Eminem x Snoop Dogg’s The D 2 The LBC, Bored Ape music video is nominated for  Best Hip Hop in Video Music Awards 2022. The American rappers collaborated in June and dropped a music video featuring their Bored Ape NFTs as avatars. 

The NFT industry seems to be taking over mainstream music this year with many celebrities dropping their own NFT collections or collaborating with NFT projects. 

Pharrell Williams recently became the brand chief officer of Doodles and also announced new music with the brand, similarly, Madonna collaborated with Beeple to drop her own NFT collection surrounding Women, Nature, and Childbirth. 

Snoop Dogg and Eminem collab 

Among these many celebrities, Snoop Dogg seems to be one of the biggest influencers in the NFT industry. He has partnered with many NFT projects and even dropped unreleased tracks on Baked Nation as part of a collaboration. Likewise, Eminem also owns Bored Ape and a bunch of other NFTs.

Both being influential hip-hop rappers worldwide, the NFT and hip-hop fans had hoped to see them collaborate, which came true when the duo performed at Super Bowl and hinted at a possible collaboration.

Finally, on June 24, the duo released a music video for The D 2 The LBC featuring their Bored Apes NFTs as avatars and other NFTs. The MV is highly interactive and was recognized as a revolutionary concept that combines technology, art, and music together as one. 

The D 2 The LBC nominated for VMAs 2022

On July 26, VMAs announced nominations for various categories, and Eminem x Snoop Dogg’s The D 2 The LBC is nominated in the Best Hip Hop category. 

This is the first Bored Ape and NFT-based music video to be nominated for a music award, which makes it extra special. As soon as the announcement came out on Twitter, the rappers and Bored Ape fans celebrated the huge achievement. 

Although Snoop Dogg and Eminem have individually been nominated for VMAs in the past years, this collaborative nomination is a new honor that will be remembered in music history. 

BAYC congratulates rappers on the nomination

BAYC’s official Twitter account retweeted the nomination tweet and congratulated the rappers for it. This is the first ever Bored Ape music video to be nominated and it deserves celebrations for the BAYC community as a whole.

BAYC team also encouraged the followers to vote for the nominated video to bag the win officially on VMAs to be held on August 28, 2022.