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What US jewelry stores, resellers and streetwear brands should check before buying hip hop jewelry wholesale: materials, stones, samples, minimums, custom work and shipping.

On a basic heat tester, moissanite usually reads as diamond. On a multi-tester it doesn’t. Here’s why, how each stone tests, and how to test pavé pieces.

VVS is a diamond clarity grade meaning very, very slightly included. Here’s what VVS1 and VVS2 mean, why rappers say VVS, and whether clarity matters on iced pendants.

Moissanite vs diamond compared for iced out pendants and chains: hardness, sparkle, price, testers and resale, and which to pick.

Four checks for matching an iced out pendant to a chain: bail fit, weight, length and style, plus a size-matching table.

Which Cuban link width and length to buy: 5mm vs 8mm vs 10mm, where each length sits on the body, solid vs hollow, and iced Cuban links.

Step by step: how a name, letter or logo becomes a custom iced out pendant, what drives the price, and what to send your jeweler.

What a Jesus piece is, how it became hip hop’s most famous pendant, and how to pick the right style, size, metal and chain.

Iced out means jewelry covered in so many stones it looks frozen. Here’s where the term comes from, the slang around it, and how iced pieces are actually set.

Where hip hop jewelry came from, the main pieces, the metals and stones they’re made with, and how to spot a well-made piece.