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The celebrated jeweler Trax (Maksud Agadjani) diamonds and returns to break down the collection of Migos. Join him as he critiques the millions of Migos spent on chains, grills, and pendants, adding Quavo’s wand grille, Offset’s Cuban links, and Takeoff’s sun. formula string.

Published on 06/23/2021

The new GQ is Trax,

and we’ll break the bigger pieces

in the collection of Migos.

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First of all, Migos,

Didn’t they spend millions of dollars on jewelry?

but they brought millions

in heaps of millions of dollars

in trade.

So, the trends that those guys have brought.

in the game that made the difference

Did they bring traditional monster-sized portions?

back to the foreground.

They made jewelers, they broke jewelers.

they did the scene and, you know, they did the game.

So, the first thing I see with those guys.

it’s that they’re full of Cubans.

More Cubans than many jewelers have in their store.

Some of those Cubans

from $50,000 to $100,000.

They have the ones on the wand.

They have both rows, they have all 3 rows,

they were given the rose gold, they were given the white gold.

They have them on the wrist

they have them with the diamond padlock,

they have them with the fundamental lock.

Every time and every city they hit

it looks like they’re buying a Cuban.

So, Quavo is obviously proud of this baguette grill.

that it has.

It has diamond lenses, it has pointers

in his ears, he emits to his network.

That’s what he likes.

The new trend in diamond is those beautiful ones.

new baguette cut diamonds, right?

There is the old taste of baguette cut diamonds

they used before, and then a new style.

And the trick with the short baguette,

they’re a bit like emerald cups.

except that they are natural rectangles.

They cut corners.

This you can stack them, like bricks.

This means you can stack them on a grill.

and have a facade.

And what good are jewelry?

It’s about having everything that others don’t have.

Everyone spent all their money

on a Pave Flower Set grill.

Guess what, they ran out of money, but you.

Neither quavo, and bought a grill of baguette,

and when you have one,

it’s going to get something different.

So when you wear millions of jewelry

And you have a cast, you have to put ice on it.

He matched it

for whatever occasion it will be.

And, you know, I think he did a good job.

because when you look at this image,

the first thing you do is look at the cast.

You don’t even look at the millions of dollars in jewelry.

and casting charges about $20,000.

Then the first my eye gravitates a little bit

after the Cubans is the Crash Bandicoot pendant.

They had it some time ago, didn’t they?

It’s a little bit in his childhood.

and it’s more of a piece.

All the video that those guys played

when they’re young and then you grow up,

and you have dollars,

and you get a piece of icy monster.

This piece came here for inspiration

by the Crash Bandicoot.

The mask of Aku buduka.

And I’m a baby of the ‘s, so I do a lot [swear].

So, on the Crash Bandicoot pendant,

you have yellows, you have blues, you have greens,

you have other stones of other colors there,

and how is this price?

Well, this can lower the price

if the one on stones is cheaper, isn’t it?

Sometimes jewelers take a shortcut.

Well, you can take a brown diamond, irradiate it.

and it may be blue or green, and it will be dark,

but because it already has the color,

Never mind.

So, you take less expensive diamonds

and convert them into colors.

But for Quavo, it’s fine.

There are colors.

The jeweler who made this piece reduced the shortcuts.

This did not minimize the value

it’s in this piece.

The maximum class configuration here, for me, is with Offset.

He his neck with monstrous amounts of Cubans,

And then it has pointers, two of them, over there.

It’s strong, but not too strong, right?

Apart from pointers,

What’s the maximum piece you see?

Well, this is the one that has no diamonds.

This is the skeleton AP icy

white gold.

What is a matte PA?

Audemars, basically hammer white gold

in a safe end

it looks like it’s frozen outside.

This watch is a collector’s watch.

No two ice problems are the same.

Everything is done by hand.

Right now, 150-200. 00 for this watch.

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Then the first one in this image

that my eyes pay is the game through Ric Flair

What’s with Offset, right?

That’s in the video.

This is the emblematic symbol of Ric Flair

at its peak, in time, on the right,

and then down, next to it, is the cross

with diamonds in the center.

Compensated rings are one of the rings

that he by the corner of the eye and that he bought,

and outside its collection,

and put that day.

That’s what I like.

Some of them are even loose gifts.

jewelers getting

when they spend a million dollars, I don’t know.

Quavo, in hand,

it does anything different.

He has all his crazy diamond rings.

They gave it to me like, the old drug addicts of the 80s.

they used to have the ring.

all with 4 hands, but I sought to move all my fingers,

that’s why they gave it to me like, individually.

It has numbers of Cubans,

and her doll is Cuban.

