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Artists need “cheerleading” to keep them going, like Jasper did for Tyler
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Tyler believes the internet “ramped up” in 2016, making surprises harder to pull off
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He’s not a fan of artists using snippets to crowdsource their creative process
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The NFT space isn’t of interest to him
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Tyler saw Kanye “building up” to ‘Dark Twisted Fantasy’ as far back as Trina’s “B R Right” in ’02
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Tyler, the Creator made an “indie rock” album in 2012
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He says Hype Williams’ greatness was “hindered” after early reactions to ‘Belly’
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Tyler shares his thoughts on Ye’s Black Future Month
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NFTs From The Breakfast Club And Cordae On Green Music Platform OneOf
Tuesday morning, OneOf announced their exclusive partnership with influential morning radio show The Breakfast Club hosted by Charlamagne tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy. Six different drops of NFTs, inspired by the morning show and its hosts, with a charitable component as well.
Tuesday afternoon a separate generative NFT art collection from Cordae will go live, after his pre-sale sold out in one minute. It was created by digital artist Shay The Surrealist. Bold and colorful, it highlights Cordae’s iconic style as seen through the lens of Shay’s pop-art inspired surrealism. Cordae has 2 GRAMMY noms, a Billboard Top 20 debut, has collaborated with everyone from Roddy Rich to Eminem, appeared in a Super Bowl commercial alongside Martin Scorsese and in XXL’s Freshman class. Shay The Surrealist is just 23, she has worked with Netflix and Adobe, and her artwork is getting huge bids on the NFT marketplaces.
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Lyrica Anderson, Eric Bellinger & Dice Soho First Artists To Release NFT Content Under New Riveting Nifter Partnership
Riveting Entertainment announced its partnership with Rebel Blockchain Inc aka Nifter to introduce a unique spin to the NFT space allowing the opportunity for buyers to see a return on their investment and become part royalty share owners of the music NFT they purchase.
In a new era of music, recording artists are taking more ownership, pioneering creative ideas, and marketing their personal material. Riveting Music, an independent record label under Riveting Entertainment, has been known for its work with artists like Redman and Chris Brown.
They also announced their season one NFT launch, “Ethos” which is a community of independent recording artists brought on through Riveting Music’s deep rooted relationships.
The announcement described Ethos as “the story of the underdog winning and artists coming together to form a creative space and community of like minded individuals with a common goal.”
Andrew Listermann, CEO of Riveting Entertainment shared with The Source.
“For a music NFT platform to be truly successful, it must prioritize supporting artists to help create the best opportunity for success. Nifter has shown they are ready to do that and so we are looking forward to releasing a lot of incredible music NFT projects with their platform.”
The first artists from the roster to release NFT content under the new partnership include Lyrica Anderson, Lexi Drew, Nessly + Killy, Joss Austin, Dawin, Nieman + Eric Bellinger, and Dice Soho.
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Snoop Dogg To Make Death Row Records The First NFT Record Label
In a Clubhouse convo following Snoop Dogg’s announcement of his acquirement of Death Row Records, the label’s legendary first solo artist says that he wants to turn “the most dangerous record label” into an NFT imprint.
“Death Row will be an NFT label,” Snoop said. “We will be putting out artists through the metaverse. Just like we broke the industry when we was the first independent [label] to be major, I want to be the first major [label] in the metaverse.”
This was announced almost immediately following Snoop’s partnership with the blockchain gaming company Gala Games. The Dogg said of the merger, “If anything is constant, it’s that the music industry will always be changing. Blockchain tech has the power to change everything again and tip the table in favor of the artists and the fans, and we’re going to be right at the front of the pack with this Gala Music deal.”
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Snoop Dogg Says Death Row Will Be NFT Record Label: ‘I Want to Be the First Major in the Metaverse’
Coachella Is Selling An NFT That Includes A Lifetime Guest Pass To The Festival
For the first time ever in the festival’s history, Coachella is selling lifetime guest passes to the event, and it’s happening via an NFT called the Coachella Keys Collection. Ten tokens will be auctioned off that includes passes to the fest every April and VIP experiences in 2022 — which features headliners Billie Eilish, Kanye West, and Harry Styles — like front row views at the Coachella Stage, on-stage access at the Sahara Tent, and a celebrity chef dinner in the Rose Garden.
