Beyond the Pole (2018–2019): Season 1, Episode 3 - Let Me Make Myself Clear - full transcript
The ladies try to deal with the shock of being kicked out of Stormy's home. Ling Ling meets with Lyfe Jennings to give him an answer to the solution he proposed about her living situation. ...
[deep drumming]
- [Woman] Previously
on Beyond the Pole.
- Hello, honey, did you miss me?
- One, two.
Bring those knees
in, bring it in.
- Since we couldn't get
our big asses up the pole,
we did what we do
best, slaying ass.
[fun rhythmic music]
- Okay baby, get your
friend out of my house.
- Oh my gosh, this is--
- It ain't even your house,
it's an Airbnb, girl, bye.
- I made millions of dollars and
coached over 12 people
to millionaire status.
I'm not about to debate
with you, you, or nobody.
- See, you don't wanna listen.
- Girl, listen, I'm not
about to do this with you.
- Don't touch me and
don't touch my money.
- So I got a text saying
that you're not gonna be
able to do the show,
you're gonna move.
- I didn't know what to do.
I felt like I had
hit rock bottom.
I needed the fast money
and I need it now.
- I think I got a
solution to your problem.
- My strategy, okay,
I wanna get in, dance.
I'm gonna stack up
my money and get out.
- You got it, you got it.
[fun rap music]
[soft rhythmic music]
[fun energetic music]
- LeaLea and Stormy argument
went from zero to 100
really, really quick.
- Please get out my house!
Whatever we doing right
now, this gotta go.
- Please, for the
sake of God, go.
- She mad in real life
because she told me
she studied economics and
don't know what economics is
and she's studying economics.
I can't right now.
I've coached 12 people
to millionaire status.
God blesses me everyday, girl.
When I say I'm so [mumbles],
when I say I got so
much brakes, girl,
I got seven figures in
multiple bank accounts, girl!
And living real good.
People pray for me everyday,
people pray for me everyday
because they're so grateful
of how I've [mumbles]
and made a change in their life.
I'm sorry that you
a little girl and
you still caught up
in being in economics
and don't even know
what the hell it is.
I'm gonna pray for you, for
real, in real life though.
- Soon as I walked in and told
her what I'm trying to do,
it's like, girl, you
ain't been doing nothing.
Bitch, how do you know?
- Because I'm gonna let
you know I got like six
personalities, don't let
one them motherfuckers
come out on you, girl,
straight up, for real.
Don't let Coach full you,
I'm gonna let you
know that right now.
No, she disrespectful
man, she disrespectful.
Listen, but I'm letting
her know because
this needs to be nipped
in the bud today.
All these motherfuckers
need to know.
Don't motherfucking play
with Stormy Wellington.
- Oh my god, I don't know.
- That's one motherfucking
threshold you don't wanna cross,
I'm telling you right now.
- [Woman] What happened?
- I want you to be
a good example of
how I knocked your
ass across the floor.
- It just really was
just funny as hell.
It took everything in me
not to bust out laughing.
- Girl, don't play
with me, little girl!
- I'm trying to be everything
but the stereotypical.
- I hear you're not fixing
to go to a strip club
and get no coins!
Because I'll have a
motherfucker fuck you up
every god damn day you go
to the motherfucking club!
- Let her go, let her go!
- You ain't gonna
be walk no more!
- Let her go, let her go.
- That's the bitch I am!
She was saying, come outside.
Girl, I'm not gonna touch you,
girl, I am too
beautiful for that.
I'm not gonna do that.
I will pay somebody
else to touch you.
Why would I do that?
That's what money is for,
you're supposed to recycle,
you're supposed to
stimulate the economy.
I would've gave
somebody else that job.
Listen, reality show
people, I will fuck me
a motherfucker up, believe that.
I want you all to
know that, for real.
I'm a coach, I love the
lord with all my heart
but I will kick me a
motherfuckers ass, okay.
And ask God to forgive me when
I'm motherfucking finished.
I feel like she was
being very childish and
I know me, that's why I don't
put myself in environments
that will cause me to
become the other person,
the other side of me.
And it just happened,
it's like a reflex.
You keep pissing me off and
Stormy from the
streets came out.
- Basically, I would say,
Stormy asked her a question.
Stormy didn't like her answer,
or she didn't have
the right answer.
And from there it just...
And you do get offended when
people ask you questions
and you don't know
how to answer them.
That's what it was.
You were asking her
things she wasn't educated
herself about, she wasn't
prepared to answer that.
So that can come
across as frustrating.
- That's true.
- When you're putting
on this facade like,
I know what the fuck
I'm talking about and
then somebody asks
you questions,
you don't even know
how to answer them.
- Everything that
LeaLea was saying,
she shut her down, every
little point she was trying to
give, she shut her down
on every little thing.
And I didn't like none of that.
She's a woman of empowerment.
- Yeah, that's why I'm
really shocked that
your conversation went left
field like that because--
- Want me to tell you why?
She's used to being the
sharpest knife in the jar.
- Yeah, that's what
we were saying.
- So she's used to being the
strongest one in her group
amongst the little
stripper girl.
So here comes someone
that challenged her
and it made her
feel embarrassed.
- That's what I said, she
feels that we're younger.
- So it wasn't that I was
trying to intimidate her
or be condescending with
what I was asking her.
You're here because we're
talking about the future, right.
So I asked you what
you're doing and
you say, I'm trying
to study this thing.
I'm confused.
So are you just trying
to sound smart like
you're used to sounding
amongst your peers
and stripper girls?
And you come over here with
Coach Stormy Wellington,
I'm not going for it.
Like she was just saying
something to sound busy.
So I felt like, again,
people say things because
it sounds good, she didn't
sound very authentic.
Live in this fake
delusion of a life.
And we do it and
forget you're gonna be
60 years old one day.
So when your titties sagging and
your fake booty dragging,
what you gonna do then?
- LeaLea, she was a
good role model to me.
So I didn't respect
none of that.
- Hey, you look cute.
- You look really good.
- Thanks.
Girl, you missed
all the tea tonight.
- What, what you
guys in here doing?
You all had some
male dancers again?
- I mean, no, originally
it was a party,
now it's just a gathering
between us three.
- Oh, wow.
- The other ladies had to leave.
- When I came to the mixer,
it seems like it's
practically over.
I was ready for
the mixer though.
I don't know what
happened to it.
- They couldn't stay with us.
- Three's company.
- This is Stormy.
- Hi, you look so cute.
Nice to meet you.
- Is this from your collection?
- Yup.
- I love that.
- They look like [mumbles].
- That's her collection,
she has a boutique,
she has some really nice pieces.
- Awesome.
Angel Kake is cute.
I could tell that
she's a hustler,
I could tell she's
got her hood side,
and I'm happy that she
told me she has some
Caucasian in her family
because I could tell.
She acts like a
nice, cute blonde.
- You know, basically
I was a stylist, so I--
- Oh, you were a stylist too?
- Yeah, I styled
some makeup artists,
so I just go ahead and pick out
all the pieces from my line.
- That's super cute.
Is it really good
stretch like [mumbles]?
- It fits really good.
- Where's your boutique?
- I had a store before actually
over this way off of Walker.
- So you just do
online sales now?
- Yeah, now online.
- That's good, it's
not even worth it.
- No overhead.
- It's not even worth
it having overhead.
- Yeah, I was about to say
online is really good though.
- She seems like a
very alpha female.
She's gorgeous, she seems
like she's on her business,
she knows it, she
knows her self worth.
I like her, she's cool.
- You know, I brought
all you ladies over here
to meet with Stormy.
She's a life coach, so I
just really wanted her to,
she's not here to
talk down on us or
tell us what we're
doing is wrong,
that's not the right
or wrong way to get to
where we wanna be in life.
She's just telling us how
she got where she's at.
Originally, I just felt
like her and LeaLea just got
into it really bad,
that's why everybody else
ended up leaving.
Well, they didn't end up
leaving, she put them out.
- Hold up.
- That was the best
thing to do because
LeaLea was not trying to--
- Hold on, they got
into it with you?
- I don't know
what it was called.
I mean, I got out of character.
I'm so sorry that
it happened but
they pushed me to that point.
- I'm here for all the business.
- You gotta be humble.
You can't confuse someone who
is confident in what they do
for cockiness.
So I think she came here,
you could tell she
had her preconceived
notion of me all ready.
You could tell somebody
told her something about me
that's not true.
- I don't think that it's that.
- You missed the whole thing.
If you saw her
attitude from the time
she walked in the door.
- I wasn't saying that.
I just had picked up
that vibe from when I
had first met her.
Because I really kind of
didn't care for her a lot
because it was
kind of very cocky.
She is like in self
healing right now.
She's only been
cancer free for like--
- A year.
- A year, and so her
confidence helps her heal.
This is part of her--
- I get what you saying.
I knew she was dealing with
something internal, I said that.
- Right, that's what
she markets herself as
this confident woman
who overcame cancer
and that confidence--
- That's great, there's
nothing wrong with that.
- Right, but that
confidence is not humble
but if you got to know her,
you would know that
that confidence is--
- Helping her to
heal, I got you.
- I don't think she means
bad but she just needs to--
- [La'Bri] Right, I've never
seen her like that before.
- She's still healing, I think.
- She needs to find Jesus,
I'm gonna pray for her.
[laughing]
No, I'm gonna pray for her.
We make mistakes and so,
if I rubbed you wrong or
you rubbed me wrong, when you
are grown and you're mature
and you know who you
are and whose you are,
you tend to be a little
bit, much more humble
and you tend to have
more gratitude for life.
And I know she overcame
breast cancer as well
and I'm very grateful
for her story.
So do you still dance right now?
- I do.
- So what's the
average income per day?
Because you guys are beautiful.
So what's the average?
- Honestly?
- [Stormy] Like for real.
- At least 1,000.
- Is that considered
a good night?
- You're not happy but you're--
- No, I'm happy with $1,000.
- I imagine because,
shit, you make $1,000,
you still gotta
tip out bout 350.
- How do they know
how much you made?
- I'm not happy with $1,000.
- How do they know how
much money you made?
- They watch you now,
they call it sales.
- So wait a minute,
it's called sale.
- Yeah, they watch you.
- So you make $1,000 and
they want 35% of your money?
- You might as well say.
- 35, shit.
- Basically?
- Basically, yeah.
- Okay, so when we
getting together again so
I can show you how to
make more than that
and keep your clothes on?
We gotta make this
happen, for real.
- I'm ready.
- I'm really devastated.
- [Angel] I'm getting chills.
- I'm excited.
All right, give me a hug, thank
you girls for coming over.
- Thank you so much.
- DOn't bring your crazy
friend back over here no more.
So I may be soft with my kids,
I may be soft with my man,
but I'm not about to be
soft with these women
because the reality is this,
they're either
gonna get in line or
they're gonna miss
the boat, bottom line.
