From YahooNews:

Mouth Grills Become Flashy Fashion Trend

CLEVELAND - The hip-hop culture is sinking its teeth into a new fashion trend. Individual gold-capped teeth have given way to grills and fronts — removable mouthpieces made of gold, platinum or silver and sometimes studded with jewels.

The trend has been boosted by hip-hop icons such as Nelly and rappers like Paul Wall.

After Nelly’s 2005 hit “Grillz,” which glorifies the trend, young people all over scrambled to wrap their chops around a shiny grill.

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I love this quote from the article…

“Everybody is getting grills,” Owens said while hanging out at the food court at Tower City. He chose silver to set himself apart.

Everybody is getting grills,  So he sets himself apart my getting a SILVER grill….. ahhh.. yes….  What a Towering Individual young Mr. Owens is.   What I want to know…  Where do these idiot teenagers get $200 to make themselves look like clowns?