The mood is still decidedly somber - both amongst the patrons and the employees - as Ceaser, the majordomo of the Black Ink enterprise, saunters in.
Nipsey Hussle custom tattoos, provided by Black Ink, and drawn by hand by And if they really want it, then I tell them to come back the next day, and if they still want it, then they can get it.”īy “it,” of course, Jems is referring to this particular Nipsey Hussle tattoo - and many others inspired by Hussle’s career that Black Ink is offering for free, as a way for the community to come together and remember the late 33-year-old rapper and entrepreneur. “They gotta look at this, and they gotta really want it. “This is something they have to think about before they get it,” he tells HipHopDX. Each line on his face is stippled, each hair on his beard is in place - a vision frozen in time, gunned down in his prime by someone he once called a friend. Jems, one of the tattoo artists on-staff, is fully focused on his task at hand: drawing a facial portrait of the late Nipsey Hussle with laser-like precision.
Ordinarily, this would be a day just like any other in this notorious tattoo shop.īut this isn’t just another ordinary of the Harlem division of “Black Ink” draws a Nipsey Hussle tattoo. The manager of the Harlem store, Feezi, is in a tizzy, scuffling and scrounging to get paperwork lined up, herding the impatient customers to their seats, fluttering around the place and barking orders at the tattoo artists on staff on this rather temperate Saturday afternoon. This isn’t something that’s unusual, on its own - the popularity of the hit VH1 show, Black Ink Crew, and all its ancillary spin-offs have put the chain of tattoo shops in a constant state of industry. The line to get to the Black Ink shop on 125th Street in Harlem, New York, stretches around the block.
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