[exciting rhythmic music]
- Mr. 2Weeks is me
and Dime's trainer
and we're going to work
out with him today.
- This ain't what we doing.
- What we doing?
- You're doing back,
you're doing ass today,
let me show you.
- Mr. 2Weeks trains everyone.
He trains all the video vixens,
he trains everyone's
girlfriend, every stripper.
Yeah, this is only 25 pounds.
- We got three sets of this.
- Three sets, I done
did at least four!
- Nah, you didn't.
- I wasn't surprised that
Mr. 2Weeks trained Dime
because he trains all the
beautiful girls in Atlanta.
So it didn't surprise me at all.
That is so cool we
got the same trainer.
- That's crazy.
- Now we can start to meet
up and work out together.
- Yes.
- How long have
you been dancing?
- About six years on and off.
- Oh, okay, are
you from Atlanta?
- No, I'm from Miami actually.
I'm up here sneaking
and dancing.
- Oh, sneaking and geeking.
[laughing]
- Yes, my family
do not know girl.
I live a double life and
the reason that I choose
to live a double life is
because I feel like it's so many
girls that are parading
around that they're dancers
and that they're strippers,
and so many people are like,
oh, that's how you got this
and that's how you got that,
and no one really gives us
the time to get to know us
to say, oh, okay, well what
else do you have going on?
Once you tell them
that you're a dancer,
everything else
goes out the door.
So I prefer to let them know
the corporate side of me
before they know the
street side of me.
So that way once they find
out that I am a dancer,
the outlook on me will
be totally different
if they're open minded.
It's just me and my
daughter up here now.
- Oh, that's sweet.
- But you know I work at the
hospital too and the school.
- Sheesh, what do you do there?
- Well, I'm a part time
teacher and I work in NICU.
So that's how I cover up
the whole dancing thing.
- [Angel] What do you
do at the hospital?
- Work at NICU with the babies.
- Oh, nice.
- Does your family know?
- Yeah, all my sisters
have danced before.
I have two sisters that
dance, my mom knows I dance.
It's pretty much like--
- Girl, my daddy would kill
me if he found out I dance.
I will break his little heart.
Growing up, I was a only girl.
So of course, by my
father raising me,
he had this picture perfect
ideal life on, you know,
my daughter, she's gonna
be a virgin forever,
she's gonna go to college
and meet this man.
And reality hits, you
know, I started dating,
I end up getting pregnant,
and it kind of broke
my dad's heart.
So I went to go stay
with my mom for a while.
She just wasn't one
of those moms that
you would look up to.
So I was like, well, hell,
I don't need her and,
hell, I don't need
my dad either.
They both turned
their back on me.
So that's how I started dancing.
My daughter, she's
16 now and I don't,
I'm gonna eventually
tell her but--
- You don't think
she knows though?
- No.
My daughter, Justice,
means the world to me.
Everything that I have done
was for my daughter, Justice.
So my goal is to keep
her out of the club.
I still want my daughter
to go to college and
get the education
that she needs.
My goal is for my daughter
to never see the inside
of a strip club, ever.
Does your son know you dance?
- He sees me count my money.
He sees my big old shoes.
- How old is he?
- He's seven but you know what,
I think he just thinks
it's regular because
I've danced for
the last two years.
So it's not always been in
his life but he's seen a lot.
So you know, I
don't wanna hide it.
My son sees my shoes,
he sees everything,
he sees me in thongs,
all my pictures and
stuff that I've
taken on Instagram.
So he doesn't exactly
understand it,
so my goal is to get
out before he does.
So did you get anything
done like dancing,
like work done?
- No, I haven't
got any work done.
- SO part of my transition is I
got stuff done when I was 18.
The big old butts were
really popping years ago,
and now--
- Girl, trust me, I know.
Because even when I'm
in my business uniforms,
when I go to work, I get
nasty looks from the girls
at work, rolling their eyes.
- Well, you have a
really nice body.
- Thank you, but still, I
just wanna go to work and
make some money.
- That's how I feel.
- You know, my butt's big.
People are like checking
it out, they're looking.
I don't want that attention.
I don't want people
to look at my butt.
Like okay, if you think
I'm beautiful, that's fine,
but don't follow
me around because
you're looking at my butt.
It's like whatever I have on,
when I'm at my son's school
and people are like,
oh, where you strip at?
I think I'm gonna make
a doctor's appointment
after I leave here.
They say you can't
remove this stuff but
I've had it in for so long,
the shit is coming out
one way or another.
- You just have to go
to the right person.
Don't go to somebody who you
haven't seen their work before
because you don't
wanna be messed up.
- I've been researching them.
After this, I'm gonna see
about making an appointment.
- I'll come with you if
you need some support.
- When Dime offered to come
to the doctors with me,
I think it'll be pretty cool.
At least I'll be able to have
someone there for support.
I'm definitely glad that I
have someone that I can laugh
or talk about, or
joke about it about.
Because really, it's funny.
It's like some shit I did
when I was really young.
- [Woman] Light skin dudes
take up too much money, so no.
- What about a fat dude?
What about a fat man?
[mumbles]
- I'm not.
- That's not racist.
- A fat man, now that--
- I dated a fat dude before.
- I've never dated
a fat man, sorry.
- That's the best kind
of nut to get because
his fat ass belly
be right there.
- Yeah, but see, again,
you're talking, I don't need
clit stimulation to get a nut.
- I do!
- I don't have to have that.
- I do, I need a nigga
up on that thing.
- Yeah, no, I don't
even need that.
Just get inside and
hit this G spot.
- You can tell I ain't
got no man, ya'll.
I'm fixing to go on Tinder.
How the fuck do I
make an account?
Make me a Tinder.
[laughing]
- [mumbles] I don't even
wanna talk about my man.
[deep rhythmic music]
- So today, I'm meeting
with Lyfe just to go over
the offer that he had gave
me a little while ago.
- So what's happening
with you, man?
- It's been better,
it's been really better.
You know, I talked to my son.
It was a real refreshment
for me to just talk to him
and tell me about
his soccer practice
and how he's the goalie.
It's real nice.
[mumbles] I can actually
really be at peace.
- What about the place,
how the place going?
- It's great, I got
approved completely.
So I'm like really,
really excited about that.
So what I was thinking was
you said you wanna help me
financially with a
little bit of money.
I was thinking I could use
that towards the apartment.
- You can do whatever
you want to do with it.
Buy a new coat, some boots.
Whatever, it's on you.
But I would use it for that,
you dig what I'm saying?
- Yeah, I mean, I really
do appreciate the offer
of trying to help me.
[mumbles], no I'm
not turning you down
like a little spoiled brat.
- Oh, you want that
check, don't front.
[laughing]
I get it, I get it.
- I just wanna feel like
I'm doing it on my own.
I don't wanna feel like I'm
owing anybody in the future.
I don't want it to be
thrown back in my face.
I really don't even wanna
accept the money but
I know I really need it.
I really have to put
my pride down for this.
- Have you been over
to the new spot really?
- Yeah, it's not everything
that I dreamed of.
- I'm happy for you,
man, I'm happy for you.
- Thank you, and I appreciate,
seriously, everything.
- That's cool.
- It was a nice, nice
gesture of Lyfe to offer
me to stay in his
second home and
kind of be the
home giver for it.
Yes, I wanna work for
taking care of his home.
I would love to take
care of the cleaning,
whatever I need to do,
but at the same time,
I still feel like,
okay, I owe more.
And I don't wanna be pushing
to feel like I'm obligated
to do more than just that.
So I chose to do
it differently and
he still chose to
support me with it.
- [Man] Biscuits and gravy.
- Yeah, that's me right here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[mumbles]
- Thank you, thank you.
Just with everything in court,
with my grandparents and
stuff trying to fight me
for my whole parental
rights and it's just like
when that judge told me
that financial stability
with his great grandparents
would be better than
his loving mom.
Nobody's gonna really love
your child like a parent,
you know how it is.
You're a great father, you
love your kids to the fullest
and beyond.
- So you don't have any
visiting rights or nothing?
- Mmm hmm, anything at all.
- This is not
making sense to me.
There's either something
you're not telling me
or some confusion going
on somewhere because
if they got rid of
your parental rights,
they had to have a
reason to get rid of
those parental rights.
They may get rid of
your custodial rights,
but they not gonna just get
rid of your parental rights
because you are not
financially capable
of taking care of that child.
So, there's something
I'm not getting.
- The situation with my son,
about five years ago, my,
my family watched my son
due to me being in an
abusive relationship.
I had to go through a
battered women's program.
I asked my mom and
my grandma, I'm like,
hey, can you watch
him while I do this.
And they took that
on, they said, yeah,
we can do this for you.
My mom gave me a phone
call, was like, hey,
we need some paperwork
to really just make sure
we can take him to the
doctors, stuff like that.
I was like, oh, okay.
My mom handed me a pamphlet
about a good 10, 15 pages long.
I'm thinking, what
the fuck is this?
It said that I was
an unfit parent,
that I needed to turn over all
my rights of my son to her.
And I told her, straight up,
I'm not doing none of this shit.
This is the paperwork that
started the whole case.
So I just want you read
the first part to yourself
on what they're
petitioning to terminating
my parental rights.
And after that, it went to
my grandparents battling me
for my whole parental rights.
And I took them to trial.
The judge told me my son
deserves financial stability
and terminated my rights.
I'm sorry, you guys,
can I have a minute?
- You know, you know me,
I always shoot straight
from the hip, man, and
keeping it all the way 100
real with you, you was going
through something in your life
and you dropped the ball, man.
Because from reading this,
it's basically just saying
you was away from the child,
they adopted the child, you
never talked to the child.
- No, they didn't adopt
him, they're trying to.
- Yeah, trying to adopt him
and then you just basically
just, for whatever
reason, fell off.
- So, what Lyfe is telling
me that I didn't petition
my case in the right
amount of time.
And to me, I don't
understand much of the law,
so I felt that he was
attacking me when I really
didn't know any better.
- I'm talking all
around, pound for pound,
after school
programs, attention,
financially all of that stuff.
Do you think that he is
better off where he's at?
- No.
- No?
- No.
- Okay.
- I'm not giving up that easy.
He's an amazing little boy,
he deserves to be fought for,
he deserves to have his mom.
I'm gonna win, I
got faith in myself.
- Always a pleasure
seeing you, young lady.
Be prosperous, let me
know how that thing goes.
Tell your boy I say
happy birthday, man.
- Thank you.
- All right, mama.
[deep rhythmic music]
- So, I'm at work and I seen
LeaLea go in the dressing room.
I haven't seen her since
the conversation took place
between her and Stormy,
so I decided to go in
there and talk to LeaLea.
And I could tell she
was still kind of upset.
You good?
