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A rapper getting a new tattoo isn’t often massive information, until you’re Lil Baby. The Atlanta entice star has mentioned in varied previous interviews that he would by no means get everlasting ink on his physique, so when he was noticed with what seem like sizeable tattoos on each of his thighs in an Instagram put up, it triggered loads of buzz on social media.

On Monday (July 14), Lil Baby posted a handful of images on his official Instagram with the caption, “Back in that mode.” The images included a number of photographs of him in shorts that exposed the phrases “’90s” and “Baby” tattooed on his proper and left leg, respectively. There’s additionally a big “CBFW” tattoo operating down the aspect of his decrease left leg, which he showed off in an Instagram post on July 4.

Earlier in his profession, Lil Baby was adamant that he wouldn’t get any ink on his physique as a result of he didn’t wish to be perceived as a “thug” when in sure rooms. In a 2020 New York Times interview, he mentioned, “I never saw me being a rapper. A big-dog dope boy, that’s it. Not even just a dope boy. That’s why I ain’t got no tattoos, because I always knew I was going to run my money up, and I was going to have to go sit in front of some people to do something with my money. And I didn’t want them to look at me like a dope boy. I had to keep my appearance straight.”

Fair sufficient. So again in 2023, the “Drip Too Hard” rapper triggered a relative stir when he appeared with some tattoos on his arms. However, these turned out to be phony.

“I truly was in the midst of taking pictures a music video and I had an necessary assembly to go to,” Lil Baby told Business Insider again in 2023. “These faux tattoos do not wash off simply, and I simply went to the assembly and actually did not even notice they had been nonetheless there.”

This previous May, eagle-eyed followers seen what allegedly seems like a small tattoo behind Lil Baby’s proper ear. Now, the obvious tattoos posted earlier this week are not possible to overlook, and up to now, the Atlanta rapper has not denied their existence.

With 4 solo albums beneath his belt, and the worldwide leg of his WHAM tour kicking off in September, Lil Baby can get all of the ink he needs with no concern of it affecting his cash, no matter judgement.