
♪♪ They gonna know I made it ♪♪
♪♪ Feel the heat in my brain, I'ma light it up ♪♪
- So what's up with y'all, how's y'all energy?
How the house going... - [bleep] excited.
The house is stuffy.
- It's a big-ass house. How is it stuffy?
- It's just a lotta big personalities in the house.
- That cabin fever kicking in? - Yes.
I need a break from [bleep].
- So who would you want to go?
- Golly...
I don't know if Ted and Puma
are playing some kinda game
or tryna get some inside intel,
but I do not like being put on the spot like this.
But since they asked...
If I had to pick somebody to go, Dreamy.
Dreamy, Ink Dreamy.
- Ink Dreamy doesn't get along with everybody.
- That [bleep] creepy. - For me, it's like...
- It's creepy? - I told you.
I knew this Ink kid was a problem.
I felt like this from day one since the mixer.
Once again, my instincts are correct.
So no Ink Dreamy.
So y'all [bleep] with Rich, 'cause neither one of y'all...
- Yeah, I [bleep] with Rich. - Yeah, Rich is a musclehead
but, you know...
- I feel like Rich got solid work
and he's solid in the studio environment.
He understands the business side of it.
- Hmm, interesting.
- It's clear that the chemistry in the house is off.
So it's time for a little addition by subtraction.
Like, we wanna make sure that we have the right team,
and it seems like there's some people that
definitely ain't gonna last and they gonna have
to get up out that house.
- You sat in here and you plotted
on how you was gonna get your vengeance.
So you were aware of what your actions could cause,
and Rich said, I don't give a [bleep],
I'ma do what I wanna do.
- Everything ain't what everybody saying it is.
If y'all got anything y'all need to say,
now is the time to get it out.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Can't stop, we done came so far ♪♪
- My brother. - Okay, okay.
What's going on, fam? - What's going on, champ?
- Everything is love, everything is love.
- Corey Jacobs has become somewhat of a mentor to me
since we first spoke and realized
we have similar situations.
Every month, Corey's organization
The Gift of Chess holds a team tournament in the neighborhood.
Corey told us that we can post up there so we can
see how big of an impact his work has made in the area.
- I'm Corey Jacobs, you know,
born and raised in the Bronx.
Yeah, I love the game of chess.
You know, I've been playing since I was 11.
Him and I's story kinda relate,
we've been on similar journeys except, you know,
I did a lot more time, I caught 16 life sentences
when I was in college. - Damn.
- Yeah, on my first offense.
And I did 17 years in prison
before I was blessed to get clemency from Obama.
- Corey's story hits close to home for me
because of what I went through with my felony conviction.
Being incarcerated definitely changes
the trajectory of your life.
It's up to you how you choose to do your time.
You can let it mentally break you,
or you can push through and rise out of it.
- You know, a lotta people told me that I'd probably never
see the light of day again, you know what I'm saying?
And despite doing 17 years
with a death sentence over my head,
I never gave up.
So Winnergy is just like,
the energy and mindset to overcoming obstacles, right?
You gotta see ahead, right?
And obviously, y'all partners, and just like, you know,
when you use the chess pieces, you're using pieces together.
So you know, certain pieces have certain strengths.
Everybody don't gotta do the same thing,
but you do have to work together if y'all trying to win.
- Corey's right, we need to be playing chess,
not mother[bleep] checkers.
Every move we make, every artist that
we decide to keep or let go, it's all about making
the right moves for the long run.
This sorta thing has allowed Corey to bring unity
to his community, and that's what we wanna be able
to do for the Black tattoo artist community.
- With that being said, AMH...
- Yes. - Now you understand
how important this tattoo is... - Yes.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go...
[all cheering]
Let's go, baby!
- I'ma get ready for you and we gonna rock and roll.
- ♪♪ Why these haters got so much to say about me? ♪♪
♪♪ I'm on my grind... ♪♪
- So this is how I set my machine up.
- Okay. - Usually,
if I could have a cover that covers up
my power supply, I like to cover that, as well.
Keep your [bleep] clean.
- So I'm happy to be APing under AMH today,
you know, she's a dope artist.
I'm a self-made artist,
so I never really got the training
everyone else got, so...
I think it'll benefit me a lot.
- Gonna finish the set up, and then...
then we can get our client in.
