Eugene Nyavor
If you’re a tattoo enthusiast, you may have heard about the 999 tattoo and may have been wondering what it means, the history behind it and it’s designs.
We’ve gathered some information that you would possibly want to know about 999 tattoo and its significance.
About Tattoo
The trend of tattooing has become more and more common over the past few years, and yes, it has become a very accepted practice.
There are many meanings attached to tattoos, depending on who has them.
A tattoo can symbolize many things, from happiness to sadness, memories to achievements and much more.
Tattoos can be decorative (with no specific meaning), symbolic (with specific meaning) or pictorial (a definition of a specific person or item).
Tattoos serve as decorations of religious, spiritual or traditional devotion.
Tattoos are advisable to be drawn by a professional artist because it requires a permanent dye deep into one’s skin.
History of 999 tattoo
The 999 tattoos have become a blazing topic, especially since the demise of American rapper, Juice Wrld in 2019.
The young talented rapper had 15 different tattoos, including 999 inked across his left wrist and on top of his right hand.
He inked the tattoo on the left wrist of his arm.
Meaning of 999 tattoo
According to Juice Wrld, 999 represents taking whatever ill, whatever bad situation, whatever struggle you’re going through and turning it into something positive to push yourself forward.
Furthermore, he said that 666 means bad situations, conditions, struggles etc.
But you can turn it upside down to make 999 thereby turning the bad situation into a positive manner and making good out of bad.
The rapper took his inspiration from the last book of the Bible.
The number 9 alone has a great meaning and that is salvation, fairness, and also letting go of whatever happened in the past and moving on to what the future holds.
Also, the star rapper’s song ‘Lucid Dreams’ bore the name 999.
Before the star rapper passed away, he had the number 999 featured on his social media pages.
How do people see the 999 tattoo
Celebrities have an influential role to play in people’s life because people tend to imitate the lifestyle of a celebrity be its fashion style, lifestyle or anything else.
Also, when it comes to tattoos people imitate celebrities just to impress them or to be like them because he or she is their favourite artists.
Many people today have 999 tattoos because the star rapper Juice Wrld had it.
Even though the star rapper is dead, the tattoos are being portrayed on the skin of his fans.
As mentioned earlier that the 999 tattoos became famous because the star rapper embodied the tattoo on his skin, people tend to imitate his lifestyle and tend to embody the 999 tattoos on their skin alongside some of the other tattoos drawn by the star rapper to serve as a remembrance of his reminiscing.
Though the star rapper is dead, most people see the 999 tattoos as a bad tattoo while some see it as a normal tattoo.
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