247 Ink Magazine (April/May) 2017 Issue#14 | Page 32

30 graphics , Seen , Peter Pope , so out my window I could see it . Every week there was someone new getting killed and that portrait mural would go up on the wall so I would see it , study them constantly , he does these blends and he adds these browns , so I thought what if people get these tattooed on them , and I started seeing people get names , blocks , the person who died so at a young age I was doing notebooks , tee shirts , jean jackets and I was always into portraits and at 13 I was i ’ m gonna be a tattoo artist and I ’ m gonna do it . I had a cheap ass machine Spaulding and Rogers , off of the back of a magazine , and all the guys on my block wanted a name , wanted a star , and my mother ’ s deal was if I gave her A ’ s and B ’ s on my

30 graphics , Seen , Peter Pope , so out my window I could see it . Every week there was someone new getting killed and that portrait mural would go up on the wall so I would see it , study them constantly , he does these blends and he adds these browns , so I thought what if people get these tattooed on them , and I started seeing people get names , blocks , the person who died so at a young age I was doing notebooks , tee shirts , jean jackets and I was always into portraits and at 13 I was i ’ m gonna be a tattoo artist and I ’ m gonna do it . I had a cheap ass machine Spaulding and Rogers , off of the back of a magazine , and all the guys on my block wanted a name , wanted a star , and my mother ’ s deal was if I gave her A ’ s and B ’ s on my