It just makes us feel like we’re a part of team USA.”Īlthough Lochte was banned from wearing the grill during the actual medal ceremony, he quickly popped in his celebratory ice for his signature “chomp” of the gold medal for international photographers. It was a tremendous honor for us to make his grill.
He represents anybody who has ever worn a grill or is a fan of hip-hop. Ryan represents a part of American culture.
"But I guess since he beat out Michael Phelps in such tremendous fashion and add to that the fact that it’s the Olympics and it was an American flag, it added to all the hype around it. “If you Google Ryan Lochte, Google will finish your search entry with ‘grill.’ There was already pictures of him on the Internet with the other grill we made for him, so we didn’t think the American flag grill was going to be as big of a deal as it is," Wall said, of the diamond and ruby-studded piece that cost approximately $1,000 per tooth.
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“Me and TV Johnny did a grill for him before that he wore at the podium last year,” Wall told RapFix. Paul Wall gave RapFix the scoop on designing the accessory. The New York native set the world on fire Sunday when he followed up his gold medal-winning performance in the 400-meter Individual Medley in London with his own flash of patriotism: a $25, 000 custom red, white and blue diamond-encrusted American flag grill custom made by the rapper known for keeping other rappers’ mouths shining like disco balls. You can call rapper/jeweler, Paul Wall, "George Foreman" because he’s selling everybody grills-even recent Team USA gold medalist Ryan Lochte.