- I'm gonna have Dutchess get this shop back into shape.
- Problem after problem after problem.
You all some disrespectful mother [bleep]!
Get out, get out!
The minions are running the asylum.
Giving me this shop is a whole lot more than I think
I can mother [bleep] take.
I'm going back to North Carolina.
- Hey, bitch.
Did you get around to vacuuming?
- DONNA: Not yet.
- Donna has been at my [bleep] house
for approximately one week,
and it feels like one year of hell.
We gotta get you out of here.
Let's go outside.
- We can do it right here. - No.
- YOUNG BAE: Oh my gosh.
- I know Sky's crazy, but now it's going
to a whole 'nother mother [bleep] level.
Sky, what's wrong?
- [sobbing] I want my mommy, that's what it is.
I want my mommy.
- CEASER: Where she at?
- I don't [bleep] know.
- Stop being like that, man, you're gonna make me sad now.
- Ladies and gentlemen,
give it up for the newlyweds Nikki and Richard Duncan.
All the way from San Francisco, Nikki's son Jeremiah!
- WALT: What? Nikki got a son?
Where the hell he come from?
- Yo, what the [bleep]?
I can't believe I'm really getting served
at my wedding reception right now.
- ♪
- ♪ [unintelligible rapping]
♪ Speaking my style ♪
- YOUNG BAE: Oh my God.
Did you know that was my first wedding in America?
It was crazy.
- We love any reason to drink our Henny and two-step.
- You have some good dance move, too.
- Oh, you see me busting my moves?
- Oh my God!
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪
- ALL: [laughing]
- So, anyway.
Who was that kid--little kid?
The handsome-- - That's little Nikki.
- Did you know about him? - No.
- I didn't even know she had kids.
- Her having that child out of nowhere is proof
that it's a lot more going on.
"Richard"--if that's what you want to call him--
this whole marrying Nikki thing
happened a little too fast, bro.
I ain't even gonna lie.
I mean, if you can hide like a whole child,
what else is it that you can hide?
He don't even really know Nikki.
We don't know her!
She just [bleep] popped up and married O [bleep]
after two, three months tops.
- Yeah. - WALT: Something's up with her.
- I have a feeling.
Especially when she just popped out a kid
at the reception.
A whole kid.
- A whole [bleep] kid.
- CEASER: This whole situation seems kinda weird.
If you really think about it, all he did was replace
the white girl he used to put up his nose with a new drug.
Nikki's vagina.
And apparently, it's so [bleep] good,
he's ignoring all types of skeletons
coming out of her mother [bleep] closet.
- YOUNG BAE: Oh my-- - Hi, guys!
- What's up, baby?
- What's up? [laughs]
I wanna talk about the wedding.
What was you all talking about? Sorry--
- The wedding. - The wedding.
- SKY: Did you all see the [bleep]
that was out--the paper?
- What paper? - WALT: What papers?
- SKY: This [bleep] got served and threw the papers
in the mother [bleep] street.
They said something about it's a court date
that's about to come up.
And if he doesn't go, his ass is going to jail.
This is some serious full custody [bleep].
- What?
- Full custody with who?
- Fully custody with baby mother.
- Which one is you talking about?
- He has a lot of baby mothers.
Who knows, yo?
Anytime his baby mother thinks he's happy--any of 'em
think he's happy, they try to [bleep] up his life.
That's what baby mother's do.
Whoever this [bleep] is--Anya, Coley, or crazy-ass Cathy--
that [bleep] evil.
Evil.
- Yo, you think [bleep] know how serious them papers are?
- Does he care?
- He obviously don't really care
if he threw them [bleep] out.
If Richard wants to be this responsible person
and want everybody to look at him and view him that way,
then he needs to pick up the mother [bleep] papers,
go to court, and take care of his business.
- This [bleep] not gonna do nothing right!
Nothing!
- Listen.
That's why I took the papers.
And I need one of you to give it to him.
- I--what [bleep] you just say?
- [laughs]
- CEASER: Are you out of your mind?
Walt, it's all you, buddy.
- What?
I gotta serve him?
Me? What the [bleep]?
Why does it always have to me?
Like you all not gonna be satisfied until [bleep]
try to throw me out the mother [bleep] window.
And you all sitting there laughing.
But this [bleep] ain't funny.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- ♪ Yeah
- ♪ Hey, now what you worried about, worried about ♪
♪ What you worried about
♪ Let me hit 'em with the uh, uh ♪♪
- MAN: Roll it out!
- ♪
- Alright, one, two.
