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Collectors Vault. EP. 10 Feat. @Eddiegangland
Recorded: Aug. 29, 2025 Duration: 0:45:19Space Recording
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you I see no competition and I mind my business.
God is my witness.
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I know. I know. I know. I do. Oh Thank you. Musique à Thank you. Thank you. Welcome in, everybody. welcome in everybody 8 40 p.m eastern it's your girl profits behind the bz account make sure you
like comment repost the space for awareness we have a super amazing special guest and i am super
excited make sure you tag a friend tag a collector throw this in your alpha chats. This is going to be a banger.
Thank you again for pulling up.
Happy Thursday.
I'm going to start in about 30 seconds.
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I know that you're my leader in the arm.
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honestly i wanted to keep going that song is a banger that was by accident i didn't even
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click that i just clicked a random mix such a it's a good mix be outside little tequila soda
listen to that song oh oh man welcome welcome to the official bz spaces the collector's
vault i think we're on episode 10 100 000 i don't even know but uh we have the most amazing
conversations here with collectors with artists um people that you know just love hoarding all types of stuff, Pokemon, sneakers, collectibles, art,
whatever it may be, physicals. And we always try our best to bring some really cool legends that
are here within the space. We have Eddie here tonight. I've been saying all week I'm hyped
for this, but Eddie has done many things. I'm actually a big fan of Eddie, um,
for a while now, even more recently, I've been loving to, I love the, the TikTok alpha you've
been giving. I've been following it myself. Uh, I love the, just, just straight info that you've
been giving and you're, you're, you know, arguably, and I know how it is as an entrepreneur,
we never like are satisfied, but like you are pretty, you know, doing pretty good for yourself, right. As a human in America, like, right. Like, you know,
we fucking hard out here, but like, I just appreciate how you're still willing to, um,
like give like straight, basic, like hustle tips. Like, I love that. Like, that's just awesome. And
I think that's one thing that, uh, kind of made me realize the kind of person you are.
When I started following you, I think it was a couple of years ago.
And so, man, just thank you for being here.
Thank you for your time tonight.
And welcome to the show.
How are you feeling tonight?
Thank you so much.
You're probably not going to believe me or anything.
I'm kissing ass.
But I've been a fan of yours for a long time, Prophet.
So this is a little bit of a dream come true for me, too.
And I know we're in the same city, but we haven't really connected like that. So this is really cool. bit of a dream come true for me too and i know we we're in the same city but
we haven't really connected like that so this is this is really cool i'm happy to be here
we're definitely gonna change that we gotta go to coffee or something like that um actually you
probably get a kick out of this um my graffiti friends a couple years ago um you know when i
first been in miami a few years now i'm from Orlando, was raised here, all that, like in Florida, but left for a while, left to LA, came back.
Anyway, I, um, I throw my big Art Basel event every year.
You probably have heard of it.
Maybe, maybe not.
Um, definitely would love to include you this year.
But point is I was, I was in my tag bug a few years, like a year ago, year and a half ago.
And I was just going all over when we're just tagging, tagging, tagging, tagging.
And I did some dumb shit and, uh, tag, I guess, over like an artist and not only that, a really good artist
and my friends like hit me up the next day like, yo, you need to go to Wynwood right now and you
need to take the acetone and you need to go clean the wall. I was like, yeah, no problem. I'm sorry.
And I always share that with people I really like respect and look up to in this space
because I know they're like, dude, you're crazy, but I'm glad you went to go clean it off. So
just wanted to kind of share that little idiotic tidbit about myself, but let's jump into it.
Are you originally from Miami? And then I guess second question to that is like,
when did you start your whole art career? Damn. I know you don't know me like that,
but that was actually a perfect uh back-to-back
question for me um i am born and raised in miami but and this is a big but um me and my wife moved
away to san francisco um about eight years ago and that's actually where my art, like my serious art started. So I lived in Miami. I mean, up until my 20s,
we moved to San Fran and, uh, and I just found the creative energy out there that I hadn't really
found, hadn't really tapped into in Miami. Not that I hadn't found it because it's been out here,
but I hadn't tapped into it myself. And SF, I really was able to tap into it. And then we moved back to Miami. And luckily we had kept our
house here. And it was kind of a nice transition back. And I've just kind of continued in Miami.
