Is Gold Out of Fashion?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 17th 2005 at 11:32AM

From the news-I don't-believe file comes this article that claims gold is "no longer the metal of choice for the adornment of the ruling class." The article states that rappers and others who drape themselves in gold are hurting the gold market in the long run. This seems pretty ridiculous, if Mr. T draped in gold chains in the 1980s didn't hurt gold's image, is it really in danger from Nelly? If this is true then the diamond market should also be facing a serious problem. In my opinion, gold's problem comes not from the hip-hop community but from the increase of the use of other metals including titanium and platinum in jewelry design. However, gold has been used as the metal of the elite since the days of the pharoahs so it seems unlikely it will fall out of fashion permanently.

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Steven Martinovich Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

Gold is tired simply because of rappers who compensate for something else with extravagent shows of the stuff. Of course it won't fall out of fashion for long -- assuming it is out now -- but a break is a nice thing.

R. Jack Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

What kind of 1980's rap are you retards listening to?

Rappers switched to platinum back in the late 90's. When slick rick made his comebakc album, there was a scene in the video where he traded in all his gold chains for platinum, that was in what, 97?

worst part is, someone got paid for writing that stupid article.

beyond the obvious anti-rapper bias of course.