- Girl, I'm good, I mean,
like, I just went home
and had to refocus my energy,
had to get my energy
back to a positive level.
I ain't really like that,
I didn't really like
her approach because
it's like I get it, you made it.
You did and I'm proud
of you for that,
but at the same time, in
the process of making it,
you cannot, you
cannot possibly think
that it's okay for you to--
- Down others.
- Downplay what somebody else
has been working hard to do.
Because when I came
to the little thing,
I came with the
mindset of, okay,
well, she doing something,
she might help us,
so I'm not about to
bring you anything
I feel like I can do by myself.
So because economic
stability is important to me
and because that's
what I'm studying,
why wouldn't I try to figure
out if you could help me
in that arena?
So I'm gonna tell you about
it but as soon as I start
telling you about
it, you're like,
you don't know the proper
name for it because
you ain't been doing shit,
or that work is bullshit.
Like, how do you know, man?
You ain't even read the
book about black economics?
- I mean, I think her
delivery was wrong.
- Way wrong.
- But after talking
to her a little bit,
I don't really feel like
she had any ill intentions.
But some people, they
don't know how to talk
or deliver things.
I really don't think
she meant no harm.
I think ya'll can kind
of maybe one day sit down
and talk about it and
kind of squash it.
- You know, I was trying
to talk to you then and
you didn't wanna listen.
- LeaLea's the type of person,
once she's mad, she's mad.
She does not let it go.
She will drag it on
for hours and hours and
talk about it forever.
We're gonna be around each
other, just try to make it work.
I mean, if you don't
feel like it's sincere,
of course, friend, I would
never tell you to be around
somebody you feel like
you gotta be fake around.
I was trying to get her to
realize that maybe Stormy
was just maybe
having a bad day and
maybe they can sit down over
coffee or over whatever,
and have a one on one conversation
about what escalated it
and what can make them go
back to where they should have
been so they can
both be progressive
in their business relationship.
I think both of ya'll
were being who you were.
It was just two strong
personalities butting heads.
- [LingLing] Ya'll talking
about the thing from last night?
- Yeah.
- See, I know what I can
do, I know I can be cool.
- We all felt that energy
because we was like, whoa,
wait a minute, calm down.
- I had [mumbles],
I was like ah.
- I'm just like,
calm down, relax.
But I'm just saying,
just move on from it,
we can move on from it.
- Exactly, move on from it.
- We are.
- It's draining to just
keep talking about it.
- You gotta go ahead,
that's the thing [mumbles].
- Okay, well, if ya'll
moved on from it,
then ya'll moved from it.
- I gotta get going, I
gotta catch this flight.
See ya later, hon.
- Okay, sis, so since
we're moving on from that,
girl, how about why
Justice said that her dad
told her I dance.
- Her daddy.
- Her daddy told her I dance.
Like, they were having
some type of argument and
then he was like, oh,
your mama a stripper.
Man, that is not funny.
- No, I'm talking about
how he just really like
told her like that.
- Right, and I'm like,
that's a conversation
I wanted to have with her.
- If he was doing
that to hurt her.
- Of course.
- Like to say, oh, your
mama's a stripper to hurt her,
how is that hurting you,
you're hurting your daughter.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so you told
her I was a dancer but
you just fucked up
your great relationship
with your daughter.
- That's the shit that
I don't like because
I called him and I'm
talking to him about it.
I'm like, did you tell
Jus this, you know.
- Right.
- He was like, oh
you know, me and her,
we got into an argument
and she got mad
and she said something
about my mom.
And I, like, first of all--
- Oh, you're playing the mama
jokes with your daughter.
- You're a grown ass
man and you got mad.
That's what we doing.
- So she said something
about your mama,
now I'm gonna say
something about your mama.
- Yeah, and I just told
him, I'm like, bro,
that hurt me because that's
something that I wanted
to have with my child.
That's not something you
just say when you're angry.
Because now, she's
probably like,
well, you've been lying
to me this whole time or.
For her to even think like,
well, if my mama do it,
then it's okay for me to do it.
No, I asked her, I said, well,
how do you feel about it?
And she was just like, well
you're my mom, I love you,
I don't care.
- Right, that love's
unconditional.
- Right, it made me feel good
but it pissed me off so bad.
- Even though it was delivered
in a negative content,
it still worked out
in your favor anyway.
See what I'm saying, because
it was an ice breaker.
You've been wanting to
have this conversation
with your daughter and I
feel like all the time,
we have to listen to how
we speak these things
out in the universe,
see what I'm saying.
[groaning]
I know, I know, I know, I
know you get emotional because
this is your child and the
one person that we do this for
is our child.
And then to be doing
all this for your child
and your child possibly
hate you for it.
- I will feel like a failure if
my daughter goes into the club.
This is not a family
tradition here,
we're not gonna start that.
- Take the hustle, just
apply it to a different game.
- [Ms. Dime] Yeah.
[fun exciting music]
- So today I invited
LeaLea to go bike riding
so I can tell her what some
of the girls was saying
and stuff.
- How are you?
Let me get one of the bikes but
tell us what the difference.
- I got regular bikes
and electric bikes.
- So I think I'm gonna stick
with this bike right here.
Okay, my seat is good.
If I fall, I got cushion.
[laughing]
Hey, I'll pay you
when I get back.
[fun playful music]
Whoo, girl I ain't rode a
bike in so long, oh my god.
Laina invites me to
go bike riding and
I literally feel
like a beginner.
But hey, let's go and
see how this goes.
Hopefully I don't break my neck.
When's the last time
you rode a bike?
- About like five years.
[yelling]
- Let me slow down some, girl,
before I run off the
side of this thing.
[mumbles] if I was hurt,
therefore I'd try to
save my ass first.
Man, let me pick that ass
off the sidewalk for you.
[laughing]
Hey, the longer I do this,
the better I get, ya'll.
So into bike riding
a little bit,
Laina informs me that she
needs to tell me somethings
that she overheard.
In my head, I'm really
thinking that, look,
I wasn't there, I don't really
care but if you just wanna
get it out, let me
just hear you out.
- So I wanted to talk to
you about the other day
with you and Stormy.
- Girl, what?
- After LeaLea left from
the confrontation between
her and Stormy, I
was still there and
I overheard them
talking about LeaLea.
- I was done, once I felt like
she wasn't trying to hear me,
it was over because I
wasn't trying to hear her.
- Well, I felt like you
carried yourself well.
- I try but I was like, yeah,
I was about two seconds from
just being hella ratched.
So let me get out of here.
- Yes, I just seen your
facial expression, I'm like.
She just kept trying
to shoot you down.
She didn't wanna hear
what you was saying.
- I mean, how did
you feel about it,
did you stay, did you leave?
- I stayed but they
didn't know I was here.
I kind of heard them,
they was going in.
- It's okay, we're gonna
keep her in our prayers,
I promise you, we're gonna
keep her in our prayers.
- Angel.
- Uh huh.
- She don't even know
the situation but
she was really talking
stuff, talking bad about you.
- I don't even know her.
- Well she knew you.
- She know of me, a lot
of people know of me but
they don't know me.
When you sit around and you
listen to negative energy,
it affects you and every
time you see the person
that they told you this
negative energy about,
that's all you're
gonna be thinking about
and I usually don't like to be
in those type of situations.
I mean, people do that everyday.
- You just gotta watch her.
- Oh girl, I'm not
about to watch anybody.
Clear that they
watching me enough.
- I would love for you to
come to my body painting shoot
I have coming up.
- Okay.
- I would love for you to
come because I'm a little shy.
- I know, I was about to say,
you're about to do a body paint.
- I need a little wine.
- I got you, I'm gonna be there,
I'm gonna be your
cheerleader, go Laina,
you better get it, baby.
Well girl, it's getting
a little cloudy out here
and a little cool.
You wanna take
the bikes back and
sit down and get something
to drink or something?
- Yeah.
- All right, let's go.
Whoo, I'm told you,
I'm out of touch now,
I'm out of touch, Laina.
[fun rhythmic music]
Today we have been
invited to Rolling Out
to discuss controversial
topics on the dancing industry.
- SO ladies, it's good
to meet all of you.
You know, stripping is
not like the old days.
Now it's like a more
high profile thing.
But I hear in New York,
the bottle girls is trying
to come and take over.
- Listen, you not coming
in my club and I'm naked
and you thinking you
gonna make what I make.
It's gonna be some furniture
moving if you think
you're gonna come in my spot.
And you got your
clothes on, yeah,
you showing a little
bit of butt and this,
but I'm completely naked and
you making all of the money.
No, that's completely unfair.
If you wanted to make
all of the money,
you should've been a stripper.
And down south, we
do not play that.
Dancers always rule, period.
- Are you finding yourself
trying to beef yourself up
on Instagram and social
media just to keep up?
- No, I don't.
- I don't feel like
I'm trying to keep up,
I feel like to me, social media
is marketing and promotion.
- I, for one, don't put
any twerk videos up.
I just don't promote it
on social media because
I don't, because I just
feel like they're gonna come
in the club, they're gonna
spend money regardless,
and I'm not gonna put
it on social media
for them to see it for free.
That stuff lasts forever.
The girls who do decide
to twerk on social media,
that's their business.
I'm also in the corporate world,
so I know how sometimes,
things may resurface back up
and I never want somebody to
pull a video up of me twerking.
Plus, I have a 16
year old daughter,
I don't want her posting
twerk videos on Instagram.
I'll break her neck.
- Again, this goes with
being unapologetically happy
with who you are.
- Your Instagram is lit.
- My Instagram is lit, honey,
because one post you may
see me talking about
economics and for the culture,
and the next, you might see me
twerking to Michael Jackson,
but that's all of me.
I don't see the issue with
twerking on social media
because it's no different,
to me, then dancing,
moonwalking, break
dancing on social media.
I think people tend to
over sexualize everything.
It's just
entertainment, honestly,
I don't see the
problem with it at all.
I turn my social
media into a cash cow.
- Okay.
- I makes money.
- I do feel like LeaLea
kind of dominated
the whole conversations.
Like she forgot that it
was a whole row of us
that had to answer
the questions.
Like, hey, how you
doing, I'm here too.
If you wanted your
own interview,
you could've came by yourself.
- So where does it end?
Is it 40, I'm done?
- If you can get out, if
you're 47, 50 years old
dancing in the club,
looking old, you need to go.
- Where do you see your plateau?
- The goal should be
ultimately that you've achieved
or gained some type of income
or you can take care of
yourself outside of dancing.
So for me, I'm gonna set a
date because I'm done and
I feel like I admire
LeaLea because
she lives into her character.
Me, I feel like it's like
drug dealing at one point
was tearing our young
black men apart,
I feel like this
dancing epidemic
is tearing our young
black girls apart.
- And how does that
make you guys feel?
In Atlanta, it's a big
thing with the little waist
and the butt shot injections and
everybody is getting so in it.
