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We are only in episode two of the new season of Black Ink Crew and things are getting extra spicy in the Harlem “tattoo shop.”

Last week’s episode ended with the shop “under attack” after was perceived to be gunshots rang through it sending the cast and crew in a frenzy. We quickly learn that it wasn’t bullets that shattered the glass but instead a brick that had them shook.

Ceaser speaking with his lazy cousin Ted initially had no clue who launched the brick through his shop but after Ted presents evidence in the form of Instagram posts. The head of the “tattoo shop empire” after hearing what the professional couch sitter had to say now believes it was his former and now disgruntled employee who vandalized his shop.

After their conversation in the car, Ceaser heads back to the shop to reveal to the crew after both him and Ted’s Scooby-Doo moment that he believes it was Alex who threw the brick. While he is pretty sure, everyone else is not so sure if their former coworker was behind it.

So of course, Bae and Kitty call up Donna to link up for some drinks to get to the bottom of the brick throwing incident. They ask Alex’s boo if she knows if he launched the brick through the window and she was not feeling that at all. Already not feeling them because they failed to reach out to the couple after the incident to check up on them, she leaves the meeting insulted at the idea that they would think her boyfriend would do such a thing.

Donna runs back home to tell Alex who is fresh from rehab for his bad back. She informs him about what happened after she met up with Bae and Kitty telling her Ceaser believes he threw the brick. Alex can’t believe that his former boss would think such a thing despite the fact his injury won’t allow him to “pick up a pencil” so how would he be able to throw a brick? The couple both agree their former friends are not worth it and decide it’s us against them from now on.

Back at the shop, our boy Walt who had the most epic meltdown after revealing he is broke and had to move back to the projects is working on fixing his living arrangements. His conquest to move hit a snag due to his bad credit and he needs to scrape up $6,000 swiftly and decides to take pictures of his co-workers and use them in a calendar and sell it to raise the dough. First of all who wants a calendar featuring the Black Ink Crew cast? Well, maybe a whole calendar featuring Krystal might fly. Speaking of the new employee, Ted who has had his eyes on her from the moment she walked in the shop finally gets his flirt on with her right in front of his fake wife, Tati. We knew Ted wasn’t sh*t, but it seems Tati is learning this on the fly and calls him out on it.

The couple was already not speaking with each other after Tati called out Ted and Ceaser for sucker punching and jumping Alex and possibly being the reason the brick got thrown through the door. Teddy wasn’t feeling that at all and questioned his boo’s loyalty leading to the couple falling out and him deciding to reactivate his ain’t sh*t mentality.

Last but certainly not least, Alex’s injury is more severe than we thought. After a visit with his doctor, we learn that he won’t be able to tattoo anymore after his physician told him he is going to need to find a new profession. As you can imagine, he is emotional after the revelation, and the episode comes to a close.

Twitter had thoughts about the episode and believes Alex needs to sue immediately and understands if he decides to retaliate in some way. Hit the gallery below to see what fans of Black Ink Crew had to say about the episode below.

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Agless Bianca Lawson Celebrates 40th Birthday

Beyonce’s ageless step-sister Bianca Lawson has been young, beautiful and talented forever–no, seriously–and celebrated her 40th birthday today (YES, FOR-TEE) in YET ANOTHER mind-blowing reminder that Black definitely doesn’t crack.

Hit the flip for a very necessary celebration of slimmy slayette Bianca Lawson.

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Chanel “Dijon” McFarlane and Grammy-winning producer DJ Mustard just celebrated with a shower for their third baby. This past weekend they help a beautiful quartz crystal themed  Baby Shower for their baby boy. The couple’s already parents to a little girl and a boy.

Here, Chanel gave props to her hubby-to-be for rubbing her feet, tieing her shoes and being generally patient during her “mood” pregnancy. For the occasion, Chanel wore this velvety gold ensemble, doesn’t she look angelic?

