Martin Shkreli To Ghostface Killah: “You’re My Son”

    Martin Shkreli calls Ghostface Killah his “son” in a video published by TMZ today (January 28).  The former pharmaceutical executive refers to the Wu-Tang Clan rapper as “Dennis,” his given name, throughout the two-minute clip. Shkreli is surrounded by three men in ski masks as he delivers his message to Ghostface.

    “At the end of the day, I’m very sorry for you,” Shkreli, who bought the one-of-a-kind Once Upon a Time In Shaolin album, says. “You’re an old man. You’re an old man that’s lost his relevance and you’re trying to reclaim the spotlight from my spotlight. That’s not gonna work, Ghost, Dennis. In fact, I think that if you ever say some dumb shit again, this album, this Shaolin, I’m gonna erase all your shit from this album. I’m gonna erase you from the record books of rap. You’re gonna be done. You’re my son. You have to listen to me. I buttered your bread, you understand me?”

    Ghostface Killah called Shkreli a “shithead” when asked about the purchase of the album and said that the project should be owned by “the people.”

    “Without me, you’re nothing,” Shkreli continues in the video. “So even though I pity you, I have to give you some punishment. I expect you to write me a written apology from the heart. Some contrition, some long letter where you explain your sorrow and sadness for what you’ve done.”

    During a December interview with HipHopDX, Shkreli said that he has aspirations as a rapper.

    I think I could express myself through it,” he said at the time. “There’s never been an [incredibly wealthy] rapper. All these guys rap about is money and I have a lot to say.”

    Watch the video of Martin Shkreli threatening Ghostface Killah below:

    (This story was last updated on January 26, 2016 and is as follows.)

    And like clockwork, Martin Shkreli responds to Ghostface Killah’s “Michael Jackson-nose kid” comments which were released by TMZ earlier today. Only this time, the former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO appears to threaten the rap legend.

    Taking to Twitter, Shkreli says to expect “A [Ghostface Killah] response tomorrow evening” as well as “Don’t cry, Ghost. All rap careers come to an eventual end. Long time coming, motherfucker.”

    This isn’t the first time Shkreli has appeared to threatened a Wu-Tang Clan member. In an exclusive conversation with HipHopDX, the Brooklyn native took aim at RZA for showing public disrespect following the purchase of Wu-Once Upon A Time In Shaolin.

    “I can get down,” Shkreli tells DX. “I don’t think RZA knows that. I think he thinks I’m some powder puff white guy CEO that’s got too much money. No. No, no, no. I definitely don’t spend $2 million for nothing. That’s a lot of money, even if you’re Carl Icahn. I’d encourage him to shut the fuck up before he goes a little too far. We’ll see what happens. I think he’s a smart man. He definitely acts like his shit doesn’t stink and he invented rap. This concept of selling one album, this shit’s backfiring for him now…”

    (This story was last updated on January 26, 2016 and is as follows.)

    The war of words between Martin Shkreli and Ghostface Killah continues. TMZ caught up with GFK and asked his thoughts on Shkreli calling him a “non-profit rapper.”

    “This is the man that wanna be beefing,” Ghost says in the video. “The Michael Jackson-nose-kid… C’mon bruh, you don’t want to do it. I’ll break your heart in four days. We can play if you wanna play. We can get it in. I’m just laughing off the dude’s face. C’mon, man. Look at that smile.”

    Watch the video below.

    https://youtu.be/JT_3o4-9WPw

    (The original version of this article was published on January 22, 2016)

    Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO, Martin Shkreli responded to Ghostface Killah’s assertion that he’s a “shithead.”

    Taking to Twitter, Shkreli said “Ghost mad that Shaolin outsold his last 5 albums… dude’s a non-profit rapper. Calls himself ironman, but sounds rusty AF.”

    Shkreli burst into the Hip Hop lexicon after purchasing Wu-Tang’s Wu-Once Upon A Time In Shaolin for a reported $2 million.    

    In an interview with HipHopDX (December 16, 2015), Shkreli stated his affinity for Action Bronson since both are of Albanian descent as well as his frustration over Ghostface’s video response to Bronson for dissing him on ESPN’s Sportsnation.

    “Again, what Ghostface said to Bronson was 100 hundred times worse than me and RZA,” Shkreli stated. “This is starting to get into some weird Albanian shit. There are similarities, very similar. I’m just getting fed up. If he doesn’t think I have the resources to do something, he fucking doesn’t know me. If Ghostface can make people disappear, what the fuck do you think I can do? I’ll fucking snap the CD on fucking TV and not even listen to it if that’s what he fucking wants.”