These guys have a shop right there.

in this image, as they do.

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Then, Takeoff flies like Elon Musk

in this one, right?

It has the solar system, it has the planets.

he has the coming and going and the astronaut there.

It’s nonsense, and when it happens on the Internet,

he made a statement.

This configuration right there, with all those carats.

all that ice, at least part a million dollars

to get there, right?

All work, all strings

and ice cream, and so on.

So when you’re out there, guys.

rappers, artists, you’re done.

Make you look like Offset,

that you look like Takeoff, that you look like Quavo,

you want to make sure you have a million

to two million dollars to spend only on jewelry

compete with those guys.

You have a recording, you did this

you have part a million dollars in the bank,

he’s going to cut it, guys.

So, Takeoff, you know.

Sometimes the solar system flies

sometimes it helps keep it soft.

He has a Cuban and then he has a bond

that connects to one eye.

A day like this, you know, you wake up

And you say I only wear a Cuban.

but I don’t just need to put on a Cuban.

Me to have something

I have the eye, the eye of the mind,

or anything, symbolizes for him,

he has it.

I think it’s a great touch for someone

who be a little more artistic

you have an ice cream Cuban.

When a superstar

you can’t just have an ice-cold Cuban.

Something has to happen.

It’s the Bando, Bando’s emoji.

So here, Offset carries the piece.

These are the portions that,

when they got to the internet, on the right, they went viral.

The house opens

there is pulling from behind, and so on.

Now those pieces, as a jeweler,

they are the hardest thing to do in the world.

It’s more or a diamond gingerbread house.

But, on the other hand, the effect it’s had,

when you spend $250,000 to $500,000,

you know, with the chain or what you have,

in a piece that no one has ever seen,

in those documents, then it gets to the Internet,

And then the next rapper, that’s what happened.

it must compete.

It’s an investment in your image and it works.

Aren’t those guys stupid?

spend millions on jewelry.

So here Offset has another vital piece.

for the jewelry industry, the symbol piece.

And those are pieces.

Then, the pendants with photos began.

two or 3 years ago, right?

I don’t know exactly which rapper started.

I know Meek Mill did a scene about that.

But this specific photo pendant, I like it.

Great tips, no games, no jokes, be simple.

Big diamonds, VS, you know, what more can you ask for?

So when it comes to pendants,

there are two tactics to do this.

depending on how long you have, right?

You can laser print the symbol on the golden surface,

then put a layer on top.

It’s wonderful to do that.

Or you can paste a symbol there

it already has a layer.

It’s a faster or less expensive way to do it.

This can be done overnight.

Which path is better?

Obviously, the laser on gold,

that’s what it turns out to be here.

it’s the way to do it.

Your this guy is going to have the worst path

or the way

Of course, you will have a way to do that.

Then Quavo has the baguette grill.

you’ll have to show it.

What else does he have?

Well, he has a pebble in his ear.

I’ll tell you, and it’s expensive.

Because it looks like between 3 and 4 carats,

and I know it doesn’t bring any SI or anything like that.

And when you look at those numbers,

you’re in the range of $100,000 to $200,000.

You have a monster pointer string

just above the Cuban track DATWAY.

Look at at least $100,000 to $200,000

in that.

And then, on top of that,

it’s a string like this.

Is this okay

So it’s a chain of wands.

And what is the value of this channel?

Well, I rate $32,000 for that channel.

Now, when it comes down to that, I probably would have paid more.

and it may be a more valuable string

Because I don’t see precisely how chopsticks are placed.

but you get what you pay for,

and they are, as you know, chains.

The ring of ear, in the hand,

it’s a room, right?

I mean

large chopsticks descending towards the center

and stones all to.

It’s a pink ring.

The value of diversity is about $20-30,000

in a piece like that.

So this is the vintage superstar setup.

it’s on this here.

So the maximum pendant of this collection

it’s the QC, but the flagship maximum is the DATWAY.

Because you take like Subway.

which is a five-dollar sandwich,

and your to DATWAY,

and you spend thousands of dollars on it.

That’s where this chimney comes from, right?

You take a, you know, a character.

that you looked loose on the wire when you were a kid,

you grew up, you spent $200,000 on that.

I used to, I don’t know, paint on Subway or eat on Subway.

anything, however, DATWAY,

and it works, and it hits, and everybody does it.

So that’s the piece.

So it’s a wonderful setup, consistent with it.

What for?

Because the 3 pieces,

And there’s a room hidden somewhere, I’m not sure.

but the 3 pieces overlap on others.

On the back you have the Crash Bandicoot,

which is the classic, he loves it.

