Street ball players making it big coined the term baller to mean someone who has it good. Someone who has it made (e.g. no financial worries). This was generally exhibited by big displays of said wealth in the form of gold and diamonds. If you cannot afford it, you ain’t baller. Feeeel meeee? Bill Cosby is going to hate this article.

PIMP cups a.k.a. crunk cups, a.k.a. pimp goblets

A king needs his goblet to toast his followers. A pimp requires his pimp goblet to cheers his bitches. The more diamonds and gold on a cup is made of the more baller of a baller you are. That is the logic of the streets (more specifically suburban streets where the middle class make baller-ass goblets to feel urban).

Thanks to lil’ John it just isn’t quite a house party in the burbs without someone shouting “get crunk” and waving around a hand painted glass covered in rhinestones. Isn’t life better now that bad rap producers have entered the meme. Also many people have suggested that they would like to see 2 girls, 1 pimp cup someday.

Gold Chains & Big Necklaces

One of the best rap duos out there at the moment is two guys out of Chicago called the cool kids. What makes them great is that they are a complete throw back to the mid 80s when rap was rap. When you could write a song about eating fruity pebbles and playing video games, truly this was a golden age for the music. I’m not calling current rap overly commercial, it just rings too closely to what 80s hair metal was. Overly escapist, materialistic and stale, that’s how I would describe it. The cool kids throw it back when all you needed was a little bit of gold and a pager. That’s how you’re supposed to keep it real.

Some cool chains as worn by attractive women, bought from who knows which

Another amusing trend was bounties being placed on famous necklaces worn by rappers. In some cases the necklace becomes more famous than the actual rapper. For example the Platinum H around the neck of Yung Joc. The H stands for hustlenomics. Hustlenomics has yet to be recognized by Websters. No definition available. The chain was reportedly stolen by some guys out in London, or not. No one is really sure.

Just a quick note here by De la Soul. The chain does not make the man. M F Doom has a song where he says, “I’m the Best Rapper who doesn’t wear a chain.”

bad ass.

Iced Out Watches

I got so much ice on my wrist if I touch a keyboard the computer freezes. That’s why I have a Vietnamese person write everything I tell them too. Cause the watch only comes off when I die.

Big bling watches are newer to the game. They did not really start to get noticed till the turn of the century. Jacob the Jeweler was first mentioned in a rap song in 1999 by Jay-z. Since then he has been mentioned in over 40 songs by various rap artists. His style of watches has been duplicated for the streets and now you can buy a cheap replica for about twelve dollars. Remember when swatch sponsored a Run DMC (the guys who played that song with Aerosmith) tour back in the early 80s? I don’t because I wasn’t born for another three years. You are old.

Schooly D had a song back in the day called Gucci Time about his brand new Gucci watch. Having these kind of watches was a symbol that you had made it. You could afford nice things and so you showed them off. Ice round my wrist suckas!

You need to be rolling on them twenty-twos. The bigger the rim the more fierce you are in the game. I think that is self explanatory. What says ballah! besides something that is pointless, expensive and bad for the environment. Need something chromed out? Hell Yeah! Want something golded out? Most Definitely. Need something chromed out? Even Better.

Big pimping!

If you balla you don’t worry about squalor. Life is on easy street.Things go by real nice. You are at the head of the game. Keep it good and clean and your gonna stay that way. The problem though is once you show flash that’s when people start to notice you. When people notice you they want what you have and are willing to take it from you. Gotta be up in there ready to protect what’s yours.