Black Ink Crew owner and star David Ceaser Emanuel opens up about being a young black business owner and why he opened a second Tattoo parlor on 125th!!!

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CelebNReality247.com has the latest on owner David Ceaser Emanuel‘s, 36, opened his new tattoo shop last March, 2016, and filming of the news season began shooting.

BIC5 premiered last week, so fans will watch the cast go through growing pains from last spring/summer and fall.

Why did he open the new location with a whole new roster of artists?

Here is what he said last year at his grand opening:

“Honestly it was such a struggle trying to get here. Coming from the hood, these are the same streets my cousin Ted and I would run around looking for girls wishing we had something, now we got something, I’m not dribbling a basketball I’m not selling any drugs, this is all clean money.”

Ceaser Emanuel spoke on Harlem Focus, being a young Black business owner during this current climate, as Harlem undergoes gentrification.

“I feel like this is our home and we don’t have anything, the whole two fifth, they got rid of us. I took a piece back for us and hope other people will follow because this is ours.”

In addition, Ceaser’s North Carolina fiance, Dutchess Lattimore, 31, and owner of Pretty in Ink, who opened her shop in 2015, had this to say.

“I just like to see that our brands are growing. In the tattoo industry you see people being tattoo artist and that is usually as far as their career goes. We don’t want to just be tattoo artists; we are currently working with a company and creating blue tooth speakers inside of canvases. We want people to see us as real artists and not just tattoo artist. People say oh you’re just a tattoo artist and I say no I’m an artist, and I have more to offer the world than just a tattoo.”

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