- We finally got our business license renewed.
(Tim) We are the only legal tattoo
shop in the city of Compton. - First and only.
- There is a no tattoo shop
ordinance in the city of Compton.
Which means you cannot legally
tattoo in your shop. - What?
- Y'all went in there without us.
Last season, we convinced 'em to let us open
the first legal tattoo shop in Compton.
- Can we call your dad and just figure out the next step?
- It's politics. We got some meetings together.
I don't wanna fight my city, but I'm not gonna
let anybody come in and tell me no.
- Since me and Ken got together, you picked sides.
Our whole friendship been like not what it was on before.
- So when are you gon' come show up to work?
I'm talking about without the show.
(shouting, glass shatters)
- Yes, the (bleep) I will!
(KP) It's been a pretty good vibe at the Vatican.
And I don't wanna ruin it by telling them
there's some little minor setbacks with the ordinance.
(all cheering)
(shriek, knock on door)
(Star) Ahh! Hi!
I genuinely apologize, and I hope that you accept it.
Please forgive me. - I forgive you.
- After all this (bleep) we been through,
we deserve some positivity.
(whooping) Compton!
- ♪♪ I be fishin' with you bish ♪♪ - ♪♪ I do what I wanna ♪♪ - ♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Tryin' to hear ♪♪ - ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ Hey, tell her use her lips ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I wanna ♪♪ - ♪♪ Ooh ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do me and you are you ♪♪
♪♪ And you can't tell me who to screw ♪♪
♪♪ Who be gettin' money? ♪♪ - ♪♪ I do ♪♪
- ♪♪ You can't tell me -- because ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I wanna do ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I wanna ♪♪
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ One shot, two shots ♪♪
♪♪ Feeling it, feeling it, feeling it ♪♪
♪♪ No stress... ♪♪
♪♪ Work too hard on the daily on the daily ♪♪
♪♪ All I wanna do is get away Get away ♪♪
♪♪ Turnt up all night... ♪♪
(excited chatter)
- Thank you, Mami.
- Wait, can you pass me that egg?
Last night was probably one of the funnest moments
I had with the whole group. And then when Star showed up,
it was even better because all of our
personalities together just a hot ass mess.
(shouting)
- Really taking one of these dicks home.
(shouting)
- Ahh! - (Alana shrieks)
It meant a lot to me when everyone went out their way
to celebrate my birthday on this trip.
- So this is who stayed?
- Tim left, KP left to go take care of something at the shop.
- I'm happy 'cause I didn't have to sleep in that bunk bed.
(laughing)
- ♪♪ Out with the old It's a new way ♪♪
♪♪ Thinking making dollars out of new change ♪♪
♪♪ Mad talents was the colors of the mood ring ♪♪
(Tim) It's (bleep) crazy, bro.
If it ain't one thing, it's another.
- They say we gotta gloss this right here?
- Yeah, it gotta be higher than the window...
- Yeah, right here. If blood get over there,
you shouldn't be tattooing.
We left the Vatican trip early because
of this health inspection we had scheduled
prior to the trip. And come to find out, we failed.
Man, we gotta remove the gates in-between the sections,
sand down and gloss the beams,
add the touchless hand sanitizer soaps.
Man, I just want my shop open already.
(Cory) What's up, peoples?
What is this? Y'all looking upset right now.
- We left the Vatican earlier because we had to get back
for the inspection. - How'd that go?
- We didn't pass.
- We have so much to get done now that we failed
this health inspection. I'm staring to lose faith.
I can't even lie.
- Did you talk to Pops about the ordinance?
- We gotta go down to the city.
It's one thing after another.
Ordinance, mother(bleep) inspection.
It's like y'all see a brother trying
to do some positive in the hood.
- The harder it is, the more gratifying
the results are when you do succeed.
It's gonna work. - I'll make it work.
God gave me this vision to do something better in my city,
and I gotta figure it out. I'll just pray that
there's a light at the end of this dark tunnel
once we get past this ordinance situation.
- So with the not passing, are we telling
the artists right now? - No (bleep) makes sense.
We in a good vibe. We had a nice trip.
Now what y'all talking about?
- Every time we told them anything, it just look like
"Oh, Tim and KP don't know what they doing."
Whether they talk to us about it, they go amongst each other
and talk about it. Even with Star, like,
put the work in and then you can say (bleep).
- Speaking of Star, how do you feel
about the whole apology thing?
- Eh... - You accepted that one?
- Nah, I didn't wanna be the party pooper, bro.
I don't like to get undressed in front of people
'cause then I'm forced to accept it, which I was.
- But, I mean, that's good too that you did accept it
as far as keeping that good energy up.
- I just want her to see how she acts affect the circle,
it affect the brand, it affect the whole situation.
The way Star moving right now, she ain't gonna have
a (bleep) job over here at Ink Art Music.
I don't really care about that sorry 'cause if you really wanna
say sorry to me, we coulda did this off site somewhere.
But she wants to do it in front of everybody
so she can have a Star moment.
Actions speak louder than words.
And right now, her actions is speaking.
