01x10 - Rick & Shanelle

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♪ MTV ♪

♪ Yeah, I've been hidin'
in plain sight this whole time ♪

[Travis]: You've met the love
of your life.

I love him.
Like, I wanna marry him.

I think Barry is the one.

[Rahne]: But they're hiding
a massive secret.

I have not met anybody
in his family.

[Rahne]: You.

I don't wanna
keep thinkin' it's me.

I'm proud of our relationship.

I want her to be proud, too.
That's all.

[Travis]: We're on a mission to
find out why.

He's maybe doing some type of
steroids.

We got missing jewelry,
a house that no one can go to.

Welcome to Vegas.

I mean, he may be in another
relationship.

-Oh!
-[Rahne]: I'm Rahne Jones.

Let her go, let her go.
Let her go, let her go.

I've been hidden, I can't tell
you how hurtful it is.

It does make you...
Severely insecure.

[Travis]: I'm Travis Mills.

I've definitely done it.

I've been in relationships
that I haven't posted at all.

[Rahne]: We're joining forces
to help desperate partners

uncover the truth about
their secret relationships.

I used to work for the
Department of Homeland Security.

This could very well be a guy
that's living a double life.

There's a difference between
being in love,

and being a sucker for love.

If we do not do this,
there will be no wedding.

[Travis]: We'll bring these
couples face-to-face.

The reason why I'm hiding you.

The reason I'm hiding you
is...

I really don't know
what to do.

[Rahne]: To reveal their
shocking secrets.

That's enough.

Can I get a second?

You should have told me
something like that!

You in there with your ex?

-Donald.
-Donald!

Yo, what the [bleep]!

It's all right, Donald.

Stormy, come on man,
open the door!

[Travis]: This is MTV's

HELP! I'm in a Secret
Relationship!

Tonight, we're in
East Orange, New Jersey

with Rick and Shanelle.

Rick is being hidden by
his girlfriend Shanelle,

a social media influencer.

And he wants to know why.

And I wanna get married.

But I feel like I always
have to defend her to my family.

[Travis]: Shanelle thinks
she's on a show

about young entrepreneurs.

What are your thoughts here?

[Travis]: We're here to help
Rick get some answers.

Only bad people do this type
of stuff.

I wasn't gonna say anything,
but I happen to be scrolling

through social media,
"I take fully nude pictures."

It looks bad.
It looks bad!

You've pushed me
to this point,

to have to [bleep] reach out
to a TV show.

[Shanelle]: Wow.

I know you're lookin' at me
like I'm crazy right now.

You really just robbed us
of our future.

♪ Ain't got
trouble sleepin' ♪

♪ everybody's got me thinkin'
I got one thing on my mind ♪

-All right, Rahne!
-Here we are.

We're on the East Coast,
we're in New Jersey.

How do you like it?
The East Coast?

I feel like I'm straight out
of an episode of The Sopranos.

-I feel like I'm...
-Tony, that you?

[Travis]: What is going
on today? What do we have?

We are on our way
to meet up with Rick.

So, Rick has been with
his girlfriend, Shanelle,

for three years.

And he feels like he's
being hidden

from her family, friends,
social media.

But the kicker is,
they live with Rick's parents.

That's absolutely insane.

Yes.

I will say the idea of
living with my

significant other's
parents is...

Not fun.

Like, I would want privacy.
I wonder what that looks like?

What y'all doin'?

-Lookin' at some crypts.
-You know.

You hungry,
y'all hungry?

Yes, ma'am.

[Rick]: My name is Rick.

I am 33 years old,
from East Orange, New Jersey.

So, you like yours
still lookin' light skinned,

with just a little crunch?

Yes! I do, I really do.

And when I first met Shanelle,
I knew that she was the one

that I wanted to spend
the rest of my life with.

I got the little tingly feelin',
whatever you call it,

I got all of that.

So I just knew that, like,
she was the person

that I wanna be with.

This house, you might as well
call, it's a crypto house.

This house was bought
with crypto money.

Yeah, you made me so proud.

Was so, so happy.
To get outta that

two bedroom apartment
that we was squeezed in.

Right.

[Rick]: Shanelle and I
are both entrepreneurs.

I became an entrepreneur
at the age of 25.

I trade in the
foreign exchange market,

as well as the
crypto currency market,

and I also do music.

Everybody be like,
"I wanna buy my mama a house!"

-Really.
-Right.

That's gold.

[Rick]: Shanelle, she models,

and she's a social media
influencer,

doing hair tutorial videos.
Hey, hey!

And thank you for tuning in
to my channel.

She's smart.
She's a business woman,

a hustler.

I love you.

[Rick]: I love you, too.
Of course.

She's the woman that
I wanna buy a house for,

that I wanna have all
of my kids with.

