The one copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time In Shaolin album has reportedly been purchased by Martin Shkreli for $2 million, according to Bloomberg.
The 32-year-old pharmaceutical company executive says that he’s yet to listen to the project, which is reportedly 128 minues long and consists of 31 tracks and skits.
“I could be convinced to listen to it earlier if Taylor Swift wants to hear it or something like that,” Shkreli says during an interview with Bloomberg. “But for now, I think I’m going to kind of save it for a rainy day.”
Shkreli was interested in purchasing the album when he was told that would likely get to meet with famous people who would want to hear the album.
He later had lunch with Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer RZA.
“We didn’t have a ton in common,” Shkreli says. “I can’t say I got to know him that well, but I obviously like him.”
In September, Shkreli made news when his Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one pill of its parasitic drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750. The move drew criticism from presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as the BBC, among others.
RZA says that the sale of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin was complete before Shkreli’s business practices became the target of criticism.
“The sale of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin was agreed upon in May, well before Martin Skhreli’s [sic] business practices came to light,” RZA says in an e-mail statement to Bloomberg Businessweek. “We decided to give a significant portion of the proceeds to charity.”
Shkreli says he plans to have others artists make one-of-a-kind albums for him.
“It’s almost like the instructions to the band are, ‘Do your best work, however much time it takes, and never compromise anything for me,’” he says. “‘I just want to hear what you’ve got.’”
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haha what a savage
There’s something hidden in that album or the packaging that is going to enable accessibility to the inner lairs of this guy’s home. They’re after him.
He later had lunch with Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer RZA.
“We didn’t have a ton in common,” Shkreli says. “
“I think I’m going to kind of save it for a rainy day.”
“Shkreli was interested in purchasing the album when he was told that would likely get to meet with famous people who would want to hear the album.”
rza i had to do community service for spray painting w’s all over my school walls in the name of the wu. this nigga couldnt care less about yall more or less gives a fuck out the wu culture yall spent years creating ODB Is rolling in his grave right now
FUCK THE IRON FLAG
FUCK THAT ALBUM
FUCK ALL THOSE OTHER SHITTY ASS WU ALBUM YALL PUT OUT RECENTLY
FUCK THE ART WORK
FUCK FUCK THOSE SPEAKERS YALL PUT IN THE PACKAGE
AND LASTLY
FUCK THE WU-TANG CLAN
In September, Shkreli made news when his Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one pill of its parasitic drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750.
I can’t believe this is the same dude that bought the album. This guy charging an arm and a leg for the shit that helps HIV/AIDS victims. This guy is the worst. He’s like the rich dude from American Horror Story Season 4, Freakshow. He’s the true essence of Scrooge. This is EVIL. And to make it worse, he copped every Wu Heads dream.
white devil bought dat album, let’s hope that album sucks like their previous album
fuck this dude. first he fucked with people with aids, now wu tang clan fans. seriously wtf he should hold listening sessions. its almost like he has never even listened to wu tang before and now he bought this album
This f**king Low-Life gets the Wu Album….. SMH
Bit chase RZA, wu tang legacy can eat a big fat cock…I’m deleting that discography as a fans protest. I’ll keep the solos…except RZA couldn’t really spot anyway fucking hobo Soren baker lookin ass shit actor token black ass mahfucker.
WU-TANG/RZA shoulda jus said no to that bum, smacks of desperation from the WU dayum shame.
Now this is REAL hiphop, isn’t it?
