Jewelry Expert Critiques Rappers' Chains From On the Rocks | Fine Points | GQ

what's up this is tracks and we're gonna be breaking down some of my favorite change from on the rocks little yachty so when it comes to making those 3d pieces that 3d Bart that has more pop than even the original Gucci Mane piece right when Gucci man did his piece it was early in the game he was a groundbreaker on it good to me he did a Bart Simpson piece a long time ago and I recreated it you know I'm saying pay homage to Gucci but of course as time goes on whether it's cars or fashion things evolve now when yachty made this piece he's got a boat on the back which is one of his name sakes and the model maker gave it some fluff some pop he went with a little bit of a gallery back which means that it's not a solid back you could see inside the piece not a bad thing when you want to clean it when you want to get that shine to pop even more little pump a little pump did not slack on any of his jewelry monster fully ice pieces he loves white gold he's got the rose gold white gold look of course big diamonds in the eyes fully ice dreads you know that's the look he loves and ice box did a good job for him he spent millions of dollars on this piece but the one that's the flyest out of all of them he's got multicolored chains he's got everything but the drug addict piece done by Ellie ante with the specialized chain and the different pills the Superman pill all sorts of pills are being gobbled up over there he's not slacking he wants to spend his millions on his jewelry he's shown the world what he's all about how he rolls and he is killing it with this one got to safety lock so we'll never pop on him so you click the first lock in see it doesn't move and then that's the safety lock two safety locks on that chain of course is a must when you're spending almost half a million dollars on a chain the last thing you want to do when you're partying and everything you're doing is look down and say oops I lost my chain Ellie on Tay definitely did that super safety lock that's very popular in the modern jewelry business that's one of the evolutions no more little lobsters you got to have that super safety lock that means if the chain is gone you're gone with it huevo this piece right here came from inspired by the prayers been a cool game quavo got another fruity colored piece to Crash Bandicoot with a custom chain all right a lot of pop a lot of different color diamonds green diamonds are the rarest color of diamonds that you could put in one of these pieces they're extremely rare now these are irradiated green but even when diamonds are irradiated for that color only one out of a hundred turns green so you got to do hundreds and hundreds of carats until you get a couple of carats of green diamonds that's why you don't see it in a lot of pieces but he's got it and he did not slack on that one off set off set has the traphouse piece another complicated interesting revolutionary piece that set monstrous amounts of friends went viral customized diamond chain on that now of course you got the Trap House with the characters inside with the hinge dropping open all right you got a stove in there a rose ghost over rose nope I got a money back this was 250 a quarter these are all complexities of the jewelry business it's not just about fully ice it's not just about diamonds and gold it's also about craftsmanship 3-dimensional that means they had to assemble the walls assemble the roof set up the inside put it all together polish it make sure the inside is clean it's harder to do than it looks okay gucci mane gucci mane is a diamond jewelry legend he did all the cartoon pieces he set all those trends but now he graduated to something clean and classy but the price tag just went up right the big pointers are ten times more rare every time you go a diamond size up okay this bracelet right here is like a another tennis bracelet rose gold with Jones hanging on it I got made but then I went back and got the change made with it you're looking at another like quarter-million dollar so every time you go diamond sized up the diamonds become ten times more rare and ten times the price you could get the smaller diamonds for a thousand dollars a carat the diamond cheese using there are no less than six to fourteen thousand dollars a carat per stone so you do the math count the stones the numbers and you're gonna see millions of dollars spent on elite diamond pieces waka flocka flame the foghorn leghorn piece is got its extra size heavy duty the red diamonds really pop that's what really catches my eye on those piece those red diamonds are not cheap he got him all matching his jeweller didn't cut any corners on that red diamonds are very very rare they're hard to get that color out of them I wanted to stand up you know I'm saying it was big as hell so if it's you know everything's like up here now when it comes to his revolver piece it's got that spinning barrel function you know the jeweler had to make that happen for him because you want your gun to have that functionality of it so it doesn't look like just a prop or some past model of a piece right so he had that done that all adds complexity that all adds depth and labor to the piece that you're making that's what he's representing over there