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How Low Has the Dollar Sunk? Even Some Rappers Prefer Euros
Rappers get diversified, swap dollar references for euros, rupees
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How Low Has the Dollar Sunk? Even Some Rappers Prefer Euros
As hip-hop becomes increasingly global, more artists are snubbing ‘Benjamins’ to rhapsodize about foreign bills; ‘purple yen and blue dirham’
By Chelsey Dulaney
June 8, 2017 11:26 a.m. ET
It’s been a humbling year for the almighty U.S. dollar. Investors, concerned about political instability in Washington and signs of an economic slowdown, have driven its value down to pre-election levels.
More dispiriting, however, is the greenback’s deflated reputation among its most historically devoted support group.
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Like a lot of hip-hop artists, Remy Banks is more obsessed lately with amassing foreign currencies. In “Cold World,” Mr. Banks raps of “diving in the deep end of a pool full of euros, pounds, and yen.”
That’s not just showboating, he explained. “I’m not going to stop working hard until I get to this point where I can travel around the world, until I can jump into a pool with all these different currencies like Scrooge McDuck, ” the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper said.
Rapper Remy Ma made one of the first hip-hop references to the United Arab Emirates currency, the dirham, in her 2016 hit with Fat Joe, “All The Way Up.” ... “I’m talkin’ color money, purple yen and blue dirham,” she rapped about the aqua-tinged notes.
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Write to Chelsey Dulaney at Chelsey.Dulaney@wsj.com
As hip-hop becomes increasingly global, more artists are snubbing ‘Benjamins’ to rhapsodize about foreign bills; ‘purple yen and blue dirham’
By Chelsey Dulaney
June 8, 2017 11:26 a.m. ET
It’s been a humbling year for the almighty U.S. dollar. Investors, concerned about political instability in Washington and signs of an economic slowdown, have driven its value down to pre-election levels.
More dispiriting, however, is the greenback’s deflated reputation among its most historically devoted support group.
Fetty Wap
Like a lot of hip-hop artists, Remy Banks is more obsessed lately with amassing foreign currencies. In “Cold World,” Mr. Banks raps of “diving in the deep end of a pool full of euros, pounds, and yen.”
That’s not just showboating, he explained. “I’m not going to stop working hard until I get to this point where I can travel around the world, until I can jump into a pool with all these different currencies like Scrooge McDuck, ” the Queens, N.Y.-born rapper said.
Rapper Remy Ma made one of the first hip-hop references to the United Arab Emirates currency, the dirham, in her 2016 hit with Fat Joe, “All The Way Up.” ... “I’m talkin’ color money, purple yen and blue dirham,” she rapped about the aqua-tinged notes.
....
Write to Chelsey Dulaney at Chelsey.Dulaney@wsj.com
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