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Can Music NFT Collectors Actually Win?

Hey. For my birthday Mirror gifted me $WRITE token and now my URL is upgraded to blackdave.mirror.xyz and I couldn’t be more pumped. That’s not what this post is about but I’m pumped and wanted to say something about it. Click the subscribe button top right. Let’s get into this actual post: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how more and more platforms, marketplaces and tools are continuing to be built for artists, but very few are being built for fans and collectors in web3. I’m not gonna...

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Making It in NFT as a Rapper III

Yo! Back for another “Making it NFT as a Rapper” post, which essentially details what I’ve been up to as someone making rap music in Web3 and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It’s been a long time since I checked in with y’all like this, but since I’m dropping on Sound for my birthday on the 15th, I figured this is a good time to holla at everyone.Most of the year has been in a bear (down) market, so people have been trying to adjust accordingly. Some folks are dropping the price of th...

Results on Community Support

A week ago, I wrote this, a post called “Thoughts on Community Support” that was the explanation and initiation of a plan to support my homie Shawntel, one of my favorite folks in web3. The plan promises you a song of mine, Oh Yes, if you had collected an edition of the Lotus Flower Bomb NFT from Shawntel. The idea is that artists can find more direct ways to support each other by offering something tangible (digitally tangible?) to people who support your internal communities. I keep wanting...

Thoughts on Community Support

Hey again. Maybe it’s “Hey” for the first time. I don’t know. Hey.tl;drI think this full piece is worth reading but here’s the CliffsNotes version:Mint this NFT by Shawntel by Saturday, July 30.Claim a free new song of mine as an NFT on Saturday. Link on Saturday.We’re exploring new models of supporting each other as artists in web3.The ProblemI’ve been thinking a lot lately about how artists can support each other more in this world of web3 and NFTs outside of a retweet, outside of coming to...

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Project Phäros, Koodos and the Future (Which I Can't Predict but I Gotta Do Something So...)

Yo! A lot has been happening lately! As we continue down this road in web3, especially during the current bear market (which this post will last longer than), I have no plans of slowing down. In my continued journey to build and be great, I wanna chat about the next chapter of the journey: Project Phäros.Introducing Project PhärosThe next era of what I’m up to is going to be through executing the vision of Project Phäros, started by Matt Monday and myself. At current, we like to call Phäros a...

Black Dave Utility Season

Hey again. Been a while. A lot has happened since my last post, here’s a quick recap then we’ll get to the post: • I dropped on sound.xyz right before my last post. I didn’t say anything about it on there. • I produced an EP for Matt Monday that dropped on Catalog (and every song is still available to collect as of this post). • I dropped an EP on Mint Songs. 2 out of the 3 songs are still available (here and here) but it’s worth peeping. • I was featured on the Snoop Dogg 4/20 Mix that dropp...

$SHRP Governance: The First Proposals

Thanks for your patience, we’re back! It’s been a wild past month since I last wrote to you all and I’m back and ready to go. If you were someone who participated in the partybid for the song, this post is especially for you, but in the spirit of building and doing in public, this post is for everyone else as well! If you haven’t claimed you tokens but participated in the partybid, you can do so by heading to this link, connecting your wallet and claiming your $SHRP tokens. Just a few clicks....

Sharp - After the Sale & Next Steps

In my post prior to this one, Making It in NFT As A Rapper, I announced I’m minting a song on Catalog called Sharp, and I called on the community to participate in the collection of the NFT, having all of the members be a part of the future of the song through their votes. After a long road, we made it, and the PartyBid for the NFT was complete! I want to use this post as a post-sale analysis, as well to talk about the next step for everyone who got in on this. I’ll start with the latter, so ...

Making It in NFT As A Rapper

Hello! Again! Actually…it’s kind of hello for the first time because this is my first official post on Mirror. I wanted to dump some more thoughts on you guys about the journey to success in NFTs as a rapper. If you haven’t read my first piece, check it out here on my Substack (which I’m giving up for using Mirror). To sum up the first piece, there are a few key points when it comes to entry into NFT as a rapper:Own your musicUnderstand and be involved in the NFT communityRelease authenticall...

Jamaican Bobsled NFT Drop

Hey guys. I’ve been working with the Jamaican Bobsled Team over the last few months, like half of the year honestly, on an NFT project that will help fund their journey to the Olympic Games in 2022. I just wanted to talk about it a little bit so that everyone could have a clear idea of some of my thoughts around this project and it’s impact and implications for the space at large. This is also my first Mirror native post & I’m feeling pretty pumped (shouts out to y’all for opening everything ...

NFT Drop Reflections

Hey guys. The auction portion of my NFT ended on my birthday (happy birthday to me) this past Sunday and it managed to sell and I’m just thankful I got that far. I think this token is the precursor to a lot of tokens like it in the future. I think when people are offering their service at a slight premium for the current time, but a discount in the possible future, it acts as an interesting financial support mechanism with a return for you on the back end, whether through the service itself o...

...In the Wake of the Tory Lanez NFT...

Hey guys, Black Dave here with some more rap music NFT talk. I was going to write about some of my thoughts following my recent NFT drop, the auction is still available for bidding until August 15th at 12 Eastern, but decided that sincethis Tory Lanez NFT did so well, I’ll give a set of thoughts. Let’s get started: For starters, I’ll explain the NFT release: Tory released an NFT that allows for access for you to stream his album. The token is not a token that has the music attached to it, but...