- [indistinct chatter]
- The illest host in the building.
I'm back here in New York, and I have a dope event
that I have to host to celebrate my swimsuit cover
for "Rolling Out" magazine.
"Rolling Out" magazine
is a really dope, urban publication.
For me to be on the cover is a big deal.
- MALE ANNOUNCER: Let's give it up
for our cover girl Dutchess Latimore.
- [audience applause]
- I wanna just give you all a little bit of understanding.
Every tattoo that I have is a meaning, is a purpose.
For example, I have the queen-- a chess piece--on my hand.
My fiancé has the king on his hand.
Together, we are king and queen.
But separately, we are king and queen as well.
And this is my reminder to continue to be
the queen that I am.
Thank you so much "Rolling Out" for giving me this opportunity.
- [audience applause]
- ♪
- My late fiancé who missed the whole event.
- CEASER: The shop was just [bleep] crazy.
I got you some flowers though.
- Oh, but I get some flowers.
I didn't get your presence.
Let's go talk.
- ♪
- Me and Cease have a great relationship.
But we spend a lot of time in our businesses
instead of spending the time together.
I just think that, if we really wanna make this work,
we definitely need to prioritize each other
when we're in the same city.
What happened?
- Baby, that--that damn shop was a madhouse.
- So money is more important than supporting me?
- Of course not. - I just wanna know.
- I lost track of time.
You know how that is.
I bought you flowers, baby.
I'm sorry.
- Baby, flowers don't fix you not showing up.
- ♪
- I know, I'm sorry I missed it.
- Don't miss important [bleep] to people you love.
- CEASER: I love you.
And I'll try to do better.
I could understand why Dutchess is mad.
Yeah, I should have been on time for her event.
But Dutchess could have choose to be in New York a lot more
than always running back down to North Carolina.
That's if she wants to work on our relationship.
I don't like being apart.
- Well...you know I love you.
And I'm here for you.
- ♪
- We'll figure it out.
But let's not let it ruin our night.
- You're gonna take me out to eat?
- No, you're gonna take me out to eat.
- CEASER: Come on, I just bought you--
- DUTCHESS: And I'm ordering five different meals
just 'cause you missed my [bleep].
- CEASER: [sighs]
- DUTCHESS: [laughs]
- ♪ Let me hear you say
- ♪ Bump to the bump and grind ♪
- ♪ Let me hear you say
- ♪ Bump to the bump and grind ♪♪
- NIKKI: Hi, baby.
What are you making?
- RICHARD: Some chicken.
What else is a black man supposed to make?
Chicken.
- [knocking at door]
- NIKKI: Walter. - Hey.
- NIKKI: Hi, sir.
- What's going on, bro?
- What's up? - How you feeling?
- Chilling.
- Yo, we got some fresh-baked cookies, man,
if you want some. - Fresh baked?
You baking? - Yes.
Yeah, that's right, I bake now.
Being married and staying clean makes me do
all kinds of domesticated [bleep].
Like Marry Poppins in this piece.
- We really appreciate the pictures
that you took for us.
- ♪
- WALT: It was beautiful.
Especially considering, you know, I wasn't there.
But you know I heard all this crazy [bleep] went down.
What the [bleep] happened?
What's going on?
- Look, Cathy's upset that I got married to Nayaka,
so she's trying to get full custody of Achilles,
because she wants to take Achilles
to the Dominican Republican.
She plans on moving there.
And I won't let her do that.
So she filled custody papers against me.
Like she's crazy.
- And then she goes and does this [bleep],
tries to get him served at our wedding.
- That's just tacky. - It was petty.
- What?
Are you serious right now?
Like--these ain't them regular papers.
You can go to jail for this, bro, like--
You threw the papers away and all that stuff, somebody--
- It wasn't the right time.
- Sky had 'em, she gave 'em to me.
She was like, "Yo, Walt, if you [bleep], you know what I mean,
make sure he get these, like--"
- So, wait, Walt, you mean to tell me
that you're gonna come over and serve me?
- Yeah, [bleep].
Give you these [bleep] papers only you threw them
on the [bleep] [bleep] take [bleep].
Those are yours [bleep].
- RICHARD: You're supposed to be my dawg, man.
- ♪
- Yo, Walter, bitch ass [bleep],
you're just gonna come in my house and serve me?
Well, [bleep] you, Walt.
- The stuff with Cathy has been happening for a long time.
So even though the papers were served,
that's a bitch-ass [bleep] to happen there.
- And I get that.
But what's up with these papers?
[bleep] you throwing [bleep] in the street.
