- Ahhh, I'm getting married!
- Mr. Duncan is about to have a Mrs. Duncan.
- WOMAN: Do you Nakaya to be your lawful wedded wife?
- Yes, I do.
- I do.
[laughs]
- RICHARD: Oh my God.
This is the happiest day of my life.
- I gave the shop to Dutchess.
- How's that going?
- Oh, it's going perfect.
- No fights?
- Not that I've heard of, no, no.
- I'll beat [bleep] brakes off of you.
- Like this is crazy.
Like I'm not [bleep] dealing with this [bleep].
- DUTCHESS: I just don't understand why
Sky feels the need to instigate
a high school mother [bleep] drama activity.
Are you [bleep] bugging?
- Get out of here. That's right!
Bye!
- I'm thinking...
you should give me a son.
- I'll just stick to my birth control.
The no baby zone.
Sorry.
- Tiffany's customer just asked me for a [bleep] massage!
What type of racist [bleep] is this?
[bleep] tattoo [bleep] [bleep] thing, I'm leaving.
- You all some disrespectful mother [bleep]!
Shoot me, please!
Keep [bleep] playing with me, y'all!
Get out! Get out!
Without God, I might can't turn Black Ink around.
Baby?
I can't take this [bleep].
I'm going back to North Carolina to Pretty N Ink.
[bleep] this [bleep]!
- ♪
- SKY: Hi, guys!
- WALT: Hey, light skin.
How're you doing?
- What's going on?
Air five, air five, air five.
I'm not doing the hugging, just because the pasties
aren't connected.
It's just connected to the shirt and my skin, and--
- WALT: Ohhh.
- Mm.
I thought Dutchess told you not to wear the girls out anymore.
- WALT: Oh, she told you?
- Well, Dutchess ain't here.
She quit.
- ALL: [laughing]
- Dutchess left to go to North Carolina.
When [bleep] go bad, she's out like a roach
when you turn on [bleep] lights.
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du.
So...that tattoo-athon.
[laughs]
- WALT: It wasn't much of a...athon.
- The tattoo-athon was such a disaster,
I don't feel bad leaving at all.
- How many people did tattoos that day?
- WALT: One. It was trash.
- And the manager, how many did she do?
She did nada!
She did zilch!
Nothing, caputs, kapooy, pah!
- [laughs]
- Dutch came down here talking all this la-la-baha,
she's gonna fix up 113.
But all she did was have
an unsuccessful mother [bleep] tattoo-athon.
- [door buzzes]
- Hi. - Hey, baby.
- WALT: Hey!
- Hey, Nik, what's up, boo?
How're you doing? - [unintelligible].
- SKY: Ah, look--so passionate.
- Nobody wanna see that nasty [bleep].
About to make me sick.
Go the [bleep] home, yo.
- Alright, we was talking about the tattoo-athon.
You came in at a perfect time.
- [bleep] tattoo-athon.
We were supposed to be announcing that me and her--
we eloped, and we got married.
We went down to city hall.
- [all ahs]
- This is happening so fast.
I mean, they just met.
I'm just like, "Uhhh."
Oh God.
You see my face?
This is sheer terror.
But if I move my face like this a little bit,
it's excitement.
Like that's what friends do.
I'm doing this for a friend.
But I am terrified for him.
Come here! Come here!
[unintelligible].
- RICHARD: Getting married to Nikki
has been the best decision I ever made in my life.
With all the craziness going on around the shop,
it hasn't been the right time to say anything.
But I can't hold it in any longer.
- Oh my God, I'm feeling dizzy again,
'cause I'm lightheaded,
because I'm so excited about you guys growth.
Hold on. - Water!
Somebody get her some water!
- We are having a small, intimidate wedding reception,
aren't we? - Yes, we are.
- NIKKI: And you're all invited.
Like everything-- - He's romantic-o!
- He's very romantic-o.
- [door buzzes]
- Hi, guys.
- Hey. - Hi.
- So, bad-ass, what's up with you?
How you been? What you doing here?
- I have to work today. I have a client.
Coming into work today, I feel a little stressed out.
Sky and I are having issues, because she's intimidated
that I'm an artist, and she's not.
She's trying to act all cool and professional
with her little business attire.
But that doesn't mean nothing at all.
You still Sky.
- You guys, with Dutchess and Teddy gone,
I plan to lead us to greatness.
And we have a team.
We are a team at the end of the day.
We may not all get along,
but we are a team for Black Ink Crew.
And we all passionate about this.
You get what I'm saying?
- But I do have something to say.
- ♪
- Like if we're a team, then I think if you have
an issue with somebody, maybe you should talk to them
personally instead of like just trying--
- You just came in.
We don't really care about what you have to say.
