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Recently, Kane Brown opened up about a mistake he can’t seem to fix that he wants to change.
Brown said about a Batman tattoo he has, “I hate this tattoo.” He continued, “I can’t stand this tattoo on my chest. It started when I was 18 and it’s been a cover-up three times.” He added, “I’ve been trying to get this done since I was 18. And now it’s turned into a hawk, and you can actually tell if I take my shirt off, but if I don’t take my shirt off, you can’t see the hawk’s face.”
Kane Brown’s tattoo journey is certainly an interesting one, with some serious ups and downs along the way! It’s clear that his tattoos hold personal significance, but they’ve also come with a fair share of struggles, like the unfinished Batman tattoo. That whole situation—where the artist went to jail and left Kane in a sort of tattoo limbo for a year—sounds like something out of a movie. “So then he halfway finishes it, then he goes to jail,” Brown recounts. “I have to wait a year because no other tattoo artist will touch it. But after I found out what he went to jail for… I was like, I’m not messing with this guy anymore. I had to find my new tattoo artist and he’s been working on it forever.”
The Bible verse tattoo, John 3:16, is particularly meaningful for Kane, especially given his faith and background. It’s not surprising that he’d choose such a powerful, positive message to display on his body.
As for the Batman tattoo, it’s fascinating to hear that it was influenced by an ex-girlfriend, showing how personal relationships can sometimes play into tattoo choices. And it seems like even though the cover-up work has been a painful process, Kane’s commitment to finishing the tattoo and making it his own shows his resilience. He said “I still need like two hours on it, but it’s so dark and black that I have scar tissue there… when you go over it, it just, it hurts so bad.”
It’s also not unusual for tattoos to evolve or get covered up over time, especially when an artist or design no longer feels like the right fit. The fact that he’s been working with a new artist to improve it, despite the pain, shows how much this tattoo—and what it represents to him—still matters.