Come on.
You don't gotta hide from this no one.
- He's not hiding from it.
It appears like he's not trying to address it.
Of course we are.
But it just feels like anything he does
will never be good enough.
From his perspective, it feels as though that people
who are supposed to be in his corner...
are thinking that he [bleep].
- What the [bleep] you talking about?
Nobody--I'm not in his corner?
Get out of here!
If anybody's in his [bleep] hole with you, it's me!
I don't have hear [bleep]
about that bum-ass nobody supporting me!
'Cause I was there through every [bleep] thing!
Every [bleep] thing!
What the [bleep] you talking about?
I've had his back for almost ten [bleep] years?
Like you crazy?
This mother [bleep] got the gun charge,
I was there to support him, not you!
When he was going to rehab, I was there for him, not you!
[bleep] you talking about?
Everything he's been through literally since I've known him,
I've been there in the front line for him!
Handle your [bleep] in the right way [bleep]!
- [indistinct yelling]
- All this running is why you still at the same place!
- I'm not running away from nothing!
- Handle your [bleep] business!
Get this bitch out of your [bleep] life,
so you can live your right way, man!
- Yeah!
- DONNA: I wanna see some buck-naked ass!
- Damn!
Donna's ass is eating this guy's face.
- ♪
- Damn!
- I haven't spoken to my mother in like a month.
My worst fear is ending up like her.
[sobbing]
- I just wanted to talk to you about Cease.
- I wouldn't associate myself with somebody like you!
- Let's be for real!
Let's be for real!
- Man, get [bleep] out of here.
Who the [bleep] is you?
How you know me?
- ♪
- ♪ Keep it easy, keep it breezy ♪
♪ Keep it light, 'cause it's alright ♪
♪ Wake every morning feeling light ♪
♪ Your world is mine ♪
- KITTY: What's going on?
- Hi, everybody! - What's up?
- Hey, Dutchess. How're you doing?
- Hey, baby!
- I'm glad to see you finally came to work.
- Oh.
- For the record, I don't work for Cease.
I don't work for 113th.
And I don't work for 125th.
I solely only answer to Dutchess.
- Hi. - Hi.
- I'm here to get a tattoo done.
- Who are you here to see? - Dutchess.
- But when I'm in New York, I'm going to get that money.
Okay.
What you getting today?
- Lyrics to a song.
- What's driving you to get this?
- It's kinda like a reminder of like--
- Might have to get them lyrics somewhere on my body, damn it.
- [laughs]
- Alright, we'll get started.
- Okay.
- Alright, baby.
- ♪ You make me feel like
♪ The world is spinning
- DUTCHESS: I've known Cease for over five years.
Since the first day that we spent time together,
we just...clicked.
We couldn't get enough of each other.
- ♪ I'm so dizzy, baby
♪ I could die
- Me and Cease, we've been through a lot.
Sometimes up, sometimes down.
- Dutch, we're not gonna get along.
- Yes, we are.
We're gonna get along.
We've had trust issues.
I don't wanna talk to you.
Get out! Get out!
You're talking to the wrong person.
- CEASER: I know. - DUTCHESS: Get out.
You dirty [bleep] [bleep].
But we've managed to weather the storms
and to know what's more important.
- ♪
- Dutchess, will you marry me?
- [crying] Yes.
That makes us love each other more.
- ♪ You make my heart spin
♪ You make me want more
♪ And I don't wanna
- DUTCHESS: So if the worst thing we have to deal with
is figuring out to make a long-distance relationship
work and how to prioritize each other,
that's easy compared to this [bleep]
we've dealt with in the past.
- ♪
- DUTCHESS: There is nothing in this world
that could stop me from loving him.
And honestly, there's nothing in this world
that could get in between us.
- ♪ And it only gets
♪ Stronger ♪
- DUTCHESS, Alright, sweetheart, let's go check it out.
- Wow.
It's beautiful.
- I'm glad you like it.
- WOMAN: I love it.
- ♪ It's understood that I'm, I'm off the hook ♪
♪ And I'm, I'm doing good
♪ And I'm misunderstood
♪ Oh no ♪
- WOMAN: Hi, how are you doing?
- Good morning. How're you doing?
- I'm Cecelia. You ready for me?
- SKY: Yes, I am.
You look so nice.
Can I have a hug?
I'm a hugger.
I don't know if you're supposed to hug your therapist,
but I'm going to.
With the all the crazy [bleep] that's been going on,
I need a hug from someone to help me get my mind right.
- CECILIA: What make you be here today?
