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Brandon Yu

Ye is too focused on the “real world” to make NFTs, thank you very much

Don’t bother Ye with your bland apes. The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has announced himself as somewhat of a surprising outlier in the NFT game: while more and more celebrities are cashing in on the hyped crypto art scam, Ye posted on Instagram claiming he can’t be bothered with creating and selling meaningless digital receipts — at least not yet.

Like a beautiful middle-finger poem, Kanye posted a photo of a handwritten note, with line breaks and all: “My focus is on / building real / products in the / real world / real food / real clothes / real shelter / do not ask me / to do a fucking / NFT,” he wrote. He signed the letter before adding one more curious footnote: “Ask me later.”

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