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The celebrated rapper continues to grow the Snoopverse, “a spot wherever his avatar tin execute exclusive concerts lone accessible to his fans.”
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Updated: April 2, 2022
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Snoop Dogg, besides known arsenic salient non-fungible token (NFT) collector Cozomo de’ Medici, has been engaged with each things crypto lately.
Just contiguous alone, the rapper dropped a caller euphony video successful blockchain-based crippled The Sandbox—where helium volition besides clasp a virtual metaverse performance aboriginal this year—as good arsenic confirmed an upcoming Twitter Spaces gathering with Cardano laminitis Charles Hoskinson.
House helium built
According to a property merchandise shared with CryptoSlate by The Sandbox’s genitor institution Animoca Brands today, “House I Built” from Snoop Dogg’s latest medium B.O.D.R. is the “very archetypal euphony video produced successful The Sandbox metaverse.” The rapper explained:
“The ‘House I Built’ way draws a parallel betwixt however I’ve constructed my beingness and vocation and however I’m gathering retired my Snoopverse virtual satellite successful The Sandbox. Whether successful the metaverse oregon the universe, it’s astir keeping it real, being yourself, and making the astir of each opportunity.”
A metaverse euphony video 🎤🎥 – House I Built. Checc it ‼️ https://t.co/Y1F58Hi2lf
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) April 1, 2022
In the video itself, made with the platform’s escaped contented instauration tools VoxEdit and Game Maker, Snoop Dogg is represented arsenic a pixelated 3D avatar à la Minecraft. Notably, the clip besides features peculiar guests specified arsenic DJs Blondish and Steve Aoki.
Meanwhile, the euphony video is thing akin to an opening enactment launched up of Snoop Dogg’s full-fledged virtual performance that volition beryllium held successful The Sandbox “later this year.” The platform’s CEO and co-founder Arthur Madrid further added:
“Today successful The Sandbox, Snoop Dogg is gathering the Snoopverse, a spot wherever his avatar tin execute exclusive concerts lone accessible to his fans. Snoop’s new, first-of-its-kind, metaverse euphony video ‘House I Built’ provides a tangible illustration contiguous but determination is much coming precise soon.”
‘That Cardano and this Web3 stuff’
At the aforesaid time, Snoop Dogg besides confirmed contiguous that connected April 5 helium volition articulation Charles Hoskinson, the laminitis of the Cardano blockchain and a co-founder of Ethereum, connected Twitter Spaces—and “this volition beryllium fun.”
This volition beryllium amusive 🎥 #Cardano https://t.co/rxgYimMQW7
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) March 31, 2022
In his turn, Hoskinson likewise confirmed this, noting “Yes, I’ll beryllium with Snoop connected the 5th. I person the champion occupation successful the world.”
Apparently, astatine slightest immoderate portion of the speech volition beryllium dedicated to a caller concern betwixt Snoop Dogg and Cardano-based level Clay Nation that volition “bring you iconic collectibles, unreleased music, & constricted variation ‘pitches’.”
Previously, Clay Nation minted—and sold out—a postulation of “original handmade Clay NFTs” that besides service arsenic “entry to Clay Nation Festival & moulding the metaverse.”
“It’s a postulation of 10,000 integer characters with algorithmically assembled, handcrafted clay traits. Each unsocial quality is simply a one-of-a-kind NFT, stored connected the Cardano blockchain. Just similar successful the non-clay world, nary 2 members of Clay Nation are the same.”
Further details of the caller concern volition beryllium revealed during the Twitter Spaces gathering with Snoop Dogg, Charles Hoskinson, and crypto capitalist Champ Medici connected April 5, astatine 6 p.m. UTC.
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