- Um, I've just been having some internal struggles.
- CECILIA: Okay.
- And really needed someone to speak to.
I'm all about energy and vibes, and I vibed out with you
through the--through the Internet. So--
- You look like a mini-me.
- Do I?
- Yeah.
- BOTH: [laughing]
- So...what is the problem today?
- I basically came to talk to you in regards of my mom.
- Okay.
- Like I haven't spoken to my mother, no lie,
in like a month.
- So what is happening that, uh, you wouldn't talk to her?
- She's, um, struggling with bipolar disorder.
And, um, sometimes she doesn't take her medicine
and like--[sobbing].
She's been missing.
[crying]
And I just wanna know that she alright.
Like I ain't trying to be a [unintelligible].
- That's okay. That's okay.
- [sobbing]
It's a struggle.
- What do you when she's not taking her meds?
- I pray that God keeps a shield of protection over her.
- Very good.
You want to know that mommy is doing well.
But mommy has her own path.
And she has to learn what is good for her.
Mommy has to learn that if
consequences of not taking the medication
is losing everything that she has today,
but that's alright.
If you're respecting your mother,
you have to respect her rights to do all those things.
- SKY: It's overwhelming.
It's just so many emotions just not knowing where's your mom
or how she's doing or even where she lives.
- You're so concerned with your mother
because somehow you find yourself in her.
- I mean, at the end of the day,
I love my mother to death,
my worst fear is ending up like her.
Like I don't wanna be 50 something and alone.
[sobbing]
- Are you alone now?
- Yes.
I just don't wanna be alone.
Who wants to be 50 and alone?
Like I wanna be married.
I wanna have children.
Like I wanna--I wanna--
I wanna be a bad-ass bitch.
[crying]
- So what do you want to change?
What do you want to do?
- What I wanna change is...
just my, um--my reactions to things.
Like I--I--I sometimes, I can be impulsively upset.
- What else?
- I like to fight.
- You do?
- Mm-hmm.
- Are you proud of that?
- SKY: No.
This is like how life has been, basically, um--
- When was the last time that you had a fight?
- This little bitch that used to work at the shop,
she was like da-da-da-da, talking, talking, talking.
I was just like, "Yo, do you wanna fight me?
Like what is this?"
And she's like, "Do you wanna fight?"
- But do you listen?
Do you engage her no matter what?
- I know, but--
- You're asking her, "You wanna fight me?"
- But this before like I met you.
That's what I'm saying.
- BOTH: [laughing]
- Okay.
When you're engaged in a fight,
you don't know where that's gonna end.
- SKY: Right. But I don't wanna fight.
This is what I'm telling you.
I just my body done.
I--I wanna smile, like I wanna [bleep].
- [bleep].
- I wanna [bleep].
I wanna enjoy life like--I wanna love.
I'm a lover.
- CECILIA: So what have you learned?
- SKY: Fight less and [bleep] more.
- BOTH: [laughing]
- Hey! - WALT: Hey!
Melody's back!
- Before I got back to work, I just wanna [bleep]
cleanse that place, get rid of all the bad energy.
- [phone rings] - Hello?
Not knowing where my mother is weights down on me.
Oh my God, wait.
Hi, Mommy.
- ♪
- MAN: Ladies and gentlemen.
- ♪ [unintelligible rapping] ♪
- YOUNG BAE: Do you know that New York garbage collectors
call maggots disgrace?
- What?
- I'm so serious.
- That's disgusting.
That's weird as [bleep].
- Right? - Alright.
Yo, man, you took care of that [bleep] at the courts
yet with all this dumb-ass custody [bleep]?
- Um...you don't gotta worry about it, bro.
- [bleep] really wanna act like nothing happened
at his crib the other night.
But, bro, that is your life.
You wanna fix it or [bleep] up.
I've washed my hands of this whole situation.
- [door buzzes] - What's up, man?
- We got a package coming in.
- Empire Labs.
- RICHARD: Empire Labs?
- WALT: [bleep] got test results?
They don't say nobody specific name.
- RICHARD: No. - WALT: Black Ink.
We are Black Ink, right?
- What the [bleep]?
- Clone-A-Willy!
Yeah!
- From the makers of clone a [bleep], clone a--
- This look like some Sky-ordered [bleep].
- YOUNG BAE: What the hell is this?
- You take the mold and you huh.
- She said, "Just a [bleep]?
I need balls, too, in my life."
- "I need the orbs."
- ALL: [laughing]
- [knocking at door]
- Oh [bleep], yep.
Hey! Melody back!
