- I don't wanna tattoo anymore.
- So wait, hold on, hold on.
You know we run a tattoo shop, right?
- I took your advice. I'm ready to come back.
- Thank you, we got our number one tattoo artist back.
Welcome home, Bae.
- I'm a (bleep) Black man in America, and every time
I turn on my TV screen I see another Black man
in America getting shot. This (bleep) is really
freaking me the (bleep) out.
- This is a couples dinner.
Do you wanna let us know where the (bleep) is Suzette at?
- She had to work, it was business.
It's nothing personal.
- Big house, big mess. Your responsibilities
will be here. My cousin Becky, 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.
I just want you guys to be happy.
- New York City has three new variations.
- So COVID-19 came through and brought his homies too?
We gonna have to come up with a contingency plan
in case they shut this (bleep) down.
- Do you have the video? I'm just in disbelief
with this whole situation.
- This was when the person was going in.
The person went straight to that door.
Walt closed that day, and he always locks that door
'cept that day, that's when the person's leaving.
- Nah, that's definitely not him.
Walt is bow-legged. That's not Walt.
♪ Journey down to the Dirty South ♪
♪ With a dream in my heart ♪
♪ And one word in my mouth, screaming out ♪
♪ Money, money, money, money ♪
- Becoming a homeowner in Atlanta is a huge change for me.
Even though I'm a New Yorker at heart,
I choose to spend most of my days down here.
Atlanta is great.
It got grass, open space
and hardly any COVID restrictions.
Business is booming down here, but I'm kind of worried
for New York because they talking about shutting
the city down again.
- Aw... hey, handsome.
- Hey, there. - Hi, baby.
- Nice dress. - Thank you.
How was your day?
Nothing, just finished showing some houses.
My name is Suzette.
Born and raised the Bronx.
People see me, you know, the automatic assumption
is, "Oh, she's a stripper," but that's not me.
I'm into financial literacy. I do real estate.
I have a degree if psychology. So I'm a lot smarter
than people think I am.
What you doing? Besides taking out the garbage
looking all domestic.
- I'm not domestic.
I took the garbage out.
- Aw, you're so handsome.
- Not in a million years I ever think,
oh, yeah, I'ma go settle down.
- Oh, I got lipstick on you.
- If you told me this (bleep) a couple years ago,
I'd probably throw my coffee in your face
and have Ted beat you up.
But now... this (bleep) is a (bleep) reality.
You being real, uh... I don't know.
- Real what? - Real happy.
- 'Cause I'm finally happy that you're out here.
- I'm a Bronx girl, so anytime Black Ink
had a party, I was there.
(whooping)
♪♪
I was the girl in the leopard pants
at O'(bleep) coming-home party.
We pretty much just kicked it, like, you know, we were friends.
We clubbed together, we were cool.
And he shot his shot. January 2020.
My little big-headed baby.
You homesick?
- Uh, a little bit, you know, you don't have
to take out your own garbage, I don't know.
- Yeah, but time to elevate.
Ceas from Harlem... Atlanta, Ceas.
Cross the street from the projects.
In Buckhead, like, honey...
- No, no, no. - Right?
- Everything about it, I love it.
It's just, I feel badly my peoples back home.
I'm really think about money.
The numbers keep going up, and I'm trying to figure out
what to do if my business shut down again out there.
- You're gonna lose your artists if, like,
no one's making no money, that's not what we need.
- That's not what we need.
- ♪ Now drop let me think about it let me get right ♪
♪ Let me show my swag I'm about to get nice ♪
♪ I'm so bad when it comes to the price ♪
♪ Rags on rags got stacks with a flight ♪
- I wanna figure out a creative way
to promote you guys are here.
Not just your regular let's throw a post up on Instagram,
like, oh, we have artists from 125th, now in Brooklyn.
Like, what can we do? - Let's do a music video.
- Music video? - What about a challenge?
It's a lot of challenges going on right now.
- Maybe we should make a Tik Tok.
- Black Ink Brooklyn? - Black Ink-- yes.
Black Ink Brooklyn Tik Tok.
We gotta stay relevant with what everybody else is doing.
- They do the June Bug challenge.
- Hey. - That's what it is?
I'm willing to do whatever it takes to prove to Ceaser
that I take this manager position very serious.
(laughter)
- Is that it, for real? - Yeah, that's it.
- Can you show me? - Oh, no I ain't showing you (bleep).
- You just did it! - I don't have no rhythm.
- I need to practice! Show me.
♪♪
- Why do I have to be the test dummy?
- 'Cause you just did it!
- Come on, Alex, it's okay. Donna's not here.
Nobody's judging you. - I don't dance.
- You can live your best life, okay?
You say you Dominican, so let me see those hips move.
(laughing)
- Yo, not for nothing, Spyder can dance.
- Spyder let's see it. - I was the dance champion
back at Polk High. - Ready?
