The Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has been purchased, Pigeons and Planes reports.
The one-of-a-kind album was purchased by a “private American collector” for “millions” of dollars.
The music comes with “the hand-carved nickel silver box designed by Yahya, a gold-leafed certificate of authenticity and a leather-bound book containing the album’s lyrics and stories behind each song, [and] an addition that had not been previously announced: a pair of customized PMC MB2-XBD speakers worth $55,000, included after consultation with PMC.”
The album is 128 minues long and consists of 31 tracks and skits.
The owner is not allowed to release the music to the public for 88 years.
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Soooo…..who get’s the doe?
First off the wu gave us plenty of hits to see people ungrateful fucks that saying Fuck RZA an that bullshit all because of a creation that he made.
Yes it would be nice if we could hear it but if we dont , we got like 30 albums in the wu to fall back on
and most ly because of R Z A
I want to hear this damn album! Come on Man (Chris Carter voice)
Chris Carter?
These dudes just got paid! They morphed from rappers to businessmen. Hope the album leaks somehow
i bet we’ll hear this album before 88 years is up…if not, a generation or two that don’t know or care about Wu will hear it…ungrateful ears by that time.
damn I thought it said 8 years.
as much i grew up as a wu-tang fanatic, i have to say fuck wu-tang. greatest group of all time but this album is such a dick move. Considering the last few wu group albums have been boo-boo sorry and now niggas cant even hear this album and might not even been in the next life time to even care fuck that shit..I i’ll be retiring my wu flag. anytime a niggas hold back on music in my eyes i stop caring bout them..
Shit retarded 88 year’s come on
Is it 88 years in some mythical or animal years? Hmmmm
Now u got Bone Thugs trying to follow suit… wonder if they’re gonna cash out … I miss that vintage bone , the last 10 years they ain’t been much….. but big ups to wu tang making power moves and once again changing the game !
I’m calling on all Wu-Tang fans now…no…HIP HOP FANS, who think this is bullshit, let’s show RZA we’re not gonna take this shit! I’ve found a work-around…now hear me out before you shoot it down…WE THE PEOPLE buy it back! And I’m not talkin about anyone droppin a fortune either. We start a kickstarter page, and have EVERY SINGLE wu tang fan in the WORLD make a donation 20-50 bucks, and when it’s all said and done, buy the fucking thing back from this asshole. Then we leak it for the world to hear. Take that RZA. WHO’S WITH ME??
I see what you’re saying but we all need to step back an look at this a different way. In 88 years Hiphop as a genre of music may not even exist. It may morph into a religion a political movement or way of being based on the essence of Hiphop which is Health Love Awareness an Wealth.. The album will serve as the new gospel for those generations. I suggest if we really love the WU forever support the albums out now to create a new resurgence in the WU mythology.. One can dream right?
Good luck with that Jack…
SHIT WILL BE ON YOUTUBE BY NEXT WEEK…..#FACTS
Key point being the owner can’t release it to the public. If said owner release it to a friend, and then that friend to another friend……then there we have it. RZA elaborated on how it couldn’t be released on some commercial type shit, takes reading between the lines. I’d like to believe that anyone who has the kind of money to spend on a collector’s item that will more than likely not give equal or greater return has short term plans for it. We shall see.
I’m not allowed to release it? What kind of shit is that? I spend millions of dollars for the music of washed up hasbeens and they try and sue me for releasing it!?
Shouts out to the Witty Unpredictable-Talent An Natural Game….forever!! People not yet born will be able to bear witness to the god MCs…. November is Hiphop History Month
the dumbest thing in the history of hip hop Wu Tang should get donkey of the year for this. this an insult to hip hop.
Ya, I agree, this is absolutely ridiculous and a slap in the face to long time Wu-Tang supporters. Just doesn’t make any sense.
I can’t wait till Im 128 years old to listen to this album.
I can’t wait till Im 128 years old to listen to this album.
88 years !!
Now its time the Rza gave us a free Wu-tang album, there must be hundreds if not thousands off unheard unreleased verses from the clan members from all these albums and side projects that would still sh*t on 80 percent of the rap industry today. Give back to the people Rza, you wanna make out like you’re on some wise old man Guru type sh*t, well you know that if you give, you receive right?
After “A Better Tomorrow” I feel like this is a slap in the face to fans.
Dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. What real wu tang fan from the beginning is going to able to hear it. Some of these niggas from the wu might not make it 88 years old. It will forgotten about and proably sucks judging by the last album they put out.
This begets my goal to live to 112.
Fuck RZA and his stupid album. I think it’s rude we were even told about it and any press was given to it. If we aren’t gonna hear it, then why do we care? The Wu can go fuck themselves with Once Upon A Time In Shaolin.
all the wu-tang fans will be dead by the time this album is released to the public. #facepalm
lmaooooo @ facepalm lololol
who gives a fuck? why even mention it if you think of yourself as gods and forget the people who took you out of your slums.
I won’t buy another wu tang ablum… like meth said “fuck that album”
Didn’t it get bought like 1-2 years ago?
You mean- wasn’t it purchased a few years back?
A few of the members don’t agree with this shit, you out your best work in and people who made you who you are can’t even hear it? Fuck you RZA, it sounds like most the group didn’t even know this when they were recording for the album
That awesome. I hope its one of the best albums ever. Fuck everyone else….the ain’t gonna cop shyt unless commercial and wears tight pants
Some of the members should do “freestyle” and drop some of the verses that way. The public would at least get a glimpse of the content on the album.
Guys don’t get mad. Im a big time Wu tang clan fan, since I was 5! This is a classic and a one time UNIQUE deal. Thats why they did it because nobody has done it before. This will go down in history as a huge milestone for Hip Hop. By the way he can release the music but nobody can publish it or make money off of it during the next 88 years. We gon hear them tracks very soon.
If this was Jayz you mfs would be praising this. You accomplished brown nosed mfs!
tarantino bought it