My Dear Friends of Inked And then it just hit me like bro you gotta tattoo your whole neck like this little trying to appease your mom stuff you got going on by like not getting too many tattoos like you’re actually [__] up your vision and I feel like just as a human I feel like you got to live from your purest Vision no matter who’s telling you what I know I love my.
Mom right but I can’t love someone completely if I can’t be completely myself so if you can’t be a hundred percent of yourself you could never give somebody else a hundred percent so it just hit me like I’d rather you be mad at me for this or me be able to be a hundred percent of myself so I could share that love with you.
Because if not I’m gonna have this Grudge this chip on my shoulder that taints you know our relationship my name is Millie’s I’m an artist from Massachusetts Cambridge Massachusetts specifically super unique and diverse uh the most languages spoken in any public school in America I got the mix with.
Like every race and every ethnicity and anyone you could think of by the age of you know six seven eight nine so I think my World Views were like always different then somebody maybe who didn’t come from that type of environment I lived with my mother and my father until about.
Six years old seven years old and then they split up and I ended up living with my mother and I would see my father on the weekends there weren’t a lot of rules at my father’s house his house was like a artistic Hub it was just a cool artistic environment I swear I really um kind of started to harness my craft too as a.
Young one because I could listen to any type of music loud it was just a lot of artists around me you know and then my mother’s neighborhood was more like the streets and then I go back to my mother’s and it’ll be a little stricter environment but the neighborhood.
Had more to offer you know as far as extra curricular activities and stuff like that I loved my mother’s neighborhood like where we were at like that’s where that’s where the cool kids were at that’s where it was going down at yeah on my brother.
I forget if it was the first one I saw but definitely the first one that stuck in my mind he had the Silver Surfer tattooed on like going across his body super crazy and I’m like five looking at him like oh my God I thought it was the coolest bit ever that was my role model it’s actually the brother that looks the most like me too.
So you know I definitely um was inspired very young and I always tattooed I always thought tattoos were the right thing to do like I never I don’t know if other people have different thoughts about them or like if they if they’re on the fence but I always were like oh that’s the right thing to do of course I got my first tattoo at 12 or 13. but.
It was like an Indian Ink Tattoo I got it in the park this girl Marilyn gave it to me she was just going she put the ink in the thing with the pen pin whatever it was poke my hand hardest and I walked I walked around the corner I was trying to go back to my mom’s.
House I threw up in the bushes I was like super faint off it I don’t know did it hit like a nerve or something once the pain wore off like once that feeling of throwing up in the bushes and being nauseous and everything once that wore off I was fine you know like and I loved it and I felt like super I felt super tattooed even though it was just this.
But then my my second real tattoo my friend died um when he was 16 I was yeah no no no he was probably 15. and then I ended up getting a rest in peace tattoo for him like later on when I turned 15 because I was a couple years younger than him and then it just progressed from there.
My mother doesn’t like tattoos to this day she stood on her square and never budged no matter what every time I got a new tattoo it was like oh my God it was up until the age when I started just really making it in music and showing like look the more tattoos I’m getting the more money I’ll get all.
Of that like it’s a correlation here uh and she realized I’m not like I told her I’m grown now I’m never gonna work a regular job like ever so yeah she really was holding on man I got my neck I remember I got the cross on my neck I didn’t really like it at first because.
I was just I don’t know I was surprised it was just I was like what the [__] did I do to myself and I kind of shared those sentiments with her and her first reaction she got on Google I was like well you could get a laser removed I set it up for you all that she was on it first day I got it I ended up loving it once I like you know.
I feel the rest of my neck out but um yeah it was almost like a traumatic experience having to tell my mom I got a new tattoo she she slowed my process up for sure which I’m glad because like I might have got I might have got like you know terrible tattoos when I was younger like I because it took me a while I never.
Wanted to get my my neck done because I’m like damn like my mother’s gonna kill me so I paced it but if I didn’t like if she just gave me free reins to go get tattoos I would have probably got a bunch of bad tattoos you know what I mean so luckily I got to grow a little bit and then I went and got fully.
Blasted I started with my arms a little on my chest like the way you can’t see you know what I mean and then um yeah and then I I went tattooed by tattoo by tattoo and then it got to the point where I stopped calling her after I get tattoos like all right I’m already.
I’m blasted she doesn’t care now like I could get a tattoo anywhere as long as it’s not the face if I go to the face again so it should get mad his certain tattoos that I got where I’m like I can’t believe I lived my life without this tattoo it’s incredible to me that I lived my life without this tattoo and then I kept.
Going and then I went like a little overboard I feel like and now I chill like the way that I’ve gotten tattoos correlates with my life as far as like I never like skip steps you know people just go and get this [__] at once I’m always the person who I gotta take each stair I didn’t even skip stairs you know what I mean the elevator I wouldn’t.
Stare stare stairs there and that’s kind of how I did with with my head tattoo like I started with like a rose behind here then I did it for symmetry I’m all I’m also like OCD so I need things in symmetry so I got another Rose here and then I did I forget what I did next but it went piece by piece by piece and then I put the the.
Gold leaves I put the Olympic crown on myself and then it was just like this piece and then I blasted that and then I still blasted something in the front so I went peace peace peace peace peace until it you know became something but that’s like that symbolizes you know like my life’s progression too that’s how my life moves man piece by piece by.
Piece by piece until until it’s all cookies it does yeah but that’s like you know um it takes 10 years to be an overnight success it’s like it always looks like it’s cohesive like it’s it was all done at once you know people would say oh you’re super ink but I’ll be like no I’m not even blasted like it’s a level there’s like a level.
To blast it when someone’s blasted I wanted to reach blasted level now I feel like I’m blasted but there’s also tattoo people out there that’ll probably be like you’re not really blasted so for a while I could still let’s say I I uh put on gloves in the shot I could still like look straight and someone couldn’t technically tell if I’m if I.
Have tattoos now no matter like what angle you look at me from you could tell I got some tattoos and I feel like that’s when you’re when you’re lasted forever did you change anything about the journey you’ve had no.
I would say I would have found them numbing cream sooner because I only found it like really recently even when when I tried before like I said I don’t want to download products but I had something that only worked for like 20 minutes but so I went through all the pain I had to go through all the pain.
I had tattoos all of that like um but yeah a few of them God like this on the back of my neck oh my God I almost fell out that’s why I tell people like yo you don’t even you’re not you gotta earn the right to get up to some numbing cream you know what I mean you gotta earn that like people go into that you shouldn’t.
Even get tattooed because you got to go through that to you know one of the best feelings about getting tattooed is walking out after it’s over like oh I did that but not I wouldn’t change nothing on the journey
The first tattoo Boston-based rapper Millyz remembers seeing was an enormous Silver Surfer tattooed on his brother’s ribs. From that moment on he knew that he was going to be fully blasted eventually. We spoke with Millyz about the unique environment he grew up in, how his mom reacts to his tattoos and much more.
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