- Puerto Rico! Come to our booth!
- No one on my team sent you anything?
- No, man, no, nothing.
- This [bleep] embarrassing.
But you all mother [bleep] gotta fix this [bleep].
- Can somebody Google tattoo shops in Old San Juan?
We gotta find some tattoo shops to work out of.
'Cause right now, we're [bleep] out of luck.
- Welcome to my house.
- ALL: [cheering]
- If we hustle, we can make every penny back
we would have made at the convention
to prove to Cease that we're not giving up.
- We got clients. We got money.
Ted, you might have just saved your ass with this one.
- Look at the chemistry.
I haven't seen him smiling and looking all goofy in forever.
- [laughs]
- I can't hate you, because I love you so much.
If we can save it, I wanna save it.
- We're past that point.
- I feel like a fool.
'Cause I really love him.
- I'm gonna keep it 100 with both of y'all.
I'd like to know more about Nikki.
Nobody feels more responsible for [bleep] than me.
- Shut the [bleep] up!
- [bleep] you, Ceaser.
[bleep] all of you all!
- SKY: Are you opening up 113th or not?
- Yo, listen...
I'll definitely give it one more shot.
- You mother [bleep] better.
- Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus.
- MELODY: To 113th, bitches!
- SKY: Amen!
- ♪
- SKY: Hello, hello, hello! Hello!
Black Ink 113th is open!
And we are having a welcome, grand opening,
reopening grand party.
I need them to feel us on Lennox.
Are we ready?
Why are you not moving enough, Donna?
I'm so happy Ceaser finally decided
to open up Black Ink 113th.
Move! Get this together!
So I set up this big thing
to show some appreciation for Ceaser.
Plus, when we sees all this feathery pum,
I think he'll give me my promotion.
Hey, Ceaser!
Welcome to Black Ink!
- All this for little old me?
- SKY: All this is for you, man. We appreciate you.
Thank you for reopening the shop.
Go ahead and take a walk on the red carpet.
Let me see that, go ahead.
Boom! Bam! Boom! Bam!
Yeah, yeah!
- Who the [bleep] you think you are?
- I'm Ceaser, bitch. [laughs]
If this is the type of greeting I'm gonna get,
I should close down, open up stores more often.
- SKY: Here, bro. Cut this [bleep], man.
This [bleep] is some Edward Scissorhands [bleep].
- Cut the ribbon, Cease.
- WALT: Go ahead, man. Cut the damn ribbon, man.
- ♪
- ALL: [cheering]
- [siren wailing] - [firework popping]
- What the [bleep]? What the [bleep]?
[bleep] all, yo?
You all can't be doing [bleep] in the hood!
We're in the hood, mother [bleep].
You hear popping like that, you better duck, then run.
- SKY: Open up the gate.
- ♪
- ALL: [cheering]
- One thirteen is officially open.
- ♪
- 'Bout time, mother [bleep].
We're open, so we're pulling out all the stops.
Money's no object!
Let it ride!
- Hey!
- [indistinct cheering]
- I am so grateful we were able to turn this whole thing around.
Now I don't have to stress about where am I gonna tattoo at
or how am I gonna get money.
- [indistinct cheering]
- Yo, I wanna thank everybody here.
We went through a lot of bull [bleep],
especially in Puerto Rico.
You all really surprised me.
And you all worked as a team.
And this is the reason why I opened back up 113th,
'cause I feel like you all are mature enough
that I don't have to sit here and babysit nobody.
Cheers to 113th.
- ALL: [cheering]
- ♪
- CEASER: It feels great to have 113 back open.
Honestly, it feel like
I'm getting on the right start to my empire.
- MELODY: Bitch, Puerto Rico was so fun.
- DONNA: Speaking of Puerto Rico,
when was the last time you spoke to Tatu Baby?
- Um...a minute now.
- I love Tatu Baby. What happened?
- Yeah, she was so cute.
- Dutchess [bleep] that whole situation up.
She said she can't deal with bull [bleep]
so she friend zoned my ass.
- ALL: [ooohs]
- CEASER: Dutchess coming to that commitment ceremony party
trying to get me back was the last straw for Tatu Baby.
Hopefully, you know what I mean, you're gonna come to New York.
- I think that it's better for you to be single for a while,
you know? - What?
- ♪
- It's hard to come to terms with,
but it look like...
this is the end of the road for me and Tatu Baby.
I'm gonna miss her sweet salsa moves.
Her in a bathing suit.
You look good on a slice of pizza, girl.
- Yeah? - CEASER: Yeah.
And you know what?
She looked good in regular clothes, too.
I guess it's better to just bang and bounce...
than ever to have banged at all.
