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“Gon’ Buy Me a Chain”
get my chains made so that I can make a statement without talking. I’ve had the Tallahassee chain about a year now, and what made me get it is that I already have that design tattooed on my left arm, so I thought making it into a chain it would be another way for me to represent my city. I represent Tallahassee everywhere I go. People always say they got their city of their back. Well, I put mine on my neck. I designed the chain myself. I design all my chains, and that’s why none of my chains look regular. Some of these niggas be going to the jeweler and their shit just be something generic, like a cross. But I design every chain that I got myself, and I make sure that all my chains say T-Pain on it. It ain’t never no shit I done bought from a jeweler. The thing that’s unique about the Tallahassee chain is that it’s actually a model of the Capitol Building in Tallahassee. It’s kinda crazy because in Tallahassee the street leading up to the Capitol building, and the cross street right in front of the building come together and actually form a “T.” The jeweler who crafted it was a new guy from Miami, and I can’t remember his name to save my life. As far as the specs or the amount of carats, I don’t know none of that shit; I don’t be fucking with that shit. But I do know that I paid $50,000 for it.
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Girls don’t really like my chain because when they get close enough to me it’s usually hitting them in the face. They love it once they figure out what it is, but their first reaction is, “What the hell is that?!” They think it’s just a big-ass cross. But I don’t think chains or anything like that help guys get girls; hell naw, it ain’t nothing sexy about a chain. I don’t give a fuck how big your chain is. If you’re whack, or you’re an asshole, ain’t nobody gonna fuck with you. Chains don’t make girls wanna talk to you, especially if you got a fake ass chain on and the girl finds out that yo’ big ass chain is lighter than her earrings; that shit ain’t gon’ do nothing for you. I got the Tallahassee chain to represent my city, not to get girls.
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I got another chain that’s an exact replica of a Tallahassee Police badge, and on top of it, it says “TPD.” Niggas think I’m talking about the Tallahassee Police Department, but it really stands for Teddy Pinned’erass Down. That’s probably my favorite chain, because I love that police shit. Niggas be getting scared, thinking it’s a real police badge that just has some ice on it, and I love to see that. I love scaring niggas. It’s always a whole ’nother meaning to my shit. All together, I’ve spent more than $600,000 on jewelry, but you can’t go cheap on the jewelry when you got a Lamborghini in your yard. // - As told to Eric Perrin