    Martin Shkreli was arrested by federal agents on December 17, 2015 for allegedly “illegally taking stock from Retrophin Inc., a biotechnology firm he started in 2011, and using it to pay off debts from unrelated business dealings.”

    I am confident I will prevail. The allegations against me are baseless and without merit,” Shkreli also posted to Twitter today.

    He’s scheduled to appear on in court on January 26, 2016.

    For more on Martin Shkreli and Wu-Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, view the DX Daily below:

    143 thoughts on “Martin Shkreli To Ghostface Killah: “You’re My Son”

      1. He’ll never see time in jail…. Too much money and he robbed his own company so it’s almost victimless crime! I’m not even completely sure he said all that for real. Don’t be surprised if tomorrow he says his page was hacked!

    1. Let’s admit facts here people. Shkreli is a straight gangster. Niggas think they g’d up in the streets. The real G’s is them niggas wolfin on wall street. They have no fear because the law simply doesn’t apply to him. He ain’t going to do no big boy time. He’ll be out and talkin about killin people w no repercussions same time next year. Truth.

      1. Yes “truth” there are no Wall Street criminals in prision (rolls eyes)…..these dudes weakness is their ego and greed and it always catches up…..won’t be long before this dude will have no use for all that money

    2. this whole million dollar album idea has spun off into some weird hbo series/comic book type saga, complete with a super villain to boot. the wu tang saga continues…

    3. Ha ha ha. $2M means nothing to this dude. It’s funny how rappers react when they come face to face with REAL gangsters. Ghost needs to ease back on this one

      1. Money makes you a gangsta? Not in real life dude. There are plenty of struggling people that would make “Mr. Albanian” vanish…..

    4. The Wu starting to look like a joke. What a shame. Hip-hop culture (whatever is left of it) is really an embarrassment now.

    5. This dude keeps dropping the Albanian reference like it means something…..just a wannabe using his money and exposure to seem like some sort of gangster…..that he is not, stick to hedge funds dumbass before you end up with more shit than you can deal with…..and it won’t be no Albanian shit

    6. This guy is a respected businessman? Twitter beefing with rappers? I feel like this is all just both camps putting us on, it can’t be real.

    7. This dude is the devil to Hip Hop and wu needs to figure out how to get this classic Album back to the chambers from this corny ass rich wigger disrespecting a member like this real talk #Ghost

    8. This guy is a scumbag but i dont care, that shit was hysterical… You can’t say that’s not clever af

    9. G­­o­o­gle­ is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it………

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    10. G­­o­o­gle­ is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it………

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    11. Martin is A tool and he will get whata coming to him I’m sure. but at the end of the day was a dumb as idea to he auctioning off an album to the highest bidder. wtf u think was gonna happen. tried treating this album like a fuken Mona Lisa and got paid good for it just turns out the buyer is a d*khead. smh. dumbasses

    12. It’s funny, rappers used to want to be businessmen, now businessmen wanna be rappers. Fortunately, for the time being, there’s no program you can buy that will write rhymes for you….yet. All of this is ugly though. Hip-Hop has never been in an uglier place. It’s not even Hip-Hop any more, let’s be honest. There are some rappers that are influenced by hip-hop, but rap and Hip-Hop do not go hand-in-hand any more. The spirit of it now is bad. The spirit of America now is bad. The average person now is far less thoughtful, creative, compassionate, intellectual, and remorseful than they used to be. It’s being reflected now in music that also lacks all those traits. Peace.

    13. Ghost like 50 years old! He still acting like a 17 year old! That white boy paid for the album which means he’s a big fan… Lay off ghost! Leave the white boys alone already!

      1. Trust me he’s a fan and will listen to it while trying to impress his black friends, nobody, not even his rich spoiled ass would give Rza 2 million for a album he didn’t have interest in

      2. i dont think he cares about impressing his black friends.. i only think he has black friends because they are into what he whants to get into. he uses them. his family is from Albania and we dont have alot of black people in eastern europe. because they get fucked up here. so i dont believe that he wants to impress any black men

      3. shkreli basically admitted he only bought the album to make friends with people. he has like, zero interest in listening to it.