Yeah, I like how you said that. I also left to LA in my 20s. And it was really a,
and no regrets at all. It was literally a, you know, make or break situation
for me personally. I was like, I need to go here. I need to grind a hustle. I need to figure it out.
And I, and I feel like I did. I went when I was 20 and I spent like pretty much my entire twenties
there and it changed me forever, um, for the better. Right. And it's, I like how you said
that that spark was, you were able to find that spark. Um, like I've always been a dancer. I've
always been a creative and you, you actually talk about this and this is why i really like fuck with how you with
how you think but you it's hard to jump into that creative when you're like financially struggling
you know and and i know like the starving artist yeah like a part of that is a thing
but um i think that balance is important and you kind of like i think embody that really really
well when was the first time you felt like that moment of like, holy fuck, like I'm doing it. Like I just sold my art piece for, you know, 500 bucks or whatever. I know you, I know stuff goes for like a couple bands with you, a few bands now, but like what, what was that moment or when was that moment for you?
yeah um good question um in sf i want to say i sold a few pieces um like i said before i tapped
into the energy but i wasn't really tapping into the money and i don't know how much of my history
you know but um once i actually moved back to miami around that time was my son was being born
so it was kind of a make or break moment for me
personally um my art at that moment was either going to live on as like a hobby i was going to
be a hobbyist for the rest of my life or i was going to go in all in on it and uh and me and my
wife had that kind of like that heart-to-heart moment and she's like go for it like just do it and i dove 100 all into my art and then i
started selling nfts so around the sun around the time my son was being born i started selling nfts
and then that kind of i i hate to say nfts were my big break but looking back in a lot of ways, I think God wanted me to find NFTs in that
moment. And it really jumpstarted my career. I met a lot of my collectors. I see the dude
in the audience. He's a really big collector, not only NFTs, but physicals now as well. And
I know I'm going off on a tangent a little bit because I'm hella ADHD, but NFTs in a big way were my kind of entry point into real money. And then
we can talk about this going on in the show, but now I don't even mint NFTs. Now it's 100%
painting. So it's been an interesting transition and I love both groups of collectors. They're
very different, but it's just been an interesting ride.
That is really good lore. Thank you for sharing that because I feel like a lot of times it's the opposite and then it's a flat line.
Like what you said, you get into it and then, oh yeah, I'm minting my art and then it just dies or something, but then they don't even carry on in Web 2.
cementing my art and then it just dies or something, but then they don't even carry on
in web two. And so for you, you kind of use it as a stepping stool. Uh, it sounds like,
or at least like a more or less like a pathway. And then now you're here. Are you, um, uh,
I'm at a couple of juicy questions. Are you staying off chain or you're just like, you
haven't, you, you don't really care to put any of your art on chain anymore or you will
maybe in the future. So I don in the future so i don't want to
i don't want to say anything and lie to you just because i have the utmost respect for you
personally whether i mean you know this or not um and i know you're so tapped into that culture
i am and i'm gonna be just totally honest with everybody who's listening in i am trying to find my best way back on chain i purposely
stopped minting because i didn't want to hurt my collectors who had collected my nfts and this is
i'm not here to pump any of my nfts but my projects have pretty much maintained you can ask dude and
my stuff hasn't like fallen off like people are are still buying them here and there and at a fair price point.
But it's, I think, because I didn't oversaturate.
So I got to a point and this, I mean, I could talk about this for hours.
So we might have to have an episode too.
But I got to a point where, and it was kind of a heart to heart moment again with my wife,
where it was like, I don't think if i continue minting nfts at this
moment i'm going to oversaturate everything and i might lose everything and in a weird way she
understood that and i'm like but that doesn't mean i want to give up my art i feel like i'm tapped
into my art right now i gotta figure out how to continue building this and then maybe work my way
back into nfts and then that's when we started like i started
making prints and if you've been following my prints like god god changed my freaking life
when he taught me how to sell prints because prints have become my bread and butter every
single drop sells out and that's not me hyping it that's fucking god like i needed to find a
transition point in order to keep my art dream alive. So I started selling prints and then I started selling hella paintings.
And now I haven't minted an NFT in a while, but it doesn't mean I'm against NFTs.
So that's, I think, a misconception sometimes within the culture.
And I don't know if you agree or disagree, but a lot of people are like maxi NFT people.
And it's like, if you touch paint, you are against us.
And guys, that's not true.
That's not true.
NFTs had their shining day and then they slowed down a little bit.
