Delisa: From Gucci Mane's ice cream cone to 21 Savage's knife, rappers' face tattoos can
be as iconic as their songs.
So we hit Rolling Loud in Queens, New York to see if hip-hop fans can identify their
favorite rappers by their face tats.
Delisa: Do you have any tattoos yourself?
Speaker 2: I do.
One under my chest, and then, yeah.
Speaker 3: No, unfortunately I still live with my parents.
Speaker 4: I got Harley Quinn because that's my girl, babe, your movie coming out and it's
going to be amazing.
And I got NU tatted right here on my neck, let's get it.
Speaker 5: Bring it.
Speaker 4: Lil Boat.
Speaker 6: I got my mom's name here, I got Nefertiti right here.
Delisa: Well your neck tat, did it hurt?
Speaker 4: Lil Boat.
Speaker 7: Yeah I have like my whole back, right here, right here, my neck.
Delisa: Is it recent?
Speaker 4: Lil Boat.
Delisa: So no answers to that question, thank you so much.
Delisa: So how do you think you're going to do?
Speaker 6: I think I'm going to do terrible, but I'm going to try my best.
Speaker 8: Imma fuck this up.
Imma fuck it up, but fuck it.
Speaker 5: Nah, we gon kill it.
We gon kill it for a fact.
Delisa: You got it?
Speaker 5: I know my shit.
Speaker 9: We're getting 100%.
Delisa: I love this confidence.
Okay, let's see how we going to do today then.
Speaker 10: Damn.
Delisa: Come on now.
Speaker 10: What's on his forehead?
Is that 21 or no?
Speaker 8: That's Lil Wayne.
Delisa: That is definitely Little Wayne.
Fear God, yeah.
What was the giveaway?
Speaker 8: The cross thing in the middle of his head, with the ... Yeah, doesn't he have
that in Tha Carter V album?
Speaker 7: What is that?
Speaker 9: 21.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: 21, yeah, 21.
Speaker 3: 21, 21, 21, 21.
Speaker 10: It's a knife or it's a dagger?
Speaker 12: What is the cross on your forehead signify?
21 Savage: It's a knife.
Speaker 10: Post Malone?
Speaker 2: Post Malone?
Delisa: How'd you know?
Speaker 10: His bushy ass eyebrows?
Speaker 6: All right, that's Gucci.
Brrr.
Delisa: Read the label on the ice cream cone.
Speaker 6: That's all I had to do.
Speaker 7: I feel like Gucci.
He got some good tattoos.
They definitely represent him with the ice cream an all.
But just the wrong place.
Gucci: The real inspiration behind the tattoo is I guess we think I'm the coldest MC in
the game.
Oh come on, 6ix9ine.
Speaker 11: 6ix9ine.
He the rat of the city, you heard?
He can come home, he ain't coming here.
Speaker 3: They can keep him.
Delisa: What do you think about 6ix9ine's tattoos specifically?
Speaker 11: Personally he has his own way of expressing himself.
He wants 69s all over him, that's him.
Speaker 8: No way I'm getting that, I don't ... I have no idea, I would say The Game.
When in doubt, let the ladies figure it out.
Speaker 15: It's a butterfly on ... Who has a butterfly on their face?
Speaker 7: Oh, Travis Scott.
Delisa: It's Lil Uzi Vert.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Delisa: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't know who that is.
Lil Skies?
Speaker 10: RIP Lil Peep.
Speaker 6: I like the tats though, that's nice.
He looks pretty.
Speaker 3: A teddy bear?
Is that Lil Peep?
Speaker 6: Pink hair, teddy bear.
I don't know.
Nicki Minaj?
Speaker 9: Cuban Doll?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to say Rico Nasty because it looks like a female.
Speaker 11: Imma go with Kash Doll.
Summer Walker.
I ain't even know she had tattoos I'm not gon hold you.
Speaker 6: She can pull off the tats on her face.
You know what, she the only person I know that could do that.
Speaker 5: That's Kehlani.
Speaker 4: That's my type.
Speaker 8: That is Kehlani.
Speaker 15: Definitely Kehlani.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely Kehlani.
Speaker 15: Definitely.
Delisa: Okay, how'd y'all know?
Speaker 8: Her eyes, the gauges, my woman crush.
Speaker 4: Girls with big foreheads is always cute and, she cute.
Delisa: You can't even see her forehead in this picture.
Speaker 6: I'm a huge Kehlani fan, the paper plane, definitely knew it.
Speaker 10: That's a dead president on the face?
Speaker 6: I don't know who the hell put that on their face.
Who is that?
Paul Wall?
Speaker 3: What's this guys name?
Speaker 11: Blueface.
Delisa: Correct.
Trust your gut, Blueface is correct.
You was over here talking about Machine Gun Kelly.
Speaker 6: I should have guessed that, yep.
He would do some shit like that.
Speaker 4: Whoever that is look dirty.
Speaker 16: If I'm not mistaken, I think that's Loni Love.
Speaker 5: It's def Loni Love.
Speaker 8: Lil Pump.
Speaker 4: Lil Pump.
Speaker 8: The only one in the game with those eyebrows.
Lil Pump, got all that money, get your eyebrows done please.
Speaker 5: This nigga is a genius.
No pun intended.
Speaker 10: Damn, give me a hint.
Speaker 7: I'm going to just take a guess, is that like Trippie Redd?
Speaker 10: Smokepurpp?
Delisa: Ski Mask the Slump God.
Speaker 10: Like this new generation shit, I can't.
Speaker 5: I think we did great.
We the best group, fuck Destiny's Child, and I'm off this.
Speaker 3: In New York City 65 is passing.
Speaker 11: Exactly.
Speaker 3: That's graduating.
Speaker 5: I feel like tattoos boost your career.
You can get a tattoo on your face and become a global sensation.
Speaker 7: I feel like if you want to get a face tattoo that's your business.
You know as long as it looks good, it's nothing stupid like fucking 6ix 9ine.
Delisa: Do you think that face tattoos are attractive?
Speaker 6: Depends who it is.
If you ugly, you still ugly with face tattoos.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 8: You know who got some hard ass face tattoos but is a little excessive, Blueface.
I mean a little cliché, but pretty dope, it's nice.
Speaker 3: As long as you plan to work for yourself for the rest of your life.
Delisa: Who's overdoing it?
Is there one person where you're like, "Okay enough is enough?"
Speaker 10: Lil Xan, right off the top he's overdoing it.
With everything.
Speaker 2: My only hope is that the tattoo removal, I hope that it works good because
they going to need it.
Delisa: Well it looks like these tats have left a mark on more than just these rappers' faces.
I'm Delisa with Genius News bringing you the meaning and the knowledge behind the music.