    14. He tried that Albanian connects nonsense (works only in the movies, yadid yada,) he wasn’t scaring anybody, tried that ‘I’m a gangster’ (didn’t work) now he is just trying to slime his way into getting an order of protection for when he gets out, smart/dumb move, too many people hate you already cave boy.

      1. Far too many of you “GODS” sell death, drugs, prostitution and poverty to your communities. There certainly isn’t anything “godly” about you.

    15. Shout out to my piru crew and shout out to my QB homies keep your heads up . PS and yes I am black don’t believe anyone who say’s otherwise . I’ was JUMPED in by the pirus gang in 2015 so watch your mouth bitches this aint I,G me and my piru crew don’t play . Also shout out to my down south homies for holding me down keep your heads up

    16. First and foremost, any negative comment RZA says about Shkreli reflects back on him (RZA). What does it say about RZA that he sold such a piece of music art to a douche bag? Check this out right, the only person willing to pay highest amount for RZA and Wu-Tang music happens to be the worst of the lot. Oh RZA gonna say in response…”Look there were over 100 people bidding close to 1 million-1.9mill dollars for the album”-YES BUT HE CHOSE TO SELL TO SHKRELI of all the people bidding. That means RZA HIMSELF IS ALSO A DOUCHE BAG, that he chose to sell such a piece of rap history to a person like Shkreli. He can’t say he didn’t know who he was selling to because Shkreli was already in the news for increasing the price of an ARV drug? Yall can’t blame Shkreli for being himself…this is who he is…after selling to Shkreli RZA wanna act now like some moral czar and criticize the dude? if Ghostface feel some kind of way, let hime return his share of the $2mil, then he can criticize Shkreli. GTFOH with that BS Wu-Tang

      1. That does not mean that at all. It means that Shkreli made the highest bid. What WOULD be a douchebag move would be to let Shkreli make the highest bid, and decide that he is too much of a dick to sell the album to, and sell it to someone who bid less. Also, the Shkreli news about the drug was around September, and the Wu Tang album sold a few months before that in May, so you are wrong about just about your entire post. Your alias is extremely ironic.

      2. Grow up little pussy ass fuck boy, we can tell all your post by how childish they are regardless of what name you use you spineless coward

    17. I hate both, but Shkreli is able to use words efficiently:

      “Ghost mad that Shaolin outsold his last 5 albums… dude’s a non-profit rapper. Calls himself ironman, but sounds rusty AF”

      And how lame you are that first you agree with one copy album idea and now you are showing him as a target just he bought that fckin’ album. Ghost is fckin’ miserable! + RZA! They keep adversting like “Wu Tang is for…” and such. Let me tell you something: Wu Tang is for nothing, but money hunger assh*les! Legendary group like Public Enemy still releasing albums, but I have never such a pathetic idea from Chuck D. They do not even sell that much album, but this fact does not stop him. He is okay with what he got. He is not hiding behind the power of his legend to sell his honor like a bourgeois ass motherf*ckers such as RZA!
      Another legend, Rakim, is still doing what he believes since he rejected Dre’s sellout idea.
      There are more examples like those legends, but the thing is these people got honor and they are not dying from hunger. They are struggling, but they still got honor as bright as diamonds.

      F*ck these corrupted n*ggas!

      Peace out!

    18. its lame how he paid them all that money and they hating on him. thats wack to me no matter how shitty of a person he is.

    19. First of all this isn’t a threat, the average rap career doesn’t last long it is what it is. Also you’re the guys who sold an album that you consider your best work to an asshole who only got it to boost his ego you knew who he was

      1. Ghost’s been making music for over 20 years. That’s a helluva long time even if you work on an assembly line.

      2. Josh, GFK’s been in the game for a min. He has timeless classic albums and thats just scratching the surface imo. … just sayin

        lol secondly, I think that shithead martin’s PR team should force him to leak the album.

    20. LEAK THE ALBUM… it’s the only way. Wu should be treating Martin like a boss. Blatant disrespect to someone who put food on your table for the whole wu and all their nappy kids

    21. i agree with the homie, 2 million gotta get you some respect. Plus the guy slangs pure drugs (pharmaceuticals)…He def got that dope boy mentality, you can seee it. Now lets seee someone catch a body!!! OGs VS Money Tree

    22. He’s the product of combined anti intellectual movement and silver spoon economics. He’s just the first, they are coming like cockroaches.

    23. No fucken way is any of this shit real. It’s gotta be hype. Classic comic book villain type of script. The single album, the villain buys it, etc… They have to all be in on it. If not, hip hop has gotten cornier than I thought.

