Thank you, I can’t wait to show you guys new music I have coming, that compilation album is just a couple of songs from my past few projects. So outside of tattooing, you’re a music artist as well, I got a chance to check your compilation, Nessie Blaze compilation, which dropped in April. I am not too big on like lines and stuff like that I like to create a soft portrait and things like that. Like portraits and just realistic style tattoos, really soft grey shading. So your specialty is reality tattoos? Do I understand that correctly? So it’s really just a blessing that the hustle pays off at the end of the day, you know, you can go places. You know I haven’t been in a shop in six years since I moved out here, I have been literally doing tattoos out of my house using Instagram and Facebook for promo. Everybody worked really hard to get here, it wasn’t anything that had to do with luck at all, it was just really hard work, hustle and grind and then I went straight from working in my living room to VH1. So I feel like it’s history in the making and not only that, we have a lot of dope artist on our team. Nessie Blaze: Well, first it’s the only and first tattoo shop ever in Compton that legally exists. What excited you the most about joining this iconic brand? I just felt like I had a lot more work and development to do on myself, but then my homie Lemeir from Philly, who is also on the show, he actually recommended me for it and I turned it down at first and then I changed my mind and when I reached out to him, the opportunity was still available and so VH1 called me the next day and we went through the whole process, and it’s getting ready to air. But I can honestly say I was not ready I just wasn’t ready for that limelight yet. Nessie Blaze: Honestly, I interviewed for Black Ink, Chicago about two years ago. How did that come about? Was it because of your art shows or how did you link up with Black Ink? It’s going to be really dope, so I cannot wait.
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Nessie Blaze: I am painter, tattoo artist, muralist, lyricist and philanthropist I’m honestly just a hustler, like I came out here from the suburbs of Philly about six years ago with $300.00 to my name and I have been doing art full time ever since I got here, all the way up until I just got this opportunity to be on Black Ink Crew Compton on VH1, which like you said premieres this Wednesday. So from the outside looking in, let’s talk about Nessie Blaze, let us know who she is and what she’s into. The Hype Magazine got Nessie to weigh in on her journey and what it means to be crossing over literally from struggling artist to one of the cast members of the new offering from the Black Ink franchise:īlack Ink Crew Compton’s Nessie Blaze (Photo courtesy of VH1) Coming to California six years ago with a mere $300 to her name, the young stalwart has made her living plying her trade as a tattoo artist from the confines of her living room until being added to the cast of the iconic reality show brand. Nessie is a cast member on the history-making “Black Ink Crew Compton” which represents the first legal tattoo shop in the City of Compton, California. Gaining clientele across multiple cities, she is currently bi-coastal and has participated in many different art shows and competitions in cities across the U.S. With over 10-years of experience in painting. She has a wide range of experience and ability including but not limited to creating live art, custom canvas art, hand-painted apparel, murals, tattoos, and body paint. Nessie creates a beautiful and unique style of artwork with various mediums. We make that perfect blend work.”By Jerry Doby 0 Nessie Blaze of VH1’s “Black Ink Crew Compton” Talks Her Journeyīack Story – Pennsylvania native, Nessie is a dedicated and hardworking full-time mixed media artist specializing in realistic tattoo artsy. When you start with the color of your skin, then it goes to the color of your rag, then to the color of your laces. You can be bigger than what your mix came out to be. “I want to show that you can be whatever you are mixed with. “The two people who damn near hate each other the most, that’s who I am,” said Thomas, a tattoo artist at iAMCompton who is Mexican and black. Once you show you got power, then you can change the environment.”Ĭhristian “Ink Drippin’ ” Thomas wants to connect the divided worlds between the city’s black and Mexican residents, some of whom have been at odds for years. You get them, then corporate sees that and now they want to invite you in. “They are the ones who keep the violence up or down. “You have to start with the homies,” said Simmons, who is also a former college football player. Simmons said their meeting with gang leaders was imperative, calling it “hood politics.” He said they couldn’t safely open their shop or film the show in Compton without the gangsters’ permission first.
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