And it's coming from the
stripping industry, a lot of it,
just to make more money.
- I got enhancement
when I was 18.
So I'm way older than 18,
of course you know that now.
But when you're 18, you're
somebody totally different
than you are in your 30's.
Every women gets enhancements
and I think that no one
is real to say what they
got or what they're getting,
because I think it's just
like the street code in
the street is no one
tells their real business.
I feel like dancers aren't
open about it, but I am.
- But what about the ones
who are honest and say,
no, I have never had any
enhancements but because
it's such a big deal
in the industry--
- They think we all did.
- Everybody feels like you did.
Like long before I ever
walked into a strip club,
people always thought I danced.
- A lot of people don't share
their real deep dark secrets.
I'm only sharing my
deep dark secret.
- But it's not their place to.
[deep tense music]
I just felt like it
was just a whole bunch
of shade int he room, honestly.
- The downfall about
being late is I'm always
the cutest person
in the room but
I miss the majority
of the interview.
I really don't know what
she was talking about.
I literally caught
the ass end of it.
- All the way down at the end.
Hi, pretty lady.
- Hi, how are you?
- What is the plateau,
what is the goal right now?
Is it just survival mode,
get in, get the money
and get out, or which one?
- It's get in, get the
money and get out because
I also have a business
and just honestly,
being in the club every night,
I feel as if it's holding
me back from my business.
- So what is it that you
want people to see about you
and walk away with?
- These girls need to
realize jumping into dancing
is not just easy
and fun for games.
You can really get
lost in this game.
- So I just want people
to not look at us
like we're any different.
We still can be dancers
and still run businesses
and be successful
business women.
We're not just strippers.
[mumbles]
Right.
Just because we're considered
dancers or strippers,
or whatever, exotic dancers,
that doesn't mean that we
also can't wear other hats.
Dancing isn't the
only thing that I do.
- All right, ya'll,
you guys gotta tune in
to Beyond the Pole this 2018
on the Urban Movie Channel.
Come on, ya'll.
- It's gonna be lit.
- [mumbles] but if you
my man and that's all.
- So, once I eat his ass?
- I'll probably have sex with
you because I'm comfortable.
- What if I eat his ass?
- Who?
- Because Gabrielle eats
D Wade's ass, don't she?
- I mean, if that's what your
man likes, eat that shit.
I gotta love you, I gotta
love you to eat the ass.
- [mumbles] sucking the balls
and you lick the balls up.
- Oh my.
- Just no where near
your asshole, baby.
- It's right because
you gotta go up under.
- It's a stretch, baby, it's
a little stretch right there.
- But it depends, some
dudes got a little stretch,
some dudes got a big stretch.
- Okay, well I'll get me a
nigga with a big stretch then.
- Like you just
gonna say, bend over,
let me see how long
your stretch is.
- When he lay down and you
get around to suck his dick,
you can see that, you
can see all of that.
- But hold up, you just
try a little bit [mumbles].
[screaming]
- You pushing me down
there, you waiting to lick.
- You with it, you with it.
- By the time, baby,
you wouldn't fuck shit.
[mumbles]
- [mumbles], the
next day you be like,
this skinny motherfucker.
[laughing]
[deep rhythmic music]
- [Woman] All right, thank
you so much for calling.
We definitely appreciate it.
- Thank you so much.
- [Woman] All right, be safe.
- Okay, thank you very much.
- Hey, LeaLea.
- [LeaLea] Hey, what's going on?
- I wanted to talk
to you for a sec.
Do we have something
going on because
I see the energy is not,
like something's going
on between you and I.
- After the Rolling
Out interview,
Angel comes up and
says that she feels
some tension in the
room, rightfully so,
because admittedly, I
was, I was very tense.
When we left, when I left
the mixer with Stormy
and you came in after the fact,
and it was kind of like you
had some things to say about
me and you having some
kind of altercation before.
And I'm like, when
because I just met you
at the mixer [mumbles].
- Well, I definitely
don't ever remember us
having an altercation
because we, I've--
- I was just trying to
figure out why my name
was in your mouth in the
first place after I was gone
and I wasn't there.
So I just wanted
to comment on that.
- Well, I was actually
defending you.
So I don't know, maybe
they weren't there
for that whole conversation but
whoever had said
anything to you,
I don't know exactly
what they said.
- Well, Laina is the person
who actually told me.
I don't think she did
it in a malicious way,
I'm just one of those people
that when I hear something,
I have to take my time
to absorb it because
I don't like to just lash out.
SO I'd rather probably
just not speak to you until
I can speak to you when
I know I'm not gonna
be confrontational.
But she said you were
saying I'm used to being in
the limelight and that me
and you had some kind of
altercation once before and--
- I do think that you, you do
like the center of attention
so I'm not gonna
ever take that back.
- But no I don't, I'm just me.
- Okay, that's fine and if you--
- But to say that I like
the center of attention,
that's like saying
I'm purposely trying
to be the center of attention
and that's not the case,
that's a misconception.
- Okay, so I did say
that but I also said that
this is your personality.
- Well that sounds better.
- You're not trying to
be extra but it's just--
- Who I am.
- It's just who you are.
- But that doesn't
mean I like being
in the center of attention.
- I mean.
- That's two totally
different meanings.
- I mean, I like that about you.
So when I first met
you, I was like,
okay, this girl, she's
a lot to handle because
you do have a very
strong personality and
if you don't know you,
all you see is confident,
confident, confident.
And no one would know
anything about you.
- Yes, I am a very
confident person,
yes, I'm happy all the
time, yes, I'm just me.
Now if that just makes
people gravitate to me and
it makes me appear that
I like to be the center
of attention, then that's
everybody else's issue,
not mine.
But I am happy that
you did come to me and
talk to me about it because
I really didn't have
anything to say in there because
I feel like I'm sitting
around a bunch of people that
as soon as I walk out the room,
then everybody wants
to talk about LeaLea,
when I'm in the room,
everybody's quiet as fuck.
I don't like that.
[deep tense music]
I am aware that my energy
is like all over the place,
but when I'm not
physically in a room,
I feel like my name should
not be in the room either.
People need to just keep my
name out of their mouths,
just continue on with their day.
Everybody be happy, namaste.
Because see, I don't
play those kind of games
because it's so easy
for things like this
to get out of hand.
It just happens to be that
both of us are adult enough
to come talk about it.
But just say we weren't
and we fight, and we caddy,
and as soon as I saw you,
I want to snatch you.
It would've just been all ugly.
But the thing about it is
we're both mature enough
to talk about it.
But let's just respect
what I'm saying,
if I'm not in the room,
my name should not be
in the room either.
And on that, I have
to go get my daughter
but no love lost.
- Okay, all right.
I realize me and LeaLea
weren't going to get very far
with our conversation and
it was just pretty much
agree to disagree.
[deep dramatic music]
- [LeaLea] Next on
Beyond the Pole.
- You mind getting naked?
You gotta take everything off.
- Cheers to--
- New beginnings.
- Yes, and no more dope boys.
- And I wanna open marriage.
Like [mumbles] while
you suck the dick,
you know what I'm saying.
- He can buy you like a
five karat for starters.
- Okay.
- But tell me, who is he?
- He's a producer.
- Oh.
- Everybody knows cancer
is a monster, it's ugly,
it's very, very ugly.
But there is beauty in
the struggle because
it's not about what
you go through,
it's about how
you go through it.
- Well, I have a
spiritual advisor.
- A spiritual advisor?
- [Ms. Dime] Yeah, I
have a spiritual advisor.
- You so Hollywood and blind.
- I do.
- Welcome to Magic City.
[cheering]
- So now you know I'm mad with
you about your little crazy
friends that came to my
house the other day, right?
What's wrong with her?
Something is wrong with her.
- I just feel like
both of you guys rubbed
each other the wrong way.
- You're not gonna come in my
house and be disrespectful.
- So, what brings
you here today?
- Now I've got this big old butt
and I don't want it anymore.
- Ooh.
[film reeling]
[soft dramatic music]
- You left the strip
club and came back.
- I did.
- Now why was that?
- I was a dope boy's fake
wife, or your house girlfriend,
or whatever you call it.
- Let me get this straight,
a dope boy's fake wife.
- Yeah, like you know, dope
boys don't get married.
So you'll be their
girlfriend for 20 years.
- So you were playing
that position for a while?
- Yes, I played that
part for 10 years.
- And so he wanted you
to come out of the club.
- Yes.
- Okay, and then
when that ended?
- Be a stay at home mom
and that's what I did.
- Right, that's what ya'll did,
when it was over,
you came right back.
- Right.
So I feel like I truly
qualify for a real life as
Beyond the Pole because
those two are hand in hand.
Drug dealers and strippers
are almost one in the same.
- Piggy backing off
you being real and
you having no problem
telling people
what you had done to yourself.
Why do you feel like
women shy away or lie and
say that they never
had work done and
they did it just from attending
the gym or what have you?
- It's like Hollywood, nobody
ever tells their secrets.
I think every cast
member has something done
besides LingLing, as
you can see very well.
[laughing]
LingLing don't have nothing
done and she don't need it,
and I tell her how
beautiful she is.
- LingLing, wat brings
you to the world of adult
entertainment, girl?
- Survival, unfortunately.
- What do we have going on?
I see a little bit, I don't
wanna say what I think it is.
What's your nationality?
- I'm half Thai, half black.
- Okay, I knew there was
some African American
in there somewhere.
So LingLing, do you
have any children?
- I do, I have a little
boy, his name is Xavion.
- Ah, Xavion.
- He is eight years old.
- Tell me a little bit
about your son, Xavion.
- My son, he is Mr.
Popular, he plays basketball
and he plays soccer.
- Eight years old.
- Mmm hmm, done gymnastics,
does martial arts,
got the two girlfriends
he always tells me about.
[laughing]
I'm like, don't
be a player, gosh,
you're supposed to
be the ladies man.
He's like, but
everybody likes me.
- I do understand that
you're going through
a little something with your
son and a family member?
- Correct.
- Custody, tell me a
little bit more about that.
- Unfortunately, I went through
some things with myself,
I was abused, so I kind of
needed to take some time
to get myself back together.
And I asked my mom
and grandmother,
like, hey, can you
watch him real quick,
really more so just so
he wasn't in where I was.
I was in a battered
women's program,
and I just didn't know
everybody else's mentality,
what stability was.
So I was like, hey, can you
watch him til I get better.
They're like, yeah.
But mom kind of turned
around behind me,
filed paperwork on me,
said I abandoned my child.
And kind of swooped him
from underneath my feet
and in such a messed up way.
- Where is he now?
- Currently he's in Thailand
but he's with my family,
he's still there.
He goes back and forth
between there and California.
- Is it looking like you'll
get your child back or?
Where are you with that now?
- I actually lost in court.
