Nyjah Huston Breaks Down His Tattoos | GQ Sports

i knew i was gonna get asked this i guess i should sit down and actually count them if i would just throw out a number like 200. yeah my first tattoo ever was on my arm i was 18 years old skate and destroy it's a thrasher saying i think it's sick that i got that for my first one because that is like the classic like skate saying i was at the skate contest in tampa called tampa pro the tattoo artists there were like working out of the back in like this parking lot and i think they were just doing a few different things you could pick from that being one of them my buddy chase actually pressured me into getting it i was like i'm ready for all that i'd like just turned 18. i didn't think i wanted tattoos at the time ended up getting it that's where it all started look at me now my most recent tattoo was two days ago it might be the stupidest tattoo i've ever gotten it is a ferret on a skateboard my friend this girl michelle is obsessed with ferrets like every time i would see her she'd be like when are you getting your ferret when you got all these tattoos you're not going to get a period tattoo and then i my buddy cody was in town um tattooing wasn't even in the mood to think about trying to figure out what i wanted so i was like wow i guess i'm literally gonna get this fair tattoo and just be a good friend so i got a ferret on a skateboard and he actually came out pretty tight this is my fried leg i dedicated this leg to get random stuff on got a jason mask we've got a pineapple we got this grim reaper up here and we got a lion skull i got a waffle tattoo recently too i love waffles so what can i say waffles or fire people are gonna think i'm so stupid no regrets i got some tattoos for like x's even and stuff i don't really even regret those i mean i feel like i have so many tattoos and like probably 90 percent of my body is covered at this point so it's not like i look at one tattoo i'm like oh like i can't believe i got that i'm so bummed i'm just like i'm really all over the place when it comes to deciding what tattoos i want or get i used to be more picky about what what i wanted because obviously it's the earlier stages and you got a lot more a lot more space on you so you want to get stuff that you're really hyped on and looks good in certain places but i'm i'm really thought out about most of my tattoos unlike the ferret one most of the stuff doesn't mean something to me i more so just get stuff that i see and that i'm hyped on and that i think fits my vibe well i've always mainly been a fan of black and gray tattoos my type of skin color i think black and gray looks the best the only color i have on myself is some green on this eye it's actually one of my friends eyes and then i have some green on this chick on my hand i definitely have some favorites on my knee i got this like half butterfly half skull i really like the lion on my on my stomach right here because the lion has always kind of been my animal i had dreads growing up i didn't cut my hair literally until i was 16. i had these long ass dreads and i was like kind of my mane and that was what i was known as as a kid was just this little kid that shredded and with the long dreads that's what the line represents hold a lot of pride in that one my buddy daniel did my hand tattoos and he absolutely killed it i really like the chick right here on my left hand don't actually know who it is when i get like girls on me or something like that i don't really like to pick who it is i just let the tattoo artist give me some options and i'll just pick one this one too came out sick i love wolves as well i did my neck when i was like 22 years old this guy thomas hooper did it he is a legendary tattoo artist i sat down and designed this one with him kind of made it all flow together on this side we have a triangle with an eye in it kind of has that illuminati vibe to it and then on this side we got an eagle he killed it you know it was it was three days around like five or six hours each day that was probably the most painful part of my body to get tattooed they have to like stretch your skin like all weird and they're pulling your neck in weird ways you have to breathe all crazy when it's on your adam's apple right here oh my god it was bad i'm not gonna sit here on camera and say that i'm never gonna get my face tattooed because i could end up getting some stuff one day if i did get anything on my face i would make sure it's like small and just something somewhere and yeah sorry mom if you're watching this i mean my mom's just like the most chill person in general she never really gave me too hard part of a time about it i feel like it got to a point where she just kind of gave up on trying to tell me i should chill and not tattoo my whole body i only started my back like a year ago my buddy karai did it and he's really good tattoo artist who works at a bang bang in new york the whole thing is symmetrical there's like two things on each side kind of going down the back most of it and then some things in the middle and then on my ass we have like two like geometric designs on each side that kind of match with the back of my like shoulder blades so much stuff dude i can go on and on my buddy justin did most of these small random tattoos he's a really good like detailed artist we got a dinosaur a raptor and this little guy's on a skateboard pulling him some more darkness over here the death is certain some butterflies this just goes to show like how random my tattoos are it'll go from these cute little butterflies to a tombstone that says see you soon but i don't care about getting like random sketchy stuff about death and whatnot because i'm not afraid to die you know you can't be afraid to die doing the stuff that i do so you've got to say go for it i will stop getting tattoos when i have no more room i really don't got much room left but i'm stoked with what i got it was all worth it hundreds and hundreds of hours of pain a little pain is good sometimes

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Length: 6min 13sec (373 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 15 2021