- Cease, can you please give me a job at 125th?
- CEASER: I'm gonna give you one more shot at 113.
- I know I had my issues.
I used to party a lot.
But you know what? That's in my past.
- If you've kick that habit, I'm definitely proud of you.
But if you didn't, you can't be here no more, man.
- ♪
- What the [bleep] are these bags about?
- I may need a couple of days on your couch.
- Whoa, bitch, back up.
I'm not running a flop house.
I want a raise and a better positon.
Maybe assistant manager.
- Assistant manager?
Giving Sky an ounce of power scares me.
- ♪
- Hello, I'm Kit.
I'm from 125th.
I heard you all raggedy.
- What the [bleep] did you just say?
- You don't say that to people.
- What's your title, boo?
- I'm the bitch that's gonna [bleep] you up.
- [indistinct yelling]
- Every time I see that bitch, it's gonna be a problem.
- ♪
- ♪ It's gettin' real now
♪ Money in, never going out
♪ Money is sin, money, money
♪ Man, that's all I'm 'bout
♪♪
- DUTCHESS: Y'all better watch out for Cease.
You know this Negro tried to get me to fire
my first employee through text message?
- ALL: [laughing]
- And it did not work!
It was not successful.
- Your text message-- - [bleep] came back.
- You ain't put capitals.
You gotta put capitals, "You're fired."
- ALL: [laughing]
- Oh, God.
- Hey. - CEASER: Hey, what's up?
- How're you all? How you all doing?
- Why you look like that, yo?
- Well, I know you heard.
- Heard about what?
- About what happened at your shop, at 113.
- ♪
- I got jumped.
- Jumped?
- Jumped.
I didn't think getting jumped by ratchet bitches
is a part of my job description.
That raggedy ass 113th shop is a disgrace to the entire brand.
- CEASER: You got jumped at 113?
By who?
- Some little chick named Tiff Perez.
- DUTCHESS: What the [bleep]?
Ted hired a girl that me and Cease rejected?
[laughs]
- She getting real--real hype in my face.
I don't like that.
I'm like, "Do you have a problem?"
And so it was on.
- ♪
- And then about four other bitches come
and jump on me.
- It was a lot of drinking going on there, wasn't it?
- Oh, yeah.
It was--it was a lot of partying.
- DUTCHESS: I hate to tell Cease "I told you so,"
but I told you so.
I knew Ted was gonna run this [bleep] into the ground.
Typical dumb [bleep].
- KITTY: Did you all see the stripper pole?
- Oh, there's a [bleep] stripper pole in the mix, too?
- ♪
- What?
- Huh?
It was like some like--you know what I mean?
Someone put it up real quick, take it right down.
I'm trying to give Ted a little freedom,
make him feel like a businessman.
And what happens?
He mother [bleep] up.
And now I gotta deal with Dutchess crazy ass.
- I'm just gonna tell you right now,
I'm not with that [bleep].
- Dutch, I didn't even know about none of this [bleep].
- Big Mama ain't with that [bleep].
So what is Big Daddy gonna do?
- ♪
- Big Daddy gonna take care of it, okay?
- Ted, manager of the year.
- ♪
- YOUNG BAE: Uh, this place is nasty.
Why am I the only one here cleaning this [bleep] up?
Last night was crazy.
I got drunk, too,
but how we supposed to make money and ain't nobody here?
I'm the only one who's on time?
Come on now.
Ugh.
Sorry, Teddy's rug.
- [phone ringing]
- What's up, Kia? - KIA: Hey, girl.
- Hey, hey. - Where have you been?
I've been calling you. - I just came to work.
- KIA: Okay.
I have something to tell you.
- Like what?
- KIA: So after you left, that girl with the curly hair--
- Tiffany?
Uh-huh.
- KIA: She was calling you all types of bitches and hos.
- For real? - KIA: For real.
- What the [bleep] you talking about?
That can't be true.
- KIA: Yes.
- Nah, she must have been talking about Kitty.
- KIA: She was talking about you.
I'm very sure.
- KIA: But for what though?
I was the only one who had her back last night?
What the [bleep]?
- What you coming up in here talking about people
are raggedy as hell?
Like that's mad disrespectful.
- Question, why are you here?
- I'm representing Ceaser.
- This is how you represent Ceaser?
- I'm representing the shop at 125th.
- She's funny. [laughing]
- KIA: I mean, it looked that way.
But she don't have your back,
so I don't-- - Obviously.
I don't know why would Tiffany call me a ho.
We two newbies of Black Ink,
and we're supposed to have each other's back.
But if she's a fake-ass ho, [bleep] that.
Oh my God, I'm so aggravated right now.
You know, with my past, my anger issues, whatever,
because of my father, you know,
I hate when people [bleep] betray me.