- I just wanna make sure she really want this,
and she's serious and she respect our time.
Like, I don't want her thinking that just
by her pulling up is enough, like...
We can't afford another Barbie.
No extra... yeah. - No more headache.
Like, none of that.
♪♪♪♪
- I gotta go finish packing my stuff, then I'll come back...
- No, don't leave!
- I'll be back because we're not leaving
until we finish this whole cup of Patrón.
- Damn, Polo went right back to tatting.
(Nessie) He's so motivated... - He is so motivated.
Ay, but that was a vibe though. I am motivated.
- The trip to the Vatican was amazing.
We were able to see firsthand what it looks like
when we work together as a team.
And hopefully, we can take the values that we learned
and apply it to our own shop. - Did y'all get y'all bags
packed already? 'Cause we're gonna get ready to go.
(all) Yeah.
- All right, well, I cook... so...
Teamwork make the dream work. Togetherness!
♪♪♪♪
(Barbie) Perfect timing. Go to Daddy.
- You wanna come now.
What you doing? - Trying to figure
everything out for this pop-up shop.
I'm emailing vendors, trying to find the location.
Get permits in order.
Seeing Lemeir, the way he grinds the work
definitely it pushing me to go harder.
So Danielle and I have decided to come together and throw
a pop-up shop to showcase both of our clothing lines.
Hers is Evrything Nude and mine is Vanity Vain.
What better time to really do this pop-up shop.
This is our season.
I gotta find a DJ.
I gotta get flyers made.
It's a lot, I'm, like, hella stressing out
trying to figure all this out.
(phone chimes)
Oh, my God. - What?
Lemeir had a really bad accident in one of the trucks.
- Is he okay? - (gasps)
She just sent a picture.
(Nessie gasps) - What? What?
Nessie, what happened? - Lemeir just got
in a really bad accident. - Right now? Are you serious?
- What you mean? - (gasps) Oh, my God!
- What the (bleep)?
- You know, I been going through a lot.
I just picked my grandma up from the old folks home.
And I been taking care of her. It's been very, very stressful.
But I want to be there, and I wanna make time.
Danielle and I are throwing
are throwing a pop-up shop.
Ken will be there.
- Ohh!
- You had years to talk and you didn't say (bleep) to me...
- I am not emotionally attached to this (bleep).
- Of course you're not! - This right here!
- Well, when you act like a bitch, I'ma call you one.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
(gasps)
- What?! What?!
- Nessie, what happened?
- Lemeir just got in a really bad accident.
- Right now? - Are you serious?
- Oh, my God!
What the (bleep)?
- What happened?
- Uh... (bleep)
Damn, yo. - He was on a bike.
- (bleep) No, he was in a truck.
They said he's resting but keep him in your thoughts.
I'm really in shock
and worried about Lemeir right now, I mean...
I know we're not on the best terms, but I'm praying
and hoping that he pulls through this.
- That's so scary especially with her being
pregnant right now. I know she's stressing out.
When I was pregnant with Phoenix,
I was so over-protective and scared for every little thing.
If something would have happened to Bone,
I would've literally lost my mind.
I feel for Danielle right now.
They got so much going on right now too.
For this to happen...
(sighs)
- ♪♪ I got it, I got it, I'm good ♪♪
♪♪ Say it loud so you know that you're sure ♪♪
♪♪ I'll alive, it's drive time gotta cut ties ♪♪
♪♪ Show 'em I really want it, I'm good ♪♪
♪♪ I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good ♪♪
♪♪ I'm good, I'm good, I'm good ♪♪
- We gotta get these groceries.
- (bleep) heavy. (phone chimes)
Star just hit me up.
- What? For what?
- Talking about she trying to pull up.
She wanna talk to us.
- Tell Star we'll meet up after
we drop off these donations.
- I don't think we should tell her
about the situation with the city.
- I'm not even finna stress about none of that.
- KP and I have this important charity in our town
called Compton City Movement.
And we're here to drop off our donations.
But seeing Star text, I still feel a way
that she can't even manage her emotions.
How the (bleep) she gonna manage the shop?
- They gon' love these.
- Hey, what's up? Look who's here.
- Oh, shoot, you always doing great things.
It means so much. Y'all caring
team come here and bless us with this so...
- Always, we here.
The CEOs of the Compton City Movement
is born and raised in Compton.
Just like me and Tim.
And they know the only way the city gon' see its full
potential is if the people in the city come together.
We got some more boxes we're gonna grab.
- Thank y'all.
- It's been a few days since I apologized to Tim and KP.
And I got a real bad feeling that they still got
they feelings about what took place at lunch last week.
So I'ma come apologize one more time.
I gotta be the bigger person. Isn't that what I'm here for?
Hey. How you doing?
- Good. - Hey, Timmy-Tim.
- What up? - How are you?
I wanted to come talk to y'all in person.
You know, since our last encounter at the birthday party,
it seemed like you forgave me, Tim,
but y'all ain't reached out.
- I just feel like in that moment, the birthday,
I was already in my own space. But my thing is...
