'It shows you made it' - rapper Shanté visits hip-hop jewelry exhibit at NY museum

Record ID: 1814624

  • Title: 'It shows you made it' - rapper Shanté visits hip-hop jewelry exhibit at NY museum
  • Date: 8th May 2024
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 8, 2024) (REUTERS) SLICK RICK'S CROWN AND EYE PATCH AT "ICE COLD: AN EXHIBITION OF HIP-HOP JEWELRY" AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY A$AP ROCKY'S NECKLACE THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G./BIGGIE SMALLS JESUS NECKLACE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROXANNE SHANTÉ, RAPPER, HIP-HOP ARTIST, MEMBER OF INFLUENTIAL HIP-HOP COLLECTIVE JUICE CREW IN 1980S
  • Embargoed: 22nd May 2024 20:53
  • Keywords: A$AP Rocky American Museum of Natural History Bad Bunny Erykah Badu Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry Nicki Minaj Slick Rick The Notorious B.I.G. hip-hop jewelry
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001113008052024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Slick Rick's crown and eye patch, A$AP Rocky's necklace, and Nicki Minaj's Barbie pendant are just a few of the hip-hop blink that visitors to the American Museum of Natural History in New York will be able to see
    at "Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry" which opens to the public on Thursday (May 9).
    "I love everything," said Shanté, a legendary U.S. rapper and hip-hop artist, whose ring was featured at the exhibit. "I got a chance to peek, and look around, and see. So this is an incredible part of history for me, and I love it."
    Gathering the precious items was a challenge, said Vikki Tobak, the exhibit's guest curator and an author of the "Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History."
    "We had to really depend on relationships because, you know, a lot of the jewelry is still worn to perform," said Tobak. "A lot of the jewelry is really rare and has never been seen in a museum before. And we really had to, like, earn the trust of, you know, the hip hop world and the artists to lend their jewelry here. So it's it's really special."
    For the American Museum of Natural History, it wasn't a first to host a jewelry exhibit, but the first to display hip-hop items, said Sean M. Decatur, the president of the American Museum of Natural History.
    "It's not only showcasing very beautiful works of jewelry that have amazing gemstones," said Decatur. "But also arranged in a way that tells the story of the history of hip-hop. And this, of course, on the heels of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop."
    (Production: Aleksandra Michalska)
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