In this episode, we welcome Ed Young onto the nft now podcast! Ed Young is the CEO and founder of https://nft.hiphop/ and one of the co-founders of influential hip hop magazine, “The Source”. He recently partnered with https://near.org/ and the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) to feature 47 hip hop legend NFTs in honor of the 47th year anniversary of the hip-hop era. These 47 NFTs feature musical icons like Eazy-E to Lil Wayne.

In this episode we discuss: 

Intro (0:00)

Hip hop and NFTs (1:16)

From magazines to NFTs (2:48)

Why hip hop needs NFTs (6:06)

Bringing the power back to the creators (7:20)

The thriving middle class (8:30)

How NFT.hiphop was born (9:02)

Adding utility within hip hop NFTs (13:39)

The vision behind NFT.hiphop (15:05)

Any Shopify store can now sell NFTs (18:06)

How has the Hip hop community responded to NFTs (19:36)

Jay Z’s NFT vs 3LAU’s (24:20)

NFTs, Blockchain and the future (27:24)

Direct to consumer creativity (30:00)

Milestone towards NFT mainstream adoption (32:41)

Closing thoughts (36:49)

To learn more about how Ed Young and NFT.hiphop are bridging the gap between music artists and NFTs, go to: https://nft.hiphop/ 

Connect with Ed Young on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edyoungprofile

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