(Ceaser) It's time to get the crew back together
and get back to work.
- I don't wanna tattoo anymore.
- You know we're runnin' tattoo shops, right?
- It's time for me to blossom
into the next phase of my life.
I need your full support.
- Um, yeah, Donna, I support your blossoming.
(Young Bae) I had the surgery.
- Are you coming back to the shop?
- I'm not saying I'm leaving,
but right now for now, I'm focusing on my recovery.
After I take care of that, then I'll speak to you.
(Tatti) I bought a new home that I moved my cousins into.
I'm ready to go back to work
'cause I'm ready to get a paycheck.
- You're a boss ass (bleep),
and everybody loves you.
- I feel like we're gonna surprise a lotta people
but what do you want?
- I want you. - I feel like, really,
it's no one's business but our own.
- Somebody broke into 125th Street.
- This (bleep) is definitely an inside job.
- Who the (bleep) was working that day?
- I tried to do some dumb (bleep) with the register
but I had nothing to do with that break-in, bro.
- See this little thing right here?
That's that little thing right there.
Who's that? Look.
- Oh, no...
- Bro, I'm stressed out!
These bills, all these responsibilities.
This whole pandemic (bleep) (bleep) me up
with this child support (bleep).
- Welcome to being a man.
- Walt is no longer with us.
He's kicked out the family,
he's kicked out the company, he's gone.
♪♪
- ♪ Now when the sun comes out ♪
♪ What do we deliver? ♪
♪ A new day that I bet something bigger ♪
♪ Make it happen, time to pull the trigger ♪
♪ Now's the time to double your figures ♪
♪♪
(Tatti) Center it!
(thud) Oh!
- Oh, man. - Pedro!
- Sorry, my bad.
- Seriously, what do you think?
- I really don't think we need this
'cause we're grown.
- I definitely disagree.
- Everyone in the house is grown enough to know
what they're doing and to let you know.
- Wow, is that what you think?
- Yeah, honestly.
- So when I was younger,
my cousin who was the mother of
Linda, Michelle, Francesca and Pedro passed away.
I had decided that I was gonna buy a house one day
so that I could move them all in so that they can live together
because they were separated by their dads.
It has been one of my biggest accomplishments of my life.
I'm telling you right now, no friends are coming over
with this house being disgusting.
- You don't gotta worry about it being disgusting.
- Girl, I stepped on a banana the other day.
Are you (bleep) kidding me?
I'm gonna lose my (bleep).
- I don't eat bananas. (laughter)
- After the success of the essential workers event,
Ceaser has been putting me through the ringer
to get my job back.
I am so ready to show and prove
that I'm committed and responsible.
I created a chore chart to make sure that
things run smoothly so that I can stay focused on
Black Ink's next big event.
Listen, I was 18 once, I get it.
But we have to maintain this house,
so your responsibilities will be here.
And we don't have to be fighting with each other.
- Yes, okay, I like that.
- I'm not perfect, and I definitely don't claim
to be perfect, but I've made a lot of mistakes in my life
and if I could just teach them through my experience,
of course I'm gonna do it, of course I'm gonna try
to teach my cousins how to live up to their full potential
because they have so much potential
and I see that in them.
For real, guys, we have to just be,
you know, more on top of things.
Big house, big mess, that's what it is.
- Yeah, - So,
I just want you guys to be happy.
I really, really hope that this works out
'cause if it doesn't, we might have to square up, Michelle.
We might have to square up, but I will beat you up.
Let me go so I can get ready for Donna's dinner tonight.
- ♪ You wanna go somewhere ♪
♪ I wanna take it back ♪
♪♪
♪ You know you want some of this sweet, sweet stuff ♪
♪ Gave you a little... ♪
- Listen, though, nobody's understanding
that I want these filled to the top with candy.
- Oh, okay. Now what, you want me to cut something?
- I just need a rough chop on these onions.
- I need one more succulent.
- No, everybody don't get their own,
just make them cute on the table.
(Donna) Well, as of right now,
I'm not tattooing, but I still am involved
in the arts-- culinary arts.
Tonight I'm prepping for my infused couples dinner.
In my infused dinners, I take all my little
fatty substances that have now been infused with my CBD
and I make amazing food.
I wanna take these CBD dinners like, to a new level.
- Rok and Krystal are coming together.
I quote, "I'm gonna give her a ride."
So are you going to Donna's CBD dinner?
- Wait, Rok, you need-- - Yeah, I need a plus-one.
Help me out. - Alright.
You can come with me, I need a ride.
- How you gonna give her a ride from your house?
- That's tough. (laughter)
- I've know about Rok and Krystal's
"secret" relationship for some time now.
They showed up to my first dinner together
and tried to deny being actually together, but we all knew.
- I like them. - Can we just talk about
how like, Krystal's gonna play him?
- Well, once the world opens up again,
I think a lotta things might change.
- Right, for real. - Speaking about changes,
remember the video from 125th I told you about?
Walter robbed 125th.
- No, bitch, he didn't. N-- no, that sounds crazy.
- There's a video. - (Alex) Oh...
- Why do you always have to kill my dreams like this?