- I think it's... - Unh-unh, you just gotta--
You just gotta look stupid and do this.
- Yeah just look stupid. - That's it.
♪♪
(cheering)
- What the (bleep) was that?
- What's going on, guys? - Hey!
- Wait, whoa-whoa-whoa.
- It's Young Bae. She's walking down the carpet.
She has on a beautiful white fur!
- That's right! Young Bae's back.
And she is better than ever. You thought I was good before?
Watch me now.
- What is happening here? Not with the fur!
- You look good. Them hips is popping.
- You know, it's great seeing Bae.
She's kind of glowing and all that.
I don't know about y'all, but I tried to bang her last--
No-no-no-no-no-no...
I tried to ask her on a date.
I'm just trying to say, you know, maybe one day
you wanna step out with me?
- Cheers, leave me alone.
(loud slurp)
- And since then, we just been good friends.
- I'm back! Brand-new-look tits!
- I didn't know you had got your (bleep) done.
- (bleep) you! Now you know!
- I swear, that's crazy. - I miss 113.
Don't get me wrong, but this Brooklyn shop...
is really nice.
♪♪
- Walt? Oh, I forgot about Walt.
Oh, yes, I've missed him very much.
(chuckling)
(stammering) I-- I think--
I think about him all the time. (chuckling)
(laughing)
The lead artist. Young Bae's back.
You can shut up. You can shut up.
You can shut the (bleep) up.
- Hold on! Hold on! Let me remind y'all.
Ceaser, he's in Atlanta, so we gonna
have a Zoom meeting later.
All right, that's all, sounds good, get back to work.
- After the pandemic, I felt like
the 113th crew wasn't coming back.
- You guys... I like this.
You guys are cute together.
Y'all shoulda been (bleep).
(laughing)
- It feels so good to have the crew back together.
- ♪ Yeah let me see a show of hands ♪
♪ Put 'em up y'all let me see a show of hands ♪
♪ Raise 'em up to the sky with the Peter Pan ♪
- Gang gang, let's go. I'ma get this meeting started.
What do you want?
- Welcome back, Bae. What's up, y'all?
- How you doing? - How y'all doing?
- What's up, team? I see the whole Brooklyn squad.
What up, y'all? - What up, what up, what up?
- Look at him getting his feet done!
- What! - Get that feet!
- I hope not. - This is about
what's happening in New York right (bleep).
And honestly, I feel like because of the surge
in COVID cases, we gonna get shut down.
- No! - Oh (bleep).
- Okay.
- We came up with a Plan B.
I decided to bring the whole team down to Atlanta.
- What? - Atlanta?
- What? That's crazy, Ceaser?
- That's where we have a shop at.
That's what we'll be working on.
- (bleep).
- As the awesome businessman I am,
I see trouble from a mile away.
The numbers are rising.
That city about to shut down real soon.
- Like a few weeks.
- Instead of sit here, I'm taking my New York shop
down there just in case New York does get shut down.
- Now I know a lot of people have concerns like I do.
Yes, Atlanta is open, open.
- Doesn't Atlanta have that super virus?
- What? - COVID number 25?
- Yeah, I heard it's booming over there.
- What? - COVID-21.
- Listen, everybody's probably a little paranoid.
But we're gonna stay safe.
When Ceaser first text me about all of us going to Atlanta,
I was saying, "hell, no" to the no-no-no.
Atlanta? Open, open Atlanta?
I'm a little nervous. But that last shutdown,
it was a little rough financially.
So I'm gonna trust Ceaser in this scary-ass situation
and bring my Black ass on down to Atlanta.
We're gonna wear our masks.
And we're gonna make sure that we do our jobs, man.
Don't be going out to the clubs.
- Tell that to Ceaser. - No strippers, guys!
No strippers.
- We're gonna make sure that we take high precautions.
- Yes, that's why everybody's staying
in one COVID-free mansion for a couple of months.
- Couple months? - A couple months!
Can't leave my family for a couple months.
- You know I just bought the house
and I gotta check on the kids.
The timing of this is not working with me.
What's a couple months? That sounds like more than two.
I'm already having a hard time with my cousins in the house.
And now I gotta leave? My house is gonna burn down.
- What's gonna happen to Nico? - Bring him.
- Nico's definitely not gonna be around your head.
I have to think about it. I have a toddler at home.
Plus, how am I'm supposed to run my shop
in New York while I'm in Atlanta?
- Ceaser, I got rent to pay.
- You ain't gonna be able to pay rent if you ain't working.
- Oh, (bleep) no.
- Got a point there.
- There is money to be made. - Well, also, I got
businesses here in New York that I need to take care of.
- That's what you got Donna for.
- Wait, Donna wouldn't go?
- Why Donna going? Donna's not like an employee
of Black Ink no more. She retired from tattooing.
- That's crazy, yo. - That's crazy.
- We need to make these dollars make sense.
So let's make it happen.
- I don't know, I might not be in Atlanta then.