♪♪♪♪
So tell me about what you wanna get done today.
- Oh, man, today, we're getting the Winnergy tattoo.
- Nice. - And Winnergy,
you know, is the energy and mindset...
- Yeah. - To win under
any circumstance. - Okay.
- I had a lotta opportunity to get tattoos,
but I always said, like, if I ever get a tattoo,
it gotta mean something to me, you know what I'm saying?
- Well, you put a lotta pressure on me just now,
but I work good under pressure.
- You got this. - Yes.
- Okay, so let's win.
- ♪♪ It's givin' boss, boss, boss... ♪♪
♪♪ She stay on her grind and she pull up in that new (skrrt) ♪♪
♪♪ Workin' 9 to 5 and she tryna finish school (yeah) ♪♪
♪♪ I bring the table to the table ♪♪
♪♪ Why would I need you? ♪♪
♪♪ It's givin' boss, boss, boss, boss... ♪♪
♪♪ It's givin' bad, bad, bad, bad... ♪♪
[AMH] As a woman in this industry,
I have been through a lot.
So I do not take this opportunity lightly.
- ♪♪ It's givin' boss, boss, boss, boss... ♪♪
♪♪ It's givin' boss, boss, boss, boss... ♪♪
♪♪ It's givin' bad bad bad... ♪♪
- Learning Corey's story today has lit a fire under me
to continue showing up as my true self.
Do I want everybody to win?
Yes, but I'm all about that AMH Winnergy, baby.
- ♪♪ Givin' bad bad bad... ♪♪
♪♪ Lamb chop truck, but it cost... ♪♪
- Alright.
I think we are done, my friend.
[all exclaiming]
- I love the energy, you put the love into it.
Let's go, let's go, let's go... - Gimme some of that.
- We love that, I love that.
♪♪♪♪
[sizzling]
♪♪♪♪
- What the [bleep] y'all got going on up in here?
- Smoking [bleep] salmon.
- Oh, man!
- How you feel about what happened at the talent show?
- Well, the question is how do you feel?
They got your ass up in here cooking fish, my boy.
- I'd rather be tattooing.
- I mean, you know you did it to yourself.
Granted, I get you thought it was funny.
It kinda started some [bleep], I mean...
- I ain't think it was gonna do that.
I knew that I would ruffle feathers,
but I really did not come in this trying to hurt any...
- You mother[bleep] lying! - I didn't.
- It was wild, Rich. You had everybody [bleep] up.
- Everything that was put on that board was playful,
it was expression. - But playful to you, Rich.
- You offended people and we was tryna be peaceful.
- You shook the [bleep] room.
You had [bleep]'s jaws like...
- You didn't have to fight Alex.
- I added to it, I didn't start it.
I think everybody's kinda making me the bad guy
outta this situation.
But realistically, it was Alex.
Coming into our house,
uninvited, just being disrespectful.
- This is the thing, you sat in here,
and you plotted on how you was gonna get your vengeance.
So you are aware of what your actions could cause
and Rich said, I don't give a [bleep],
I'ma do what I wanna do.
- What the hell could I have done better?
I feel like if I just would've did a painting,
that [bleep] would've been boring.
- Once you did what you wanted to do,
you can't tell him how to react.
- And now the house is mad at you.
- Like, I literally think he woke up on that day
and said [bleep] it, I'm going in with a bang,
because that's all he did was ruffle feathers.
Like, how could he not know that idea
was gonna [bleep] people up, bro?
- So what do y'all think
can happen for the best kind of resolution?
Maybe my ego wants an apology, I'm not gonna hold you.
- That's the [bleep] thing, Rich, you have to let it go.
You're not gonna get it. He does not owe you an apology.
Because if the shoes was reversed
and that man had your ass naked on a mother[bleep] canvas,
and he's "hee-heeing, ha-haing..."
- I never would've stepped on that stage.
- But you can't tell him how to react.
In your head, he wrong for ripping your [bleep],
but you disrespected him.
He deserves an apology.
- I cannot find myself to apologize to him
without receiving an apology as well.
I'll be damned to put myself in a situation where it's like,
alright, I'm apologizing... - But see, that [bleep]
ain't a leader, a leader has to take the L sometimes.
You can't keep... [rapid breathing]
You were wrong. - Touché. Touché.
I consider myself a leader,
I pride myself on that without even having to say it.