And, you know, I get mad.
I spent a lot of my life feeling betrayed,
because that's what my father showed me for 22 years.
So when I feel betrayed, I get [bleep] angry.
I'm gonna let her know who Young is.
[bleep] out of here. - KIA: --ask her.
But like don't get all crazy and like--
- No, I'm not.
I'm just gonna talk with her.
- KIA: There you go.
- Talk to you later. - KIA: Bye.
- [bleep].
[bleep] is wrong with this bitch?
- ♪
- Hey, bitch, what's up? - Hello.
How're you doing?
- Did you get around to vacuuming?
- Not yet.
- SKY: You look so comfortable in my robe, bitch.
Donna has been at my [bleep] house
for approximately one week.
And it feels like one year of hell.
She got my--my [bleep] robe on.
Like where--when do we get a boundary?
I'm stressed out.
- DONNA: Is it me?
- I mean, you don't help.
But at the end of the day, [bleep] 'bout to be in sync.
And when I say our vaginas--
- No, that's a fact.
- --the periods, our cramps, our uterus, all that.
I did that in jail.
I don't got time to do it here.
And I'm missing a glass.
Did you break a glass? - I'm so sorry.
--with the bamboo in it.
- Oh you dead ass did.
- DONNA: I did.
I'm sorry.
- Bitch, stop breaking [bleep]!
I work too hard for this [bleep].
That's it!
D No Money needs to get out of my [bleep] house right now.
We gotta get you out of here.
- ♪
- SKY: I don't want you to stay here for too long.
- DONNA: Me either. I wanna be out your space.
I don't want you hating me.
But I do need some type of income.
- ♪
- I moved in with Sky to get away
from all the horrible memories in my last apartment.
But now I need to move into a new place.
But I don't have the money.
So that puts me in a tricky spot.
- Listen, you need to get a job.
Because I don't want you to stay here for too long.
- I know.
- ♪
- Are you hung over, dude?
- [groans] I think somebody put something in my drinks.
- SKY: Nobody put nothing in your drink.
- Somebody had to put something in somebody's drinks yesterday,
because what the [bleep] was going on in this [bleep], man?
- WALT: I don't know.
- Well, guess what?
- Oh my God.
- She was calling me names on my back.
Like I don't--
- TED: Calling you names on your back?
- "Calling me names on my back."
I love you. [laughs]
- This bitch try to like call me a ho, bitch.
Like she was just talking [bleep] for no reason.
She was just looking for trouble.
That make sense to you?
- SKY: That [bleep] whack.
This little mop-headed bitch,
she ain't been nothing but trouble since she been here.
This ho been fighting mad people.
So like, at the end of the day, Teddy should've hired Donna,
because you know what you're getting with her.
She's not a bad girl like--and my bitch got good [bleep].
- [door buzzes]
- SKY: Hey, welcome to Black Ink!
Hi!
- TIFFANY: Hi, guys.
- Hello, Tiffany, my name is ho.
- Ho--what? - What you call me.
- What did I call you? - This is ho.
- I never called you a ho.
- You sure?
- Why would I even call you a ho?
I don't even know you? - Were you that drunk?
- I must have been, because I don't remember that.
- So that give you a right to call me a ho or bitch?
- ♪
- What is Bae even talking about?
I never called her a ho.
It doesn't even make sense.
I barely know her.
- Tiff, come here. Come sit over here.
Sit over here, please.
- YOUNG BAE: No, I just wanted to talk to her real quick,
because that [bleep] ain't cool.
- TIFFANY: I swear I do not remember calling you a ho.
I have no right to call you a ho.
- I'm glad you're pussy right now.
- Oh, are you starting with me right now?
- ♪
- WALT: They buggin' the [bleep] out.
This whole ho comment is really testing this part right here.
She--she really feeling it right here.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't talk to me like that.
Don't talk to me-- - I am talking to you like that,
because you called me a ho!
- I did not call you a ho!
I don't have no problem with you.
- If you cannot say it to my [bleep] face,
don't [bleep] say it!
All my anger that I've been holding for 22 years
is very, very built up inside of me.
And I don't snap often.
- YOUNG BAE: But do you know what I hate more
than people talking [bleep] behind my back?
[bleep] liars!
Whoo! - You okay, boo?
- ♪
- We're not beefing, right? - What?
- We beefing? - No, let me tell you something.
- Uh-oh.
- If you say some [bleep] like that--
- My name's Bianca, nice to meet you.
- Oh, you're Bianca.
- Bianca? Really?
Cease and Dutchess, you already know they hate her.
They find out she was in the shop,
somebody's 'bout to get killed.
- This is for you. - [bleep] is this?
What?
What the [bleep] you mean the lights are off?
What the [bleep] was you all doing in here?
Where's Ted?