[Shanelle]: Let's go.
Let's go, you!

[Rick]: She's met my whole
family: mom, dad, cousins.

Shanelle might have lost
that one.

Nuh-uh, no.

We've been together for
almost, about three years.

But I still haven't met
her mom and dad.

I've never met none
of her friends.

She really don't post me
on social media at all.

I know you be sayin', like,
your parents busy and all that,

it's crazy how, like,
I still haven't met them.

You know what I'm sayin'?
They can't be that busy.

They are, though.
You know my dad is a pastor.

-[Rick]: Right.
-He does church stuff 24/7.

I'm guessing when
you go to church on Sunday,

that's the only time
that you see them?

Sometimes!

Like, that's the main time
that I see them.

If Shanelle doesn't
come clean about

why she's hiding me,
then we're definitely done.

So, we are on our way
to go meet Rick right now.

This is a, it's a cigar bar.
Okay!

[Travis]: Yeah, the most
New Jersey thing

that we could possibly do,
is go to a cigar bar.

Listen, I'm down.

♪ I'm gonna hunt you down ♪

♪ yeah, I ain't playin' around ♪

All right.
Let's go meet Rick.

[Rahne]: Hi.
Are you Rick?

[Rick]: What's goin' on?
I am. How you doin'?

Hi, how's it going?
I'm Rahne, nice to meet you.

And I'm Travis.
Nice to meet you.

Travis, what's going on, bro?
I'm chillin'.

All right.
So, a cigar bar.

I've never been
to one of these before.

-Me, either.
-Yeah, it's cool.

Gettin' real classy
over there.

-Right. Real laid back, chill.
-Yeah.

Nice place to kick back.

[Travis]: So, why don't you
kinda fill us in on

how you two met,
what it's been like

being together for
the last three years,

and ultimately,
why you called us?

Got you.

So, Shanelle does
hair tutorials.

♪ Been there, done it,
make it hot ♪

♪ work it, make that body rock ♪

She did a video with
using my friend's music,

and I seen it.

Thought she looked good,
so I hit her up.

Then I was like, you know,

"I'm on there [bleep]
take you on a date."

So, that wind up working out.

When we came back,
we sat in front of her crib,

'til, like, five in the morning,
just talkin'.

So the chemistry was
definitely there.

[Rick]: Right.
It was definitely there.

You know, all that beauty,
it's just, it comes with,

she's very mature.

I'm saying, very responsible.
A go-getter.

That's what I really,
really, really love about her.

I'm real, like,
a passionate person

about what I do,
so when I realized that

she was somebody I wanted
to be with, like, I showed that.

So, we was, like,
together everyday.

And that just kinda,
just led into us bein' together.

♪ All you gotta do
is dive headfirst ♪

[Rick]: We've probably been
living together for about,

a year and a half, maybe?

But I, I would kinda say like,

the whole relationship
we were living together,

because we was
together everyday.

Okay. She'd always be
over there, anyways.

Right.

And you live with
your family, correct?

[Rick]: Correct. I was able
to buy my parents a house.

Made more sense for me
to move in with them as well,

and the fact that Shanelle
is my girlfriend,

her payin' another rent
somewhere else,

it just didn't make sense.
So I moved her in, as well.

What do you do, exactly?

[Rick]: Investing and
day trading is my main,

my main thing I do.

I invest 24 hours a day,
and I make money.

Simple as that.

I also invest, like,
in crypto currency.

-[Travis]: Okay.
-Things like that.

That's pretty impressive,
because that crypto stuff,

I admit, I am very dumb
when it comes to that.

So, that's some smart a*s
[bleep], all I'm sayin.

-I'm all in on that. I love it.
-You love it?

Yeah. It's real,
it's real, it's real good.

What exactly does Shanelle
do for a living?

She's a social media
influencer,

so different companies,
like, reach out to her

to make videos.

Whether they be about a wig,
or a product.

In today's video,
I'm going to be showing you guys

how I style my hair.

As you can see,
I have a honey blonde wig

that has been installed
at the moment.

Being an influencer like that,
like, the,

it's definitely the long game,
right?

You gotta build
those connections.

[Rick]: You gotta build
a following.

She's real good with money,
you know what I'm sayin'?

So, it's not really like,
like a money thing.

It's just that what she's
doing to get money

is not really adding up. So,
I give her money to pay, like,

bills and everything like that.

So I let her kinda,
like, handle that.

She gets everything paid
on time, she know how to save.

I can just give it to her,
and like, be lookin'...

Like, I wanna have this amount
by this time.

She's always been considered,
like, a money person.

So she say.

So, she's definitely
good with money.

So, what's the dynamic like
in the house?

Is it like,
you, Shanelle, your parents?

Like, how does that
whole situation work?

They love Shanelle.

Sometimes I think they
love Shanelle more than me,

but, you know.

