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 buys Bored Ape Yacht Club # 9055 for $ 452,000
The NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) have been very popular this year and the project has grossed over $ 1 billion globally, according to metrics from defillama.com. Now Eminem has joined the BAYC movement by buying BAYC # 9055 for 123.45 ether on Thursday. The Detroit Hip-Hop Star shared image on Twitter using it as a bio photo on social networks.
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.
Eminem also owns the NFT SABC # 2615, Shaq Gives Back # 4077 and Adult Fantasy Sub-Dude (130/151). In fact, the Shady_Holdings address contains a myriad of NFT ERC721. Eminem bought BAYC # 9055 from the owner of NFT Geegazza, Who share his excitement on Twitter. Geegazza said:
I sold Eminem his @Boredapeyc…
Eminem holds NFTs from 32 collections
According to metrics from dappradar.com, Slim Shady has 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 obtained 124 ethers from an account that uses the ENS name georgio.eth. This account contains 504 NFTs from 51 collections, including Bored Ape Yacht Club # 4936, and he spent 43.98 ethers ($ 164,832) on two Cryptopunks.
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.