“We’ve all seen how NFTs enable true ownership of art and media on the internet,” Sam Schoonover, Innovation Lead for Coachella, said in a statement. “We wanted to take it one step further and use NFTs to enable ownership of experiences in the real world, too.”
In addition to the Coachella Keys Auction, which starts this Friday, Coachella is also offering two NFT collections that feature digital collectibles and physical posters and photo books, all through the FTX crypto exchange. There are 10,000 each of the Sights & Sounds Collection ($60), which features 10 digital festival images and a physical print of one of the ten. There are also 10,000 NFTs in the Desert Reflection Collection ($180), which includes 1 of 10 digital renditions of a Coachella poster by Emek and a copy of the photo book, Coachella | The Photographs 1999-2019.
FTX US’s President Brett Harrison added, “Not only are we excited to partner with a progressive forward-thinking music festival in Coachella, but also working together to make the world a better place.”
Lofty goals aside, it’ll be interesting to see how much the 10 Coachella keys NFT’s fetch at an auction. The sales go live online on Friday, February 4 at 10 a.m. PT through Friday, February 11 at 5 p.m. PT at nft.coachella.com.
Nas Is Selling A Percentage Of His Music To Fans…Via NFT
Legendary hip hop icon Nas will drop nonfungible tokens that let users own streaming royalty rights for the songs “Ultra Black” and “Rare.” Nas To Let Fans Own Shares Of Music Through NFTS Rapper Nas announced today that he will release nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that will let his fans own a stake in two of […]
12-Year-Old Nyla Hayes Is An NFT Multi-Millionaire & Time Mag’s 1st Artist-In-Residence.
12-years-old Nyla Hayes is a student, artist, entrepreneur, and now crypto millionaire. She has now earned $5.7 million in Ethereum cryptocurrency from her NFT network and recently became Time Magazine’s first Artist-In-Residence. Nyla Hayes Makes 6 Million From NFT’s Nyla said she was inspired to create digital artwork by her Grandmother who told her to […]
Gunna’s $300k Bored Ape NFT Purchase Is a Massive Tax Writeoff
It’s the end of the year and time to get those last tax write-offs in. Gunna is the latest celebrity splurging on NFTs and creating nice tax writeoffs on the investment. The rapper recently bought a Bored Ape NFT for $305,000. The 28-year-old named his Ape “Butta”, paid for the NFT via Moonpay, and even […]
The Weeknd Is Releasing A Series Of NFT Collectibles On Tom Brady’s Autograph Platform
This past October, The Weeknd said on his Apple Music show Memento Mori that his next album is “complete,” but that some additions needed to be made before release. “Some exciting features coming out in the fall before the album drops,” he said. “We’ll slowly be unraveling that info in the next couple months.” Well, we just caught wind of an exciting feature, although it seems as though this is more closely related to the recent diamond certification of “Blinding Lights” than the next album.
In a newly-announced NFT collectibles series, The Weeknd and Billboard are releasing a 7-piece animated series that celebrates the song’s designation as “The No. 1 song of all time.” At 90 weeks, the song became the longest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 and the news was announced on the cover of Billboard magazine. The cover is one of the seven collectibles, which is available to view on the NFT platform, Autograph, which was co-founded by Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It’s being auctioned off on OpenSea, which dubs itself “the world’s largest NFT marketplace.” A statement on the collection elaborated on each piece in the collection:
“The 7-piece, animated collection is composed of four designs, including a single NFT featuring The Weeknd’s recent cover on Billboard Magazine, which first announced the news of his record-breaking achievement, and three digital trading cards creatively inspired by the iconic “Blinding Lights” music video. The digital trading cards will be released in three tiers of rarity, and each of the collection’s unique, culturally-significant collectibles is individually signed to allow fans the opportunity to own a defining moment in music history as never before, from one of today’s most influential artists.”
For what it’s worth, The Weeknd is now a part of the Board of Directors at Autograph. The auction began on December 20 and continues until December 23 at 1 PM EST. All of the bidding is done via the ETH cryptocurrency. Take a look at the magazine cover NFT below and view the whole collection here.
