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Angela Mazzanti is a professional model, rapper, social media influencer, content creator and weed advocate. She’s been on over ten magazine covers, including multiple times with Inked Magazine, holds a significant place across social media as an influencer and is a prominent advocate in the cannabis industry ⸺ How old

were you when you got your first tattoo? What was

it? I got my first tattoo when I was about 18. I got it done in someone’s kitchen (in hindsight not the best idea) I got a script from the band Four Year strong which read, “Rise or die trying” because something about that saying really stuck with me and added to my drive to be successful. It has since been covered because my full back piece ended up going over it and it didn’t flow as well with my other tattoos ⸺ Do people treat you differently because of your tattoos? Not all the time but one piece of advice I can give to anyone thinking about getting heavily tattooed is be ready to have people stare at you any time you leave the house & their visible. I didn’t really realize how much people would stare at me with no shame. Its not always in a bad way, sometimes people are just interested in the art, but there’s times it does get annoying or times you don’t want to deal with the 1000s of questions about them. I also wasnt ready for the amount of people who would just randomly start having a conversation with me about the tattoos they want or just tattoos in general. I’ve only had a few negative encounters but I never take it personally because its not everyones cup of tea. Ive been rejected from some modeling jobs for them but also hired for others because of them. You have to take the good with the bad. Who is/are your favorite tattoo artist(s) to get tattooed by?

Lately my fav artist has been @jimordie out of Elizabeth St tattoo in Riverside Ca. He’s been adding to the last few spaces I have left and finishing up old work that was done poorly. Highly recommend ⸺ Where do you get your tattoo ideas from? Sometimes their inspired by other artists work or something I think would look cool in a particular spot. Like, lets throw spiders in my armpits because if I forget to shave they’ll just look a little hairy. And other tattoos of mine have more in-depth meaning that I resonate with ⸺ What is your favorite tattoo that you have? Its a tough one between my stomach tattoo, because its probably my most known tattoo. Or my palms, because they were the worst pain wise and not many people have their palms done ⸺ What’s

the longest tattoo session you have sat through?

I think about six-seven hours in total ⸺ What is the most painful tattoo that you have? My palms forsure ⸺ If you could shoot with any photographer in the world, who would it be? Why? If I had the ability to shoot with Haris Nukem more often it would 100% be him out of anyone else. By far some of the best images I’ve ever shot working with him ⸺ Do you have any future modeling plans / goals? I see myself slowly stepping out of modeling and getting more into creative directing and casting for shoots and companies. As well as focusing on my clothing brand Nowhere Fast and expanding ⸺

Do you have a favorite shoot location or place you

would like to shoot at? I normally book all the studios I use off Peerspace, preferably I like to shoot studios with natural lighting because it tends to be a lot easier to get the right lighting & have cool and different concepts. But you can never go wrong with a good beach shoot ⸺

When was the first time you smoked? How did that

happen? I was 16, and I smoked out of an apple at a park

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I see myself slowly stepping out of modeling and getting more into creative directing and casting for shoots and companies. Model

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and surprisingly did not get high ⸺ If you could smoke with anyone dead or alive who would it be? It would have to be Snoop Dogg ⸺ Who’s your favorite person to smoke with now? My husband, we love getting high and going on adventures ⸺ Are you a sativa or Indica person? Indica ALL THE WAY ⸺ Do you take tolerance breaks or is that not part of your routine? I take tolerance breaks every so often, but for the most part smoking is in my daily routine ⸺ How much can you smoke in a session by yourself? A half? An ounce? Realistically an 1/8th or a quarter; I still like to be able to function. I can’t stay still for too long. I’m always on the go ⸺ What’s your favorite thing to roll up? Papers? Backwoods? etc. Papers ⸺ When did you start doing music? Why? Started when I was 17, I was in a metal band, two actually. I transitioned into rap when I was 19, I kind of was like if guys can do it, so can I. I’ve always had a love for music since I was young, I actually played the saxophone in 3rd grade and was quite good at it! ⸺ What was the first song you recorded? I can’t remember the name of the song, but it was a metal song about how God wasn’t real ⸺ What music projects do you have coming? Nothing currently, but you just never know where the wind might take me. I’m currently on tour taking my clothing brand NOWHERE FAST to some big rock festivals like Welcome to Rockville, Aftershock, Louder Than Life, etc ⸺ What’s your favorite song you’ve done so far? We So Mob ft. Rick Ross is my favorite song I’ve done so far. It’s so crazy to be able to say he’s a feature on a song of mine. ✕