247 Ink Magazine (December/January) 2015-2016 Issue #6 | Page 159

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 157