How Rappers Can Make Money with NFTs

A few weeks ago, I bought a digital mystery box from one of my favorite rappers—just out of curiosity and support. When it arrived, all it had inside was a single QR code. I scanned it and, to my surprise, it took me to a private Dropbox folder.

Inside? An unreleased song.

I must’ve listened to it four times in a row. By then, I started wishing I could download it—own it. There’s just something about having a piece of music no one else does. People love collecting things that feel personal. And this felt personal.

Rappers freestyle all the time—it’s like their version of hitting the gym. And with the way tech is moving, especially with NFTs, they don’t even need to wait for an album drop anymore.

Gary Vee once said, if you’re talented enough to drop a song a day, you should. But honestly, you don’t even have to go that hard. You could literally freestyle over a 30-second royalty-free beat, mint it as an NFT, and list it on OpenSea for 1 ETH—about $4,000.

Do that 50 times? That’s $200K.

And the best part? Every time someone resells that freestyle, you get paid royalties—forever. Passive income from a throwaway verse? That’s the future of music ownership.