Best Metaverse Performance Category
Rap pioneers Snoop Dogg and Eminem will perform together on Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), taking influence from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs and the Otherside metaverse. The Otherside is a joint venture between NFT investing powerhouse Animoca Brands and Yuga Labs’ BAYC. The worldwide rap artists will offer Otherside some important public exposure by outfitting the VMAs stage in the style of Otherside for their most recent collaborative song. There aren’t many details on the performance, though, as of yet.
The VMAs have also included a Best Metaverse Performance category in its annual awards, seemingly sending a message to the music business that metaverse performances merit greater attention. Justin Bieber, Twenty-One Pilots, and the Rift Tour with Ariana Grande are among the nominees for the honor.
The two musicians’ collaboration on the song, for which they are nominated for the Best Hip Hop award, is their first in twenty years. Eminem and Snoop Dogg are both collectors of BAYC NFTs, and the song’s music video makes extensive use of materials from the NFT library. Additionally, Snoop Dogg recently appeared in an animated music video for Esther Anaya’s EDM tune BAYC, which also featured Bored Apes and other NFTs.
The Doggies Series of NFTs
Eminem owns 28 other NFTs under the name Shady Holdings and on December 31 paid 123.45 ETH for a hip-hop-clad Bored Ape. Snoop Dog is a much more active player in the NFT market. His collaboration with The Sandbox produced the Doggies series of NFTs, and on December 22, he also purchased a Bored Ape.
A gamified, interconnected metaverse called The Otherside is presently under beta testing. The platform provides Otherdeed NFTs, whose owners are referred to as Voyagers, to symbolize digital ownership of land plots in the virtual world connected to BAYC. In the future, Otherside will allow interoperability, providing Voyagers the opportunity to bring their own outside collections and NFTs to life within our metaverse, claims the light paper.
Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/08/29/eminem-and-snoop-dogg-to-perform-together/