"Tattoos really used to be like therapy to me." GloRilla breaks down her tattoos. From a red gorilla on her chest to the hand tattoo that made her pass out, the Memphis rapper shares the stories behind her ink.
Director: Arielle Neblett
Director of Photography: Zach Eisen
Editor: Phil Ceconi
Associate Producer: Chris Sechler
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Coordinator: Jamal Colvin
Talent Booker: Dana Mathews; Meredith Judkins
Camera Operator: Mar
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Ziyne Abdo; Zayna Allen
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Special Thanks: Millennial Nails
Director: Arielle Neblett
Director of Photography: Zach Eisen
Editor: Phil Ceconi
Associate Producer: Chris Sechler
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Production Coordinator: Jamal Colvin
Talent Booker: Dana Mathews; Meredith Judkins
Camera Operator: Mar
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Ziyne Abdo; Zayna Allen
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Special Thanks: Millennial Nails
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LifestyleTranscript
00:00 I don't know, like I was taking it, but I just passed out.
00:04 My first tattoo is underneath this one.
00:11 I had got it in high school.
00:12 12th grade, it had said big glow with a crown,
00:15 but it was ugly.
00:17 He ain't do it right, so I got it covered up.
00:19 He had the L and the O so far from the other G,
00:22 like it was B-I-G-G, then like L-O was pushed over,
00:26 so like it looked like it said big six.
00:29 He wasn't cute.
00:30 How did I find him?
00:31 I think I made a status on Facebook
00:33 and was like, "Who do tattoos?"
00:35 I think it cost like $20.
00:37 (laughs)
00:38 I covered it with this gorilla face right here.
00:41 This took like five, six hours to do.
00:44 This one of my favorite tattoos though.
00:46 Every time I pose, I be trying to get this done
00:47 in the camera.
00:48 You can kinda, if you look too close enough,
00:51 you can see the other tattoo right here a little bit,
00:54 but people don't never notice it.
00:56 I'm the only one that notice it because I know I had it.
00:58 This is a gorilla.
00:59 I actually love this tattoo.
01:00 People be talking about it,
01:02 like they be saying it's so ugly,
01:03 but this is like one of my favorite tattoos.
01:05 It just was so cute to me.
01:07 Like I love this tattoo.
01:08 I'm never getting it covered up,
01:09 even if they keep talking shit about it.
01:11 That was my first gorilla I got,
01:12 then I got that one.
01:13 I got it red because I like red.
01:15 That's my favorite color.
01:16 Most girls get hearts right here,
01:18 and so I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna get a gorilla right there."
01:21 It's a tie between my most two painful tattoos.
01:24 My hand hurts so bad, oh my God.
01:27 I actually passed out getting this tattoo.
01:29 I got this one last year after I had blew up.
01:31 I was at the dude's house in his apartment.
01:34 I was getting it, he was almost done,
01:36 and like I ain't gonna lie,
01:37 I was smoking and I was drinking.
01:39 Oh, and I had a weight train on,
01:41 and so I had went to sleep.
01:42 I was watching "Bad Girls Club,"
01:44 and out of nowhere, I just felt this like,
01:47 I just felt woozy, and so I'm like,
01:49 "I gotta go to the restroom.
01:50 "I ain't tell nobody what I feel like."
01:51 So I got up, I took two steps,
01:53 and I just fell out with half of a tattoo done
01:55 'cause I don't know.
01:56 Like, I hurt so bad.
01:58 I don't know, like I was taking it,
02:00 but I just passed out.
02:01 This one was like $450.
02:05 Honestly, I thought I was gonna get it done for the free.
02:08 (laughing)
02:09 And then this one right here on my leg,
02:11 I had actually used some numbing cream for this one.
02:14 It's right here on your bone,
02:15 so like you can't numb your bone,
02:17 so it still hurt it.
02:18 And I couldn't walk.
02:19 Like, I was in a wheelchair for a week
02:21 after I got this tattoo.
02:22 This one was the longest
02:23 'cause this the biggest tattoo I got,
02:25 and it's a lot of detail.
