Trailer for BLING: A Planet Rock, the extremely necessary documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds - “blinging” - and all its social trappings, and how this infatuation correlated with the ten-year conflict in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The film follows three rappers - Paul Wall, Tego Calderon, and Raekwon - as they trek to the country to meet the survivors, perpetrators and diamond miners in the country.
Directed by Raquel Cepeda and Produced in association with VH1 and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the film began airing on VH1 in February, 2007 and is now available on DVD.
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Diamonds are whack. Since when did dudes started wearing diamonds? I thought they were a girl’s best friend. I don’t bling or sing. But I might kick a flow though.
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This film is important to support because there is so much at stake with the mining of diamonds. They are worthless stones that are controlled from the market to make us believe their value, which in fact is pennies, yet we place a high emotional and monotary price on them. I have a scandalous Doc on my page about the DeBeers families monopoly on the industry.