The American rapper and recording producer Kanye West was in the news recently after his sudden appearance in Grammys 2025. Hip Hop music star actively published on X, which led to possible cooperation with Coinbase Brian Armstrong.
‘Crypto Yeezy’?
On February 7 on X, West subscriber He offered two million dollars to strengthen a fraudulent coded currency project in his name. This revelation came amid a series of irregular, offensive and somewhat annoying functions by the 47 -year -old singer.
According to a chat screenshot, Kanye West offered an initial payment of $ 750,000 for the promotional contract. The arrangement will also include a later payment of $ 1.25 million, 16 hours after the billionaire rapper’s participation about the project.
The pictured messages showed that the West is supposed to announce to the public that his X account has been hacked and that the publication was not from it. This scheme was expected to take off the reassuring fans and members of the encryption community from “tens of millions of dollars”.
Kanye West mentioned that he rejected the offer and cut off his work relationship with the individual he suggested. Despite the abusive and anti -Semitic posts that followed this revelation, many members of the online project and Crypto have urged Hollywood star to launch a coin.
Source: X
It is worth noting that Generation and Trading Platform in Solana responded to trading pumps. However, it appears that Kanye West does not think about his encrypted platform.
In a post on X Captioned “with regard to encryption”, the West subscriber Another chat screen snapshot where an unknown partner was asked to “re -submit this Crypto Connect”. This person responded to “Brian Armstrong, CEO and Coinbase founder, saying he would ask Crypto founder’s phone number.
Celebrity codes that return in 2025?
Kanye West will not be the first famous in Hollywood to launch a symbol if he is. It is worth noting that the Iggy Azalea rapper launched her mother’s iggy (mother) symbol in May 2024, and got great attention at a time when she was launching the distinctive code in fashion.
Among the other celebrities who are allegedly involved in the Tokeen launch operations last year Davido, French Montana and Lil Pump. While Kanye West is one of the biggest names in the global music industry and pop culture, its irregular and controversial nature adds an interesting dimension to how investors approach his symbol launched in his name.
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