- I'm sorry, but you tell me what you think.
- I don't know, that don't immediately look like Walter.
- I don't know, I ain't ever seen Walt walk like that.
- Like, I was expecting to like, immediately...
- Like, see his face? - "That's Walt."
It is 2021, okay? Black Lives Matter.
We don't wanna be assumed guilty before we're proven guilty.
It's a little stereotypical profiling a skinny Black man
on a (bleep) video, that could be anybody.
- Whether or not you stole one thing or a million things,
you still stole. - You still stole.
- And you still admitted to that, you know?
- I mean, yeah, once you admit to that (bleep)...
- I mean, listen... - It sucks.
- Only thing I can think of is like, you're trying to
do so much for Jess, but I strongly believe
that Jess doesn't know what's going on either.
I'm just wondering if Walt's going out of his way
to try and make Jess happy,
which is understandable, but at what cost?
Like, no, I don't think he did the break-in,
but he still owes me money, and he admitted to taking
the money out the register,
so there's definitely something going on with my friend.
- Do you think everyone's gonna come?
- I don't know. One thing I do know,
we got 20 pounds of crab legs here.
I swear, people better show up tonight.
♪♪
- ♪ He said, she said ♪
- You gonna come with me to the gym today?
- Huh? - You gonna come work out?
Yes. You don't have to.
It's been a few days since
the whole essential workers event,
and I haven't really told Jess yet
what Cease and Ted was accusing me of.
To be honest, I was just trying to see
if I was able to talk them, but after speaking to Puma,
I see that that's not the case right now.
So I wanna let Jess know because as a husband,
the last thing you want is to have your wife worrying.
Um...
Remember I was telling you
everything that went down at the shop
when the break-in happened? - Mm-hmm.
- You know, we just recently had the essential worker event.
- Mm-hmm. - Soon as I get in there,
Ted asks to talk to me and shows me some video,
like surveillance of the night of the break-in.
And supposedly the person looks like me
and all this other (bleep).
These mother(bleep) thinking that I broke into the shop
because I admitted to taking money
from the register that one time.
- What? Why?
- I wasn't trying to do it like maliciously maliciously,
it was really just on some, alright, I'm not gonna
put all the money into the shop
that's supposed to go towards the tattoo.
And then later, I'd just replace it.
- Why would you do that? What the (bleep) is going on
that you felt the need to do that?
- I just-- at that moment,
I'm not gonna lie, I got overwhelmed,
and all these bills I had, you know what I mean,
child support, I don't know, I hit the panic button.
I was like, on some, yo, when I get paid,
I'll make sure I put it back,
but unfortunately, you know, the break-in happened
shortly after and everything,
and everything spilled out.
- Yo, that (bleep) is like a (bleep) slap in the face
'cause I really like, you know,
I thought we had an understanding.
We are married, we're in this together.
- I don't have no excuse as to why I didn't come to you,
but I ain't have nothing to do with that
dumb-ass (bleep) break-in.
But I understand how bad it looks
'cause Ceaser was like, if you could do one thing,
you could do the other. - Mm-hmm.
- And he was upset. Tried to talk to him,
he was like, yo, you gonna have to prove it, then,
if you ain't have anything to do with it.
I'm like, whatever it is I gotta do.
- Right. - He's like, yo, Walt,
I'm not really with all of talking,
just get out.
I'm not worried about that.
And if I sit down with Cease and Ted,
we could chop it up, we could get to the bottom of this.
Other than that, I don't know what the (bleep) they want me
to do as far as proving that that wasn't me 'cause it wasn't.
I just don't want them to think that,
like, I would possibly do that.
Like, the night of the break-in, I was home.
My Lyft is giving them the time
that I left the shop, everything.
I'm pretty-- yeah, i-- it's in my history.
For what? I respect myself,
but I'm not gonna go out my way.
I'll go out my way for my friends,
I'll go out my way for Cease and Ted,
if they want me to show all of that, I will show them.
But for this? Nah. - To be honest, babe,
like, the fact that all of this is happening
and how it's playing out, like, I'm really taken back.
I'm hurt at the fact that you wouldn't even come
talk to me if you felt like whatever was going on
with you financially, like,
why wouldn't you say anything me?
Why would you go do that?
My husband is in there doin'--
(bleep) stealing money, like what?
I just don't understand.
(sighs) - I don't want that
to be like...
'cause you right, you my lady, you my love,
I love you, and I ain't wanna put you through this.
I ain't want you thinking anything ill,
that's why I was just trying to handle it the way
I needed to handle it.
This is all I know is survival, babe.
- We all the way have to get out of that whole
(bleep) survival (bleep), we are not those people anymore.
(Jess) I'm really feeling overwhelmed,
you know, because I have all of these emotions.
I'm pissed off, I'm embarrassed,
I'm hurt that he didn't come talk to me.
But then again it's like, who am I to judge, you know?
I feel like people, when they are in
certain situations, they make mistakes.
You know, when I found myself
in really tough financial situations,
I sold drugs, I scammed,
you know, I'm a single mom, I had to raise my kids.
At the end of the day, you know, that's my husband.
So what am I gonna do?
