Eminem makes £1.3million from first ‘Shady Con’ NFT collection

nme.com:

Eminem has made $1.78million (£1.3million) from his first collection of ‘Shady Con’ non-fungible tokens (NFTs), it has been reported.The rapper sold the first line of the digital collection on the online marketplace Nifty Gateway last weekend (April 24-25).The collection included digital action figures based on characters in some of Eminem’s best-known music videos, original instrumental beats created by the star and more.When the range was announced, he said: “I’ve been collecting since I was a kid, everything from comic books to baseball cards to toys, as well as every rap album on cassette I could get my hands on.

Not much has changed for me as an adult […] I’ve attempted to re-create some of those collections from that time in my life,.