I am sure any of you concerning with the bling around your favorite artists’ neck, you know who Jacob The Jeweler is. For those that don’t, he is cat whom most rappers and entertainers go to for their custom chains, medallions, links, watches, rings, etc. It looks like hip-hop’s trusted jeweler has been ripping everyone off though.
The story according to hiphopsite is that Nas bought his soon to be wifey Kelis a $50,000 ring. When she was showing the rock to friends, the quality was doubted. So Nas had it appraised to discover it was only worth $7,000. Word spread and others were getting their pieces appraised, only to find the same thing; it was worth nothing near what they paid.
Does anyone else find this really really funny? With all the bragging these cats do about their jewels and they are getting played like fools paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for shit that is worth a tenth of that. Now given that most of those same rappers all cold-blooded killers in their music, shouldn’t someone be stabbing Jacob with their fake platinum Jesus piece? Fake personas to go with fake jewels I guess.