
In short
- Drake mentions jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on a new song, seemingly calling for his release.
- The song appeared on one of Drake’s three singles released on Friday, which critics raved about.
- Although Bankman-Fried and her family have pushed for a pardon, President Trump has downplayed the possibility.
After years in exile following a brutal rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, Drake is back, and he has a message: free Sam Bankman-Fried.
The rapper released three albums simultaneously on Friday, containing 43 new songs. One of those songs, “Dust,” from the album Icemanit also includes a request to pardon the perpetrator of the FTX scandal.
“FTX top rider, yeah,” Drake sings. “Samuel Bankman, release all my boys, yeah.”
Later in the song, the artist calls himself a “BTC crypto big-timer.”
Albums have been changed a long time ago more opponentsand The Guardian I consider the new music to be “a boring, annoying disaster.”
Bankman-Fried currently serves a 25 year sentence in federal prison in California for fraud he committed while working for FTX, a major crypto exchange located in the Bahamas.
Almost as soon as President Donald Trump returned to office last year, the Bankman-Fried family — and the prisoner — began to rage. work getting forgiveness from crypto-friendly, forgiveness–to do the leader.
Bankman-Fried has been posting frequently on social media from prison in recent months, praising the president’s election and celebrating recent developments in the Washington crypto lobby.
But the industry and its friends in Congress have come out fighting the pardon, demanding it away from Bankman-Fried political history.
Earlier this year, President Trump revealed in an interview with The New York Times that he had no intention of forgiving the one-time crypto mogul.
But all that stock seems to be harmless to Drake, who himself is no stranger to crypto-related controversies. The singer was appointed as the defendant more cases focuses on the multi-year promotion of Stake, an offshore, crypto-fueled online casino.
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