Maybe Santana has a little point,
and I probably pushed a little bit too much
of the buttons on Alex.
But of course Alex deserved what I gave him on stage,
that's a no brainer, like,
I created an art piece for you, dog.
You should've collected that.
It's worth something valuable.
A'ight, well, life is a process, and right now,
I can process this enough to apologize to y'all...
- Oh, we good. - Thank you, Rich.
- I'm not close minded to it. - Mmm-hmm.
- I know my faults.
So I think I will definitely
mentally prepare my space for a conversation,
and I'm open to it.
- That's good, that's all we ask.
[drumming music]
♪♪♪♪
- What the [bleep]?
♪♪♪♪
What the [bleep] is going on?
- ♪♪ It's givin' bad, bad, bad, bad... ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ Time and place ♪♪
♪♪ I just need a love, that time and space ♪♪
- About an hour ago, Krystal told me
to meet her at this restaurant.
I guess she noticed that my banner's missing
from Gods of Ink, and now she's trying to see
if we can move things forward.
I just feel like our personal problems
are overshadowing the best thing
we have going for us, which is our shop.
And right now, we just need to find a way to make it work.
♪♪♪♪
[drumming music]
♪♪♪♪
What the [bleep]?
♪♪♪♪
[Rok] I ain't mad at this.
I still don't know what's going on,
but I'm enjoying the view right now.
- Wow, right?
♪♪♪♪
- You funny as hell...
This is the weirdest business meeting I've ever been to,
but hey, I ain't complaining.
[laughter]
Yeah, y'all did y'all thing.
[music stops] [clapping]
Oh, word?
I didn't know you started working here.
- No, I learned this for you.
- You learned it for me? - [laughs] Yeah.
While you were going bowling and stuff,
I was going to belly dancing classes.
You know... [laughs]
After talking to Alex,
I realized I have to do something for Rok.
Our time apart, it gave me a lotta time to reflect
and I feel like I know what I want now.
I feel like I had to do something big to win you back.
- It's just weird how you're doing all this now after,
you know, you said you wanted to be single.
Now it's like everything is changing.
- I've been miserable without you.
- Where was this Krystal at before?
This ain't the same Krystal,
somebody needs to go out searching for the other Krystal,
'cause this one is a clone.
I thought I was the part of you being miserable,
I thought I was the one doing that.
- I really sat down and I processed things,
and I realized that I don't wanna lose you.
And that everybody's not you.
When we were getting engaged the first time,
it was hard, it was a hard time.
I was sad, and I was projecting that onto you,
you know what I mean, and I don't feel like
it was my proudest time, but, like, I did miss you.
[crying] And I feel like I gotta do something big
to win you back.
It was my idea to call off the engagement.
But, you know, we've been hooking up on the side,
and it kinda made me realize that I honestly want it back
and I'll do whatever it takes.
- Krystal, I've been wanting to be with you
since we broken up, to the point where
I had to start trying to find ways to forget about you.
It's like, now that you feel like you wanna be with me,
now I'm scared because I feel like,
what if you get tired of me again?
[Rok] What the [bleep] is going on?
Like, just last week, you was... you was evil.
Now you're over here coming back into my life like an angel.
Am I dreaming? Is this all too good to be true?
Like, I really gotta know that you're serious,
'cause I've been serious, I never left.
I was still here anytime that you called me,
I'll answer it, first ring, and now all of a sudden,
you want me when you want me.
- Rok, what do I have to do
to prove to you that I'm sorry?
Like, for real, I-I literally just
jumped through hoops for you.
- For now, let's just worry about Gods of Ink
and our schedule...
- I said I'm sorry,
and I wanna continue being together
and trying to work out our issues, so...
- Just give me some time.
I'm kinda confused, I really don't know
what's going on because I feel like
just a couple weeks ago,
you didn't want nothing to do with me.
And if she was serious, then she'll respect
that I asked for a little bit of time to think this over.
♪♪♪♪
- Dream is the weakest mother[bleep] in here.
You talkin'... - Let her talk, yo.
Stop talking over people. - You not gonna keep
telling me who to let talk, I'm not doing that [bleep].
[overlapping arguing]
- One at a time! One at a time!
♪♪♪♪
[Puma, on phone] The way Trilla and AMH were talking,
man, it just been having me thinking.
What haven't they been telling us?
