The photo came from the cover of the album "Ma Gangsta" by the rap group Beantown Mafia and was first posted on Reddit in January 2011. The pic captures a guy named Blake Boston, also known as "Weezy B." In an interview with Know Your Meme, Blake revealed that the picture was originally taken by his mother. "I have no regrets in my life… no matter what I do. I can completely f*ck up on something and I still don't regret it. Because at the end of the day, that makes me who I am, so I wouldn't go back and erase anything, if I were to go back in time," the man told in an interview with RoughDraft TV.