- ♪
- TIFFANY: No, I think it's important.
We're talking about a team, right?
- But you're not really part of the team.
- But you looked at me when you said that.
- I said, "We may not all get along."
- And you're look at me, so--
- SKY: I don't get along with you.
I don't like you.
- Okay, I don't like you either.
- Do you wanna fight me?
'Cause we can fight. - Do you wanna fight?
'Cause all you do is talk [bleep].
Like if you have a problem with me,
then we can talk about it.
We work in the same facility here,
so we need to handle it.
- ♪
- Come on.
Let's go outside.
- Go outside for what?
- SKY: We gonna fight.
- No, we--we can do it right here.
- No.
- NIKKI: Oh my gosh.
- MAN: Easy.
- SKY: No, I'm gonna kill her.
- ♪
- Uh, man.
Listen, Sky, you can't be sitting here
looking like Claire Huxtable,
but you wanna [bleep] Laila Ali.
And, Sky, come on, what's really bothering you?
- You fake as hell, Sky!
You ain't [bleep]!
I put up with so much from this bitch Sky
that I'm not taking it no more.
Let this wig be a reminder not to [bleep] with me.
- [siren wailing]
- SKY: Oh my God.
- ♪
- ♪ I do this with my eyes closed ♪
♪ Eyes closed
♪♪
- I think that we need a shop dog.
- No.
- Why not?
What about the little--cute, little teacup Yorkies?
Come-- - Listen,
I don't wanna go to jail or nothing,
but I stepped on like two Yorkies that I bought Dutchess.
- [gasps]
- Listen, that [bleep] ain't my fault.
That's an accident. - No!
- You sleeping, and you know what you gotta use the bathroom
and [bleep], you don't really look where you gonna step out.
And then before you know it, you just be like dggghht.
"What the [bleep] was that?"
You're like, "Oh, [bleep]!"
- [laughs]
- CEASER: The little dogs don't work for me.
- [laughs]
- Yo, how you all gonna laugh at me, yo?
- [laughs]
- Hello. - Hello.
- Hey, what up, y'all?
What are you guys doing here?
This can't be good.
I'm not saying you all can't be here,
but I'm just surprised.
Dutch ended up leaving 113th, because
of all the bull [bleep] that's going on.
- But it got to the point where I couldn't take it, baby.
- Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it.
I completely understand.
She got her own [bleep] to deal with in North Carolina
with her shop.
Let's go sit down over here, yo.
But it's like all this bull [bleep] at 113,
it falls on me now.
- TIFFANY: Look, I have to talk to you about something.
- What's wrong?
- I got into a fight with Sky.
- YOUNG BAE: Again.
- CEASER: A fight with Sky?
- TIFFANY: She's a lunatic.
She keeps coming at me for no reason.
And it just got real just nasty.
And I feel like the reason why the shop has so much drama
and negativity is because of her.
She's an instigator.
I'm done with Sky's bull [bleep].
And I'm here to tell Ceaser the truth about what the [bleep]
been going on with Sky's crazy ass.
Sky's a psycho that needs to be locked up in the looney bin.
She literally got in my face
until like the spit came out her mouth.
- I had three clients that day. Literally, three.
Two left, because they were scared.
- TIFFANY: Now she's sending me threatening messages.
She's kinda like bullying me.
And it's uncontrollable at this point.
- CEASER: Oh, this [bleep] went over
the [bleep] coo-coo's nest, okay.
- TIFFANY: Something needs to be done about her.
- It's just crazy.
- I don't know what the hell's going on with like
Sky's family [bleep] like that, but this is unacceptable.
I leave the shop for one day without a manager,
and this [bleep] pops off?
What the [bleep] is wrong with Sky?
- It seems like the moment that I walked in that door
is been some type of issue between me and her.
I personally don't feel safe.
I don't wanna be in that situation.
It's just too negative for me.
And I'm gonna quit.
I'm done.
- What do you mean quit?
Nobody quits me.
I'm not gonna let Sky scare off artists in my shop.
Let me ask you a question.
If I separate you and Sky, would you think about staying?
- YOUNG BAE: No, it's not-- - It's not gonna be over.
She's gonna make it her goal to fight me again.
She's gonna make it her goal to make my life miserable,
because she don't want me there.
And I don't need to be surrounded by people like that.
So that's it, I'm done.
- MELODY: I wanna go back to work at Black Ink.
- You have a baby, you stay at home, and you take care of it.
- Lalo's becoming super Latino machista.
And I am not trying to be some housewife.
- Sky, what's wrong?
- [crying] I want my mommy, that's what it is.
I want my mommy.
[crying]
- CEASER: Where she at?
- I don't [bleep] know.
