Blingworthy Title: ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY
Y ou can find this book on the New Book Display shelf (CCC 130) ICE COLD: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History By Vikki Tobak Call Number: NK7310.3.H57 T63 2022 Full Review from the NY Times Excerpt below: In 1976, Ricky “ Slick Rick ” Walters’s Jamaican British family moved from South London to the Bronx, where he would go on to become one of the most influential rappers of early New York hip-hop. But as he puts it in ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY (Taschen, $100) , “I’ve been telling stories through my attire and adornments for as long as I’ve been telling them with beats and rhymes.” The heavy, gleaming chains of Cuban links; the diamond-drenched rings and bracelets and grills — all the jewelry that rappers, singers, D.J.s and dancers have decorated themselves with both onstage and off — have long functioned as more than just shine. These styles were born on the street, taking their first fashion cues from hustlers, pimps and drug dealers; and have since served as a cultural and vis
