Pharrell's 18-Karat Phone

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Pharrell Williams is setting new standards of bling.

The mogul-turned-singer showed off his new 18-karat-gold Blackberry during a stopover in New York to promote his solo album, "In My Mind."

Williams' Blackberry was designed by Jacob Arabo, the New York bling king known as Jacob the Jeweler. Arabo was arrested in June as part of a nationwide drug and money-laundering sweep and currently is awaiting his next court date.

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31. STOP HATING !!!! (HATERS)

Posted at 5:10PM on Jul 26th 2006 by Dee Bee

32. CD- I agree, he has worked hard for his money and if he wants to buy an expensive phone then so be it. Being that the majority of us are not rich, we think that an 18k phone is expensive. What he did is not different than Paris Hilton buying bling for her dog or stars doing other crazy things with their money. For the normal human being, an luxury item might be buying a $100,000 car, everyone has there own version of what expensive and cheap is. And yes, Pharrell does help out others in need but he can not save the world.

Posted at 10:08AM on Jul 27th 2006 by Neets

33. You only live once so live large as possible!!!!!! GO BIG!

Every time I come around your city BLING-BLING!!!!

Posted at 9:56PM on Jul 27th 2006 by J. Raw

34. The Q will never take over anything as long as it runs WM5, it is garbage and if it was only a cool factor, rest assured Pharell would have have one, the Q, laughable....

Posted at 10:58AM on Jul 28th 2006 by DP

35. if only folks paid more attention to stuff like this:

Rapper/ super producer Pharrell Williams has announced plans to open a computer-based community resource center in his hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Plans could be presented to City Council as soon as next month, according to Don Maxwell, director of economic development in Virginia Beach.

Currently, Williams' plans include a Discovery Channel special on the site's development. He's also in talks with Microsoft and Apple to wire the facility and has tapped a local architect to design the building. The location, capacity and cost of the proposed center are being determined.

Williams said he was inspired by his own upbringing and the lack of opportunities available to youths in low-income neighborhoods.

"There are so many routes you can take as a young minority in Virginia. You can have somebody teach you in the hood how to make, manufacture and intend to distribute crack cocaine, or we could buckle down and educate our youth, and one of these kids could be the next chemist for Pfizer," said Williams, who found success as half of the hip hop duo The Neptunes.

"We've got to do something about it. We've got to stand up."

Source: Chronic Magazine

Posted at 11:31AM on Jul 28th 2006 by bking

36. you guys are all dorks and dweebs. and geeks

Posted at 4:06PM on Jul 28th 2006 by Johnny Hungwell

37. Maybe all those starving kids should go make some beats and get a gold phone too. or go cop some top ramen.

Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 8th 2006 by Tommy

38. Re: Concerned Phone User

Educate yourself on mobile data solutions before shooting your mouth off like an idiot. Q cannot compete with BB. Not only does it reboot 2x daily and run a s#itty OS, but it's not even parterned with a secure enterprise solution.

Posted at 3:02PM on Aug 24th 2006 by MooG

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