Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels – rare, vintage, or collectible item from Deb’s Book Paradise
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Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels

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Description

Author: Minya Oh
Foreword by: Ludacris
Title: Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels
Publisher: Wenner Books
Publication Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover
Binding: Illustrated boards
Pages: Unpaginated
ISBN: 1-932958-02-9
Language: English
Dimensions: Approx. 10 x 11 inches
Condition: Very Good+ (clean pages, bright images, light handling wear to boards)

Description

A bold, visually rich document of early–2000s hip-hop culture at its most extravagant, Bling Bling: Hip Hop’s Crown Jewels captures the artistry, symbolism, and bravado behind the jewelry that became a defining statement of the era.

Featuring dramatic photography and exclusive interviews, Minya Oh explores how chains, rings, grills, and custom pieces evolved into icons of identity, success, and cultural power. With commentary and appearances from major figures including Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, Chuck D, RZA, Method Man, Lil Jon, Run, and more — plus a foreword by Ludacris — this book reads as both visual archive and cultural history.

More than fashion, this is a time capsule of hip-hop’s creative expression, influence, and global reach — an essential piece for collectors of music history, pop culture photography, and street-style art books.