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On Tuesday, the Christopher Wallace Estate, managers of the Notorious BIG’s music, fashion, film and unreleased archives, dropped a collection of 3,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that sold out in ten minutes. The digital collectibles were dropped via NFT platform Oneof, and owners of the new NFTs now have the licensing rights to the audio of a previously unreleased BIG freestyle.
NFT collectors had a chance to get their hands on Notorious BIG NFTs when NFT platform Oneof dropped a collection of 3,000 digital 3D collectibles dedicated to the American rapper. Christopher Wallace is better known by the stage names Biggie, Biggie Smalls and Notorious BIG, after releasing his 1994 album via Bad Boy Records called “Ready to Die.”
Biggie was called “the greatest rapper of all time,” according to The Source and Billboard, when his 1994 full-length album solidified a quadruple platinum certification from the RIAA.
The Biggie NFT collection is called “Sky’s the Limit” and it features 3D characters from the Notorious BIG wearing a Kangol hat, various clothes and sometimes a crown, as the 3000 NFTs are a generative collection.
NFT “gives each NFT holder the right to collectively license the audio of Biggie Smalls’ most famous freestyle, filmed on a street corner in Brooklyn when he was just 17,” the Oneof marketplace announced Tuesday. “Despite its legendary status, the freestyle has never been officially released or made available for other musicians to sample and use in their own songs. Until now.”
According to a Oneof representative, the “Sky’s the Limit” NFT collection sold out in ten minutes, and when a person visits the online portal, the site says the collection is officially “sold out.”
However, the NFTs are now available on the Oneof marketplace and users can bid on specific NFTs from the collection. Wayne Barrow, the manager of Voletta Wallace and Biggie’s estate, said an NFT gathering would please the rapper, who passed away in Las Vegas in September 1996.
“Biggie’s music is a very important part of hip-hop culture and its global impact,” Barrow said in a statement sent to Bitcoin.com News. “Our business partner Elliot Osagie of Willingie Inc came up with the concept of teaming up with OneOf to share the infamous freestyle that showcased to the world the icon that Biggie would soon become through an NFT and share it with his fans in this way we are sure would make him proud.”
The Notorious BIG NFTs follows a series of musician and celebrity inspired NFT collections from iconic legends who have passed away such as Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali and Jerry Garcia. Last December, NFT Makersplace announced the world’s first 2pac NFT collection endorsed by the Shakur Estate. All of the NFT collections mentioned as Notorious BIG’s latest digital collectibles have been approved by their families or estates.
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