- [laughs]
- WALT: it's over? - It's over, bro.
Now, it's time for me to get out there
and be the successful entrepreneur bachelor that I am.
Yo, listen, I just want everybody here to keep
the same attitude they had in Puerto Rico.
- WALT: I'm with that. I'm all about that.
- I've seen a whole new 113th in Puerto Rico.
And, honestly, it impressed me.
- Speaking of, I wanna step up and...
I wanna be the manager at 113th.
- For real?
- Wait. What?
I am about to have a [bleep] heart attack.
She know I've been gunning to be a manager,
and she tries to snipe it right in front of me?
That's some cold-hearted [bleep].
- I can't be waiting on Ted to do his [bleep] job.
Like I wanna step up and make sure that
money's coming in these doors.
- Is this [bleep] calling me out on my management skills?
Whatever, I'm out of here.
I don't know what type of incense you're burning,
you can get the [bleep] out of here.
Stick to tattooing.
- I have a lot of [bleep] ideas.
And I feel like it's just floating in the wind,
and I wanna really make it do something.
Of course I wanna be a manager.
Even though Teddy made up for it,
he totally [bleep] up the convention.
So why put him back in charge?
I'm manager material, and I'm ready to run 113th.
Oh, and one more thing, if I were to become manager,
I would love for Sky to be my co-manager.
I think we can really make [bleep] pop off in here.
- High five.
Oh my God, Mel Money.
I am excited!
You can handle the art stuff, and I can handle
all the social media and promotion stuff.
You know you're my bitch.
- I like where you're going with this,
but I can't just sit here and just give you a job like that.
You gotta earn that [bleep].
- And I will.
Cease, you just wait. I will you show that
Sky and I can manage the [bleep] out of 113th.
Pussy power.
- [indistinct yelling]
- CEASER: Black Ink forever, mother [bleep].
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ Living it up, living it up
♪ You gotta let it go ♪
- ♪
- [indistinct chatter]
- After my breakup with Cease, I deserve to have some fun.
And I am so proud to say that my shop
has survived the first year.
Being a black female entrepreneur
is a very, very big thing.
And everybody here in attendance wants to see me win.
Excuse me, everyone.
I just wanna say thank you for everybody that's here.
- ALL: [cheering]
- I wanna give a shout-out to all my clients.
You all don't come and get one tattoo.
You come and get five tattoos.
Like that is something that I am so grateful for.
I'm gonna cry, because I'm a crybaby.
- ALL: [laughing]
- [sobbing]
The team that I have behind me...
y'all move mountains for me like--
My dream is y'all's dream.
Pretty N Ink is my real family.
I'm so grateful to have them around me,
because you could have never told last year
I would be celebrating
my one-year anniversary without Cease.
- [crowd cheering]
- Will you marry me?
- DUTCHESS: Of course I'll marry you.
- [crowd cheering]
- But I find a lot of peace and comfort in knowing
that I have a family here at Pretty N Ink.
I thank God, because... my faith been so tested.
[sobbing]
But everything is growing for me, so the pain
is what I need to persevere and push me farther.
So cheers to Pretty N Ink and many more anniversaries.
- [crowd cheering]
- Alright, y'all, bitch is newly single!
- [crowd cheering]
- I just wanna say...
- [crowd cheering]
- DUTCHESS: After years of being together,
Cease is not interested
in giving this relationship another go.
He's clearly moved on.
And I need to move on, too.
I've cried too many tears.
Now I can actually focus on building my business.
My success is gonna be my greatest revenge.
- [crowd cheering]
- ♪ It's understood that I'm about the hood ♪
♪ And I'm, I'm doing good and I'm misunderstood ♪
♪ And now ♪
- Man.
- ♪
- Yo, [bleep], what up, yo?
- Yo, Cease, what up?
- I haven't seen [bleep] since Puerto Rico.
And I know he's mad at me for calling out his wife
on all her sketchy-ass behavior.
But why [bleep] do we gotta be
on the street corner in his neighborhood?
Like, what, we on some gansta [bleep] right now?
You all right?
[bleep] you got me all the up here for, man?
We back in the hood.
- Nikki's at home, I don't want her to hear this.
Because I need to talk to you about all [bleep]
that happened in Puerto Rico.
- You guys Googled me and my Yelp reviews?
- Some of that [bleep] say you're married before him.
- I don't need to discuss anything!
- Had us out in the books, try to embarrass my wife.
She ain't my girlfriend. She's not my fiancée.
Like that's my wife.
And for you to be one of my best friends,
for you to do some [bleep] like that, is [bleep] up.
I know Cease is just looking out for my best interest.
None of what they said about Nikki was true.
And even if she had a kid and she was married before, so what?