- Stop being like that, man.
You're gonna make me sad now.
- ♪
- This is where I think that we should have
our wedding reception.
- ♪
- RICHARD: Isn't it lovely?
- ♪
- I love it in here.
- I'm excited to show Nikki this space that I found
for our wedding reception,
because this party is about celebrating her.
- Hey, you guys. - Look at the décor.
How's it going?
- You just got married, right?
- RICHARD: Yes, we did. - Congratulations.
- NIKKI: Thank you. - Thank you very much.
This is where we wanna have our wedding reception,
right here. - WOMAN: That's awesome.
- The way I envision everything is like, when we pull up,
I wanna pull up with like a second line, marching band,
and then like just have like this grand entrance.
- Yeah, definitely.
- NIKKI: Grand entrance? - Yes.
- NIKKI: Isn't that expensive?
- When it comes to this reception,
money's no object.
Nikki saved my life.
Not only with me just being sober now,
but the fact that she restored my faith in love.
So you know what?
She deserves whatever I can afford.
- We have a step and repeat out front.
- Yes, I would love a step and repeat--
- --internally, yeah.
- We definitely need some peonies somewhere around here,
I mean-- - Yeah.
Do you guys wanna see the rest of the space?
- Yes, we do. We would love to.
- Awesome. So, yeah, back here, we have a fully stocked bar.
And we've got this nice little like VIP cove,
so if you guys end up having a little bit of a bigger party,
we can, you know, rope this off--
- RICHARD: Oh yeah, we're trying to bring
the whole New York City in this piece.
- So, um, how much, uh, would something like this cost?
- We usually do a $3,000 minimum.
If you wanna do like an open bar for an hour,
that starts at about $1,200.
- So, in total, it'll probably be like $4,200?
- Yeah.
Do you guys need a minute? - Yeah, can we just--
just talk it over? We love the space.
Thank you so much. - RICHARD: We do.
- Richard is turning into groom-zilla.
This is wedding reception has grown out of control.
And our pockets haven't grown at all.
I don't know why we have to have all of this.
And I'm not happy about it.
Richard, we don't have $4,200.
I mean, like we just moved into a new apartment.
We're still paying bills.
Like last time I checked,
you haven't really been doing tattoos.
- RICHARD: It's been a little slow getting my clients back.
But I do tattoos.
- So you're not gonna listen to me now?
- I mean, you're talking about--you're acting
like I'm not making money.
- Really? When have you been working?
In your dreams?
- ♪
- Maybe you should be going out looking for a job
instead of worrying about me.
- So let's back the [bleep] up.
- Go ahead, back it up. - Let's be really clear,
because I feel like your vibe is like wanting to be on ten.
But you need to realize that you really belong at six.
- I should be at six? - NIKKI: Yes.
- This is coming from a lady who's unemployed.
- Do you even have a bank account?
- Yes! Your bank account!
- You don't have a bank account, I do.
I'm the one who paid for everything.
My saving's account, my money.
I found the apartment.
You weren't doing nothing but trailing behind
and making sure you get [bleep] on the regular.
So, honey, don't get it twisted.
- I don't know why Nikki's bugging out.
Yeah, we've been using some of her savings.
But now that I'm at Black Ink,
the money's gonna start pouring in.
Like I don't even know what's going on.
We shouldn't even be arguing about this right now.
Like we just got married.
Like where's all this coming from?
- ♪
- It's just a lot.
Like I've never been unemployed.
Like I've never not had a job.
I've never been like this.
I don't have any friends here.
Like I literally am just the girl who follows you around,
who will make sure that you get to work on time,
that you have food, that your clothes are clean,
that everything is good for you.
I had a life, Richard.
I had a whole life besides you.
Moving to New York has been really hard.
You know, in San Francisco, I had everything all figured out.
I had my friends, I had my family.
And I had a great career at the mayor's office
that I worked my ass for.
And I left because I fell in love with Richard.
But I just feel lost here.
And I feel like nobody really understands how much
of an adjustment it is for me.
I just miss my home.
- RICHARD: I know.
But New York is like your home now.
We're gonna--we have a home together.
- I'm grateful for our home.
- Yeah. So we're gonna--
- But I have to have more than just our home.
- I know.
- I had a purpose before.
- And it's coming.
This is for you.
- ♪
- WALT: Hey, Sky, how're you doing?
- Oh no.
- I know what that's like.
- No you don't.
- ALL: [laughing]
- NIKKI: No, you--
- Don't get me started, girlfriend.
I already know what that's like, honey child.
Geesh.
- [door buzzes]
- ♪
- Hey, Ceaser, what's going on?
- You all tell me what the [bleep] going on in here.
- Productiveness.
