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Orlando Sentinel questions Fidel about PiMP CUPS
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Byline: Aline Mendelsohn
Mar. 31--Once upon a time, there were bejeweled glasses called goblets and chalices. Today, they have a new name: pimp cups. There's The Pimpstress and The Pimpadelic, The Throwback and The Big Tyme, the Viceroy and The Royal. Those are just a few of the many varieties of the pimp cup, an accessory that has become popular among a segment of the hip-hop community. For the uninitiated, pimp cups are goblets -- sometimes trophy-sized -- decorated with rhinestones, cubic zirconia or even diamonds. Many of the cups spell out in jewels the word "pimp," "playa" or the cup owner's name. In the past few years, the cups have been a visible party accessory among rappers such as
Byline: Aline Mendelsohn
Mar. 31--Once upon a time, there were bejeweled glasses called goblets and chalices. Today, they have a new name: pimp cups. There's The Pimpstress and The Pimpadelic, The Throwback and The Big Tyme, the Viceroy and The Royal. Those are just a few of the many varieties of the pimp cup, an accessory that has become popular among a segment of the hip-hop community. For the uninitiated, pimp cups are goblets -- sometimes trophy-sized -- decorated with rhinestones, cubic zirconia or even diamonds. Many of the cups spell out in jewels the word "pimp," "playa" or the cup owner's name. In the past few years, the cups have been a visible party accessory among rappers such as
Fidel Cashflow In Orlando Weekly
STUBBORN STRENGTH
Fidel Cashflow: Year of the Hustler
Desc: CD REVIEW: ARTIST: Fidel Cashflow
Label: Pure Cash Entertainment
Format: Album
Media: CD
Genre: Recording
BY JUSTIN STROUT
The name is the first question in any discussion that involves Orlando rapper Fidel Cashflow. Whether you’re telling a friend about his uniquely accessible street tales, smoothed over with a cleverly straightforward A-to-B flow, or chatting up the artist himself in the middle of the final mixing of his debut, that moniker is a giant, nationalistic elephant in the room. Given to him by
Fidel Cashflow in the Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Jim Abbott column: Fidel Cashflow does things by the book.
COPYRIGHT 2007 The Orlando Sentinel
Byline: Jim Abbott
Sep. 28--Cesar Gallardo, an Orlando hip-hop entrepreneur when he's not rapping as alter ego Fidel Cashflow, couldn't decide whether to start a modeling agency or a magazine.
He went with the latter, which sounds like a lot more work and a lot less glamour than coordinating swimsuit shots. Deadlines, designers, printers, advertisers.
"There's a lot of chasing a lot of different people around," Gallardo says. "There were deadlines that I was trying to meet, then there was getting them pushed back to wait on the designer and the printer."
COPYRIGHT 2007 The Orlando Sentinel
Byline: Jim Abbott
Sep. 28--Cesar Gallardo, an Orlando hip-hop entrepreneur when he's not rapping as alter ego Fidel Cashflow, couldn't decide whether to start a modeling agency or a magazine.
He went with the latter, which sounds like a lot more work and a lot less glamour than coordinating swimsuit shots. Deadlines, designers, printers, advertisers.
"There's a lot of chasing a lot of different people around," Gallardo says. "There were deadlines that I was trying to meet, then there was getting them pushed back to wait on the designer and the printer."
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