Slick Rick is just one of many artists to take this ethos with them and wear it as a badge of honor. “It means something, besides the music, the way you look and present yourself to the world is such a form of communication and who you are,” said Vikki […]
HipHops
“Going big is just how we roll. It’s Black swag, African American to the bone,” writes Slick Rick in the forward to Ice Cold. A Hip-Hop Jewelry History, music journalist Vikki Tobak’s exhaustive and extensive TASCHEN book on the music genre’s love of all things shiny, glittering and gold. “As […]