I still love her anyway.
- Bro...so what do you expect us to do
when we see you having a drink in Puerto Rico?
We're supposed to be a family. We're supposed to help you.
- I'm also a grown-ass man who can make his own decision.
- ♪
- And now like she feels like nobody respects her.
And now like she's going through extra [bleep].
- Bro... - I mean, like
what nobody knows, Ceaser-- nobody out of the crew--
they don't know that I'm going through [bleep] right now.
I'm going through real [bleep].
Like Nikki's pregnant.
- What?
- My father was making [bleep] threats that he was gonna
pour acid on my face whenever he sees me.
And I feel like my father's like out there looking for me.
- ♪
- Yes!
- Yo, is there a [bleep] naked man in the middle
of this tattoo shop right now?
This is not how [bleep] runs at 113th.
- I bring money in.
- That doesn't matter!
I'm out of here!
I don't need this [bleep].
- ♪
- I'm going through [bleep] right now.
Like Nikki's pregnant.
- ♪
- What?
- I got Nikki pregnant.
- ♪
- Another [bleep] kid?
- Yeah!
- Hold on! How many kids you got?
- ♪
- Three.
And this is about to be the fourth.
How the [bleep] are you gonna afford that?
What [bleep] is up with you? How many kids you gonna have?
- This one is different though. We planned on having this child.
We sat down and talked about expanding our family.
But it happened faster than we expected.
There's a lot [bleep] that's going on.
Not only is she pregnant, but she also has lupus.
- What the [bleep] is lupus?
- Lupus is like an immune system disease.
Basically her cells fight against each other.
So when she gets sick, she gets really sick like--
- Hmm. - All I'm trying to say is that
now that you know we're going through all this [bleep],
fall back a little bit.
- ♪
- I was trying to get everything straight with you.
I was just trying to make sure you was good, bro, that was it.
My bad.
- ♪
- Yo, I appreciate you. But I know you still love me.
- CEASER: [bleep] a grown-ass married man.
So even though nothing in me feels like
he should have another kid, I'm gonna fall back.
But I'm not gonna disappear.
[bleep] I still love you my [bleep].
- ♪
- ♪ I hypnotize mix all the things I say ♪
♪ Walk my eye candy to the black caddy ♪
♪ Drink some more ♪
- Let me just put this [bleep] up on the windows.
- Yo, why are we putting up newspaper on the window though?
- I don't know, but Melody said
she wants newspaper over the windows.
- TED: I'm not participating in that.
Who knows what this weirdo, hippie, tree-hugging
[bleep] Mel is up to tonight.
Whatever it is, I definitely
don't wanna be a part of this [bleep].
- Hey, y'all.
- Melody!
- And company.
- Guys, these are my friends.
You guys can head on to the back.
- Hi, friends.
- I'm not gonna sit around and wait for someone
to give me the manager position. I'm gonna [bleep] take it.
I'm gonna start being proactive. I have a lot of ideas.
And I'm gonna turn this shop around, because the sooner
it starts making money, the better for me and my family.
We're gonna have some figure models.
And we're gonna do some live drawings.
- YOUNG BAE: Oooh! - Isn't that fun?
One of the keys for having a great shop
is having great artists.
And a figure drawing session is a great way
for us to sharpen our craft.
- This is good for the tattooing.
- Wait, hold the [bleep] up.
Did you all just say you all was drawing figure models?
- MELODY: Yes. - Yeah.
- TED: Mel, shutting the shop down to do arts and crafts
is the dumbest thing you could have ever thought of.
The shop need to make money,
or this [bleep] is gonna be closed down.
- So without further ado!
- Whoo!
- Our models! - Wait, what are you doing?
- Yes!
- You all are so beautiful.
- Yo, is there a [bleep] naked man
in the middle of this tattoo shop right now?
- Wow, Ted, really? I don't know what the [bleep]
you thought I meant when I said figure drawing.
I guess that's what happens when you let someone
be the manager of a shop that doesn't know [bleep] about art.
- Whooo! I love it!
- Oh my God! - [laughing]
- Yo, what the [bleep]?
I don't believe that this is
what this [bleep] has come to, man.
- YOUNG BAE: I don't know what Ted is freaking out about.
I know there's a dick. But there's boobs as well!
- Turn around and bend over.
- ♪
- DONNA: Yo, why you gotta be such a douchebag?
Teddy, stop being an asshole.
Like these are nude models, not strippers.
Seriously, grow the [bleep] up.
- Don't listen to him. - TED: Whatever.
This is [bleep] stupid. I'm out of here.
- YOUNG BAE: Teddy, where you going?
- DONNA: He's running away again.
- MELODY: What a dick move.