    24. id love to catch this fuck-boy and just let loose on him wit a boxcutter. He cant even say shit cause he paid 2 million for a wu-tang album and everyone I ever spoke to bout the clan had Ghostface in at least their top 3 favurites. This weirdo a fanboy of Ghostdeni……RZA did fuck up selling that album and especially not checking the background of who was buying it smh

    25. SCRIPTED BEEF OR NOT THIS CRACK’A GONNA GET HIS 2MIN OF FAME AND PROBABLY ONLY REMEMBERED FOR BUYING A 2 MILLION DOLLAR ALBUM AND PHARMACEUTICALS AND THATS IT. AS FOR GHOSTFACE AND THE WU AS LONG AS THIS EARTH SPINS PEOPLE WILL BE RESONATING ON THEIR MUSIC AND THATS NO LIE CAUSE MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE WHICH MEANS WUTANG FOREVER MUTHAFUKAS.

    26. real talk rza you the blame for this. he thought this would be a great opportunity to release something different and shit backfired.. not only a dick head got the wu album we’ll never hear and some speakers but disrespecting the clan too?? hell naw.. and yall niggas who saying this nigga is right? yall some stupid motheruckers…just cuz he paid 2 mil he needs to be respect? why would i respect a nigga that dont give a fuck about basic human rights..fuck this michael jackson nose kid

      1. Totally agree. Sounds like Cappadonna talking on the left in the video. Smart stunt to gain attention to a potential release of the album. If it’s not a stunt, than damn, I feel bad for both camps. Wu is legendary…… but they are looking foolish these days- tarnishing their rep. RZA done fucked up selling to this evil rich asshole.
        Ghost is gonna body this little turd nugget. I hope he does for entertainment sake.
        only one more question?…
        Why does everybody gotta be so racist?
        I’m white but I am hip hop.
        Fuck all you racist haters

      2. I don’t buy this white collar businessman shooting a video with goons threatening rappers. Either him and the Wu are in on it together and laughing at these publicity stunts behind closed doors, or he is just making idle threats for his own personal amusement, but not to be taken seriously.

      1. For Real…FUCK RZA! But Yo! I was trying hard to hear the album playing in the background for real LOL! Shit was sounding aiight

    27. This is some funny sh*t. This kid knows how to troll. The sad part is that the one being fooled is Wu-Tang, a group i had nothing but respect for
      Still got a lotta love for Ghostdini, GZA, Meth and The Rebel INS, other than that Wu Tang f*cked up

    28. We’ll see Mr. Sckreli. Tough talk from a white collar criminal but we’ll see. I’d bet the farm Ghost will respond and take a giant shit on ya name so we’ll see.

      1. there is only one race……Human Race……..and its not to be won………remember that

        evil comes in all forms

        much love

        not a fan of seeing this shit on a hip hop website. not a fan of race comments and not a fan of this guy

      2. nice reply comment. u must be a deep person with so much growth. damn right im white and im proud to be as you should be proud whoever the fuck you are.

    29. WhatWhat a dirty clown this punk kid is. Here he isis under Federal investigation and making fake threats via video. Douche.

    30. Surely Rza has another copy of the album if he produced it. Obviously the buyer wouldn’t of been told that. He would of been told the complete opposite. But releasing it would be a different matter legalwise.

      1. Love it how people with the whitest names of all time like “Scott” and “Toddy” come on here to say this little s**tbird “ethered” somebody.

      1. Yeah this borderline talking that master / slave shit. Niggas dont sellout to be bought out…cause this gives these animals ammo to dead yo own material

    31. Niggas guna get bit in the ass by karma. Makes AIDs pill, Raises price of AIDs pill, Dies of AIDs from to much ass sex with his “goons”
      Bitch Please hes just a lil ????

    32. Ghostface is fantastic. Nothing exists forevEr. The Wu-tang Clan makes us smile. Humans are weak and unintelligent when they attack each other like this. I wouldn’t mind the man to break the album, I think he’s hurting (and wants to hurt others). I am personally afraid. Music is not just a product to buy, but an inseparable force of nature. Its ok, if the album is destroyed. Wu-Tang is ForevEr in our hearts, souls, rhythm and step. Please stop fighting. Everything has already happened, essentially. Waste not a breathe on such misunderstanding.

    33. This dumbass kracker goons look like they’re retarded and fina go trick or treatin.. I hope Ghost smack tha Baby Jesus outta him Fam..

