The Hip Hop Icons is a premium collection of some of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time.
The award-winning artist Mike Thompson, one of the drawing hands behind works for Marvel, DC, HBO, Nike, Warner Bros, and many others, dedicated all his passion for the genre to create beautiful paintings of hip hop artists.
Collectors can craft new exclusive NFTs, by burning duplicates and searching for combinations of cards. Fans, get ready to show what you know about Hip Hop!
The realest Hip Hop Icons collection was built by Epix on the Flow blockchain after 20+ years in the making by Mike Thompson.
Release date: March 25, 2022
Account system: Custodial and Non-Custodial
Payment: Flow Tokens and USD
Pack tiers: Common, Rare, Legendary, and The Vault
Card tiers: Common, Rare, Legendary
Epix, a pioneer in creating cutting-edge technology to support Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), is the company behind taking Thompson’s drawings and paintings of Hip Hop artists like Tupac, Jay-Z, Eminem, and more into digital form.
A total of 173000 cards will be released by Epix on the thisisepix platform. The cards will be released in 32500 packs, which will be separated into common (five cards, 20k packs), rate (five cards, 10k packs), legendary (five cards, 2k packs), and the vault packs (26 cards, 500 units).
The collection is a labor of love for Thompson who is well-known for painting rap artists and entertainers. He has created art pieces for some very big names, including Warner Bros, Marc Ecko, and HBO. His artwork has also been featured in Kanye West’s Jesus Walks video and he also created concept art for Marvel Avengers Civil War.
Talking about the collection, Thompson said he is proud to be giving back some of the feeling and appreciation he has for the music, as he says, “people can connect my work back to the source. My love for Hip Hop comes through on these cards that nobody has done before.”
