Travis Barker and Aitch are among a host of artists set to launch new NFTs with LimeWire as the file sharing site relaunches as a crypto marketplace.Over the coming weeks, they will launch new collectibles on the marketplace alongside the likes of Brandy, Nicky Jam and more.“I have always been interested in Web3 and NFTs so I am pretty stoked to release my first NFT collection and to do it on LimeWire,” Barker said in a statement.“I hope that my NFT collection will inspire aspiring artists and fans who want to learn about my creative journey and how I make music. LimeWire has created a platform that makes exciting content like this accessible to all of my fans – even ones who are unfamiliar with Web3.”The Blink-182 drummer’s collection, his first ever NFTs, will feature “behind-the-scenes footage of himself working in the studio, allowing the NFT collectors to have a first-hand look at his creative process.
A Notorious B.I.G. NFT collection will include the right to license an iconic freestyle he delivered at 17
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Notorious B.I.G. will include the rights to license an iconic freestyle the rapper delivered when he was a teenager.Sky’s the Limit: The Notorious B.I.G.
Collection, which is being sold through the crypto platform OneOf, will include 3D NFT figurine characters inspired by Biggie. Everyone who purchases one of these will be given the rights to license audio of the freestyle, which B.I.G.
rapped on a street corner in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn when he was 17 years old.Prior to now, the audio has not been officially released or made available for downloading or sampling. The full collection will be available on July 25 via OneOf’s website.
“Biggie’s music is a very important part of hip-hop culture and its global impact,” said Wayne Barrow, manager of B.I.G.’s estate, in a statement.“Our business partner, Elliot Osagie of Willingie Inc, came up with the concept of coming together with OneOf to share the infamous freestyle that showcased to the world the icon that Biggie would soon become through an NFT, and sharing it with his fans in this way we are certain would make him proud.”Biggie’s estate recently celebrated what would have been the rap icon’s 50th birthday last month in a variety of ways, including a Lil Kim-hosted gala event at which his son, CJ Wallace, performed his late father’s verse on the song ‘One More Chance’.Earlier this month, a 25th anniversary reissue of B.I.G.’s second album, ‘Life After Death’, was released. The box set contains the original album plus 12″ vinyl singles of hits ‘Hypnotize’, ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’, ‘Sky’s the Limit’ and ‘Nasty Boy’, plus rare photos, new liner notes and more.
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LimeWire relaunches as NFT marketplace with Travis Barker, Aitch and more
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Elton John to Auction ‘Rocket Man’ NFT Benefitting AIDS Foundation
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Criterion September Releases Include Early Sean Baker Film, Atom Egoyan’s ‘Exotica,’ ‘Sound Of Metal’ & More
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‘I own the world’s biggest Harry Potter collection but can’t resist buying more’
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Legendary NYC nightlife promoter recalls notorious ‘90s club kid era
“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” she changed the life of legendary New York club director Steve Adelman.Adelman had booked RuPaul to perform at a club in Boston and she had such a good time that she went back to NYC and recommended him to the assistant of the owner of the Roxy, just as the West 18th Street club was opening up.“But I think she highly over-exaggerated my credentials,” said Adelman, whose new memoir “Nocturnal Admissions: Behind the Scenes at Tunnel, Limelight, Avalon, and Other Legendary Nightclubs,” was released this week. “So I appear at the Roxy with a hockey duffel bag, and I’m anointed director.”That twist — or, make that twirl — of fate in 1989 led to Adelman suddenly being a professional partymeister overseeing the dance-floor revelry and debauchery of New York nightlife’s glory days in the ’90s.
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