You probably used it that day.

because I was looking to have this ice cone from the length of a monster

around his neck, right?

And then, in the most sensible part of that,

you have the band Shmurda Shmigo.

Completely icy circular stones, those are chopsticks.

it’s not, you know, the wand thing.

it will take a month to do so, and so on.

These guys moving, he said.

I want this piece quickly!

Do it quickly, get the 3D model, host it,

he had it on his neck.

Monstrous amounts of carats, 1000% Migo.

What are you saying?

You’ll decipher it yourself.

I think I hear what you’re saying to me, don’t I?

It’s a thousand Shmurda Migo Gang.

Crash Bandicoot.

Diamonds, Cubans, pointers, millions.

So the channel setup here is ridiculous, okay?

It’s anything you have to be of, you know, sadly jealous.

I mean, it’s a lot of strings.

And the two patterns have the length of a monster, the two tones, right?

You’ve got two other golden colors there, big rocks.

50 pointers.

Looking for $200,000 to $300,000 for the

on those two channels,

And then you have Cuban monsters behind you.

one larger than the next.

This is the most sensible of the most sensible.

Takeoff carries a piece of Jesus in a chain of monstrous pointers.

at present

The piece of Jesus is not the one that these guys wear.

They made those customs.

they were doing all those crazy things, that,

he returns to the classic.

For the Biggie Smalls, the Tupac era, right?

The Cuban Jesus Ice Cream

with the H-classes, blind your butts cut,

as Biggie used to say.

In this case,

this vintage piece of Jesus has stones in the crown.

right?

And he has pebbles around his neck.

I like this piece.

I would like to do this for my store.

And for me it’s beautiful.

It has the depth of Jesus’ face that I love.

So this piece, right?

With Quavo, one of my favorites, personally.

They’re the three-dimensional models of Migo Gang.

and of course,

has the iconic stones carved in baguette

they are in the background.

I mean, it’s one, you know, a lovely piece.

It doesn’t stop, this guy.

And why would it stop?

He explained the trends of the game,

and puts them back in their place.

Her pieces bring other pieces on her, don’t they?

these chains of guys.

And the touch on this pendant here is,

again, the completely frozen in one,

the lenses are icy, the grid is icy on this,

and those other guys don’t have a grill.

He took an image of them and it came to life.

with all the details,

and fully frozen glasses is trending

I characterize them.

I don’t know who started,

but I’d probably tell them.

Because they’re up.

They can just take the keys out of their garage door.

and it may also have ice.

I don’t know, they don’t prevent any place with the ice.

Thus, all 3 are glazed.

You can enamel that, you can paint it by hand.

you can do all that.

And they were even thinking about doing all that.

but they left him raw gold he saw it,

And he’s like, leave it at that.

that’s what I believe in my head.

How do I know?

It is a satin finish.

You have to satin it

so that the paint adheres to the gold.

And as if he had shown it to her,

and said, it’s in an enamel position.

Leave it at that, I alone like that.

I do it now, I do it tomorrow, I get it back.

or you make it fly, not what it is.

So, this channel, again, I can listen to Quavo on the phone.

talk to Eliantte or whoever,

and tell them that all is well

you know, do your best.

It’s a link.

It’s a new link, you know.

you can’t just seem in the morning

and a link, right?

It takes a little time, a little reflection

how are you going to do that?

These links are maintained in combination through other links.

they are made with chopsticks everywhere.

You need to adjust this correctly.

You don’t need the stones to fall.

It’s a special task for him.

He doesn’t play with that.

and he did it again.

As a jeweler, as an amateur,

I can’t separate my eyes from the photo.

I doubt I was going to take my eyes off.

outside the room.

Another piece that makes me green, right?

Like Yoda sitting on it.

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So, let’s say a rapper, an artist.

or a dreamer.

And that you look like those guys.

What will it take?

Well, it’s going to take on some artistic significance, right?

Let’s set it aside for a second.

Rooms like DATWAY, the house, the solar system,

you have to think about that.

You can’t copy that.

Many other people try to copy that, they are not successful in the goal.

But, you know, let’s say an artistic guy.

you have all those and you love them.

and so on.

Better to recover.

How much cash do you want to spend $10 million?

in jewelry?

At least $50 million.

After that, when you spend this money

in jewelry, you will need to have the right jewelers.

These guys had relationships with jewelers.

they were happy, they were cut off.

There are a lot of other people out there, they move to Icebox.

Eliantte, they will go to Pristine,

maybe they don’t.

But I’ll thank you.

because they attracted industry,

they gave a lot in the game,

and they put themselves ahead,

you know, put your foot on the ground

and do what they do,

not what you think most.

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