- CEASER: No, you all [bleep] is tripping in here, yo.
I got Tiff talking about you all fighting
and all this dumb [bleep].
- I fell all into the door.
Now I got three stitches in my [bleep] eye.
Boob, boob, boob.
- Um, Tiffany quit.
- No, did she?
- ♪
- Why? - Yeah, she did.
Because you all [bleep] think this [bleep] is UFC!
- [bleep] didn't do nothing!
- You got [bleep] stitches!
You all did something!
- Yeah, and--and she [bleep] hit me, bro!
- And [bleep] don't sound [bleep] crazy to you?
At the end of the day, who's liable for all of that [bleep]?
This [bleep] liable.
- Why am I the one being cursed out right now?
Cease should be thanking me
for getting that bitch out of the shop.
I mean, since this bitch Dutchess left, I have been
the only one stepping up in this establishment.
- CEASER: Sky, can I tell you something?
You're being selfish.
- How am I being selfish?
You left us in the hands of who? Not me.
But I'm a grown-ass woman,
and I'm still a receptionist, my [bleep].
I wanna do something else.
- What do you wanna do, Sky?
- SKY: Give me a position of more authority.
Like at the end of the day, I play that [bleep]
like, "Oh my God, like, I'm the self-appointed manager."
But I can't tell no bitch what to do.
I can't hire no bitch.
I can't fire no bitch.
You--you see what I'm capable of.
At the end of the day, these people that were sitting here
witnessed and that, they saw where I was at with it.
- CEASER: Sky, first of all-- - Man, listen...
- ♪
- We gotta straighten you out first,
'cause you're not there right now.
- ♪
- When Sky starts acting like this,
it's something definitely deeper going on.
I really gotta get to the bottom of this, or this [bleep]
might escalate to a point that I can't help her.
Sky, what's wrong?
- [sighs]
Nothing's wrong.
I'm about to get my period.
That's gotta be it.
That's it. That's all it is.
- CEASER: Shut up, man. What's wrong?
- I've been having a lot of like anxiety and [bleep].
Like I don't know.
- CEASER: Talk to me, what's wrong?
- Like I don't where to [bleep] start in a conversation.
So I'm like, it's at the end of the day, I just like--
I feel depressed a little bit, you know?
[crying]
- CEASER: Listen.
You know we always there for you, right?
- [sobbing]
I've been feeling real alone lately, son.
- Why?
- You know, you got Cheyenne.
And you got Dutchess.
You got people.
I be seeing people with they moms and [bleep] like that.
It's just like I feel alone.
My moms--and--and she's going through whatever
she going through right now.
Since my children aren't in my life right now,
my mother is the only blood family that I have.
I love you.
- I love you, too.
- Aw!
- SKY: And she's been dealing with bipolar disorder
since I was very young.
Right now, my mother is missing.
And--oh God.
I want my mommy, that's what it is.
I want my mommy. [crying]
- CEASER: Where she at?
- I don't [bleep] know.
[sobbing] I--I have...no idea.
I just wanna make sure she good.
It's been some months now, I haven't spoken to my mother.
And she's not on her medication, and no one's seen her.
And you know, she's moving funny.
It's not like her.
- Sky, man, yo, stop being like that, man.
You're gonna make me sad now.
Now listen, yo, right?
If you want, we'll make a search party to find her.
You know New York ain't that [bleep] big.
I've known Sky for a very long time.
And I've seen this behavior from her mom since we was kids.
And honestly, this is the worst I've ever seen Sky.
You'll get through it, yo.
- [sniffing]
- ♪
- MAN: All the way from San Francisco,
Nikki's son, Jeremiah.
- WALT: Nikki got a son?
Where the hell he come from?
- I'm really worried about her.
- CEASER: This is where Sky's moms used to live.
We're hoping we find some hints where she could be.
- ♪
- LULU: You look really pretty, Nikki.
- Thank you, Lulu.
You look really pretty.
I love that bow.
- Lulu is about the pink.
Are you ready for today?
- Mm-hmm.
- RICHARD: Gonna get dressed in your sparkly shoes?
I'm super excited that I finally get a chance to spend the day
with my daughter Lulu right before our wedding reception.
But I really wish that I could have my other two children--
Cody and Achilles--here.
But Cody's still too young.
And Achilles' mother Kathy,
she's been making things difficult with the visitations.
And that's the normal game we always play.
What's up, man? How you feeling?
You ready to hang out with me for the weekend?
- KATHY: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
- RICHARD: You're not gonna let him stay with me
for the weekend?
- ♪
- Now that I married Nikki, Kathy has definitely turned
the Kathy meter up just a little bit on the crazy.
But I'm gonna try and put the baby mama drama aside,
and just focus on today.