I have like, a real
like, loving family.

I don't really bring too many
people around my family,

'cause they so,
they kinda like me,

like, when we meet somebody,
we kinda get attached.

Know what I'm sayin'?

So, that's why I don't
really bring people around

my family, but with Shanelle,
I felt, you know,

it was real different.
I wanna get married.

I'm tryin' to put a down payment
on a newer house,

so I can let my parents
keep the current house,

and me and her move
into a new house.

This new house is gonna be a
bigger step in our relationship.

But I need to know, actually,
what's going on

-before I can dive that deep.
-Absolutely.

Everybody in my family
has met her,

but I haven't met, like,
a single person in her family.

Have you talked to
your family,

your parents in particular,
about the fact

that you feel that
you've been hidden?

I feel like I always have
to defend her to my family.

They all have they own, like,
little opinions and speculations

on what they possibly, you know,
feel about Shanelle.

Have you met any
of her friends?

Not really friends, per say.

Like, I might have
met people in passing

that she might have
went to school with.

You know what I'm saying?

So, it's not necessarily like,
"Oh, this is my friend."

[Travis]: So, I guess,

the thing that you're being
hidden from is her circle.

Yeah.

I'm sure you've thought
about this a lot,

but, you know,
what are some of the reasons

that you've come up with as to
why Shanelle's been hiding you?

One being, her dad is a pastor.
You know what I'm sayin'?

They really, like,
heavy into religion.

I mean they, I'm not really,

that's not really something
that I get too much involved in.

Maybe I'm just not good enough?

I'm not your average
career type of guy.

Like, I'm not what
her parents may expect.

'Cause I don't have
your average, like,

9 to 5 type of job.

The ultimate one would be,
like, cheating.

You know what I'm sayin'?

I would have to say that
would have to just be

a deal breaker.

I just feel like I shouldn't
be hidden anymore.

You know, I'm usually in control
of like, things in my life.

So, to be not in control of,
like, this kinda situation,

is kinda, like, embarrassing.

There is nothing embarrassing
about wanting to find answers.

But we are absolutely
here for you.

Definitely.

Is there anyone that you think
we should talk to,

who can kind of give us
another perspective?

So, my best friend, Dorian,
we invest into crypto.

He's also my business partner,
as well.

And my partner in music.
We do a lot of music together.

Okay.

He knows Shanelle very well.

-So, send us his info.
-Yep.

Send us Shanelle's socials.
We're gonna get to work,

and when we know something,
you'll know something.

-Thank you. I appreciate it.
-Off to the races.

-It was great to meet you, man.
-Nice to meet you too.

-[Rahne]: So nice to meet you.
-You too, as well.

All right, man.
Have a good day.

-See you.
-See you soon.

Okay.

Okay.
Now, this is something

we haven't seen before.

Where you're living with someone
and their family,

and you're hiding them.
Like, how lopsided is that?

Like, she lives with Rick
and his family...

[Rahne]: For the last
year and a half.

[Travis]: And we don't even know

if her parents know
that Rick exists.

I can't imagine that they do.

Let's get in the car.
[Rahne]: It's cold!

I'm freezing!

Okay.

Oh, my God!

So, he gave us Dorian's
contact information,

and Shanelle's social medias.

You know what,
let's text Dorian first.

All right.

Boom.
I wanna see the social media.

[Rahne]: Okay.

Ooh, okay!
She's beautiful.

[Travis]: Okay, so she has
a couple thousand followers.

-[Rahne]: Yeah!
-Now let's keep scrollin'.

[Rahne]: It's a lotta her.

[Travis]: Is there anything
with Rick?

[Rahne]: Let's see.
[Travis]: Nope.

[Rahne]: Nope.

So, you know,
if I'm a single guy,

on social, coming across
this girl's page,

she doesn't look like
she's in a relationship.

-She looks single.
-[Travis]: Right?

The thing that really, like,
made my heart go out to Rick,

was he was like,

"Maybe I'm just
not good enough?"

Maybe her dad or mom, like,

have very high expectations
for their daughter,

and they want her to date
a doctor or a lawyer,

Something more traditional
in that sense.

Possibly because Shanelle's
family is religious,

maybe she knows that her family
will not like the fact

that he is not
a religious person.

Especially coming from
a pastor's kid, you know?

Very true.

I mean, I just wanna kinda
go back to the thing

where all of our minds
go immediately. The cheating.

You know, what if she
has another dude?

I don't wanna jump
to that conclusion,

but is she kind of
living this double life

where yes, she's with Rick,
she lives with his family,

she's his girlfriend,

but on social,
she really looks single.

[phone ringing]
Oh.

Hello?

Hi, this is Travis and Rahne,
who is this?

Hi, Dorian!

Dorian, what's up, dude?
How are ya?

