RZA responds to artist Jason Koza’s copyright infringement claims of his artwork being featured in the one-liner notes of Wu-Tang Clan’s album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
The Wu-Tang Clan leader native tells TMZ that they didn’t sell the book containing the artwork to Shkreli but it was given to him as a thank you for purchasing the $2 million dollar project.
“He was given some gifts,” the rapper says. “I think he had a book as a gift. A book of lyrics. A pair of speakers and a few other things as a gift from the people who put together the gift. But the book is not part of the album.”
The Wu-Tang leader describes the album as being in a box and anything Shkreli received with the box aside from the actual album was a gift.
The full TMZ interview with RZA is as follows:
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Come on RZA pay the artist that made those pictures. You sold the album for profit and you kept the artist in the dark about your plans for the album. Method man said it best fk that album,but still pay that artists for his drawings and stop acting like bih
It’s almost like this whole thing was a horrible idea to begin with.
Soooooo when you buy a CD the book insert.it’s not considered part of the album
The Vinyl Collections, The Vinyl Collections, The Vinyl Collections, The Vinyl Collections, The Vinyl Collections…WE GET IT MOTHERFUCKERS…NOW GET THIS SHIT OFF THE SCREEN.
all this controversy around an album that we won’t ever get to hear
It’ll leak eventually
how this nigga get mad at rza when he dont even kno what exactly was in the package smh fuckin
What a sleazy nigga. Fuck RZA and that album
FOH rza no one cares bout anything other than the fact that you took a whole album of wu-tang tracks and sold it for profit in a contract to keep the fans from hearing it we all glad this has turned into a massive fuck-up for you stay out the hip hop game n go fill quentin tarentinos coffee
Rza is a bitch keeping the album for us money hungry