Rapper #NipseyHussle was one of the first ‚mainstream’ artist to embrace #Bitcoin. In the outro of "That's How I Knew", a song on his mixtape "Mobile Money" (2014), he addresses the technological changes that were imminent at the time:
„Life, and it's like, you know,
You can look a gift horse in the face and not know what you lookin' at
And I feel like, you know, I'm lookin' at the gift horse
I'm just one of the ones that notice what I'm lookin' at
You know what I mean? It's actually an incredible time
It's like a gold rush, it's never been a time like this in our generation
It's our equivalent of the Gold Rush with everybody movin' to California
This technology has empowered everybody
And it's giving people, you know, it's as big as you wanna make it and
You know, it's as far as you take it
And we can quote a gang of things going on in the world right now
Or just, you know, accept it as being true
But, you know, it's like, man, giants gon' crumble
Big-big companies gon' crumble
New companies gon' pop up outta nowhere and it's-it's gon' be dramatic
And I believe that“
Back then I was listening to Nipsey while falling down the rabbit hole. Writing my master thesis on Bitcoin. Today we witness what he envisioned. While legacy banks are tumbling, Bitcoin is getting stronger and stronger. R.I.P.