So, Lulu, today is a very special day.
You get to meet, um, Nikki's son, Jeremiah.
- Are you excited about meeting Jeremiah?
- Uh-huh.
- You guys are the same age?
He's only one year older than you.
I had my son Jeremiah when I was 16 years old.
He lives in California with his dad.
- [doorbell rings]
- Even though I talk to him every day on FaceTime,
it's not the same as seeing him in person.
So to have him here in New York is everything.
[cheering]
- I'm really excited to finally meet everybody
that's in Nikki's life.
Like her friends and her son Jeremiah.
We just moved together so fast that I didn't get a chance
to meet everybody before we came to New York.
- Jamiah...you miss your mom?
- Yeah.
- I miss my baby so much.
You don't have any idea-a-a-a-a!
I want you to meet somebody.
Jeremiah, this is Richard.
- What's up, Jeremiah?
- Hi. - How's it going?
- NIKKI: Can you shake his hand?
We've been so excited to see you.
- Yeah, I couldn't wait for you to get here.
- Boo-boo, this your brother.
- Can you say hi to Lulu?
- Hi. - Hi.
- You guys are like the same age.
- RICHARD: And she lives in Texas.
- NIKKI: And you're in California.
So you both live somewhere else.
You both gotta come and visit us.
I'm--ooh, baby.
- RICHARD: Every summer.
- You don't know how much mommy missed you.
You really don't know how much mommy missed you.
It can be really hard knowing that my son does miss me,
because I miss him, too.
When I made the decision to let Jeremiah live with his father,
that was a really hard decision.
I really didn't want to uproot my son away from everything
that he knows.
My family, his family, his father,
his school, his friends.
That's his world.
And who am I to take that away from him?
That's selfish.
- Yo, I am so excited that all of you all came.
I mean, like she has her peoples here.
I got a chance to meet Jeremiah.
Lulu's here.
- Lulu's here.
- This is gonna be a beautiful blended family.
I'm excited for today.
- BOTH: I know.
- You all so cute.
- ALL: [laughing]
- Group hug, family hug.
- RICHARD: Bring it in, bring it in.
- Group hug, group hug.
- Group hug. - Family.
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
- CEASER: I'm worried about Sky, so today,
I'm taking her to go find moms-do.
Sky's like a little sister.
And I want her to know that I'd do anything for her,
and she's not alone.
- SKY: Hey, brother. - CEASER: What's up?
- This is nice.
What is this? A 2018?
- [laughs]
- This [bleep] is for real.
Ceaser picking me up to take me to go find my mom,
that means a lot to me.
I don't know what's going on with my mother.
I haven't heard from her.
And I'm a little worried.
I'm a lone wolf right now.
My family is my mother.
That's the only blood that I'm associated with.
And I got this lady like just flying to the beat
of her own drum.
Like she been on this kick since I been a little [bleep] girl.
- ♪
- I've been on my own since I was 14.
She just started disappearing when I was young.
She always been like that.
I think, um, there's a time
when your mother's taking care of you.
And then there's a time when you gotta take care of your mother.
It just so happens, more often than most,
I'm the one taking care of her.
Oh God. The Bronx.
- Never done with the Bronx.
Good ol' home.
These blocks, boys, when you all talk about murders and all
that [bleep] in South Bronx, these are the blocks.
- I used to hang out over here.
- Alright, this--this is the train station.
This is where Sky's moms used to live.
We're checking out all her old spots
hoping we find some hints where she could be.
- Uh. - Sorry.
- [siren wailing]
- Okay, wanna keep a-pushin'?
- SKY: I've been going through this [bleep]
since I was 12 years old.
What's over here?
God.
I don't know where she'd be at.
Let me try calling her.
- [phone ringing]
- [dial tones sounds]
- SKY: She just don't hit me back.
I don't understand her.
And I don't know what the [bleep] happened.
- ♪
- SKY: I knew how it felt to feel abandoned.
I knew how it felt to be alone.
And I never want my sons to feel like that.
[sobbing]
So I made sure I was gonna be able to give them a better life.
I gave my kids up for adoption
so they would never feel abandoned.
[crying]
- ♪
- [crying]
- ♪
- [sighs]
- I'm sorry, Sky, we ain't find your moms.
- ♪ I've been falling down
♪ As you watch me fall until I find my feet ♪
♪ And you will keep me in the dark ♪
- SKY: The only person I really care about in this world
is my mother and my children.
- ♪
- SKY: Even though she my mother,
I gotta take care of her like she my child sometime.
With my mother being out and about on the street,
not knowing where she is,
but it's because they have a chemical imbalance.
When she not in her frame of mind,
she say some [bleep] up [bleep].
