New York, Chicago, AND Compton are all in the same building?! 👀 Ceaser's GOTTA be up to something. So I really just try to stay humble and out of trouble to set an example in this situation. She’s calling me an inspiration and stuff like that. She then just started talking about me and I really don’t really look at myself like how this lady who blending my juices does.

I remember going to LA Fitness and a lady asked me, “does anyone ever tell you that you look like Ceasar from Black Ink?” and I respond all the time. It’s almost like, one of those American dream stories.īefore this, I was barely able to afford Chinese food, so it is a whole different thing. They seen how we couldn’t even afford to have lights on. So I think a lot of people mess with the show because they seen the struggle. Ted’s been around 10 years on TV, been sitting on the couch where he’s been the most important person to me.Įven 10 seasons going, people can sit here and be like, “I could really relate with Caesar.” I was in a shop across the street from the projects and that’s where we made it from. But then when I start being on my low, there are people to tell me to pick up your chin. When I start on too much, people are there to bring me down. I can’t say necessarily humble, but me not getting a big head. Being the focal point of this series, how do you manage to keep it a must-watch? A lot of people don’t get that, especially Black people. This competition is not just a competition to do it, but this is a competition to really show the world that we’re very skillful people. We really feed our family off what we do before we got on TV. Our ratchetness, but nobody knows that we really artists.

People know us for what goes on in the shop. So this right here is to set a certain tone. They’ll put us on there with crazy talent, but we won’t even be able to get out the second round.

A lot of times you see these competition shows and it doesn’t represent us. A lot of people don’t understand as a Black tattoo artist, how difficult it is to be industry. But a lot of people don’t know the backstory and what we have to deal with outside of just being on TV in this tattoo industry. Y’all seen me on TV basically for 10 seasons. Ceasar: Short version is as a Black man coming up in this industry.

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