Gold teeth or "
s in yo mouth" wasn't seen as being ratchet until the 20th century. Before then and in ancient times gold teeth meant wealthpic.twitter.com/OEdZfajRc7
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Myans would drill holes in their teeth and implant gems, very similar to today's popular teeth piercing trendpic.twitter.com/QwhV0OtTWJ
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Ancient Egyptians wired their teeth w gold, this was more a dental procedure than adornment, but niggas still had gold teeth ya dig
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Gold teeth still have major status in Eastern Europe and Central Asian villages..it's a great sign of wealth of fortunepic.twitter.com/da8mIaVAHX
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People in America's South were rocking gold teeth long before HipHop, both my grandmothers had them, but Eddie Plein brought it mainstreampic.twitter.com/5aVHNTRXCN
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Eddie Plein is responsible for many of the famous gold teeth and grills you see today, his most famous work is Flava Flavs teeth
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Since then HipHop and gold teeth have been synonymous, which unfortunately according to some (ahem white people) brought down the value.pic.twitter.com/IJKzcDUHga
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During that time anything associated w HipHop was considered trash.They never thought HipHop would have such a huge influence over the world
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La Chat
the only female in the game w PERMANENT GOLDS pic.twitter.com/dRZiPVYGIU
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Also the only one still real enough to pop a squat for a club pic or even take a club pic
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"We about to start a epidemic w this one..." says Jermaine Durpree in Grillz and they truly did. The majority (whites) wanted golds again...pic.twitter.com/dA5TARgp8R
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...putting grillz and golds back into popularity. HipHop was in a commercial overdrive. Nelly, Grillz (2005)pic.twitter.com/33sG5JZRgu
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It was so much in a commercial overdrive that grillz hit the runway.https://twitter.com/ghettosupastrrr/status/740058931389730816 …
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Nelly
These pics made me wet 
his lips omgpic.twitter.com/8wB0H8o80T
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