She saw my chain and started relaxin,’ that’s what the fuck I call a…
Terror Squad Piece
got a few TS chains, but the new one that I upgraded to is a huge, yellow diamonds, black diamonds, and white diamonds piece that’s just a big heavy, phenomenal, amazing, tremendous TS logo piece. And it hangs on the belly of a don. I had to upgrade because I had a new album [We The Best] out and it was only right that I upgraded the chain, because every album gets an updated chain or something incredible. Plus, for different occasions, I want to wear a different type of chain. This big one is called the “ignorant, arrogant, but very humble at the same time” piece; it’s a combination. The other TS chain I have is more of a sexy, keepin’ it smooth type piece, but this one is just boom, inyour-face, and it reminds you who I be and who I rep with. The greatest reaction I got from this chain was at the OZONE Awards, on that OZONE stage during the opening performance. I was performing “We Takin’ Over” with Lil Wayne, Birdman, Fat Joe, and Rick Ross, and then “I’m So Hood” with T-Pain, Trick Daddy, and Plies. When that chain was bouncing and they were shooting the cameras at me and that TS piece
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Khaled’s 65K on stage, every magazine in the world and every TV screen with MTV Jams had their attention on me. That’s what you get a chain like that for, to attract attention. When you stunt on stage and rip it down, and then open up that OZONE Magazine and see yourself with that chain in the photo gallery, that’s what you want. The chain cost $65,000, but it’s proved to be a great investment for me. The chain was made by TV Johnny, and I’m gonna be honest with you: Fat Joe actually made this chain for himself, but one day I looked at Joe and said, “Joe, I need that upgrade. I’m going on the road to promote my album, I gotta look right. Joe, you can’t tell me no. I need that.” And he said, “Khaled, it’s yours, you can have it, I’ll just buy me another one.” I swear to you, Joe only had that chain for two days. It was a great gift. Now I gotta get as big as him so I can buy him one someday. As told to Eric Perrin // Photo by Ray Tamarra