When it comes to tatted rappers, there is one fellow who easily can get top nods: Lil Wayne. While there are a gazillion-plus photos that are circulating the internet that feature Wayne’s countless tattoos – his entire body or at least visible areas of skin are wonderfully inked – perhaps the best high definition showing that can be seen is in the most recent music video he released that featured Bruno Mars (…

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Once the calling card of true, hardcore rockers, convicts and sailors on leave, tattoos have lost a bit of their sting and stigma in the past decade. The formerly forbidden rite of passage is now as commonly seen on cuddly child stars trying to show their “edge” and tramp-stamped moms at the community pool as it is on Hollywood harlots and their bad boy beaus.

Writing about the 15 best celebrity tattoos might sound …

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INKED Magazine sat down with Vivica A. Fox to dish on her new VHI show Glam God and dig (skin) deep to discover her many tattoos.

INKED: How does your new VH1 show Glam God with Vivica A. Fox work?

FOX: We moved 15 stylists into a home. They are from the different worlds of fashion, from hair to makeup to wardrobe. We divided them into teams and put them through tests of styling for either a photo shoot, red carpet …

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Twenty-five of the sexiest celebrity cover girls of 2008 are certified tattoo lovers, reinforcing the infiltration of ink into the mainstream scene. Not only are these women successful in their professional fields – be it on film, television or music; but they also sizzle in magazine covers because of, or despite, their newsworthy tattoos.

Here are the hottest magazine cover girls of 2008, and their rich collection of body art.

Alyssa Milano
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Silent Bob’s better half talks Kevin Smith, comic books, tattoos, and kicking his drug habit.

Actor Jason Mewes is standing in the living room of his Los Angeles home, taking off his shirt. Positioned in front of his laptop’s webcam, he shows off the “15 or 16″ tattoos he’s acquired during his 34 tumultuous years. He lifts his shirt and motions first to an elaborate tribal design on his shoulder. “I got this one in Santa Cruz … and …

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He’s a former Navy spy, a medicinal marijuana smoker, and a tattoo enthusiast. Meet the other side of the daytime television king.

Take one look at the half-sleeves blanketing both of his upper arms and it’s clear Montel Williams lives up to his talk show’s slogan, “There’s More to Montel.” Who would have ever guessed that underneath those neatly pressed shirts, this fixture of daytime jibber jabber is hiding intricate ink murals by the likes of the legendary Zulu from Zulu …

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Nothing about Margaret Cho made it look like she had a chance in hell in Hollywood.

Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho’s rank as one of the biggest female comedians on the planet is the result of a one-woman battle, built from her fi rst stand-up comedy gigs in a club near her parents’ book store in San Francisco to tours with Jerry Seinfeld and …

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Tracy Morgan isn’t shy. Anyone who’s caught him on a talk show knows he’s as quick to strip down as he is to declare his intentions to impregnate half of the audience. (A quick YouTube search will yield plenty of results, especially with the keywords “Tracy Morgan is wasted”).

This rep is bolstered by Tracy Jordan, the comedian’s thinly veiled and completely batshit alter ego on 30 Rock, who is just as prone to bust out with wild pronouncements and other …

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Howard Stern and longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky were married in NYC on October 3, 2008. Ostrosky received a wedding band by A-list bling designer Suzanne Wilson, while Stern had the initial “B” (for Beth) tattooed on his ring finger.

There is a long line of celebrity tattooed wedded-ringers preceding Stern’s move: Tony Parker, married to Eva Longoria in July, had their wedding date (in roman numerals) tattooed …

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is one professional sports league with heavy tattoo coverage. Nearly 30% of NBA players have at least one tattoo, compared to approximately 4% percent of the total U.S. population.

This statistic may be because NBA players operate under a spotlight, and in a uniform, that allow them to expose their tattooed skin. Many other professional sports, such as golf and baseball, don’t offer this extreme freedom of ink expression. But if you’ve watched ESPN as …

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