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was the 1st rap album i bought and when i started listening to rap and the Wu….I was 13 then……35 now still a fan….and still love the Wu…
it fuckin sucks that this dude that has nothing in common with Wu and isint even a fan has bought the album in hopes that someone famous would like to listen to it so he can meet them….fucked up….he hasnt even listened to it yet?!?!?!?! thats crazy….as a huge and devoted fan i would like to purchase and listen to this album….cant afford the 2 mil price tag but i would have dropped 1,000 on it…
what are u gonna due? their product, so they can do anything they want with it
Wu-Tang Forever
Why would rza sell it to this guy.. everything about this album pisses me off
I don’t know why peeps have such strong feelings about this. Gotta be die hard WU stans. The WU haven’t dropped anything really dope since 1997’s Triumph track, so forget about it. I highly doubt Once Upon A Time In Shaolin is classic material and most likely not any better than A Better Tomorrow album.
which was a dope album (ABT), IMO
Respect to the Witty Unpredictable-Talent And Natural Game…Forever.. if the fans really care about the WU legacy go buy a classic album theres plenty. Its kind of funny when fans make demands on artist about their work. It belongs to the artist to do what they wish with it… On the million dollar sell how is this really any different than owning a piece of artwork? Particularly custom artwork… be Healthy y’all
I hope the first famous pperson that listens to iit has a recorder in their pocket and leaks it to the world …rip odb
I wish all their family members to suffer so much they wish to die.
DEATH ON WU TANG!
wow so many supposed wu tang fans thay make one album thats intended for the rich.
And once thay cant hear it yall say fuck this and that. twofaced phonys
It’s not about we can’t hear it. It’s about they made friends from the league of Hitler, Stalin and Colombus.
What a waste of money. Also the ridiculous thing about it, that a random guy bought it instead of a true fan. Almost guarantee the album won’t be as good as 36 chambers, Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords, won’t even be as good as Wu Tang forever. What a waste, when that money could of gone somewhere good such as charity or something positive.
cilvaringz is a wannabe douche bag snake piece of shit that has never created a successfulproject. he thinks this project was a success i’m sure, but he took short money and destroyed the legacy of a legacy act he had nothing to do with.
he will forever be associated with a the wannabe wu affiliate that finally got broken in when he presented the FOUNDER with a multi-million dollar deal that DESTROYED the reputation of rza and wu tang and pissed off their loyal fans
wu tang is FINISHED. rzas is a hollywood ass clown.
the “unique” roll out wasn’t to create a higher appreciation of the art, it was to financially capitalize on the last gasp of air of a legacy act.
rza needs to be looked at here just as much as cilvaringz. rza talks that science and power shit, but the man is a snake. the last wu albums have SUCKED, with rza in sole control at the helm. critical, and financial disasters. his hollywood work is remedial bullshit, he hasn’t achieved one iota of greatness in the film world. he will never direct a major release motion picture again after man with the iron fists.
only right a devious, sleazy project, is purchased by a doofus, sleazy, devil looking fuck.
fuck wu tang
You sound like an upset fan that was outside a wu concert, and when they were leaving the venue, didn’t bother to sign the wu cds you brought with you or give you a dab.
It’s not that serious.
Wow cosign
I hope he goes deaf and gets HIV
he should get aids from rza and their mothers should count the millions on their sons’ caskets
Fuck wu tang for selling a album that we can’t hear also that pharmaceutical bitch and his pills…
This is karma kicking RZA in the ass for coming up with this stupid fucking idea in the first place. “Let’s give our fans the middle finger by letting them know we have a double-CDs worth of material, but then tell them only one of them will hear it…after he/she pays us a million bucks! HAHA! Oh, our fans who’ve stuck with us for years and years? Fuck ’em! LET’S GET PAID, WU-TANG!!!”
I like how Soren the ass Baker only replys when people call him a bitch lmao
so, after the laughter, I guess, comes the tears
ahaha what a clown, this isn’t even a wu tang album its a Cilvaringz compilation with mainly B-Affiliates
Idk why people are shocked by this, huge Wu fan. They are the most imitated group in hip hop but they have been a very individual group for many years now. rza,meth and rae are all about cream over anything. This has led to not only the music suffering but the fans as well. All of us will be dead by the time this album is released. After all the delays, infighting and result (a few hot tracks)of the last album it would have been nice to see it end on a higher note. Now the owner of the Wu-album is a gypsy version of trump.