[slap]
- Now we all edit that, when I removed the hand,
let it say GQ or [beeping] if you see what I'm saying?
That should be the intro to the video.
So when I go like this it say GQ and just pop out.
That's what we call [beeping]
That'd be code and say I want credit for that too.
Like it be like Iman thought of this.
I will type it up right there at the top.
Iman thought of this GQ.
What's going on GQ, am Iman
and today I'ma tell you the stories of my tattoos.
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With my tattoos the real story and inspiration behind
it is to make the dream world meet the money.
I knew that I wanted the worlds to come together in the end,
which is why you'll see this smoky, dreamy consistency going
through this side.
Real dreamy stars.
They speak on the concept of reaching for the stars.
You'll see dice and cards on the flash.
You'll see the dice on seven just to let you know
to always take your chances and better yourself.
I got the word dream right here.
Just, you know, a word that I love to look at
on a day to day.
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Black Jesus walking through snakes.
Just to remind myself that even in your purest form,
you still going to have to walk through some evil shit.
I got the 290 sign just, you know, the highway going
to pick my parents up from a work.
Cartoon network, all that Batman.
Batman was actually a cover up for, yeah.
Something that, you know, when you were a kid
and you want to just rap something, yeah.
Covered that all up.
88 love now blood.
Loving basketball 90's, me and my best friend
Alex Montgomery, played at Georgia Tech on the girls team.
We was the best players there and we had linked up
both being from out of town.
So, yeah, we ended up getting a matching tat just
with all the time we spent together.
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My oldest tattoo is the basketball.
I think like all basketball players got that.
It's corny, but it's got a pretty good finish on it.
The key to success, I just happen to love it.
Always try to live by the principle that I was playing ball
for the love and never just for money.
I got that basketball at 16 well my mom took me
and my brother came too.
I believe my brother and my mom sketched it out for me.
I came up with the design though.
I knew I just wanted the basketball.
I just knew my mom could make a cooler basketball
that most people would draw.
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This one might be one of my favorites.
I made it facing me, but it is a Phoenix rising
from the ashes.
One man that you see, they deem King but you also see other
people are in the hunt for that same power.
Somebody has already fell from that power and you see
nameless, faceless people fighting, some bickering
and some questioning, some just submitting
to seeing somebody else in power.
I call it power in the masses and it's just to speak
on the strength of numbers and give you that constant
reminder that even if you make it to that top and your own
that platform, even if you rise again, it's never no time
to be comfortable in any sort of sport or form of life.
Oh, that's my sad eye emoji, I don't know.
[laughing]
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Left arm, the money arm.
I put a money tree at the top to represent, cash rules
everything around me.
Money don't grow on trees, but flipping the concept
to remind yourself to make it grow on trees
for the next generation.
Shumpert family crest right here.
My auntie Carolyn was really proud to be a Shumpert
and she used to like make me wear it with a badge of honor.
Rest in peace to her, I lost her to pancreatic cancer,
but she always made me feel proud of my last name.
And you know, she spoke highly on names.
She meant, she felt like names and presentation of a name
meant a lot so I held on to it so much that I ended up
searching for the Shumpert family crest, which I don't even
[beeping] know if it's correct
but I went and got it cause it was on Google
and they said it.
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Yeah, put the staff there, the health staff there just
to bank on something good happening when my aunt
was in the hospital.
Money consistently falling from that tree and you'll see
the tattoo of me kissing my mother, tattoo of me looking
at my father in the mirror and it's to say mama's boy,
daddy's reflection.
I always want it to be like my dad's junior.
I used to be like jealous of my brother Parker.
I used to like run down on the man and like try
and playing basketball every day.
Like going in cause I really wanted to be like,
"Oh this junior on some weird," [beep] that's something
that like little boys go through.
They all want to be like dad's favorite type [beep].
You get that approval, that stand, that man approval.
Green line train system in between these five stops
there's a lot of my life.
You can find out a lot about me by going through
them five stops.
You see red, that's my stop, my heart fall.