- So I was finally able to convince Lalo
that I need to go back to work.
But it was a little bit of a struggle finding a nanny.
What's your sign?
- Aries.
- Ooh, girl, you're gonna have to go.
- I definitely wanna be the heavyweight taco queen
Brazilian jiu jitsu champion of the world.
- After some searching, I found a semi-sane nanny.
And now, I'm ready to get back to tattooing.
Before I go back to work, I need to cleanse some of that
bad energy out of that shop, because I can
still feel Ted all around me in there.
And I can't be bringing all that negative energy home to my baby.
This is my girl Dushi Amour.
- ♪
- What the [bleep] Dushi [bleep] do she?
That thing you put it in your [bleep]?
- She's a healer.
- [rattle shaking]
- WALT: You got some--
- I'm gonna cleanse this place.
Dushi is a medium who's about to make
this stank-ass place shine.
- [door buzzes]
- WALT: Hi, Sky. - RICHARD: Hi, Sky.
- SKY: What's up?
- We're blessing folks.
- [bell ringing]
- What the [bleep]?
- Her name is Dushi.
- MELODY: She is cleansing energy from the shop.
- Yo, what the [bleep] is going on in here?
Who is this lady in here ringing a cow bell?
- [bell rings]
- Do Dushi know that she in Harlem
and not on some [bleep] farm?
What are the beans for?
- No, no, no, no, no!
La, la, la, la.
- [bell ringing]
- ♪
- DUSHI: There's a fire coming from her mouth.
- It's sage.
It cleanses your energy.
- WALT: Is this about healing us?
Or does Dushi just wanna walk around here and get high?
- Dushi's getting a little frisky with Sky.
Um, does she know that Sky's not interested?
- I think Dushi just horny.
- DUSHI: All the evil spirits is gone.
Open the door, let 'em out.
- SKY: Open the door, let 'em out.
- MELODY: We at maximum capacity.
Get your ass out.
Dushi got a little frisky, but I guess she did
what she thought she needed to do.
- [indistinct chatter]
- MELODY: The energy is a lot of better.
I think I could get back to work up in here.
- WALT: Goodbye, Dushi! - SKY: Bye.
- Bye, Dushi! - YOUNG BAE: Bye!
- What's up?
- What up? - Melody,
we got another one of your clean-up people here!
- No, it's for me. It's for me.
- Oh, you're getting tatted?
[unintelligible].
- What up, what up?
- So, uh, what you think about getting done today?
- I'm trying to get a chest piece.
- RICHARD: Chest piece. - Try to finish it up.
- Follow me to the back. We just start this thing.
This is a new client,
and I love doing chest piece tattoos,
because it's gonna be something that can be shown off easily.
Anytime you go to the beach and you take your shirt off,
it's the first real estate that people are gonna see.
Let me see your chest
so I can see exactly what I'm gonna be working on.
- ♪
- Alright, so what exactly do you wanna do with this?
- Put a stack of money right here.
And you can just shade this in right here.
And most important thing is like if you could shade in my scars.
- I can do that.
- 'Cause that's what I don't want people to see...
- You had chest surgery?
- Yeah, I'm a transgender.
And I don't want to go out and they see my scar,
and they're gonna be like-- - Yeah, people start like
automatically assuming and judging and [bleep].
- Yeah, it's very hard for me to be who I wanna be.
But I have another surgery coming up.
A lot of money involved for that.
- RICHARD: Yeah? - Hundred thousand.
- A hundred thousand?
- Yeah, you know, I'm at a place right now that I have to,
you know, deal with my responsibilities.
And whatever's coming at me, I just have to like,
you know, face it.
- I can dig that.
I got--that's--that's exactly where I'm at right now.
Alright. Ready to start this thing?
- Alright.
- RICHARD: There's no turning back now.
- ♪
♪ Whoever said love don't cost a thing lied ♪
♪ I couldn't begin to tell you
♪ About all of the things I lost ♪
- RICHARD: This custody situation with my ex,
Cathy, it's a huge pain in my ass right now.
And if I was the old O [bleep], I'd be drinking alcohol,
and doing drugs and run away from my problems.
- ♪ [unintelligible]
♪ I sit there alone, no sounds outside of the dream ♪
♪ Can't feel a thing outside of this pain ♪
- And that's not me anymore.
I've been clean for four months now,
and I don't wanna [beep] that up.
I gotta learn to face conflict head on,
because I wanna be a good husband to Nikki.
I wanna be a good father to all of my children.
And I want them to be proud of me.
