00:00 When I tatted my face, as a grown-ass man,
00:02 my mama slapped me.
00:02 "Like your face too beautiful, son,
00:04 and you gonna mess it up."
00:05 She like, "You think you grown,
00:06 you think you da-da-da-da-da just 'cause you grown?"
00:08 Like, "Mama, grown as hell."
00:10 She was mad about that shit.
00:11 (hip hop music)
00:13 On my first face tat, I got was a cross.
00:18 I got that shit in jail, too, on some crazy shit.
00:20 Like, hitting my shit with a, like, one by one,
00:24 like, like a, you know, a charger box.
00:26 It's like something in the inside,
00:27 they made it out of that, so it just go slow,
00:29 like, that shit hurts so bad.
00:31 My face was big as hell when I got that shit done, too.
00:33 And I had to get it redone 'cause it faded,
00:35 started fading on me.
00:36 I got my daughter's name on my face,
00:38 on the biggest hill on my face.
00:39 I got my son named Cody on my face.
00:41 I got an Angela playing a guitar.
00:43 I got my grandmama name on my face.
00:45 What else I got on my face?
00:46 Oh, I got 100 right here.
00:49 Gotta keep it 100.
00:50 Dig.
00:51 I got blessed over my eyebrow.
00:53 Yeah, I probably got like 10 on my face, though.
00:55 Guwop and Lil Wayne,
00:56 first rappers I seen with face tattoo.
00:58 I was a big Guwop fan, like Gucci fan, and Wayne.
01:01 You know, Tune really gave us the game.
01:03 He was starting to hit the face crazy,
01:05 and they were like, "We gotta hit the face."
01:06 I'm a do that, can admit that, that's no cap.
01:08 I got a hand with the globe on the inside of it,
01:12 and it say, "The world is mine," around the front.
01:15 I got my girl's name on my neck.
01:17 I got Powerpuff Girls on my neck.
01:19 It's my girl's favorite cartoon little character.
01:21 I got a dove bird on my neck.
01:24 That's it for the neck.
01:27 What was the first tattoo I ever got was,
01:29 well, I got like a couple at one time.
01:31 So my ex-boss, I got my mama name,
01:33 I got my grandmama name, and I got my granddaddy name.
01:35 'Cause I feel like when they see it,
01:37 I got your name, at least I got your name, but yeah.
01:40 It was like three of my homeboys,
01:41 we got tattooed, the dude tattooed us up.
01:43 He gave us enough for us to get like two, three a piece.
01:46 Names, though.
01:47 I started at 14, but by like 15, I started going crazy.
01:50 16.
01:51 Next big one I got, it was this big
01:53 Alana Braves A right here on my left arm.
01:55 That was the biggest one I got after that.
01:57 And then I just started going crazy.
01:58 Like, I was addicted then.
02:00 It was like, damn, I need to get a tattoo every week.
02:02 You know, you young.
02:03 I was young too, so I was like 15, 16.
02:05 They weren't even good either.
02:06 I was like, I'd be mad now that I got 'em so early.
02:09 I was trying to be on some cool shit, really.
02:11 You know how it be.
02:12 I got my first tattoo, I'm like, ooh.
02:14 I just kept going crazy.
02:15 I got these bullshit ass alien spaceships.
02:17 It look like a 10 year old boy droid.
02:20 I got my brother name and my older brother name,
02:22 which you can't see it 'cause the ink faded.
02:24 I ain't never retouched it up.
02:26 I got a lot of bullshit.
02:27 I got the Gucci Gs and they all different shapes and sizes.
02:30 They put the Gucci Gs.
02:31 My homeboy stole his mama's laptop, right?
02:34 And we thinking he didn't came up on the laptop.
02:37 And when he steal a laptop,
02:38 he sells the laptop for the tattoos.
02:40 I'm in there talking about the laptop on the phone.
02:43 Like, I think I'm talking to A-Rod.
02:44 My boy A-Rod, I'm like, bro, we just got tatted.
02:47 He like, what y'all do?
02:48 I'm like, yeah, we had a little silver laptop.
02:50 Man, this man, his mama was right there.
02:51 He like, no, no, no, no.
02:53 His mama like, you stole my shit?
02:56 Kick both of us out of the crib.
02:57 [laughs]
02:58 Kick both of us out of the crib and then shit.
03:00 I was like, bro, that's crazy, bro.
03:02 You set me up.
03:02 He like, why you say something?
03:03 I'm like, nigga, you stealing from your mama?
03:05 It's crazy.
03:06 Yeah, that was a crazy time.