- ♪ Yeah, yeah
♪ Sick, sick, slim, slim ♪
- KITTY: Hey. What's going on?
- I'm chillin'.
You look pretty today.
I mean, you look pretty every day.
- Well, thank you.
- But today you got that little glow.
What? You got yourself an older boyfriend?
- [laughs] Oh, well, you know.
No. - Oh.
- Is he flirting with me?
I'll admit, it's a little flattering.
But I see, like, single life agrees with everybody.
You look like...very relaxed.
I was thinking you losing weight?
- Yeah, you know?
- It suits you.
Anyway, I got stuff to do.
I'm gonna be out for a while.
So...just call me.
- Alright. Definitely will.
Now that I'm single, I'm seeing a whole clearer vision.
Maybe in HD.
Like, wow, Kit is really fine.
- Hey. I'm here for a tat appointment with Ceaser.
- I'll let him know you're here. - Perfect.
- What's up, love?
- Hi. How are you?
- Wait. You're getting half a sleeve?
- Yes. [laughs]
It's right here. It'll be perfect.
- What, you're not getting nothing, too?
Why not? - Can't take it like she can.
- Word.
Oh, wait, hold on.
I mean-- - [laughs]
- I don't.
Maybe picking up on that single glow that I have,
but it seems like both of these girls
is flirting with me.
What're you trying to do?
- I wanna honor my dad
who passes away a couple of months ago.
So I kinda wanna have like steps to heaven and a gate
and then a dove, which is gonna be representing him.
- Mm-hmm.
Are you sure you can take that on that little arm?
- I can take it. Are you ready for it?
- CEASER: Oh, I'm definitely ready for it.
- ♪
- CEASER: It's interesting I'm doing a tattoo about
death and also about life.
Because right now, I feel like I'm going through a rebirth.
Especially after seeing Dutchess in Puerto Rico.
It finally made me realize that...I'm over it.
- ♪ Yeah
♪ Homie, you can do it, yo
♪ I be in my own zone quarterbacking my own thing ♪
♪ Sticking to the script with a slick with it on stay ♪
♪ Dance moves like Soul Train, yo ♪
- I'm never looking back again.
I'm only looking forward.
I'm looking for the new chapter in my life.
Being single for the first time in a long time.
- ♪ Gimme the mic, I wreck it reflecting perfection ♪
♪ Flexing on the perspective of a hot boy ♪
♪ Turn up
♪ Cuz I'm a hot boy
♪ I'm a hot boy
- I had fun with Tatu Baby.
But that happened so quickly after Dutchess,
I guess I wasn't really ready.
So I'm not rushing into no relationship right now.
I'm trying to find out what makes me happy.
And if that means me flirting with a bunch of [bleep]...
[bleep] it, so be it.
- ♪ I'm a hot boy ♪
- CEASER: We're done.
Come on, let's go check it out in the mirror.
- ♪
- WOMAN: Wow.
I think it's amazing.
Like I couldn't have asked for a better way to honor my father.
Thank you.
- ♪ [unintelligible]
- [whistles] - [knocking at door]
- [groans]
- Bae?
- Teddy.
- What's up? I thought you didn't have any clients today.
- I'm just...
- Are you okay?
- No.
- Talk to me.
Why you look like that?
- [sobbing] I don't wanna talk to nobody.
I don't wanna--[crying]
I don't know what's going on with Bae now.
She's usually a tough chick.
I'm not used to seeing her break down like this.
It does help to let it out.
- I...just been stressed.
I just got a call from my mom, and she said my father
was making [bleep] threats that he was gonna pour acid
on my mom's face and my face whenever he sees me.
[sniffs]
And I feel like my father's like out there looking for my mom.
My father's been abusive all my life.
That's the reason why I left Korea.
My mom divorced my father, but she still lives in Korea.
And I worry every day my father will go after her.
I love my mom,
but at the same time, I'm so mad at my mom.
'Cause she's ungrateful for what I do for her.
Teddy, you think I wanna work 20 hours a [bleep] day?
But I do it. You see me do it all the time
to provide a better life for her.
It's just that it's a lot sometimes.
[sniffs]
I give her money because, you know, no matter what,
she took care of me.
And for that, I will be there for her to take care of her.
- ♪
- She could have just left me and my sister with my father,
and she would have been fine.
But she was there.
- ♪
- [sniffs]
I know that she did her best.
And I'm going to do everything that I can to--[sniffs]--
give her the life that she deserves.
[sobbing]
And that's sad.
Because my goal...was to have a just normal family.
Teddy, I swear to God my ex-husband was
the first person who made me feel like I had a family.
And we got divorced two years ago.
Even when I was a kid getting abused,
I wanted to have my own family.
