Popular musician Kanye West recently gave his children a full-on shopping spree on Pokemon cards, paying to temporarily close the local game store. The famous rapper has been a regular at the Pokemon shop, often treating his kids to packs of the beloved card game.
Pokemon has been one of the biggest multimedia franchises in the world since the video games first debuted in the 1990s. The franchise's trading card game saw a similarly meteoric rise when the game's Base Set launched in 1996 in Japanese and in English in 1999. The Pokemon TCG has carried on throughout each era of the franchise's video games and has even seen the growth of a sizable market of collectors, with some Pokemon cards selling for upwards of thousands, including the Raincoat Pikachu promo card selling for $8.4 million. Pokemon's massive fandom even extends to Kanye West and his children, who recently made some big purchases at a local card store.
A recent report from celebrity news publication Page Six revealed that Kanye West made a notable trip with his children to LA Sports Cards. The sports card store reportedly closed for West's visit to the shop, with Kanye reportedly spent...
