00:00Do you regret getting your tattoos?
00:02Oh, of course.
00:03You do.
00:04One of my biggest regrets in life is getting tattooed.
00:06I've been removing my tattoos for eight years.
00:08You think I look crazy now?
00:08You should have seen what I used to look like.
00:09And I have huge advice for anybody is don't get a tattoo.
00:12They're exclusively attention seeking
00:14and they only have negative impact in life.
00:16What was your rationale then for getting this?
00:18Just to court more attention?
00:19Of course I wanted attention,
00:21but very specifically the attention I was looking for,
00:23I wanted to display a message
00:25where certain people would treat me a certain way.
00:28For example, what I learned about middle-class areas
00:30is there's a lot of people that think they're gangsters.
00:32So when I walk through
00:33and I have all this gang rating on my face,
00:35they might look at me and say,
00:36this guy's for real and leave me alone.
00:38And then when I go into the ghettos
00:40where I lived for a long time,
00:41a lot of those guys would say,
00:42oh, this guy's one of us, he's with us.
00:44And by the way, I was completely correct.
00:46Both of those things worked.
00:47The problem is when I no longer wanted the attention
00:49because now I'm a grownup with like a job
00:51and like a real life,
00:52you know how hard it is to meet a girl
00:53and she's the first thought is
00:55whether we fall in love or not,
00:56how can I introduce you to my parents?
00:57And now I'm stuck in this terrible position
00:58where I look like a maniac and a menace
01:01when I'm trying to just be polite or go unseen.
