CoinDesk Special: 2 Chainz on Music and NFTs
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Blockchain technology has given musicians new opportunities to monetize their craft and engage with fans. Artists of all types have given NFTs a chance in hopes of finding a new revenue stream and a path to ownership – and encouraging audience growth.
2 Chainz is a Grammy award-winning rapper, serial entrepreneur, and investor in The Real U, a recording company based in Atlanta. Tyler Spalding is the founder and CEO of blockchain payments company Flexa. Together, they join “The Hash’s” Zack Seward to talk about how they are bridging the gap between music and NFTs.
This panel occurred on June 10, 2022, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival. Michael Casey, CoinDesk's chief content officer, does the introduction.
This episode was edited by Nia Freeman, and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Photo: Derek White/Getty Images for SiriusXM, modified by CoinDesk.
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| 0:00.0 | The thing about the sport court is, our next guest, I just found out he actually played |
| 0:11.5 | Division I basketball. |
| 0:14.0 | And if I'd known this, I would have made sure that we had him over at the sport court, |
| 0:19.8 | dunking away with Spencer Dinwiddie and others |
| 0:21.5 | and making the most of that. |
| 0:22.6 | Unfortunately, he has to get out of here pretty soon. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm talking, of course, about the legendary hip-hop star, Two Chains. |
| 0:30.2 | This is a deep dive into this really interesting |
| 0:33.5 | emerging phenomenon of music, celebrity, NFTs, this clash, if you like, of these movements. |
| 0:40.3 | It's fascinating stuff. |
| 0:41.3 | He'll be joined by our deputy editor-in-chief, Zach Seward and Tyler Spaulding, the CEO of Flexa. Hey everybody. How about some noise for two chains? |
| 1:01.0 | Chains, not to be outdone, I got a little something made, okay? |
| 1:08.0 | What you get? |
| 1:09.0 | Nice. Don't worry, it's made out of plastic. |
| 1:11.6 | It's 3D printed. |
| 1:12.6 | It's the Coin Desk logo. |
| 1:13.6 | Shout out to Rob Mitchell for printing this in his garage. |
| 1:17.6 | Thanks very much. |
| 1:19.6 | All right, Chains, last we spoke was last July, and we were talking about your first |
| 1:24.6 | NFT drop. |
| 1:25.6 | It was to commemorate the great pretty girls like trap music album. |
| 1:31.0 | So I wanted to ask you, how did that go? |
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