Back on October, Mustard gifted Chanel with this 8 Carat engagement ring. It’s unknown if the couple wed yet, but Chanel has since changer her last name from “Tierry” to “McFarlane”.

Hit the flip to see some of the pretty and cool themed decor for The Mustards “Party Of Five” baby shower celebration.

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Following that, Prince sent out a PSA to the Bronx demanding that it be given back.

Now, Prince is proudly posing with the chain alongside New Yorkers French Montana, Hocus 45 and others who apparently helped retrieve it.

Are you surprised that J. Prince got Almighty Jay’s chain back?

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Part 1 of the Love and Hip Hop: New York Reunion show was cool, but we were all waiting for the part 2 cause Safaree showed up, and he straiiiiggghhhttt wanted all of the smoke.

Things pick up immediately with the Safaree taking his seat on the stage with his fellow cast members, and you can tell he is over it. He claims he showed up late due to a family emergency, but we really know why he could care less about the show. As we saw in previews, things get heated very quickly between Joe Budden, Cyn Santana, and Safaree with the engaged couple letting the “Hunnids” rapper they were not feeling him not telling them Erica Mena was in Costa Rica with them. Safaree accuses Joe of being fake and only turning up for the camera, Cyn steps in to back her man and calm things down. Joe reassures he’s not gonna put Safaree’s face in the sand cause he has too much to lose in doing so.

Eventually, they make up after Cyn and Safaree come to an understanding. He then explains that he is only protecting his future wife by not wanting to talk about her with anyone and we completely understand that.

But as one fire is put out another one is still raging on when Nina turns around and asks Rich Dollaz whats the issue between him and Safaree. Mr. Dollaz is still feeling some sort of way because he feels Safaree was lying to him about dating Erica Mena despite her being as he describes it “many n*ggas removed” from him.

Safaree, still on one, disses Rich’s pants calling them tight, and that was enough to get the leader of the creep squad out his seat and hop over a table to try and put paws on the Nicki Minaj’s former hypeman. Of course, security was on hand to make sure that no punches were thrown and cooler heads prevail, but it’s clear there will still be tension between the two men.

Despite all of that, Safaree had some allies in his fight in Yandy who understood her friend’s stance on the situation and from Remy who like all of us wondered why everyone is so mad about someone whom they didn’t even see? Once we get past that its time from Mariahlynn vs. Nya Lee pt.2. The two reality starlets beef is still sizzling with Lee going a bit too far talking Mariah’s mom after the “Money Gun” rapper spoke about Nya Lee’s scars. Again only words were exchanged, and no reality stars were harmed in the filming of the show.

Another weird moment took place between Jonathan and Sidney Starr. During the season the two got along very well, but during the reunion show, things get incredibly spicy between the two with after Starr said the celebrity makeup artist is “messy” (he can be) and he responded by lashing out at her. In response to Starr labeling him, he accused her duping straight men who still don’t know she’s packing down below which was a bit unfair.

Twitter had many thoughts on the whole Safaree vs. everyone situation pretty much siding with him as well as the other moments on the show. You can see what the internet had to say about pt.2 of the Love and Hip Hop: Reunion show in the gallery below.

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Pooch Hall is probably somewhere thanking his lucky stars. The ‘Ray Donovan’ star will not face any jail time for his October 2018 DUI which lead to him totalling his car while his baby was in the back seat.

TMZ Reports:

“Hall struck a deal with prosecutors. He entered a no contest plea to misdemeanor DUI and to child endangerment. For the DUI his sentence is 3 years probation and a 3-month alcohol program.”

You may recall that an eyewitness saw Hall driving with his toddler in his lap while driving before the accident. When cops pulled him over, he blew a .25, more than 3 times the legal limit. As for the felony child abuse charge he received for putting his baby in danger during the incident, Hall has to complete a one-year parenting class for that charge to be dismissed.

Whew. Things could’ve gone much worse for you, Pooch.