- ♪ Never share my pain
♪ Never share my pain
- RICHARD: I was upset that Walt was getting in my business.
But I get it.
He was just trying to be a good friend.
He doesn't want me to go back to my old ways.
And I don't want that either.
If I'm gonna handle my responsibilities
the right way, of course, I'm gonna have to go to court.
- ♪ It's raining outside ♪
- Ready.
Get on up and take a look at it in the mirror.
- Wow.
Yo, this is fire.
You really bring-ed my vision to life, bro.
- Yeah!
Glad you love it.
- Thank you.
- ♪ I do it, do it, do it, do it, do it ♪
♪ I do it big, baby, yeah, I do it big, baby ♪♪
- [phone ringing]
- I don't know why Donna keep calling me.
I have no idea where this bitch wig is.
Oh my God, wait, this my mother.
Hello?
- Hi, Mommy.
- SKY: It's so good to hear your voice.
I was so worried about you.
I miss you so much, Mommy.
I love you.
What--where you at? What are you doing?
- SKY: I'm happy to hear that you back on your meds.
But where--where you at? What are you doing?
Where you at? I wanna see--
- SKY: Mommy, you not gonna tell me where you at?
I wanna see you.
[sobbing] Alright, Mommy.
- MOM: Okay?
- Just promise me I'll be able to see you soon, Mommy.
I love you.
- MOM: I love you, love.
- ♪
- SKY: I am so thankful my mom's alive.
But not knowing where she is or when I'll see her
just weighs down on me sometimes.
- ♪ Close your eyes
♪ To see the light
♪ Hoping everything is gonna be alright ♪
- Until the day I'm actually able to see my mother,
I have to keep replaying in my mind what the therapist
told me and let my mom be her own person.
- ♪ Everything is gonna be
♪ Alright ♪
- SKY: Donna!
- What the [beep] is Donna doing here?
- ♪
♪ I do it
♪ I do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, baby ♪♪
- WALT: Breast and thighs.
I feel like the Colonel right now.
- Colonel?
- [laughing]
- You got the thighs, she got the bobos.
I kinda--I can't--this is a great way to start my day.
- ALL: [laughing]
- [door buzzes]
- Hey!
- What the [beep]? - Hey!
- CEASER: What the [beep] are you doing?
- ♪
- Ceaser.
- Donna.
- How're you doing?
- What's up?
- ♪
- What the [beep] is Donna doing here?
And why the [beep] is this bitch hugging me?
- SKY: That was a good hug.
- What you want, Donna?
- DONNA: I wanna show you I've grown.
I can be an asset to Black Ink.
So, you know, I brought in this list...
of clients that I have ready to go.
- Ooh, business woman.
- And I've totaled at least $9,200.
I'm ready. Got my [beep] together.
Invested in a new machine.
- Oh my God, that's so good.
- I have like real [beep] to offer.
- SKY: No.
- You've been coaching, ain't you?
- [beep].
- You've been [beep] coaching her.
- Yes, [beep], yes.
I'm coaching this ho.
You are a Virgo.
Beyoncé is our Virgo mother.
You gotta get your [beep] together, son.
She gotta get a job so she can get her own crib
and get the [beep] out of mine.
I just want you to continue listening
to this young lady talk.
- Like the only reason I'm in this state
is just to work here.
- ♪
- Oh, don't cry.
Are you gonna cry?
- [laughs]
- Cease, let her work here.
- What? Because she 'bout to cry?
- I came to New York to tattoo at Black Ink.
- Isn't that why you came to New York was to work there.
- It is.
- Talk to him and show him a good attitude.
And don't take no for an answer.
- [laughs]
Melody and Sky's advice definitely helped me
to prepare better than I would have on my own
and showed me like perseverance is definitely key.
- She claims to have all these clientele,
so we ain't even gotta worry about that.
- She got potentials.
- This gotta be the mother [beep] Twilight Zone.
When the [beep] these mother [beep]
become a fan of Donna and her work?
This [beep] must have paid these mother [beep]
before I got here.
- At the end of the day, she made mistakes.
But she's coming here with an open and humble heart.
She's gonna learn how to not speak when it's no need.
She's not gonna hook up with your fiancée again.
- ALL: [laughing]
- SKY: She looks appreciative.
And she's humbled enough to do what it is
that's gonna get her back in here tattooing.
- Um, you gonna admire her.
She already knew the odds were all the way against her.
- SKY: All the way. - She's still just like, "Hey."
- SKY: Oh, and--oh, on top of that,
I almost [beep] forgot, sorry.
We also need her out of my home.
