Figure IV Records

Bloody Bling

Bloody Bling

Diamonds aren’t everyone’s best friend

Red-1 remembers wearing his chain with the diamond-encrusted Figure IV Records medallion to the 2000 Ghana Music Awards in West Africa, but when he and fellow Rascalz rapper Misfit boarded a plane to Sierra Leone the next day, he put the bling away. The Vancouver rapper had just been debriefed on conflict or blood diamonds—illicit…