(bleep) happens, you know,
I commend you for holding yourself accountable,
for being honest and, you know, that's a good step.
I just hope that whenever Cease calm down,
that you all can sit down and have a conversation
because this is crazy, this is crazy.
- If there's anything I've learned from
being part of this family, is that if you care
about your relationship, don't bring them around.
- I thought there was about to be more people
in this (bleep), what's up, what's up?
- Holding hands!
- I wanna thank everybody for coming out
and helping me with this event.
- Hey!
- Young Bae!
- Hi. - Hello.
How are you? It's me, Jess.
♪♪
♪
- ♪ Y’all out, all out all out ♪
- We’re alone right now. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
\h- Just how I like it. - That’s how I love it.
\h(giggles) - You silly.
\hI feel like the only reason we were invited to this dinner
is because people are curious \h\hto know if we’re together.
- We should let everybody know. - My only hesitation,
Black Ink tends to be messy. \hEveryone that goes public,
\hit ends up ruining shortly after, you know what I mean?
- Tell me why you \hthink it’s okay
to talk to some new \h(bleep) about me?
- I know I lost you \h\h\has my fiancé,
but I lost my best friend too.
- You came and laid in \h\h\hthe bed with me
\h\h\hafter you (bleep) a (bleep) in the toilet.
- Yeah, but I’m ready \h\hto settle down...
\h\h\h- So you wanna go public? - I wanna settle down with you.
- You could really see \h\ha future with me?
\h\h- I see a future with you, I’m ready to take care of you.
- I feel like if we keep our business within ourselves...
\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - Then I don’t mind \h\h\hgoing public.
\hJust if we go public, there’s no breaking up.
I’ma break your legs. \h\h\h\h\h\h(laughing)
♪
- Can you, uh, set this up?
\h\h\h\h- Alright. - What time is it?
- I don’t even know, \hbut what I do know
is that everybody late.
Typical Black Ink, nobody is on time.
\h\hPut those candles I just gave you on the table here.
They got little remotes \h\hon ’em and (bleep).
Oh, hello.
- Hello, everyone!
- You look like you just \h\hgot off a mountain.
- It’s (bleep) cold outside.
(laughing) \h- Nice.
\h\h- Smells good in here. - No, no, no, wait, wait.
Ted, this a couples \h\h\h\hdinner, sir.
Where is your couple? \h\h\h\h\h- (Ted) Huh?
\h- Where’s Yuni? - It smells good.
Tatti’s doing the cooking.
\h- Where is she, you knew this was a couples dinner,
\h\hit’s very important to me, it’s two seats for everybody.
- Yeah, me and my coat.
- Me and my coat. \h\h- I’m so done.
- His coat gonna take \h\hthat other chair.
- Well, Teddy, let’s suffice \hto say I’m upset with you.
- To answer your question, \h\hDonna, the reason why
I told Yuni she wasn‘t \hinvited is because--
- Wait, you told her she wasn’t invited?!
\h\h\h\h\h(laughing) - That’s (bleep) up.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Why did you do that?
- Um, everybody knows I have \h\ha history in Black Ink,
and I didn’t wanna bring her \h\h\h\hto a history class.
\h\h\h- My (bleep) go to history class every day.
- I don’t know if this would be an uncomfortable room for her.
- I respect that, \h\hand if there’s
\h\hanything I’ve learned from part of this family,
\h\his that if you care about your relationship,
don’t bring ’em around. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
\h- I thought there was about to be more people and (bleep).
What’s up, what’s up? \h\h\h- Holding hands!
- Uh, you picked her up \h\h\h\hfrom your crib?
- This is a couple’s dinner, \h\hand they came together.
So yeah, we just gonna assume \h\h\hthat because y’all came
to the couples dinner together \h\h\hthat y’all are a couple.
Is that a safe assumption \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto make?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Yeah, we’re a couple.
\h- Can we get a round of applause for love, y’all?
Can we get a round of applause? - That’s my baby.
(all cheering)
\h- I’m happy, y’all so cute.
- Oh (bleep).
- It is I, Spyder.
And my lovely wife, Desiree.
- Thank you for coming \h\h\h\h\has a couple.
- Donna, Desiree.
- Hello, my love. \hYes, we’ve met.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Al my pal. - Spyder, thank you for coming.
- Alex, Desiree. Tatti.
- Oh, I know your wife. \h\h\h- What’s going on?
- What’s up, mama, \hnice to see you?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hello! (overlapping greetings)
\h\h\h\h- Wait... - Yes, you brought my baby this time!
- ...the food is actually ready? You’re actually on time?
\h- I wasn’t on time last time ’cause you didn’t bring Quani.
(overlapping chatter)
\h- What the hell is going on right here?
- They was just kissing. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Kissing?
What?! Your man Rok went \hfrom getting kicked in
the backyard to kissing.
Go ahead, Rok, movin’ on up.
- Donna, I am hungry.
\h- Listen, we have to wait for Ceaser.
- Oh (bleep).
\h\h- It’s important to me that Cease show up tonight
because I’ve supported him \h\h\h\h\h\hso many times,
and it would be nice to see that he actually supports me
\hinstead of him just saying it, actions speak louder than words.
