Urban, Street, Hood, Home, whatever you call it. This style is typically a black and grey style of tattooing which consists of inner city relatable topics such as:
Cityscape- Typically cartoonish skyscrapers or silhouetted skylines of a city.
Dogs- Pitbulls are the favorite, but rotties, dobies, and the like are also found. The dog represents power, money, and screwing everything that moves.
Drugs- Different representations of drugs such as 8-balls for cocaine and marijuana leaves for pot.
Gambling- Dice, cards, etc.
Gangster- Images of big bad ass hoods either shooting something or having a beautiful woman at their side.
Guns- 9mm, tec 9's, ak47's, revolvers, etc. either glorified or in use.
Lettering- Words usually done in cursive with filigree or in Old English. They can be acronyms or just flat out say what they mean.
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CREAM- Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
IMO- In Memory Of
MOB- Money Over Bitches.
RIP- Rest In Peace
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Money- Dollars (100's and 50's), stacks, rolls, the dollar sign, sometimes gold or diamonds, pretty much anything to do with wealth.
Smoke- Usually used as filler, representing everything from the unattainable in life being a dream, burning it all, or smoking down.
Theater Masks: Laugh now, cry later. Have fun 'til you get caught.
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