We just left Rick.

We sat down and met up with him,
he told us a lot about you.

And, you know,
it would be awesome

if we could get your perspective
on his and Shanelle's

relationship,
because you're his best friend.

You've spent time with
the both of them,

and Rahne and I are kind of
in the dark here.

[Rahne]: Okay.
Okay.

[Rahne]: Well, that's
interesting.

Is there a place that you
would recommend that we meet?

sh**t us the address,
and we will see you there.

Appreciate you.
All right, thank you.

[Dorian]: All right.

[Travis]: Okay. He has something
to get off his chest?

Did he see Shanelle out?

Was she with someone else?

That's gonna be
a deal breaker.

I guess there's really only
one way for us to find out,

and that's to go
to Little Tijuana.

Let's go.

[Travis]: Coming up.

I don't think she's
a bad person,

but only bad people
do this type of stuff!

Oh, boy.

You've pushed me to this
point. We just, we need to talk.

The reason why
I've been hiding you...

You did what?

♪ I'm up for the challenge
I'm ready to go ♪

[Rahne]: We're in East Orange,
New Jersey,

trying to help Rick find out
why his girlfriend,

Shanelle, is hiding him.

We're on our way to link up
with Rick's friend, Dorian,

who said he has something
he wants to get off his chest.

[Travis]: Little Tijuana.

-Rahne and Travis?
-[Rahne]: Yes!

-Yes sir, Travis.
-Pleasure. How y'all doin'?

How you doin'?
Rahne, nice to meet you.

Pleasure to meet y'all.

We got a little quiet spot
to speak upstairs.

My lady will be
up there waiting.

All right, let's do it.
After you.

-Guys, this is my lady, Pearl.
-Hi, how you doing?

[Dorian]: Rahne and Travis.

-I'm Rahne, nice to meet you.
-Hey pearl, I'm Travis.

Nice to meet you,
nice to meet you.

All right.
Well, thanks for meetin' us!

But I guess,
first and foremost,

tell us how you know Rick.

So, Rick, that's my
best friend, as you know,

but that's really like
my brother DNA.

We started from, like,
this big together.

Okay.

Obviously he contacted us
because he's in a relationship

with a young lady
named Shanelle.

They've been together
for three years,

and he feels like he's
being hidden from literally

-everyone on her side.
-On her side, right?

What are your thoughts here?

It's just, I'm happy
he finally contacted y'all,

because he lets me know
that he wanna know that.

You know, I said something
to him before about her.

And he sorta, like,
blew up at me.

-You know what I mean? So...
-He blew up at you?

[Dorian]: Yeah, like,
keep her name out my mouth.

You know what I'm sayin'?

So, stuff like that,
you know, it's touchy.

I ain't wanna just
chime in again,

even though I have
my own theories.

Well, on the phone...

-Right.
-[Travis]: You did say...

That you wanted to talk to us,

because you had something
big to drop.

Yeah, me and Rick,
we do music.

I was gonna surprise him,
and upload our music NFTs.

And I talk to him
all the time about it,

I'm tryin' to get him in
and, you know, push the button.

So, let's, let's do this.
You know, people want our music,

they want our craft,
our artworks,

so I wanted to do that.
And an error popped up.

This was the error I had got.
Originally.

Flagged, as if
someone had uploaded it already.

So I checked the search
to track names,

and I saw Shanelle name.

All right, so you tried to
upload a song as an NFT,

and when you attempted
to do that,

-you got blocked from doing so.
-Got the error, yeah.

And for someone
who has no idea

what you're talking about...

It's like,
non-fungible tokens.

All NFTs do,
is it's a digital contract.

[Dorian]: Right.

Like a smart contract
that's written in code,

that proves ownership.

Right.

The only way her name would pop
up is if she had uploaded.

[Dorian]: Is if she uploaded it.
Right.

Everything she would need
to do it is there.

Oh, boy.

So, she's pretty much claiming
his music as her own,

and collecting
the money from it.

-She's stealing his music!
-Stealing, yeah.

[Travis]: What if Rick asked
Shanelle for help,

and just didn't tell you?

The reason why
I feel it's not,

is because I bring this up
to him all the time.

And with something like that,
like...

[Travis]: So, you're like,
"Yo, bro, you need to do this,

this is lucrative."
He would have been like,

"Yo, I'm already handling it.
I'm already doin' that."

-Right.
-Or he would have been like,

"Oh, yeah, Shanelle already
did that for me," or something.

Yeah.
There's no way to miss that.

Yeah, there's no way he would
have forgot to let me know.

That would not have
gone over his head.

Wow. That's, that's a lot.
I hope it's not true.

It's something that we're
definitely going to have

-to bring to Rick's attention.
-For sure.

I don't think that
she's a bad person,

but only bad people
do this type of stuff!