Look at that smile!
- As new Black Ink, there's certain things
that I don't really want back in here.
- ♪
- I don't need the drama.
I don't need the bull [beep].
You come with a lot of drama and a lot of bull [beep].
- SKY: She's not about that [beep] no more.
- Exactly.
- Like, come on, bro, like, please, like just take a chance.
- Cease, just hire her back.
Come on now, you know you love hiring and firing people.
Just do it.
- Take a chance! - Come on!
- ♪
- You wanna be back in Black Ink...that serious?
- ♪
- CEASER: Mm.
- ♪
- Oh [beep], fine, you're back.
- [applause]
- Yeah!
- Ceaser!
- This is against my better judgement,
and Dutchess might kill me.
But I'm gonna let Donna back in the shop.
As long as you mother [beep] learn to get along
with each other, that's all I care about.
Plus, Donna claim that she got clients
and money to bring in the shop.
So [beep] it, this is Donna's lucky day.
- DONNA: Thank you, Cease.
This mean so much to me.
- ♪
- SKY: We are celebrating tonight, baby!
- ♪
♪ No matter what they come
♪ The more you got it, baby, it's time to set it ♪
- Hey!
- ♪
- Aces, baby!
Yes!
It's a ladies only night tonight.
We're celebrating for Donna.
She's got her job back.
So that means she'll be out of my house very soon.
I'm just happy.
Hell, I'm even feeling so generous
I invited Kitty, the 125th "police-ia."
- ♪
- SKY: Yo!
Everybody get your drink!
Donna, first of all, you have gotten married, divorced.
Your life has went through
different problems and struggles.
But you know what, Coo-coo Bird?
You're back at the shop.
And that just proves there's a silver lining in every cloud.
Let's make a toast to all the real bitches out here.
- That's a toast.
- SKY: Yeah!
- This is the first time in a long time
that I feel like my [bleep] coming together.
I am back in Black Ink.
I'm divorced from that stupid ex-husband of mine.
I am ready to turn up.
I wanna see some buck-naked ass.
- Damn!
Asses, asses, asses, boob, boobs, boobs.
Love it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That's a nice ass.
- ♪ It' 12:29
♪ Yeah, we just getting started ♪
♪ In NYC
♪ They got one minute left
♪ In MIA
- Oh my God, Donna's ass is eating this guy's face.
Her fat is just like boom, boom, boom.
It's like poof, bam!
- Ooh!
- Donna!
- Oh my God, Donna's making out with woman.
Damn, she's touching her [bleep] and everything.
- ♪
- Yes, this is what I'm talking about!
Donna is moving rapido with this woman in this club.
Hell, this young lady could take Donna's ass home for good.
I will book that moving truck and move those boxes myself.
You won't have to do a thing, my love.
Yo!
Donna!
[bleep] packed up by the morning.
Yes!
- WOMAN: Do you, uh, wanna go outside?
- DUTCHESS: Excuse me?
- Do you know her?
- You [bleep] Cease?
- Wait, wait.
- ♪
- ♪ Jump shot, set, okay
♪ [unintelligible]
- KITTY: You just be over here just drawing snatch
all over the place.
- ALL: [laughing]
- MAN: Why you hidin' 'em?
- Don't hide 'em.
- ALL: [laughing]
- You know what it is?
Eli realizes that [bleep] runs the entire world.
The power of the [bleep].
- ALL: [laughing]
- Good.
- ♪
- Hi, y'all.
This my sister and brother, y'all.
My brother and sister, RJ and Zandy,
are up from North Carolina for the day.
My sister wants this crazy idea of us getting matching tattoos
of semicolons to kinda like strengthen our bond
and bring us closer together.
So...we gonna do it.
- What a semicolon for?
- Alright, I'm out with that corny [bleep].
I got tattoos to do.
I don't really get to see my brother and sister that much
in North Carolina, because my brother's in college
and my sister's with her family.
When we do get to spend time together, it's very special.
Alright, sis.
- ZANDY: Let's go.
- Let's get this going.
- ♪
- Jesus.
- DUTCHESS: Don't be moving.
'Cause it ain't that bad.
It's over with.
- ZANDY: Thank you.
Go ahead, bro.
- Maybe I shouldn't get it on my right hand.
- ZANDY: Sit down. Don't try to punk out now.
- ♪
- WOMAN: I want a tattoo by Dutchess.
- KITTY: Dutchess is all booked up today.
- Is she tattooing somebody right now?
- KITTY: As I just mentioned, she has a very busy schedule,
and she won't be available today.