- You did?
- So, but I still got
hope in myself and
I still got faith that
hopefully I can retry
the whole case and
petition it and go forward.
[film reeling]
- [Woman] Previously
on Beyond the Pole.
- Hello, honey, did you miss me?
- One, two.
Bring those knees
in, bring it in.
- Since we couldn't get
our big asses up the pole,
we did what we do
best, slaying ass.
[fun rhythmic music]
- Okay baby, get your
friend out of my house.
- Oh my gosh, this is--
- It ain't even your house,
it's an Airbnb, girl, bye.
- I made millions of dollars and
coached over 12 people
to millionaire status.
I'm not about to debate
with you, you, or nobody.
- See, you don't wanna listen.
- Girl, listen, I'm not
about to do this with you.
- Don't touch me and
don't touch my money.
- So I got a text saying
that you're not gonna be
able to do the show,
you're gonna move.
- I didn't know what to do.
I felt like I had
hit rock bottom.
I needed the fast money
and I need it now.
- I think I got a
solution to your problem.
- My strategy, okay,
I wanna get in, dance.
I'm gonna stack up
my money and get out.
- You got it, you got it.
[fun rap music]
[soft rhythmic music]
[fun energetic music]
- LeaLea and Stormy argument
went from zero to 100
really, really quick.
- Please get out my house!
Whatever we doing right
now, this gotta go.
- Please, for the
sake of God, go.
- She mad in real life
because she told me
she studied economics and
don't know what economics is
and she's studying economics.
I can't right now.
I've coached 12 people
to millionaire status.
God blesses me everyday, girl.
When I say I'm so [mumbles],
when I say I got so
much brakes, girl,
I got seven figures in
multiple bank accounts, girl!
And living real good.
People pray for me everyday,
people pray for me everyday
because they're so grateful
of how I've [mumbles]
and made a change in their life.
I'm sorry that you
a little girl and
you still caught up
in being in economics
and don't even know
what the hell it is.
I'm gonna pray for you, for
real, in real life though.
- Soon as I walked in and told
her what I'm trying to do,
it's like, girl, you
ain't been doing nothing.
Bitch, how do you know?
- Because I'm gonna let
you know I got like six
personalities, don't let
one them motherfuckers
come out on you, girl,
straight up, for real.
Don't let Coach full you,
I'm gonna let you
know that right now.
No, she disrespectful
man, she disrespectful.
Listen, but I'm letting
her know because
this needs to be nipped
in the bud today.
All these motherfuckers
need to know.
Don't motherfucking play
with Stormy Wellington.
- Oh my god, I don't know.
- That's one motherfucking
threshold you don't wanna cross,
I'm telling you right now.
- [Woman] What happened?
- I want you to be
a good example of
how I knocked your
ass across the floor.
- It just really was
just funny as hell.
It took everything in me
not to bust out laughing.
- Girl, don't play
with me, little girl!
- I'm trying to be everything
but the stereotypical.
- I hear you're not fixing
to go to a strip club
and get no coins!
Because I'll have a
motherfucker fuck you up
every god damn day you go
to the motherfucking club!
- Let her go, let her go!
- You ain't gonna
be walk no more!
- Let her go, let her go.
- That's the bitch I am!
She was saying, come outside.
Girl, I'm not gonna touch you,
girl, I am too
beautiful for that.
I'm not gonna do that.
I will pay somebody
else to touch you.
Why would I do that?
That's what money is for,
you're supposed to recycle,
you're supposed to
stimulate the economy.
I would've gave
somebody else that job.
Listen, reality show
people, I will fuck me
a motherfucker up, believe that.
I want you all to
know that, for real.
I'm a coach, I love the
lord with all my heart
but I will kick me a
motherfuckers ass, okay.
And ask God to forgive me when
I'm motherfucking finished.
I feel like she was
being very childish and
I know me, that's why I don't
put myself in environments
that will cause me to
become the other person,
the other side of me.
And it just happened,
it's like a reflex.
You keep pissing me off and
Stormy from the
streets came out.
- Basically, I would say,
Stormy asked her a question.
Stormy didn't like her answer,
or she didn't have
the right answer.
And from there it just...
And you do get offended when
people ask you questions
and you don't know
how to answer them.
That's what it was.
You were asking her
things she wasn't educated
herself about, she wasn't
prepared to answer that.
So that can come
across as frustrating.
- That's true.
- When you're putting
on this facade like,
I know what the fuck
I'm talking about and
then somebody asks
you questions,
you don't even know
how to answer them.
- Everything that
LeaLea was saying,
she shut her down, every
little point she was trying to
give, she shut her down
on every little thing.
And I didn't like none of that.
She's a woman of empowerment.
- Yeah, that's why I'm
really shocked that
your conversation went left
field like that because--
- Want me to tell you why?
She's used to being the
sharpest knife in the jar.
- Yeah, that's what
we were saying.
- So she's used to being the
strongest one in her group
amongst the little
stripper girl.
So here comes someone
that challenged her
and it made her
feel embarrassed.
- That's what I said, she
feels that we're younger.
- So it wasn't that I was
trying to intimidate her
or be condescending with
what I was asking her.
You're here because we're
talking about the future, right.
So I asked you what
you're doing and
you say, I'm trying
to study this thing.
I'm confused.
So are you just trying
to sound smart like
you're used to sounding
amongst your peers
and stripper girls?
And you come over here with
Coach Stormy Wellington,
I'm not going for it.
Like she was just saying
something to sound busy.
So I felt like, again,
people say things because
it sounds good, she didn't
sound very authentic.
Live in this fake
delusion of a life.
And we do it and
forget you're gonna be
60 years old one day.
So when your titties sagging and
your fake booty dragging,
what you gonna do then?
- LeaLea, she was a
good role model to me.
So I didn't respect
none of that.
- Hey, you look cute.
- You look really good.
- Thanks.
Girl, you missed
all the tea tonight.
- What, what you
guys in here doing?
You all had some
male dancers again?
- I mean, no, originally
it was a party,
now it's just a gathering
between us three.
- Oh, wow.
- The other ladies had to leave.
- When I came to the mixer,
it seems like it's
practically over.
I was ready for
the mixer though.
I don't know what
happened to it.
- They couldn't stay with us.
- Three's company.
- This is Stormy.
- Hi, you look so cute.
Nice to meet you.
- Is this from your collection?
- Yup.
- I love that.
- They look like [mumbles].
- That's her collection,
she has a boutique,
she has some really nice pieces.
- Awesome.
Angel Kake is cute.
I could tell that
she's a hustler,
I could tell she's
got her hood side,
and I'm happy that she
told me she has some
Caucasian in her family
because I could tell.
She acts like a
nice, cute blonde.
- You know, basically
I was a stylist, so I--
- Oh, you were a stylist too?
- Yeah, I styled
some makeup artists,
so I just go ahead and pick out
all the pieces from my line.
- That's super cute.
Is it really good
stretch like [mumbles]?
- It fits really good.
- Where's your boutique?
- I had a store before actually
over this way off of Walker.
- So you just do
online sales now?
- Yeah, now online.
- That's good, it's
not even worth it.
- No overhead.
- It's not even worth
it having overhead.
- Yeah, I was about to say
online is really good though.
- She seems like a
very alpha female.
She's gorgeous, she seems
like she's on her business,
she knows it, she
knows her self worth.
I like her, she's cool.
- You know, I brought
all you ladies over here
to meet with Stormy.
She's a life coach, so I
just really wanted her to,
she's not here to
talk down on us or
tell us what we're
doing is wrong,
that's not the right
or wrong way to get to
where we wanna be in life.
She's just telling us how
she got where she's at.
Originally, I just felt
like her and LeaLea just got
into it really bad,
that's why everybody else
ended up leaving.
Well, they didn't end up
leaving, she put them out.
- Hold up.
- That was the best
thing to do because
LeaLea was not trying to--
- Hold on, they got
into it with you?
- I don't know
what it was called.
I mean, I got out of character.
I'm so sorry that
it happened but
they pushed me to that point.
- I'm here for all the business.
- You gotta be humble.
You can't confuse someone who
is confident in what they do
for cockiness.
So I think she came here,
you could tell she
had her preconceived
notion of me all ready.
You could tell somebody
told her something about me
that's not true.
- I don't think that it's that.
- You missed the whole thing.
If you saw her
attitude from the time
she walked in the door.
- I wasn't saying that.
I just had picked up
that vibe from when I
had first met her.
Because I really kind of
didn't care for her a lot
because it was
kind of very cocky.
She is like in self
healing right now.
She's only been
cancer free for like--
- A year.
- A year, and so her
confidence helps her heal.
This is part of her--
- I get what you saying.
I knew she was dealing with
something internal, I said that.
- Right, that's what
she markets herself as
this confident woman
who overcame cancer
and that confidence--
- That's great, there's
nothing wrong with that.
- Right, but that
confidence is not humble
but if you got to know her,
you would know that
that confidence is--
- Helping her to
heal, I got you.
- I don't think she means
bad but she just needs to--
- [La'Bri] Right, I've never
seen her like that before.
- She's still healing, I think.
- She needs to find Jesus,
I'm gonna pray for her.
[laughing]
No, I'm gonna pray for her.
We make mistakes and so,
if I rubbed you wrong or
you rubbed me wrong, when you
are grown and you're mature
and you know who you
are and whose you are,
you tend to be a little
bit, much more humble
and you tend to have
more gratitude for life.
And I know she overcame
breast cancer as well
and I'm very grateful
for her story.
So do you still dance right now?
- I do.
- So what's the
average income per day?
Because you guys are beautiful.
So what's the average?
- Honestly?
- [Stormy] Like for real.
- At least 1,000.
- Is that considered
a good night?
- You're not happy but you're--
- No, I'm happy with $1,000.
- I imagine because,
shit, you make $1,000,
you still gotta
tip out bout 350.
- How do they know
how much you made?
- I'm not happy with $1,000.
- How do they know how
much money you made?
- They watch you now,
they call it sales.
- So wait a minute,
it's called sale.
- Yeah, they watch you.
- So you make $1,000 and
they want 35% of your money?
- You might as well say.
- 35, shit.
- Basically?
- Basically, yeah.
- Okay, so when we
getting together again so
I can show you how to
make more than that
and keep your clothes on?
We gotta make this
happen, for real.
- I'm ready.
- I'm really devastated.
- [Angel] I'm getting chills.
- I'm excited.
All right, give me a hug, thank
you girls for coming over.
- Thank you so much.
- DOn't bring your crazy
friend back over here no more.
So I may be soft with my kids,
I may be soft with my man,
but I'm not about to be
soft with these women
because the reality is this,
they're either
gonna get in line or
they're gonna miss
the boat, bottom line.
[exciting rhythmic music]
- Mr. 2Weeks is me
and Dime's trainer
and we're going to work
out with him today.
