“Ice Cold – A Hip-Hop Jewelry History”. An illustrated book by Vikki Tobak. – Culture

As bling-bling art, hip-hop is in no small part also and above all the ostentatiously unsubtle art of shameless splurge. Although obviously (as usual in this case?) an amazing process of refinement has taken place here, just look at the volume “Ice Cold – A Hip-Hop Jewelry History” by Vikki Tobak. Trap-rap superstars such as the trio Migos or the rapper Megan The Stallion can be seen with their favorite pieces of jewellery, which of course are unique pieces costing many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The jewelers who supply them have become stars themselves, whose egos – a documentary series available on YouTube, also entitled “Ice Cold” proves it impressively – seem to be even bigger than those of their customers. bling bling However, anyone who does not consider all of this to be at least grandiosely grotesque has only understood half of the message. The other is a very big and eminently political middle finger towards “white supremacy”.