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Multi-award winning rap artist Eminem has just released his latest album, Kamikaze. On one of the tracks, collaborator Royce Da 5’9′ mentions Bitcoin in a light that is rare to see.

Bitcoin Takes Another Step Towards Mainstream Acceptance

Since the bull market of 2017, both news coverage and mentions of Bitcoin in popular culture have increased tremendously.

The latest example of the world’s number one digital currency moving into the mainstream is on Eminem’s latest record, which dropped last night.

The mention comes during the ninth song on the album. The track is called “Not Alike” and is a collaboration between the formerly peroxide-adorned enemy of angsty teenagers’ parents everywhere and lesser known rapper Royce Da 5’9′. During the number, Royce states:

“Remember everybody used to bite Nickel, now everybody doing bitcoin.”

What is interesting about this particular reference is that Bitcoin is not phrased as some bizarre niche or criminal activity. He literally says everyone is doing it.

Previous mentions of Bitcoin in popular culture have often presented it as something far too complicated for the average person. This was the case with the comic Ellen DeGeneres’s section on the technology on the “Ellen” show. In other instances, as on the audience-dividing Big Bang Theory, it was presented as the domain of the strictly geeky.

Elsewhere, there have been numerous references to the shadowy early days of Bitcoin made in popular culture. One such example is the 2015 comedy-drama movie Dope. The plot features a main character who gets into the world of drug dealing on the dark web using the cryptocurrency as a payment method.

Finally, another side of Bitcoin popularly portrayed in the entertainment industry is that embodied by the “get-rich-quick” crowd. In an episode of “Family Guy”, Peter Griffin suggests that Bitcoin might be the answer to the family’s financial difficulties.

According to new research reported by Forbes, the bitcoin price moves with a high degree of alignment to its Google searches. The study was performed by Joost van der Burgt of the Dutch National Bank. He told the publication:

“If the buzz is everywhere, it doesn’t matter exactly what the news is about… nobody wants to miss out and everybody’s trying to get a piece of it.”

Such mentions like that on Eminem’s Kamikaze encourage people to research Bitcoin more fully.

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For those interested, here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5e0qYD-l9Q) is a lyric video where Bitcoin is being mentioned. Fast forward to 01:06 and you'll see how much of a "big" deal this shoutout really is.

Only one person in the comment section of that video pointed out that Bitcoin was mentioned, and it's very likely done after having read one of today's released articles.

LOL. Bitcoin talking another step towards mainstream?

Its just a one liner, mentioning Bitcoin and I don't think that it will really push for bitcoin maintenance. Besides, there a lot of celebs in the music industry who either endorsed crypto or investment it bitcoin years ago but still we are far from being "mainstream adopted". I guess everyone should wait for Kurt Russell's, inspired crypto movie, aptly called Crypto next year. I'm sure not only crypto related websites will suddenly jump on the bandwagon again, but Hollywood. LOL.

Exactly my thoughts. I think there's only so much news about bitcoin these days so anything that vaguely mentions bitcoin somewhere becomes a topic of interest and then gets reported on by a bitcoin blog. I'm waiting for the time that a celebrity takes a fart or sneezes and the noise sounds like it might have had something to do with bitcoin and that gets reported as "celebrity endorses bitcoin".   ;D

On a more less cynical viewpoint, the more times bitcoin is mentioned it does mean it's become more mainstream and relevant, but this mention still isn't much to get excited about.

To me it's even kinda sad that this is considered the news today. Bitcoin will be 9 years old soon, we should be getting news about 30% worldwide adoption, about more and more companies and services using it, about open-minded governments using it as a reserve currency, but instead we have the news about a popular rapper briefly mentioning it in his song once.

This is pretty interesting. That rapper named Royce stated that bitcoin is really now becoming part of the talk when it is about investing. These might not be a big deal but the awareness still helps and I hope more famous songs include bitcoin line in a positive way.