‘Shut Up Donna!’: ‘Black Ink Crew’ Fans Tired of Donna Talking Out of Pocket Amid Ceaser and Alex Beef

It seems Donna Lombardi‘s frank behavior is getting her in trouble.

In this week’s upcoming episode, “Black Ink Crew” stars Ceaser Emanuel and Alex Robinson come face to face for the first time since their explosive fight last season. However, the only issue fans had with the scene was Lombardi’s smart mouth seemingly adding more fuel to the fire.

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Ceaser Emanuel and Donna Lombardi. (Photos: @vh1, @blackinkcrew screenshots)

It’s no secret that Emanuel and Robinson are still at odds this season after the “Black Ink” owner and his cousin Teddy Ruks jumped him last season. Well, the two finally got a chance to face each other after their chaos, and it seems the matter may have went left due to a certain someone.

“What ya’ll did was a jail move,” Robinson told Emanuel in the teaser clip. “You f–ked up a lot of s–t for me, ya’ feel me?”

Apparently, before Emanuel could respond back to the tattoo artist, Robinson’s girlfriend Lombardi intervened and yelled to Emanuel, “Shut up, you bald headed b–ch.”

The shop owner then hit back, “Don’t talk to me. F–k y’all.”

The scene then panned to rapid movement between the co-stars, seemingly presaging another fight.

Many fans felt the beef between Robinson and Emanuel could’ve been resolved had Lombardi kept her insults to herself.

“Shut the f–k up Donna!!! 😑 You don’t make s–t better. You the one who caused this!”

“Donna needs to keep her damn mouth close and her man talk to him. Damn it’s her mouth that got into trouble 🤔🤔.”

“I told y’all Donna talk to much smh Donna been real Disrespectful waaayyyy Before Alex came in the picture!!”

Other folks placed the blame on Emanuel.

“All y’all blaming Donna 😕 but Cease and ted are still the problem Donna and Alex said that Cease and ted then “apologised” to them but then proceeded to talk shit about Alex’s back online recently.”

“Man yall keep sayin donna need to be quiet first off they already jumped the nigga like its litt Ceaser shouldn’t even wanna talk.”

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(From left) Crystal, Young Bae’s mom, Young Bae, Teddy Ruks, Walt, Ceaser Emanuel, Miss Kitty, and Tatti. (Photo: VH1)

As “Black Ink Crew: New York” wraps up the season, it’s been reported that a “Black Ink Crew: Compton” spinoff series is allegedly on the way. According to the Jasmine Brand, the show has already began filming. No casting details or premier date about the apparent California franchise has been released.

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