"I'm gonna get it tattooed on my knee, and then we all got it tattooed on our knee." The Kid LAROI breaks down all of his tattoos. From his "mum" tattoo to a stick-figure cowboy poked by Post Malone, the Australian singer-songwriter shares the stories behind his ink.The Kid Laroi's debut album THE FIRST TIME is out 11/10Director: Arielle NeblettDirector of Photography: Jack BelisleEditor: Phil CeconiTalent: Kid LaroiProducer: Jean-Luc LunkunkuLine Producer: Jen SantosAssociate Producer: Rafael VasquezProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Tania JonesTalent Booker: Jenna CaldwellCamera Operator: Brittany BergerSound Mixer: Michael GugginoProduction Assistant: Lyla Neely; Sonia ButtPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00 - Hi GQ, I'm the Kid Leroy and this is my tattoo tour.
00:03 (upbeat music)
00:06 Just turned 18 when I got this tattoo.
00:11 This right here is my homie, Saik, who passed away
00:15 and I always wanted the first one to be something
00:18 that was meaningful, not something that I'm gonna regret
00:21 after a couple months.
00:23 I could never regret getting him tattooed on me,
00:25 so it was actually the least painful tattoo I have on me.
00:29 I couldn't believe that I was getting a tattoo
00:31 'cause the anticipation of getting one,
00:33 everyone was like, dude, they thought so much
00:35 it sucks getting one and I remember getting this
00:37 and being like, are you guys doing it yet?
00:39 And they were like, it's already in motion.
00:41 Then we have a mom tattoo.
00:43 This is like a sailor style tattoo.
00:46 Everyone always points out that it's M-U-M instead of M-O-M
00:49 'cause usually the classic tat is M-O-M,
00:52 but I'm Australian so I just put the U.
00:55 I didn't think anything of it,
00:56 but everybody always points it out
00:57 and laughs at me for it.
01:00 This is an alien giving a chocolate chip cookie
01:04 back to its craft.
01:06 It's UFO and the meaning behind this is 'cause me
01:09 and my family have always been super into aliens
01:11 and conspiracies and stuff like that.
01:14 An alien comes down to Earth and it's just like,
01:17 this place is terrible, this place sucks,
01:19 but we did find this one thing,
01:22 it's called a chocolate chip cookie and it is incredible,
01:24 so here it is.
01:25 This is a girl holding onto a spider
01:28 and this one actually is the only one on my whole arm
01:30 that just has no meaning, it was a cool picture.
01:32 My ex-girlfriend found, sent it to me
01:35 and I was just like, this is cool,
01:37 I wanna get tattooed on my hand
01:38 and I just got it tattooed on my hand.
01:40 This one right here, it's like a world
01:43 and symbolic for my homie Juice,
01:45 just 'cause Juice World 'cause it was right after
01:48 I got my boy, Sake, and I was trying to figure out
01:51 a cool way 'cause obviously I didn't necessarily
01:54 wanna fill out my body with a bunch of portraits
01:56 of my homie, so I was like, what's a cool little way
02:00 that is something that just for me that I can know,
02:03 okay, I have that with me and that was the most painful
02:06 tattoo, hands down still to this day.
02:08 I've had the hand, I've had knees,
02:09 I've had my ribs, everything and that is by far
02:13 the most painful tattoo of all time.
02:16 I have this one right here, it's a funny story,
02:18 it's one of my proudest stories maybe.
02:20 It's a stick figure cowboy that has angel wings
02:24 and is wearing clogs and it was drawn on me by Post Malone.
02:29 It wasn't our first time ever meeting,
02:31 but it was our first time I think probably hanging out
02:34 and we had this idea of tattooing each other
02:37 and he's actually a pretty good tattoo artist.
02:39 It was all freestyle just off the dome,
02:41 he was just coming up with this as he went.
02:43 He was just like, all right, I'm gonna draw a stick figure
02:45 and now he's gonna have clogs and we're gonna put
02:48 a cowboy hat on him and so it ended up with this.
02:50 Because I was really proud of it,
02:51 Post was a very big inspiration for me.
02:53 I took it upon myself one night, I was like,
02:55 yo, can you also just point an arrow to this
02:58 and just say Post Malone did this?
03:00 'Cause I just thought it was like,
03:01 I just wanted that to be a memory for me.
03:05 I tattooed him too, but it wasn't as flattering as this one.
03:09 He was like, yo, hurry up, I need to go to the bathroom.
03:11 And I was like, okay, fuck, I don't know what to do.
03:13 So I just tattooed on his kneecap like a sad face
03:16 and then with the woods, I have to shit underneath
03:20 because he needed to shit, I guess.
03:23 My homie, Callie, drew this.
03:27 He drew this on a piece of paper
03:29 for my End of the World Tour merch.
03:31 The tour was my first ever tour and I was just like,
03:33 you know what, fuck it.
03:35 I'm gonna get it tattooed on my knee
03:36 and then we all got it tattooed on our knee.
03:38 Central City just tattooed this one on me
03:40 when we shot the music video for the song that just came out.
03:43 This one right here, I just wanted to get a tattoo
03:45 right here for some reason, I just thought it'd look cool.
03:47 My homie, Dev, found this.
03:49 It's just like a little thorn thing going on.
03:52 This was just like a random little love heart.
03:54 I got it at like a birthday party
03:56 but I think I just wanted to feel
03:57 how it would feel to get a rib tattoo.
04:00 I don't really know why I decided to get that,
04:02 but it's there.
04:03 And then this one right here on my ribs is really cool.
04:06 This is like a little kitten holding a mushroom.
04:09 To make a long story short,
04:11 all of us who were on the Europe tour,
04:12 the first Europe tour, got kitten tattoos
04:15 and holding different things.
04:17 So like, my kitten's holding a mushroom.
04:19 Glaive got a kitten that was holding a piece of clothing
04:22 because he lost all of his clothes.
04:25 My homie TJ got two kittens playing ping pong
04:28 and that was 'cause I was wiping him in ping pong
04:32 that whole tour, so.
04:34 This is my homie, Callie, actually drew this.
04:37 It's just the word towers.
04:38 Just reminds me of home.
04:39 What's next?
04:40 Dude, probably better get out of here, go get some food.
04:42 Oh!
04:44 (laughing)
04:46 Oh dude, I'm fried.
04:47 My next tattoo, I have no fucking clue.
04:50 This was Kid LBROI.
04:52 Thank you for tuning in.
04:53 Please check out my album.
04:55 Bye.
04:55 you