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Black Dave on Sound Swap

tl;dr: I’m dropping a song on Sound called I Love This Shit! featuring Stonez the Organic using their new drop format, Sound Swap. It goes Live on Apr...

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Web3 as a Tool for Ambitious Charitable Giving

tl;dr: Kindred Hearts is an NFT minting now that will donate half of each mint to the American Heart Association until January 31. Mint here. Hey! Hi! Also! Hello! I’m back with a sort of followup to my recent post, Web 3 as a Tool for Ambitious Artist Funding, now talking about other ways to use web3 technology to support the ambitions of others through charitable giving. Upon the release of Black Dave Token, I began down the path of possibility when it came to funding with audacity and ambi...

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Calm Down, the Recap

Takeaways from a 3-month long open mint music NFT.

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Web3 as a Tool for Ambitious Artist Funding

tl;dr: I’ve got 1,000,000 tokens for mint to raise a total of 250 ETH for my ideas and projects. Head here to mint yours. Hi! I hate a lot of things but for the context of opening this conversation up (I hope what I’m writing here becomes a conversation), I hate decks. Having made decks for things spanning from music festivals to events to business ideas, I’ve grown familiar with them. My girlfriend, who is my biggest supporter in my journey to wherever I’m going, texted me one day saying Sal...

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The Secret Weapon to Music NFTs is Collaboration

Hey! Hi! Hello! I’ve got a few new music NFT thoughts I want to share with you guys. I feel like every few weeks I’m realizing a few different things, but the one thing I’ve consistently been able to say is that there’s no one way to get it in this web3 shit, and I hope what I share with y’all presents more and more possible ways you can. tl;dr: I’ve collaborated with the metal band September Mourning on remixing their song Wake the Dead, available as an NFT on Sound. Mint yours now before th...

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Thoughts on Music NFT Scarcity

Yo! Again! I’ve got a new set of thoughts for you, this time around scarcity of NFTs, especially music NFTs. tl;dr: I’ve dropped an NFT that’s available in unlimited quantities for 0.01 ETH until December 31, 2022. Mint yours here. I’m calling it “Always On”Do Music NFTs Need To Be Scarce?I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of music as fine art and how NFTs give us an opportunity to create that in a way that we haven’t been able to, especially since music became digital. I think part o...

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Can Music NFT Collectors Actually Win?

Hey. For my birthday Mirror gifted me $WRITE token and now my URL is upgraded to blackdave.mirror.xyz and I couldn’t be more pumped. That’s not what this post is about but I’m pumped and wanted to say something about it. Click the subscribe button top right. Let’s get into this actual post: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how more and more platforms, marketplaces and tools are continuing to be built for artists, but very few are being built for fans and collectors in web3. I’m not gonna...

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Making It in NFT as a Rapper III

Yo! Back for another “Making it NFT as a Rapper” post, which essentially details what I’ve been up to as someone making rap music in Web3 and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It’s been a long time since I checked in with y’all like this, but since I’m dropping on Sound for my birthday on the 15th, I figured this is a good time to holla at everyone.Most of the year has been in a bear (down) market, so people have been trying to adjust accordingly. Some folks are dropping the price of th...

Results on Community Support

A week ago, I wrote this, a post called “Thoughts on Community Support” that was the explanation and initiation of a plan to support my homie Shawntel, one of my favorite folks in web3. The plan promises you a song of mine, Oh Yes, if you had collected an edition of the Lotus Flower Bomb NFT from Shawntel. The idea is that artists can find more direct ways to support each other by offering something tangible (digitally tangible?) to people who support your internal communities. I keep wanting...

Thoughts on Community Support

Hey again. Maybe it’s “Hey” for the first time. I don’t know. Hey.tl;drI think this full piece is worth reading but here’s the CliffsNotes version:Mint this NFT by Shawntel by Saturday, July 30.Claim a free new song of mine as an NFT on Saturday. Link on Saturday.We’re exploring new models of supporting each other as artists in web3.The ProblemI’ve been thinking a lot lately about how artists can support each other more in this world of web3 and NFTs outside of a retweet, outside of coming to...

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Project Phäros, Koodos and the Future (Which I Can't Predict but I Gotta Do Something So...)

Yo! A lot has been happening lately! As we continue down this road in web3, especially during the current bear market (which this post will last longer than), I have no plans of slowing down. In my continued journey to build and be great, I wanna chat about the next chapter of the journey: Project Phäros.Introducing Project PhärosThe next era of what I’m up to is going to be through executing the vision of Project Phäros, started by Matt Monday and myself. At current, we like to call Phäros a...

Black Dave Utility Season

Hey again. Been a while. A lot has happened since my last post, here’s a quick recap then we’ll get to the post: • I dropped on sound.xyz right before my last post. I didn’t say anything about it on there. • I produced an EP for Matt Monday that dropped on Catalog (and every song is still available to collect as of this post). • I dropped an EP on Mint Songs. 2 out of the 3 songs are still available (here and here) but it’s worth peeping. • I was featured on the Snoop Dogg 4/20 Mix that dropp...