The divisive non-fungible token trend has had us see some artists launching ventures into cryptocurrency and spending huge sums on NFTs left and right, while others continue to rage against the Web3 machine. Tyler, the Creator marks the latest in the latter category, repeatedly asking, "What the fuck is an NFT?"
It's a fair question from anyone aware of the wondrous innovation that is taking a screenshot. In a new, colossal 70-minute interview hosted by Bimma Williams as part of Converse's All Star Series, the Grammy winner covered a wide range of topics — including crypto.
"I'm really outside living, so what the fuck is an NFT?" Tyler asked, somewhere between rhetorically and with genuine concern. "I paint at home, I play instruments, I have a friend making me speakers by hand right now; what the fuck is an NFT?"
The rapper continued: "It's just a dick-swinging contest — like, 'Look, I bought a picture of ... a monkey?'"
He went on to say that he's not fully informed on the crypto universe, adding:
I'm kinda speaking out of this surface-level ignorance, so excuse me when some asshole in the comments is like, "He doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about." I don't! But, the idea of an NFT, I guess, is like art or something. But at least for the art side, none of the examples that I've seen is like, beautiful art. It's a fucking monkey in a Supreme hoodie.
Of course, the monkeys he's referring to are the now-infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT avatars, a bandwagon that multitudes of celebrities have jumped onto.
The musician concluded on the note of tangibility: "You can't NFT me looking at you in real life right now, so I'm just fully not into it — until it's something I could [touch]."
Watch a clip of the interview below.
It's a fair question from anyone aware of the wondrous innovation that is taking a screenshot. In a new, colossal 70-minute interview hosted by Bimma Williams as part of Converse's All Star Series, the Grammy winner covered a wide range of topics — including crypto.
"I'm really outside living, so what the fuck is an NFT?" Tyler asked, somewhere between rhetorically and with genuine concern. "I paint at home, I play instruments, I have a friend making me speakers by hand right now; what the fuck is an NFT?"
The rapper continued: "It's just a dick-swinging contest — like, 'Look, I bought a picture of ... a monkey?'"
He went on to say that he's not fully informed on the crypto universe, adding:
I'm kinda speaking out of this surface-level ignorance, so excuse me when some asshole in the comments is like, "He doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about." I don't! But, the idea of an NFT, I guess, is like art or something. But at least for the art side, none of the examples that I've seen is like, beautiful art. It's a fucking monkey in a Supreme hoodie.
Of course, the monkeys he's referring to are the now-infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT avatars, a bandwagon that multitudes of celebrities have jumped onto.
The musician concluded on the note of tangibility: "You can't NFT me looking at you in real life right now, so I'm just fully not into it — until it's something I could [touch]."
Watch a clip of the interview below.
The hip-hop mogul released his sixth studio album CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST last year, which landed on Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2021 list.
