The rapper, real name Colson Baker, said he decided to get the full blackout tattoo after looking in the mirror and seeing a mishmash of tattoos, some from periods of his life he’d rather forget about.So, he decided to enlist the help of celebrity tattoo artist ROXX who came up with a ‘dark mode’ tattoo that covers most of his arm, chest, and stomach in solid black ink.But says he was left feeling unwell after refusing to take it slow and steady when it came to getting inked.Speaking to Billboard Canada, MGK revealed that ROXX had told him that it’d likely take ‘two years’ to complete the large-scale design but said he wasn’t willing to wait.“I saw death and drugs in all these patterns that I was literally writing on my body,” he told the publication. “There were happy tattoos, sad tattoos, holy tattoos, hellish tattoos. It was like my bipolarity was screaming off my skin.”

“I saw death and drugs in all these patterns that I was literally writing on my body,” he told the publication. “There were happy tattoos, sad tattoos, holy tattoos, hellish tattoos. It was like my bipolarity was screaming off my skin.”This left him thinking ‘Who the f**k am I?’.“She [ROXX] warned me that it was going to be near impossible, even from a pain tolerance standpoint,” MGK continued.“I said, ‘Yeah, we got two months.’”Undeterred by the warning, MGK began visiting the tattoo studio every day to take part in gruelling sessions, but it wasn’t long before it took its toll on his body.He continued: “After the first week, we hit my lymph nodes around my armpits and shoulders, and I got really sick. My skin was turning yellow. I wasn’t able to sleep. I stopped being able to move certain parts of my upper body.”