Kane Brown called in to chat with Audacy Chicago US99’s Melissa and Austin and revealed one of his biggest regrets, that he’s never told anyone before.

During a harmless game of One's Gotta Go, Melissa asked Kane, if he had to choose, which tattoo would he give the boot to, the Batman tattoo on his chest or the microphone tattoo on his hand.

Kane's answer came with a quickness, saying the Batman tattoo had to go, actually, the Country music star noted, “It's not even Batman no more… I'm surprised nobody's asked me about this.”

“I hate this tattoo,” Kane confessed, adding the ink actually helps keep him modest, sharing “I'm actually grateful because my shirt stays on a lot more… my team always tries to get me to take my shirt off.”

Doubling down with disdain, Kane 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. 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.

Despite the three attempted cover-ups, Kane admitted said hawk tattoo still isn’t even finished. Revealing, “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.”

Despite Brown only being 18 when he decided to send up the bat signal on his chest, Austin was curious if the decision was at all alcohol induced or if simply just thought it was a cool idea back then.

“So I saw a lot of cool tattoos back then, of like Batman and Spiderman, Superman, and it looked like it was ripping through the chest. That's what I was originally going for,” Kane shared. “But the tattoo artist that I was using went down a bad rabbit hole and got on drugs and stuff.”

Detailing the complicated story, Kane began, “So while he was tattooing me, he finished half of it,” noting, “I had something I had skulls underneath it originally."

"So when I went back to get it done," he continues, "he was sober this time and he goes, ‘bro, I thought we finished that’ and I was like, ‘no dude.’ And he goes, ‘Well, I'm not gonna be able to do it because you're gonna be able to see the stuff underneath.’ So Kane revealed the plan was to come up with something that can cover it up, deciding, “OK, let's do batman because it's all black.”

“So then he halfway finishes it, then he goes to jail… I have to wait a year because no other tattoo artist will touch it,” Kane continued. “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.”

Given all the complications and regrets Kane has gone through over this one tattoo, Melissa asked Kane, “What would you do if one of your daughters wanted to get a tattoo at that age.” And once again his answer came with a quickness, answering, “No, I already got a song about it.”

Elsewhere in the conversation Brown also talked about Windy City Smokeout, and what Marshmello is really like. To catch it all, listen to the clip above.

Words by Maia Kedem, Interview by Melissa and Austin

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