And artists had to transition and figure out how to make money to feed their kids and shit.
Yeah.
We're coming back.
We're coming back.
Sorry, I'm over talking.
No, no. This is no no this is this is what
i like this is what i like because i too have adhd as well this is exactly what i was just going to
add to that and say that i think there's um i think at one point of course it was a bubble it
was but more than anything nft emphasizes technology for me and and our boy Gary Vee says the same thing. That's what it is. I think artists now
are having fun with, like, shout out to my boy, Drooby. He runs Bad Bad NFT, which used to be
Goons. They just did something where you buy, I think they did something on Ape Chain. It was
like 20 bucks or something, but you can either keep it or you can burn burn it i think
up until a certain point for physical merch you know irl and so i'll i'll chat with you after this
and you know i would love to like go back and forth with ideas i think you you have tons of
cool shit that you can tap into based off those stuff that you've already done would love to just
give you tons of just of my brain on that stuff but i would love that thank you yeah no of course
speaking of um of gary v um am i crazy did you you drew one of the the characters for the cards
yeah so shout out to my boy dj kaufman um that guy i mean that guy if if you don't know who that
guy is go go search him right now on twitter, on X, and give him a follow.
He's, I think, the head artist of the comics.
And just, I mean, an incredible dude, an incredible artist, an incredible human.
And he actually gave me the opportunity.
Like, Gary Vee's amazing.
I've attended every single VCon because I'm a diehard Gary Vee fan.
But it was DJ Kaufman who reached out to me on DM and he's like, hey man,
Gary's letting us kind of reach out to some artists we believe in and I want to give you a
shot. And it was really cool because one of my bucket list items for a long time had been to
work with Tops because I'm like a a big big card collector um but that's a
whole nother conversation again i'm ADHD um but we're gonna jump into that about 30 seconds don't
worry all right dope um but dj was like hey do you want to draw some cards and i'm like absolutely
i want to draw some cards what do you mean and he's like i mean can you draw like five ten cards
and i'm like i mean how many am i allowed to draw? And he's like, well, I'm going to do X.
And he's like, but you can do how many?
I'm like, can I do 50?
And he's like, yeah, you can do 50.
I'm like, fuck it.
I'll do 50 cards.
So then like literally I stopped everything that I was doing.
And I don't know how to say this like politely, but like it wasn't like a money opportunity.
I don't know how to say this politely, but it wasn't like a money opportunity. I don't know if you understand that.
It was like a fan slash exposure opportunity.
So I stopped all my money-making opportunities, basically, to just draw out these cards for like a week or two.
And honestly, one of the best decisions of my life, because as you know, the VFriends community is unmatched, un-fucking-matched.
I'm sorry.
I know everybody hypes their own community, but, like, from what I've seen, the VFriends are diehard.
So they accepted me with open arms, it felt like, and it was cool to see the breaks and see my cards being pulled.
And, yeah, it was awesome.
Bro, they absolutely are diehard.
I totally agree um i have a box that
i still get to open and now i'm like i don't want to open it it's going for a lot i remember when i
hit you up like bro let me get a box you're like nah bro they're all mine i was like all right
i totally get it i would do the same shit it's like dude it's like you're it's like a trophy
like you did this like That has to feel amazing.
Dumb question.
I guess exactly what you drew is exactly what it comes back as, right, when it's produced?
Like exactly, right?
Like to the T?
Yeah.
Well, it's literally sketches.
So if you pull a sketch card, you're literally receiving.
So the artist received, I received literally 50 blank cards in the mail
if it even i mean i want to like talk about the terms and shit but like i couldn't even take a
card off the top for myself like we had to send everything back otherwise we were blacklisted
from future drops so i received 50 cards i painted directly onto 50 cards i send them back to them
dj kaufman approves them them with Gary and then they go straight to
Topps. It was crazy.
That's a sick process.
Alright.
Moment everyone's been waiting for.
Onboarding Eddie to Beezy tonight
if he's not already on.
What kind of cards are you into?
You said sports, Pokemon, both. What are you
mainly into?
I feel like I'm kind of an older
dork i feel like the younger people now um are like collecting a lot of sports and like almost
100 sports um and i i like kind of like the non-sports cards believe it or not so i collect
some of the some of the weird ones i have like some older, some high PSA Michael Jackson cards.
I have a lot of Princess Leia cards.
I'm kind of like a Star Wars nerd.