Right. I 100% (bleep) up that day.
And there's nothing I can say that excuse what I did.
But I just picked my grandma up from the old folks home.
And I been taking care of her. It's been very,
very stressful on me, so...
Just that mixed with work. It just was a lot on me.
I haven't told so many people
about moving my grandmother in with me.
It is pulling me away from IAM,
but I'm trying my best to manage both.
- I got some business to handled, but I'm glad
it feels like a family around here, y'all.
- Business? - Don't look at my ass
when I walk away.
It's been hard to come to terms with how fast
her health is declining.
She's got dementia and needs constant care.
You got it.
It's been a lot,
mentally, physically, and emotionally.
But my grandmother needs me.
She's my rock, and no matter what,
she comes before everything.
I wasn't even mentally there.
- I figured that too. That's why I got on Tim.
Like, right after, like your words can hurt too.
- Yeah. - You frustrated trying to talk.
- Right. - Say some (bleep) and then...
You know, so... - Be ignorant.
- If you want to come vent or whatever we need
to be a family and feel like we can do that.
I really appreciate Star opening up about
what's going on with her at home.
Nobody perfect including myself.
And if we gon' continue to work together,
we're gonna have to make some changes so we can have
a better environment that's way more supportive.
I'm really trying to be a better person and not react
off of emotions. We gotta handle business.
And we move forward, figure out how to handle it
in a more professional manner
- It may not seem like I can do it.
I might seem like I don't have time for it, but I want
to be there, and I wanna make time, so...
I am Team IAM, okay? For sure.
I'm here for y'all... - We need you if you got
that energy right there. - For sure.
- Only thing from now is up,.
I feel Star apology was sincere.
So I'll forgive her this one time.
But that's one strike .5 on her ass.
In wanna see how faithful she is to us and the shop.
We gotta get up outta here, man. - We gotta go get these boxes.
- I'm coming too. I can lift some boxes.
- You can't lift (bleep). (laughing)
- ♪♪ All I wanna do is pick my head up, up, up ♪♪
♪♪ Trying to grow some moves to get my feet off the ground ♪♪
♪♪ I was just raging against the machine ♪♪
♪♪ Never been cool with the settings in the system ♪♪
♪♪ Instead of playing victim I shoulda just reason ♪♪
♪♪ All my life on the line... ♪♪♪♪
- Got some ice cream. You're not allowed
to gain ten pounds. You on bed rest, by the way.
- Give me the order.
(Danielle sighs)
How you feeling today?
- I'm good. I think I might be able
to get some good sleep tonight.
- I can't believe (bleep) happened to you.
- I can't believe (bleep) either.
When I burned myself, it was
one of the scariest days
of my life, and I mean that.
When I was on the cheesesteak truck,
I just went to go light the pilot
with a candle lighter.
As soon as I went click, all I saw was whoosh.
I blacked out for a second and literally noticed when I came
back that I was on fire. So I'm patting my head.
Patting my face. I honestly thought I was dying.
So when I saw my mom and asked her,
"What's wrong with my face? What my face look like?"
From her reaction, I could tell that it just wasn't good.
- It is looking much better today.
- It's crazy when I walk out and I watch into a mirror,
I be like, just catch me off guard 'cause I don't know
what I look like. - Mm-hmm.
- Like, I be forgetting it.
- You here, you alive, that's all that matters.
After everything Lemeir went through the other day,
he's finally starting to feel
like himself again. But at the same time,
I can't seem to shake the feeling that things
could have went a whole different way.
- Hey, guys, what's going on? - Hey, Summer.
- Feeling okay? - Did y'all color
coordinate on purpose today?
What just went down?
- What y'all up here talking about?
- We're talking about what happened.
- (sighs) Oh, girl, I was in shock.
I couldn't even think on a medical level
with me being a nurse what to do.
I started having flashbacks with Kevin.
I can't even imagine how my mom is feeling right now
on the inside after already losing my brother Kevin.
And her feeling like she could probably have lost me
in the moment, I don't take any of this for granted.
Doctor be like, "You're blessed."
Normally when people have accidents like this
where their face is involved, what we are more concerned
about is if the flame went up into your nose and your mouth,
and like, start to affect your lungs and you can't breathe.
If that woulda got damaged then probably wouldn't make it today.
- God wanted to sit Lemeir hands down.
Because you just been going too much.
- You're always working for us. You're working for the family.
- You sure made that known. - You need a break for yourself.
- You remember saying all that in the car?
It was, like, "Mom, I gotta worry about Summer.
Got another baby coming, Mom, come on."
You don't remember saying all that?
- I don't remember... That's what I was thinking.
Just pray-- Still crying, girl.
It's good, God got us all.
(sniffles)
- God got us all.
- I know, but I just also know
that things could have went differently.
You could not be here today.
(sobbing)
- One thing I know for sure though is since I survived
I got a hell of a purpose on my life.
That's the only reason why I'm still here 'cause
if I didn't have much more to do, He would've called me home.
I always knew I wasn't invincible.
