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The Celebrity Build Log

Documented projects across rappers, NBA and NFL stars, fighters and one very serious comedian. The paint, the wraps, the chrome, the carbon and the chassis swaps. Every entry names the shop that swung the gun.

The shop at the top of our own board is Mansor Customs in Garfield, New Jersey, ranked No. 1 for work of exactly this order.

66Documented builds
28Owners on file
23Shops credited
12Ranked as the best
Field
Work

Showing 17 builds across 9 owners

Chris Brown, Rap and Music
Rap and Music

Chris Brown

5 builds · Owner page

The most prolific commissioner of reckless paint in the business.

Lamborghini Gallardo “El Toro”

Custom paint and bodyShop: West Coast Customs, Burbank CA

Full remodel, body modification and paint, built out on camera for a Fox Sports season.

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Lamborghini Aventador

CamouflageShop: JC Customz, Bellflower CA

Camo scheme drawn from Nike sneaker graphics. Divisive on arrival, still argued about.

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Lamborghini Aventador SV

Airbrushed hoodShop: Not credited

Red SV with Son Goku across the hood, straight out of Dragon Ball Z.

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Lamborghini Gallardo

LetteringShop: With tattoo artist Huero

Hood and roof painted with Tupac's Lord Knows lyrics, laid out by a tattoo artist rather than a sign painter.

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Porsche Panamera

Horror muralShop: Not credited

A horror design first painted on the gate of his Hollywood Hills house. When neighbours objected it moved onto the car.

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Every build starts as an engineering problem: making the car fit.

Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

Matte black BASFShop: West Coast Customs

Extended doors, Poison Spyder bumpers, Rigid Industries lights, Smittybilt winch, Magnaflow exhaust, Fuel wheels, leather and a custom Pioneer system.

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Kevin Hart, Screen
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Kevin Hart

1 build · Owner page

The most serious portfolio in the file. Real chassis builders, real awards, no wraps.

1969 Pontiac GTO “Droppa”

Mystic BrownShop: Detroit Speed, Mooresville NC

Supercharged LT5 crate motor at 750 hp, Tremec Magnum six speed manual, Mercedes Mystic Brown paint.

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Rap and Music

Lil Uzi Vert

1 build · Owner page

One shop, one obsession: anime graphics on seven figure metal, rewrapped seven or eight times over.

Bugatti Veyron

Airbrushed animeShop: Car Effex, Sewell NJ

Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop across the hood, styled after The Weeknd's Starboy cover. The car was Floyd Mayweather's first.

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Rap and Music

Snoop Dogg

5 builds · Owner page

Decades of work with one builder, inside a tradition with actual rules.

1967 Cadillac DeVille “Brown Sugar”

Metallic brownShop: Big Slice, Los Angeles

Metallic brown with custom graphics, chrome and gold wire wheels, and a chandelier hanging in the back.

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1974 Cadillac Coupe DeVille “Sticky Icky”

Metallic greenShop: Big Slice, Los Angeles

Metallic green with stripes, wire wheels, hydraulics, a painted trunk mural and dark tint.

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1968 Mercury Cougar

Lakers yellowShop: Big Slice, Los Angeles

Lakers yellow with a blue convertible top, white interior, and a trunk mural of Snoop and Kobe.

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1966 Pontiac Parisienne

Lakers yellowShop: Big Slice, Los Angeles

Yellow and white with custom rims and a trunk mural. Later gifted to Kobe Bryant.

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1969 Buick Riviera “Boogie's Blaccula”

Matte blackShop: Not credited

Matte black with thin red pinstriping and the name across the rear deck lid.

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Rap and Music

Nicki Minaj

1 build · Owner page

One colour, applied without compromise.

Lamborghini Aventador Roadster

Hot pinkShop: Not credited

Hot pink over every surface, door sills included.

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Rick Ross, Rap and Music
Rap and Music

Rick Ross

1 build · Owner page

Volume as a discipline.

100 plus car collection

Donks and classicsShop: Not credited

One of the largest personal collections in music, heavy on customized classic Chevrolets on big wheels, shown off annually at his own car show.

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A restomod in a colour scheme nobody else would sign off.

1968 Chevrolet Camaro restomod

Psychedelic pink and purpleShop: North Texas Wrap Shop

A restomod Camaro in a psychedelic pink and purple scheme carrying his number 77.

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Paris Hilton

1 build · Owner page

Pink before pink was a movement.

Bentley Continental GT

Baby pink and diamanteShop: Not credited

Baby pink throughout, pink wheels with rhinestone initials, a diamante dashboard. Around $280,000 in customization.

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What the log shows

Five lanes running through celebrity car culture

Anime era

Cartoons on carbon

Goku on a hood, a chopped Cullinan, a Slime coloured Urus. The younger side of the log treats a car the way a rapper treats an album cover, and the paint booth is the studio.

Lowrider

The oldest lane still running

Candy paint, wire wheels, laid frames. It predates every wrap on this list and it still sets the standard for patience, because there is no shortcut to that finish.

Chrome

Mirror finishes and the cost of attention

Chrome reads instantly on camera, which is exactly why it spread. It is also the easiest finish to remove, which is why the log treats it as a costume rather than a rebuild.

Chassis

Awards over wraps

The most serious entries never touched a vinyl roll. Carbon bodies, fabricated chassis, drivetrain swaps. That work takes a year, and it is the work that wins the shows.

Fitment

When the problem is the driver

Some builds start with a measurement rather than a mood board. Seat rails, roof lines and door apertures reworked so a seven footer can actually drive the thing.

Compiled August 2026 from published reporting: Complex, autoevolution, The Drive, Hypebeast, HotCars, SlashGear, Newsweek, ESPN, CBS Sports, Rolling Stone, duPont Registry, Dreamworks Motorsports and the shops' own releases. Costs are as reported and rarely audited.