I never looked at
it like that. I never
looked at it as a
tattoo show on
VH1. VH1 never
did a tattoo show
a day in their life.
When I look at it I
look at it as a show
about their crew.
It’s in the title. It’s
about their crew
and their relationships and them
growing up as human beings and
their struggles in
life. I never once
looked at it for tattoos. I’m looking
at the show to see
how their lives are
going to change;
how it’s changing
and evolving right
in front of you on
air, which is good
entertainment.
So what’s in the future for Miya Bailey?
I want to open up some more shops; some more City of Inks. That’s basically it. Create more jobs, open up franchise business creating as many jobs
as possible, maybe take over a few struggling tattoo shops that don’t understand marketing, training artists, turning their shops into a City of Ink shop.
Start a whole economy man. You gotta look at tattooing as a way of getting
people out of the streets the same way people look at rap music and basketball or football. The way you see these kids in high school working their
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