Well, you don't want to see
anyone get taken advantage of.

[Dorian]: Right.
And there's that, as well.

-PEARL: And that, as well.
-I'm praying for the best.

'Cause they're actually
a great couple.

-That's why we're here.
-That's why we are here.

-Yeah.
-Thank you. Thank you.

Get to the bottom of it.
Appreciate you.

Yeah. Great to meet you guys.
All right.

[Dorian]: Pleasure.

Thank you so much
for taking the time.

So nice to meet you.

-Whew.
-All right.

Okay.

So, here's what
I got out of it:

You got a little lesson
in NFTs.

Yes, I did!
I feel smarter, number one.

-It's not good news!
-[Rahne]: No.

We have Rick's best friend
telling us that

Shanelle could be
stealing his music,

and creating an NFT off of it.
Which...

Why not bring him into it?

And why, like, just kind of,
like, let it linger?

[phone vibrating]
You don't...

I don't know who this is.

Hi, this is Travis and Rahne.

Hi, Ruby!
Hi, how are you?

Well thank you for calling us!
What's, what's going on?

Is this, is this pertaining to
his relationship with Shanelle?

And I'm assuming that
Rick is gonna be

at this family meeting?

Okay.
I mean, we're glad to come

if you just wanna
text us the information.

So, we will see you soon.

Tomorrow!
Yeah.

All right.
I mean, we are going to compact

a bunch of people into, like,
one big sit-down.

Is it gonna be dramatic?
Is it gonna be hopeful?

Sounds like an intervention.

There's obviously
something going on,

and it's like Rick cannot
be talked to, right?

When it comes to Shanelle,

it just seems like
he's very unreasonable.

[Rahne]: Now I'm nervous.

Rick might get defensive,
maybe pop off.

♪ Business is my entrance
a life sentence of dopeness ♪

[Travis]: We're in New Jersey,
trying to help Rick

figure out why his girlfriend,
Shanelle,

has been hiding him
for the past three years.

We're on our way
to meet Rick's aunt Ruby,

who called a family meeting.

After hearing Dorian
say yesterday,

he thinks Shanelle might be
stealing Rick's music,

we're bracing ourselves
for whatever Rick's family

is going to lay on us.

So, last night obviously,

a little weird that
Aunt Ruby called us.

Absolutely.

I'm just curious as to,
you know, what we're

about to walk into.

[Travis]: I mean, it sounds like
what we're about to walk into,

is like a relationship
intervention.

I don't feel comfortable
going and sitting down,

talking about Rick
with his family

-without Rick there.
-One hundred percent.

So, I would love to call Rick
and make sure that he's coming.

-Absolutely.
-And just tell him, like,

"Yo, we got this
phone call last night."

I can do that right now.
Wanna do that?

[Travis]: Let's do it, yeah.

[phone ringing]

[Rahne]: Hi Rick,
this is Travis and Rahne.

So, we actually got
a call from your Aunt Ruby.

Okay.

I mean, if there was ever
any time for people

to be in your business,
it's right now.

While we're trying
to get you some answers.

You know, your family
is really trying to help you.

I mean, would you be
open to going?

Because she was pretty adamant
that we show up,

I mean, we're on our way
over there right now.

All right.
We'll see you in a little bit.

-[Rahne]: Okay. Well...
-[Travis]: All right.

We're about to walk
into a family dynamic.

-[Travis]: Oh, man.
-So, this is new.

[Travis]: Brace yourself.

Whew.
I'm glad we got each other.

♪ Baby, let's go
Let's go ♪

♪ While they got me
in the lime light ♪

[Travis]: This is it right here.

[music]

[Travis]: Rick.
Thanks for coming, man.

Definitely. Definitely.

How are you feelin'?
I'm good, you know.

It's not something that I really
would have wanted to do.

My family real nosy,

and I don't really be likin'
too many people in my business.

I be kinda wanting
to handle things on my own.

I get that.

I guess my only concern is
making sure you just

go in there with an open mind,
because this is your family.

I'm sure your best interest is,
is what they care about.

You know, so...

Of course. Yeah, so, I'm
definitely here to listen.

-All right.
-Okay.

Should we go in
and meet the family?

-Yep, let's go.
-After you.

RUBY: Hey, hey, hey!

[Travis]: Hello!
How are y'all?

Hey! Okay.

[Travis]: Hi aunt Ruby,
I'm Travis.

Yes, Travis.
How are you?

How are you doing?
I'm Rahne, nice to meet you.

-Oh, same here! Same here.
-[Travis]: Thanks for having us.

-Let me take your coat.
-Thank you so much!

Hey, everybody.

-How are you doin'?
-Hello, how you doin'?

-I'm Travis.
-Hi, how are you? Tawana.

I'm Rahne.

