(PAWG Related) Who was the most tatted up famous black person before 1995/1996?

[boskey]

1995 -1996 was definitely the turning point for black people and tattoos. Pac and Dennis Rodman were both super famous and got the trend started and young Iverson was on the come up about to take it to the next level and make it part of the "uniform" in black youth culture. People obviously had tattoos but usually it was just one or two. Before the mid 90's the only black people their whole body covered were dudes probably doing 20+ years in prison...

Crazy how fast it blew up. This is what Rodman looked like in '94

Edit: No PAWGs involved but the thread was flopping

 

[I love Latina women]

Devante swing in 93’

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Before I entered this thread the first person that popped in my mind was Rodman...and like you said he wasn't even tatted like that....maybe he was the start

 

[boskey]

Devante swing in 93’

Great answer

Looks like the bait worked

 

[I love Latina women]

Great answer

Looks like the bait worked

I actually saw the thread before you changed the title


I guess it’s just ironic you changed the title and I came in the thread after the fact

 

[Taadow]

First thought was Mr.T



…but neg pending for no PAWG

 

[Collateral]

Weren’t the old heads on the west coast tatted up with them lil ass Tupac/Drake tattoos that I can’t stand or did that come later?

 

[boskey]

Devante Swing for reference pause

 

[boskey]

Weren’t the old heads on the west coast tatted up with them lil ass Tupac/Drake tattoos that I can’t stand or did that come later?

West Coast heads might know. Wouldn’t surprise me with the gang culture as well as Mexican influence. Bikers too

 

[GreenGhxst]

Devante Swing for reference pause

Awful tattoos, long arm tattoos look horrible on skeleton brehs

 

[Biscayne]

Dennis Rodman, Tupac, and devante swing. Obviously. But I remember coming up a kid in the 90s. If you had a tattoo you were either some ex military badass(like a marine) or you were a street person(og, gang member, drug dealer, biker, etc) those were the only options. So if I saw you with a tattoo when I was 6 I was like

Nowadays even soccer moms have tattoos.

 

[boskey]

Pac was already Tatted Up by 93...

Ok damn I thought he got those a little later. He definitely was the trendsetter

 

[L&HH]

Seen this older likely late 40’s black woman with a skeleton tattoo from her fingers to elbow. Remove the tattoo and she looked like your average middle age working professional black woman with a government job. The tattoo looked kind of fresh too like she got it within the last few years. This was a few days ago and just thought it was odd/interesting.

 

[010101]

yeah it switched fast

we are used to it & children even more so

my mother still comments how tattoos make folks look dirty every time she sees somebody yatted up ha

it went from a fringe thing to being generic

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[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Devante Swing for reference pause

Pac was already Tatted Up by 93...

My first thought was Lenny Kravitz