- This is some [bleep] bull [bleep]!
- SKY: Bae, unlock the door!
Bae is going crazy right now.
No, no, no, no!
Unlock the door, Bae!
- BAE: Get the [bleep] out of here!
- ♪
- TIFFANY: We're not beefing, right?
- What? - We beefing?
- No, let me tell you something. - Uh-oh.
- If you say some [bleep] like that, bitch, get out of here.
[bleep] out of here.
- [bleep]. Oh. - Oh [bleep].
What the [bleep]?
I can't believe these bitches are fighting
over who called who a ho.
I am too pretty to be a bouncer,
so they better cut this [bleep] out.
Like seriously.
- MAN: Let go of her hair!
- TIFFANY: [bleep] bitch!
- YOUNG BAE: Who you calling a [bleep]?
- What happened? Who hit who first?
- Bitch. - SKY: Who hit who first?
[bleep] Teddy is just watching.
Like do something right now.
These hos is really, really fighting.
When are you gonna step up and be the manager
that your cousin believes that you can be?
- TIFFANY: Get off!
- SKY: Bae was coming out to talk her,
and that didn't [bleep].
So who hit who first?
You didn't see?
- TIFFANY: I did not call you a ho.
I don't know who these people are, Bae.
- Oh my God, yo.
- How did Ceaser entrust this [bleep] Teddy
into running the shop,
and I can't even get a [bleep] promotion.
Like if you got an all-female tattoo shop,
you have to be able to handle women.
Bae, unlock the door!
- YOUNG BAE: [bleep] out of here!
- SKY: Bae, unlock the door!
- YOUNG BAE: [bleep].
- [glass shatters] - SKY: Get out the room!
Unlock the door, Bae!
- YOUNG BAE: Shut the [bleep]! - Go head outside.
Bae is going crazy right now.
Like something's really gotta be going on with her.
Something that [bleep] don't know.
Let me see your face. - I'm fine.
- You good.
Alright, let me get you some water.
Right now, calm down.
- I am, I am, I am, I am.
This is [bleep] bull [bleep]!
- SKY: She just broke up the inside of the shop.
- What do you mean she broke up the inside--
- SKY: Like real-life kicked the [bleep] glass
out the [bleep] damn tattoo room.
- Yo, this is [bleep] joke
or what the [bleep] is this [bleep]?
[bleep] out of here!
Listen, you don't [bleep] with me.
You don't [bleep] know what I've been through in life.
You just don't [bleep] with me.
Oh. [laughs]
- SKY: She in the backyard right now.
She's tight.
Yo, Teddy, where are you going?
- TED: [bleep] all this bull [bleep].
- SKY: You're seriously [bleep] leaving right now?
That's what happen when you want an all-female shop.
- What the [bleep] is this bull [bleep] for real?
- ♪ It's game time, uh-uh
♪ Oh my, she is so cinematic
♪ You little cutie pie, got me feeling like an addict ♪
♪ Picturing the ways I can freak that grab ♪
♪ And I think about it all through the night ♪♪
- RICHARD: In California, they actually put a limit
on how long you can shower.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- So what if you trying to get nasty?
You can't get nasty in the shower?
- You can't get nasty in the shower.
Unless you're gonna take the fine.
- [laughs]
How's, um, your lady adjusted to city life?
- She's...having a hard time.
'Cause San Francisco's not a city like New York City.
Like it's a beast all its own.
- Hey. - Oh, hey, speaking of.
We've been here a long time.
We was just talking 'bout ya.
- NIKKI: Uh-oh. - Nothing bad.
- Is this yours? - That's mine.
- I'm gonna have some.
- What's his is yours, ain't that what--
- Very true, very true.
- She definitely was like, "Is that mine?"
- ♪
- We were just talking about you about how, um--
how well you're adjusting to the city.
- [groans]
- How's it for you?
- I thought it was gonna be easy for me to adjust.
And it's--it's hard.
It's really hard.
On top of that, we haven't found an apartment.
We got scammed.
We...like had paid probably close to like over $500--
- BOTH: --in application fees.
- NIKKI: And we need money for all of that.
- Right. That's why I have to work at 113th.
We gotta make money.
Nakaya does not want me to work at 113th.
And that party didn't help me change her mind.
But right now, this is the only option
if she wants me to pay these bills.
And I know 113th is a constant party, but,
I mean, when we're tattooing, it's all business.
- NIKKI: I don't trust it there.
I just wanna make sure that he's able
to actually do his goals that he wants to do.
Like I think like his artwork can touch so many people.
And I want him to be in a space to be able to do that.
And from the first time that I was introduced to 113th,
like I didn't feel that.
- Come on, Nikki, like seriously,
I need my bro with me.
These women, they're crazy.
I need another guy around.