That's all I ever wanted.
But now I don't have a husband.
I don't have a family.
I have nobody.
And I feel more alone than ever.
I wish I could be somebody who care about me.
- TED: Just know that you have a family here.
- ♪
- Feel a little better now?
- No. - Huh?
- BOTH: [laughing]
- This is my friend Kevin LeRoy.
He is a new artist that I'm bringing to the shop.
Someone needs to start taking initiative here
to turn the shop around.
- When Ceaser come in, he probably will fire you.
- I really forgot how good looking
Sky friend Allison was.
- Are you checking me out?
- I think I'm about to play a fam for a little while.
- ♪
- RICHARD: Hey, my favorite mother-to-be.
Daddy loves you.
- Hi, baby.
- ♪
- My baby is having a baby.
I'm proud to be a father again.
I can't wait to spoil my pregnant wife silly.
I wanted to let you know how happy I am about
the little bundle of joy that you got going on in here
in this little tum-tum.
- [laughs]
- Nikki wasn't feeling good after we left Puerto Rico.
So we decided to go to the hospital.
And what do you know, we found out she was pregnant.
- These are pretty. - Yeah.
Having a fourth child
is gonna be a little bit of a financial struggle.
But having a baby's a blessing.
You're gonna be an amazing mommy.
- [laughs] Get that hell off me.
- Baby like to--
- [mumbling] Why are you choking me?
Ow.
- RICHARD: Nikki's lupus makes this a high-risk pregnancy.
But we've been following the doctor's order
and making sure that she gets plenty of rest.
And her and the baby are doing great.
I wanna raise LeBron James.
- LeBron? - Mm-hmm.
Because you know our child is gonna be big.
I'm 6'4", and you're 6.
- I'm not 6 feet tall.
- [laughing] Yes.
- I love this woman like crazy.
There's no way I'm gonna let anyone else's opinion of her
ruin our relationship.
For the rest of my life, it's all about her
and our little baby.
Walking around with them like you just won Miss America,
'cause that's what it feels like.
- ♪
- ♪ Yo, yo, let's get it on
♪ Your body is tight, unless ♪
- WALT: Yo, [bleep], where you been?
Melody had us in here like drawing naked people.
We had like a--like-- - Figure drawing.
- --figuring drawing joint.
Yo, bro, we chillin' here, right?
With dude comes just like this. Whoosh.
- [laughs] - Right here, bro.
- In front of everybody.
He was posing like this.
- People are acting like Puerto Rico
and investigating Nikki never happened.
But whatever.
I'm just gonna start keeping my relationship with Nikki
and our pregnancy quiet.
- YOUNG BAE: Melody. - Speaking of.
What's up, Mel? - YOUNG BAE: Hey!
- MELODY: Guys, this is my friend Kevin LeRoy.
- YOUNG BAE: Hi, Kevin.
- Mel, really? Another friend?
Let's hope he's not like the last one
and he keeps his [bleep] clothes on.
Because I can't look at no more naked dicks in Black Ink.
What's going on, bro? - What's going on?
- He is a new artist that I'm bringing to the shop.
- ♪
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're bringing in a new artist?
You may want to be the new manager,
but you're clearly not.
- Why you got the stinky face?
- I'm just soaking up the atmosphere.
- DONNA: He's upset because Mel's making manager moves.
- Mel's the new manager of Black Ink?
- Not yet, but soon to be.
- DONNA: Power move, baby.
- MELODY: I hired Kevin because he's a super talented artist.
I don't give a [bleep] what Ted thinks about it.
Someone needs to start taking initiative here
to turn the shop around. So I'm gonna do it.
- So you gave him a job? - Yeah.
The chair's open, and if there's someone making dope art
and making money at the same time,
I ain't mad at that. And he's super chill.
- ♪
- TED: [bleep] this bull [bleep].
- I am not surprised by Ted right now.
Every time something does not go his way,
he runs away like a scared little bitch
with his [bleep] tail in between his legs.
Typical Ted.
- I'm gonna tell you, when Ceaser come in,
he probably will fire you.
Managerially, I'll take Melody over Ted any day.
But, baby, is you crazy?
Cease has control issues.
Don't you remember when he fired you just because
he wasn't the one that hired you?
- I don't know what [bleep] is going on in here,
but I'm still the boss.
You're gonna have to go.
- Are you seriously firing me right now?
- For you to be working here, I had to hire you.
- This is bull [bleep].
- The only reason Cease let Teddy hire Bae and Tiff
is because he was the actual manager.
- You all are like, "Uh-huh,
you're gonna get [bleep] decapitated."
- Good luck.
- [door buzzes]
- WALT: Ceaser, how are you?
