For those who couldn’t inform from all of the instances he’s talked about him in interviews or the songs he’s featured him on, Jay-Z is Pusha T’s favourite rapper. Pusha’s paid homage to Jigga many instances up to now, however by no means like this.
On Saturday (June 8), the Virginia rapper and the jeweler Saint Jewels shared footage of the brand new piece on Instagram in a carousel of photos that ends with an previous image of Jay-Z carrying an identical pendant round his neck.
“The Anchor impressed by the tradition, artwork, and historical past,” the caption reads. “Made for @kingpush. Pavé diamonds on stable white gold accented by a bronze rope, reverse set diamond finish factors. Multifaceted traditional briolette lower diamonds deal with the steering wheel.”
The picture of Hov carrying the anchor pendant is from a 1988 photoshoot for his good friend and mentor Jaz-O, taken by Timothy White in Brooklyn. On the time, Jay was 19 and comparatively unknown to most rap followers. He addressed this period of his life many instances by his songs, the latest being “Bam” from 2017’s 4:44 the place he rapped, “I’ve by no means seen a employee rock so many jewels.”
Push has expressed his Jay fandom earlier than, calling Jay “the most effective rapper” throughout an interview with SiriusXM in 2022 when speaking about collaborating with the Brooklyn legend. “Once I attain out to him a few report, I really feel like he type of is aware of that I’m not reaching out to him about no bullsh—t … I have to actually suppose that that is like, a joint or one thing that’s gonna add to the good legacy that he has.”
Jay and Push have solely two songs collectively: 2016’s “Drug Sellers Nameless” and 2022’s “Neck & Wrist,” the previous being broadly thought of a traditional. Hopefully, this new tribute will result in extra music from the pair, however what we actually want is a whole undertaking produced by the Neptunes. They will even put on matching chains on the album cowl and within the music movies.
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