Rap star Ye, previously often called Kanye West, has filed a number of trademark functions that present the musician is likely to be making ready to mint his personal non-fungible tokens (NFTs), alongside a variety of bodily merchandise.
In keeping with trademark lawyer Josh Gerben, Ye has filed 17 new trademark functions round his YEEZUS identify, which point out the rapper goals “to launch YEEZUS-branded amusement parks, NFT’s, toys and extra.”
Extra particularly, he has filed trademark functions for “blockchain-based non-fungible property,” “currencies and tokens,” and “on-line retail retailer providers that includes … digital artwork.”
One filing even notes the potential for “offering a web-based market for patrons of crypto and/digital collectibles, currencies, tokens, and property.”
The functions additionally embrace a variety of different merchandise, together with amusement parks, bodily and on-line retail shops, toys, video games, sporting tools, marketing campaign buttons, clothes, baggage, home items, and cosmetics.
The intention to launch NFTs exhibits a u-turn within the rapper’s anti-NFT stance. Simply earlier this yr, Ye mentioned to his 10.5m Instagram followers that he will not do NFTs (at the moment, at the least).
“Don’t ask me to do a fucking NFT,” he mentioned, including, “Ask me later.”
Within the caption of the submit, the musician mentioned, “FOR NOW I’M NOT ON THAT WAVE I MAKE MUSIC AND PRODUCTS IN THE REAL WORLD.” This might clarify the submitting utility for parks, amusement merchandise, and shops. West has beforehand expressed curiosity in creating his personal amusement parks.
“What I need to do post-Grammys is I need to work on cities, I need to work on amusement parks, I need to change leisure experiences,” he reportedly said. “[It’s] one thing like if McQueen or Tarsem [Singh] was to fulfill the leisure worth of a Cirque du Soleil or a Walt Disney.”
____
Study extra:
– Kanye West Received’t Do NFTs, For Now At Least
– ‘Love, Demise + Robots’ Brings NFT Hunt Alongside With its third Season on Netflix
– Seth Inexperienced Teases His NFT Present Regardless of His Stolen Bored Ape
– Ukrainian Eurovision Winner Sells NFTs in Help of Ukraine’s Protection
– How Music NFTs May Disrupt the Music Trade
– The Energy of NFTs in Music Distribution