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Lil Xan is paying tribute toMac Miller.
The new ink, which the 22-year-old rapperdebuted on his Instagram on Sunday, lines the top edge of his right eyebrow and reads “Memento Mori.” The Latin phrase translates to “Remember that you will die.”
“MOMENTO MORI 💔,” Lil Xan wrote as a caption to the close-up shot. “Miss you Mac, y’all can start hating me now.”
The tattoo joins several others that already decorate Lil Xan’s face, including a line of dots down his nose, the word “Lover” on his right cheek, and a heart on his left cheek.
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The new addition, however, drew major criticism from Instagram users, which prompted Lil Xan to post a second Instagram selfie — this time, in the mirror — and address his tattoo haters shortly after.
“I do this for me,” he wrote, showing off an even-newer tattoo of black liquid dripping under his right eye. “I could care less if this makes me ugly because that’s what I was going for, Ugly is the new beautiful, well not really but there’s some truth to that, I love you guys 💔”
Lil Xan,whose real name is Diego Leanos,shared on theAdam22 podcastthat the death of his friend — whom he referred to as his hero — made him want to quit music forever.
“The Mac s— is crazy. I’ve been crying in my apartment, Mac didn’t die, Mac didn’t overdose,” he said on Saturday. “When your hero dies, f— that s—, I don’t want to make music no more.”
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Over a very messy chain of posts on social media, Lil Xan and Cyrus shared what went wrong from their own perspectives through a series of Instagram story posts.
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Cyrus eventually went on to confirm he had accused her of cheating on him as she shared ascreenshot of a text messagebetween the pair. She later posted a series of teary-eyed videos on her Instagram story where she apologized to her fans for the “confusing” situation and advised her female followers to not let men take advantage of them.
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Lil Xan also addressed their relationship in his own Instagram Live video, discussing his postponed ‘Live or Die’ music video, a song the couple was expected torelease together.
“I’ve just been informed that basically it’s all fake and I’m being used,” he said. “So f— it. I guess I was just being used. I thought I was in love but whatever. I’ll take that L. Heartbreak soldier; thanks Noah. Hope the song does well.”
“People love to just hurt me,” the rapper added in a separate post shared to his Instagram story. “It just hurts so f—ing bad.”
source: people.com