- This ain't what we doing.
- What we doing?
- You're doing back,
you're doing ass today,
let me show you.
- Mr. 2Weeks trains everyone.
He trains all the video vixens,
he trains everyone's
girlfriend, every stripper.
Yeah, this is only 25 pounds.
- We got three sets of this.
- Three sets, I done
did at least four!
- Nah, you didn't.
- I wasn't surprised that
Mr. 2Weeks trained Dime
because he trains all the
beautiful girls in Atlanta.
So it didn't surprise me at all.
That is so cool we
got the same trainer.
- That's crazy.
- Now we can start to meet
up and work out together.
- Yes.
- How long have
you been dancing?
- About six years on and off.
- Oh, okay, are
you from Atlanta?
- No, I'm from Miami actually.
I'm up here sneaking
and dancing.
- Oh, sneaking and geeking.
[laughing]
- Yes, my family
do not know girl.
I live a double life and
the reason that I choose
to live a double life is
because I feel like it's so many
girls that are parading
around that they're dancers
and that they're strippers,
and so many people are like,
oh, that's how you got this
and that's how you got that,
and no one really gives us
the time to get to know us
to say, oh, okay, well what
else do you have going on?
Once you tell them
that you're a dancer,
everything else
goes out the door.
So I prefer to let them know
the corporate side of me
before they know the
street side of me.
So that way once they find
out that I am a dancer,
the outlook on me will
be totally different
if they're open minded.
It's just me and my
daughter up here now.
- Oh, that's sweet.
- But you know I work at the
hospital too and the school.
- Sheesh, what do you do there?
- Well, I'm a part time
teacher and I work in NICU.
So that's how I cover up
the whole dancing thing.
- [Angel] What do you
do at the hospital?
- Work at NICU with the babies.
- Oh, nice.
- Does your family know?
- Yeah, all my sisters
have danced before.
I have two sisters that
dance, my mom knows I dance.
It's pretty much like--
- Girl, my daddy would kill
me if he found out I dance.
I will break his little heart.
Growing up, I was a only girl.
So of course, by my
father raising me,
he had this picture perfect
ideal life on, you know,
my daughter, she's gonna
be a virgin forever,
she's gonna go to college
and meet this man.
And reality hits, you
know, I started dating,
I end up getting pregnant,
and it kind of broke
my dad's heart.
So I went to go stay
with my mom for a while.
She just wasn't one
of those moms that
you would look up to.
So I was like, well, hell,
I don't need her and,
hell, I don't need
my dad either.
They both turned
their back on me.
So that's how I started dancing.
My daughter, she's
16 now and I don't,
I'm gonna eventually
tell her but--
- You don't think
she knows though?
- No.
My daughter, Justice,
means the world to me.
Everything that I have done
was for my daughter, Justice.
So my goal is to keep
her out of the club.
I still want my daughter
to go to college and
get the education
that she needs.
My goal is for my daughter
to never see the inside
of a strip club, ever.
Does your son know you dance?
- He sees me count my money.
He sees my big old shoes.
- How old is he?
- He's seven but you know what,
I think he just thinks
it's regular because
I've danced for
the last two years.
So it's not always been in
his life but he's seen a lot.
So you know, I
don't wanna hide it.
My son sees my shoes,
he sees everything,
he sees me in thongs,
all my pictures and
stuff that I've
taken on Instagram.
So he doesn't exactly
understand it,
so my goal is to get
out before he does.
So did you get anything
done like dancing,
like work done?
- No, I haven't
got any work done.
- SO part of my transition is I
got stuff done when I was 18.
The big old butts were
really popping years ago,
and now--
- Girl, trust me, I know.
Because even when I'm
in my business uniforms,
when I go to work, I get
nasty looks from the girls
at work, rolling their eyes.
- Well, you have a
really nice body.
- Thank you, but still, I
just wanna go to work and
make some money.
- That's how I feel.
- You know, my butt's big.
People are like checking
it out, they're looking.
I don't want that attention.
I don't want people
to look at my butt.
Like okay, if you think
I'm beautiful, that's fine,
but don't follow
me around because
you're looking at my butt.
It's like whatever I have on,
when I'm at my son's school
and people are like,
oh, where you strip at?
I think I'm gonna make
a doctor's appointment
after I leave here.
They say you can't
remove this stuff but
I've had it in for so long,
the shit is coming out
one way or another.
- You just have to go
to the right person.
Don't go to somebody who you
haven't seen their work before
because you don't
wanna be messed up.
- I've been researching them.
After this, I'm gonna see
about making an appointment.
- I'll come with you if
you need some support.
- When Dime offered to come
to the doctors with me,
I think it'll be pretty cool.
At least I'll be able to have
someone there for support.
I'm definitely glad that I
have someone that I can laugh
or talk about, or
joke about it about.
Because really, it's funny.
It's like some shit I did
when I was really young.
- [Woman] Light skin dudes
take up too much money, so no.
- What about a fat dude?
What about a fat man?
[mumbles]
- I'm not.
- That's not racist.
- A fat man, now that--
- I dated a fat dude before.
- I've never dated
a fat man, sorry.
- That's the best kind
of nut to get because
his fat ass belly
be right there.
- Yeah, but see, again,
you're talking, I don't need
clit stimulation to get a nut.
- I do!
- I don't have to have that.
- I do, I need a nigga
up on that thing.
- Yeah, no, I don't
even need that.
Just get inside and
hit this G spot.
- You can tell I ain't
got no man, ya'll.
I'm fixing to go on Tinder.
How the fuck do I
make an account?
Make me a Tinder.
[laughing]
- [mumbles] I don't even
wanna talk about my man.
[deep rhythmic music]
- So today, I'm meeting
with Lyfe just to go over
the offer that he had gave
me a little while ago.
- So what's happening
with you, man?
- It's been better,
it's been really better.
You know, I talked to my son.
It was a real refreshment
for me to just talk to him
and tell me about
his soccer practice
and how he's the goalie.
It's real nice.
[mumbles] I can actually
really be at peace.
- What about the place,
how the place going?
- It's great, I got
approved completely.
So I'm like really,
really excited about that.
So what I was thinking was
you said you wanna help me
financially with a
little bit of money.
I was thinking I could use
that towards the apartment.
- You can do whatever
you want to do with it.
Buy a new coat, some boots.
Whatever, it's on you.
But I would use it for that,
you dig what I'm saying?
- Yeah, I mean, I really
do appreciate the offer
of trying to help me.
[mumbles], no I'm
not turning you down
like a little spoiled brat.
- Oh, you want that
check, don't front.
[laughing]
I get it, I get it.
- I just wanna feel like
I'm doing it on my own.
I don't wanna feel like I'm
owing anybody in the future.
I don't want it to be
thrown back in my face.
I really don't even wanna
accept the money but
I know I really need it.
I really have to put
my pride down for this.
- Have you been over
to the new spot really?
- Yeah, it's not everything
that I dreamed of.
- I'm happy for you,
man, I'm happy for you.
- Thank you, and I appreciate,
seriously, everything.
- That's cool.
- It was a nice, nice
gesture of Lyfe to offer
me to stay in his
second home and
kind of be the
home giver for it.
Yes, I wanna work for
taking care of his home.
I would love to take
care of the cleaning,
whatever I need to do,
but at the same time,
I still feel like,
okay, I owe more.
And I don't wanna be pushing
to feel like I'm obligated
to do more than just that.
So I chose to do
it differently and
he still chose to
support me with it.
- [Man] Biscuits and gravy.
- Yeah, that's me right here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[mumbles]
- Thank you, thank you.
Just with everything in court,
with my grandparents and
stuff trying to fight me
for my whole parental
rights and it's just like
when that judge told me
that financial stability
with his great grandparents
would be better than
his loving mom.
Nobody's gonna really love
your child like a parent,
you know how it is.
You're a great father, you
love your kids to the fullest
and beyond.
- So you don't have any
visiting rights or nothing?
- Mmm hmm, anything at all.
- This is not
making sense to me.
There's either something
you're not telling me
or some confusion going
on somewhere because
if they got rid of
your parental rights,
they had to have a
reason to get rid of
those parental rights.
They may get rid of
your custodial rights,
but they not gonna just get
rid of your parental rights
because you are not
financially capable
of taking care of that child.
So, there's something
I'm not getting.
- The situation with my son,
about five years ago, my,
my family watched my son
due to me being in an
abusive relationship.
I had to go through a
battered women's program.
I asked my mom and
my grandma, I'm like,
hey, can you watch
him while I do this.
And they took that
on, they said, yeah,
we can do this for you.
My mom gave me a phone
call, was like, hey,
we need some paperwork
to really just make sure
we can take him to the
doctors, stuff like that.
I was like, oh, okay.
My mom handed me a pamphlet
about a good 10, 15 pages long.
I'm thinking, what
the fuck is this?
It said that I was
an unfit parent,
that I needed to turn over all
my rights of my son to her.
And I told her, straight up,
I'm not doing none of this shit.
This is the paperwork that
started the whole case.
So I just want you read
the first part to yourself
on what they're
petitioning to terminating
my parental rights.
And after that, it went to
my grandparents battling me
for my whole parental rights.
And I took them to trial.
The judge told me my son
deserves financial stability
and terminated my rights.
I'm sorry, you guys,
can I have a minute?
- You know, you know me,
I always shoot straight
from the hip, man, and
keeping it all the way 100
real with you, you was going
through something in your life
and you dropped the ball, man.
Because from reading this,
it's basically just saying
you was away from the child,
they adopted the child, you
never talked to the child.
- No, they didn't adopt
him, they're trying to.
- Yeah, trying to adopt him
and then you just basically
just, for whatever
reason, fell off.
- So, what Lyfe is telling
me that I didn't petition
my case in the right
amount of time.
And to me, I don't
understand much of the law,
so I felt that he was
attacking me when I really
didn't know any better.
- I'm talking all
around, pound for pound,
after school
programs, attention,
financially all of that stuff.
Do you think that he is
better off where he's at?
- No.
- No?
- No.
- Okay.
- I'm not giving up that easy.
He's an amazing little boy,
he deserves to be fought for,
he deserves to have his mom.
I'm gonna win, I
got faith in myself.
- Always a pleasure
seeing you, young lady.
Be prosperous, let me
know how that thing goes.
Tell your boy I say
happy birthday, man.
- Thank you.
- All right, mama.
[deep rhythmic music]
- So, I'm at work and I seen
LeaLea go in the dressing room.
I haven't seen her since
the conversation took place
between her and Stormy,
so I decided to go in
there and talk to LeaLea.
And I could tell she
was still kind of upset.
You good?
- Girl, I'm good, I mean,
like, I just went home
and had to refocus my energy,
had to get my energy
back to a positive level.
I ain't really like that,
I didn't really like
her approach because
it's like I get it, you made it.