- Y'all just get ready for Atlanta.
Don't worry about yourselves.
- As the lead artist of Brooklyn,
I want to say that that's a great idea, boss,
and I'm on board, let's do it.
- That's what I'm talking about. - Tell him he's not invited.
I mean, in all reality, we gotta go where the money's at.
So if that's where it's at, then that's where we go.
When do you need us to be ready by?
- Make sure y'all ready to leave beginning of next week.
We out.
- Damn.
- No. - We're going to ATL, shawty!
- Atlanta! - All right, boss.
- You're saying you can teach me stuff
like I'm a little (bleep). - She's emotional.
- Yeah, I am emotional about my craft.
Stop (bleep) playing with me!
- I (bleep) knew it. (bleep).
Can I get off this plane now?
(Alex) You think there's bread out there to be made?
- Yeah, I look at it as like this.
It's like, if they shut down New York, assed out anyway.
- Yeah, no, I can't afford not to go.
- I'm gonna say, as the lead artist of Brooklyn...
- Oh, my God. - I'm over this (bleep).
- You know what? - If you go to Atlanta,
you gon' be just like us.
Lead artist, go stick a picture on the wall
and make your day, bro. Nobody care.
We all just come here to make money
so we can feed our families.
- As the lead artist of Brooklyn,
I'm gonna go do my tattoo.
- All right, well, I'ma figure out the details.
If y'all have to let me know anything,
let me know in advance so that we don't end up
having a bunch of bull(bleep) on our way.
Bae, y tu.
- I'm not coming.
- You're not gonna go? - No.
- All right. I'll let Ceaser know.
(Alex) My concern is Big Mama.
You know she wants to be there and we all want her to be there.
I need Big Mama to come to Atlanta
because she's my main support system.
Also, our lease is about to be up in New York.
And going to Atlanta would give us
a space to rock out and find where we gonna live at next.
(needle buzzing)
- Course she's gonna come.
- Come on, (bleep). - That's all we gotta say.
- That's why I love you, my (bleep).
- I think it's in everybody's best interests
that Donna is invited to come to Atlanta.
Because we don't want her showing up like a psychopath
and we all know that Ceaser has a soft spot
in his heart for Donna.
She's like the sister he never wanted.
Good, everybody get back to work.
♪♪
(needle buzzing)
- It's a water sign?
Today I got Yummy Yellow coming in.
She coming to do a nice dope memorial piece for the homie,
God bless the dead, Pop Smoke.
(bleep) important, especially to Brooklyn.
So I gotta make sure that this is that fire!
(needle buzzing)
- That snake is popping off the skin.
- Very nice, very nice. - You guys are so funny.
- Good job, Bae. It looks beautiful.
(needle buzzing)
- What is it about it that you really connect with?
- It's just a reminder for me he's around forever.
This morning, on the way to dropping my kids to school,
and I'm listening to Power 105.
I'm like, yo, he's on one, two, three, five, six...
- Right, so I guess it's safe to say the Smoke will never clear.
- That's a fact, Smoke will never clear.
- Fire.
- See what we got going on here.
- You could definitely take a few pointers, young Krystal.
- No, I can't. - Definitely.
- I can't. - Definitely.
- No, I can't. - 100%.
- Let me show your client my work.
- Huh? - She says she could steal
your client right now.
- She couldn't steal my client's client.
- Wow, that's tough. - Whoo!
- Spyder's being a bully a little bit.
You're supposed to treat women with respect, bro.
Wait, what are you doing, a rose?
Let me grab my phone and show my roses.
- I gotta prove myself to you for me.
(laughter) - I've been tattooing ten years,
and I learned from like three, four people.
I know enough, baby. You don't gotta teach me nothing.
Ain't nobody gotta prove (bleep), bro.
- You in my booth! - Ain't nobody coming at you.
- If you don't like it, get your work together.
- It's getting real hot in here.
Spyder, I understand you talk a lot and all that.
You can say all them things to me.
I don't really let that (bleep) bother me.
But her, she's a Scorpio.
- Who did that? - What's wrong with it?
- Any artist know, that's not good work.
My (bleep) way better than yours on any day.
- Ooh! - Don't play with me, bro.
- Prove it. - Stop playing with me!
- She's emotional. - I don't give a (bleep).
Yeah, I am emotional about my craft.
Because I put in years. How many years you got?
I got ten years of this (bleep). - What is you talking about?
You're saying you can teach me stuff
like I'm a little (bleep)...
- You got emotional about that, Krystal?
I can't teach you anything.
She just all over the place. Emotions is high.
But we gotta do (bleep) not in front of the clients.
'Cause at the end of the day, you still gotta be professional.
- You think you got the green light to say (bleep)?
Stop (bleep) playing with me! That's it!
I'm a female. This is a male-dominated industry.
I take my (bleep) serious, bro. - Did I say something disrespectful?
