HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: VH1 / Black Ink Crew: Chicago This week on Black Ink Crew: Chicago, Don and Ashely go to therapy to scream at each other some more. Ryan is tired of paying all the bills while his employees are no shows and Draya’s meeting with her dad was a mess. Draya & Prince Take A Trip To The Big Apple After deciding it’s time to meet her absent father, Draya and Prince hop on a plane and head to NYC. Of course, Draya is nervous about meeting her biological father, but thankfully she has Prince there for moral support. Immediately the trip hits a sour note when a meeting with family members Draya has never met flops. Draya’s sister, Anastacia, is the only person that shows up. She tearfully revealed everyone flaked because they didn’t want to be on camera. ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz On this week’s episode of Black Ink Crew: Chicago, Miss Kitty is back as an apprentice, Draya’s dad reaches out, Prince is going through some drama, and Ryan finally has a conversation with Van. Prince Is Going Through It The episode opens up with Prince and Don catching up on life. Don talks about his recent trip to Dallas to see his daughter, which did not go as smoothly as he would have liked. Prince also has some drama going on in his life, he reveals to Don someone stole his car, and his expensive tattoo equipment was inside. To add more insult to injury for Prince, he shares with Draya that his father is suffering from mounting health issues which have him worried about losing the only person he feels has left i...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Black Ink Crew: Chicago is back, and drama is already brewing in Chi-Town. Ryan & Charmaine Are No Longer Buddies The new season opens up with a 9 MAG-hosted event alongside the Hustle Mommies, an “organization dedicated to providing a foundation for women to come together and push one another to become better Mothers and women.” The event was about giving back to the community and combating violence in their communities, so it was pretty surprising to many that Charmaine, a very vocal cast member on community matters, was not in attendance. Ryan was pressed by the crew about Charmaine’s absence and revealed that he had taken a step back in terms of his friendship with 2nd City Ink’s owner. His reasoning, Ryan was...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Last week on Black Ink Crew: Chicago, Ryan confronted Steven for not living up to his guest spot obligation, and Prince went ham on his boss Charmaine and her husband, Neek. This week Ryan decides to gather the crew for some team-building in hopes of bringing everyone together. Prince Is Done With 2nd City Ink This week’s episode opens up with us being introduced to Ryan’s artist Shogun. The 9 Mag captain breaks down the 2nd City Ink drama to Shogun, explaining that he believes Charmaine doesn’t truly understand her mistake by firing her lead artist Prince. Ryan also believes that for Charmaine to be a successful tattoo shop owner, she needs both Prince and Draya to thrive in the industry. But, in the same breath, h...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: VH1 / ViacomCBS Last week, Ryan held a struggle intervention dinner that didn’t work at helping bring them any closer together. This week he decides to work on himself mentally while the crew still processes what happened last week. Prince Isn’t Feeling Charmaine The episode opens up with Prince and his “buddy” Draya speaking about the meeting. Prince was not too happy about his boss calling him out and accusing him of cheating on his girlfriend with Draya. Both Prince and Draya are adamant in their denial of hooking up, but Charmaine feels otherwise, and Prince thinks Charmaine’s behavior was absolutely messy. Prince is now unsure if he wants to continue working at 2nd City Ink. Meanwhile, Charmaine still believes something happened between Prince ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz After 2nd City Ink’s embarrassing showing at the tattoo convention on last week’s episode, Ryan decides it’s time to rally the troops, but he quickly finds out that’s not going to be so easy. Ryan & Kitty Detail Where It All Went Wrong The episode opens up with Ryan recapping last week’s tattoo convention that was an absolute mess for 2nd City Ink, thanks to the beef between Charmaine, Draya, and Kitty. Ryan breaks down to Phor and the rest of the 9 Mag crew how he feels Charmaine needs to step her managerial skills up, but at the same time, he understands what she is going through. When the topic switches to Kitty, his former “friend” Ryan believes Kitty started acting brand new after Anthony called him out, and ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Courtesy VH1 / ViacomCBS Last week on Black Ink Crew: Chicago, Phor and Nina’s shaky relationship was the episode’s primary focus. This week, Phor comes to a decision. It also touches on other matters involving the crew. Phor Bounces Phor is fed up with Nina following their argument at the nail salon. He tells Ryan and Don about the latest blowup with Nina and reveals that he has begun to take steps to ensure he is good when it’s time to determine who gets custody of their son. Ryan and Don offer Phor some solid advice telling him that for the sake of healthy delivery, he needs to find a way to get along with Nina and worry about all that after stuff after the baby comes. Related Stories With Nina still heavy on his, Phor gets a text message from Ni...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Courtesy VH1 / ViacomCBS Black Ink Crew: Chicago is back for its seventh season, and in the season premiere, we catch up with the crew from Chi-Town. New Views On Life Despite the tone in the show, the pandemic is still going on. We just wanted to make that perfectly clear here. But, keeping with the vibes of the show, Black Ink Crew: Chicago returns in its full glory following a pandemic shortened season that saw Ryan shutter his tattoo shop and get dismissed by Rachel when he asked to quarantine with her and the kids. He seems to be in a better space now, despite some drama that we will touch on in a bit. Charmaine had it extremely rough during the pandemic. She lost her mom BUT welcomed her daughter during the height of the pandemic when ho...
After a pandemic shortened sixth season, Black Ink Crew: Chicago is back, so that means fans can expect the return of the tattoos and, of course, drama in season 7. We’re heading back to Chicago. No, the pandemic isn’t officially over, but the world is slowly opening up, so that means 9 MAG’s owner Ryan Henry and 2nd City Ink’s boss Charmaine Bey have turned on the lights and tattoo guns in their shops again. We spoke with the reality stars/ tattoo shop owners on Zoom, and during our online conversation, we talked about Ryan’s drama with his former best friend after he got called out for sleeping with his boy’s baby mama. We also touched on how Charmaine keeps it together after losing both of her parents in a short time span and at the same time becoming a new mom. Henry and Bey also talke...