Rihanna’s ‘Thug Life’ Joins List Of Hip-Hop Tattoo Tributes

Nas, Snoop and Game have all paid homage to other MCs with body art.
By Gil Kaufman

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Rihanna has raised a lot of eyebrows this week with her latest body modification: a tattoo that reads “Thug Life”, in honor of late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur. While ‘Pac had the words emblazoned across his abdomen, Rihanna opted to write them across her knuckles in what appears to be glow-in-the-dark ink.

Say what you will about whether the pop princess is living the kind of rising-up-from-the-streets life Shakur was honoring by splashing the name of his crew across …

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