Eminem Raps About Bitcoin As Popular Culture Embraces Cryptocurrency
A new Eminem song, “Not Alike,” available on Spotify, observes that “Everybody doing bitcoin” in a string of phrases describing contemporary life.
The song, which predictably makes extensive use of profanity and references to violence, is one of the numerous references to cryptocurrency in modern culture.
Eminem is not the first rapper to reference bitcoin. In 2014, Toby + Decap wrote “Welcome To The Blockchain,” a song declaring “Power corrupts and money is power.” The song said inflation is a tax robbing money of its value and criticized fractional reserve banking, claiming “Our money is debt /gotta pay it back more than a hundred percent.”
Rappers aren’t the only artists noticing bitcoin nowadays.
Hollywood Movie Planned
Cryptocurrency is expected to get one of its biggest boosts of visibility with the upcoming Hollywood movie, “Crypto,” which deals with money laundering, starring Alexis Bledel of Gilmore Girls and Kurt Russell. The film’s plot also includes hacking and Internet security.
Late last year, as bitcoin was making major gains, an episode of the U.S. TV show, “The Big Bang Theory” carried a bitcoin plot when the geeky characters tried to find bitcoin they had mined several years earlier, as recounted on Yahoo. When they finally recover the lost laptop, they find the bitcoin was downloaded to a flash drive on a keychain that has long been lost.
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