A green eye, keep your eye on that money.
You know what I'm saying?
That'll give you the size, your North star.
Guns and roses.
Empty bottles and lick swishes.
Respect over liking ness.
Yeah, these are all ideas that I felt like were behind money
and my desire to get to making these two worlds
make sense together.
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The one right here on my chest holds a lot of value to me.
I'm my brother's keeper.
Me and my brothers we's planing for all of us to get it,
but I believe just me and my little,
my youngest brother got it.
Y'all gotta go get yours to REM Parker.
I'm one of four boys that my momma had.
I got my auntie Carolyn and my grandmamma Lynnie.
Here you'll see 839, growing up I lived on 839 North Harvey.
He was like, "Man, and they came in there and dude just get,
he got out the car and he smacked it [beep] out to dude."
We were like, man, that don't happen in 839.
I'm telling you now that don't go down like that in 839.
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I got a boom box, my heart beat with music.
Like I feel like my whole life moves at the tempo of a song.
The nineties heads, my brother trying to embody
what basketball meant to us.
And the reminder of the high top was just a way
to put myself to make me, to trick myself into thinking,
man, I'm 21 and 94, I'ma wear short shorts, I have
a high top and I'm not gon fit in, but if you put
me in 94, I looked like I fit in.
I think that'd be cool.
So that's what the idea behind that was and it became
a cool little stamp that people got accustomed to.
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This is like, a obvious favorite for me.
I see my wife as Nefertiti.
You see my daughter as a chair and asked me and my wife
had kids, I left it open ended to start bringing kids
to hang off of each other as well as my wife.
Then I got one more.
It looks like it says believe, but it really says conceded,
but it says it on the flip.
So the only way you can read it is if it's in a mirror.
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My ribs killed me, man.
I almost, that's the first time I almost gave up
on the tattoo, I was going to just say, you know what,
I don't care what it looks like. I'm done.
I'm cool.
That and this.
Ooh!
Now I can re feel this right now.
That's how bad that it.
Other than that, I got my birthdate on the top of my back
and the birthdate being on there is,
I wanted it to look like a movie because it's going
to end up being not only my favorite, influences,
but some of the pillars in my family that I've lost.
I want to take up my back.
I also want a lot of accolades and things that I'm proud
of in my life to all appear mural style under my birthdate.
So that when you finally see the finished product,
when I turn, I don't know, 40, 45 whatever,
when it's finally finished, it'll really tell my story
and look like a movie that came out June 26 1990.
That was the thinking behind it.
So that's all my tattoos.
Thank you.
Oh my God!
How are we going to do this guys?
All right, so I got this one and it actually says
just because, because we were at the tattoo shop
for piercings, Junie was drawing and Junie handed us a paper
and said, "Y'all should get this."
And the paper though scribbled looked a lot like it...
She was trying to write, Iman.
Like, she would just try to write her name,
but it had like Iman but it has like a crown
and then like some scribbles and then she scribbled through
it and I was like, now no, I know that I'm her dad and
but I'm like if you told me that Basque drew this
and he made it for me.
I'll be like, Oh that's so cool.
It says Iman and then it's scribbled out like
a little kid did it.
I want the close up in slow mode to that.
[laughing]
I'm running out of room but I do plan to finish my hands up.
And I'm thinking about a neck tattoo.
So if you guys stumble across my social handles, you know,
on any platform, tell me if I should get this neck tattoo
cause I'm thinking about it.
Tell me, does it hurt?
Is it just a bad business move?
Like have y'all gotten a job out of this?
Cause I thought the hoop and I'm kind of thinking about
getting a job, not gon to lie.
So y'all just give me something, in the comments section
or the DM section, whatever.
Should I get that or should it be on this side with
the same size as the nose ring?
Look, look.
Look, look, look.
Look at me.
Look at me [beep] look.
Well, guys, that's all my tattoos.
Thank you.
I'm forgetting a second to get into norm, fire.
Fire.
Lame
[laughing]
Miss shot too.