Come on, man. I got two daughters, man.
You're trippin' completely.
- (bleep) you. - Great. (laughs)
Right?
- Welcome to Black Ink: Brooklyn.
- I didn't figure she took some (bleep) like that that crazy.
You're talking about, "I'm a female."
(bleep) that mean?
- Ten years ago, when we started, there was no women.
- Right. - You know, she been through it.
So that's why. She been through a lot.
Because I've been through a lot.
Women haven't been taken serious
in this industry.
Yes, I had lots of problem with male artists in the shop.
Like touching my butt, you know, just being a (bleep) pig.
And they were jealous when you were better than them.
So I get where Krystal's coming from.
- You know, the (bleep) thing about it, Bae,
is that I think she's a great artist.
- Stop (bleep) joking.
I'm tired of (bleep) laughing in the circus.
- Let him think he's lead artist, he's not!
Stop falling for his words!
- He ain't talking to me like that.
I don't give a (bleep). I'm an adult.
Bottom line.
(bleep).
- ♪ I don't settle for less than my worth ♪
♪ Unh ♪
♪♪
- You having a good time? - Yeah!
- All right, let me get straight into it.
This is my brother right here.
Man been doin' comedy for a long time.
From the Bronx, New York, my brother Walt!
(cheering and applause)
- ♪ Gonna see me waiting y'all gotta give me space ♪
- Ever since Ceas banned me from the shop,
I've been doing what I know how to do best.
And that's survival.
I've just been trying to get as many comedy shows
in as possible before, God forbid, they try
to close the city down again.
And I know y'all ladies, I'm here to let y'all know
that it was never that we didn't want to hear
what y'all had to say.
It was just that your timing is always off
when y'all want to talk about some (bleep).
(laughter) Do you understand that it is
3:30 in the (bleep) morning?
Like what is with you ladies like after y'all finish (bleep)?
Like all y'all thoughts is clearest or some (bleep)?
(laughter)
She be like, "Yeah, so...
I'm thinking about going back to school."
(laughter)
Now I gotta try to stay up and listen to your ass
and be all supportive.
Word, babe? Ha! (laughter)
♪♪
Jess, she was a little upset with everything at the shop.
But she understands considering like
what we were going through at the time.
And I'm like fortunate to have someone
that I can open up to.
I hope y'all been enjoying yourselves.
I'm your boy Walt.
You can find me on Instagram.
I know I didn't do that great.
Eventually, they'll figure it out
and we'll be able to sit down and chop it up
and just move forward. I'm out this (bleep)!
(cheering and applause)
- Atlanta's completely open.
They have no restrictions.
Is this a wise decision?
- The bus right there. - What?
- It's taking us to the airport, right?
- No, it's taking you to Atlanta.
- 'Cause of the snow, we're driving.
- It's not happening.
- ♪ Woke up like I had superpowers ♪
♪ Crank the top up and we ran for like hours, yo ♪
- Linda! Francesca! Michelle! Pedro!
Grandma!
I'm calling a family meeting. We have to talk.
I'm kinda looking forward
to like getting away for a little bit
and having some space to myself.
But then, at the same time,
I'm feeling like a hot mess right now.
- Somebody do something? - No, nobody did anything.
I got the kids at home.
Like I don't know if I want to go.
But I know that I can't afford to stay.
So Ceaser had a meeting the other day,
and the numbers are going up.
- No more work? - No, not exactly.
(dog barks) Hey, no fighting.
Ceaser has decided to take the whole team
to Atlanta.
- For like a weekend, right?
- For like two months.
- That's a long time.
- So I know that this isn't really like ideal.
And trust me, I don't want to go.
But it's important that I touch base with all of you,
which is why I asked Daddy to come here
and Grandma to come here,
because you guys have to pick up my slack.
- Uh-huh. - So block the boys.
- Sweep the stairs. - Thank you.
- We got you. - Oh, I love that
you already know what I do.
I need to feel like I could trust y'all.
I don't want to come back and everyone's like,
oh, I lost my job, I got no money.
I don't want to come back to headaches.
I also really need to see like some progress from y'all
on your career paths.
Michelle, I need to see an outfit designed.
- I'll do two. - Let's go, two.
Pedro, I would love to see those paintings completed.
- Got you. - Francesca, I want you
graduated from high school.
I want all your grades completed.
That is not negotiable.
And Linda, I want to see your bank account, okay?
So I want to see some savings.
I want to sit down with you personally one-on-one
and make a plan. - Got it.
- Grandma, whenever you want to come over,
you have your own code, you can surprise them.
You can-- - Sleep over.
- Whatever. Do you guys have any questions?
- Do you allowed to do weed in the house?
- Huh? - Do you do weed in the house?
- Outside. - Because, you know, last time
that I came here, terrible, the smell.
All over the rooms.
- That's not gonna be a problem anymore.
I've already made myself clear to y'all.
None of you have to stay here.