So I collect a lot of crazy shit.
Oh, that's actually dope.
Somebody I know is connected with the entire vault of Michael Jackson.
I think Neon just did a stream going through all the stuff.
That's cool.
Yeah, that was dope as fuck to see.
So I would imagine you're obviously into crypto, right?
Safe to say.
Definitely.
Have you been, I mean, you know what RWAs are.
I guess what you're like, you already got some, you know,
I imagine these things are going to be tokenized eventually as they are already starting to be.
I mean, that's exactly what BZ is.
What is your
interest or take on that whole sector i mean and what did you like when you first saw it come to
life like what did you think like oh shit i knew this was coming or did you did it make you want
to buy more cards or what are you talking specifically about uh so like rwas are so just
like the nfts like the the name the term right so your your card
for example let's say you wanted to sell it on bz you would send it to the vault it'd be it'd be
legit you know make sure it's legit obviously it's a jits and psa it'd be stored with brinks
and now let's say me or anybody wanted to buy it from you right on chain um not only do you get
royalties on it for life uh as it sells on chain
but if i uh didn't want to redeem the physical i could just keep it on in the vault and then i have
the quote-unquote nft token like one-to-one tokenized asset in my wallet the michael jackson
right that's cool and so that's kind of the term per se i guess and so that's kind of the term per se, I guess. And so that's kind of I mean, I know you're like more in the art world, but I personally think that's where we're leaning towards, especially when it comes to onboarding the masses.
I love the NFTs when they popped off. We all did. We love the opportunity to make money, all this cool shit. But I think this is more realistic.
I talked to my friends and normal friends about, you know, BZ and they're like, oh, how do I, you know, do I need crypto for that?
I'm like, oh, no, you could use crypto if you want, but not.
So, again, using the tech without being super complicated and things of that nature.
Have you been, you can be honest with me, too.
I know we follow each other, but have you heard of BZ before tonight?
So I've been checking out Bz i mean the past couple nights
since recently since we connected um i was seeing how it was like the digital how they can pull like
a digital claw and that was cool because i'm a big claw person um i'm a big mystery person also
and here's a question and i don't know again yeah please ask you can ask this could go off on a
crazy tangent so one of my big beliefs with, and it's a very weird specific belief.
I don't know if other people even have this interest.
But the reason I believe so much in crypto or in Ethereum, I'm a big ETH head, by the way.
But everyone loves their coins and it's awesome.
Is fractionalized ownership. Does B is, is fractionalized ownership.
Does BZ tap into fractionalized ownership at all? Great question. And at the moment,
the answer is no. And I'm going to be honest with you. Um, I'm not totally against that.
That's reminding me of when particle came out a couple of years ago. And I think they were
offering some sort of Banksy and it did make me interested because I'm a, I a huge Banksy fan as I went to photography school that was one of the first artists
historically I learned about um and I was like holy shit this is you know I'm like 20 in fucking
college room and I'm like oh cool this guy was a rebel when he fucking became famous for me I think
that's what like excited me about him as uh like as a young'un but to answer your question no so
like for example that Michael Jackson,
if I were to buy it, like I said,
I'd fully own it until I decide to sell it again.
But, yeah, what makes you ask that?
I think that's a huge...
I mean, and it sounds like you kind of have this lined up
to be perfect for fractional ownership
because you already have the Brinks vault.
But that's, again, we should actually... actually see i love when people have really good ideas we definitely gotta
we gotta connect offline i hear the light bulbs going off yeah i'm a creative so you know how it
works but it's like i think fractional ownership is cool just because um with, at least right now,
I'm seeing a lot of the younger people tapping into crypto
and believing in it more so than the older folks who have the money.
And that's fine.
That's going to mature.
But BZ sounds like it's at a prime point to kind of capture that
in the sense that I think people at a younger age right now are willing to
fractionally own something just because of the kind of like hype that comes
behind that so like they're like they tell their boys yeah bro I own one
one thousandth of a Michael J Michael Jackson Michael Jordan sorry I just I
smoked a J right before I got on here. A Michael Jordan rookie card, bro.
And it doesn't really mean anything monetarily.
Like they could trade that share on the BZ app or whatever.
But I feel like hype and bragging points right now are like an utmost high.
And digital hyping is like, I don't know.
