When the Anank went viral back in 2017, articles provided only a brief description of the person wild enough to do it. So we lined up a full interview with the rapper to get the full story of the an Frank face tattoo. When the idea first came about, Arnold's dead had recently dropped out of college. so then I tried the college thing I tried I I didn't I didn't make it past the first semester and was couch surfing around Los Angeles By creating free music for an artist who'd let him stay over at around the same time began to notice the rise of the SoundCloud rap genre.

you had the smoke perss, the little pumps, the ski masses, the XXX after which he began to emulate that kind of Lifestyle However, there was one thing he was missing which characterized almost every artist from that face: tattoos. Co had gotten the Mona ler on his neck, blue face had gotten Benjamin Franklin on his cheek. yet Arnold is dead was looking to make an even bigger statement as a College Dropout with no permanent residence Arnold didn't have the best relationship with his family. Your mom kicks you out of the house.

She thinks you're a piece of your dad, doesn't He thinks you're a piece of. None of your siblings talk to you which not only led to a problem with substances, but also a bout of deep depression. Got to the point when when you're young and you're under, you know what I'm saying, the influence. You're not making the clearest of decisions.

You're not. You know it's it's a really dark place. It was at this point that Arnold realized he wanted a permanent reminder that someone else always had worse than him and as a result he chose a portrait of someone who'd had it worse than everybody else. Later stating in an interview with the son: there are people in history that didn't have the power to control to actually do things they wanted to do with their lives.

to be stuck in a house and end up dying. Dude I'm dying to make music. That's the way I look at it. it's very black and white.

recognize as one of the world's most famous tragedies Arnold became certain that he wanted Anne Frank on his face. So then the Eureka light bulb moment where I thought I was going to blast it on my face so it could be like a reminder where I was like whenever you feel down and bad bro like on it was like a like a like a thing for me. although instead of going to a professional Tattoo Studio where he instead opted for a much riskier location I go to my friend that was living in Am I watching his brother does tattoos out the house yeah I run to Brian's brother's house and I tell him about my genius plan. he's like so how much money do you have and I was like 20 bucks Bro e on the 20th of August 2017 for a home job price of $20 the tattoo was finished.

Instant response from those that pretty good actually tell me why Teddy got a tattoo of an Frank big as on his face. Why? with many others echoing that really good did that? This is so irresponsible and frankly I do not approve how ignorant of people got to get for attention Now while others made the argument that everybody should be allowed to make their own choices I mean you didn't do it. So why do you care what other people do, that's just hating. If you don't like it, you don't have to to respond.

Despite this initial burst of public attention Arnold maintained that he hadn't orchestrated this to go viral I didn't think this was going to be a viral thing bro I was moving off my like heart. It wasn't a try to be like a viral thing I was really into tattoos I wanted to always be completely tattooed in up the head to toe. You see what I'm saying. Yet the uniqueness of the piece certainly helped to expand his.

Network becoming closely acquainted with XXX Tentasion and others start working with ski mask I start working with trippy red, start working with Warhols I start working with Cole Bennett which eventually led to his now Infamous Meetup with the one and only Lil Xan explained that he met Lil Xan while hanging out backstage at a festival and we see that Lil Xan's there. so I just introduced myself. we're just hanging out that's though, during which Lil Xan saw the tattoo and gave him a funny nickname. we're just shooting jokes and he was like this is like Xan Frank like this is this is wild.

This on its own wasn't anything interesting. However, when somebody from the media began talking to the two, their evening took an unexpected turn. Hey yo little yo, this is my boy Zam Frank that's it. The internet broke.

That was it. All the photos that went viral into memes and everything came. the F them taking pictures of that day cuz they were like they were. They were just capturing that exact moment.