[Ted] It's time to shake [bleep] up.
- ♪♪ Twist up, now I'm back at it ♪♪
♪♪ I'm ready now, see the wait's over ♪♪
♪♪ Rise up, put my foot down ♪♪
♪♪ Gotta let 'em know this a takeover ♪♪
- I've been trying to find the right time
to address the [bleep] that went down at my birthday party
between the OGs and the newbies.
[overlapping shouting]
- I'm the OG here...
[overlapping arguing]
[Ted] Even the newbies forgot why they here
and they were fighting each other.
- But I'm saying it wasn't no disrespect.
- But it was,
'cause it [bleep] my date up.
- It's clear that the new crew
isn't functioning like a team,
there's a lotta snake [bleep] going on,
and we can't move on like that.
- [bleep], where the bread at? We got some bread?
[laughter]
- Gotta break bread with everybody at the Last Supper.
- Right. - The Last Supper?
[bleep], okay. - Wonder who Jesus is.
- I wonder who Judas is. - Judas?
- I don't know, y'all, like, my sketchy radar is like,
[making ringing sounds]
Some [bleep] might happen.
[Ted] Where the [bleep] do we begin?
From day one, we told everybody,
us here at this table are a team.
But there's a lotta talks about certain people
behind people backs, and everything ain't
what everybody saying it is,
and that's what this dinner is for.
If y'all got anything y'all need to say,
now is the time to get it out.
♪♪♪♪
- I have a lotta things that I could say,
but I'm not about to air them out right here.
♪♪♪♪
- Okay, if y'all not gonna speak up,
I'll open up the floor by saying,
Rich, what you did the other night,
was some bull[bleep], bro.
- You showed your ass against the OGs.
- How do you feel like I showed my ass?
- Bro, you supposed to be here to be a team player,
we're trying to build a team, and you've done everything
to piss the team the [bleep] off.
- How do you feel like you're supposed to be here
when you can't respect the mother[bleep]
that's standing on this [bleep]?
- You gotta take that one on the shoulder.
- A'ight. Ted, I'm sorry.
And Alex, I'll apologize,
if you apologize to me.
- You're not getting an apology from me, though.
I feel like coming into this, and you already being
disrespectful to some of the people that helped
pave the way for you to be here right now,
can't tolerate it.
You not in a competition with me.
I'm already solidified.
[Puma] Enough, we're getting away from the point
of this whole meeting.
When we asked Trilla and AMH
the other day who would they get rid of.
They told us...
- Ink Dreamy.
- That's who you guys said?
- Facts.
- That's deep, that's interesting.
- When Ted and Puma asked for my opinion,
I gave my opinion.
I'ma stand by what I said,
Dreamy is a sketchy mother[bleep].
- Every time we get into a new location,
everybody [bleep] switches, people be in
little clusters at the house that work out one way,
and then when people are gone, it changes again.
That's why I keep myself away from the bull[bleep].
But if we're talking about tattooing,
y'all got mother[bleep] in here who can't even sling
a tattoo machine, bro.
- Okay, let's start with what you just said.
You talking about [bleep] can't sling a tattoo machine,
we talking about getting along.
You can't say the [bleep] that you have said
and then act like it's just gonna go away...
- What happened at the house?
- He kinda threw me underneath the bus
between me and Miracle.
- He definitely drove a wedge between us
because he wants to get with me.
- I kinda thought Santana
was in a relationship.
That's a red flag off the rip.
Santana and Miracle's issues literally are not mine at all.
For everything that I have a part in playing in
their relationship, I've apologized for ten times.
So at this point, I'm willing to take on everybody.
People have to show they real faces.
- Starting with you, my [bleep].
Stop doing that weird [bleep].
You come in here with an agenda
to throw somebody else under the bus,
instead of coming in here with the agenda
of making yourself better.
- I'm not for the Dream pile-up,
but I gotta admit,
AMH and the ladies in the house have a point.
This man is a lot more focused on the women
than the reason he's here.
- I'ma go with AMH and say Dreamy's
the weakest mother[bleep] in here.
Whenever we doin' [bleep] in the kitch--
Bro, stop [bleep] talking over me.
He under pressure at the tattoo competition,
[bleep] up the tattoo, didn't even finish.
You talkin'-- - Let her talk.
- Stop talking over people. - You not gonna keep
telling me who to let talk, I'm not doing that [bleep].
