Tupac Shakur's self-designed crown ring, worn by the rapper during the last public appearance before his 1996 death, highlights Sotheby’s upcoming auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
crown ring, worn by the rapper during the last public appearance before his 1996 death, highlights Sotheby’sThe gold, ruby, and diamond-encrusted ring is expected to receive bids up to $300,000 when the item hits theAccording to the auction house, Shakur, then freshly released from both prison and newly signed to Death Row Records, told his godmother and money manager Fula that he wanted to design a ring to represent the next stage of his career, a piece of jewelry befitting of “an act of...
Inspired by both royalty and Machiavelli, the rapper collaborated with New York jewelers to design the ring. “Sitting atop a diamond-encrusted gold band is the ‘crown’ itself: a gold circlet studded with the three largest jewels in the entire piece—a central cabochon ruby, flanked by two pavé-cut diamonds,” Sotheby’s wrote of the item.
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