Slick Rick's crown and eye patch are displayed at “Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (Lauren Bulbin/The Washington Post) ...

Jewelry is as much a staple of hip-hop as mics and mixtapes. Rappers have an increasingly flamboyant taste for gold and ice. For some, the sparkling adornments stand as homage to the opulence and ...

Hip Hop, more than any other genre, has always been about aspirational living, and jewelry has long been one of the culture’s most significant forms of self-expression. Enter in "Ice Cold ...

"I was a really big fan of Wu-Tang," said Kevin "Coach K" Lee, guest curator for the show "Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry" and co-founder and chief operating officer of Quality Control ...

I just express myself with fashion, and what's fly is fly." What's fly is "Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry" at the American Museum of Natural History, a new show that features dozens of ...

From humble rope chains in the Bronx to diamond-encrusted statement pieces on global stages, hip hop jewelry has evolved into a symbol of culture, identity, and triumph. Hip hop is more than music ...

‘Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry’ runs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York until January 2025, and so there's ample time to join in. Among the oversized gold chains and ...

From Biz Markie’s brushed gold nameplate to T-Pain’s “Big Ass Chain” beset with hundreds of diamonds and Erykah Badu’s 22-karat gold Ma’at grills, inspired by the eponymous Egyptian ...