Bae decides to make a positive impact by organizing a Stop Asian Hate and Black Lives Matter march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Bae must also deal with racist comments, and she stands with the Asian American and Pacific Island community to #StopAsianHate. After opening a shop in New York City, Bae balances being a single mother and running her business.

With only $73 to her name, she made ends meet by taking any job that came her way and using her street smarts and charm to land a job as a tattoo artist, despite never having tattooed in her life. Young Bae moved to New York City in 2007, leaving behind an abusive father and a difficult home life in Seoul, South Korea. As his personal goals fall into place, will his loyalty to Black Ink and Ceaser ruin the life that Teddy is building? To everyone's surprise, he announces to Ceaser and the crew he is moving to Atlanta to pursue acting full-time.

With a successful movie premiere under his belt, Teddy decides he likes the way he looks on the big screen. When he asks the shop to babysit her while he runs some errands, Kimchi disappears, and they scramble to find her before Teddy returns. Teddy doesn't agree with how Ceasar is handling the situation with Cheyenne, but can he keep it a buck with his cousin without causing strain between them? Teddy becomes a dog dad to Instagram famous puppy Kimchi and delights in spoiling her rotten. Things get weird between Teddy and Ceaser after Teddy is a no-show at Ceaser's press conference. Teddy started his music label and management company RGLR LVNG, and invested in a studio space. With the street life far behind him, Teddy is on a new level! He spent much of the pandemic growing his flourishing relationship with his wife and investing in music, his second love. Teddy's role at Black Ink has changed over the years, from shop manager to VP of operations and now president, with financial investments in multiple Black Ink shops. Since then, he's always kept an eye out for his cousin Ceaser. Teddy, born and raised in the Bronx, New York, first came to Black Ink after distancing himself from life on the streets.

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