Rapper Lil Uzi Vert and Marvel’s Vision now have something in common.
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Rapper Lil Uzi Vert already had facial tattoos and piercings, but now he appears to have a $ 24 million pink diamond decorating his forehead.
Videos on Instagram posted by the musician and jeweler Elliot Eliantte show the big stone. Lil Uzi Vert and Eliantte’s representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“Beauty is pain,” says the caption in Lil Uzi Vert’s Instagram video.
The rapper said he had spent the past four years paying for the gem, which he said was between 10 and 11 carats, the New York Post reported. And when a fan told the musician to put the diamond on a ring, he replied: “If I lose the ring, yes, you will make fun of me more than putting it on my forehead … And yes, I have safe.”
Some fans told Lil Uzi Vert that the stone looked off-center, but in a video shared by HipHopDX, the rapper denied it. His answer made it sound as if the gem was removable, like a piercing, instead of permanent.
“It’s in the middle,” he said. “I just put on a long bar because I just had a piercing. When the swelling goes down, I’m going to get a short bar so it doesn’t move. Keep talking about it because I have a long bar so I can move because of the swelling. When you come down, it will be fine. “
In one of the most unnerving scenes from Avengers: Infinity War of 2018, supervillain Thanos kills the android’s Vision by tearing the Mindstone off his forehead. This did not escape Twitter users, who compared the rapper’s jewel to Vision.
“Thanos coming after him any minute,” joked a Twitter user.
Unsurprisingly, paying $ 24 million for facial jewelry shocked many, and even Lil Uzi Vert himself didn’t seem to believe it. To a Twitter user who said: “We need a receipt for the 24 (million) that I am not selling,” wrote the musician, “I can’t believe I made this Stone move in a very different way now.”