Grillz

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Leader: Karar
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Created on: 9 Apr 2007
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Hip hop artists began wearing grills in the early 1980s. New Yorker Eddie Plein, owner of Eddie's Gold Teeth, is most often credited with starting the trend. Plein made gold caps for Flava Flav, and later outfitted New York rappers including Big Daddy Kane and Kool G. Rap. He later moved to Atlanta, where he designed ever-more-elaborate grills for rappers like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Ludacris, and Lil Jon.

Grills rose to prominence with Dirty South rappers in the 2000s as a symbol of their wealth and success. The video to the 2005 single "Grillz" (by Nelly, Paul Wall, Big Gipp, and Ali) showcases many common styles of grills.