2002 Oscar-winning rapper Eminem has joined the Bored Ape Yaych Club (BAYC) by purchasing an NFT on the OpenSea platform for 123.45 ETH, or nearly $462,000, on Thursday.
Eminem quickly adopted the Ape as his Twitter profile picture, sporting a brown military-style hat, hip-hop outfit, and arrogant demeanor.
The Detroit native received approximately 20 NFTs on OpenSea under the name Shady_Holding Eminem, which Rolling Stone Magazine named Eminem one of the 100 greatest artists of all time. 2002 and has won 15 Grammy Music awards in his career since the 1980s.
In a tweet, GeeGazza, a BAYC member who sold the Ape, thanked Eminem for purchasing NFT. "I was like in a dream world," he wrote, adding: “This is crazy for me to write lyrics for your next single.” GeeGazza expects Eminem to buy Ape for several months.
Georgio Constantinou, artist manager at digital agency SixWeb 3, tweeted that the company helped Eminem buy “EminApe.”
Eminem's interest in NFT is not his first recent incident of 2018. Bitcoin was mentioned in the song "Not Alike" on one of his album "Kamikaze".
BAYC is one of the largest sellers in OpenSea, with the most recent NFT auction pushing it up at $10 billion.