July 19, 2022
Maino and Jim Jones have been jewelery shopping, picking up a pair of matching diamond-encrusted door knocker pendants which they’ve rushed to social media to show off.
A staple in New York City, door knockers have been heard by many generations growing up in the Big Apple. The brass objects were mostly found in NYC housing projects and when knocked could be heard through different floors.
Both Jimmy and Maino know that sound all too well as they grew up in housing projects in Harlem and Brooklyn, respectively. As the duo Lobby Boyz, the pair embraced their upbringing on their recent self-titled joint album, and they’re further celebrating the housing projects lifestyle with some new ice too.
On Monday (July 18), Maino hopped on Instagram to show off the new diamond door knocker pendants he and Jim Jones had made by Mazza New York jewelers.
“This represents the struggle right here. In case you don’t understand what this is, this is a gold-flooded, diamond-encrusted ocean,” Maino said as Capo moved the handle to make a knocking sound with the pendant. “If you understand the struggle, understand the pain, you understand coming from New York City housing, this is apartment 2B, where I grew up with my mother, my father and my brother.”
He added: “Lobby Boyz, you know. Louis Armstrong Houses, Nostrand Avenue apartment 2B. It ain’t where you at it’s how you started and where you going. We come from the bottom and we got things to say, and we trying to get out and inspire other people.”
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