Kanye, even with his Jesus pieces - that sort of subverting a role that society may have for you and saying: “No, actually look at what I’m wearing. Even wearing an ankh (an Egyptian key of life symbol), Beyonce and many people in the book are wearing ankhs and Nefertiti. There’s certain people that understand messaging out those pieces of jewelry to point to who those people are, to point to what community they’re part of, to point to their beliefs. You will often see rappers today very strategically lifting up their sleeve to show the watch, or posing with certain symbols: label chains, the Roc-A-Fella chain, the Cash Money chain. He kind of directed the photographer to take that photo. He very strategically made sure to play his ring with the Nation of Islam symbol right smack dab in the frame.
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Malcolm X is somebody that we dedicated a full page to. There’s been certain thinkers in hip-hop, and sort of hip-hop adjacent, that really understand the role of hip-hop style as a bigger message.
All of that stuff really reflected in the jewelry, and you had to have a certain level of respect and protection if you were going to wear that stuff in the street. That’s why I start the book talking about this bigger cultural significance and what was happening in New York specifically at that time - the height of the drug trade, the ’80s. The jewelry grew as hip-hop grew and changed. You started getting the Mercedes symbol, and then it started to get more and more serious, and it sort of goes in tandem with the way that hip-hop grew as well. You started to see even women like Salt-N-Pepa wearing the big dookie ropes and wearing the big Nefertiti pendants. You started to see Run-DMC, like you said. I can feel your halo I can see your halo I can feel your halo I can see your halo Halo, ooh oh.Even the early jewelers like Tito Caicedo, who worked at his father’s store called Manny’s, their main clientele for jewelry were the hustlers - the street elite, as I like to call them - and then the rappers followed suit because they wanted to be like them. I can feel your halo I can see your halo I can feel your halo I can see your halo Halo, ooh oh. I can feel your halo I can see your halo I can feel your halo I can see your halo Halo, ooh ooh.
It's like I've been awakened Every rule I had you breakin' It's the risk that I'm taking I'm never gonna shut you out!Įverywhere I'm looking now I'm surrounded by your embrace Baby, I can see your halo You know you're my saving grace You're everything I need and more It's written all over your face Baby, I can feel your halo I pray it won't fade away Hit me like a ray of sun Burning through my darkest night You're the only one that I want Think I'm addicted to your light I swore I'd never fall again But this don't even feel like falling Gravity can't begin to pull me back to the ground again It's like I've been awakened Every rule I had you breakin' It's the risk that I'm taking I ain't never gonna shut you out!Įverywhere I'm looking now I'm surrounded by your embrace Baby, I can see your halo You know you're my saving grace You're everything I need and more It's written all over your face Baby, I can feel your halo Pray it won't fade away Remember those walls I built? Well, baby they're tumbling down And they didn't even put up a fight They didn't even make a sound I found a way to let you in But, I never really had a doubt Standing in the light of your halo I got my angel now
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