- Dinner started an hour ago, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m hungry.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- What up, y’all? Y’all start eating without me?
(overlapping greetings)
- Why is he by himself?
- That’s Teddy’s date! \h\h\h- They together.
\h\h- So today I decided to go to Donna’s little shenanigans
\h\h\h\h\h\hbecause, you know, I ain’t got (bleep) else to do
but go to this (bleep), \h\h\h\h\hso (bleep) it.
\h- What’s up, y’all, how y’all guys doing?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Nice to see you, but this is a couples dinner.
\h\hSo do you wanna let us know where the (bleep) is Suzette at?
- Whoa, the F bomb? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah!
- Alex, get your girl, (bleep),
\hI don’t understand what the profanity’s about, yo.
I’m feeling threatened. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Seriously,
where the (bleep) is Suzette?
- Listen, I planned \h\h\hto bring her,
\h\hbut she had to fly back down to Atlanta to show some houses?
\hMy Suzette is a realtor, a very successful realtor.
And she always says \h\h\ha virtual tour
of a house is never \hgonna sell a home
so she can’t be away \h\h\hfor too long.
That’s it, she had to work.
\h\h\hIt was business, it’s nothing personal.
- Listen, you RSVP’ed \h\h\h\h\hfor this...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I did? Why is Donna worrying
about where my woman is at?
Every time I get a new woman, \h\h\h\h\hyou be stalkin’ her.
Donna, you not (bleep) this one (bleep), yo, leave her alone.
\h\h\h\h- And oh my God, I invited Walt and Jess.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You what? - Wait, for real, for real?
- He’s not coming, is he?
- You put your (bleep) \h\h\h\hin something,
\h\hyou had them kids, that’s on (bleep) you.
- Oh (bleep)! \h\h\h\h- No!
(all shouting)
♪
- I invited Walt and Jess. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You what?
- He’s not coming, is he?
- No, I texted him earlier \hand told him not to come
’cause I didn’t want it \h\h\h\h\h\hto be drama.
- Yo, speaking of Walter,
I saw him the other day \h\h\hjust to, you know,
see where he was at with it.
- How did that go?
- I tried to listen to his side,
and it still don’t make sense. \h\h\h\h- Thank you, told you.
\h\h\h\h\h- I’m not gonna lie, when I first contacted Walter
I was really concerned \habout his well being
\hand what the (bleep) was going on with him
to make him steal from his brothers.
But after listening to \h\h\hall his excuses,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know what, I’m a little bit more pissed
now than I was before.
Walter’s thing is he didn’t do
the (bleep) robbery, \h\h\hit wasn’t him.
But he does admit to altering \h\h\hthe price of one tattoo
and shorting the shop.
\h\hHis excuse was he’s going through
child support situations \h\h\hbecause of COVID.
\h\h\hAnd my (bleep) is that has nothing to do with nobody, bro.
You put your (bleep) \h\h\hin something,
\h\hyou had them kids, that’s on (bleep) you.
- But you know what it is, let me tell you what it is
\h\h\h\h\h\hbecause I love Walt, like, I genuinely check on him,
we have hour-long \h\hconversations.
\h\h\h\hI genuinely feel like he is living outside of his means.
- He made it look so good \h\h\h\hon the ’Gram, bro.
\h- He’s taking Jess on trips that he cannot afford to take.
\h\h\h\h\h- But she has a full-time job as well.
- And Jess has a son, and Jess has a house,
and Jess a car, and Jess \h\h\hhas student loans.
\h\h- Donna, I got two kids that actually live with me.
\h\h\h\hAnd I gotta-- and I got a sneaker...
- Trust me, I’m trying \h\hto figure it out.
\h\hBut I don’t wanna think that Walt is doing... the forbidden.
- The problem is we been trying to figure Walt out, yo.
Look how long he been going \h\h\h\h\h\hthrough (bleep).
Not just the Jess situation, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbefore Jess.
\h\hHow long have we been there for Walt?
- Owe like, 49, $50,000 \h\h\hin child support.
(Ceaser) Bro, what the (bleep) are you doing in the projects?
- I had to leave my crib \h\h\h\h\hout in Jersey.
I had to send the kids away.
\h\h\h\h\h\h(Ceaser) \h\hWhat the hell is going on out there?
- Walt is getting (bleep) arrested!
- Bro, no!
- Walter has definitely \h\h\h\hcome a long way.
\h\h\hWalter has had issues with alcohol,
\h\h\hwith child support, you know what I’m saying?
\hI just wanna make sure our friend is okay and not like,
going through something that \h\h\h\hnobody knows about.
(bleep) all that other (bleep).
Walt, we love him, \hprayers to him,
he gotta get his life together,
\h\h\hhe’s betrayed a lotta friendships,
but we gonna put that \h\hin the past, 2021.
Let’s eat this CBD \hso we can relax.
- I was really looking \h\h\hforward to that.
\h\h\h\h\h- You know what, this is gonna be alright.
- ♪ Raise your glass up, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hgo ahead ♪
♪ ’Cause I made it up \hain’t nothin’ but ♪
- I need a bib.