And you gotta know, "That's her disorder."
So like you gotta be able to stomach that and handle that,
and that [bleep] be hurting your feelings, too.
And that's coming from your parent.
- ♪ And I will call your name
- Black Ink, that's my family.
- ♪
- SKY: I appreciate Cease being there for me no matter what.
- ♪
- He always has.
I love my friends.
We look out for each other.
Like I love Ceaser as my brother.
[sobbing]
- ♪
♪ And I will find you ♪
- Nikki's the woman who I've been waiting to marry
my whole life.
- ♪
- Ah!
- Yo, what the [bleep]?
- ♪
- ♪ New York, New York
♪ The place where we live
♪ New York, New York
♪ And what you see is what you get ♪
♪ New York, New York
♪ And we got our own thing ♪
- SKY: Are you excited
for Ceaser's first day back at 113th?
- What time he supposed to come in?
- SKY: You know Ceaser is a bird that flies
with his own wings.
- WALT: What other wings would a bird fly with?
[laughing]
- I feel much better today.
I'm still worried about my mother,
but I am happy that I had Ceaser just help me look for her.
- Your side boob going on.
- The side boob, very professional.
You know I'm just trying to show 'em what I got in me.
I'm just gonna try and stay professional with the side boob
and just keep myself busy at work.
- [door buzzes]
- Hey, bro, what's going on?
- CEASER: I need to talk to everybody.
Yo, listen, right now, I do not wanna be here, yo.
There's gonna be a lot of changes in here.
There ain't no more of this bull [bleep].
I need a profit out of this bitch this month.
I learned I can't leave anybody in charge of my shop.
At first, I leave Teddy in charge.
- SKY: Shake that ass, shake that ass.
- CEASER: He turns that [bleep] into a brothel.
I put my woman in charge Dutchess.
- Keep [bleep] playing with me, y'all.
Get out! Get out!
She just got up and left.
The only person that could
take care of this situation is Ceaser.
Bae, I need two stacks from you almost every other day, yo.
You, there will be no more brawling in here.
- That's why I invited that bitch outside.
- There won't be no brawling outside.
- You don't own Lenox!
- This is school grounds.
No one of you mother [bleep] tight on this [bleep].
- You gotta go to the block with that [bleep].
- ALL: [laughing]
- You gotta [bleep].
- [door buzzes]
- SKY: Hey, Project Pat!
What's going on? - How're you doing?
- Project Pat is a mother [bleep] legend.
He's been around for like 20 something years.
Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia's his brother.
And, you know, he from Memphis, baby.
Bwak, bwak.
- Man, you [unintelligible].
What's up with you, man?
What you trying to do?
- Some kind of cartoon street version of myself.
- Gansta like you?
What made you wanna get something like that, bro?
- Just trying to, you know, go back to the kid version
of myself, you know, when it was innocent, you know?
I'm still innocent.
- ALL: [laughing]
- I'm still innocent in any courtroom.
But I'm just saying.
- ALL: [laughing]
- I'm very excited to be tattooing somebody big today
like Project Pat.
I really wanted to keep all my A-list celebrity clients
on 125th Street.
But with Dutch gone, 113th, that's my only option right now.
So, Pat, this inner-children joint,
tell me something, man.
- Me, I've been through so much in my life.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, you know, the music
and, you know, the incarcerations
and all that, man.
I just want something to show like when it was like
a more simpler time.
- Sometimes you wish you could go back to those times.
Only thing you had to get
was a sandwich and some potato chips.
You didn't have to look out for so many people but yourself.
- It was easier. - It was easy.
- Pfft.
- I wish I could stay a kid forever,
because this [bleep] difficult.
- Yeah.
- Here, come on, let's do this. - PROJECT PAT: Let's do it.
- Let's knock this out the way, man.
- ♪ I'm all about money, money, money ♪
♪ Gotta get money, money, money ♪
♪
- CEASER: My dream was always to be king,
have shops all around the world,
have mother [bleep] serving me.
But with two shops, it feel like all the bull [bleep]
lies on these two shoulders.
- ♪ Listen up, let's get it [unintelligible] so what ♪
♪ [unintelligible] but I still keep punching ♪
- I was hoping to build my empire
with Dutchess by my side.
But with her in North Carolina with her own shop,
it got me questioning.
Are we building two separate empires?
- ♪ And I'm gonna go hard until the day I die ♪
♪ I'm all about money
- CEASER: Sometime I wonder if we're destined
to live two separate lives.
She refuses to live in New York full-time.
How the hell are we gonna have a family and all that [bleep]
if we can't even get all this [bleep] straight?
- ♪
- CEASER: I want it all.
I want the house, the kids.
I want the king and the queen to ride off in the sunset.
