Rare Tupac Shakur photographs are being offered for sale as NFTs.
Death Row Records has revealed a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to commemorate the label’s 30th anniversary, which was issued yesterday (November 23).
Lawrence “Loupy D” Dotson, a hip-hop journalist, shot a series of previously unseen and rare pictures of Tupac Shakur for the ‘Tupac collection.’
It includes 18 tokens with never-before-seen photos from the ‘Changes’ rapper’s debut record release party.
On the NFT platform OpenSea, the images are up for auction. The auction will close at 9 p.m. PST on November 29.
Loupy D was invited to his ‘2Pacalypse Now’ launch party after the two had a conversation about misogyny in hip hop at a club, according to the collection’s website.
He then went to the party with a disposable 35mm black and white camera.
He’s collaborated with 100K Trees for Humanity, an organization dedicated to planting 100,000 urban trees and plants, to receive proceeds from NFT sales.
In Tupac’s homeland of Marin County, California, they will plant 17 trees for each of the original pictures and 400+ trees for the sale of the NFT collage “Super NFT.”
Loupy D told The Rolling Stone that he shot photos at the release party for his 1992 album ‘2Pacalypse Now,’ but never revealed them to anyone, except showing them to his pupils as a substitute teacher to encourage good behaviour.
Until the idea of an NFT was discussed, he had no idea what to do with them.
