The American Museum of Natural History in New York will showcase some of rap’s most notable jewelry in the upcoming exhibition “Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry”.

The exhibit will include Slick Rick’s crown, JAY-Z’s Roc-A-Fella diamond pendant and Nicki Minaj’s pendant, and more jewelry from the collections of Erykah Badu, A$AP Rocky, Joey Bada$$, A $AP Ferg and Tyler, the Creator.

“Celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary as a global phenomenon in New York, the “Ice Cold” exhibit will highlight the evolution of hip-hop jewelry over the past five decades, starting with large gold chains embraced by rap pioneers in the 1980s, moving into the 1990s, when emcees became corporate moguls and wore record label pendants sparkling with diamonds and platinum» is mentioned in the Museum’s announcement about the exhibition.

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“Hip-hop jewelry has had an enormous impact on our larger contemporary culture,” Sean M. Decatur, president of the New York Museum of Natural History, said in a statement. “This jewelry isn’t just gorgeous in its own right, it’s an important part of hip-hop history and hip-hop culture as artists have reclaimed and transformed traditional symbols of luxury and success,” he said.

The exhibition is essentially the third part of a trilogy about hip-hop and its striking jewelry with first a series of documentaries by Karam Gill that tried to answer the question of how and when jewelry became integrated into hip-hop culture, followed by a volume by Taschen with photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans and David LaChapelle.

Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry opens May 9.