- What are you doing here, bro?
- What's going on?
- I haven't seen you in a minute.
- [bleep] ya, it's been a minute.
- Tell him what's going on, Mel.
- Surprise, surprise, I brought Kevin here today
to officially join the crew.
- She hired him.
- ♪
- So what you're telling me is...
you went and decided to make an executive decision
and bring in Kev?
- ♪
- Oh [bleep], here we go.
Ciao, Kevin! Arrivederci!
Adios, Melody.
- That is a great [bleep] move, Mel.
- Why thank you.
- [indistinct chatter]
- I know Kev from the tattoo convention circuit.
And his realism is dope as [bleep].
I told everybody when I opened up 113th,
and I wanted these [bleep] to start stepping up.
This is what I mean.
Be proactive like-- - Thank you.
- It's a very good move. You know what I mean?
- DONNA: Teddy better watch out. - ALL: [cheering]
- CEASER: Where is Ted anyway? - MELODY: Who the [bleep] knows?
- ♪
- This is my new tattoo artist.
You remember A1?
She used to work here.
- Is Ted for real right now?
The last time the bitch was here, she fought Kitty.
- What you doing here? - I got hired.
- YOUNG BAE: This is for my father!
- ♪
- [bleep] everybody [bleep] [bleep] you all.
- DONNA: You're crazy for real.
- ♪
- You ever had a party here when you were younger?
- CEASER: I did.
I wanted to be the only one wearing the crown.
Everybody kept putting on the crown.
So I start snatching it off people's heads,
and then I ended the party.
I've been wearing crowns since I was a kid.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
I'm the king, and I always will be the king.
- I wanted to talk to you about 113.
You know that Mel's been trying to do too much.
- CEASER: I need you guys to work that [bleep] out.
I can't be on 113th forever.
Our next step is for franchising.
Like I want 113th like Burger King.
- Is Cease out of his mind? Franchising?
Now? When we just opened 113th?
And he's gonna ignore this problem with Mel?
- I need these two shops to do what they do.
We gotta become bigger and better, yo.
- ♪
- My team in Puerto Rico really showed me something.
When there's a problem, no matter who created it--Ted--
they can figure out how to solve it.
Now I feel I can trust the group to handle business
so I can keep on expanding.
I'm 'bout to be on some mogul [bleep].
- TED: Speaking of your business,
you still ain't back with Dutchess?
- Why would I?
Honestly, it's just over.
- That's what we're waiting for. We always waiting for you all
to get back together. - A new ring was gonna come.
Another dog. - Shut up, Walt.
Why do these guys don't believe that me and Dutchess is done?
I'm [bleep] single.
There's a whole lotta women in this world.
And I'm ready to meet them.
- Whatever. Just fast forward us to the end
when you all get back together.
- [laughs]
- You know, you wake up, you miss the breakfast.
You miss greasing her scalp and all that stuff.
- [laughs] You all are something else.
- WALT: [laughs]
- ♪
- We're all gathered here today in front of this scarecrow.
- ALL: [laughing]
- TED: Look at the jeans I put on.
- SKY: You put on some Balmains? - TED: Yeah.
Since Bae and I had that heart-to-heart the other night,
I figured she could use some type of emotional release.
It's what a good manager do for his employee.
- What's going on?
What the [bleep] is this?
- ♪
- We out here to represent you, baby.
Come on.
- Teddy told me to show up at night and be angry.
I thought that was really weird.
And don't ask me why
this scarecrow is tied up to a trashcan.
I've learned not to question anything
since I started working at Black Ink.
- That represents everybody that did something bad to do you
in your life.
Your dad, your moms, your ex-husband Santos.
You can release all you anger on that.
You can burn that [bleep]. You could kick it in the nuts.
You could go crazy on it.
- All you need is this--
- No, actually, I feel like you need this, too.
Just take this, and then--
- [indistinct chatter]
- Enough with the pyromaniac [bleep]!
Enough with it!
As much as I would love seeing Bae [bleep] this strawman up--
listen, you guys stay safe. Love you.
- WALT: [laughs]
- I'm really not interested in getting arrested today,
so tootles.
- She just gave me this bat and left.
- If she thinks she can go back to jail,
she's not [bleep] with none of this [bleep], yo.
- [laughing]
- Don't hit me with that [bleep] bat, though.
- DONNA: Yeah, release some stress, Bae.
- WALT: Why you dragging the bat for?
- This is how you start it.
You don't just kick [bleep] out of something.
- See, you're crazy for real.
Oh. - [crash]
- ALL: [laughing]
- This is for my father!
- ♪ I'm not ready to give in, no ♪
- TED: Yo, this [bleep] crazy.