- One at a time, one at a time.
- Everyone piling on Dreamy?
He brought it on himself.
When you keep putting lighter fluid on a fire,
it's gonna blow the [bleep] up.
- You, when everyone else talk,
I don't wanna hear you. - They keep...
- I really don't care
to hear somebody else when somebody else got the floor.
- So when mother[bleep] do that...
- You still talkin'. You still talkin'.
- Nobody gonna shut me up. - You still talkin',
and that's not gonna work here...
[overlapping arguing]
Shut your [bleep] mouth when somebody's talking...
[arguing continues]
- Yo, first of all, you're not gonna be standing behind me.
If you gonna leave, leave, don't stand behind me.
- Lower your voice, lower your voice.
- Sit down or leave, bro, pick one.
[Ted] If you gonna leave, leave, don't stand behind me.
- I'm trying to get a drink... - Sit down or leave, bro.
- Y'all not gonna keep telling me what the [bleep] to do.
- Watch your words...
[overlapping shouting]
- Sit down!
- Y'all [bleep] is full of [bleep], bro.
- Now you're going too far.
You're getting up, you're standing behind me.
I don't know how to take this.
All this bull[bleep] can go out the window,
and I'll turn into Bronx Ted.
- [Puma shouting] - No, stop-- no, no, no!
[overlapping shouting]
- Stop! - Let Puma talk, let Puma talk.
- [bleep] is crazy... - Stop!
'Cause now y'all pissing me off.
- Mm-hmm, which they plan was.
[overlapping chatter]
- Yo, bro, you just don't [bleep] listen, do you?
You wanna get packed up. - I want the opportunity...
- And now I see why everybody wanna pack you up.
- Bro, I'm here for tattooing, bro,
I'm here for tattooing... - Trilla's the only...
- You don't even have a client to [bleep] tattoo out here!
- Exactly, bro, until they see that [bleep], bro--
don't let 'em see my work versus your work, bro.
Blind and colorblind, bro,
I'll tattoo circles around all y'all [bleep].
- The only tattoo you ever did was ass.
- Shut your [bleep] mouth.
[overlapping shouting]
- Since y'all been playing house...
[shouting continues]
- Yo, stop stepping up to her.
- As a man, once you threaten a shorty,
that's your ass, boy.
So now it's on.
- No, no, no... [overlapping shouting]
- Say that [bleep] to my face.
[overlapping shouting/bleeps]
[Puma] Stop!
[shouting continues]
Bro, you crazy as [bleep]! You crazy as [bleep]!
- You should never show that level of aggression.
They seriously cannot communicate as adults.
And if y'all can't do that here,
how are y'all supposed to do that in a work environment?
- Yo, y'all know what, I heard everything
I need to [bleep] hear.
Puma, you got anything to say?
- Nah, everybody, y'all go.
- A'ight, dinner's over. - Dinner's over.
- Get up and go.
[overlapping chatter]
- Y'all been dismissed. Shut the [bleep] up,
all of y'all, get the [bleep] out.
[Ted] This [bleep] is starting to get outta control.
Honestly, I thought we had a couple of more weeks
before we had to start eliminating mother[bleep].
But it's clear we need to take some action
for the sake of the future of this platform.
- This what y'all came here to do?
This the team, my [bleep]?
This is them? That's crazy.
- We're not gonna last. - We in big [bleep] trouble.
- If this is the team, definitely not gonna last.
- [bleep] food is cold.
- Can I get everybody to come down to the living room? Last night, that [bleep] was [bleep] chaotic
and it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
We're gonna be turning up the pressure,
and after the next few weeks,
a lotta y'all are gonna be gone.
- [bleep] got real real fast.
- Today is our first official competition in the house.
- Yes! - Very confident.
There has never been so much on the line
like there is now.
One of these artists today are gonna be going home.
- I do light to do dark 'cause it gives me a chance to build.
- Oh, that's different. - It's different
'cause it's wrong.
- This a little bit out your comfort zone.
- Very much. I can literally feel
the [bleep] eyes beaming on me.
- We gonna have to re-do this stencil.
- You gotta know what you... - I know what I'm doing.
- Uh-oh... - I tattoo myself.
- Trilla, shut the [bleep] up.
- Puma and I really thought about it,
and we feel the person going home is...
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