T-Pain Signing with Young Money

Talk about jumping on the bandwagon...

Singer/Producer Has $100,000 Young Money Chain
6:00AM ET December 31st, 2010
Contributor : Stephen Willis
A Rocky Williform Company

Lil Wayne's Young Money Records may have added Tallahassee, Florida rapper/singer/producer, T-Pain to its roster. No official statement has been made, but according to Cash Money/Young Money's jeweler, Gabriel Jacobs of Rafaello & Co, a new, purple and black, oversized, diamond and ruby encrusted Young Money pendant was created recently for T-Pain.

In an exclusive clip on VladTv.com, Jacobs showcased T-Pain's latest piece of jewelry, which is reportedly worth about $100,000.

"This is the new Nappy Boy/Young Money piece," Young Money jeweler Gabrielle revealed in a video with DJ Vlad. "This is the first exclusive right here. T-Pain is about to sign to Young Money. He better, after doing this. So you see it's all blacked out. It's all natural, red rubies, black diamonds. We gotta put a red ruby necklace on this thing -- We started this whole thing. It doesn't mean you have to get black diamonds -- [Here's] the Nappy Boy logo right there...On the back, I'm going to do Pain's progress to Young Money. It's like a portrait that I can laser inscribe to the jewelry. It's gonna be sick."

T-Pain was originally signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik imprint.