Just two days after his girlfriend visited Jerzey Tat to get some work done, Giovanni Burgos returned to the River Road tatoo parlor to get some ink of his own -- a Tupac Shakur quote on his left pec.
The quote -- “No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets," was delivered by Shakur during a 1995 interview from Clinton Correctional Facility, where he was doing time for sexual assault.
Burgos, an aspiring hip hop artist from Bloomfield who goes by Lil Gio, said the quote represented, "everything behind my music."
"Two days ago I was just going through a whole bunch of poems and quotes, and this was one of them I really liked," Burgos, 18, said."So, let's get it tatted."
The tattoo was Burgos' fourth, and he doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.
"I wanna work on a sleeve," he said. "The whole theme I want -- horror and music."
Patch captured the tattooing-- which was done by a combination of Alec Albert, Jr., Steven Ortiz and Georgia Mollica -- on video.
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4:13 pm on Monday, January 16, 2012
JEEZ! IT didnt take too long before my previois posts came ro fruition!!!! A quote from a guy serving time for Sexual Assault!?!?! And this is what we want in our town? People that idolize criminals? ..Time to call Slomin's Shield
Bruce Knuckle
9:24 pm on Monday, January 16, 2012
HE wants more tats. Save taxpayer money, get a full body orange with NJDOC on the back
Donvito
8:37 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Thanks for that educational video. Next time, maybe you can take a video at the "massage parlor" I mean nail salon on Rt. 4!
Susan Cohen
2:13 pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The person getting the tatoo wasn't serving time for sexual assualt. It was Tupac Shakur.
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9:54 pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
That doesnt make it any better susan...Normal people dont wear quotes from criminals