Many believe 50 is way too old to be a rapper but now the bar has been set quite high since Bitcoin entered the scene.
The 79-year-old Internet sensation released his viral “Best Bitch” video at the end of 2014 and people have been since trying to figure him out. He recently sat down with HipHopDX Senior Features Writer Ural Garrett and talked about how he became a rapper, which happened on the set of shooting a TV show.
“[The directors] said, ‘Listen, we want you to go down to the boardwalk in Venice [Beach] and we want you to do a rap song, ’cause that’ll be an episode,” he said via a segment of today’s (January 6) DX Daily. “I said, ‘You gotta be kidding! I don’t know anything about rap.’ He said, ‘Okay, well we’re going to show you.’ He played me some music on a computer, gave me a mic, and I did it.”
Bitcoin also explained what he likes to rap about and most of it seems appropriate.
“This is my medium now for what I believe in,” he said. “I do songs that are kind of strange about Alzheimer’s, glaucoma, ‘Sugar Daddy’, ‘Cafe Regret’, which is a serious song. I think about things I like to do, or see or want to be like and then I just want to do ’em and put the music to them.”
Watch the following DX Daily featuring Bitcoin below:
Why not. Hip-Hop is a fuckin’ freak show now anyway. Any asshole with a computer and a gimmick can be a rap star.
Lmfao! You ain’t lyin’ lol but can you auto-tune that comment?
Sad but true. Hip hop, if you can even call it that anymore, is ass these days. Sure, there are plenty of great young artists who go their own way, and do it well, and I got mad respect for Kendrick, Chance, Cole, Joey, Krit, A$AP, Q, Lupe, and Hopsin, among others. And sure, Dre, Game, 50 Cent, Scarface, Tech, and Jadakiss all dropped dope amazing albums this year, (and also s/o to Warren G, G-Funk Era 2 was underappreciated), but the mainstream rules. Drake, Future, Migos, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, and all the other trap artists have ruined hip hop
This was a 1 time thing..why are they calling him a rapper….now dis old man is gon start being serious abt rapping
Ludacris inspired this dude. Check out the Rob Quarters skit 😉
Bitcoin is the best rapper alive.
Dude is better then 90% of the rappers out there now
For the 1 000 000th time, it’s THAN – not then!
Let’s hope it was a typo
This nougat lyrical AF. Bitcoin a real1
Just another Yiddish Jew trying to take advantage of the market. Similar to Drake, Mac Miller, Action Bronson, The Beastie Boys, and every other light skinned rapper aside from Em’.
I diddddddddddd it
Snitches said this dude is “pussa niggoh”
Anybody hatin on bitcoin just mad cus they Grandma want that D.
Tomorrow’s Headline………..”Bitcoin passes away”