In the summer of 2008 Kenyon Martin had a now-notorious tattoo image of red lips inked on his neck as a tribute to his girlfriend at the time, a rapper named Trina.
(Makeup kiss = 10,000 milligrams of Lidocaine)
Monday a South Florida-based media source sent me a photo of Martin in Miami last Saturday at Lux Nightclub. The source, who also saw Martin in person, said he’d covered the lips tattoo and was accompanied that night by a woman who was not his girlfriend.
(Martin with rapper Trina last year)
Martin said of the tattoo in December 2008: “It’s just something that I wanted to get a while ago, but I’m not just gonna get it for anyone .. (someone) who is special to me, who means something to me.“
A hip hop music industry source told me this morning that despite Trina recently claiming the contrary, the couple is currently broken up - which explains why Martin covered the tattoo.
My hip hop source added that the couple has had a volatile relationship which has endured multiple past breakups. (In other words, the split may not be permanent.)
I’d say that removing a tribute tattoo of your former girlfriend is an indication of a permanent break, but in KMart’s case, a makeup kiss is only a case of Lidocaine away.
3:10 pm on June 30th, 2010
Never under this fascination for tatoos. The Yakuzi(sp), organized crime people in Japan, get their entire body tattooed, which covers up the pours of your skin. Subsequently creating kidney failure because the body can’t rid itself of waste thru perspiration. It would be poetic justice if eventually guys like this would, heaven forbid, subject themselves to the same fate.
The body is a Temple, why deface it?
3:55 pm on June 30th, 2010
I’m guessing the real reason he he got rid of it is because,
putting a lipstick kiss lips tat behind your right ear is a huge trend amongst lipstick lesbians to silently announce they’re gay.
chicks have been doing this for about 10 years, when I first saw that on him, I was surprised a guy would have THAT tat on the same place chicks have it to get other chicks.
maybe someone told him what it really meant
8:56 pm on June 30th, 2010
Kenyon Martin is an idiot.
8:32 am on July 1st, 2010
who cares if another punk from the nba got rid of his lesby tats.
12:33 pm on July 1st, 2010
Have you ever seen what tats look like on an old body of skin.
9:52 pm on July 1st, 2010
those need to stop with this non-sense. it’s like who can put the most tatoos on their body. just like the eye sore lowrider pants,this is getting real tired. they need to stop wanting to look like these rapper thug losers and stick to the ball game.
10:07 pm on February 22nd, 2011
It looked like a vagina on his neck. Kenyon isn’t the shapest knife in the drawer.