Bitcoin Gets Awareness Boost From Mention On Eminem's New Album "Kamikaze"
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have taken another step toward mainstream awareness with a mention on U.S. rapper Eminem's new album "Kamikaze" — a sign that bitcoin is slowly penetrating to different levels of society and out of the financial, fintech bubble it's existed in for the last 10 years.
In the ninth track on the album, "Not Alike" — featuring Royce Da 5'9' — Royce claims: "Remember everybody used to bite Nickel, now everybody doing bitcoin."
Public awareness has been a major driver of the bitcoin price, which last year ballooned to almost $20,000 from around $1,000 per coin at the beginning of the year. The bitcoin price has since fallen back, dragging most other major cryptocurrencies with it, and is now trading at around $7,000.
Last year's bull run meant a raft of bitcoin mentions in film, TV, and music as producers both praised and attacked the digital currency — that made many overnight millionaires and brought on the ire of the established financial industry.
On the animated cartoon comedy "Family Guy", the show's main character Peter Griffin suggests bitcoin as a solution to his family’s financial trouble.
In "Dope", a 2015 American comedy-drama movie, the main character begins selling drugs online using bitcoin.
On the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", the gang search for a lost laptop which held bitcoin that Sheldon and his friends purchased seven years earlier.
The mention on Eminem's album is significant however as it suggests not a get rich quick scheme nor a way to sell illicit goods online, but rather something that "everybody [is] doing" — that it's as common as knowing you bite the metal coin to test its quality.
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