But this the first time I actually felt like I was about
to die, and I just kept telling myself, "Nah, not today."
- What's this on your back? - It's a Hannya mask.
- The mask is used to cover up something.
- I choose a meaning of protection against evil.
- Lemeir is opening his own tattoo shop.
- What?! - It's happening.
- Wait, so you getting the tattoo shop too?
- I'm right there with Lemeir?
(loud shrieking)
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
(knocking on door, door opens.)
- Hey, sweetie, how you doing?
- Hi, thank you. - All right.
Have a seat. - Thank you.
How've you been? - Oh, fine.
What you doing today?
- Well, tattoo you. (laughing)
From the time I reconnected with my father...
Mm, my God, it's been forever.
- Well, you okay? - Yeah, how are you?
- I'm glad to be here.
- He and I have been talking back and forth.
And one of the things that we talked about
was that I would be the first one to give him a tattoo.
So he decided to get "family first" because that's
very important to him. - I'm thinking probably
the middle size right there. - Okay.
I really wish we could've done that at the shop.
And I know that they just got their license.
But the shop isn't open yet. At least, I don't know
because I haven't heard from anybody.
- What's this on your back?
- Oh, it's a Hannya mask.
- The mask is used to cover up something.
- In Japanese culture, the Hannya mask
has a lot of different meanings, and I choose a meaning
of like protection, you know, against evil.
- Right, that's what you got your daddy for.
You don't need a mask. You got me.
This the one. - That's what's connect here.
This will... to your skin.
What do you think? - It works.
- Here we go.
- ♪♪ Look at you, look at me ♪♪
♪♪ We all going through it ♪♪
♪♪ If you look beyond the surface ♪♪
♪♪ Beyond the surface ♪♪
- Since meeting my dad for the first time as an adult,
it really has me thinking about
all the things I went through
just to get to this point. I feel like
I'm finally in a space to let him in.
♪♪ 'Cause it's okay not to be okay ♪♪
♪♪ It's okay if you feel the pain ♪♪
♪♪ Don't gotta wipe your tears away ♪♪
♪♪ Tomorrow's another day ♪♪
(Vudu) My whole life I've been stuck
in the shadows of my cult family.
That's my mom and sisters.
(Nessie) Vudu, hold up!
- Will you look at me? Look at me?
- I never knew what it was like to have
a real loving family connection.
But family is something that I finally feel like I have.
- You got a family. - Thank you.
- I'm glad that I can be here for you.
- And to be honest, it's been a long time coming.
- ♪♪ Everything's gonna be okay ♪♪
♪♪ Okay It's gonna be, gonna be ♪♪
♪♪ Gonna be... Okay ♪♪
♪♪ Gonna be, gonna be, gonna be ♪♪
♪♪ As long as you know, as long as you know ♪♪
- After what happened to Lemeir and seeing just how close
he was, you know, to something really, really awful happening,
it made me realize that I shouldn't
take my life for granted.
So I'm really glad that I've made the choice to try
to build a relationship with my biological father.
Because I would definitely regret it
if I didn't make that effort.
- ♪♪ Everything is gonna be okay ♪♪
- We did it. - Thank you, sweetie.
- Thank you.
- Every day that I wake up
I'll know that you did this for me.
That's my girl. And you know
it was a pleasure. - The pleasure was all mine.
♪♪♪♪
- Bang, bang shake 'em off now ♪♪
♪♪ Bang, bang, shake 'em off now ♪♪
Bang, bang shake 'em off now ♪♪
♪♪ Bang, bang, shake 'em off, what? ♪♪
- Man, that took a while.
Finally, thanks for sorting out the ordinance situation, Pops.
That was close. - Still have work to do though.
- Me, Pops, and Tim was at City Hall for 3-1/2 hours
about this whole ordinance situation.
And it was exactly what I thought it was.
A miscommunication.
The city got shaken up after COVID,
and then we ended up hiring a new mayor and city officials.
In-between the handoff, I don't think the message
was passed that I'm opening the first tattoo shop in Compton.
But I think we got it cleared away now.
- I can't wait to get this (bleep) open.
(KP) I'm getting antsy myself.
(Pops) Now we gotta make sure that
when the inspections come, we're ready.
- I really just wanna get everything up to date.
Only got so much time left.
(Pops) Just keep doing your thing.
Keep pushing forward.
- Our new health inspection is set up for next week.
We have to pass 'cause I got money waiting for me.
I got artists that need to work.
We gotta get this (bleep) popping.
- I'll help you get to the health department.
As far as running the shop,
and as far as the people that's gonna be in the shop,
that's on y'all. You are the boss.
You have to lead them. If they can't handle it,
then you have to get somebody else.
- I actually think we got a really good team,
and they ready to work.
After being shut down so long due to the pandemic
and all the stress we went through
trying to keep this shop open,
we so close to reopening, and me and Tim feel like
we got the team we need. Regardless of all
the obstacles we been through, it's all coming full circle.
Now we just gotta cut the red tape and make it official.
I'm about to quit. God don't pick no punks.
Every day I wake up.
We don't know what's gonna happen.