I think you seriously got to start thinking about some sort of like even if it's like no I think down the line in the future you know I'm not you know I'm not
really at position to say or not I know as a team we're open to a lot of things and what makes sense
and I think the reason that wasn't the first thing at first was because of the the weirdness
in the market in the beginning but things like that like a michael jackson a banksy that's huge that's as far as even just having a piece of ownership i agree um we actually have
this really cool community called zard capital where uh i believe it's a token and they reward
their community um you know for like you know obviously owning it but then uh for example if
you play the claw and, uh, you hit a
certain card, they put bounties on these like certain Charizards. And so if you play and you
have Zard and you hit it, they'll like pay you for the, like some sort of bounty for the actual.
And so basically their whole idea is having like a treasury in Charizards. So like their treasury
is fucking rare Charizards, which I think is super dope.
So in a way you're a part of a DAO that kind of like partly, you know, you kind of like own
some of those things in a way, right? Based on what you just said. Um, but since you said you
love claws, looks like right after this space, I'm going to, I'm going to send you some claw
plays so you could check it out. Um, let me go ahead and DM you that link so you could check it out um let me go ahead and dm you that link so you could sign up but yeah after this space i'll make sure you you could play uh does your any any i don't know if
you have any nieces nephews daughters or if your wife is into the boo-boos as well we got the
boo-boos in the claws a ton of stuff in the claw oh shit yeah i got a one-year-old little girl who
honestly just likes anything and a four-year-old boy who equally will probably like LaBooBoo. So
I appreciate that. That sounds dope. Oh yeah, absolutely. For sure. If anybody also is in the
crowd, any collectors, I want to come up and ask Eddie anything you're more than welcome to. I'm
going to ask a couple of more questions before we wrap up. But I guess, you know, as an artist
and somebody that's always looking for new ways to create community and connect, what's your
biggest take on giving value? And as an artist, you give tons of value. So I know for you, it's
quite simple. You're just tapping into your art, to your passion. But how important is that when
it comes to gathering community? Do we have like three minutes to go off on a crazy tangent? Oh,
of course. Yeah, of course. It's a, it's a semi tangent. It's in response to your question. So
that's actually something I've been asking myself a lot. Um, I'm getting to a point in my career,
like you said earlier, um, I am, I am humbly very grateful for, sort of financial support that I have right now with my community of collectors and all of that.
And that's kind of pushed me to a point where it's like I'm not needing to get financial support all the time.
I'm trying to find ways to give back.
to give back. And one of my new goals now, and I've given myself like a four-year timeline
because I know I can get it done in four years, is I'm trying to kind of build a little tiny nest
egg. And my thoughts, and I've already started working with ChatGPT and shit in the night times,
but my thought process is to purchase up as many acres of land and pot as possible,
probably in Northern Florida.
I haven't figured out an exact spot and I'm literally going to name that land gangland
and I'm going to make it public.
And then I'm going to start laying down like cement barriers all throughout like the acreage.
I'm going to announce where it's located.
And then I'm basically just going to make it a free for all for any artists
who want to go out and just like paint.
Like,
I feel like one of the issues with Florida and you live here,
it's like,
unless you go to Wynwood and then you're like tagging on top of people,
like there are no free walls in Florida.
There are no like paint,
like fucking liberation places. Like
we need like a revolutionary spot where artists can like, I can call up my boy Atomic. I can call
up my boy Marlon Cruz. Like we can go out there, we can camp out. They can paint on like these
like scattered cement walls all throughout the property. And then anybody at any time can come
out there and paint over them or take photos beside them.
So I know that was a crazy tangent, but I'm trying to give back in a real way.
And I think I can actually make that happen in the next three or four years.
And then I would have literally dozens of acres named gangland where artists can go all the fucking time and just paint their camp there for free.
Like I wouldn't charge a dime.
And that's my next goal.
I like this.
Oh, yeah, we got a few minutes for sure.
Real quick, if you haven't already signed up to BZ, make sure you do so.
I'm going to just have some fun.
I'm going to match a couple of y'all's plays.
So if you go post that you played the claw,
like comment repost a space, you may get lucky with a match play. Let's get that fun going.
Did you mint a ton of NFTs when you first got in or did you focus more on the business side when you first like kind of stepped into the space? So my biggest regret to date is I started minting my Gangland Skulls collection for sale a few weeks before the Bored Apes started.
And because I was so focused and tapped into my own things, I was like, nah, this is going to be hype.
I'm not going to do it.
