Who brought the bling to hip hop?

Who brought the bling to hip hop?

Where did it say in the gospels of St. Gill of Heron or the Watts Prophecies, that a standard requirement for the urban poet, or at least those platinum minted urban poets, was a gas guzzling, planet destroying, Hummer? And big heavy blocks of diamond studded shiny metal.

Who pushed the crack bling onto hip-hop?

I always thought that bad boy bling was reserved solely for the small time drug dealer. You know, those without the connections to launder profits. Instead, they were forced to live in purgatory, wandering the planet weighed down by the dirty gold acquired subjecting others to a life of abstract misery. But, apparently not, somehow the dealer’s poetically just iconolatry got ‘sold’ to the just poets of the hip-hop fraternity.

Man, he must’ve been some sweet thinker, finding himself without a laundry he managed to sell it as some revolting material minded fashion statement, creating the perfect cover along the way. Now everyone in the hood dresses the same and those living out their time in purgatory can move around unnoticed, undefined, oh the irony! dressing up like Tutankhamen to AVOID being noticed!!!