\h- ♪ I’m missin’ all my day-ones ♪
♪ But ain’t forgetting \hwhere I came from ♪
- Yo, this (bleep) is \h\h\hso (bleep) good.
- This is amazing.
- Donna, this (bleep) is good.
- This sauce is bangin’. \h\h\h\h\h- I really put
\h\h\hmy foot in that sauce. not literally, but you know,
figuratively. - I hope not.
- ♪ A goal and a dream ain’t the same thing ♪
♪ I do this every day, \h\h\hgotta make me ♪
- You know what, Donna,
\hyour CBD product is A-okay with me.
- We need to open up a spot, \h\h\h\hShake Donna Feasts.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Listen, this is like, my dream.
Seeing everybody here telling me how good my food is,
it feels really nice \h\h\h\hjust because
praise is not often given \h\h\h\h\hin this circle.
(glass clinking)
\h\h\hI just wanna do a real (bleep) moment.
Ceaser. - Yeah?
- When we had our shop meeting,
I told you that I just \hwanted your support
in my future endeavors.
And I just wanted to thank you \h\h\h\hfor being supportive.
You too, Teddy, Spyder, \h\h\hDes, Chris, Tatti,
\h\hPuma, Quani, my favorite new couple Rok and Krystal,
and of course, Baby Daddy.
- To supporting Donna.
\h\hCheers! - Everybody!
- The future for me \hlooks very bright.
If you think that \h\hthe CBD field
is the only thing that \hDonna is tackling--
\h\h\h\hyes, third person just happened-- it’s not.
I’m finding myself.
(all cheering, chattering)
Thank you.
- ♪ I’m looking at the clock ♪
♪ Time stops ♪
♪ I have to catch my breath, \h\h\hstart my heart again ♪
\h\h\h♪ Whatever this is, I can’t take more of it ♪
♪ And I’ve been running \hout of ways to hide ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h(Young Bae) My surgery went so well,
and I feel so, so healthy.
\h\h\hI feel like my old self again.
I’m getting to know \h\h\h\hmy new body,
and learning to love it again.
It’s not just about \h\h\hhow you look,
\h\h\h\hit’s really about how you feel on the inside
and about the people you love \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand support you.
I love being Niko’s mom \h\h\h\h\hand tattooing,
it got me through \h\hall this pain.
\h\h\hI feel I can be the best mom I can be
\hand I can be the best tattoo artist that I’ve always been.
♪
- ♪ Stop, drop, and roll ♪
\h♪ Move aside, I’m gonna be my own best friend tonight ♪
- I’m so grateful for Black Ink,
\h\h\hjust everything that it’s done for me.
\h\h\hYou know, I’ve been alone, I came to this country in 2007.
After I got with Black Ink and I had people around me
\h\hall the time, and that felt really different in a good way.
I spent almost a year \h\h\h\h\hin lockdown,
and it’s been a little \hlike, overwhelming,
but at the same time, I just can’t wait for
the next chapter of my life.
- ♪ I’m looking at the clock ♪
♪ I won’t stop ♪
- I think you should stop \h\h\h\hwith that attitude
like you didn’t do nothing.
- I don’t know what else to tell you, what you want me to do--
(overlapping arguing)
When and if they-- - ’Cause I didn’t!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No. - I didn’t feel I had to.
- Stop (bleep) lying \h\h\h\hto yourself.
- ♪ Boy, we came from nothing, all we want is to shine ♪
♪ When it's all or nothing, put it all on the line ♪
(Rok shouts)
- I feel bad for whoever don't got a jacket right now.
(wind gusting) (all shouting)
- Since Ceaser was so impressed
with how I handled the essential workers event,
he's put me in charge of this coat drive
that we're having here in Bed-Stuy to give back
to the community for all of their continued support.
- Is it over? - Oh (bleep)!
- I think we should put all the hats
and all the gloves in a box because
everything's gonna keep flying away.
- Hello, hello. What's up, y'all, y'all chillin'?
Alright, how y'all doing?
- The cavalry is here. - The boss man has arrived.
- Look like you doin' good, Tatti.
I like it, I like it.
This coat drive is important to me
because some of us come from this community.
- About to fall again! - Oh (bleep)!
Yo, what the hell? (laughter)
Plus, I have a business in Bed-Stuy,
so it's only right that I give back
to the community that made us.
- It don't look too stable, Tatti.
- This (bleep) almost took us away like Dorothy.
(laughter)
- It's literally the coldest day of this whole winter.
But I'm super proud and happy of how it's turning out.
- Yo, I wanna thank everybody for coming out
and helping with this event.
Black Ink Kids and Daniels Leathers
is giving out 150 coats. - Whoo!
- And we're giving out these basketballs.
We're showing the community that we care.
Keeping them warm in this cold time
is the least we can do. - Yes.
- And honestly, I'm proud of y'all
'cause y'all could've flaked on me like Donna and Alex
and y'all here helping me out.
- I'm a little disappointed in Donna right now.
She made a big deal about us supporting her
in her new endeavors,
but she couldn't be here for another Black Ink Cares event.
Donna has legit just been partying somewhere in Miami.
