{"id":780,"date":"2024-10-07T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:16:37","slug":"if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-rap-legend-nas-sang-that-he-was-coin-based-basically-crypto-currency-scarface-heres-how-much-youd-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"If You Invested $1000 in Bitcoin When Rap Legend Nas Sang That He Was &#8216;Coin-Based, Basically Crypto-Currency Scarface,&#8217; Here&#8217;s How Much You&#8217;d Have Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>American rap legend <strong>Nasir Jones<\/strong>, known professionally as <strong>Nas, <\/strong>has been one of the early adopters of cryptocurrency and even used his art to market the industry to the masses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: On Apr. 30, 2021, a track titled &#8220;Sorry Not Sorry&#8221; was dropped, featuring Nas along with <strong>DJ Khaled<\/strong>, <strong>Jay-Z, James Fauntleroy<\/strong>, and <strong>Beyonc\u00e9.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The song showed Nas rapping the lines, &#8220;I&#8217;m coin-based, basically crypto-currency scarface. Join us, there&#8217;s gotta be more of us,&#8221; in what was a clear reference to his stakes in <strong>Coinbase Global Inc<\/strong>. (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/COIN#NASDAQ\">COIN<\/a>)\u2014the cryptocurrency exchange that went public just two weeks before.<\/p>\n<p>Nas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/21\/07\/22231542\/investing-in-coinbase-robinhood-early-is-nas-the-best-rapper-turned-investor\">invested in the company through his venture capital firm<\/a> <strong>QueensBridge Venture Partners <\/strong>in 2013, a year after the trading platform was launched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure ...>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41204472\/if-you-invested-1000-in-bitcoin-when-rap-legend-nas-sang-that-he-was-coin-based-basically-\" alt=\"If\" you invested in bitcoin when rap legend nas sang that he was basically crypto-currency scarface here how much have today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rap legend Nasir Jones, known professionally as Nas, has been one of the early adopters of cryptocurrency and even used his art to market the industry to the masses. What happened: On Apr. 30, 2021, a track titled &#8220;Sorry Not Sorry&#8221; was dropped, featuring Nas along with DJ Khaled, Jay-Z, James Fauntleroy, and Beyonc\u00e9.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}