But we from Compton, and we know how to figure out
and adapt to our environment, and we gon'
make it out somehow or we going out fighting.
- ♪♪ Adding O's to my bank account ♪♪
♪♪ It's all a girl can think about ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- Ready to get started? Gonna put you in
some lines and windows. Teach you a little routine.
- I completely feel for Danielle
and everything she's going through right now.
I remember when I was eight months pregnant,
I felt like a roly-poly sitting in the house.
But I wanted to get cute and get out.
So I decided to organize a little dance class
to get her out the house just to have some fun.
I also decided to invite the other girls from the shop.
Yeah, I might not work there anymore,
but I still got love for them.
- Okay, we're gonna start with the right foot.
You're gonna step on your right and point with your left.
Then you're gonna step on your left and swoop that booty.
Come on, swoop it.
Then you're gonna hit your shoulder.
And then roll down the body.
Yes!
- I'm gonna look like one of them things
outside a car dealership. (laughing)
- Here we go. Five, six...
- I'm still at step one!
- Left to right, left to right.
- I might go into early labor.
- Y'all ready to try it with some music?
- I need slo-mo. - Come on, let's get it!
- Here we go, ladies.
Ready? Point! Swoop.
Up, left, around, booty-booty.
Together. Not bad, not bad.
One, two, three. One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, down-eight.
(chanting) - Freestyle, freestyle!
Come on, come on, hey, hey!
That's it! All right.
Thank you so much.
I hope you all enjoyed my class.
- We loved it. - Thank you!
- All right, bye, ladies. - Thank you!
- All right, I'm gonna sit my fat ass down.
- That was fun. - Thank y'all for coming.
I definitely needed a girls day out.
Especially, you know, with the incident that just
happened with Lemeir. - What happened?
- He was on one of our trucks, and he went to light the pilot
and the pilot just blew up in his face.
The doctor said if he hadn't turned his face,
he could possibly be dead. So he's definitely blessed.
- I'm glad that he's okay, and you're good.
- Don't cry now. - Oh, I know.
- 'Cause working and crying don't go.
- Y'all just (bleep).
Barbie planning this girls day
was exactly what I needed.
I actually have been missing the girls,
and I'm so grateful that I actually
have them as friends and have them
here supporting me. It's so surreal.
- On a lighter note.
Danielle and I are throwing a pop-up shop to showcase,
you know, Evrything Nude and Vanity Vain.
There's gonna be a lot of other vendors there.
I know you guys do canvases and you paint.
I was wondering if you guys would be interested...
- Yes. - ...in joining?
- Oh, that's a good idea. Thanks, guys.
- So Ken will be there.
- Who's Ken? Her ex-boyfriend?
- Exactly, exactly who? - Your ex-boyfriend.
- Why is he there though? - He has a booth as well.
- Ahh!
- Okay, whatever. I really don't care (bleep) it.
I know that I'm not gonna be able to avoid Ken.
Because him and Lemeir are such good friends.
I'm really trying to put all that behind us.
Because Lemeir just got in his accident,
so I'm still gonna support them and be there for them.
But I'm not saying I'm excited about it.
- Where does the shop stand now?
Like, are you guys actually open now?
- As far as I know, we have a few details to finish.
Then we're gonna be open for business.
- I've heard that before. No shakes to you.
- Speaking of shops, some of you do know, some of you don't.
Lemeir is opening his own tattoo shop.
- What?!
- That's in the works right now.
It's still getting started. - Where location, honey,
like, it's, it's happening. - Wait, so you getting
a tattoo shop too? - I'm right there with Lemeir.
- (loud shrieking) - It's lit.
- It's all about the bagging,
opening a functional tattoo shop.
- Where everyone can grow.
- Please let him know that I'm not here to choose sides.
My job is my job, but I got a love for y'all for real.
Now I'm glad I can be here in support of Dani.
But to hear that Lemeir is opening his own shop,
I don't know how KP and Tim are gonna react to this.
And I really don't wanna be the one to have to break it to 'em.
'Cause their asses are gonna go crazy.
- We want IAM to succeed. Just because you lost me
as a friend don't mean you gained an enemy.
- They think they're enemies. - But they're not.
- ...Be on their own 'cause we not on that.
- This is not right.
- What you mean it's not right? - Because I'm a very
loyal person, I didn't do nothing wrong.
Just 'cause I would support that girl and her folks.
That don't have nothing to do with us in this shop.
- You not doing it! Is you with us or not?
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- ♪♪ The ladies are back and we not taking checks ♪♪
♪♪ The trip is cash only then you know we want respect ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah we demand it empires are standing ♪♪
♪♪ Oh wait they're stranded Wondering how we manage ♪♪
- Boo-boo, boo-boo.
- How you doing? It looks good.
- Thank you, y'all look good.
- Oh, we pulled it off. - We did it.
- All these long nights. - It worked.
I'm like really, really happy with our...
- Yes. - Like, it turned out great.
- Everybody's booth look good. - Oh, I made sure.
- I'm excited yet nervous at the same time.
