Keke Palmer was sitting right next to Blueface when she finally asked what everyone’s been wondering. 

While the two were livestreaming together in person, Keke turned the conversation to Blueface’s recent face tattoos and asked when he started getting them while incarcerated. Blueface told her it didn’t happen right away. According to him, the tattoos began about eight months into his prison sentence and came gradually. “One at a time,” he said.

She followed up by asking if getting tattooed was just something to do to pass the time, but Blueface said it went deeper than boredom. He explained that being heavily tattooed was something he always saw for himself. “I always told myself as a kid that I was gonna be one tatted up motherf**ker,” he said. Prison, in his eyes, just made the decision easier to make. “Being in jail just made me feel like I didn’t have no reason not to do it.”

The “Thotiana” rapper added that the setting and his circumstances removed any hesitation he might’ve had before. “Maybe that’s what it was, ’cause I already had a couple face tats,” he said. To put it even more plainly: “I’m in prison, sh*t. I ain’t got no job interview.” The comment landed somewhere between hilarious and brutally honest.

Earlier this month, Blueface sat down with DJ Vlad and broke down exactly what’s now tattooed on his face. The artwork features several recognizable logos, like the MLB logo, the Chase Bank logo, and the Washington Nationals emblem.  During that interview, he also explained in detail how the tattoos actually happened. He said another inmate had a tattoo gun and would tattoo him inside his cell. Since tattooing in prison is a violation, the rapper said he ended up getting a “tattoo write-up,” but that still didn’t stop anything.