There’s only two artists left at Loyal Ink.
Only Van and Cobra remain now that Phor, Reese and Lily are out.
Cobra comes in and tells them that she relieves stress by closely following professional wrestling. So she’s now been in the gym learning how to wrestle.
Not too long later, Van walks in the shop. They all see that Lily left a left a letter behind. In a green screen interview, Van says he’s glad she’s gone.
Lily writes that Charmaine is disrespectful and runs her mouth too much.
As far as Danielle is concerned, Lily says Danielle is self centered, boring and lazy.
“What do you really do?” – Lily
To Van, Lily calls him the biggest disappointment. She also calls him thirsty, with a big ego.
“Y’all can all suck my d*ck. Signed, Lily.”
Cobra says she is still cool with Lily so she’s staying out of the drama.
Van feels like Lily betrayed him and he says he never kissed her.
“She’s bad for business.” – Charmaine
Phor is back in the studio.
London On Da Track arrives to hear what Phor has been working on.
The second verse is missing because Phor can’t get in touch with the engineer. Overall, London seems to be impressed by Phor’s new music.
With things not being complete yet, London’s managers express disappointment that Phor’s only finished three songs when he was supposed to have ten finished.
In a green screen interview, Phor says that London should be around more if he wants things done faster.
But the pressure is now on Phor. He feels like he let London down. London says Phor needs to finish all ten songs so they can move forward.
Ryan and Lily have a sit down.
Lily is alone now that Reese moved back to San Diego.
She figured the person she needs to talk to is Ryan. She wants to know if Ryan will allow her to work in his shop again.
When Ryan walks in, things are awkward between them. In a green screen interview, Ryan says Lily has been talking trash on social media. He only came to see if she would have the same energy face to face.
Lily apologizes and says she was wrong to say everything she’s said about him. Ryan says he wasn’t trying to diss everyone and he still wants to work with a lot of people at Loyal Ink.
He definitely wasn’t trying to abandon anyone. Ryan also feels like Lily is one of the best artists there.
Ryan says that Lily should not have allowed anyone to talk her out of supporting him.
“I was just such a f*cking hothead.” – Lily
She tells him she left Loyal Ink.
“They hate me right now. I’m the new you. Everyone hates me.” – Lily
In a green screen interview, Ryan says that Loyal Ink is going to push out everyone.
They then discuss the new 9Mag, and Lily tells him to hit her up if he wants her back in his new shop. But in his green screen interview, Ryan says he doesn’t want to be anyone’s back up plan.
“I’m not no f*cking fail safe.” – Ryan
Charmaine’s mom visits.
They discuss that awkward meeting with Neek’s mom.
But Charmaine says everything is still good between her and Neek.
Her mother tells her to reach out to Ryan since Loyal Ink has been a mess. Charmaine’s mom also says she really has a lot of respect for Ryan and Charmaine should have treated him better.
In a green screen interview, Charmaine says that she and Ryan used to be very close.
“He was my support system.” – Charmaine
This saddens her. She’s shocked to learn that her mother communicates with Ryan via text messages.
Apparently Ryan told her that he’s open to him and Charmaine being able to talk things out at some point.
However, Charmaine says she’s been trying to talk to Ryan and it went nowhere. Regardless, Charmaine’s mother says she needs to be the one to step up and “fix it.”
Lily meets up with Cobra as she does some wrestling training.
She hurt her neck at practice. So she has to go to the ER.
On the way there, Lily tells Cobra about her conversation with Ryan. Cobra is glad to hear this because she has no issues with Ryan.
Phor and Ryan catch up.
After things have been stressful in LA, Phor returns to Chicago for a quick trip.
Ryan says the shop is still under construction but things are coming along well.
In the back, Phor gets a new tattoo. He wants “Chi Town” on him. It’s the name of his successful single. Ryan comes through and delivers.
Don and Phor have some family time.
They have a little cookout with Ashley and the kids.
In a green screen interview, Ashley says that she will consider taking Don back if he keeps up his progress.
Ryan and 9Mag come up. Phor is on board with returning to the new 9Mag. Ashley says she wants the old gang back together. But Don says he kind of what to work for himself and he likes that no one owns Loyal Ink.
He wants his own legacy.
The new 9 Mag has a little get together.
So they have a barbecue to celebrate the official shop opening in a couple of weeks.
Lily comes by with food.
Bella is confused to see her because she feels Lily started the altercation with Junior.
After Lily tells everyone it’s not that deep, the others aren’t really thrilled to see her there. But Ryan tells them that he’s cool with Lily now and she may be coming back to 9Mag.
He tells Bella that he has no beef with Lily. Lily says her beef with Junior had nothing to do with Ryan. The group takes some shots and moves on from the awkwardness.
In a green screen interview, Lily says the new 9Mag girls are much funner than Loyal Ink.
Charmaine pulls up hoping she and Ryan can hash things out.
She’s taken aback to see Lily there.
“You go wherever the wind blows you, huh Lily? – Charmaine
“What you gon do, Charmaine?” – Lily
Bella says Charmaine is making things more awkward than Lily did. Charmaine then starts blasting Lily for trashing Ryan just to be back in his face now.
They argue and Charmaine then asks to talk to Ryan alone.
Ryan has to make a decision regarding his former friendship with Charmaine.
She tells him they were too close to fall out the way they did. Lily, Bella and the other female artist talk about running up on Charmaine.
Ryan isn’t really receptive of what Charmaine is saying. He feels it was wrong for Charmaine to talk to the media. She admits she was angry and wanted to get even with him.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right. We used to be really close.” – Charmaine
It is confirmed that Charmaine threw Ryan under the bus in the Chicago Tribune article. She apologizes for her actions.
“It’s not about if I forgive it, but I don’t forget a motherf*cking thing.” – Ryan
As far as Ryan and Charmaine are concerned, Ryan isn’t sure they can ever be friends again.
One of the female artists gets riled up by Lily to confront Charmaine. Lily and the woman approach Charmaine, with Lil egging the woman on to get in Charmaine’s face.
Both have clearly had too much to drink.
Ryan tells Lily that the conversation has nothing to do with her. So he sends them on her way. Bella is also dismissed.
After Charmaine apologizes again, Ryan makes it clear that he’s not interested in reviving their friendship.
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