Snoop Dogg And Eminem Collaboration Brings NFT Bored Ape In Music Video. Two world-renowned rappers, as well as NFT collectors, Eminem and Snoop Dogg released a music video featuring an animated version of their Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) avatar.
Reporting from Decrypt, Thursday, July 7, 2022, the song is titled “From The D 2 The LBC”, in the music video uploaded on YouTube on June 24, 2022 showing Eminem and Snoop Dogg turning into NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club in a cartoon universe or live action hybrid.
The song debuted at this year’s ApeFest, an annual event in Manhattan, New York, for BAYC and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) holders.
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Eminem is a proud NFT Bored Ape holder, as his Twitter profile picture shows. He bought the NFT for 123.45 ETH (USD 452,000 at the time) or around IDR 6.7 billion at the end of last year. He also appears to have acquired 26 other NFTs under the name “Shady Holdings” on OpenSea.
Snoop Dogg entered the NFT world around the same time, collaborating with MoonPay to buy one BAYC. But Snoop has been getting more active in the crypto industry lately. In early 2021, the rapper joined Dogecoin as a Twitter supporter along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Earlier this month, Snoop announced plans to open a restaurant called Dr. Bombay’s Sweet Exploration, an “immersive retail dessert experience” that will use a BAYC avatar as a theme.
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Snoop also owns digital real estate in The Sandbox metaverse, and has hosted events on the metaverse.
Snoop Dogg And Eminem Collaboration Brings NFT Bored Ape In Music Video. Previously, Pionicon continued to collaborate in flying local products to reach the global market. After previously collaborating with Sarinah and Rekata Studio, Pionicon and Gaspack as the team that gave birth to Jukiverse NFT are now bringing Si Juki in collaboration with Warkop NYC.
WarkopNYC was founded by three Indonesian diaspora, Omar Karim Prawiranegara, Teguh Chandra, and Cut Lakesiha Salsabila in New York City, United States.
The collaboration between JukiverseNFT and Warkop NYC is in line with Si Juki’s mission to reach the global market, one of which is by popularizing the culture of hanging out at warkop while telling stories to Americans.
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This activity is closely related to Juki’s background, who is a boarding house student. Moreover, many of the owners or holders of NFT Lost in Jukiverse are domiciled in the United States.
The creator of Si Juki, Faza Meonk, said that this collaboration was Pionicon’s step to bring Si Juki up the international ladder.
“JukiverseNFT’s community base is growing rapidly and now it has more than 80,000 followers on Twitter and more than 9,000 members on its Discord channel from various countries, especially the United States, in addition to being supported by Italy, the Philippines, China, India, and other countries. others,” said Faza in a written statement, quoted on Wednesday (29/6/2022).
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One of the managers of Warkop NYC, Omar Prawiranegara, said that his party welcomed this collaboration as a form of promoting Indonesian works to the world market.
“Warkop NYC is an archipelago window. Various Indonesian products can be found in our stalls. Not only Indomie which has gone global but also Si Juki which is already owned by global citizens,” said Omar.
“We will continue to open up space so that various Indonesian products can be exhibited at Warkop NYC, as a form of promotion of culture, tourism and the creative economy from Indonesia,” he continued.
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The Jukiverse NFT project previously launched the ‘Si Juki Cosplay’ collection of 110 cosplays, then the NFT collaboration project ‘Jukiverse X’ which involved 34 Indonesian NFT artists including WD Willy, Arya Mularama, Arief Witjaksana and Darbotz.
During the collaboration period, Warkop NYC provides a special Juki menu, as well as Jukiverse NFT branding which will be seen adorning until July 3.
In addition, on June 21-23 2022, holders can claim Jukiverse NFT owned by special Jukiverse merch. As for the first 20 people who registered, they got their signatures and Juki drawn directly by the creator of Si Juki, Faza Meonk.
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Previously, the movement of the crypto asset market in the middle of the first week of July 2022, looked cheerful because there was a slight rally that caused price increases. Since the beginning of the week, the crypto market has struggled not to fall further amid strengthening recession signals.
Launching the Coinmarketcap site on Thursday afternoon, July 7, 2022, the 10 crypto assets with the largest market cap or big caps have successfully advanced into the green zone in the last 24 hours. The value of Bitcoin (BTC) soared 1.08 percent to the level of USD 20,505 or around Rp. 307.6 million (assuming an exchange rate of Rp. 15,005 per US dollar) per chip in the last day.
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Snoop Dogg And Eminem Collaboration Brings NFT Bored Ape In Music Video. Regarding the movement of the crypto and bitcoin markets in the first week of July 2022, Country Manager, Luno Indonesia, Jay Jayawijayaningtiyas said, Bitcoin prices fell 56 percent at the end of the second quarter of this year which was probably due to the uncertain macroeconomic outlook and conditions in the crypto market.
“However, Bitcoin turned things around again entering July 2022 by growing by 0.5 percent this month,” Jay said in a written statement, Thursday, July 7, 2022.
Jay added, Altcoins are also off to a positive start with a recovery that is superior to Bitcoin in the 4.9 percent range.
“The Medium Capitalization Index posted the best performance in July at around 5 percent, followed by the Large Capitalization Index at 3.1 percent,” said Jay.
As for Jay revealed, the top three coins by market cap have been in a tight competition over the past week, with BNB managing to slightly outperform Bitcoin and Ethereum.
