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According to a tweet Kanye West shared on X (formerly Twitter) late Friday, he claimed he was approached by an entity that offered to pay $2 million if he launched a scam token. He turned it down and said he stopped working with the person.  The Grammy award-winning rapper has gone on a tweeting rampage over the last 24 hours that has the entire internet spellbound. However, a couple of posts by Ye have caught the attention of the crypto community.  As crypto consolidates itself in the mainstream, celebrities and influencers like Hailey Welch (Hawk Tuah girl), Iggy Azalea, and even the president of the United States have leveraged their fame into creating memecoins. However, on many occasions, the launches have cost their fans money, with some being outright rug pulls.  Hailey Welch’s $hawktuah token and Andrew Tate’s $Father all sucked liquidity from the ecosystem and ripped off their investors. Hailey Welch has since gone underground, while Andrew Tate continues to face legal troubles related to human trafficking, rape, and tax evasion in Romania and the United Kingdom.  Kanye receives accolades for doing the right thing  According to Ye’s tweet, someone offered him $750k upfront just to accept the memecoin launch offer. They promised him another $1.25M 16 hours after his first post on X about the token.  The condition was that Kanye had to keep the tweet up for at least 8 hours after which he was urged to post “my account was hacked, the post was not me.”  I was proposed 2 million dollars to scam my community Those left of it I said no and stopped working with their person who proposed it pic.twitter.com/WKHdP9FkOq — ye (@kanyewest) February 7, 2025 In the last line of the screenshot of the conversation that Kanye shared, the person explicitly confessed…

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