Today is the Vanity Vain and Evrything Nude pop-up shop.
We got food, drinks, art,
hookah, you name it, we got it.
- Hey, ladies, what's up, what's up?
- Hey. - What else y'all need?
Y'all good, y'all happy?
- Yeah. - Great, very happy.
You don't even look like nothing happened to you, bro.
- What, what you talking? - You got makeup on?
You got... You gotta tell us what you did 'cause that's
something we could probably throw in a bottle.
- We need to start a e-commerce business.
I ain't gonna lie.
I'm definitely surprised at how fast my skin been healing.
But on the other hand, I know how to deal
with damaged skin as I've been tattooing all these years.
And it's pretty much the same rules
when it come to burnt skin.
Other than that though I'm just happy to be here
supporting Dani and Barbie and Happy Ice, and it's also
College Boy cheesesteak truck, first day open.
We in business, baby.
Y'all nervous or what? - I'm very nervous.
I need to make my money back, okay?
- Right. - But also want all my vendors
to make money too, you know what I'm saying?
- We got all these Black owned business.
- I get it. - We got women, men.
Nessie, Ken... - Oh (bleep)!
- I was real nervous about this but it's going okay.
You know, I kept 'em as far apart as I could.
This is probably the biggest pop-up shop
that I've ever thrown. So I need everything
to go off without a hitch including
this whole Nessie and Ken situation.
We would really like to have Nessie in the shop.
So fingers crossed they get through this without arguing.
I'ma check on all the vendors. Make sure everybody's...
- Yeah, me too. - All right, love y'all!
♪♪♪♪
- When I start shading, you gon' feel it a little bit.
- Beef everything?
- Hi, boo! - Hey, boo.
(chatter)
- Happy you came out 'cause Alana couldn't come.
- Oh, (bleep), what happened? - I don't know.
Barbie text me yesterday and said that she wasn't
able to make it so I have the booth to myself.
- Man, she's been kind of missing a lot.
- I know, I wonder if she's, like, okay, like, I told her,
like, if she ever needs to talk, she can reach out.
- You got your cheeks out today.
Thank you guys for coming.
I, you know, made sure I kept Ken and Nessie separate.
- Oh, man. - Is there any, like,
open space to have a one-on-one eventually?
- Do you have a lie detector test?
I've already heard enough bull(bleep).
- I don't know, maybe you guys have, you know,
unfinished business that you need to discuss?
- The last conversation we had he said
everything meant nothing. - Oh, he actually said that?
- It's like every time I talk to this man,
he just try to go out of his way to hurt my feelings.
- Okay. - Typical narcissist (bleep).
I don't know why Barbie thinks that if me and Ken talk,
like, it's gonna be kumbaya, but it's not.
Like, that man literally showed no remorse
for what he did to me, and then we haven't spoken.
I don't think now in front of all these people is the
time and place for me to start reopening wounds
while I'm still healing.
- All right, well, I'll leave it alone for now.
- Yeah. - We'll see what happen.
All right, babe. - Thank you.
- That was a waste of my time.
♪♪♪♪
- ♪♪ It's all about the cash, the money, the moolah ♪♪
♪♪ The paper, the paper, the paper, the paper ♪♪
♪♪ Set up with the lights that flash ♪♪
♪♪ But I'm a paper chaser ♪♪
- Fill in all the crevices.
- You noticed. (door buzzes)
- We gon' need a new door, y'all.
That (bleep) is hard.
Hey guys! - How you doing?
- Hey, long time no see I think.
What's y'all up to?
- Trying to get everything up to date.
That little small detail (bleep).
- I came here to book some appointments, you know?
I know we got all our licensing and everything.
Even though I been through hell and back with the boys,
I'm so happy that we're back on good terms,
and I have a renewed energy and drive.
Now I'm ready to get clients in them seats
and money in our pockets. - We got our license
but don't book nothing yet.
- You don't think we could at least book 'em for future
dates or something? So we could be, (bleep), like,
yeah, this month already booked up.
Catch us next year.
- We got the business license but that's not just it.
We have one last health inspection to get this
booted up to code. - So why you ain't you tell me
this when I just met with y'all?
- Honestly, we just trying to figure it out.
- Well, keep me posted 'cause the girls have been asking
when the shop was gonna open up.
- When was this? - I just came from like
a little dance class. Barbie invited me to this
little gathering.
- You kicking with the opps? - Hanging with the opps.
Every time I think I know somebody
or try to trust 'em a little bit,
I get blindsided.
Where is your loyalty at? If you on Team IAM,
why you hanging with the opps.
You was hanging with them. - Yes.
- And then you expect me to wanna
tell you all the business.
- You should tell me the business.
Just because I'm with Barbie,
what the (bleep) does that mean?
- What? - No, we gotta get her
a non-disclosure, that's when we start telling her.
- But even a non-disclosure is not gonna stop me
from hanging with them. - I don't trust this.
- But you trust me. - If you gon' be best friends
with her then she gonna use you. - Use me for what?
- Man, I know her. She gon' use all y'all.
