{"id":66328,"date":"2022-08-26T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66328"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:44:54","slug":"eminem-and-snoop-dogg-to-perform-bayc-track-at-the-mtv-video-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/eminem-and-snoop-dogg-to-perform-bayc-track-at-the-mtv-video-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem and Snoop Dogg to perform BAYC track at the MTV Video Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rappers Eminem and Snoop Dogg will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony with the track From The D 2 The LBC, created in collaboration with the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the D to the LBC\u2026 to Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vmas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vmas<\/a> here we come \ud83d\udca8\ud83d\udca8\ud83d\udca8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eminem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eminem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OthersideMeta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OthersideMeta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLwcdOeIJN\">pic.twitter.com\/XLwcdOeIJN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnoopDogg\/status\/1562903138763321345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the eponymous video, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/eminem-and-snoop-dogg-become-bayc-characters-in-a-new-music-video\">published in late June<\/a>, the artists appeared as animated monkeys from the Otherside metaverse. The latter was created by Yuga Labs, the company behind BAYC.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 the MTV Video Music Awards added a category for \u201cBest Metaverse Performance.\u201d It also features Justin Bieber, Rift Tour (with Ariana Grande) and Twenty One Pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dogg is a well-known investor in collectible tokens under the pseudonym Cozomo de\u2019 Medici. The rapper released <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-com-to-launch-its-nft-marketplace-with-tokens-from-snoop-dogg-and-bosslogic\">own<\/a> NFT series, including <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nyan-cat-creator-sells-new-nft-in-collaboration-with-snoop-dogg\">in collaboration<\/a> with the creator of the Nyan Cat meme GIF, Chris Torres.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/snoop-dogg-to-launch-digital-cannabis-farms-as-nfts\">the creation of digital marijuana farms<\/a> in the MOBLAND project&#8217;s metaverse and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/snoop-dogg-unveils-nft-dessert-shop\">the launch of an NFT dessert store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Eminem <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/eminem-buys-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-for-450000\">acquired BAYC token #9055<\/a> for 123.45 ETH (more than $450,000 at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rappers Eminem and Snoop Dogg will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards with the track From The D 2 The LBC, created in collaboration with the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1356,1213,2249],"class_list":["post-66328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club","tag-nft","tag-snoop-dogg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66330,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328\/revisions\/66330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}