{"id":58280,"date":"2021-07-22T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=58280"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T09:01:58","slug":"nigerian-pop-artist-shills-meme-coin-and-price-briefly-doubles-followers-question-artists-motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=58280","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Pop Artist Shills Meme Coin and Price Briefly Doubles \u2014 Followers Question Artist\u2019s Motives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1050656087.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nigerian pop artist and celebrity, Davido, recently posted several tweets endorsing \u2018rapdoge,\u2019 the so-called \u201cfirst deflationary meme token fully supported by celebrities &amp; rappers.\u201d In one of the tweets, Davido tells his 9.5 million followers to \u201cbuy $20, $100 or $1000 worth of rap doge tokens and be ready to make some money.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Pump and Dump<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davido\/status\/1417224775257186304\">subsequent tweet<\/a>, Davido, who has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/african-hip-hop-artist-davido-thinking-of-starting-a-bitcoin-trading-company\/\">said<\/a> he was thinking about starting a bitcoin trading company, asks: \u201cWho listened to me about RapDoge?\u201d Following the artist\u2019s shilling of the coin on July 19, 2021, the rap doge token price surged by more than 100% as interest in the crypto grew. However, at the time of writing, rapdoge, which promoters claim to be the next big meme coin, saw its value return to pre-shilling levels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rap-doge-pump-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rap-doge-pump-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rap-doge-pump.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-476171 size-full\" title=\"Nigerian Pop Artist Shills a Meme Coin and Price Briefly Doubles \u2014 Followers Question Artist's Motives\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rap-doge-pump.png\" alt=\"Nigerian Pop Artist Shills a Meme Coin and Price Briefly Doubles \u2014 Followers Question Artist's Motives\" width=\"842\" height=\"512\"><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it seems the pop artist\u2019s latest endorsement of a crypto asset has not gone over well with some of his followers. As a Cryptotvplus <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptotvplus.com\/2021\/07\/davido-shills-shitcoin-rapdoge-another-racksterli\/\">report<\/a> explains, Davido\u2019s shilling of the rapdoge token comes just a few months after Racksterli, a Ponzi scheme that he promoted, which crashed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- growjs zone placement 31 --> <ins> <ins class=\"growjs-placement\"><\/ins> <\/ins> <!-- end of growjs zone placement --> <\/p>\n<p>When Racksterli tanked, Davido is said to have stopped tweeting about it and now some of his followers believe the celebrity may be attempting to do the same with the rapdoge token.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/davido-rap-doge-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/davido-rap-doge.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-476155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/davido-rap-doge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"170\"><\/p>\n<h2>Mixed Reactions to Davido\u2019s Hype<\/h2>\n<p>Other Davido followers like Twitter user Daniel Regha insist that the Nigerian artist, who recently released a song that features Chris Brown and Young Thug, needs to ensure a project is legit before promoting it. Regha <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielRegha\/status\/1417188851920130048\">tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Davido u once influenced a Ponzi scheme company (Racksterli) that allegedly defrauded a lot of people so ensure u run a background check on Rapdoge so ur followers don\u2019t take u at ur word &amp; fall victim to scammers the second time. Publicize a brand only if u are certain it\u2019s legit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Do you think Davido\u2019s shilling of rapdoge was responsible for its brief price surge on July 19? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian pop artist and celebrity, Davido, recently posted several tweets endorsing \u2018rapdoge,\u2019 the so-called \u201cfirst deflationary meme token fully supported by celebrities &amp; rappers.\u201d In one of the tweets, Davido tells his 9.5 million followers to \u201cbuy $20, $100 or $1000 worth of rap doge tokens and be ready to make some money.\u201d Pump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}