What is or are Cuban links or linx?

[Gregor Samsa]

A friend of mine asked me the other day what the expression "Cuban links (or linx)" means. I guess he keeps hearing it in rap and hiphop lyrics.

We both poked around the Internet, and found a guy named Cuban Link, but we think it has some other meaning.

Any ideas?

[Gregor Samsa]

Nobody has any ideas?

[KneadToKnow]

Maybe if you could provide an example in context, even if you're not sure of the spelling.

[Gregor Samsa]

There was apparently an album put out by Raekwon entitled, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx."

I was wondering if maybe it had something to do with those thick gold chains they wear, or possibly even blunts. No idea, really.

[tomndebb]

A Google search turned up a few hits. Fifteen (!?) were simply mirror sites for the same shopping page. There, under the category "Men's Necklaces" I found three subcategories: Herringone, Cuban Link, and Two Tone.

Wading through two more pages of Google results, I found two more references to Cuban Links--each an on-line shopping reference (different than the first 15) advertising a variety of necklace.

Most of the sites had expired and I had to go in through Google's cached links, so I don't know what you'll find, now.

[Gregor Samsa]

Thanks, tomndebb. I did the same kind of searches on Google and Metacrawler before I posted the question here and got the same kind of responses. I can't help but think, though, that there's some other meaning to it.

Maybe not, though.

Thanks again.

[Mojo]

I owned the Raekwon album and AFAIK there was no explanation for "cuban links". I know it's a type of gold chain and thought in that case it might be a fancified way of saying "Cubans".