Today's Rare Pepe Lore Lesson™️ is Series 7, Card 15 PEPERARE by @shawnleary. This is a 1/100 card with a circulating supply of 30 after 70 were sent to a burn address approximately 45 minutes after it was minted. There are none for sale as of the time of this writing. The last sale occurred 5 Feb 2023 for $32,335 USD. 23 wallets hold a copy of this card and the largest controls 23% of the circulating supply (7/30) along with a full LORDKEK and 18 RAREPEPE. That wallet hasn't had any activity in the last 7 years which makes it one of the most valuable lost wallets of all time. Shawn commissioned PEPERARE as a homage to RAREPEPE, and the result is a thing of beauty! The Matrix-inspired background from the original was animated, a spinning Bitcoin logo was introduced, and a simulated chrome-foil shimmer was added to complete the effect. In one of the most magnanimous moves I've ever witnessed, Shawn sent his last copy into the $BAG. medium.com/@subterranean/wha…

Today's Rare Pepe Set Lesson™️ is the Hip-Hop Elements Series by @ScrillaVentura. The set consists of Series 4, Card 29 - DJPEPE, Card 30 - MCPEPE, Card 31 - PEPEONE, and Card 32 - BBOYPEPE. Each of these is a 1/169 card and the current floor price for the set is 0.902 BTC ($76,103 USD). DJPEPE has a circulating supply of 165 after 4 were destroyed in July and August of 2022 for... Reasons. Two by @ScrillaVentura himself, 1 by @COITnft, and 1 by @Carsonated. 148 wallets hold a copy of DJPEPE and the largest holder is Scrilla with 6. 73 wallets hold a copy of MCPEPE with Scrilla holding 80/169 (47.3%). 62 wallets hold a copy of PEPEONE with Scrilla holding 85/169 (50.3%). 81 wallets hold a copy of BBOYPEPE with Scrilla holding 73/169 (43.2%). 29 wallets hold the full set of 4. A digital only set was auctioned via @scarcedotcity in June of 2021 and the winner was @AryanJabbari with a winning bid of 0.06 BTC. In November of the same year a physical + digital set was sold via auction (also on Scarce) to "V" for 1.05 BTC. The source image for DJPEPE is DJ Qbert (@DJQbert) taken 19 Sept 2010 at Sala El Loco in Valencia, California by Rafo Solano of Dear Productions. It was first published on Rafa's flickr page. The first commerical use of the photo was for a bandwagmag.com article published 11 Oct 2014 titled The Evolution of DJ Qbert which was written by Kyle Eustice. The source image for MCPEPE is the Eric B. & Rakim album cover for Paid In Full. Scrilla isolated and Pepefied Rakim for the card. The source images for PEPEONE are graffiti throw-ups by members of the RTH Crew from Statin Island. Specifically GOAL, KEVS, and OUCH (RIP). Scrilla knows all 3 artists and was given permission to use their work on the card. They are in the background in black and white. Scrilla then went over their work with his own drawing and lettering for a character he named PEPEONE. The subject of BBOYPEPE is Beat Street star Robert Taylor. The moves (head spin, sweep swipe, turtle back spin, downrocking, and track freeze) were captured by photographer Michael Ginsburg who worked behind the scenes on the production crew as the still photographer, capturing the promotional and production imagery for Orion Pictures. The images were first used in publication in the June 29, 1984 issue of BAM Magazine as part of the article Breakin' the Rules: "Beat Street" Director Stan Lathan Brings New York's Streets to Hollywood. Further reading/viewing: DJ Qbert source image - flickr.com/photos/dear1/5007… DJ Qbert on Bandwagon - bandwagmag.com/2014/10/dj-su… Rafael Solano Gonzalez - es.linkedin.com/in/rafasolan… DJ Qbert - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Qbe… Paid in Full (album) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_i… Rakim - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakim Eric B. & Rakim- Paid In Full - youtu.be/E7t8eoA_1jQ bombing science interview of Joe Goal, Febryary 17, 2017 - bombingscience.com/interview… GOAL rth paint session - youtu.be/pOaXYF5wME4 OUCH throw-up from the May 2010 Riverwalk Graff Jam in New Jersey - flic.kr/p/84iDow KEVS throw-up taken by GaliciaChris 7 April 2010 in Brooklyn, NY - flic.kr/p/7ZVGVt Photographic prints: gelatin silver, b&w: 21 x 26 cm. Film stills and publicity photographs from the movie "Beat Street". Available by appointment only at Schomburg Center in the New York Public Library - nypl.org/research/research-c… worldradiohistory.com/Archiv… okaplayer article - okayplayer.com/the-story-of-… Beat Street (1984) Official Trailer - youtu.be/7bYXW4x7RXk Scarce listing Series 4 Hip-Hop Elements Series (digital only) - scarce.city/auctions/Series-… Scarce listing Series 4 Hip-Hop Elements Series (physical + digital) - scarce.city/auctions/SERIES-…