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    The Post-Bling Era?

    RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"

    VMA-holes: Your Gold Teeth II
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    I predict a Rhinestone Revolution for the Hip Hop posse. But that might be an unfortunate result of a chance encounter with that Dolly Parton film at an early age.
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    Image of VeasnaDione VeasnaDione
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    Why does Pharrell Williams have the face of a young boy and the hands of an old scrub woman? Someone should spend a little less on jewelry and a lot more on moisturizer.
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    05/26/09

    @VeasnaDione: Is he not moisturizing his situation/preserving his sexy?
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    Image of THEREWILLBEFOOD THEREWILLBEFOOD
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    Black man checking in:


    Unfortunately, most black mens' collective low self esteem and insecurties are publicly played out in by their antics: "look at me" "Affirm me" "I have arrived.Can't you see?"


    Everything must be over the top, loud music, loud colors, anti-social.


    As Michelle Obama presents an elegant, confident, balanced embodiment of black womanhood, I hope that brothers will look upon our President as someone that embodies that the only "bling" that matters and is respected is higher education and good character.

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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    05/26/09

    @THEREWILLBEFOOD: Thanks for checking in, Dad.
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    05/26/09

    @THEREWILLBEFOOD: Didn't Kanye already address this, bro?
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    Image of NickGlass NickGlass
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    This was on NY1's "In the Papers" this morning and Pat Kiernan said something to the effect of "the recession is melting all the ice." It was brilliant to wake up with a three-day hangover to that.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    05/26/09

    @NickGlass: Love it.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    I don't think any of you people (these "rappers" included) have any idea how things work among the poor. Thick gold chains are symbols of poverty and desperation, not of prosperity and opulence.
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    This is foolishness. Of course the jewelry is fake. They also don't own all the flashy cars and huge houses they show off in their videos. Remember the phat car Chris Brown popped Riahnna in -- rented... just like everything else these rappers show off as their own stuff.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    05/26/09

    @markscottmusic: FYI - neither Chris Brown nor Rhianna are rappers.


    They are "theys" though, I suppose.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    Might the "post-bling thing" be, as well as the simulacrum of a former thing, the absence whose totality can only signify the referent that is its opposite.


    Or they could just wear jeans and T-shirts, or Dickies, like regular guys on the street.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    So wait, we're saying the Rick Ross thing isn't the most awesome idea in history? Because I'll have to disagree.
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    05/26/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: I'm with you. Although i thought it was a tribute to Isaac Hayes at first.


    If you're wearing a pendant that size, why not be upfront about your attention-seeking narcissism? That's real.

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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    05/26/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: @ambitious: Not only that, but should his face be disfigured in a horrible accident and his ID nowhere to be found, they'll still totally be able to identify him, so really it's winner from both fashion and safety perspectives.
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    05/26/09

    @DahlELama: Grey's spoiler!
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    Image of peperony and chease peperony and chease
    05/26/09

    @Mount_Prion: C.U.C.A.R.A.C.H.A.: It's a toss-up between Ross' face chain and Sean Kingston's Crayola box chain.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    Well, the next logical choice is Mother of Pearl, leading to a whole new range of lyrical spectacle.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/26/09

    @El Matardillo: nacre, natch
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/26/09

    @El Matardillo:


    Doesn't take too long to figure out what will follow the word "mother".

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/26/09

    @El Matardillo: In the world of stringed instruments, we have faux Mother-of-pearl, which is commonly called "Mother-of-Toilet-Seat."
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    05/26/09

    In reply to The Post-Bling Era?
    Cubic Zirconia is next. I could see an emcee rapping about how he's got mad CZ's.
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    05/26/09

    @Cheap Shot: Particularly Young Jeezy.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    02/09/09

    In reply to RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"
    Ok then hipstereene, give us some good, up to the minute jive-talk we can use.
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    Image of the rzo the rzo
    02/09/09

    In reply to RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"
    Remember, the Republicans did have Biz Markie play their convention in 2004, so this has been going on longer than you'd think.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/09/09

    In reply to RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"
    As a gentrifying Jewish yuppie hipster from Brooklyn, I would just like to say:


    "Here's a quarter. Go buy yourself some soul."

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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    02/09/09

    In reply to RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"
    I applaud their election of a Boston Terrier.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    02/09/09

    In reply to RNC Head: "What About 'Phat', Do the Kids Still Say 'Phat'?"
    "I think he has his thumb up that dogs ass."


    Norm MacDonald from 'Dirty Work'

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