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YG is seen successful the euphony video holding a Ledger acold retention USB adjacent to a smartphone which has a surface bearing a wallet app with much than $30.6 cardinal worthy of BTC successful it.
Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, the rapper who goes by the sanction YG appears to amusement disconnected a abdominous $30 cardinal stack of Bitcoin (BTC) successful his latest euphony video.
The uncover appears to either beryllium an eye-watering — but perchance fake — flex, oregon a crafty spot of merchandise placement, arsenic a acold retention instrumentality from crypto wallet supplier Ledger is featured prominently successful the video. The societal squad from Ledger was connected it instantly too:
We spot you! @YG knows however to unafraid those bags of #bitcoin … not your keys, nary your coins.
— Ledger (@Ledger) February 11, 2022In 1 of the scenes of the euphony video for the opus titled “Scared Money” featuring J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo, YG is seen holding a Ledger wallet adjacent to a smartphone which has a surface bearing a wallet app with much than $30.6 cardinal worthy of BTC successful it.
While the representation could person easy been faked, rappers are good known for flaunting their wealthiness and success, particularly truthful successful this opus which has a taxable focused connected spending money, investing and wearing fractional a cardinal dollars worthy of jewelry astir one's neck.
YG is rather the BTC proponent, arsenic helium has mentioned owning integer golden successful aggregate different songs specified arsenic “Big Bank” from 2018, and besides successful an interview with RollingStone from mid-2021.
During that interrogation YG said that helium liked the simplicity of hodling crypto arsenic helium could put his wealth into the plus people without being distracted from his euphony career. He drew comparisons to the existent property market, wherever helium would person to walk a batch clip moving and larn to bash it successfully.
“I f*ck with Bitcoin. [...] I got Ethereum precocious and I got Dogecoin precocious but I’ve had Bitcoin for astir 3 years. [...] Bitcoin came astir and it was similar ‘what?’ and I tin conscionable bash it and it turns into that?” helium said successful notation to the booming terms of the plus past year.
In a Reddit post connected the r/Bitcoin Reddit assemblage earlier today, users were questioning YG’s mammoth BTC stack, with AvoidMyRange stating that “the accidental of each these ending astatine 0 and the cents ending successful .00 is incredibly low. This is evidently fake.”
“It is fake due to the fact that that isn’t adjacent the layout of the ledger app,” idiosyncratic AKeveryday responded.
Other users saw the comic broadside of YG’s music-based BTC antics, with Redditor Lexstell11 doing the mathematics connected the lyrics from the Big Bank opus erstwhile BTC was priced astir the mid $7,000 range.
“In YG’s opus Big Bank, helium says ‘I mightiness bargain her reddish bottoms with the crypto- 3 coins that’ll wage your full semester…’ the opus was released connected 5/25/2018 erstwhile BTC was $7,459 astatine close. So presumably YG paid $132,000 by today’s conversion for a girl's semester astatine what I’m assuming was University of Phoenix. I deliberation astir this a lot.”Related: Year of sponsorships: Celebrities who embraced crypto successful 2021
Crypto has attracted a beardown cohort of rappers implicit caller years, with icons such arsenic Jay Z and NFT-bull Snoop Dogg some making dense plays successful the sector. Other well-known figures to leap connected the gravy bid see Meek Mill who snapped up Dogecoin amid the hype past year, Nas who tokenized his music arsenic NFTs earlier this year, and Post Malone who featured a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT successful 1 of his caller euphony videos.
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