Rapper Nas to let followers personal a part of his music via NFTs

Award-winning rapper Nas will launch nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that may let his followers personal a stake in two of his songs, “Extremely Black” and “Uncommon.”

Customers who purchase and maintain the NFTs, dubbed restricted digital property (LDAs), will get a selected share of streaming royalty possession relying on the token that they maintain. 

“Extremely Black” comes from Nas’ 2021 Grammy award-winning Album King’s Illness, whereas “Uncommon” is from the follow-up 2022 Grammy-nominated album King’s Illness II. The previous track can have a restricted provide of 760 tokens, whereas the latter can have 1,110. Each will likely be launched on Jan. 11, and patrons will be capable to purchase the tokens on a first-come, first-served foundation.

With out additional ado.. we’re honored to announce Hip Hop legend, innovator and entrepreneur @Nas would be the first artist to drop his music on royal on January eleventh! https://t.co/TkyWvOJOvY pic.twitter.com/hQGGXVuPhz

— royal (@join_royal) January 6, 2022

The LDAs will likely be offered via the NFT music platform Royal.

Again in November 2021, Royal CEO Justin “3lau” Blau advised Cointelegraph that the platform’s number-one goal is to permit followers to co-own the music by their favourite artists. “We’re beginning off with a curated group of artists for our preliminary gross sales, however we plan on opening up the platform to extra artists sooner or later,” Blau stated.

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Nas additionally reportedly invested in Coinbase, one of many greatest crypto trade platforms, when it went public final 12 months. In a track with DJ Khaled and Jay-Z, Nas bragged about his crypto wealth and Coinbase funding. “I’m coin-based, principally cryptocurrency Scarface,” says Nas within the track.

One other outstanding rapper, Eminem, lately joined the “Bored Ape Yacht Membership” after reportedly shopping for a Bored Ape nicknamed “Eminape” for $462,000 in OpenSea. The rapper is understood to personal a number of different NFTs, equivalent to “Ditaggdogg#1” and “Superlative Apes #3880.”