In an interview with The Morning Hustle, Gucci Mane expressed mixed feelings over his famous ice cream cone face tattoo.
Guwop was asked if he “takes credit” for starting the trend of rappers getting face tattoos. “I wouldn’t take credit for starting the trend, but I think I definitely made people think it was something cool to do,” he said. “I was going through something when I did it. If I could do it over again, I probably wouldn’t have did it.” While he confessed that he doesn’t “regret” the tattoo, exactly, he does think he wasn’t in the right space to be getting the tattoo at the time he did. “People don’t know the back story to that,” he continued. “I wasn’t in a healthy place at the time, like, that was just a sporadic thing I did.”
Gucci Mane got his signature ice cream cone face tattoo in 2011. By 2013, he admitted himself to rehab for drugs. He was later incarcerated in 2014 and was released as a new man in 2016. He’s opened up about his past struggles with addiction and paranoia before.