Nas NFT drop delayed by Royal tech issues

Platform issues on 3lau founded Royal have delayed the highly anticipated Tuesday drop of NFTs for two tracks by Nas,

“Due to the amount of excitement and support, our website went down,” explained Royal, It’s a very visible failure for Royal’s first drop by a major outside artist.

We are being extra careful and delaying from 1:30, we will update you as soon as we can on a new time, we want to make this process fair for everyone, thanks for understanding! This is our first up to bat 🙏🏻
— royal (@join_royal) January 11, 2022

The drop is now scheduled for January with the sale of NFTs that includes a share of streaming royalties for Nas’s tracks ‘Ultra Black’ and ‘Rare’ set for 1 PM ET and 9 PM ET, respectively.

UPDATE: New date for the @Nas drop — Thurs, Jan 20. Same times, same place.

Ultra Black at 1pm ET. Rare at 9pm ET.

Thank you for your patience. The excitement is real. We appreciate you.💎
— royal (@join_royal) January 11, 2022

Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.

Bruce Houghton on 01/12/2022 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

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