If you want to find something else, be my guest.
- I'm really gonna miss you so much.
- Yeah, I really don't want you to leave.
- Because I wake up in the morning,
you're the first face I see in the morning.
- Don't cry. - I'm not gonna cry.
(laughter)
- It's gonna be super weird
not seeing their faces every morning.
We spent the last six months or so finding a routine,
living together.
There's still gonna be Zooms.
We'll still check in. I'm not disappearing.
Of course you're gonna miss me.
But I'm gonna miss them, too.
- Take me next time. - Yeah, me too.
- Word. - Can we just all go next time?
- Family trip. - We can talk about it.
- ♪ Went to sleep in the worst conditions ♪
♪ But Slick enjoyed it ♪
♪ 'Cause I knew the vision would pay off ♪
♪ Long as I kept the courses, yeah, yea, yea, yeah ♪
♪ Long time I done came a long way ♪
♪ Long way ♪
♪♪
- Paul, what do you want for dinner?
- Uh... - Oh, come on.
Are you really packing for Atlanta?
- I'm just getting my stuff together.
- Don't get "Karate Kid," Paul.
- Quani is not really happy with me being
in Atlanta for so long.
And I don't really blame her.
I'm a little nervous my damn self.
But this is what's best for my family.
So I'm gonna put on my war face-- ahh!--
and do what I gotta do.
- This is wild last-minute.
- I mean, I told you that this man was talking about--
- Yeah, but you didn't say that it was happening that quick.
- I know. I'm already paranoid as (bleep).
You know what I'm saying? Like leaving the state.
'Cause we've been in our little quarantine bubble.
But one, if they shut (bleep) down again,
what the hell are we gonna do?
And two, this whole Walter situation,
you know what I'm saying?
Like I can see the pain in Ceaser's face,
you know what I'm saying?
He's going through enough bull(bleep) himself.
- Yeah. - And this is adding onto it.
So it's like, I want to make sure he's okay.
With the Walt situation, I know right now
I'm one of the people that Ceaser trusts.
And I gotta be there for him in Atlanta.
- Atlanta's completely open. They have no restrictions.
Is this a wise decision?
- (sighs)
Ceaser was so adamant like they were COVID-safe.
And think about it. We just opened up again.
We can't afford to stop working now.
I got this. Don't worry.
So just in case I have any COVID freak-outs,
I got my therapist's phone number
so I can hit him up on the back line,
and we're good to go.
- Okay, Paul. - All right.
- But I can't be left with the two children
and working the business and doing all this by myself.
Nope, you going to Atlanta, I'm going too.
I've been in quarantine with you for the past year.
Everything we've been doing at home,
we can do in Atlanta together.
- I already told Ceas, I'm not leaving
if you and the kids can't come.
I gotta make sure that I get us a good place to stay
and that we're all safe.
And then you guys can just come down,
you know what I'm saying?
Okay?
- Okay.
Don't give me that face
'cause I can be bitchin' right now, and I'm not.
What do you want for dinner?
- I don't know.
- Remember that when you got ramen on the table.
- You better not give me no (bleep) ramen.
- (laughs)
(Puma) Hell no.
♪♪
- ♪ It feels like winter ♪
♪ Maybe in December ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't shake this... ♪
- Supposed to be leaving to Atlanta.
We got a blizzard.
Holy moly!
It's crazy out there.
- I don't think nobody going nowhere.
(laughs)
This (bleep) looking like "The Day After Tomorrow."
- I think I need to get the (bleep) out of New York now.
♪♪
- You know it's time to go to Atlanta now?
- Oh, yeah! Atlanta's cool as (bleep).
- Atlanta's terrible. - Why you say that?
- What's the matter? - Open, bro.
'Cause nobody wearing any masks!
- I'm not worrying about that part there, Feezy,
'cause you know me, COVID ready.
Boom, bah, boom. - Yeah, I feel the same.
- What about if after a month you start to being
Atlanta vibing?
- No, none of that ba-boom.
- Is this what the vibe looks like in Atlanta?
- That's the vibe.
(excited shouting)
- Wow, you guys are here before Rok and Krystal.
- Of course we are. Why wouldn't we be?
- Yo. - Fighter.
- How many animals do y'all got with y'all?
- We had to bring our two doggies.
I got invited on this trip, so here I am.
Ceas said he was gonna support my blossoming.
And if everybody's getting an opportunity
to grow their clientele in Atlanta,
why would I not take the opportunity
to grow my businesses as well?
Look what we brought, bottles. - Look at that.
- Oh, boy! - All right, that's good for the ride.
- Now I'm confused. What do you mean, for the ride?
- No, we're taking that bus. - What bus?
- The bus right there. - What?
- It's taking us to the airport, right?
- No, it's taking you to Atlanta.
- Nah! It's not happening.
- 'Cause of the snow, we're driving.
- I don't like taking road trips.
My back is not 100%.
