who came up with the phrase bling bling
Bling-bling In the 1993 hit song by Diggable Planets, the song “Rebirth of Slick(Cool Like Dat)” you can hear the female sing “Bling! Bling! Bling! Bling” in the background. The term was used in this way to describe a gaudy piece of jewelry, for example the otherwise rotten gold-toothed smile and stereotypical pimp jewelry of the character "Jerome" on the television series Martin. Jesse West (known as rapper 3rd Eye) is cited as perhaps the first rapper to use the complete term "bling bling"[3] on Super Cat's 1993 hit "Dolly My Baby (Remix)" – a song that West produced, and also featured Puff Daddy and a young Biggie Smalls in his record debut.