With over 166 NFTs in his kitty, The Rap God, Eminem purchases Bored Ape Yacht Club for $452K
Marshall Mathers, popularly known as Eminem, has entered the club of bored apes by acquiring a non-fungible token (NFT) collectable from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) for over123.45 Ethereum, which adds up to $452K in total!
Based on the most recent defillama.com analytics, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens have been particularly prominent this year, with the project seeing more than $1 billion in turnover globally. Eminem has now boarded the BAYC gang, acquiring BAYC #9055 on Thursday for 123.45 Ethereum. The photograph was uploaded on Twitter by the Detroit hip hop star, who used it as his twitter’s profile picture.
Moreover, the acquisition of BAYC #9055 reveals that the new buyer is known as “Shady Holdings” on the Opensea portal, and the inventory also includes a number of Lil Baby Doodles X non-fungible tokens, Ditaggdogg#1 with a graphic picture of the artist, and Exquisite Apes #3880. Slim Shady also controls the National Football League’s SABC #2615, Shaq Gives Back #4077, and Adult Fiction Sub-Dude (130/151). Indeed, the Shady Holdings domain has a plethora of ERC721 non-fungible tokens. Eminem acquired BAYC #9055 via NFT holder Geegazza, who recently expressed his delight with a Tweet.
Eminem currently has 166 NFT assets from thirty-two collections, according to dappradar.com stats. Also, when you read this post, the address owns 1.52 ethereum after paying 123.45 on BAYC #9055. Eminem received 124 ethereum from an address with the ENS identity Georgio.eth. That profile has 504 non-fungible tokens from fifty-one collections, such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club #4936, and it has managed to spend 43.98 ethereum (around $164,832) on two of the Cryptopunks NFT’s. Slim Shady’s non-fungible token buying binge comes on the heels of the recording artist’s beat-inspired graphic NFTs for Fanboys in April of 2021. Eminem’s NFT transaction occurred upon a Nifty Gateway non-fungible token platform. Additionally, Paul Rosenberg and Eminem joined a group of venture investors that invested $30 million in the non-fungible token market ‘Makersplace’ in August 2021.
Well, it goes without saying that the Bored Ape Yacht Club has had an extravagant growth in recent years. From big-name entrepreneurs to our favourite celebrities, everyone has shown their craze for the new wave of NFTs. Be it an awesome swag monkey or Shaq ONiels pixel image, Slim Shadys collection is simply mesmerising.