I mean, we have our moments, don't get me wrong.
I'm not gonna sit here and act like
we've never had crazy incidents and all that stuff.
But it's not all fighting and partying.
- Like we do tattoos there.
It's a real functioning tattoo shop.
So come to work with me at Blank Ink 113.
- ♪
- What the [bleep] is wrong with you?
You want your lady to come to work with you at Black Ink?
[bleep], that's like your mama
sitting in the back of the class. Really?
- There's no reason for you to be worried.
I mean, the money's gonna come in.
The negativity's not always there.
- ♪
- The main thing is showing her
that I can actually stay focused and sober.
And you know what?
If she's around me, then I have no worries.
- I think that, you know, I can come down there a few times
and see what's going on.
- I can do everything as long as I got you with me.
- You all make me sick.
I'm about to throw up all this pizza I just ate.
- ♪
- YOUNG BAE: I blacked out during the fight with Tiffany.
So I don't remember exactly what happened.
But I know for a fact I overreacted.
- What's up?
- I just wanted to talk things through,
because we're two adults.
We can talk, right?
- I'm just upset about the whole thing that happened.
I don't think it should have went down like that.
You know, having to come into the shop, and--and
I'm so confused.
'Cause I'm like, "What the hell is she talking about?
I called you a ho?"
Where you getting this information from?
Because if I felt like you were a ho,
I felt like I would have told you that.
- It was nothing that, "Oh, you said, you said--"
It wasn't even that.
It was just--just me being angry for no reason.
Like once I got mad-mad,
it was just not about us anymore.
You saw my face, right?
How like my eyes just went--
- Yeah, you were a different person.
I didn't know who you were.
- YOUNG BAE: I was different person, yeah.
And...I just been through a lot.
And I just--
- What do you mean you've through a lot?
- I was abused by my father all my life.
I got smacked around so [bleep] much when I was younger,
I was afraid every day
if I'm gonna killed or not that day.
My life in Korea was like, um, scary movie.
'Cause when father come into the house,
it was [bleep], we don't talk.
Imagine getting beat up every [bleep] day.
You don't know when he's gonna flip.
I remember he poured gasoline all over me.
And threatened that he would just set me up on fire.
My father was like beating up
my mother and my sister, whatever.
And then I got in the middle and say,
"Why you hitting my mother? Why you hitting my sister?
Why you do this?"
I was like four years old.
And he just grab--grabbed me by my [bleep] middle
and threw me out the window.
- That's wild.
- YOUNG BAE: I wasn't allowed to express my feelings.
If I cried because he was hitting me,
he would hit me more.
So I never learned how to deal with my pain and my anger.
I just live my life like I'm okay.
But still, like inside, I carry a lot of like sadness and pain.
And when [bleep] like that happens, you know,
that little, abused, angry Young just came out
and just--things just gets crazy.
It shouldn't be that way.
And I'm really, really sorry.
And I hope you can understand a little bit.
- I understand where you're coming from.
And I think that's important.
And I thank you for bringing me here
so that we could clear the air,
and I could get an understanding as to why that happened.
I'm glad that Bae shared this part of her life with me.
And I feel like I've gained a better understanding
as to why she acted the way she did.
And I plan to move past that.
We just gotta like really stick together like--
- I'm the best. - We're--we're new here.
And you have my back, and I have yours.
But we just can't be getting into no more fights.
- Any fights, be on my side, you be alright.
[laughing] - [laughs] Oh my God.
- I just wanna ask you a question.
- Get off the ground.
- Nakaya, will you be Nakaya Shenay Lynn Duncan?
- ♪
- Yo, what the [bleep] is this?
What happened to my [bleep] office?
What is he trying to do?
Get us the [bleep] down?
- ♪
- ♪ You got something
♪ That I want
♪♪
- ♪ Where you at
D Money, where you at, bitch?
What's up? - Hello.
- Since Teddy ran his little delicate ass away
from a girl fight yesterday,
I am the new self-appointed manager of 113th.
So my first decision is to bring Donna in
to get some money into this shop and get her off my couch.
It's too much!
- So "incog-negro." - Am I "incog-negro"?
- Yes, bitch!
Hello, how you're doing?
- Is the coast clear? - Okay, so...
Young Bae is in there. - Okay.
- SKY: Walter's in the back.
He's in the boom-boom room.
Yes, there's a boom-boom room.
So he's gonna be busy. - Okay.
- Your name is not Donna.
- Oh God. - Ready?
Your name is Bianca. - I have an alias.
- Boom, let's get out of here.
Donna is in disguise,
because she's not welcomed here at Black Ink.
I don't want anybody running their mouth back to Ceaser,
and [bleep] up my plans.
So I have to change her name, everything.
- ♪
- Ew, how're you doing? - Hi.