Everyone's here!
Come on, everybody.

Well, we are just,

we are really, really,
really so happy

that you guys decided to
come and everything.

I mean, this is like,
the warmest of welcomes.

Rick hit us up.

Because he's been with
his girlfriend, Shanelle,

-for about three years.
-About three years.

[Rahne]: And he has yet to meet
any of her friends, family...

And, you know, we wanted
to figure out why that was,

and get him some answers.

[Ruby]: I just wanna
say something, too.

To Rick.
You know, we're concerned.

A lotta concerned!

You know we love Shanelle.

We really do.
And I think we welcomed her in.

Yeah.

[Ruby]: But how can you keep
your family from your family?

[Rahne]: Okay.
You in front.

I'm the cousin.

I happen to be scrollin'
through social media,

and I came to this guy's page,
that was trending.

His name is Paul.

The guy says,
"I take fully nude pictures."

She doesn't follow the page,
but she likes the pictures.

Then, I came across
her comment on the page.

Can we see what,
the comment?

Ooh!!

So, you're talking about
this comment here,

"Hope the pics from our
last sh**t come out this good."

-[Tawana]: That's her page.
-Commenting on this, and...

[Tawana]: She doesn't
follow him.

From your perspective,
what, what does that mean?

I would say she took
some pictures.

Hmm...
Hm.

Then I happen, you know,
to look even further.

So, you know like,
when you see somebody so much?

Like...

[music]

[Rahne]: Yes.
So you're saying

-that this person is Shanelle?
-[Tawana]: Yes.

Rick, what do you...
What do you think of that?

[Rick]: [bleep].

[Rahne]: Rick's cousin
just dropped a b*mb.

She believes that
Shanelle is a nude model.

Rick, what do you...
What do you think of that?

[Rick]: Hell no.

Ain't no way she would have no
[bleep] naked pictures online.

Don't throw my phone
'cause you mad.

Well, so let me get
deeper in it.

This man, his name is Paul.

You know we have
girls' nights out,

we drinkin', we partyin',
we talk about our exes.

I remember us having
a conversation,

her ex-boyfriend,
his name is Paul.

Mmm...

[Travis]: Do you know anything
about her and her ex-boyfriend?

Any kind of dynamics about
her last relationship?

[Rick]: I don't know of
him being her ex-boyfriend.

But far as, like,
letting her ex take pictures,

like that's, that is wild.

[Travis]: So, you know,
if her ex was just

taking photos for her,

Deal breaker?

I know it'd definitely
be [bleep] up if that's,

if that's her. And that's it
on that, you feel me?

I'm not gonna stay and look
like a fool, you feel me?

Me knowing Shanelle,
and I think I know Shanelle,

I don't think it is,
but I don't know.

So, my hands are tied right now.

Like, I really don't know.
I really don't know.

[Rahne]: The overarching
theme here is

-the secrecy of it all, right?
-Right.

So, we have a "possible"
photoshoot that

she didn't tell you about.

That is the reason why
Rick is being hidden?

She doesn't want that cover
to be blown,

is that what you're thinking?

One of the reasons
why we're here.

[Rahne]: Okay.

Everything is speculation,
you know what I'm sayin'?

That's the reason why we,
I didn't really wanna do this,

because everything is just
opinions,

and they don't really know
what's going on,

you know what I'm sayin'?
They can just assume.

We want to bring this stuff
to your attention,

only because, you know,
what's coming up?

Future things come up,
and then something, boom!

Come out of the woodworks,
and then what?

Then what?
You know what I'm sayin'?

Obviously the goal here
is to be able to

have him sit down
with Shanelle,

and have an honest
and open conversation.

And now he has an opportunity

to decide what he wants
to do going forward.

We're gonna get
outta your hair.

So nice to meet you!
Yes, yes.

Let me get outta here.

Can I give you a hug?
Yes, thank you.

All right.
So nice to meet you.

Yeah, you too.
Appreciate you.

[Rahne]:
You all have a good one.

[Rahne]: Whew.
[Travis]: Whew.

Okay.
So, how do you think that went?

It went exactly how
I thought it was gonna go.

Family just being nosy.

Everybody's investigators,
everybody's showing me [bleep].

I gotta know what the [bleep]
is going on.

Now, before we have
that conversation...

And before we like, I guess,
reach out to Shanelle.

We definitely have
some information

that we need to share.

Okay.

We did sit down
with Dorian and Pearl.

[Travis]: Dorian was telling us
that he wanted to do something

nice for his best friend.

And he want to actually turn
some of your music into NFTs.

And he was gonna kinda
surprise you after the fact,

and say, "Yo, bro, you know,
look what I did for you."

[Rick]: Mm-hm.

[Travis]: He was going through
the process

of minting some of your music,

he got some error messages.