- I will (bleep) rent a car and drive
before I get on a bus with these (bleep).
- What, 14 hours?
(both) I'm not taking no bus to Atlanta.
- No, we gotta be flying. - Yeah, this bus
ain't got (bleep) to do with me. - Nah, nah.
Ceaser found this bus on Groupon.
- Ceaser and his goddamn Groupon.
- It's only 12 hours.
- I love (bleep) with these guys, man.
Do these mother(bleep) really think I'm gonna take a bus
all the way down to Atlanta with them?
So... - Okay.
- Black Ink out! - Let's go!
- We gon' Zoom you.
- What they don't know is that me
and my boy Ceaser, we got a little secret plan.
- I said they was gon' get us something like a Greyhound.
- Where is Young Bae at?
I'm tired of this (bleep) not being here.
- Oh, (bleep). - Don't leave.
- Is that Rok and Krystal? - No, don't leave!
- This (bleep) on a scooter. - This is what's hot
in the street right now. - That's what's hot in the street?
Hurry the (bleep) up. We gotta go.
- (bleep) said fold your scooter up.
- Krystal, let me have a word with you before you go on, okay?
- We gotta go. - I need a second.
- I just wanted to let you know that anything
that I may have said that day to make you feel some type of way,
I apologize. - So I talked to Bae
and she gave me some good advice.
- Don't let these little people get to you like that.
- She told me to just ignore him and,
you know what I mean, just keep doing me.
- I think you're a fabulous artist.
I just want you to know that 'cause I know that your art
means a lot to you, you know what I mean?
- It does, that's why it got me so mad.
- Yeah. - I put so much work into that.
You know, you an artist. - Yeah, I understand.
- I'm sensitive about my (bleep).
- I understand, I understand. - You know, I mean,
I did blow it out of proportion, so I'm sorry.
- It's all good. We a part of the same family.
Brothers, sisters argue, then we get right back to reality.
- Yeah. - Dig what I'm saying?
So I hope you accept my apology.
- Yeah. - All right?
I'm still looking over your shoulder trying to pick up
a little tips and tricks. - Okay.
We good, bro, 'cause we gonna be in Georgia
for how long? I don't want it to be weird.
We're gonna be all in the same house.
Whoa! A party bus?
I'ma let it go. Just don't say nothin' no more.
- All right, let's go!
- Whoo! - Let's go!
- Black Ink out!
- ♪ Where the party at? Where the party at? ♪
♪ I heard it's a party goin' on tonight ♪
♪ I heard everybody gon' be feelin' all right ♪
♪ I heard that it's gonna be some drinks in the air ♪
- Atlanta, I'm excited. I never been out there.
Got the gang with me. I got my girl with me.
I'm ready to make my name out there.
- ♪ I heard that it's gonna be a stupid good time ♪
- We're here. - Wait, what? Where are we?
- It look like we at some cargo (bleep).
- We're at somebody's storage.
- Y'all gonna love this. - Where are we?
- You're gonna love this. Come on.
- Okay, I'm hella confused, 'cause we was just in his bus
for an hour and now we're... in a parking lot?
How are we getting to Atlanta?
- Just trust me and get off the bus.
- What are you talking about?
- Alex, you are the (bleep) man of this relationship.
Exercise some manly energy
and change the (bleep) that's going on.
- Where are we? - You're gonna love this.
Come on. - Are we gonna downgrade?
Is the bus gonna turn into a van or some (bleep)?
Because I'd rather take the bus. - Donna, it's me.
Come on.
- Whoa! - Okay.
- This where they be sending our COVID test.
This just like Ceas.
I bet his (bleep) Groupon was good for one hour
on this party bus.
So now what? We in the middle of nowhere?
Is this a seafood buffet?
I want some crab legs.
- Wait, wait a minute. - It look like a hotel.
It look like a coffee shop. - This is a bank.
- Oh, wow. - Where we at?
- Man, Ceaser's got everything under control.
Yo, we got a private jet, y'all!
- Oh, (bleep)! - Yes!
- Hop off a jet onto a set. - Yo, man.
Ceaser set (bleep) up.
- I'll believe it when I (bleep) see it.
- Look at 'em! - Look at that jet right there!
- That's our jet? - I need you to take a picture.
- Okay, private jets!
- Where the dogs at? Where the dogs at?
(all barking)
(dog barks) - Look!
- Right! - A bitch packed
like she was gonna have to check some things in.
So this right here is real, real cute.
- Ceaser must have got a big-ass (bleep) stimulus check.
- 'Cause Ceaser's one of the cheapest bosses I've ever had.
- We been working hard. This year's been rough.
- I'm glad somebody noticed. - We deserve the fruits of our labor.
And no COVID. - Nice.
- Ceaser's really going all out with this private jet right now.
I ain't gotta worry about no Karens or no COVID.
Ceaser wanted to show that Black Ink...
(all) Cares!
- Y'all can join the mile-high club.
