An event billed as An Evening With Martin Shkreli that was set to feature a listening session with unreleased music from Wu-Tang Clan has been shut down.
According to an Eventbrite page for the event, which was scheduled to take place on February 20 in New York City, “An Evening With Martin Shkreli” was going to start off with the notorious former pharmaceutical exec sharing his thoughts on “investing, healthcare and politics,” and would have gradually morphed into a more lit “bar session.”
During the post-lecture bar session Shkreli was to “play tracks from his unreleased music collection (Wu-Tang and more).”
Shkreli made headlines in 2015 for buying Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind Once Upon A Time In Shaolin album for $2 million. More recently, he appears to have gotten his hands on Lil Wayne’s highly anticipated Carter V, although he has promised not to leak any more of it.
According to Shkreli, the event was canceled by the host venue Webster Hall after they began receiving threats. Shkreli has been met with resistance from protesters at recent talks at UC Berkeley and Harvard.
“Webster Hall has cancelled the 2/20 event…It’s sad that a couple of threats can cancel a 500 person event people wanted to go to,” Shkreli wrote in two separate Facebook posts.
A rep for Webster Hall also issued the following statement to Pitchfork about the canceled event: “Officially, it is not happening.”
Given that the Eventbrite page for An Evening With Martin Shkreli is still live, there is the chance that the event could be rescheduled.
They shouldn’t threat him. They should kill him. Not because of a Wack-Tang album, but because he plays dirty games with AIDS patients. Kill him and the whole world will be happer.
You dumb ass nigga. D you even know what medication does and why it had to be raised? How about how many people it actually affects?
Dumb niggas like you need to pull you head out of your ass before you open your mouth
When you don’t have work unemployness is 100%.
Agreed your a dumbass just because somethings created doesnt mean it should just be handed out like your welfare check dumb fuck its a comodity as much as a dipshit like you hates to hear theres only so many per year that can be purchased via production which increases/decreases the value now just if you went to school and actualy understood economics even slightly if every good thing created that can better a life was just handed out or super cheap the fuck would be the point in making ANYTHING if its just gonna be handed out with no profitable gain if theres one thing in this world its about the money dumbfuck peace and loves great but fuck it cash its what i think and the majority of the world you doubt me? Examine the state of the world right now and tell me otherwise
I hope nobody will appear on your funeral when you are burred in a 24k golden coffin.
Hey i always wanted a viking funeral thanks!
Typical intolerant liberals resorting to violence.
Wutang 4eva. I don’t find it that he’s robbing Aids patients. It’s the insurance companies robbing the patients. If you noticed insurance companies didn’t even say nothing about it like the weren’t going to pay for the price raised. He does have problem but I don’t feel its about the medicine business. Its about his Peter Pan style trying to get in the music game.
this man is giving so much back to the culture, why is everybody giving him a hard time?
Coz he’s hip hop’s super nuisance. I wish he was popping in the 90s.
Isn’t Martin Shkreli the guy who cut off his own Johnson?
Wu tang clan – winter wars
pull up, dont pay attention to what he sayin, listen to the wu tang tracks, beat his ass and take the album and release it hiphop saved