And my biggest regret to date is that I didn't buy
into the Bored Ape community. They were literally minting right alongside my collection. And
obviously, Bored Apes are... I'm nowhere near Bored Apes, but it was just crazy to be at that
point in time in my career and literally watch Bored Apes from but it was just crazy to be at that point in time in my career and literally watch
Bored Apes from day one and see the Twitter spaces going, see the chats. Clubhouse was
fucking popping at that time. It was crazy. I mean, life is crazy. I'm so honored to just be
here right now with you. Life is crazy. No, amen. I I remember that I remember that vividly um I was like always at
this office helping this this content creator like do his back end stuff so I was like I was like
fuck I gotta mint the I gotta I missed the ape mint but I remember it was a right around Gary
V's mint and I was just so so so like I was so impressed with his way of marketing, getting on MetaMask, because I had already met MetaMask for like a year or something like that before, something like that, just a little bit.
And I'm like, holy fuck, like he's, he's genuinely onboarding people to this.
Like, this is really sick.
Like, this is dope.
From your perspective of being more on Web2, I think you have a great balance of both, to be real.
I think you have a great balance of both, to be real.
I think the number one thing that separates BZ from other online communities,
other even collectible communities, is just the true unity that's here
and always, always looking to just be better as a platform.
The founders are, shout out to Prateek, he's the product founder.
He's always in the Discord, always trying to figure out,
yo, did you guys like this? User feedback, making things better. And I think that makes it more sleek for somebody maybe not into this world to come in and you don't have to be into crypto. You don't have to be super savvy. You can just like Pikachu or just like sports cards or whatever. And you can use it. So for you, like, you know,
you, I feel like you have a, I guess a better perspective on, I'm not gonna lie. I'm in this,
I'm in this internet world all day long. And so I even asked friends, family, I'm like, Hey,
what do you guys think? What are the Norman human, normal humans think about this? But
what do you think, uh, I guess, like, what, what do you think it takes to get our friends and families, aka normies, onboarded into cool products like this easier in your perspective?
Tough question, but honestly, I think it's honestly already happening.
And I know that seems like a way of dumbing it down,
but I think all we have to do is just wait a little bit.
Like, everything around us is becoming digital.
Like, fucking everything. Like, a us is becoming digital, like fucking everything.
Like a few years ago, nobody believed in buying a JPEG.
Like nobody understood digital ownership.
Nobody understood what the metaverse was.
And nowadays, like I have little like high school nephews and they're talking about this. Like, they're always talking about, like, Web3 and the metaverse and digital.
Like, it's already going to happen.
I think it's going to be very tough.
We're fighting an uphill battle when we try to tap in
and onboard people who are resistant to it.
And a lot of that comes with, like, I've tried to,
like, onboard my mother-in-law, and it's very difficult because she's just very resistant to,
like, she doesn't think she has an, I don't know what it is about, like, getting older or death or
whatever it is and such a morbid topic, but people think, like, they don't have enough time to learn
new technologies, and that's not true. Like, evolving so fast that anybody can learn at any age.
I feel like the younger people are just more, they want to know about it.
They want to be at the front if they can.
They just don't have the funds right now, which is funny.
We just got to wait a little bit, I think.
Well said. Very well said. Is there the Prince thing thing i want to go back to that real quick what
that that's like a how big is the print and then what inspired that originally to uh to like launch
that so i have crazy imposter syndrome actually today i mean god has blessed me a lot and i have
a lot less imposter syndrome than i did, let's say, five years ago.
But one of my things is imposter syndrome.
I'm like always questioning myself and shit like that.
But so I spent years after I left NFTs not doing prints or at least two years where I was kind of struggling for a little bit.
I'm like, damn, I don't know how i'm going to kind of make this work i was selling some paintings and then i started i i don't know
if it was i think it was john uh one of my collectors who i was talking to and he's like
why don't you try offering prints and if there's any artists in the audience who are listening
please please please create prints of some of your pieces and offer them to your to your
collector base it might honestly change your life because what happened for me was my prices had
had grown pretty substantially because of kind of my my little nft fame like after i was featured
in vogue after i was featured in rolling stone because of my NFTs, my art kind of commanded a certain price point.
And that was becoming difficult for me to onboard new collectors into my community.
So I started offering prints.
And I started the prints at $270 a piece.
And they sold out.
And then I did another round and they sold out.