And also, everybody, COVID is still running rampant.
Make sure y'all are safe. - Listen, so I'ma be
taking temperatures and sanitizing their hands
and passing out a wipe. - You did good, man.
Ain't gonna lie, give it up for Tatti.
She did a good job, man.
Let's get to these leathers
'cause I know y'all cold right now.
- How you doing, may I take your temperature?
- What size you need?
- Can you pass me a large out of there?
- Yeah, yeah, hold on, be right back.
- Good job, Black Ink Cares.
- Whoo! How you doing, sir?
- We got some gloves right here too.
- Hey! - Young Bae!
- Hi, guys. - You look good!
- Hey-- oh (bleep)! Haven't seen you in forever.
Look at her, she got herself a jacket jacket.
- Hi, Puma, hi, Ceaser.
(overlapping chatter)
Yeah, I'm good, no tits!
- Oh yeah, we see, Flatty.
- Ah! Okay, let's go. (yelps)
Ow! My (bleep) ankle.
I'm not okay. Ceaser, we got insurance?
- Insurance? No, but I'll give you
a dollar to buy a bag of ice.
- (bleep) you!
(Ceaser) Well, look who it is, Young Bae.
It's like that family member that you been missing
but didn't know you was missing.
Seeing her is a sight for sore eyes.
- What's up with you? - I took your advice.
I'm ready to come back. (laughing)
- Thank you.
How you feeling though, mentally?
- I feel amazing, great.
- So no more boobs, healthy Bae? - No more boobs, healthy Bae.
- That's good.
Me and Bae have a very close friendship,
but since she opened up to me about her surgery,
I feel we've gotten even tighter.
I got my friend back,
and we got our number one tattoo artist back.
Glad to have you back, and it's freezing out here--
- Give out some coats. - Last coats and get
the (bleep) outta here. - Right.
After speaking with Teddy,
I realized Black Ink, we're like a family.
A dysfunctional one, but they're still my family.
I love Black Ink. - Come here, Tatti.
- Ugh! What's up, boss man?
- I wanna tell you you did a pretty good job with this.
- Thank you. You know, I got all these ideas that
I wanna talk to you about and help you with and--
- You think you really ready for all that?
- 100%. - I'm not gonna lie, Tatti,
you know what I mean, I don't know how money gonna work.
I ain't making them titles yet.
Even though the coat drive and essential worker event
was very successful, I don't think I'm ready
to give Tatti back the reins of being a manager.
I want her to prove to me she ain't the same Tatti.
- Ber-ber-ber-ber-ber-ber!
(shouting)
What? (glass breaking)
- Prove to me she's the manager that I always needed,
I always believed she could be.
If not, I'm not giving her no title.
I like how you movin', know what I mean?
I feel like you're moving in
a more mature way. - Thank you.
What the (bleep)? I don't get it,
but I'ma stay humble, I'ma stay grateful.
However, if in a few weeks
he tells me I'm the receptionist,
I gotta go elsewhere.
- Let's wrap this (bleep) up 'cause...
- It's cold. - Yeah, it is.
I'm heading back to the shop, can you guys please
hand out the rest of the coats?
- Yeah, we saving this one for you.
That's right.
- ♪ I get it in, right, yeah ♪
♪ G-g-gettin' money off the cut ♪
♪ Out the jump ♪
♪ W-what I look like? I don't need to stunt ♪
- I'm just happy that we was able to give back
to the community, but what worried me
is that this is probably gonna be the last event for
a very, very long time.
- Yeah, I've been looking at the numbers,
New York City, we're still very high--
- We're not number one no more.
- But we're not number one no more.
But then yet, there's three new variations.
- So what you trying to tell me is
COVID-19 came through and brought his homies too?
- Yeah, he brought his cousins and them.
- What the (bleep), yo? We're gonna have to come up
with a contingency plan in case they shut this (bleep) down.
(automated voice) Front door.
- Hi. - Hello.
- How are you? It's me, Jess.
- I didn't even recognize you.
- This is a surprise, I wasn't expecting you.
- Yeah, I just came to talk to you.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- Come on, what's up? - Okay.
This is the first time I'm here in your shop.
Brooklyn is like a whole nother state to me.
- I was not expecting to see her.
- This is gonna go left.
We was havin' a good day, we was.
- What's up? - So yeah, I came
because, you know, of the situation with Walt.
Walt told me about the whole robbery that happened
and how people think that he had something to do with it.
I'm just really like, in disbelief
with this whole situation.
You might not forgive him right now,
but I just wanted to come chop it up with you.
- I ain't mad at you, I'm mad at Walt.
- I know. - Walt said he didn't do the robbery,
but he did steal from me.
Walt makes a decent amount of money, where's it going to?
- Mm-hmm.
But do you have the video, though?
- You really wanna see that? - Yeah.
- Yo, pass my phone out my jacket for me please.
- Oh (bleep).
And I ain't talkin' about Richard,
this is not gonna be (bleep) good.
I'm hoping Jess doesn't flip the (bleep) out
when she sees Walt on this security footage.
Yo, Jess, how was Puerto Rico?
- Puerto Rico was awesome besides the curfew.