But at the end of the day, I can't force this on Dutch.
So I just hope Dutchess want the same thing I do.
- ♪ Money, money ♪
- Hey, bro, you done.
- PROJECT PAT: Yeah, man, this thing is evil.
Man, look, check this out.
Twins.
I got mini-me on my arm.
- CEASER: [laughs]
- Hey, man, I appreciate you, man.
- CEASER: Appreciate you coming to see me, man.
- ♪ I did it all
♪ I did it all
♪ We've seen it all
♪ We've seen it all, we do it all ♪♪
- MELODY: Oh, we made a little creature.
I think he looks like me, but I think he acts like you.
That scares me.
- You have your mama's looks and your daddy's brain,
you're gonna kill it.
Mm-hmm.
- Being a mom so far has been insane.
I mean, I can't get this kid to get off my tits for anything
in this world. - [baby cries]
- And I just feel like his personal keg tap.
But it's awesome.
- [unintelligible]
- ALL: [laughs]
- Okay, I'll be one-eyed blind for you.
That's because your mama
doesn't wanna take care of you, right?
- MELODY: Yes, I do.
- LALO: Yesterday, you were telling me that you wanted
to go back to work and that you were going crazy and--
- I mean, I do wanna go back to work.
And I am going a little crazy being in the apartment
all the time.
I wanna get back to Black Ink and start making some money.
I got this little baby I gotta take care of.
And I miss the creative atmosphere,
as crazy as it is.
- ♪
- So I don't really think you should be
thinking about when to go to work.
I mean, it's not like you have a corporate job or anything.
You're your own boss.
You can go whenever.
But right now, your job
is to get this little guy--give this guy some pounds.
- MELODY: I need to get out of this apartment.
- ♪
- MELODY: I wanna go back to work at Black Ink.
- ♪
- Realistically, like he's attached to you
24 hours.
- MELODY: I know that.
- You know, like what are you gonna do?
When--how are you gonna tattoo with one hand
and him hanging like--
- No, obviously, not.
I would start doing smaller pieces.
And I wouldn't be working every day.
But I feel like, here and there, it's not that big a deal
to do one tattoo a week that's an hour or two long.
- I mean, you're gonna have to get there.
You're gonna have to set up.
The whole thing--I know you're thinking little tattoo,
40 minutes.
But the whole mission is gonna be like four hours.
This is what having a baby means.
You have a baby, you stay at home and you take care of it.
- ♪
- I really don't know where this is coming from.
We've always been a super progressive couple.
And now, all of the sudden,
Lalo's becoming super Latino machista.
And I am not trying to be some housewife that just stays home
and waiting for him to get off work.
I am a professional.
That's easy for you to say,
because you're not the one in my shoes.
And I don't think I'm asking for much.
I can do a [bleep] tattoo.
I can do a small tattoo.
That's not crazy,
it's not out-of-this-world impossible.
- Just don't think it's gonna be possible.
- "Notice, your failure to appear in court may result
"in your immediate arrest.
"You may be imprisoned for six months
for contempt of court."
[bleep].
- ♪
- RICHARD: It looks like it's about that time, y'all.
Come on, let's do this.
- ♪
- RICHARD: Nikki's the woman who I've been waiting to marry
my whole life.
And now that she's my wife,
what better way to celebrate our marriage
than with a New Orleans-style marching band?
- ♪
- RICHARD: I haven't been this excited in my entire life.
- ♪
- [indistinct chatter]
- Mel Money is in the building!
- MELODY: Hello, Miss Thing. I am--
- Ahhh!
Oh God!
- It's definitely awkward to be around everybody
after being fired from 113th.
But I'm here to support my bro [bleep].
Sorry, Richard.
- I missed you.
- I wanna suck your nips!
- Girl, you'll get something out of 'em.
- Really?
You look great, Mel. - You got them
lactate-filled boobs right now.
- I know, they've like doubled.
- SKY: Let me touch them.
- Don't they look like she's breastfeeding?
- I know.
- They [bleep] so natural.
Looking over here at Melody's nanas.
They look delicious.
Like I want some milk right now like--
And I'll drink it.
Like I feel like the baby.
Give me a nipple.
We need your energy back at the shop.
It's so weird.
- Weird? - SKY: Yes.
I was attacked by a devil,
but I'll tell you about it later,
'cause this is a great thing, and it's not--
- I had a little bit of drama in that shop too,
but we'll talk about that later.
- So don't even get mad about that.
- What are you talking about?
- I'll tell you about that--about that later.
- Ha-ha, Ted, your ass got fired.
Good!
That's what you get for giving away my clients.
This just gives me one more great reason
to go back to Black Ink.
Hey, Ted.