- This is for Santos!
- ♪ This is the day where my life changed ♪
- DONNA: Oh my God. [bleep].
- ♪
- I've gone through so much suffering and pain in my life.
I've been just holding onto it for 32 [bleep] years.
- ♪
- And I'm tired of it.
- ♪
- WALT: Hit him in the hate! Hit him with the hate!
- [bleep] all this pain I've been through.
[bleep] my father for beating me up every [bleep] day.
Every [bleep] body who put me through [bleep].
[bleep] all of you.
[bleep] you!
- ♪
♪ This is the day when my life changed ♪♪
- How you feel, Bae? You feel better?
- I feel good! Oh my God!
Whoo!
- You had enough?
You good now you got it out? - Yah.
- Come here, you need a hug, come here.
- DONNA: Group hug.
- I can't believe how amazing these people have been
since I started working at Black Ink.
They are my family.
And I'm so grateful I have them in my life.
Thank you, guys.
- ALL: [laughing]
- TED: We love you, Bae.
- Oh my [bleep] God.
Did I just see Kit and Cease sucking face?
This is some T.
- ♪
- ♪ Go, go hard - ♪ What you gotta do it
- ♪ Gotta go ♪
- MELODY: Are you ready to party tonight?
We gotta welcome Kevin in right.
- Get the strippers ready!
- [laughs]
- I'm all for Melody hiring Kevin.
Black Ink needs to be a successful tattoo shop.
Especially now more than ever, because I got a baby on the way.
- Hey, y'all, hey!
- [indistinct cheering]
- TED: What are we celebrating? - The new artist.
Giving him a good time at Black Ink.
- TED: Oh, that's dope.
This is my new tattoo artist.
You remember A1? She used to work here.
- MELODY: Is Ted [bleep] for real right now?
A1 got fired years ago.
And last time the bitch was here, she fought Kitty.
- I hired Kevin because I'm trying to bring in someone
with [bleep] talent.
A1 is a revenge hire who's probably gonna start
some more drama and make the shop close again.
- So how many artists are here now?
- I used to be an artist.
- ♪
- So you don't tattoo no more?
- Oh, I definitely tattoo.
But this place needs an extra hand
in the leadership department.
Because I came here with a rent sign on it.
And I don't want that to happen again.
I wanna make sure things happen to make this thing an asset
and not just a dark shadow behind 125th.
- Oooh. - Mm.
- TED: Mel, mind your [bleep] business.
Not only is A1 a hot tattoo artist,
she know how [bleep] is ran down on 113th.
I'm still the manager. And what I say goes.
- Ceaser's here.
- A'ight. What the [bleep] you doing here?
- A1: You all just hired me. - CEASER: Oh what? Who did that?
Ted? - A1: Ted.
- I'm not really the biggest fan of A1.
'Cause last time she was here,
I had to fire her ass for fighting.
But she's a dope ass tattoo artist.
And I'm gonna have to trust Ted to pick his own artists.
So him and Melody's gonna have to figure this [bleep] out.
- SKY: Cheers, bro!
To success, good health, and new blood!
- [indistinct chatter]
- I'm excited to get litty tonight.
And you know I got my best bitch Allison with me.
So we are already gonna turn up.
- So, you guys, I know this is a classic Black Ink party.
But Melody does it a little differently.
- ♪
- So when [bleep] they taking off their clothes?
- You stop it. - What type of [bleep] is this?
Mel, I like your boss moves lately, but...
I don't want no mother [bleep] belly dancers.
I need exotic dancers.
There's a certain tradition that we had here.
When you came in here, your ass had a mother [bleep] stripper.
- Look where it got me.
- Yeah, you got pregnant. Technically, you're right.
- I've learned my lesson.
Having too much fun.
- ♪
- KEVIN: Boy, I love that tattoo.
You only have two?
- No, I had mad tattoos before.
But then I started getting removals.
Like-- - KEVIN: Oh, okay, okay, okay.
- I don't lift my skirt for no guys like that
'til like the third date.
But Kevin is kinda cute.
- Why are you standing over here by yourself?
- I gotta come down. Help me come down.
- ALLISON: Are you checking me out?
- Hold on. How is it that I've never noticed
how good looking Sky's friend Allison was.
Take a sip.
I don't know, but lately, everywhere I look,
there's a hot mother [bleep] chick.
That was a baby sip.
- Alright, well, I'm a small girl. Go ahead.
- ♪
- Yes, Cease, singling and mingling over there.
I see you all talking to my bestie.
I love it. I see it.
I'm in it.
- Finish it. What's wrong?
- Are you trying get me drunk? - Nah.
- ♪
- [indistinct chatter]
- Hi. - Hi.
