Tyga Got His First Tattoo When He Was 14 | Tattoo Tour | GQ

[Music] [Applause] I got my first tattoo when I was 14 so right here in my arm The Lord's Prayer John 3:16 I was excited the fact that I was about to get a tattoo without parent consent you know what I'm saying up here from like when I was 14 17 that I was really like tattoo crazy in my life and I would like literally probably go like twice a week it was one summer I probably got my whole like stomach dumb neck like I just went o with it cuz I just was so addicted to it I was younger like like they didn't I feel like they really didn't hurt as much but like the older I get I'm just like uh I got that when I was like 16 that one hurt like a too it really it really was the pain after that hurt it like I don't know how to describe the pain but after it definitely hurt I really don't have any favorite tattoos was crazy like when I look at them it's like kind of a timeline of my life the Vietnam tatto I really started like tapping into like my Asian background and stuff my mom was born there during the Vietnam war and then she later moved here had me this is Jack from a nightmare before Christmas I got this when I was like 16 one of my favorite movies when I was growing up I've seen it so many years upside down that I've never seen it how it looks you know reg cuz I'm always used to looking at it like this which is crazy I got these when I was 15 it was like my labor when I was young it was like my first quad that I had which standing for uh getting every dollar getting educated daily I always wanted a face tap but I didn't want to like do nothing I felt like was going to alter my look too much and I don't like I don't even like notice that they're there then anymore it's just crazy I got like a lot of ghetto tattoos and I have like good work you know what I'm saying it's a mixture of everything so I think it just depends on what I'm on at the moment you know what I'm saying like everything I'm doing right now is Asian Inspire I feel like the last year I've been working on a lot of Asian inspired kind of stuff that's why I got like the dragon and then like a few years ago I was really into like the Egyptian culture studying that stuff some Spinx here the ey of horse here on my stomach so you know it just depends on what I'm really into at the moment too I'll kind of let the artists do what they they do first I'll have a vision in my head I'll see what the artist comes up with and then we can like collab and alter from there cuz like I feel like when you go to a tattoo artist you're going to that person for their kind of work you always kind of want to like give them their room to like be the artist first and then you give your opinion yall think any advice that I can give to somebody that wants to get a tattoo it's always good to get something that you know be there forever people get family names their kid names whatever relates to you and whatever really speaks to you you know it's kind of going in the tattoo shop like hey let me get this oh this is cool like it's cool sometimes to do stuff like that but you got to also know that it's going to be there [Music] forever

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Length: 3min 12sec (192 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 01 2017