Like let's say your boy knows a dope tattoo artist and you just get an apprenticeship under him. This is one of the things I used to hate back in the day coming up in a tattoo shop. What privileges do you think that white tattoo artists have coming up in the industry and building their reputations that aren’t afforded to black artists? Because when you get to these conventions, everybody loves each other.
Thank God for social media, because honestly some of the nicest guys that don't show their faces on Instagram have me like ‘you’re a black guy or you’re Mexican, dude, what's up?’ But it's not even about race or anything, I just felt like it’s time for a change. If the industry's used to the predominantly white industry where most of the people who are white are the nice ones then people are used to that. That's not to say that the industry is messed up, that's just how it is. I believe as a black tattooer you have to be three times nicer than somebody who’s white, just to get notoriety.
If you’re used it being a certain way for so long, then you're not going to want anything to change.ĭo you believe that there's a difference in the struggle for black artists and other ethnic minorities in tattooing? People are just scared of change, no matter who you are, what color you are, what age you are, what gender you are. Some people can get certain things mixed up and think that it might be a race thing. I just think that certain people are just used to it being the same way. I think the industry is just stuck in it’s old ways. It went from just us being there to a whole bunch of people in there to basically a whole row.ĭo you think that the industry at large discriminates against black artists? Especially at tattoo conventions, because I used to go there back in the day I used see nobody. I feel like a lot of black artists are really starting to see that. If we could do it and we didn't have as many skills as y'all at that time. But that's just the progression and now I think that Black Ink Crew gives other black artists the courage to step out there. I look at some of the stuff I used to tattoo and I'm like God, I was horrible. Because people don't understand, when we first started this, I must have been tattooing for like five years. It actually the progression of basically the black industry, like how we started just fooling around with it and trying to get somewhere with it to the point of actually taking it seriously as a business. And with the whole Black Ink movement is shows more of a movement than just the art. With the representation of Black Ink Crew as a show, it’s kind of mixed because we show everything on the tattoo shop, not just the tattoo work. And how do you think that the representation of black artist has changed with Black Ink Crew?
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