00:00 All right, y'all, you know what I'm here for.
00:01 Let's get into it.
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00:05 First two tattoos, so I took my brother's ID.
00:11 I was 17 years old.
00:12 It was just my last name and the year I was born
00:14 and I got it tatted on my wrist
00:16 and then I got my great grandma on my forearm.
00:19 I got this from my mom.
00:20 My great grandma was super close to her
00:22 and she passed away when I was young.
00:24 So that's why I want to get it, you know,
00:25 from my mom, but also her.
00:27 If you look at my rookie year, my sleeve was terrible.
00:30 Like it had no, it wasn't together
00:32 'cause I literally would just get like one random tattoo
00:36 and then another one.
00:36 And so, yeah, you know, for me, I always thought like,
00:39 okay, I'm gonna get one sleeve, I'm gonna leave one clean.
00:42 And right now it looks clean,
00:43 but I've already started my second sleeve.
00:44 This took time.
00:46 I had a tattoo artist who kind of meshed it all together
00:49 at the time, which is a lot of things
00:51 that mean a lot to me.
00:52 This is one of my favorites, the term pain into power.
00:55 I feel like it really relates to, you know, my story.
00:57 Still a recovering addict,
00:59 gone through a lot of shit in my life.
01:01 So this is like one that I see in the mirror all the time
01:05 and it represents a lot for me.
01:06 And then I could go on and on, you know, I got,
01:08 time is now, that's like the little digital clock.
01:11 I got that from D'Angelo Russell.
01:12 So I'm not gonna, you know, steal his swag,
01:14 but he's got like a bigger one.
01:15 I got my sobriety date right here.
01:18 If I had any type of inkling to pick up a drink or smoke
01:20 or anything like that, it's the first thing I would see.
01:22 And that's why I got the triangle over here.
01:23 So it's like, first thing I see on my hands
01:25 is my sobriety dates.
01:26 Obviously got Eastern Michigan,
01:28 my number that I wore there.
01:30 XXX Centacion tattoo when he passed away.
01:33 He had this tattoo on his face and forehead.
01:35 So I got that one on me.
01:36 That was like right before the draft.
01:39 You know, I got a lot of roses,
01:40 Rachel Rose, my wife.
01:42 I got Ella Rose, my daughter.
01:43 Roses are like huge to me.
01:44 I got Rose Gold on everything.
01:46 Like that's like number one thing to me.
01:47 Got the Raider tat on the back of me.
01:49 I got that right as I got drafted.
01:51 I got the Mad Max tattoo on me.
01:54 The fans obviously gave me the nickname.
01:55 So I got that like right before the season started.
01:59 They started calling me that
02:00 in like training camp and stuff like that.
02:01 One of my favorite quotes,
02:03 I remember Charles Woodson.
02:04 He told me that there's 31 teams in the NFL
02:07 and there's one Raider Nation.
02:09 And like, we're different.
02:10 We do things a little bit differently.
02:11 You know, we do shit our way.
02:13 And I feel like that's what being a Raider is.
02:15 It's just being like that outlaw in the league.
02:17 And like, I feel like we're starting to bring that back.
02:19 So it's been great to see.
02:22 I really didn't know what I wanted on my hand.
02:24 'Cause like, that's like a big deal.
02:26 You know what I mean?
02:27 You rock a suit,
02:27 like that's the first thing you're gonna see is the hand.
02:29 So I was like, we just ended up rolling with the skeleton.
02:31 So I don't know if I'm not gonna do it on this hand,
02:33 but I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do on the other hand.
02:35 But yeah, he definitely killed that.
02:37 I'm big into rap.
02:40 Like my mom is born and raised in Seven Mile Detroit.
02:44 Like, so she put us on like Eminem
02:46 and like I just seen rappers all the time being tatted up.
02:49 And I was like, I wanna get my torso done.
02:51 Like everybody gets their back,
02:52 but they're scared to get the front done.
02:54 So I'm like, I'm gonna get the front done first.
02:55 You know, for me, I had so many ideas
02:57 and I'm like, it's a big ass canvas.
02:59 So for me, I wanted to, you know,
03:01 I wanted to do it the right way.
03:02 Finding the right person was hard.
03:05 I met this dude named Ortega in Arizona
03:09 and I seen him do like CD Lamb
03:10 and a couple other NFL guys and NBA guys.
03:13 He ended up coming out to the house.
03:14 They have a full team, like five people.
03:17 I did two sessions in a row.
03:18 It was like 13 hours and they did my whole torso.
03:21 I have my certain inspirations,
03:23 like the Michael Jordans, the Kobe's, the Ali's.
03:25 Like those are the guys that I look up to
03:27 in a lot of different ways.
03:28 And so I wanted to get them on, you know,
03:30 obviously a tribute to them.
03:32 Interviews, things like that.
03:33 Like that's sort of the mental side of the game.
03:35 I've learned the most from those three.
03:36 So, when I'm beat legendary, I got that on there.
03:39 It's my favorite quote of all time.
03:42 More roses as well.
03:43 But the most important one is my daughter, Ella Rose.
03:47 I got her right here on my chest.
03:50 She's number one for obvious reasons,
03:52 but you know, I thought I had it, you know,
03:54 had all the inspiration, motivation in the world.
03:57 But like, once I had my daughter,
03:58 like it's at a whole different level.
04:01 Just from a mental standpoint,
04:02 she comes first no matter what.
04:05 So for me, I had to get her tatted.
04:07 And then, you know, obviously me and my wife
04:08 probably gonna have more kids.
04:09 I got room on my back, so I can't leave them out.
04:12 So, I got the neck before I got my whole torso tatted.
04:18 So when I had the neck tattoo,
04:19 everyone thought my whole body was tatted,
04:20 but it was just my neck.
04:22 I got the triangle on me,
04:23 and obviously it means the world.
04:24 I got triangles all over me.
04:26 It represents sobriety.
04:27 And I got the back of my neck done as well.
04:29 It's kind of a Conor McGregor inspiration,
04:31 but yeah, another triangle at the top,
04:33 and then it's like the McGregor vines going down.
04:35 But I definitely have a lot of canvas left, so.
04:38 I seen PJ Tucker, I seen Canelo with the wings,
04:40 so I wanted like bigger,
04:41 a little bit bigger version of those.
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04:44 I got, obviously the Michigan on me.
04:47 I was born, raised in Michigan until I was 10.
04:49 I moved to Texas,
04:50 went to middle school and high school out in Texas,
04:52 so I got those.
04:52 I got the killer be killed, the Nate Diaz quote,
04:55 one of my favorite quotes of all time.
04:57 I love this tattoo as well,
04:58 but the legs, the reason why they're not done,
04:59 because the thighs hurt like hell.
05:01 For this off season, like I'm getting my whole legs blasted.
05:05 So I plan on doing that.
05:07 The guy that did my torso and everything,
05:09 having him do, you know, their whole team,
05:11 knock out my legs, so.
05:13 I love my tattoos, like it's a part of who I am.
05:15 It's kind of like its own story,
05:17 like, you know, from the beginning where I came from,
05:19 they all got their own like history.
05:21 Once they put it all together,
05:22 like I think it, you know,
05:23 it's definitely, it's come a long way.
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