- My name's Bianca, nice to meet you.
- Oh, you're Bianca.
- You're so cute and little.
If there's one thing Ted knows how to do
it's hire all the fly ass ladies.
Bae is so cute.
- Bianca be tattooing today.
She has a client
coming in actually. - That's great.
- She's getting ready to come here and make this sch-money?
- Bianca?
I didn't know we were getting a new artist?
Bianca, where're you from?
- [tape rewinds]
- ♪
- Girl-- - SKY: Where're you from?
- --I'm just from a little bit of everywhere.
I'd been here, I'd been there.
I could tell you where I was born,
but that's really not important, so--you know what I'm saying?
Where are from?
- Korea, yeah.
- Okay, you foreign.
- [laughs]
- DONNA: You're adorable.
Look at your legs.
- Bianca, look at your back?
That ass...gives me life.
Give me some!
How'd you get that ass?
- I want an ass like you.
- You're gonna have do squats, bitch.
- Show me the format of a squat. - What do you mean?
You don't have to do nothing. - SKY: Bianca!
Go, Bianca.
Go, Bianca!
Go, B!
That's my bitch!
That ass is fat!
- WALT: Yo--
- Oh [bleep]!
Yeah!
What up, bro? - What are you doing?
What are you-- - SKY: Over there looking
at Bianca do these squats.
- Who?
- SKY: Bianca, this is Walter.
- Bianca? Really?
Sky, what the [bleep] you doing bringing Donna in the shop,
for reals?
Like trust me, I know that ass from anywhere.
And that's not no Bianca.
What the [bleep] is Donna doing here?
- First of all-- - Really?
- --Bianca needed somewhere to work.
- So you gave her a whole new identity?
Donna's practically public enemy number one here.
Like Cease and Dutchess, you already know they hate her.
They find out she was in the shop,
somebody's 'bout to get killed.
- Teddy left us.
Teddy walked out.
And Donna got money to bring in the shop.
- Ugh, Walter's so annoying.
Like don't be a pussy.
What Cease and Dutch don't know won't hurt 'em.
- I don't know what's going on, Sky.
All I know is that...
[whispers] this is crazy.
Man, I'm out of here. [bleep] this.
I don't want no parts of this.
Like seriously I don't.
Somebody's gonna go down for this,
and it's not gonna be me.
- [door buzzes] - Hello.
- SKY: Hey! Welcome to Black Ink.
You here for Bianca, right? - Yes, I am.
- SKY: Hey, look at this.
- Hello, how're you doing?
- SKY: Bringing the spice.
- I am so excited to be back in Black Ink
doing my first tattoo in over a year.
It's kinda weird that I have to be Bianca,
but at least I'm back working.
So what you getting today?
- And they bring me joy to my life.
- That's funny.
Because that's what always makes me happy, as well.
And you are bringing me that joy right now,
so let's get started.
- ♪
- DONNA: Last year was difficult.
It's like I really had to start over.
I married Maxwell for the wrong reasons.
He even misled me into believing that we had a real relationship.
- ♪ Papa always said, never fold my my cards ♪
♪ Focus my mind, and don't take my eyes ♪
♪ Off the prize, 'cause life is [unintelligible] ♪
♪ Nothing but the power of the mind, believe ♪
- And when I started to figure all of that out,
it put me in a crazy negative space
and made me feel like I didn't know what I want.
But now I'm done with that situation.
Now it's time for me to do what I came here to do, and tattoo,
and be this awesome ass woman.
- ♪ [unintelligible]
♪ Try to make you feel inferior ♪
♪ Fight through it like a warrior ♪
♪ Victory comes
- DONNA: I want everybody to see that Donna
can stand on her own two feet.
I can do anything.
Like I really can do anything.
[sobbing]
I'm just growing.
And I'm trying to be a better woman.
And I'm trying to realize-- you see what I'm saying--
what's really good for me.
And what's not.
[sobbing]
- ♪
- All right, my love, so are you ready?
- Yeah.
- ♪
- I love it.
Great job. - Thank you.
I love it, too.
- ♪
- RICHARD: All right, just hold the door open for me.
- That lamp is like taller than you are.
- ♪
- Day one of the moving process is successful.
Now that's Nikki's finally okay with me working at 113th,
we can pull the trigger on getting this new apartment.
- I really wanna get the little hooks
that go under here and then I can hang all--
- I don't think you should do that.
- Why?
- Because I think that's just gonna be a little bit much.
I think it looks good like this.
- I think that being able to put mugs up here is chic.
- ♪
- Just because you use the word chic doesn't mean
it's gonna look good.
Moving into my new apartment with Nikki
feels like it's a fresh, new start for the life
that we're trying to start together.
- So...what about the bedroom?
