50 Cent is reportedly accepting bitcoin, a type of digital currency, for his Animal Ambition project, which was released yesterday (June 3).
The New York emcee’s Shopify store accepts bitcoin payments for the album and BitPay processes the payments, according to CoinDesk.
BitPay’s executive chairman Tony Gallippi celebrated this announcement with the following statement:
“We are excited to see high profile independent artists use bitcoin and 50 Cent’s trail as an innovator is outstanding,” Gallippi said.
Coindesk speculates that this could mean more for Curtis Jackson.
“Given Jackson’s noted activism as an investor, it’s possible that the move signifies the rap star’s larger interest in digital currencies,” the site says. “For example, by accepting bitcoin as payment for copies of ‘Animal Ambition’, the venture provides Jackson with an interesting way of accruing BTC. BitPay’s relationship with Shopify allows merchants to receive dollars, bitcoins or a combination of the two. It isn’t clear which direction Jackson plans on taking the store in this regard.”
Animal Ambition was released yesterday (June 3). The album earned a 2 out of 5 rating in its HipHopDX review. “This release was essentially pitched as a concept album on how wealth alters perception and inspires envy, and though it’s possible to follow this loose narrative, the execution of this idea is thoroughly botched,” the review says. “In truth, this wouldn’t be so difficult to stomach if he wasn’t still rapping (both lyrically and contextually) like it’s 2004. Animal Ambition is a drastically underperformed gut punch marred by its own limitations and its obsessive portrayal of self-worth amid a recitation of Get Rich or Die Tryin’ buzzwords.”
lol….yo anything to sell ur records right? the numbers gotta come out decent unless its going be a funeral for ur career and all these haters gonna b laughing.
Yo word is they accept food stamps for the album.
Animal Ambition gonna do mad numbers at the rate.
That man is too rich to be worried about “numbers coming out decent”. How bout this lets hope the numbers DONT COME OUT DECENT right, have every hater do the Million Man March on websites mentioning his name, he takes that publicity & scores deals outside of music.
Why you worried about numbers anyway YOUR A FAN… Worry about music… No wonder your generation dont to have a soundtrack to life. No Child Left behind ass, you ain’t built to appreciate music what you gonna tell your great grand kids oh I walked down the aisle when I got married to a Soundscan report to all the artist I hated on…. Sit down idiot…
@Hollywoodoutlaw u need to take my dick outta ur mouth man. I dont swing that way. Y u stalking me u a f4g-got?
How come u didnt mention “all about the music forget sales” when curtis was dissing other people for having low sales even when they were indie.
Man go hang urself and die u bastard.I wish i could locate ur punk ass and punch u to death.Stupid fool.
Wow Anon went hard on you boss HA HA
50 gonna do numbers whether u like it or not.. haha the nigga basically took over the hip hop world in 2 weeks… g-unit back ..album dropped..gunit album boutta drop..SKI next…man why yall niggas still hating tho? lol get yo motherfucking game up ..we independent in this bitch..
Who is we? Obviously not you.
he means me fuck boy
At this point 50 would accept monopoly money.
I keep hearing about this bitcoin thing but never really knew what it was
Time has past 50 im not impress with the new stuff ive heard if Buck & Game the only two talented rappers out of G “unit Banks was ok not a top notch rapper and Tony was 100% WACK on the mic