GlobalGrind recently sat down to speak with Tyga about his Careless World album, tattoos, being a big fan of candy, what kind of girls T-Raw likes, friends with benefits, and more. 

GlobalGrind: How many tattoos do you have?
Tyga: I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don’t know. It’s just a mural…a collage.

What was your very first tattoo?
I got my mom’s name on my neck. That was my first one. I told her I was going to get it and she didn’t believe me. She was mad but at the same time her friends were around, so she wasn’t too mad and ’cause they was like ‘Aw that’s so sweet,’ so she was happy sad. But it’s all good now.

What does she think about them all now?
She doesn’t really judge me. She’s seen what I did and how far I took music. She is just happy that I really made it my reality. Because all the times I recorded in the house, I was like 13. I would stay up all night recording in my room, she used to hate it. But she sees my vision now.

Your song “Still Got It” with Drake, there’s a part you were rapping about “friends with benefits.” Has there ever been a time where you wanted to take your friends with benefits situation to the next level and she was like nah?
Nah, that never happened. It’s always the opposite.

Yeah, girls seem like they can’t handle it.
It’s always the opposite. That’s real rock star life type stuff. And that’s how my life is too. For somebody who doesn’t live that life, it might throw them off a little bit, like what you mean? But it’s all good. We just young, trying to have fun.

Do you have any celebrity crushes? Anybody you been peeping on the blogs, in the media?
Nah, nobody really catching my eye like that man. Not really.

What kind of girls do you like?
I don’t think there is a certain type of girl that I like. What you like is what you like. But I don’t think nobody’s really catching my eye like that. I’m just focused right now. There are a lot of pretty girls, eye candy out there. I still think Cassie is the baddest, the prettiest to me. But that’s my home girl, plus that’s Diddy’s girl. I like Cassie … she’s cool.

Can you tell us what most people don’t know about you?
A lot of my fans know that I love candy. I eat candy all day.

What’s your favorite candy?
Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy man. I can’t go without candy. And when I’m recording I always have a TV on with cartoons, on mute though. When I’m recording I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you’re thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

So yours involves candy and cartoons?
Candy and cartoons, on mute though just for the visual.

Is there anything else you want to tell your fans?
The album will be out. It’s real important to me, so if you support team Tyga and Last Kings, team YMCMB, make sure you support that. I think they know my Twitter @TYGA. It’s another twitter out there TygaYMCMB; that’s not my page. But, they be saying a lot of quotes all day. I know they have like 300,000 followers or something, but it’s not me though. People always like, why Tyga always tweeting this sensitive stuff? I think it’s a girl.