- RICHARD: I'll tell you exactly what
I wanna do with the bedroom.
I love Nikki so much.
I've never felt this way about any woman in my entire life.
You know every black couple has to have that painting
of the bald head black dude and the black girl
like hug--butt-ass naked.
I want a picture of us like that...right here.
- Okay. But like what about "Coming to America"
on like a fur rug?
And then I have like a crown on.
And I'm just like laying there, and like you're just like
feeding me grapes on the side.
- So, wait, am I gonna be the king?
Or am I just gonna be the slave?
'Cause if I'm feeding you-- - [laughing]
- The king does that.
I'm a king, not a slave.
In fact, you should be kissing my feet.
If you love me and my African toes,
you will kiss them. - What?
- ♪
- RICHARD: Do it. - No!
- Do you love me?
- I do love you, but this isn't a way to prove it.
- RICHARD: Prove it. - NIKKI: Richard.
- RICHARD: Prove it.
- Look, you're putting so much pressure on me.
- This--prove it.
- ♪
- Ahhhh!
- ♪ And that's why I love you
Do you love me?
I love you, too. - I do love you.
- You don't even know how much I love you.
- Why was it so dry?
- I've never had any woman ever touch my feet before.
- What?
- Oh, by the way, I also wanted to, um, ask you a question.
- ♪
- What--
- ♪
- I made you move all the way from San Francisco
to come here and be with me.
And I want you to be with me forever.
So, Nakaya Shenay Lynn Jones...
will you be Nakaya Shenay Lynn Duncan?
- ♪
- Yes.
- RICHARD: Yeah?
- Yes, I will!
What the--
- ♪ You are my joy
♪ You are my life
♪ You're the one
- RICHARD: I've never felt love like this before.
I was always searching for it.
But never have I met anybody
that makes me feel this ecstatic.
- NIKKI: I love it.
- RICHARD: Nikki means the world to me.
She's the woman I wanna marry.
She's the woman who I want to go to sleep with
and wake up and spend every day with.
- [laughing]
- [unintelligible]
- ♪ You are my life
♪ You're the one
- For the first time in my life, I feel like I'm not alone.
And I never will be ever again.
- ♪
- NIKKI: I'm getting married.
[laughing]
- CEASER: Teddy ain't in charge no more.
So it's gonna be change in management.
- Ceaser 'bout to tell us who the manager is!
First course of action, Tiffany you're fired!
- ♪
- What the [bleep]?
[indistinct mumbling] [bleep]
What the [bleep], Ted?
Like seriously, you didn't pay the electricity bill, bro?
Like come on, man.
- Walter. - What up?
- YOUNG BAE: What's going on?
- What?
Oh my God.
So we can't work today?
I have two appointments coming.
No lights, no clients, no money.
What type of shop is this?
[gasps] We owe $3,930.
Who gets their lights shut off?
Only Black Ink.
- ♪ First day at work
- Hi, [bleep]. Welcome.
- What's going on? - Welcome to Black Ink.
- Sit down to our candlelight-- - Yes--
- It's black for real. [laughs]
- RICHARD: [unintelligible]
- Yes, we're mediating.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- I'm down for meditation.
You see, Nikki, I told you 113th
was a perfect place for me to work.
- That and, um...our electricity's cut off.
- No. they got the power!
- Yeah, welcome back.
- No! - [bleep]
- Whoa!
- WALT: Bro--
- This is more than the rent.
This is not the first impression I wanted to give Nikki
on my first day back.
And this is obviously not the time to tell everybody
that we just got engaged.
- What's up?
- ♪
- What brings you down here, Miss Lady?
- What the [bleep] is this miss fancy pants doing here?
Did she come here to say we're raggedy again?
- We're supposed to be having a meeting.
- Who's we?
- Ceaser.
Ceaser's supposed to be coming down here.
- Oh, he's on his way? - KITTY: Yes.
- ♪
- Uh, [bleep].
Ceaser's on his way now, and this mother [bleep]
gonna go crazy when he find out that the lights are off.
This is the last thing I needed.
- ♪
- WALT: Hi, Sky. - Hey, Sky.
- Hi, y'all.
Why you all sitting outside? What's going on?
- Go in there and watch what happens.
- ♪
- Hello, Sky.
- Hi, y'all.
What the [bleep] is going on?
Why is it dark in here like this?
- The lights are off.
- SKY: How you doing, Kitty Cat?
Oh, [bleep], what the [bleep]
is the 125th Street police doing here today?
And why are all the [bleep] lights off?
Hey, guys. - Hey, girl.
- Oh my God, what the [bleep] is going on?
- RICHARD: Yo. - So I come in the door, right?
- Yes.
- This big ass [bleep] is splattered like this...
on the gate.
- Let me see this, please.
Thirty-nine hundred dollars for a light bill?