And these messages said,
you know, that it's already

kinda been turned into an NFT.

The username that actually
created the NFT

turned out to be Shanelle.

Dorian is convinced
that Shanelle has been

-taking your music...
-And profiting off of my music?

[Travis]: And turning it
into NFTs.

Yeah, yeah,
that sounds crazy.

How do you feel about
sitting down with Shanelle

and having this conversation?

Like, how do you feel
about all that?

At this point, yes.

I'm starting to see what
everyone else is seeing now.

I feel dumb as hell,
you know what I mean?

Like to make it have to
get to this point.

I love Shanelle,
but this [bleep]

is just lookin' real crazy.

She gotta explain all this
[bleep] right now, like.

Like, we gotta get to
the bottom of this.

[Travis]: First and foremost,
you're going to have

to be honest with her... About
what show we're really sh**ting.

And see if she's ultimately down
to kind of sit down and

have this, this conversation.

[Rick]: Right

Hey, what's up?

Hey, look, remember that show
we was shootin'?

That was about, like,
young entrepreneurs?

And all that?

All right. So, I'm going to be
one hundred percent

honest with you,
and that's not really

what we was actually sh**ting.
You feel me?

I reached out to
Rahne and Travis,

to do some investigatin' on
our relationship,

and the fact that
I've never met your parents,

I don't know
none of your friends.

You pushed me to this point,
to have to [bleep] reach out

to a TV show to,
to get to the bottom of it.

We just, we need to talk.

Look. I'm, I'ma be there soon.

I'm comin' with
Rahne and Travis,

and we can talk about
all this face-to-face.

♪ Rip the knob,
crank the bass ♪

♪ Turn me up,
crack it aye ♪

♪ Yeah, tryna race
burn it up woo ♪

[Travis]: After hearing that
Shanelle could be

modeling nude for her ex,

and she may be
stealing his music,

Rick called Shanelle,
and told her the real reason

she's on the show.

We're on our way
to meet Shanelle,

and convince her to sit down
with Rick, face-to-face,

and tell him the truth.

-[Rick]: Shanelle!
-[Shanelle]: I'm in the kitchen.

-You can have a seat, bro.
-Okay.

[Rahne]: How you doin'?
I'm Rahne.

[Shanelle]: All right.

Shanelle.
It's nice to meet you.

I'm Travis, I wish we could meet
under different circumstances.

Me, too.

I mean, you brought
the cameras here,

I don't understand why.

So, ask me whatever you
need to ask me.

I don't know what information
you think you have,

but let's get to it.

So, they spoke to Dorian.

And he was telling 'em that
he was tryin' to turn

my music into an NFT.

And in the midst of him
trying to do that,

he ran into a problem.

That this music has already
been turned into an NFT.

And then when he
did all the research,

it led back to you.

And today, my family
presented me a nude picture,

saying that this was you.

What was also brought
to my attention,

is that the nude photos
was on your ex-boyfriend's

social media page.

That definitely got
to be explained.

[Shanelle]: Okay.
So, with your music,

every time I brought it
to you, like,

"Hey, you should get started
with this now, the NFT, NFT."

You always say you want to get
to it, but you never got to it.

I took it upon myself to
go ahead and mint the music.

So, don't you think that
when it comes to my music,

don't you think that
I should be the first person,

or the leading force
into doing whatever

that you're trying
to do with my music?

I thought I was doin'
a good thing.

But that's neither
here nor there.

What about your ex taking
nude pictures of you?

[Shanelle]: The nude picture
you're talkin' about,

the picture is not me.

I know exactly the page
you are referring to.

And the page he's referring to
is a photographer

that goes by the name of Paul.

Yes. That's an ex-boyfriend.

He brought to me
a working opportunity.

And I've been assisting him.

You took a job with your ex.

I just knew it would be
a issue with you.

You would have been really upset
and not want me to do it,

and I didn't want to
turn down the money,

so I was keeping this from you.

That's one of the reasons
why my friends have not

met you properly, 'cause
they knew about this project.

And at any event that you guys
were to meet and link up,

I'm pretty sure that
that conversation

could have came up.

So, I can go,
I can go work with,

assist my ex on something
that she got goin' on?

I think there are levels here,
right?

Mm-hm.

I will believe you and say
that this is a person

that was further enough
in your past

that you're okay with it.

But the fact that you
did not tell him,

kinda just makes this
a bigger thing

than what it needs to be.

-It looks bad.
-It looks bad!

So, the reason why
your family hasn't met Rick,

is all because you've been
working with your ex-boyfriend?

Okay, no.

There's a bigger issue
that is really hard

for me to talk about.

Rick?

The reason why I've
been hiding you...

[Shanelle]: Rick? The reason
why I've been hiding you

is because...

I pretty much lost
our house savings.

You did what?