03:07 I got Virgil, RIP my brother V, man.
03:12 I got Virgil on my undercalf.
03:15 I got the movie "Dead Prisoners"
03:16 when they got the white paint on their face
03:18 and they robbing the banks.
03:19 I got Basquiat on my right leg.
03:21 I got Malcolm X when he looking out the window
03:23 with the shotgun.
03:24 I have all my kids' faces on the back of my legs.
03:27 I got five kids,
03:28 so I got all their faces on the back of my legs.
03:30 I got Michael Jackson on this left leg.
03:32 I got my favorite cartoon, "Freakazoid."
03:34 I got "Cars Dolls."
03:35 I got Takashi Murakami pillow on the kneecap.
03:38 I got the Eiffel Tower on my face
03:40 'cause my friend Paris, he got killed.
03:42 But I got his face tatted right here too, though.
03:44 I got "The Night Before Christmas."
03:46 That's one of my favorite movies tatted on my leg.
03:48 I got the demon, like the Dodge Demon
03:50 'cause I'm a big Dodge fan.
03:52 No rats.
03:53 Shh.
03:54 So I got a dude showing his grill
03:56 with Rolling Stone across the top.
03:58 I got Frankenstein tatted on my thigh.
04:00 Yeah, that's all the leg tats.
04:02 I got thriller Michael Jackson right here.
04:04 This still thriller Michael Jackson too,
04:06 but that's when he regular, so it's the transformation.
04:08 That's the good and the bad, you dig?
04:10 And then I got Scarface holding a stick.
04:14 Big as hell right here.
04:16 I got "Texas Chain Saw Massacre," Michael Myers.
04:19 Damn, what else I got?
04:20 I got M.O.B. across my chest.
04:22 I got an angel holding a chopper on this side,
04:24 and I got a skeleton holding a .38 Special on this side.
04:27 This was a cover-up 'cause his tattoo was trash can juice.
04:30 I had two money bags.
04:32 And for the smoke, he was supposed to do smoke,
04:34 but he did some swirly shit between the bags.
04:37 This shit look like it was some clouds.
04:39 I got it covered up with the angel with the stick
04:42 and the skeleton with .38 Special.
04:44 - You got 007 also.
04:46 Are you a James Bond fan?
04:47 - Yes, sir.
04:48 Before I was playing Call of Duty, I was playing 007.
04:50 (upbeat music)
04:52 So for the back piece, you know,
04:54 I got my brother Take on there.
04:55 I just covered my whole back with it.
04:57 I feel like he just got my back.
04:58 It was kind of like my message to myself.
05:00 That's what the kids, too, you know?
05:02 I feel like all my shit's meaningful, though.
05:03 All my tattoos are meaningful.
05:05 I remember all the times I was getting it
05:07 and how it meant to me during the time.
05:08 I got a lot of people that mean a lot to me,
05:10 chatting on me.
05:11 The Take Off piece on my back took eight hours, one session.
05:14 - Were you out for that?
05:15 Like, what was that experience?
05:16 - I was out.
05:17 I'm out for all my sessions.
05:19 You know, you gotta get in that zone, man.
05:21 That's a long time you didn't tat it, though.
05:22 You know, I'ma tell you the worst pain,
05:24 most painful ones, though, is the thighs.
05:27 (whistles)
05:28 When I got out of there, I had to go wheelchair.
05:30 Couldn't really sit down.
05:31 I'm in the car, like, trying not to sit down.
05:34 That shit hurt, like, in the inner thighs.
05:36 And it stayed swole for so long.
05:38 Like, I woke up, and this shit was just like,
05:40 (exhales)
05:41 red on fire.
05:43 I was scared to look.
05:43 I had to call the tattoo artist, like, "Bro."
05:45 He like, "Oh, yeah, yo, your inner thighs so sensitive,
05:48 "it ain't never doing nothing.
05:49 "It don't never have no action.
05:50 "The outside of your legs get action, lay down, fall.
05:53 "But right there, it usually don't never get touched."
05:55 He like, "It's like hot water getting on your back
05:56 "when you get in the shower."
05:57 So it was real sensitive.
05:58 That shit had my shit swole, though, yeah.
05:59 I ain't gonna lie, I don't know, man,
06:01 that behind that kneecap, too.
06:03 That shit hurt, too, 'cause the healing process hurts.
06:06 I was, like, trying to keep my shit just straight in the bed.
06:09 Then, like, when you hit them legs,
06:10 it's like, when you stand up, all your blood
06:12 just be rushing to the bottom.
06:13 That shit be hurting for a little minute.
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