For all of that, we gonna have to send Walter
in someone's grandmother's house to steal all her china.
What the [bleep] can we do?
- WALTER: Yo, Cease don't even know yet,
but she says he's on his way.
- [bleep]! Ceaser's coming.
Where is Teddy at?
Once again, I'm going to have to man up
and take this [bleep] into my own hands.
Alright, so tell him that the fuse is blown. [laughs]
- WALT: What?
- ♪
- The fuse is blown.
We have somebody coming in to take care of it.
Unless one of you guys rat us out.
Oh my God, these bitches are in there.
- ♪
- Abort mission.
- RICHARD: [laughing]
- ♪
- What the [bleep] is everybody doing outside?
These [bleep] just chilling,
and nobody's inside working right now.
- ♪
- RICHARD: Ceaser.
- SKY: Hey, Cease.
- ♪
- Why you all faces like that?
- ♪
- Why you all [bleep] look depressed?
- This is for you. - [bleep] is this?
- ♪
- What?
How the [bleep] you run the light bill up to $3,900?
How?
What the [bleep] was you all doing in here?
Where's Ted?
- Last time I saw Teddy, Tiff and Bae got into a fight
and just started breaking [bleep].
And Teddy just walked out.
- CEASER: What the [bleep] is wrong with y'all, yo?
This is a crock of bull [bleep], if you ask me.
Not only Ted can't be found,
but you got the girls in here fighting like it's WWE.
[bleep] running a tattoo shop,
we got a mother [bleep] fight club.
What's going on down here?
Y'all fighting, breaking [bleep]?
Like it's no way I should be
having a [bleep] shop meeting in the dark, yo.
Hey, have a seat.
If you all fighting in my shop and breaking [bleep],
I should have heard about [bleep] when it happened.
So which of you ladies wanna go first?
- Alright, basically, I come in,
and Young Bae says that I called her a ho.
And out of nowhere, she comes outside
and starts pulling my hair.
- Are you a ho? - No.
- Exactly, so this [bleep] wasn't that big of a deal.
You're a stylist tattoo artist.
What [bleep] you all sitting outside
on Lenox Avenue fighting for?
And then Kit come up town and tell me
she gets jumps at [bleep] 113.
- And that's my fault. - Okay.
- But I just got really defensive at the moment.
- Nothing warranted anybody putting their hands on me.
- You leave that [bleep] for the crackheads, yo.
Y'all supposed to be sitting, representin' Black Ink.
- From somebody from the outside...
I mean, just-- I know it's a--a place
that usually people party at and stuff.
But like alcohol was a huge portion of why [bleep] left.
It might be a good step to have it be no alcohol.
- ♪
- SKY: This isn't a rehab.
Thank you for your input.
Nikki, shut up.
You don't even work here right now.
[bleep].
- Now, this [bleep] stripper pole.
That [bleep] goes down, yo, in 24 hours.
Now, look, there's no way our bill
should be this [bleep] high.
You all making no money like that down here.
You know how embarrassing this is?
- That's what I was telling Teddy, too.
Before you hook up your boom-boom room,
we should have hooked up our tattoo--
- The what?
- We had to paint that first, before we--
- Paint what?
- Did you see the room in the back yet?
- What room in the back?
- He spent like all the money we made over there.
- CEASER: What?
- Yeah.
- ♪
- CEASER: Yo, what the [bleep] is this?
- ♪
- I warned you, and I warned you,
and I warned you.
Now what the [bleep] you want me to do?
- ♪
- Did you see the room in the back yet?
- What?
- Yeah.
- ♪
- CEASER: Yo, what the [bleep] is this?
- ♪
- Y'all mother [bleep]
ain't making not one mother [bleep] dime,
but you wanna make a boom-boom room?
There's rules and codes to this [bleep].
What is he trying to do?
Get us shut the [bleep] down?
What happened to my [bleep] office?
- ♪
- CEASER: Who the [bleep] told that [bleep]
that he could make that office a boom-boom room?
And what the [bleep] is a swing doing in a tattoo shop?
- Cease being shocked about Teddy [bleep] up.
I ain't surprised,
because I know that this [bleep] dumb as [bleep].
- Can you Facetime Teddy so he can be a part of this?
Like this [bleep] whack, 'cause you entrusted him
to protect and serve this [bleep] shop.
How the [bleep] do you let this mother [bleep] just do anything
he [bleep] wants in your shop, and still gets paid?
Like I wanna be that [bleep].
[laughs] I wanna be Teddy.
- Sky...you're absolutely right.
So there's gonna be change in management.
- ♪
- Ooooooh, [bleep]!
Whoo! Whoo!
Whooooo!
I just--whooo--I turned into an owl.
I'm like, yes, yes.