- How'd y'all get out there? - We took a plane.
- No, you took him on vacation?
- Are you asking me if I paid for it?
- Yeah. - Oh, yeah.
- Okay, word.
Where's Walter's money going?
Um, has anybody been seeing Walter's Instagram posts?
Uh...
I don't know if Walt and Jess realize
we're still in a pandemic.
No masks on, traveling the planet,
you would think they just don't give a (bleep).
- This is when the person was going in.
My thing is now, the person
went straight to that door, right, and second of all,
Walt closed that day, and he always locks
that door except that day.
And that's when the person's leaving.
- We have to address the elephant in the room.
What the (bleep) is going on, Walt?
You know our relationship is truly genuine.
- We can chop it up, it's not a problem.
♪♪
♪
\h\h- And that’s when the person’s leaving.
- Nah, that’s definitely not him ’cause Walt is bow legged.
That’s not Walt, that’s not Walt.
This man, the way \hhe was dressed,
how he walked, his hat, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hjust-- no.
\h\h\hI don’t know why anyone would think that that’s Walt.
- When he sits there \h\h\hand say, yeah,
I skimmed out the register, \h\h\h\h\hso even if you say
you didn’t do this, you still did this.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSo (bleep), how we gonna believe you,
thief and a liar go together.
I want you to just tell Walt \h\hthat, know what I mean,
\h\hthat he’s not part of "Black Ink Crew" no more.
All our affiliations \h\h\hfor right now
are dead right now.
It’s painful for me. \h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
- I always got love for him, \h\h\h\hbut he gonna have to
figure that (bleep) out, yo. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Alright.
\h\h\h\h- There’s no reason for me and Walt to sit down.
I don’t need an explanation, and I don’t need an apology.
I told Jess everything \h\h\h\hI have to say,
\h\h\h\hso Walt should know he’s no longer welcome in Black Ink.
Period.
\h\hLove you, Jess. - Love you too, boo.
Alright, see y’all.
\h- ♪ I blame the money, blame it on the money ♪
\h\h♪ Blame it on the money ♪
\h- ♪ I blame the money, blame it on the money ♪
- How much more you got to go?
- I know Donna’s coming over, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI didn’t forget.
I told her to bring Alex too.
She’s tired of all that \h\h\h\hspeculation too,
\hshe said she hearing all that other (bleep)
and she ain’t really \hbeen around, so...
\h\h\hI got mad love for Donna, you know, ’cause unfortunately,
despite everybody else, Donna,
she hasn’t turned \hher back on me.
Like, she’s still \hholding me down.
Donna disinvited me \hto the CBD event,
\h\h\h\h\hyou know, it’s cool, I’ll always have love for her.
- Babe, I’m not worried about \h\h\h\hnone of this (bleep).
That’s why I say if I am gonna \h\h\h\h\h\htalk to anybody...
\h\h\h- It’s definitely wack-- - I’m gonna go talk to Cease,
\hand I said what I had to say, and I see where he’s coming from
and after that, that’s it.
\hCease did let me know that, you know, Walt is not welcome
at Black Ink for now.
I really hope that \h\hthey can talk,
\h\hbecause I feel like they do have a friendship there.
That was a good picture, babe.
(knock at door)
Coming.
\hHi! - Hey!
\h\h\h\h- Hi, y’all! Haven’t seen y’all!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know! - It’s been a little minute.
(overlapping greetings)
- Alright, there, boss man.
- After all these rumors \h\hthat are circulating
about Walter in the shop, \h\h\h\hI just really feel
\h\h\h\hit’s necessary to go check in on him
and Jess to just get \h\han understanding
on what is really going on.
- You got the crystals \h\h\hand the sage...
- You see... you see \h\hhow we be on it.
\h\h- But listen, we have to address
the elephant in the room. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- (Jess) Oh.
- What the (bleep) is going on, Walt?
\h\h\h\h- Oh God. - ’Cause they said
all this crazy (bleep) \h\habout you stealing
and all this dumb stuff.
I didn’t even feel right \h\h\hlistening to what
they were saying ’cause... \h\h\h- It sounded weird.
- You know our relationship \h\h\h\h\his truly genuine.
- We can chop it up, it’s not a problem.
I’ma tell you what it is.
I had to take care \hof a few things,
\h\hbusiness (bleep) that I had going on,
money was thrown in other places.
- He didn’t even speak to me about his financial troubles
or whatever he was going \h\hthrough at the time.
\h\h\h- I didn’t bother going to anybody with (bleep), you know?
\hSo, took some bread, like advanced myself.
But I was on somethin’, a’ight, I’m about to get paid,
so I could come and keep \hthe numbers the same.
\h\hYou know what I mean? - They showed me the video
\h\hand I was like, that doesn’t look--
- That’s what I’m trying to say.
\h\h- He’s bow legged, which a lotta people don’t know--
\h- That’s what I said, Walt doesn’t even walk like that.
- Yeah, you definitely don’t. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Exactly.
- I don’t got no reason \h\h\hto be breaking in
and all that other \h\hdumb (bleep).
Like, I’ve been getting \h\hmy finances together
ever since Jess and I \h\h\h\hbeen married.
