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The Best Bling Ever!

We pick the watershed moments in the history of bling, with some help from Reggie Ossé and Gabriel Tolliver, authors of Bling: The Hip-Hop Jewelry Book.

Mike Errico, Ryan Dombal

Blender April 24 2008

Amid looming fears of a national recession, Miami MC Rick Ross is doing his part to jump-start the economy by commissioning one of the most ostentatious pieces of jewelry in hip-hop history: a diamond-encrusted replica of his own head. It took King Johnny of Houston two and a half months to craft this 5" x 3 ½" behemoth of canary yellow diamonds and black onyx, and set Ross back $200,000. "I'm against global warming," he explains. "I'm a supporter of the ice."
VIDEO: A blinged-out Rick Ross tells about his horny (and smelly) exploits in Dublin, a.k.a. "the Sex Capital of the World."

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