You did and I'm proud
of you for that,
but at the same time, in
the process of making it,
you cannot, you
cannot possibly think
that it's okay for you to--
- Down others.
- Downplay what somebody else
has been working hard to do.
Because when I came
to the little thing,
I came with the
mindset of, okay,
well, she doing something,
she might help us,
so I'm not about to
bring you anything
I feel like I can do by myself.
So because economic
stability is important to me
and because that's
what I'm studying,
why wouldn't I try to figure
out if you could help me
in that arena?
So I'm gonna tell you about
it but as soon as I start
telling you about
it, you're like,
you don't know the proper
name for it because
you ain't been doing shit,
or that work is bullshit.
Like, how do you know, man?
You ain't even read the
book about black economics?
- I mean, I think her
delivery was wrong.
- Way wrong.
- But after talking
to her a little bit,
I don't really feel like
she had any ill intentions.
But some people, they
don't know how to talk
or deliver things.
I really don't think
she meant no harm.
I think ya'll can kind
of maybe one day sit down
and talk about it and
kind of squash it.
- You know, I was trying
to talk to you then and
you didn't wanna listen.
- LeaLea's the type of person,
once she's mad, she's mad.
She does not let it go.
She will drag it on
for hours and hours and
talk about it forever.
We're gonna be around each
other, just try to make it work.
I mean, if you don't
feel like it's sincere,
of course, friend, I would
never tell you to be around
somebody you feel like
you gotta be fake around.
I was trying to get her to
realize that maybe Stormy
was just maybe
having a bad day and
maybe they can sit down over
coffee or over whatever,
and have a one on one conversation
about what escalated it
and what can make them go
back to where they should have
been so they can
both be progressive
in their business relationship.
I think both of ya'll
were being who you were.
It was just two strong
personalities butting heads.
- [LingLing] Ya'll talking
about the thing from last night?
- Yeah.
- See, I know what I can
do, I know I can be cool.
- We all felt that energy
because we was like, whoa,
wait a minute, calm down.
- I had [mumbles],
I was like ah.
- I'm just like,
calm down, relax.
But I'm just saying,
just move on from it,
we can move on from it.
- Exactly, move on from it.
- We are.
- It's draining to just
keep talking about it.
- You gotta go ahead,
that's the thing [mumbles].
- Okay, well, if ya'll
moved on from it,
then ya'll moved from it.
- I gotta get going, I
gotta catch this flight.
See ya later, hon.
- Okay, sis, so since
we're moving on from that,
girl, how about why
Justice said that her dad
told her I dance.
- Her daddy.
- Her daddy told her I dance.
Like, they were having
some type of argument and
then he was like, oh,
your mama a stripper.
Man, that is not funny.
- No, I'm talking about
how he just really like
told her like that.
- Right, and I'm like,
that's a conversation
I wanted to have with her.
- If he was doing
that to hurt her.
- Of course.
- Like to say, oh, your
mama's a stripper to hurt her,
how is that hurting you,
you're hurting your daughter.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so you told
her I was a dancer but
you just fucked up
your great relationship
with your daughter.
- That's the shit that
I don't like because
I called him and I'm
talking to him about it.
I'm like, did you tell
Jus this, you know.
- Right.
- He was like, oh
you know, me and her,
we got into an argument
and she got mad
and she said something
about my mom.
And I, like, first of all--
- Oh, you're playing the mama
jokes with your daughter.
- You're a grown ass
man and you got mad.
That's what we doing.
- So she said something
about your mama,
now I'm gonna say
something about your mama.
- Yeah, and I just told
him, I'm like, bro,
that hurt me because that's
something that I wanted
to have with my child.
That's not something you
just say when you're angry.
Because now, she's
probably like,
well, you've been lying
to me this whole time or.
For her to even think like,
well, if my mama do it,
then it's okay for me to do it.
No, I asked her, I said, well,
how do you feel about it?
And she was just like, well
you're my mom, I love you,
I don't care.
- Right, that love's
unconditional.
- Right, it made me feel good
but it pissed me off so bad.
- Even though it was delivered
in a negative content,
it still worked out
in your favor anyway.
See what I'm saying, because
it was an ice breaker.
You've been wanting to
have this conversation
with your daughter and I
feel like all the time,
we have to listen to how
we speak these things
out in the universe,
see what I'm saying.
[groaning]
I know, I know, I know, I
know you get emotional because
this is your child and the
one person that we do this for
is our child.
And then to be doing
all this for your child
and your child possibly
hate you for it.
- I will feel like a failure if
my daughter goes into the club.
This is not a family
tradition here,
we're not gonna start that.
- Take the hustle, just
apply it to a different game.
- [Ms. Dime] Yeah.
[fun exciting music]
- So today I invited
LeaLea to go bike riding
so I can tell her what some
of the girls was saying
and stuff.
- How are you?
Let me get one of the bikes but
tell us what the difference.
- I got regular bikes
and electric bikes.
- So I think I'm gonna stick
with this bike right here.
Okay, my seat is good.
If I fall, I got cushion.
[laughing]
Hey, I'll pay you
when I get back.
[fun playful music]
Whoo, girl I ain't rode a
bike in so long, oh my god.
Laina invites me to
go bike riding and
I literally feel
like a beginner.
But hey, let's go and
see how this goes.
Hopefully I don't break my neck.
When's the last time
you rode a bike?
- About like five years.
[yelling]
- Let me slow down some, girl,
before I run off the
side of this thing.
[mumbles] if I was hurt,
therefore I'd try to
save my ass first.
Man, let me pick that ass
off the sidewalk for you.
[laughing]
Hey, the longer I do this,
the better I get, ya'll.
So into bike riding
a little bit,
Laina informs me that she
needs to tell me somethings
that she overheard.
In my head, I'm really
thinking that, look,
I wasn't there, I don't really
care but if you just wanna
get it out, let me
just hear you out.
- So I wanted to talk to
you about the other day
with you and Stormy.
- Girl, what?
- After LeaLea left from
the confrontation between
her and Stormy, I
was still there and
I overheard them
talking about LeaLea.
- I was done, once I felt like
she wasn't trying to hear me,
it was over because I
wasn't trying to hear her.
- Well, I felt like you
carried yourself well.
- I try but I was like, yeah,
I was about two seconds from
just being hella ratched.
So let me get out of here.
- Yes, I just seen your
facial expression, I'm like.
She just kept trying
to shoot you down.
She didn't wanna hear
what you was saying.
- I mean, how did
you feel about it,
did you stay, did you leave?
- I stayed but they
didn't know I was here.
I kind of heard them,
they was going in.
- It's okay, we're gonna
keep her in our prayers,
I promise you, we're gonna
keep her in our prayers.
- Angel.
- Uh huh.
- She don't even know
the situation but
she was really talking
stuff, talking bad about you.
- I don't even know her.
- Well she knew you.
- She know of me, a lot
of people know of me but
they don't know me.
When you sit around and you
listen to negative energy,
it affects you and every
time you see the person
that they told you this
negative energy about,
that's all you're
gonna be thinking about
and I usually don't like to be
in those type of situations.
I mean, people do that everyday.
- You just gotta watch her.
- Oh girl, I'm not
about to watch anybody.
Clear that they
watching me enough.
- I would love for you to
come to my body painting shoot
I have coming up.
- Okay.
- I would love for you to
come because I'm a little shy.
- I know, I was about to say,
you're about to do a body paint.
- I need a little wine.
- I got you, I'm gonna be there,
I'm gonna be your
cheerleader, go Laina,
you better get it, baby.
Well girl, it's getting
a little cloudy out here
and a little cool.
You wanna take
the bikes back and
sit down and get something
to drink or something?
- Yeah.
- All right, let's go.
Whoo, I'm told you,
I'm out of touch now,
I'm out of touch, Laina.
[fun rhythmic music]
Today we have been
invited to Rolling Out
to discuss controversial
topics on the dancing industry.
- SO ladies, it's good
to meet all of you.
You know, stripping is
not like the old days.
Now it's like a more
high profile thing.
But I hear in New York,
the bottle girls is trying
to come and take over.
- Listen, you not coming
in my club and I'm naked
and you thinking you
gonna make what I make.
It's gonna be some furniture
moving if you think
you're gonna come in my spot.
And you got your
clothes on, yeah,
you showing a little
bit of butt and this,
but I'm completely naked and
you making all of the money.
No, that's completely unfair.
If you wanted to make
all of the money,
you should've been a stripper.
And down south, we
do not play that.
Dancers always rule, period.
- Are you finding yourself
trying to beef yourself up
on Instagram and social
media just to keep up?
- No, I don't.
- I don't feel like
I'm trying to keep up,
I feel like to me, social media
is marketing and promotion.
- I, for one, don't put
any twerk videos up.
I just don't promote it
on social media because
I don't, because I just
feel like they're gonna come
in the club, they're gonna
spend money regardless,
and I'm not gonna put
it on social media
for them to see it for free.
That stuff lasts forever.
The girls who do decide
to twerk on social media,
that's their business.
I'm also in the corporate world,
so I know how sometimes,
things may resurface back up
and I never want somebody to
pull a video up of me twerking.
Plus, I have a 16
year old daughter,
I don't want her posting
twerk videos on Instagram.
I'll break her neck.
- Again, this goes with
being unapologetically happy
with who you are.
- Your Instagram is lit.
- My Instagram is lit, honey,
because one post you may
see me talking about
economics and for the culture,
and the next, you might see me
twerking to Michael Jackson,
but that's all of me.
I don't see the issue with
twerking on social media
because it's no different,
to me, then dancing,
moonwalking, break
dancing on social media.
I think people tend to
over sexualize everything.
It's just
entertainment, honestly,
I don't see the
problem with it at all.
I turn my social
media into a cash cow.
- Okay.
- I makes money.
- I do feel like LeaLea
kind of dominated
the whole conversations.
Like she forgot that it
was a whole row of us
that had to answer
the questions.
Like, hey, how you
doing, I'm here too.
If you wanted your
own interview,
you could've came by yourself.
- So where does it end?
Is it 40, I'm done?
- If you can get out, if
you're 47, 50 years old
dancing in the club,
looking old, you need to go.
- Where do you see your plateau?
- The goal should be
ultimately that you've achieved
or gained some type of income
or you can take care of
yourself outside of dancing.
So for me, I'm gonna set a
date because I'm done and
I feel like I admire
LeaLea because
she lives into her character.
Me, I feel like it's like
drug dealing at one point
was tearing our young
black men apart,
I feel like this
dancing epidemic
is tearing our young
black girls apart.
- And how does that
make you guys feel?
In Atlanta, it's a big
thing with the little waist
and the butt shot injections and
everybody is getting so in it.
And it's coming from the
stripping industry, a lot of it,
just to make more money.
- I got enhancement
when I was 18.