Ceaser 'bout to tell us who the manager is.
- Going forward, Teddy ain't in charge no more.
He ain't used to running this shop,
especially not no all-girl shop.
Me, I'm too masculine for that [bleep].
Be screaming at ya, doing all type of other [bleep].
So, at the end of the day...
- Alright, hold on, let me get my [bleep] together.
Let me breathe real quick.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bb-bb-b-b-b-b-b.
- ♪
- I'm gonna have Dutchess get this shop back into shape.
- ♪
- Excuse me?
This [bleep] just said
mother [bleep] Dutchess Crystana Lattimore?
The bitch from the[unintelligible]
is now the manager?
I've really been in here sweating my hard-earned blood,
sweat, and tears with these bitches I don't even know.
I am [bleep] hating.
I might flatten both Ceaser and Dutchess tires.
But that's it.
All out of love.
They got triple A.
- She already has a female shop.
She gonna get you all in tip-top shape.
- This is bull [bleep].
I'm pretty sure Dutchess doesn't like me,
'cause she tried to stop me
from working at Black Ink before.
So how is that gonna work with her running the shop?
This is [bleep].
- First course of action, Tiffany, you're fired!
- ALL: [laughing]
- SKY: Bye, bitch.
- ALL: [laughing]
- ♪ Wanna walk in my shoes, wanna be me ♪
♪ I'd place number one, if there was a number ♪
♪ I hit him so they jump for the whole summer ♪
♪ I beat 'em like a drum if they really wanna ♪♪
- Let me talk to you.
All the things that've been going down on 113th
is [bleep] unacceptable.
I finally get ahold of Ted and tell him
bring his ass over here now.
What the [bleep] happened to you yesterday?
No, what happened to you, period?
I go down there, all [bleep] lights are off.
My [bleep] receptionist come uptown and tell me and Dutchess
she gets jumped at [bleep] 113th.
And you got all our mother [bleep] employees
playing WWE in our [bleep] shop?
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
What the [bleep] is going on?
- ♪
- What the [bleep] happened to you yesterday?
No, what happened to you, period?
I told this mother [bleep] Ted to get over to [bleep] house
right mother [bleep] now, because I gotta know
what the [bleep] is going on.
- ♪
- Our [bleep] lights are off.
My [bleep] receptionist come uptown and tell me
she gets jumped at [bleep] 113th.
And you got all our mother [bleep] employees
playing WWE in our [bleep] shop?
- That's my fault?
Well, Cease, you're overacting right now, bro.
- Who else fault it lands on?
- ♪
- You walk out while these bitches tore up our shop.
- TED: Them bitches was going crazy, bro.
That was my only option at that time.
My intentions was to hire a bunch of dope ass
female tattoo artists to make money at the shop.
And now [bleep] done blown up in my face.
Stop questioning Ted
and stop worrying about what Ted is doing.
- CEASER: If you was there for that meeting,
you would be questioning you as a leader, too.
And the point that you wasn't there,
that [bleep] even made it worse.
Ted left.
All his mother [bleep] employees
think Ted got up and quit on them.
How does the boss quit?
Bosses are the captain of the ship.
You go down with the mother [bleep] ship.
You are my family.
You are supposed to make sure I'm good
before any [bleep] anybody.
Why is it that it feels like
you're the last person to even give a [bleep]?
You guaranteed me that [bleep], Ted.
If I go to 2-5th, I ain't gotta worry about 13th.
Now 13th is my biggest worry.
- I thought I could fix it.
[bleep] is spiraling out my control right now.
- Yo, you know how long it took us
to build this mother [bleep] brand?
- ♪
- For you to [bleep] that [bleep] just like this
in this short of time.
You asked me for this [bleep].
I warned you, and I warned you,
and I warned you.
Now what the [bleep] you want me to do?
Sit here and take the responsibility up
that you were supposed to?
- I'd figured it out, bro.
- If I gotta do that [bleep], you fired then, yo!
- ♪
- Man, [bleep] this [bleep].
- We're getting married.
- What do you mean we're getting married?
- Do you wanna be with me forever?
- [record scratches]
- Baby, I really want a baby boy?
- I just don't feel like a baby
is in our best interest right now.
When in the hell am I gonna have time to raise a baby?
- Don't [bleep] play with me. - Don't do it.
- Don't [bleep] play with me. I'll beat you up.
I'm beat the [bleep] brakes up.
- This is crazy.
Why is nobody doing anything?
- I'm not feeling this at all.
[bleep] Black Ink.
[bleep] I'm out of here.
- Are you [bleep] serious?
Noo!
What type of racist [bleep] [bleep] is this?
- Shoot me, please.
Keep [bleep] playing with me, yo.
Without God, I might can't turn Black Ink around.
Get out! Get out!
- ♪