    34. After fraud now blackmail and extortion! Anyway as a painter I can say all artist have there work in there mind and can redoo them and almost always for better, except for masterpiece god touched 😉 but pretty rare. I can say anyway a work is never finish and can always be improve and even some artist put intentionnal error in there work so that just them know and only them have the real unique copy in there mind.
      Sound more like a big marketing war like boxers do before a match or that MArtin try to get some attention to him again, he like being hated maybe.
      Anyway pretty sure they have another copy somehere or they can redoo it, no? 2milions for a Wu-Tang albums seem little cheap if we compare how lot cash they can have made if they made it public.

    35. martin is going to get killed everyone just sit back and watch i hope he gets this message cause his family sure will

    36. I am certain that Martin shekeli has asbergers and is somewhere on the autism spectrum, the whole socio/psycho bit I’m gonna guess is drummed up to hide his emotional behavior disorders and conduct disorder…but im just a commenter tho..

    37. This bitchmade frosted mini wheat pink pussy wannabe thug’s gonna get his SHIT rocked. Better move to Montana or North Dakota SMH #WuTangClanAintNuthinTaFuckWit

    38. if Donald Trump is looking for a running mate for VP I think this fuckboy Shkreli would be the most fitting choice. Otherwise he’ll be Trump’s main contender for the Biggest Douche In The Universe award in 2016

    39. LMMFAO!! That was like a promo from a low rate wrestling federation in the late eighties. HCW Wrestling!! Some Bobby Heenan shit. Yo…he’s buggin’. It’ll be interesting to see how Ghost plays this. The wise thing to do would be to ignore this desperate weasel, because by the looks of it, karma is gonna deal with him, for a billionaire he doesn’t look real healthy, or seem emotionally healthy. But I know Ghost can’t resist. I’m still not ruling out the possibility that all this is being staged though. If it is, its brilliant.

    40. Uh..If your the only one that has the album then erasing his verses only a) Devalues the album and b) only affects you…since eh your the only one with it????????????????????

    41. Erase that shit,Supreme Clientele and Bulletproof Wallets,and Ghostdeini stays.I cant believe he is blackmailing Wu tang,this is soo not artistic

    42. This dude thinks hes dr evil. Im surprised his “goons” didnt have freakin lasers attached to their heads…. What a moron.

    43. Not even concerned, he could eat the album for all I care. It ain’t a Wu-Tang Clan clan album, it’s an album featuring Wu-Tang Clan verses.

    44. As a Albanian i just laugh at these pussy’s
      “Ghost”Face Killah hahaha even kids have better nicknames,.. (Youtube-Internet gang member) If you ever think about fuckin with albanians, i swear to god you better run..
      Martin Shkreli claims to be Albanian, and didn’t know two words in Albanian language..
      So stop fuckin dreaming and be real for once, u gotta get the balls before you get the guns.. Stupid Kids

      Doni beef me neve plakit na jav bina kasapin..

      1. “Ghostface Killah” hahahahahahahhahahahah fuckin Kids.
        Have u heard other american rappers name Big A, Big B, Big C, Big D, Big E, “they sound so gangsta”…

        hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahaha. :V :V :V :V

    45. This rich white guy got mad because he bought a 2 million album that contains songs from Cilvaringz’s “I” album. The song tha is being played why he talks is from Cilvarignz album

      1. He wasn’t playing the album, he has continuously states he hasn’t played the album and is not sure if he ever will. Your comment is a waste of space

    46. Why is Ghost even giving this f.aggot attention? This spoiled lil bitch is obviously a HUGE fan of Wu/Ghost and can’t take that his idols, who he grew up listing to, are disrespecting him and think he is a worthless piece of shit. LMAO

    47. This clown needs to shut the fuck up. it’s embarrassing. Dude got called out by his idols whose half-assed album he bought for a ridiculous price for being a self-centered asshat, and rightfully so. Stop hiding behind your hired ski afficianados, I think we all know what would happen in a fist fight between Ghost and this girly man, and it ain’t pretty. Stop asking for attention, you ain’t shit but a loser trying to benefit from sick people, about to go to prison. Grow the fuck up before you self-destruct, this is pitiful.

      PS. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

      1. i doubt the outcome of a fistfight means anything in this situation, hahahah. “Ghosface’s muscles are sooooooooo much bigger than Martin’s… he wins”

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