- Ohh!
- I ain't (bleep) on a jet. I'm good.
- Let's go, let's go. - Hey. Do you got
the tattoo stuff with you? - Yeah.
- We should do that (bleep) initial tattoo
on the private jet. - Let's make it happen.
- Is that our jet? - Think so.
- Ohh! Yo, let's go, y'all.
- Oh, (bleep)!
- Oh, this us right here? - Ohh!
- Picture! I want a picture!
- This is serious.
♪♪
- Oh, yeah, I'm taking that back corner.
- Puma, I see you! - Yeah, yeah, you see us.
♪♪
- You already know what it is. Black Ink (bleep).
- Hello. - (bleep).
We on a private jet.
It's lit!
Look at this. We even got automatic windows.
- For those of you who have no experience flying private,
let me fill you in.
(both) Cheers.
- You can put it back up again.
- You ain't gotta go through no TSA.
- Yeah, this is crazy. - Seat belts
aren't really a big deal.
We on the couches.
These seats go back. - (laughing)
- They got a plethora of food just everywhere.
- Is this, uh, shrimp cocktail?
- Whatever the rich people eat, they brought it out.
And it was good. This shrimp feel like
it just came out the water.
- Don't get it (bleep) up.
I done been flying private, baby.
It's bringing back all the memories.
- That (bleep) is hittin'. - You know why?
It's Black History Month, God damn it.
My grandmother would be proud of me right now, my (bleep).
You see this (bleep)? - You did it, Puma!
- Black goddamn excellence, mother(bleep).
We've all come a long way. - Facts.
- And now we're up here on Black History Month,
sipping champagne. - And little sandwiches!
- I love you guys. - Cheers!
♪♪
- My birthday is coming up, man.
I feel like gettin' crazy right now.
I'm goin' loco right now. I'm gettin' old.
- Well, look, look, 'cause I wanted to a tattoo on Big Mama,
but Big Mama is under the weather right now.
How about we do a tattoo for your birthday?
- Let's go. - Right now.
- Right now? - On the jet.
- Right now? - (snoring)
- Big Mama is sick. Puma said it's his birthday.
And because I still wanna do a tattoo, I said, why not?
Right here on the jet. - Let's do it!
- 30,000 feet in the (bleep) air.
- Let's do it! - We gon' do a tattoo right now.
- God damn it! - 30,000 feet!
- Yo, what are you doing? - She woke up.
She woke up like, what? - What the (bleep) are you talking about?
- What? - That's some top-shelf (bleep).
- What you talking about? - I'm asking you a question.
A very simple question. Turn around here and answer me.
When do you come up with your own plan?
The private jet took off and a (bleep) got seasick.
As soon as you sat down, you start kiki-ing
and haha-ing with everybody. You ain't even ask me
if I was okay, if I needed nothin'.
Give me some water,
come and rub on my leg, and get me right,
'cause Puma's not about to have this moment.
We had a whole design picked out,
a whole place for it picked out.
It was supposed to be an experience,
and now we just go to you tattooing Puma?
I'm talking to you right now.
- Here, take some champagne.
- Nah, I don't want no champagne.
- You need it. - Oh, (bleep).
- Alex, I suggest you fix your face,
do whatever it is you gotta do, and get it together.
You are the (bleep) man of this relationship.
Exercise some manly energy
and change the (bleep) that's going on.
- Alex, fix your face and get it together.
You are the (bleep) man of this relationship.
Exercise some manly energy
and change the (bleep) that's going on.
- All this extra (bleep) is dumb.
- Yes, it is. That's why I'm telling you
to be a (bleep) 28-year-old man
who been in a relationship like for three years.
Why am I talking to the side of your face?
- Oh, you want me to sit here and turn over like this?
- You know how a conversation is to be had.
Make me feel like you listening.
- I'm the first person that'll tell you
that no relationship is perfect,
but God damn it, who likes fighting in public?
- I'm lettin' you know what's goin' on.
- I know right now he wishes he had a parachute
and he can just jump out this mother(bleep) and fly away.
'Cause, man, I would if I was him.
♪♪
- I was so excited to do this tattoo on the jet
that I forgot how Big Mama might be feeling.
And I feel bad that I didn't consult with her first.
But imagine trying to wake Big Mama up out her sleep
while she's sick. Pshh!
It's not a good sight. Trust me.
Big Mama, I still really wanna bring you
into the mile-high club.
So... no?
- Yeah, sure.
I only got upset because this tattoo means a lot to me.
How long you think this about to take?
- We good. - 'Cause I'm trying to be
the mile-high club, but I don't know
how high we gon' be in a minute.
We created the design together.
It's an A and a T together.
"A" for Alex and "T" for Taylor, my real name.
Gimme kiss.
- More blessings to you.
- Whatever, hurry up. - (chuckling)
- Well, look at your hand. It's wet.
You wasn't even using deodorant when I met you.