So I'm way older than 18,
of course you know that now.
But when you're 18, you're
somebody totally different
than you are in your 30's.
Every women gets enhancements
and I think that no one
is real to say what they
got or what they're getting,
because I think it's just
like the street code in
the street is no one
tells their real business.
I feel like dancers aren't
open about it, but I am.
- But what about the ones
who are honest and say,
no, I have never had any
enhancements but because
it's such a big deal
in the industry--
- They think we all did.
- Everybody feels like you did.
Like long before I ever
walked into a strip club,
people always thought I danced.
- A lot of people don't share
their real deep dark secrets.
I'm only sharing my
deep dark secret.
- But it's not their place to.
[deep tense music]
I just felt like it
was just a whole bunch
of shade int he room, honestly.
- The downfall about
being late is I'm always
the cutest person
in the room but
I miss the majority
of the interview.
I really don't know what
she was talking about.
I literally caught
the ass end of it.
- All the way down at the end.
Hi, pretty lady.
- Hi, how are you?
- What is the plateau,
what is the goal right now?
Is it just survival mode,
get in, get the money
and get out, or which one?
- It's get in, get the
money and get out because
I also have a business
and just honestly,
being in the club every night,
I feel as if it's holding
me back from my business.
- So what is it that you
want people to see about you
and walk away with?
- These girls need to
realize jumping into dancing
is not just easy
and fun for games.
You can really get
lost in this game.
- So I just want people
to not look at us
like we're any different.
We still can be dancers
and still run businesses
and be successful
business women.
We're not just strippers.
[mumbles]
Right.
Just because we're considered
dancers or strippers,
or whatever, exotic dancers,
that doesn't mean that we
also can't wear other hats.
Dancing isn't the
only thing that I do.
- All right, ya'll,
you guys gotta tune in
to Beyond the Pole this 2018
on the Urban Movie Channel.
Come on, ya'll.
- It's gonna be lit.
- [mumbles] but if you
my man and that's all.
- So, once I eat his ass?
- I'll probably have sex with
you because I'm comfortable.
- What if I eat his ass?
- Who?
- Because Gabrielle eats
D Wade's ass, don't she?
- I mean, if that's what your
man likes, eat that shit.
I gotta love you, I gotta
love you to eat the ass.
- [mumbles] sucking the balls
and you lick the balls up.
- Oh my.
- Just no where near
your asshole, baby.
- It's right because
you gotta go up under.
- It's a stretch, baby, it's
a little stretch right there.
- But it depends, some
dudes got a little stretch,
some dudes got a big stretch.
- Okay, well I'll get me a
nigga with a big stretch then.
- Like you just
gonna say, bend over,
let me see how long
your stretch is.
- When he lay down and you
get around to suck his dick,
you can see that, you
can see all of that.
- But hold up, you just
try a little bit [mumbles].
[screaming]
- You pushing me down
there, you waiting to lick.
- You with it, you with it.
- By the time, baby,
you wouldn't fuck shit.
[mumbles]
- [mumbles], the
next day you be like,
this skinny motherfucker.
[laughing]
[deep rhythmic music]
- [Woman] All right, thank
you so much for calling.
We definitely appreciate it.
- Thank you so much.
- [Woman] All right, be safe.
- Okay, thank you very much.
- Hey, LeaLea.
- [LeaLea] Hey, what's going on?
- I wanted to talk
to you for a sec.
Do we have something
going on because
I see the energy is not,
like something's going
on between you and I.
- After the Rolling
Out interview,
Angel comes up and
says that she feels
some tension in the
room, rightfully so,
because admittedly, I
was, I was very tense.
When we left, when I left
the mixer with Stormy
and you came in after the fact,
and it was kind of like you
had some things to say about
me and you having some
kind of altercation before.
And I'm like, when
because I just met you
at the mixer [mumbles].
- Well, I definitely
don't ever remember us
having an altercation
because we, I've--
- I was just trying to
figure out why my name
was in your mouth in the
first place after I was gone
and I wasn't there.
So I just wanted
to comment on that.
- Well, I was actually
defending you.
So I don't know, maybe
they weren't there
for that whole conversation but
whoever had said
anything to you,
I don't know exactly
what they said.
- Well, Laina is the person
who actually told me.
I don't think she did
it in a malicious way,
I'm just one of those people
that when I hear something,
I have to take my time
to absorb it because
I don't like to just lash out.
SO I'd rather probably
just not speak to you until
I can speak to you when
I know I'm not gonna
be confrontational.
But she said you were
saying I'm used to being in
the limelight and that me
and you had some kind of
altercation once before and--
- I do think that you, you do
like the center of attention
so I'm not gonna
ever take that back.
- But no I don't, I'm just me.
- Okay, that's fine and if you--
- But to say that I like
the center of attention,
that's like saying
I'm purposely trying
to be the center of attention
and that's not the case,
that's a misconception.
- Okay, so I did say
that but I also said that
this is your personality.
- Well that sounds better.
- You're not trying to
be extra but it's just--
- Who I am.
- It's just who you are.
- But that doesn't
mean I like being
in the center of attention.
- I mean.
- That's two totally
different meanings.
- I mean, I like that about you.
So when I first met
you, I was like,
okay, this girl, she's
a lot to handle because
you do have a very
strong personality and
if you don't know you,
all you see is confident,
confident, confident.
And no one would know
anything about you.
- Yes, I am a very
confident person,
yes, I'm happy all the
time, yes, I'm just me.
Now if that just makes
people gravitate to me and
it makes me appear that
I like to be the center
of attention, then that's
everybody else's issue,
not mine.
But I am happy that
you did come to me and
talk to me about it because
I really didn't have
anything to say in there because
I feel like I'm sitting
around a bunch of people that
as soon as I walk out the room,
then everybody wants
to talk about LeaLea,
when I'm in the room,
everybody's quiet as fuck.
I don't like that.
[deep tense music]
I am aware that my energy
is like all over the place,
but when I'm not
physically in a room,
I feel like my name should
not be in the room either.
People need to just keep my
name out of their mouths,
just continue on with their day.
Everybody be happy, namaste.
Because see, I don't
play those kind of games
because it's so easy
for things like this
to get out of hand.
It just happens to be that
both of us are adult enough
to come talk about it.
But just say we weren't
and we fight, and we caddy,
and as soon as I saw you,
I want to snatch you.
It would've just been all ugly.
But the thing about it is
we're both mature enough
to talk about it.
But let's just respect
what I'm saying,
if I'm not in the room,
my name should not be
in the room either.
And on that, I have
to go get my daughter
but no love lost.
- Okay, all right.
I realize me and LeaLea
weren't going to get very far
with our conversation and
it was just pretty much
agree to disagree.
[deep dramatic music]
- [LeaLea] Next on
Beyond the Pole.
- You mind getting naked?
You gotta take everything off.
- Cheers to--
- New beginnings.
- Yes, and no more dope boys.
- And I wanna open marriage.
Like [mumbles] while
you suck the dick,
you know what I'm saying.
- He can buy you like a
five karat for starters.
- Okay.
- But tell me, who is he?
- He's a producer.
- Oh.
- Everybody knows cancer
is a monster, it's ugly,
it's very, very ugly.
But there is beauty in
the struggle because
it's not about what
you go through,
it's about how
you go through it.
- Well, I have a
spiritual advisor.
- A spiritual advisor?
- [Ms. Dime] Yeah, I
have a spiritual advisor.
- You so Hollywood and blind.
- I do.
- Welcome to Magic City.
[cheering]
- So now you know I'm mad with
you about your little crazy
friends that came to my
house the other day, right?
What's wrong with her?
Something is wrong with her.
- I just feel like
both of you guys rubbed
each other the wrong way.
- You're not gonna come in my
house and be disrespectful.
- So, what brings
you here today?
- Now I've got this big old butt
and I don't want it anymore.
- Ooh.
[film reeling]
[soft dramatic music]
- You left the strip
club and came back.
- I did.
- Now why was that?
- I was a dope boy's fake
wife, or your house girlfriend,
or whatever you call it.
- Let me get this straight,
a dope boy's fake wife.
- Yeah, like you know, dope
boys don't get married.
So you'll be their
girlfriend for 20 years.
- So you were playing
that position for a while?
- Yes, I played that
part for 10 years.
- And so he wanted you
to come out of the club.
- Yes.
- Okay, and then
when that ended?
- Be a stay at home mom
and that's what I did.
- Right, that's what ya'll did,
when it was over,
you came right back.
- Right.
So I feel like I truly
qualify for a real life as
Beyond the Pole because
those two are hand in hand.
Drug dealers and strippers
are almost one in the same.
- Piggy backing off
you being real and
you having no problem
telling people
what you had done to yourself.
Why do you feel like
women shy away or lie and
say that they never
had work done and
they did it just from attending
the gym or what have you?
- It's like Hollywood, nobody
ever tells their secrets.
I think every cast
member has something done
besides LingLing, as
you can see very well.
[laughing]
LingLing don't have nothing
done and she don't need it,
and I tell her how
beautiful she is.
- LingLing, wat brings
you to the world of adult
entertainment, girl?
- Survival, unfortunately.
- What do we have going on?
I see a little bit, I don't
wanna say what I think it is.
What's your nationality?
- I'm half Thai, half black.
- Okay, I knew there was
some African American
in there somewhere.
So LingLing, do you
have any children?
- I do, I have a little
boy, his name is Xavion.
- Ah, Xavion.
- He is eight years old.
- Tell me a little bit
about your son, Xavion.
- My son, he is Mr.
Popular, he plays basketball
and he plays soccer.
- Eight years old.
- Mmm hmm, done gymnastics,
does martial arts,
got the two girlfriends
he always tells me about.
[laughing]
I'm like, don't
be a player, gosh,
you're supposed to
be the ladies man.
He's like, but
everybody likes me.
- I do understand that
you're going through
a little something with your
son and a family member?
- Correct.
- Custody, tell me a
little bit more about that.
- Unfortunately, I went through
some things with myself,
I was abused, so I kind of
needed to take some time
to get myself back together.
And I asked my mom
and grandmother,
like, hey, can you
watch him real quick,
really more so just so
he wasn't in where I was.
I was in a battered
women's program,
and I just didn't know
everybody else's mentality,
what stability was.
So I was like, hey, can you
watch him til I get better.
They're like, yeah.
But mom kind of turned
around behind me,
filed paperwork on me,
said I abandoned my child.
And kind of swooped him
from underneath my feet
and in such a messed up way.
- Where is he now?
- Currently he's in Thailand
but he's with my family,
he's still there.
He goes back and forth
between there and California.
- Is it looking like you'll
get your child back or?
Where are you with that now?
- I actually lost in court.
- You did?
- So, but I still got
hope in myself and
I still got faith that
hopefully I can retry
the whole case and
petition it and go forward.
[film reeling]