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00:00Each year, the art world descends upon Miami, Florida, and we've got Mara Siegler on the

00:05scene reporting. I see palm trees, I see warm air, and I'm jealous. Mara, how's it going?

00:12It's good. It's been a great year so far. So people tend to come down on Monday. That would

00:19be more of the collectors. You get your billionaire crowd. The VIP preview for the

00:24main fair, which is our Basel, is on Wednesday. And then now we're getting into the weekend,

00:28and that's when the party kids descend, and it's just going to be absolute chaos.

00:32I mean, first and foremost, I have to ask about this interview with Shaggy.

00:37I did. Okay. So Shaggy performed at an event called Bit Basel at the Sagamore Hotel. He has a new album

00:44coming up called Lottery, and he gave us some details on it, which he said, you're going to be

00:49able to dance to it, get ready to it, make love to it. It's very Shaggy. He called himself the king

00:55of hybrids. It's going to be a fusion of reggae and some other stuff. And he also revealed to us

00:59that it's going to have some of his favorite cool players on it. Sting is going to be on the album,

01:06Akon's on it, Jeremiah, Anthony Hamilton. So he's got a lot of stuff going on, and I think most people

01:12have just seen him. He was just at Macy's for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

01:15It was amazing. I know. And I have to ask, if this is music you can make love to,

01:20can you make love on the counter? Yeah, on the table. On the table.

01:26In the bathroom? It wasn't him. It wasn't him. That's so exciting.

01:31He did a bunch of his old songs, Bombastic Angel, It Wasn't Me, of course. And then he did some of

01:39the new songs, and it seemed to get people really hyped up. So that's something exciting to look

01:42forward to. That's great. And he wasn't the only musical artist you encountered down at Art Basel.

01:48Is that right? No. So there's a bunch down here. Last night, 50 Cent performed for Hublot. He did

01:54all the classics. He did Candy Shop. He did PIFP. It was packed. I mean, it was like a real sort of

02:01club atmosphere. And then upstairs at the edition, there was an event for Google Shop, along with

02:06this artist named Lauren Malti. But they had the performer, Raven Lanay. I'm probably maybe saying

02:12that wrong, but she does that song. People would recognize it if they'd heard it. And then

02:18Evan Ross was there watching. And I saw Kesha hanging out with the Haim sisters, Haim sisters.

02:25So that was very exciting for me. It was a lot of Haim and Estee Haim and Kesha, who looks absolutely

02:30unrecognizable without all the, like, face paint and glitter on her.

02:34That's amazing. So you've got Haim, you've got Kesha and Evan Ross.

02:38And Rihanna and ASAP Rocky got into town last night. We have some exclusive news coming up

02:43from one of my co-workers that will be shared later today. So people have got to check back

02:49for that. But they also, ASAP Rocky is doing a collaboration with Ray-Ban down here. So they

02:54went and they stopped by. It's called the Ray-Ban Clubhouse. So they're making the rounds.

02:59Hopefully they'll be around a lot tonight. I think, you know, beginning of the week was,

03:03last night was a lot of artists as well. We saw Mickalene Thomas. So beginning of the week,

03:07we saw a lot of, you know, billionaires. The fair, there is a Beeple exhibit that's getting a lot

03:13of attention. Yeah. So of course you're talking about the music, you're talking about the fashion,

03:17but we got to talk about the art as well. For those new to Beeple, can you break down like what

03:22he's sort of known for as digital artists? He's like 44 years old. He's, he's an American artist,

03:27but he made a big splash with these little tech robots. What's going on with that?

03:34The Beeple became a big deal in the art world because he was the first digital artist to sell

03:38an NFT for tons of money. He sold one for 69 million at Christie's, which was kind of just

03:46unheard of. And of course it was sort of in that NFT bubble, but he's still doing work. Now this is a

03:51little bit more tangible. It's these robot dogs and it has Mark Zuckerberg's face, Elon Musk,

03:55Jeff Bezos, and then it has artist Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and then Beeple put himself in it.

04:02And it's so creepy and they walk around and then they poop out, they're taking pictures and then

04:07they poop out these pictures in their corresponding style. For example, the Picasso one is Cubist.

04:12Mark Zuckerberg's looks like the metaverse. And some of these are going to be actual NFTs. So some people,

04:19256 people actually, are going to be able to take down, it'll say scan the claim in the corner,

04:25have a barcode, you'll get a code from the gallery and you're going to be able to mint that and own

04:29it and put it in a wallet. I sort of don't really know how NFTs work, but so it's very exciting and

04:35people get to take home a piece of actual art that could be worth something.

04:39That's so cool. Yeah. Beeple is hugely successful, but he's also very self-deprecating. He

04:43describes his, you know, a lot of his art attempts as just sort of crap and throwing crap at the wall

04:48and seeing what sticks. Yeah, I think his Instagram is Beeple crap.

04:54Which is so funny. I mean, obviously there's a lot of like humor and satire mixed into all of this.

04:59What is the vibe like down when you go out? Are there a lot of like artists and artistic people

05:05or is it the classic Miami scene? Again, it's always the same pretty much every year where the

05:10beginning of the week is very much your collectors. So at the VIP preview day for the main fair or Basel,

05:17we saw Sergey Brin, the Google billionaire. We saw Barry Sternlich, he's another billionaire

05:22developer down here. We saw David Solomon, who's the CEO of Goldman Sachs. So you get a lot of those

05:28people out and you get a lot of the artists. By Friday, we're now going to see some people,

05:34some of those people are leaving and we'll get in, you know, the people who are in the more party

05:38crowd as source told me. And we'll see if this pans out, but I'm also hearing Leo is on his way down

05:43today. So we're hoping he's always at the fair. I was told he was filming. Again, I haven't really

05:49looked into that, but we're hoping that we're going to get some Leo spotting this weekend.

05:53Well, that's exciting. Thanks so much for sharing all the dirt from down in South Florida. I'm so jealous.

05:59Thank you. Bye, Mara. Have fun.

06:01I'm sure to keep you guys posted.

06:03All right. Thanks.

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