What do you mean?
Our savings account?

Okay?

I lost a majority
of those funds.

The money that we've been
bustin' our a*s for?

You, you're saying
that you lost it.

What do you mean, you lost it?
How did you lose it?

I'll, let me explain.
So...

You need to speed it up,
though.

'Cause you talkin' about
house savings.

It all started off okay.

You know how I do
the hair tutorials.

How did you lose
the house savings?

Listen.
This is what happened.

So, I was doin' those videos.

The amount of money that I spent
to make that happen,

outweighed what I was getting
back in return for that content.

So, when that started to happen,
and I realized that

so much money was being spent,
that's when I took from

the house savings.

I found a crypto currency
that I wanted to invest into.

Next thing you know,
in about two months,

it went to, like, $100k.

And I know that
in that moment,

I probably should have
just stopped,

because that was way over
what we had started with.

And that was the plan.

But it's hard to stop.
It's hard to know when to stop.

The more money I make,
the happier he's gonna be.

The faster we can move,
the faster we can have children,

the faster we can just live
the way we wanna live.

So, I used that,
just being so confident that

I can take us to, like,
damn near being millionaires.

And I know you lookin' at me
like I'm crazy right now.

But when I first did this,
it went crazy. I let...

What's your, what's your,
what's your confession?

I'm an influencer.

But you're not a trader,
though.

So, why are you takin' money,
why are you takin' money

outta our savings to do
something that you don't do?

Sounds like you got lucky,
and then got unlucky.

Trading is not about,
it's not about luck.

You sayin', "I know it takes
money to make money,"

but it also takes knowledge
to make money.

You know what I'm sayin'?

And for you to say that
you lost our savings,

that's crazy!

That's crazy, like,
I don't even know,

I don't even know
what to say.

This [bleep] doesn't
even feel real.

So, so, Shanelle, how much, how
much money did you start with,

and how much money,
how much of that did you lose?

So, I started the
trade account with $60,000.

What's left?

-[Travis]: Correct.
-[Rahne]: Yeah.

It's at about $10k right now?

From $60k that you
took out of it.

Yeah.

You really just took money,

and you literally just robbed us
of our future.

So, answer me this, though.

Is that, is that,
is this the reason why

why we're here today?

Like, this is the reason
I never seen your mother,

I never seen your dad,
I never seen your friends?

My, my parents know
about the situation,

like, as soon as it happened,
and things went wrong,

they're the first people
I ran to.

And they're under the impression
that you already know.

Your parents know about him?
Like, they know...

[Shanelle]: Yes, they know...

Yes, they know
I have a boyfriend.

They know about Rick.
But as far as them meeting you?

And me already lying and saying
that you already knew about it,

that was going to be
a major conversation

when they saw you.

I would be mad.

So, I'm not expecting you
to not to be mad.

I'm sorry.
I'm deeply, deeply sorry.

I hurt the both of us
financially by doing this.

And mentally, too.

Because it messed up
our communication,

messed up our trust.

So, I just wanna say
that I apologize again.

I'm still, like, looking forward
to getting that dream house.

And, you know, having children.

And now I'm just hoping that
you still wanna do that with me.

So, moving forward,
I'm assuming that we're gonna

set up a meeting,
like a dinner or something,

so I can actually get
to meet your parents.

Absolutely.

I don't want you to ever think
that that's not what I want.

Hiding you from my family
and from my friends

has been a weight on
my shoulders for the longest.

What we've built is,
is bigger than $60,000.

You know what I'm sayin'?

And that $60,000,
we can always get that back.

But we, we,
we can't get what we have,

you know what I mean?
So, I'm for us.

That, that means a lot,
honestly.

Just, moving forward,
I just wish that

just that the communication
would be a little bit better.

Yes.

Right, 'cause we probably
would have made $200k,

you feel what I'm sayin'?
We will.

All right.

Guys, I feel like
this is where we leave you.

[Rahne]: We're happy that
you're remaining together.

That's what we wanted.
And we wish you...

-The best of luck!
-All the best.

[Rahne]: It was nice
to meet you,

do you mind if I give you a hug?

Yes, thank you.

[Travis]: Appreciate you.
Thanks for trusting us.

All right, see ya.
See you guys later.

All right.

♪ To take
This is your move ♪

All right.
We did all we can do.

Yes, we did!

Hopefully Rick and his
amazing family can meet

her family, and you know...

-Kumbaya.
-Start this bond,

and have these experiences
that they can share together.

Which I know Rick has
really wanted for a long time.

-So, you know...
-Today is the first step.

They can start their path anew.

And with that being said,

we can get our a*s
into that car!

♪ This is your move
Your move ♪

♪ To make, to make
your voice loud ♪

♪ Your voice loud
Your voice loud ♪

♪ Your voice loud ♪