grillz

Now, with Jiggaman kinda, sorta retired and Nas beyond his glory days, Southern cats with gold grillz are running rap.

2005, Vibe, page 194

This black-brown-beige sea shimmered with sequined baseball caps, Cartier glasses, leather of every color, gloss-lacquered lips, and every style of denim, designer labels, diamond-studded gold grillz and jewelry, and hairstyles that shot beautiful sprays of braids and dreads and ’fros up toward the ornate gold-painted balconies and chandeliered ceiling.

2006, White Chocolate, Sex in the Hood 2, Deer Park, N.Y.: Urban Books, →ISBN, page 260

Most of the young cats had dreads with the ends dipped in red dye, gold grillz, and tall white tees that reached their knees.

2006, Racy Lee, Stripped, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 169

No longer are iced-out grillz just for rappers. They are now going mainstream, with a variety of people from all walks of life flossin’ gold grillz - including K-State students. […] “Now it is just for show. Coming up in the South as a young kid, the older guys had gold grillz, big cars and big rims. That’s all you see.” […] “It’s just a trend. It started in the South, but now people in St. Louis, New York and California have grillz,” Willis said. People get grillz for numerous reasons – whether it be to show what hood they are from, to just wanting to stick out from the crowd. […] Grillz are removable so anyone could be a professional by day and crunk by night.

2006 January 27, Sheila Ellis, “Get ur’ shine on”, in Kansas State Collegian, volume 110, number 89, page 7

As players advance, dollars are earned that can be spent in a virtual store stocked with all the accoutrements and rewards of success: the latest styles from Jordan sneakers, Avirex jackets, Ecko shirts, Sean John jeans and, of course, gold grillz for the teeth.

2007 February 12, David Lipke, “Big Game Hunters”, in DNR, volume 37, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Fashion Group, →ISSN, page 94, column 2