- How're you doing?
- Fine.
I just wanna know who let Struggle Face through the door.
Last time we was at a party together,
she did done put her hands on me.
So I wanna know who's responsible
for this bull [bleep] here.
What you doing here?
- I got hired.
- Oh.
Ceaser know? Ceaser--
- Yeah.
- ♪
- Oh no, I need to speak to him. Because you're bad
for this company and bad for our image.
- Because I punched you in your face three times,
I'm bad for your business? - Exactly.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
- I think personal and business should be separated.
- No, no-- - I bring money to the shop.
- It don't matter if you're bringing money to the shop.
- You have no opinion about that!
You're a receptionist. You push paper.
- ♪
- I'm not about to take no [bleep] off somebody who got
15 different colors in their hair and purple eyebrows.
Not here for it.
Cease! Hey, Cease! Cease!
- SKY: Cease, go over there and stop this.
- [indistinct yelling]
- What happened? What happened?
- She got personal issues.
I bring money in. She don't.
She push paper. - Hold on, hold on.
- [indistinct yelling]
- What you all arguing about? What are you all arguing about?
- I'm not dealing with this [bleep]. If this is the type
of business you wanna throw, I'm out of here.
- Everybody in here bang, bitch, but you!
- KITTY: I don't need this [bleep]!
I'm too classy for this [bleep]!
You know how many people want to work with me?
How many people want me to leave this business
to come somewhere else?
This is what I have to deal with?
[bleep] this!
- ♪
- What are you all arguing about?
- I'm not dealing with this [bleep]. If this is the type
of business you wanna throw, I'm out of here.
- Everybody in here bang, bitch, but you!
- KITTY: I'm too classy for this [bleep]!
- You all gotta sit down and talk. I'll be right back.
You all--both of you are gonna talk.
I gotta talk--I'm talking to my employee.
I don't wanna be micromanaging Ted.
But I can't have his employees harassing my brand ambassador.
Kit! What are you doing, Kit?
- This girl punched me in my face.
Then you're gonna let her talk to me all crazy?
- I wasn't even paying attention.
I didn't even know you was having an argument
until you all said something.
- ♪
- If you want me to be an effective brand ambassador,
you need to be the one protecting me.
- You are protected. You're good right now.
- ♪
- I just wanna go home and get away from all this [bleep].
- I'll drive you. Come on.
- I shouldn't go no damn where with you.
- I know Kit is pissed because these mother [bleep]
brought back A1.
But I didn't know nothing about it.
And honestly, I don't like having her mad.
Even though it's kinda cute.
- KIT: I'm mad at you right now. No, I'm pissed with you.
Everything I do is for...
Black Ink.
And for you.
- This is the first time I'm ever seeing like this
and when you're angry, you know what I mean?
Kinda little cute-ass glow.
- That--that's what you gathered from all of this?
- CEASER: I mean, seriously, you're really cute right now.
- Oh my God.
Don't put me on the spot like that.
- Come here. - Come here what?
- Come here. - What you wanna say?
- ♪
- Oh no. [laughs]
What just happened?
Oooh, okay.
I mean, it was kinda nice.
I ain't gonna lie.
- Kit, let's get out of here.
- Yeah, let's go. I'm ready to go now.
- Okay, 'cause you might not return until tomorrow.
- What you mean? [laughs]
- I don't know. I'm just saying.
- What we gonna do? We gonna Netflix and chill?
- Yeah, we're gonna Netflix and chill?
- ♪
- MELODY: Oh my [bleep] God.
Did I just see Kit and Cease sucking face
in the mother [bleep] car?
Bitch, this is some T.
- Okay, Netflix and chill. I'm with that.
- ♪
- My boy DMX is celebrating his birthday.
- What? - What?
I got Ryan Henry as my wingman.
Allison in front of me.
Kit to the side, and a smile on my face.
- If you think you're gonna drool over another bitch
all in my face? Oh no.
Miss Kitty don't play that.
If these other hos is your friends,
you make sure that they are platonic.
- Don't make the same mistakes with the Kit bitch.
- I [bleep] her, and that was it.
- You [bleep]? Oh my God.
You [bleep] Kit?
- I thought you knew.
- What the [bleep]?
- Go! Go home!
- Make me!
- You don't have a tattoo to do today.
What? Are you taking your jacket off?
What you gonna do?
What the [bleep] you gonna do?
- Nikki, she lying to all of you all.
Like she has a whole 'nother life.
- MAN: Yo! Yo!
- What are you saying right now?
That we have to respect her like it's you?
This bitch Dutchess has been reincarnated
to this bitch Miss Kit.
Whatever.
- [glasses crashing]
- ♪