Giorgis: Points docked entirely for not spelling it “ting.” 19. “Everything Happens for a Reason Sweet Thing” As it stands now, though, this is a woefully boring tattoo. If it turns out this tattoo is how Drake persuaded Skepta to drop the best verse on More Life, we’ll have to adjust these rankings. Gruttadaro: The first entry in Drake’s Tattoo Exchange Program™, Drizzy traded a tat of BBK - short for “Boy Better Know,” the English grime collective headed by Skepta - on the front of his left shoulder for an OVO owl on Skepta’s body. Just get a family-reunion shirt like the rest of us, dweeb. Would you like to be next? No, I would not, and I would never like to look at these again either. They stare at the viewer as though to warn of a haunting happening within the body of their host: Sure, we’re smiling, but that’s only because we’ve succeeded in taking over this vessel. The tattoos of his uncle and grandmother, following a trend in Drake’s permanent portraiture, look only vaguely like the people they are meant to represent. Hannah Giorgis : I’m sure Drake loves his family and I’m happy for him. Pretty clever, huh? Yet all the double meanings in the world can’t make a jack-o’-lantern tattoo cool. BUT ALSO: “Pumpkin” in Spanish is “calabaza,” a word that sounds very much like Calabasas, the affluent California town where Drake posts. Halloween is a holiday that occurs annually in October and is celebrated by the carving of pumpkins. Gruttadaro: Allow me to blow your freaking mind about this gourd-related ink: Drake was born in October and is also the proprietor of a music label called October’s Very Own. Gruttadaro: One last thought about this tattoo: Why is it askew like this?! It’s like three degrees slanted, which, from a design standpoint, is extremely aggravating. It looks exactly like one of those temporary tattoos you’d get out of a bubblegum machine for 25 cents when you were 5 years old. That’s a nice little display of camaraderie - my friends and I certainly do not do this sort of thing, and now I wish we did - but no tale of friendship or brand partnership is going to erase that flaming skull. Around the same time Drake premiered Popcaan’s song “Unruly” on OVO Sound in November 2016, he got this tatted on his left bicep, while Popcaan got the OVO owl on his left forearm. “OK, so is this tattoo an homage to Nic Cage’s 2007 film Ghost Rider?” you may be asking - to which I’d say, “No, but I do not blame you for thinking that!” It’s actually part of a Tattoo Exchange Program™ Drake has with dancehall artist/Unruly label ambassador, Popcaan. Whereas normal people might buy a T-shirt from an artist they support, Drake gets symbols of the ones he likes permanently drawn on his body. The “Unruly” Flaming SkullĪndrew Gruttadaro : Almost as common as the Drake cosign verse is the Drake cosign tat. Here, then, is two Ringer staffers’ very thorough ranking of Drake’s tattoos in a hierarchy of importance and aesthetic value: 25. With ‘More Life,’ Drake Is Finally Making Sense of His Success Also, it’s just really fun to try to suss out why Drake did this to his back. They’re the physical manifestation of the many forms and eras of Drake - the forlorn dweeb, the petty subtweeter, the unrepentant champion, the victim of “Needed Me” - revealing more about Aubrey than “Controlla” ever could. It’s still extremely important that we talk about the stickers on that Trapper Keeper, though.
Drake’s disparate interests are all incongruously slapped onto one palette - his body looks like the Trapper Keeper of a 10-year-old. A pretty, well-designed hibiscus flower is located just centimeters away from a poor rendering of Drake’s dad’s mugshot, the “No Long Talk” into “Passionfruit” of tattoo design. Some seem impetuous, others are far too in service of meme culture, and though almost all of them (admirably) have layers of meaning, they’re all over the place in terms of style. The rapper’s corporeal art collection - a total of 25 works - suffers from many of the foibles that afflict Drake himself. It’s the kind of tattoo that might make anyone who sees it feel embarrassed by association.Īnd it’s not even Drake’s worst tattoo.
#Music staff songbird tattoo free#
Feel free to mansplain to me how the ink is a reference to the days before Drake was Champagne Papi, when he was rapping about last slices of pizza and his Twitter handle was None of that historical context will change the fact that Aubrey Graham has a bottle of notoriously bad cologne - pop culture’s go-to scent for parodying masculinity - imprinted and awkwardly placed where his left bicep and collarbone meet.
Drake now has a bottle of Drakkar Noir tattooed on his body.
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