02:27 So this was about eight hours,
02:28 probably longer than that.
02:29 Yeah, this somebody saying, "Shh, this a clock."
02:31 Like, I just got this off Google.
02:33 This the bad boy of all my tattoos.
02:35 This one took the longest to heal.
02:37 I got this one before I got this one.
02:39 So before, I got this gorilla and covered that up.
02:42 This took like four to five hours
02:44 'cause it's so much detail, I guess.
02:46 This snake right here, it's so ugly.
02:49 I don't know what told me to get it.
02:50 I just was mad.
02:51 Like, I used to get tattoos when I got mad.
02:53 Like, when I was going through stuff,
02:54 I used to be like, "Okay, I'm finna go get a tattoo
02:56 to like feel some pain."
02:58 You know what I'm saying?
02:59 So like, tattoos really used to be like therapy to me.
03:02 And so I was going through something
03:03 and I just was like, "I'm finna, I want a tattoo."
03:06 So I just went and got this
03:06 and it's like just there for no reason.
03:09 (laughs)
03:10 I wanna get it covered up with something cool.
03:12 They like, stem from right here
03:14 'cause this one gonna get covered up too.
03:16 But oh my God, it hurts so bad.
03:17 Like, this one hurt it so bad.
03:18 This another one that hurt.
03:19 'Cause I feel like any tattoo that's on your bones hurt.
03:22 This right here on my finger,
03:22 this the Leo sign and this the Saint sign
03:26 'cause you know, I'm a Saint.
03:28 I'm not a Saint, but I am a Saint.
03:29 This my mama name, her name Olivia.
03:31 This Glo Gang 'cause you know my name Glo.
03:33 You know, I fuck with Chief Keef.
03:35 I'm a big fan of Chief Keef.
03:36 My friend T, she trying to start doing tattoos right now.
03:39 And so I let her practice on me and do this one right here.
03:41 'Cause you know, I'm a very supportive friend.
03:43 This just say faith.
03:45 This one I got in the trenches.
03:47 Oh my God, the most ghetto-est apartments in Memphis
03:50 you could ever go to.
03:50 It ain't that bad though.
03:52 I just wanted a butterfly on my thigh,
03:54 you know, just some creep shit.
03:55 This one is a matching tattoo.
03:56 It say, "Told you I'll be here forever."
03:59 This a matching tattoo with my best friend Glo.
04:02 You know the Rihanna song?
04:03 ♪ When the sun shine, we in shine forever ♪
04:05 ♪ Told you I'll be here forever ♪
04:08 So she got that part and I got the second part.
04:10 So she got it on her thigh and I got it on my thigh.
04:12 This my daddy name.
04:13 My daddy name Edwin.
04:14 This say Woods, like my daddy.
04:17 Well, he had seven kids at the time, he's eight now.
04:19 Under everybody like I'm the fifth of his kids.
04:22 The same person who did that big Glo tattoo
04:24 and fucked it up, he did this one and fucked this one up too.
04:26 I supposed to have been got this covered up,
04:27 but I ain't never did it.
04:28 This one, it says in Chinese that you gonna be a star.
04:33 A friend in 2020, he had died.
04:35 Anytime he came around me, he used to be like,
04:37 "Yo, music so hard, like you gonna be a superstar."
04:40 And this was back in 2020 when I still had my baby boys.
04:42 And so I had got that tattoo.
04:44 And now that I'm a star, I hope he see it.
04:46 This was a tattoo I got with my cousin.
04:48 It say, "A cousin is a sister destined
04:50 "forgot to give you."
04:51 I don't fuck with my cousin no more.
04:53 So I gotta get this covered up too.
04:55 This says, "Hallelujah" in Arabic.
04:58 This is my birth year, 1999.
05:01 Take a seat.
05:01 And then this one is a AK-47.
05:04 Both of these are red, 'cause I just like the color red.
05:07 This one is my birth year too.
05:09 It's 7/28/1999.
05:11 (upbeat music)
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