\hThis time last year, I couldn’t do (bleep).
I can put (bleep) \hin my name now.
\h\h\hI’ll show you my score right now.
That (bleep) say 733.
FICO, not no Credit Karma.
\h\hThe real (bleep). Going back to the shop
wasn’t the only extra job \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI was doing.
I was doing my comedy, \h\h\hmy photography,
\h\h\hI even was doing home renovation again.
- What’s the option in court \h\h\hwhere like, you guilty
with an explanation? \h- No, I don’t want
no problems with y’all, you know it ain’t true.
\h- Sometimes things aren’t just simple as guilty and not guilty.
Like, you could’ve did it,
but there may be like, \h\h\ha valid reason.
I think you should stop \h\h\hwith the attitude
like you didn’t do nothing. \h\h\h\h- I don’t know what \h\h\h\h\helse to tell you.
What you want me to do? \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI did it--
(overlapping arguing)
When and if they-- - ’Cause I didn’t!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No. - I didn’t feel I had to...
(arguing continues)
- No, no, no. You’re lying.
\hYou’re lying to your (bleep) self.
- They wanna drag this \hto make it seem like
a (bleep) is running \h\h\h\h\hfrom them.
\h\h- Stop (bleep) lying to yourself.
♪
- I don't know what else to tell you.
What you want me to do? I did it--
(overlapping shouting)
- I didn't feel I had to... - No, no, no. You're lying.
You're lying to your (bleep) self.
You know why you didn't hit him up?
If you came to Cease and said whatever
the (bleep) you needed to say,
he wouldn't have did (bleep).
So that's the attitude you need to have,
and I feel like deep in your heart,
you know that.
It wasn't no, oh, you just didn't say nothing.
No, I didn't, because you know
what type of man you are, Ceaser.
You was gonna either talk (bleep),
it was gonna take you two weeks,
or it was just never gonna happen.
(Walt) Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, Donna.
Where are you going with this? Where all this coming from?
- But I do know that Walt has been around
since the very first day, and I do know that
people like him are opening Black Ink Houston,
and Teddy has Black Ink Philly or whatever the (bleep) he got.
You have a right to this (bleep) name.
I'm not saying go in the drawer and take (bleep) money.
But at the end of the day,
why the (bleep) do Ceaser get to ride around
in (bleep) Benz trucks and own houses
and wear chains and do all that (bleep),
and you've put in just as much work for his brand
as anybody, you know what I'm saying?
I don't like that.
- Donna's like, still a little in her feelings,
with the issues she has personally with Ceaser.
You know what I mean, I know Ceaser and I
have some issues going on, but I don't personally
have a problem with him, he has an issue with
believing something that's not true about me.
- Ceaser didn't come up from Atlanta
and run his shop, you did that.
I really appreciate Cease supporting me
at my CBD dinner, but something about
this whole Walt situation is not sitting right with me.
Like, Cease banned Walt from Black Ink for
taking some cash out of the register
when he knows this whole Black Ink franchise is built
off of all of the hard work that we've put in together.
So, it's hard for me to believe that he's doing this to Walt.
Like, make it make sense, please.
So I just really want you
to start getting what you deserve
'cause you not out here hating on (bleep).
- I'm not, I'm happy (bleep)'s moving how they moving,
I'm great. - But it comes to a point
where it's like, how stupid can I continue being
working for somebody else's dream and I'm just sitting here?
- You been holding that in a lot,
this sound like you and your personal problems with Ceaser.
But I'ma let you be great, go ahead.
Get it out, this is a safe place.
I'm not worried about the hate, I'm not worried about no drama.
When he's ready to talk, we can chop it up.
- I really admire how you stay having they (bleep) backs.
You stay having their (bleep) backs,
and I don't think they got yours that much.
- I feel like 'cause of the surging COVID cases
we're gonna get shut down soon.
- No. - Oh (bleep).
- I decided to bring the whole team down
to Atlanta for a couple months...
- Months?!
- Hell no, to the no no no.
- My (bleep)'s way better than yours on any day.
- Ooh! - Don't play with me, bro.
- Prove it. - Stop playing with me!
- She's emotional. - I'm a female,
this is a male-dominated industry...
- Did I say something disrespectful?
- You think you got the green light to say (bleep)!
Stop (bleep) playing with me, that's it!
- Hi, baby.
- Never in a million years did I ever think,
oh yeah, I'ma go settle down.
- Oh, you so handsome.
- This (bleep) is the (bleep) reality.
- Ooh, I got lipstick on you.
- Oh, this us right here?
- Get the phone ready, baby, 'cause I need all the pictures.
Okay, private jet! - This is serious.
- Ceaser must've got a big-ass (bleep) stimulus check.
Alex, I suggest you fix your face.
You are the (bleep) man in this relationship,
exercise some manly energy
and change this (bleep) that's going on.
(Suzette on phone) Alright, guys, so we are here at the house.
We have had a positive that has been at the house.
- (bleep)! COVID just attacking people off the grid.
I don't play, I got kids. Deuces, y'all.
I'm going back home. It's over.
Bro, you're putting my life on the line.
♪♪