Hello, welcome, let’s take a break from industry news and global doom and talk about a rap video and a very, very expensive PlayStation portable handheld.
Producer, rapper, and anime enthusiast Pharrell Williams was somewhat notable for owning a 14k gold Blackberry a very long time ago (I told you, it’s been a very long time). To keep the topic going, he bought a PSP in 2008 and “commissioned a 14K gold PSP case to replace stock plastic.
This shinier a lot of The heavier PSP (at 660g compared to 280g for a standard PSP) was not designed to be easily carried around in your pocket; To add to the extravagance of the handheld itself – which wasn’t jewelry, he still used it to play –Pharrell also had a custom Goyard case made.
Why am I telling you this now, in 2023? Partly because I only just found out and thought the idea of Pharrell Williams owning a gold PlayStation Portable was about the last days of Rome act of pre-GFC extravaganza I could think of , to share in a feature on this site, that’s all about video game history.
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I’m also telling you this in 2023 because the exact same PSP has just appeared in a new version Drake video, after The Canadian rapper spent a few million dollars to buy some of Pharrell’s old stuff – mostly jewelry –at an auction. The PSP is visible just a few seconds later, is waved onto the screen at around 0:50 and comes very close to the camera at 1:29:
If you want to see more pictures of the PSP, here is the auction list (on Pharrell’s own auction site)which shows that it was sold for last year $19375