that's an elite piece of jewelry as well not a kid's toy that is just a clump of gold unwell unwell has a du Vinci masterpiece going on over here right you have Jesus versus the devil a beautiful scene with chocolate diamonds white diamonds red diamonds orange diamonds but the most beautiful thing about this piece is the hand-painted enamel that's not what you see on a lot of other pieces they're missing that specific touch so when you're doing hand-painted enamel an artist has to by hand through the hair do the colors do that background scene that you're seeing there and then harden it in an oven to cook the paint so it turns into almost like a rock coating it's not the most valuable thing when it comes to materials but when it comes to quality to craftsmanship that's the touch you want on your elite piece to set you aside from everybody else and that's what happened here Tyger Tyger did something elite with this diamond chain he used one of the greatest brands on the planet goyard the luxury fashion brand he took their logo and he customized it to make an elite diamond chain link okay not easy to do he had to be clever to direct his jeweler to be able to use that link to make it functional that takes craftsmanship to he came up with a beautiful idea who would have known that that type of logo from a luxury fashion brand could be beated through to make beautiful diamond chain he's a trendsetter with that that was an elite jewelry idea and then he's got the monster Pharaoh head fully iced classic he likes his jewelry done correctly a touch on the side something on the back a unique bail that's what the jewelry business is that's the trend big pointer change the time when I came up with it I was like really into learning about Africa and learning about Egyptian culture and all that stuff like that so I was just kind of fascinated by you got to have a little class when you're manufacturing your jewelry he took it a step above a lot of other rappers post Malone so post Malone has a crazy unique jewelry set he's got the black diamond God's team Dallas Cowboys star with the baguettes around it all right it's God's team as he says it's the America's best football team he's obviously a fan he got the pendant made then he's got the dmitri head also with black diamond so he's got that matching look at black enamel in the eyes it's a beautiful combo but it doesn't stop there he was gifted from his studio where he records that with their logo electric field two pendants for him to mix and match his everyday pieces it's good business he's got a good business relationship they make money he makes money of course they should give them some jewelry okay now the most unique piece that he has which isn't super unique because he copied it off of Jesse from the neighborhood as he says but this is the Chanel candy necklace now it's not made out of candy and he didn't get it for Halloween but it has that Halloween nostalgia when you got it as a kid you got that candy necklace you wore whatever your first necklace that it was he decided to get that Chanel piece it's not golden diamonds it's not the most precious materials but it's not all about that when you're an artist it's about the look it's about the feeling that you want to convey with your jewelry he does that his way like he does everything else dj khaled dj khaled has been giving the world major keys for a long time he's got some in return from none other than Greek he's got his name his son's name yellow gold yellow white gold white diamonds for Assad each key leads to the next key you know I got the keys he says everything his first son I believe him right he's got a beautiful jewelry collection I'm sure he's gonna pass it on to his son he's got a sacred Allah pendant means most high in Arabic it's just the Arabic word for God it was originally an ancient word meaning Most High obviously he's a spiritual man he wants to live for his family he wants to do the right thing he wants to share his blessings he wants to share the major keys of life and he's doing that in a spiritual sense of course he's got his big boy but get pieces from pristine the bracelet the chain to match the protective elite that's the trend big boy pieces big boy but get diamonds got the high quality vs it's not playing around he wanted to fully ice that to make it happen he did it an elite chopper as the jeweler I love the bicycle chain link it's got the big diamonds in the link fully iced all around fully functional I wouldn't want to throw it on my BMX bike and start taking it for a spin but he says it's fully functional I'll take him at his word you might want to just enjoy wearing it around your neck as that choker and a bracelet piece matches a watch that's something I wish I had in my shop he might even be able to sell that to me when rappers make it to the elite of the hip-hop game their jewelry collection spells out who they are it could be a story where they're from it could be a story of their namesake it could be a story who they're doing business with who their friends are it could be millions of dollars it could be big pointers it could be candy the choice is theirs these elite rappers made it to the top of the game and now the jeweler works for them [Music]

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 26 2020