- How are you, Mel?
- So how you pay for them kicks, Ted?
I'm sure with your hustling skills,
you'll get 900 more.
- Bitch, shut up.
- ♪
- Yo, my [bleep].
- What about 113th?
- [bleep] is crazy, man.
- Oh, man.
I don't know.
I guess I ain't that good.
- [laughs]
Ceaser's pride won't let him admit that he needs my help
at 113th right now.
But give him a week or two,
he'll definitely be calling my phone.
- MALE ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
give it up for the newlyweds Nikki and Richard Duncan.
- [crowd cheering]
- ANNOUNCER: All the way from San Francisco,
Nikki's son Jeremiah!
- [crowd cheering]
- ANNOUNCER: And Richard's daughter Lulu.
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪
- Where did this kid come from?
Did she pop him out before the reception?
She didn't say she ever had kids.
[bleep] never said she had kids.
Where the [bleep] did this kid come from?
- So, your little man, I didn't even know you had a little man.
He's a handsome young fella, though, if I must say so.
- Thank you. - I'm not gonna lie.
I--it was just a little shocker.
I'm not--there's no-- - No, I understand.
- I'm not one to get in the way of love.
But it's kinda weird that you would just leave your son
and travel all the way on the other side of the world
for a guy that you just met.
Do you eventually plan to like move Jeremiah out here?
- I want to.
But I think the hard thing
is like Jeremiah's really stable where he's at.
He has friends. He has a community.
He has all of that.
And so to just like uproot him from that and bring him here,
I feel like--while as a mother, I want that,
as a person and as a human being,
I feel like, "Is that really the best thing?"
- Nice.
What the [bleep] is you talking about?
I'm not talking as a human.
[bleep] out of here.
As a human? You're a mom.
Ain't nothing trump that.
- Y'all, I want everybody with a glass, put it up real quick.
- Thank you, Sky.
That's why you number one, baby.
Number one.
This is for my boy [bleep].
- It's Richard.
- Richard.
- Yeah, we got--we got kids here.
This is for Richard Duncan and Mrs. Duncan.
You know what I mean?
- Yes, your name is Mrs. Duncan!
- Sky! Sky!
I'm doing--alright.
Us boys, we ran wild for a little while.
And we never thought we'd see this day.
Proud of Richard Duncan and Ms. Duncan.
You got a beautiful little family now.
Let's cheers to the modern blended family.
- WOMAN: Yes.
- CEASER: And our friend O [bleep]
staying on a great path.
- Love you, man!
- Love you back.
- [crowd cheering]
- I'm really happy for O [bleep].
It looks like he's really getting his life together.
[bleep].
He got married before me and Dutch,
and he looks happy.
- Agh! - Ahhh!
- [crowd cheering]
- RICHARD: Tonight's been amazing.
I'm so glad that I get a chance to celebrate my new life
with my friends, loved ones,
and most importantly, my new wife.
- [unintelligible]
- ♪
- Oh!
- Close your eyes, baby.
- NIKKI: You know I ain't no size six.
- RICHARD: All that ass.
- Your twerking days is over, bitch.
[laughing]
- ♪
- MAN: Richard.
Richard.
Richard, you can hear me, I see you.
- Yo, what the [bleep]?
I can't believe I'm really getting served
at my wedding reception right now.
Yo, this is some cold-hearted [bleep].
And I know exactly who's behind this.
- RICHARD: My baby mama Kathy is angry that I'm married
to someone who's not her.
She's trying to ruin my life.
Yo, [bleep] that [bleep].
- ♪
- "Notice, your failure to appear in court may result
"in your immediate arrest.
"Your failure to appear result in suspension
of your occupational and business licenses."
- NIKKI: Come on, y'all!
- "If at the hearing, the judge finds that you willfully failed
"to obey the order, you may be imprisoned for the term
"not to exceed six months for contempt of court.
"In the name of the people of the state of New York,
"Richard Day Duncan, employee of Black Ink Tattoos,
55 Lenox Ave."
Come on, [bleep].
[bleep].
- ♪
- RICHARD: Let's get out of here.
- DONNA: I wanna see some buck-naked ass!
I am ready to turn up.
- YOUNG BAE: Damn.
Donna's making out with this woman.
- ALL: Hey!
- WALT: Melody's back.
- MELODY: Before I go back to work,
I just wanna [bleep] cleanse that place.
- I haven't spoken to my mother in like a month.
- [phone rings] - Hello?
Not knowing where my mother is weighs down on me.
Oh my God, no.
- My sister...was pregnant by Cease.
- What're you talking about?
I wouldn't associate myself with somebody like you.
Get the [bleep] out of here.
Who the [bleep] is you?
How you know me?
- ♪