So just listen. Take your hand.
- And do what? - Touch it, rub it.
- I'm not gon' do that hand. I already been using this hand.
- It's too wet. - (laughing)
Now who she think she is trying to give Alex tips?
Alex is a way better artist than her.
- Hope this (bleep) is straight when I stand up, (bleep).
- ♪ If I don't have you ♪
♪ Then I don't have nothin' at all ♪
- Alex and I are still figuring each other out like every day.
- My love language with Big Mama is
make her mad so that I can... (laughing)
Like I'll wake up, piss her off, and then butter her up.
Adds a little excitement to our lives.
- ♪ And we have lows... ♪
- My love language would be like,
cook him a good meal, massages.
Of course he likes his (bleep) (bleep).
He's a simple man.
- Communicating in the past has not been easy.
- You posted on your Instagram some bull(bleep),
and now my (bleep) mad at me.
- I didn't even know your (bleep) followed me.
- ♪ I don't need a reason to love you, to love you... ♪
- Whoa! - My father could've died,
and you wasn't there. I'm not on your mind.
And I'm in love with you!
I need time to get my mind ready.
We've done everything that married couples do.
- Except get (bleep) married.
- What's the big deal about signing some papers?
- Because I want to.
- ♪ For a lifetime, can I get a lifetime? ♪
- I'm not 100% sure what the future holds
between Alex and I, but we're gonna get through it.
- I actually do have feelings for you.
I love you. - I love you.
- Will you marry me?
- Yes.
- I honestly appreciate the struggle
that we went through this year, 'cause I've learned how
to be better as a man, a father, a son, a fiancé.
- I'm gonna try to dial it back, but he needs to come forward.
- You gotta pick up the needle when we land!
- Aah! Right. Aah, babe, wait!
Wait, aah!
- You the first (bleep) to tattoo while landing.
- No, wait, (bleep) that! - You said, while land--
(laughter) - Brace for impact.
- We made it! - Skrr-skrr!
- Oh! Oh! - Oh!
- Drink! - Atlanta, we here.
- I wound up finishing around... (indistinct)
...on the runway. But, hey, tattoo got done.
- I know it's not perfect, but I love it.
It's like our relationship. It's not perfect, but I love it.
Y'all see it? It's an A and a T.
It got a little squiggly part 'cause I was moving around,
but that's what makes it special to me.
Like it has a story and I like that.
Thank you, babe, for putting your letter on me.
- Treiva's on the phone. She wants to talk to everybody.
- Great. - Who's there? Is any cast over there?
- Let me put my (bleep) mask on, (bleep).
- So what you're telling me is Ceaser got COVID?
- Does Ceaser have COVID again?
- Are we about to turn the plane around?
Do we gotta go home?
Are we not able to work anymore?
- Y'all (bleep) can't even let us get in the house
and somebody got COVID? - All I know is,
they better not turn this plane around
and take us back to New York.
- (bleep)!
Can I get off this plane now?
- Baby, I just do, I just do ♪
- (bleep). Can I get off this plane now?
See, I (bleep) knew it.
I (bleep) was so nervous to come down here.
COVID just attacking people off grip.
- (bleep). Now y'all got me mad paranoid.
I need to get off this plane. - Listen.
We in Atlanta. (bleep) got COVID.
- That's what I'm saying. Even in New York,
you passing by three, four (bleep) as you walking
down the block that got COVID. - I'm not too excited.
I was planning on, you know, gettin' in and cooking.
- He's thinking we're taking it as a joke.
- But hey, this is the world we live in.
It's 2021. We traveling.
People got COVID.
- I don't play. I got kids!
You (bleep) got dogs. They don't give a (bleep).
Get me the (bleep) off this plane, bro.
Deuces, y'all. I'm goin' back home.
It's over.
Bro, y'all puttin' my life on the line!
Get me off, move!
- (bleep), we in Atlanta.
- Holy moly!
- (bleep) look like a mini castle.
- The king and the queen have arrived.
- Hey, Suzette. - Hey, Donna.
Y'all got a pool, y'all got a jacuzzi.
- We eatin' gold lamb right now.
(all cheering)
- You the best. You the best.
- Why the hell was y'all around Walt?
Where is your respect? Where is your loyalty?
- That (bleep) know my loyalty. - That's cool, but--
- This (bleep) is over with.
- I'm super excited to see my kids and my wife, man.
Wait. - You knew,
wherever you took my grandkids, I would follow.
- Quani forgot to mention that her mama
and her mama's mama was coming too.
- Are you really happy with Suzette?
- I am. - That (bleep) that she did,
goin' back and forth with Chi on social media,
that (bleep) is done, bro. It's over.
- Welcome. This shop blows
any New York shop out the water.
- This is my section. - I don't have a station.
- What is this? - It's my big-ass hair order.
- Is this a shop or a flea market?
- I'm 'bout to make me a space.
- I can't give you the station.