Eminem Purchases Bored Ape Yacht Club #9055 for $452K, Shady"s Portfolio Holds 166 NFTs
Marshall Mathers, known professionally as Eminem has joined the community of bored apes by purchasing a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) collectible for 123.45 ethereum or $452K at the time of settlement. Slim Shady Purchases Bored Ape Yacht Club #9055 for $452K
The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs have been very popular this year and the project saw more than $1 billion in volume worldwide, according to defillama.com metrics. Now Eminem has joined the BAYC bandwagon by purchasing BAYC #9055 for 123.45 ether on Thursday. The Detroit hip hop star shared the image on Twitter by using it as his social media bio picture.
Furthermore, the BAYC #9055 purchase indicates that the new owner is called “Shady_Holdings” on the Opensea platform and the portfolio also owns a number of Lil Baby Doodles X NFTs, Ditaggdogg#1 featuring a stencil image of the rapper, and Superlative Apes #3880. I’m living in a simulation.
Thank you @Eminem for buying my ape and joining the club!
Madness. Let me write a lyric in your next single 🤣 pic.twitter.com/myGNRmMLeD
— GeeGazza (@Gee__Gazza) December 31, 2021
Eminem also owns the NFTs SABC #2615, Shaq Gives Back #4077, and Adult Fantasy Sub-Dude (130/151). In fact, the Shady_Holdings address holds a myriad of ERC721 NFTs. Eminem purchased BAYC #9055 from the NFT’s owner Geegazza, who shared his excitement on Twitter. Geegazza said: I sold Eminem his @Boredapeyc… Eminem Holds NFTs From 32 Collections
According to dappradar.com metrics, Slim Shady owns 166 non-fungible token (NFT) assets from 32 collections. At the time of writing, the address holds 1.52 ether after purchasing BAYC #9055 for 123.45. Eminem got 124 ether from an account that uses the ENS name georgio.eth. That account holds 504 NFTs from 51 collections including Bored Ape Yacht Club #4936 and it spent 43.98 ether ($164,832) on two Cryptopunks. Eminem’s NFT collection, according to dappradar.com metrics on January 1, 2021.
Eminem’s NFT spending spree follows the recording artist’s beat-inspired animated NFTs for Stans in April. Eminem’s NFT sale took place on the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway. Furthermore, in August, Slim Shady and Paul Rosenberg joined a slew of venture funds that injected $30 million into the NFT market Makersplace. Tags in this story $452K, 123 ether, BAYC #9055, Beats, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Celebrities, Celebs, Collectors, dappradar.com, Detroit hip hop star, Eminem, Eminem NFTs, fans, Geegazza, georgio.eth, Hip Hop, nft, Opensea, Paul Rosenberg, rapper, Slim Shady, Slim Shady NFT, Stans
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