Some artists save their list of influences for bio footnotes or interview answers, but Drake is evidently not one of those artists. For the last few years, Drake has been adorning his body with images and symbols that span his musical obsessions — from Sade and Aaliyah to the praying hands emoji, which played a ‘hand’ in the promotion of his If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late mixtape. He has around 25 or 26 (that we know about).
The 6 God’s latest tattoo pays homage to one of the most important people in his career — Young Money head honcho Lil Wayne.
Although a few gossip sites speculated that Drake had a Wayne tattoo back in 2013, an actual likeness of Lil Wayne (as he appeared in a photograph by Mark Seliger for Rolling Stone) was spotted on Drake’s arm in a recent Instagram image.
Drake has a history of getting buddy tattoos with industry friends, collaborators and lovers. He and one-time girlfriend Rihanna apparently got matching shark tattoos, and grime rapper Skepta got a tattoo of the OVO logo, while Drake got one of Skepta’s logo.
It remains to be seen whether this new tattoo is a similar situation.
Will Dow Hokoana, who is responsible for close to 300 of Wayne’s tattoos, be adding a Drizzy tattoo to his body anytime soon? Will it be an image from a Drake Rolling Stone photo shoot for ultimate meta-ness?
Oh good. I was hoping there would be three totally pointless stories about Aubrey on here today
on his right buttcheek, Drizzy has a tat of “Lil” Lil Wayne who’s bulge is not that lil
Wow. Dude has been pretending to get bitches preggo to throw offbtge gay scent. Then he goes and does this. All that fake lawsuit money and cash his label gave strippers and porn stars flushed away.
not gay. at all.
HipHopDX keeps deleting my comments. They don’t like free speech, nor do they like that Drizzy Drake is the future. They don’t like that he’s been running the game, changing the culture and making waves for a while and won’t stop anytime soon. It’s an OVO invasion. Don’t sleep.
You sure you not a Drake stan? And DX does love Drake, they post about him frequently.
Gay. I gotta find a new hiphop site yo… this cant be life.
A. Wayne tattoo is gay af but b. Drake gets little tattoos here and there like a white bitch
SUSPECT !!!! Next calling yourself ^6 God why not just DEVIL who you fooling ?
Well that’s fairy-ish.
Oh but Meek taking L’s……yeah right, ovo stand come getcha boy
U never see me with a tattoo of another man//not even me daddy//not in shattas plan. -busy signal
I like d way y’all acting like drake doesn’t owe a whole lot to Wayne…. a lotta rappers have tu PAC tatted on…. dey gay too?? Y’all clowns
that some gay ass shit right there.