Rappa gets tattoo of Anne Frank on his face because he's dying for his music Arnold Gurz who goes by the name xan Frank and Arnold is dead Stunned rap fans with a huge inking of the Jewish diarist articles such as this one helped Arnold's social media to explode after that I wake up the next day and I have like 15 K followers and the whole internet just wrecking my with the virality of the situation. then leading to an Instagram post by Lil Xan announcing that Arnold was the new third member of Zanaki. the post was Amplified Further when Adam 22 reposted the image to his Twitter with the caption face tattoo before getting AR in a no jumper video titled he got an anrank face tattoo. This is the legend everybody's been talking about.

Give me your version of why you got the an Frank face to let's Hear it What? What's my version I Don't know, let's hear your version I don't got a version dog Zam Frank dog Anarchy that's what is that what inspired it and as Anarchy all day Okay, despite this, Arnold explained that people often didn't recognize who it was in the image I get funny ones like uh, is that your daughter is that your mom is that your girlfriend and I'm like it's an Frank Some people don't know who an Frank is, which is surprising as a now delated Reddit post of the tattoo receive 4.8k up votes on the Atbge subreddit which is a space dead dedicated to Awful taste but great execution for everything that displays quality craftsmanship in the least elegant way possible. Not a bad compliment for a $20 home job. Others on the post Express concern over his future employment prospects, yet the reply suggested that he might qualify for some Niche roll stating tell that to the HR department at the Holocaust Museum as well as standing at the exit offering pictures with his face might be the best bet for a career. What the internet thought wasn't of interest to about the opinion of one specific person.

The only person's reaction is my mother's she looked at me bro she was like oh, you're still my son bro I don't I don't see that like nothing Nothing changed and if anything, the situation helped Arnold to take care of his family given he was now being presented with new opportunities which he previously hadn't had access to. Now I had an opportunity to be able to walk into rooms that I wouldn't be able to walk into like I said it wasn't the intention but the fact that it happened like that. that's what made it 10 times better. One such instance was a meeting with a top executive at Republic Record WS who turned out to be Jewish but found the pace to be quite endearing.

We took him to a meeting at Republic Clearly you know she's like shout out the the Jewish people no, she was Jewish and Frank she was about to cry yeah, she was Arnold then gave a description of that day. In his own words, she comes from a Jewish background and she's one of the big label EXs that she brings a lot of big artists there you could Google her and she has a really big background in that and we really had a heart to heart. Also adding that most people are polite in real life and have no problems with the pace outside of the internet. I've never even had someone like use it as an insult.

the only thing I've seen is like comments online and like people just bashing it but around the same time. Arnold Also got a zanaki tattoo on his neck which is both strange and unfortunate as he never even joined the crew officially and the relationship between Arnold and Lil xan came to an end only 3 months after their first meeting. He's like not really part of Zan no more really. Yeah, he's part of like very rare cool.

it's cool like we co them but you know yeah. Was it the an Frank face tattoo that was too much? Arnold then explained that he was removed from Z told him this I had gotten kicked out from the group because they said I was like a bad influence of little Zam because I was like partying really hard which is interesting as Arnold has cleaned up his act quite significantly since getting the tattoo for the first time. I'm a lot more mellow now after having a daughter. After cleaning up and stuff like that, you know I haven't taken Xans in a long time.

probably been like almost two years now. I'm not going to continue doing I'm not. You know what I'm saying going to push that within the last month Arnold did a photo shoot with the upand cominging Jewish rapper Blp Kosher who was recently interviewed by Nadwa also getting a small feature in his special and Frank Arnold has also recently rebranded to Lenin which is Spanish for DJ child support combining his old skill of producing music with his love for Latin culture ultimately hoping to spread a positive message instead of like pushing this whole agenda that everybody was following as a trend with. with uh, the drugs and all that stuff.

let's let's make people dance, enjoy life, feel good about themselves. Chat said new V2 and that wasn't even the video actually another one oh my. God I'm brain dead restaurant I Watched the whole video and that's not even the one I want to watch? Okay dude, yo this is X x on the be yo okay you he my voice as well that is anyone knows that boy I don't know, he's just so s anyone knows that boy I don't know he's just so sry.