- WOMAN: Okay.
- What's up with this, ho?
I just told you Dutchess is booked for today.
This bitch is nuts.
- What's up, baby?
- KITTY: There's this little rat bird in the front
waiting for you.
I've already told her that you're booked,
but she's still sitting there anyway.
Can you just go talk to her?
- DUTCHESS: I know I got a lot of tattoo fans out there,
but it's too early for this lady to be stalking me.
[unintelligible]
- Do you, uh, wanna go outside?
- DUTCHESS: Excuse me?
- WOMAN: Do you wanna go somewhere outside?
- ZANDY: Dutchess, where are you going?
Do you know her?
- What?
- WOMAN: You don't gotta go there.
- I'm married. - You don't gotta go there.
- [indistinct chatter]
- ZANDY: Get--get my sister.
Who is she? Who is she?
'Cause she will get laid up.
[bleep] talking about.
Who is she?
Huh-uh, let me down here.
Who is she?
- My sister...
was pregnant by Cease.
And the baby was aborted.
- ♪
- My sister...was pregnant by Cease.
And the baby was aborted.
I just wanted to know if you told your man
to abort that baby.
- You didn't know that? - No.
- What's going on?
- She said her sister [bleep] was pregnant by you.
- Who you?
- Who am I? - CEASER: You know me?
- Why you so shaky?
- Shaky?
You just--you just said I got your sister pregnant.
Who's your sister?
I really don't know what [bleep] is going on right now.
I don't know who the [bleep] she is.
But you could take one look at this [bleep]
and see she's [bleep] crazy.
- WOMAN: Of course you're not gonna say you know who I am.
- Who are you?
- Of course you're not gonna say that.
- You've see me before?
You know me?
Where you know me from?
- [bleep] you talking about?
I'm coming to tell you what the [bleep] I gotta tell you.
You playin' both of 'em.
What do you mean you don't know who the [bleep] I am?
- [bleep]. - --talking about.
- I don't know you.
I wouldn't associate myself with somebody like you.
- And look at you.
You just made it to five stacks.
- Five stacks?
- WOMAN: You couldn't even pay for a [bleep] abortion
that she had to pay by Medicaid. - What abortion?
What are you talking about?
Shorty, you are bugging, yo.
- Let's be for real.
Who you talking about?
Get the [bleep] out of here.
[bleep] sound stupid.
Who the [bleep] is you?
- [indistinct yelling]
- Bye.
Adios.
- Where's this imaginary person?
- I was never gonna let her [bleep].
- [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
Who [bleep]?
I don't know [bleep] [bleep].
I definitely didn't get no mother [bleep] pregnant.
Get the [bleep] out of here.
[bleep]. - What you talking about?
- How you know me?
- Let's be for real!
Let's be for real!
Fake as [bleep].
Bitches for life!
[bleep] for me, yo.
- Man, [bleep].
You trippin'.
Who is that [bleep]?
- WOMAN: That [bleep] was shaking.
Like he don't know you.
- ♪
- WOMAN: You alright.
- DUCTHESS: Just give me a second.
[bleep].
- Yo, where [bleep] crazy people come from, yo?
- CEASER: [unintelligible].
Dutch?
Can I talk to you for a sec?
Hello?
- [sobbing] What?
- Can I talk to you for a second?
- It hurts me that Dutchess is believing this [bleep]
from this woman.
Me and Dutchess, yeah, we had trust issues.
But I thought we was past that.
- DUTCHESS: I feel torn apart.
I don't even wanna see the world right now.
- ♪
- CEASER: Where you going, hmm?
- [unintelligible]
- MAN: Which way? Which way we going?
- I wanna go home.
I wanna go home.
I don't wanna be out in the streets like this.
I wanna go home.
- ♪
- CEASER: Dutchess, come back.
Talk to me, Dutch.
- ♪
- Hi, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.
This is my first date since my divorce.
- We could make some Tiger Wood babies.
- I am deleting my Tinder account.
- CEASER: I got--bang.
- No, get [bleep] out of here.
- This is crazy.
- ALL: [laughing]
- You've seen this video on Instagram, right?
- What is it?
- MELODY: It's your girl.
- You're really starting to act like [bleep].
- My kids' father, he's a very bad man.
The best way that I can describe him is Lucifer.
- How you doing?
- I just want this piece of [bleep] away from me.
- Excuse me.
I don't know what to do.
I don't wanna be around him.
Security, get him the [bleep] away from me!
- MAN: Step back, sir.
- SKY: Don't [bleep] touch me!
- ♪