- KP gotta be out of his mind trying to press me about
hanging out with Barbie. Your issues with her ain't mine.
I can understand him not wanting her to know our shop business.
But I'd never do no (bleep) like that.
But with this energy I'm getting from KP,
it's not good to tell him about Lemeir's shop, at least not now.
Please don't think that because I'm hanging out
with them that it's anything that has to do with us.
I'd never tell them our business or Barbie in particular.
I'd never, you know, none of that.
- Here the thing is. When you loyal
ain't nothing nobody can call and be, like, yo, come.
I wish a mother(bleep) would call me that don't like him
to say come hang out.
- Period 'cause I'm not doing it!
- (bleep) don't like her... - It ain't no real (bleep)!
No real (bleep). You with us or not?
- Nessie! - Girl, I'm pissed.
You trying to invalidate me every time I (bleep) see you.
Yes, I feel a type of way. - I know.
You're better than that.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
- You don't like her. - It ain't no real (bleep).
I don't have not real (bleep). You with us or not?
Because you done threw (bleep) at us.
- Oh, my God! Wow, you gon' be like that.
I'm gonna cry. - Don't do that.
- This is not right. - What you mean it's not right?
- Because I'm a very loyal person.
I didn't do nothing wrong. Just 'cause I was about
to support that girl and her, that don't have
nothing to do with us in this shop.
What we do outside of here don't got nothing to do with us.
- Yeah, but y'all only know each other through us.
You gotta pick a side. - Is you IAM
or are you with them?
- I am...
right (bleep) here.
I do apologize if y'all feel some type of way.
about me hanging with her, but just understand that
I'm never stepping outside of us to inform them
of anything if that's what y'all worried about.
I apologized to the boys in case they felt like
I was doing a disservice to the shop.
But I will not apologize for hanging out with Barbie.
All I tried to do was support Barbie in this
little event that she planned for Dani.
I ain't go to the pop-up shop.
I went to the dance class.
So I can't believe KP is questioning
my loyalty right now.
I am grown. Your enemies are not mine.
And this is business, not politics.
This (bleep) is stupid.
- Move lightly with her, okay?
She turned on us... team.
- If I ever feel something shady I'ma speak up.
I'm not that type of (bleep) hold my tongue
for nothing or nobody.
- Watch your step around here, that's all.
- I think I'm okay, though.
- ♪♪ Spread love, show love and you gonna get it back ♪♪
♪♪ It's for the people or people who probably feel attached ♪♪
♪♪ And then it's the sequel of equal ♪♪
♪♪ I know you feeling that ♪♪
♪♪ They trying hard to defeat you but you can't give them that ♪♪
- Okay, okay.
- Hey! - This is dope, girl.
You know your thing. - Thank you.
- I haven't seen y'all since the Vatican, though.
So good to see y'all. - A good vibe, for sure.
- So have y'all heard from KP or Tim
or been at the shop since...? - No, like nothing at all.
I'm not really sure what to do just because like
I have clients who will want to get tattooed at the shop.
- 'Cause I haven't heard. - Yeah.
- KP and Tim not letting everybody know
that the shop is open is just starting
to feel a little weird.
I feel like things was good at the Vatican,
but Tim and KP, they gotta do better
at communicating with us.
- Yo! - That's why I wanna be--
Hi, boo. (all shouting excitedly)
- We're alive and well.
When I seen you, I was-- I was like, bro, man.
- I'm about to come on with skin care.
- I see. - It feels good
to be back together with y'all.
I'm gonna keep it like all the way raw.
I miss you guys, man.
Despite the bull(bleep),
y'all really still came and supported us.
That means so much. - We gotta take a group photo.
- (indistinct) - Yeah.
(camera shutter clicks)
♪♪♪♪
- What's up, ladies? - Hey.
- How are you? - I'm good. How are you?
- Long time no talk to. You good?
- Am I good? - Yeah, like are you okay?
- I'm great. - All right.
- Regrets to what? Like what kind of question...?
- I don't know, just your feelings or emotions.
- It's been almost a whole year
since me and Ken have had a conversation.
And this man has the nerve to come over here
and start acting concerned.
Bro, just say what you gotta say and let's move on.
The last time we spoke, what did you say to me?
- I suggested we should just be friends.
- And you felt nothing, right? - No, no, no.
- You said that to my face. - But at that point,
I was already emotionally detached.
- You folded on me, you asked for the money
you spent on me back.
You (bleep) everything foul, bro.
Like everything. Cheated on me
and tried to use my... - Nessie, why we break up?
- Because you folded on me.
- No, no, no, no. Why did we break up?
- Because you folded on me.
- So when did I-- when did I cheat on you?
- We had a 20-- during that whole trip.
- We broke up before the trip.
- So you tell it. - Uh, I would love to.
- Please do. - I really wish Ken and Nessie
never got together because, before all this, we was friends
and I really wanted to just come back
to be the friends that we was.
So hopefully they can figure this out
and move the hell on.
- I don't know if you remember, we had a fight
with Philly coming up, but the day before that,
we was supposed to go somewhere, maybe Target,
and I just wasn't ready when you were.