And I've held on to that price for over a year now. And it's just another round and they sold out. And I've held onto that price
for over a year now. And it's just like, it's my bread and butter now. I am the McDonald's of
prints. And I am so proud of that. It blows my mind that people want to buy my prints and that
they sell out within and out. My last drop was crazy. This is not normal. But my last drop, my last drop was crazy. Like this is not normal, but my last drop sold out in seven minutes, y'all.
40 fucking prints in seven minutes.
Like I hate talking numbers, but I need to inspire somebody in the audience who's not
believing in themselves and not selling prints.
That's $10,000 that I made in seven minutes.
And I don't care if you're five years old or a hundred years old, $10,000 in seven minutes and i don't care if you're five years old or a hundred years old ten thousand
dollars in seven minutes will always be ten thousand dollars in seven minutes so i'm like
super grateful prints have honestly changed my life dude well said that was so well said make
sure you guys shoot a follow to ed he's up here a couple of announcements on
BZ we did officially go multi-chain today so you can literally use any L2 Solana whatever you like
on the platform you don't have to swap or anything you can literally just go do your thing whatever
it is you use so go ahead and go check it. Maybe go break it so we can yell at Pratik.
Pratik! But yeah, I'm really hyped. If you guys are in here, just know that there is so many cool
things coming in the future, not only for BZ, but for Eddie. Eddie's doing some amazing things.
we will continue to have um not only these awesome conversations but um you know deliver
on amazing updates and continue to listen to the community and um yeah man i think uh i think this
was awesome thank you eddie again if you have any last words any advice for artists out there
collectors out there maybe trying to stack up on their collection, please share if you don't mind. Honestly, just because I wish somebody had told me
when I was starting out, step away from all the negative energy, whether it's your neighbor or
your best friend or your mom or your cousin or your spouse, whoever it is, step away from that negative energy and you need to believe yourself at all costs.
That's the only way to honestly make it as a full-time artist nowadays.
And it cost me my relationship with my parents.
Both of my parents are still living and I haven't spoken to either one of them in about two years. And such a weird way to end this conversation,
but the past two years have been two of probably the best years of my life. And it sucks that I
had to step away from people who should have been supportive of me. And I just give that example because
it could honestly be anybody in your life. So believe in yourself at all costs. The other side,
I promise, is so much better. And thank you for having me on stage today. I really,
really appreciate it. This was really fun. And let's do it again.
Dude, absolutely. We'll do it again.
And let me just add to this.
This is information slash advice that you don't even need from me, but I feel prone and wanting to tell you this.
I definitely relate to just doing the thing and nobody understands, including your family.
And it's like, what the fuck?
There was a time where
I also wasn't talking to my mom, which is like my best friend for like two years. This was like
a while back when I first started my whole internet journey, kind of like that whole LA
journey in the beginning. And it was fucking tough. It was hard. It was really tough. And
I love that you have your family and everything that supports you. So, um, you know, Gigi's to that. And, and I, my whole point of saying this is I'm very confident that
there's going to be a time and, and hopefully really soon where, you know what, there's,
there's some tough combos that may be had, but, um, there's light at the end of the tunnel. And
regardless of the fact, they, obviously, you know, your parents love you but my my whole point is is
they end up seeing like oh and it's all good and then now before you know it there's dinners and
celebrations and all these things and so I'll just keep it there and just obviously keep the faith
and I know you are but um I feel like every artist hard worker, we're all of the above. We go through this and, um,
and I don't think it's permanent. So sending me love and thank you so much for being vulnerable
and sharing that and just being here tonight, dude, this was fucking dope. I'm going to cut
this up, uh, clip it up and then I'll send it to you as well. You can post it on socials if you'd
like. Um, I'm going to DM you right after this so we can, um, obviously get you on busy, but want
to talk about some other cool things too. I just got so many ideas here tonight. So thank you again, Eddie. But
guys, it's been awesome. Already in the BZ discord, link is in bio. If you don't have
an account, link is in bio. Make sure you follow everybody that was here tonight. Thank
you for the support. Obviously, sure to follow the Eddie as well. And I hope you guys have
a good rest of your weekend. Be safe. Happy Labor Day. Go rip the claw. Obviously, it's true to follow the Eddie as well. And I hope you guys have a good rest of your weekend.
Be safe.
Happy Labor Day.
Go rip the claw, baby.
Let's go.