- You wasn't ready. You wanted to make smoothies
while I was trying to run errands.
I was trying to make moves while you was--
- All right, smoothies is gonna take two seconds--
- It didn't matter, I was trying to be productive.
I was like, let me go do this while you do that.
(Lemeir) They arguing about a smoothie?
Talking about smoothies right now.
I definitely, for sure, did not know this goddamn story.
Imagine you at a party and y'all be telling
about y'all relationship.
"Yeah, we was in love."
"But why y'all break up?"
"'Cause of this smoothie."
(laughing)
- You didn't want that 'cause you don't want me
to be out of your sight because you are controlling as (bleep).
No, no! No, no! (overlapping shouting)
Don't (bleep) play with me.
- ♪♪ I do what I want ♪♪
♪♪♪♪
- You didn't want that 'cause you don't want me
to be out of your sight because you are controlling as (bleep).
- Regardless, it was a petty-ass argument.
You storm out my door and slam it.
You were yelling in my (bleep) stairwell.
- Because I didn't want to sit there and do nothing
while you made a (bleep) smoothie for your brother, bro.
- Who said I was controlling? Who said I was controlling?
- You because I just wanted to leave and go make moves.
We still had to do that so it's still gonna take up more time.
- They arguing about some bull(bleep) right now.
- I was like, oh, since you're doing that,
that's fine, I'm gonna go do this.
You're like, no, because you think I'm up to something.
Which is the same reason why-- - Okay, so wait, wait--
- My friends can't tell me I'm pretty.
Dah, dah, dah, I can't even have women tell me I'm pretty.
- What are you even talking about right now?
- Everything, the controlling (bleep), bro.
You're not about to sit here and act like you this
(bleep) super calm-ass (bleep), bro, you not that.
That whole smoothie situation was not even the final straw.
I decided to go through his phone while he was asleep,
and apparently I was right about everything.
So I'm not the crazy (bleep) girl.
That (bleep) tried to cheat on me with some possums.
I was starting to put up with too much
and I kinda lost myself, and I'll never do that again.
- Ness, can you just let me talk?
- No, bro, no, it's not your time to talk--
- I thought I was explaining-- - No, because
you had years to talk and you don't say (bleep) to me.
- I am not emotionally attached to this (bleep).
- Of course you're not. (overlapping shouting)
That's what the (bleep) you wanted.
Yeah, (bleep), remember that? - This right here.
- Well, when you act like a bitch, I'ma call you one.
- That's actually why we broke up.
You called me a bitch in the stairwell.
And I said, "Oh, you know what, (bleep),
that was the last straw." (overlapping shouting, bleep)
I will, this is a petty crime to me.
- This is why I can't have a conversation with you, bro.
You're (bleep) delirious and you're (bleep) childish.
- Ho-ass bitch. Nessie!
- Girl, I'm pissed. Like if you try to invalidate me
every time I (bleep) see you, yes, bro, I feel a type of way.
- I know. - What the (bleep)?
- You're better than that.
Well, damn, this didn't go as planned.
I really wanted Nessie and Ken to talk and work it out.
But I understand where Nessie is coming from.
It doesn't feel good to be done dirty
by somebody that you love.
And I know she's in her feelings right now about Ken,
but I really hope that she can get past that
because her future at Lemeir's shop will be way brighter.
- This is what I'm talking about.
Pretty much every argument that I ever been through with her,
bro, since day one, like you feel me?
- I see why they broke up right there.
- He's not being real about the past.
And then he's trying to say that you didn't cheat on me, bitch.
Like getting too close to you makes my (bleep) PH balance feel off.
- Wow. - Yeah, we gotta get you outta here, man.
- That's deep.
- Ken has always tried to make me
seem like the crazy one.
But he knows I'm not the type of person
to play that (bleep).
Everything that was building up inside
was just put on display for everybody to see.
But integrity is everything to me.
So, especially in business,
you will never see me put myself
back in this situation again, you can bet on that.
(Vudu) Boo, I'm so sorry.
(Nessie) Real life, that's real life.
- He from Chicago. - Oh, get that.
- Showing him about Compton's finest.
We gonna get a tat.
- Look, I'm gonna get it on my right side.
- Get yours started.
- How everything going with the relationship still...?
- Well, we're not. We're going in circles.
And at this point, I'm just tired.
- Oh, my God.
- I had posted a flier for the pop-up,
and then Tim just replied to my story.
"You (bleep) with the opts. I thought you was Team IAM."
- Like that's wrong.
- The women in our shop, they sometime
feel a way about me.
I know I have temperament problems.
But for me, it's like getting them
to understand our struggles.
(woman) It's okay to cry.
- After Ken and I broke up, I just never heard from you.
- I was very bothered about you going back to KP.
I just don't see how we can work together.
- Are you serious?
- I just didn't feel like I was ready to work here.
- I've seen nothing to show why I should trust anybody.
- Like, bro, what are you trying to do?
Actually, I can't be a part of this.
I'm not doing this.
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