![]() ![]() ![]() The producer added that while original plans for museum exhibits and listening parties under Shkreli’s ownership never came to fruition, he’s hopeful that PleasrDAO will share the music with fans in some capacity RZA said he spoke to “one of the gentlemen” involved at PleasrDAO who had “more of a Wu vibe. That wasn’t the guy I met, but he definitely unfolded into that guy.” He made the deal before it was revealed of his character, his personality, and all of the insidious things he would go on to do. Speaking to Hot 97 Wednesday ( via Okayplayer), RZA admitted of the Shkreli sale: “It was in the wrong hands in reality. It was revealed last week that crypto collective PleasrDAO had purchased the one-of-a-kind compact disc at auction from the government, who previously seized it from Shkreli the reviled hedge fund and pharmaceutical executive purchased Once Upon a Time in Shaolin directly from RZA for $2 million in 2015, three years before he was sentenced to prison on securities fraud charges. Shkreli’s sentencing is scheduled for 9 March.The RZA discussed the recent $4 million sale of the Wu-Tang Clan’s one-copy-only Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and his regret about selling the album to “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli in a radio interview Wednesday. “I think he could have got more than what he paid.” Shkreli’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman has claimed that the album is now “probably worthless”. “I didn’t like the idea of him putting it on eBay,” the Wu-Tang producer, RZA, told the Guardian last year. Shkreli attempted to sell Once Upon a Time in Shaolin on eBay, with the winning bid passing $1m, though the sale was never completed. Later in 2015 he became widely despised for buying up the patent to the drug Daraprim, often used to treat Aids-related toxoplasmosis, and raising the price of each pill from $13.50 to $750. ![]() The purchase was another notorious move by Shkreli, who had already become infamous for aggressively hiking the price of the drug Thiola, used to treat the disease cystinuria. Crack the drugs probably wouldn't get a rag to cover my shit. If it was me, you'd probably say the same shit. There is only a singular copy of the album available, and it is unable to be. The new owners of the elusive Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin have finally revealed their identities. I'm not playin' with you bruh, you halfway dead. This double album took six years to complete, with guest performances by the entire Wu-Tang Clan as well as Cher, Redman, Dutch Game of Thrones actress Carice van Houten and even several players of FC Barcelona. As the winning buyer, Shkreli was forbidden from releasing the album for 88 years, a stipulation that the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man described as “stupid”. Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is the seventh studio album from the Wu-Tang Clan, released on October 8, 2015. Things get interesting in 2008, when he starts working on his grand project called Once upon a time in Shaolin. government to cover disgraced pharmaceutical executive and. According to the Justice Department, the sole copy of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin was sold off to pay off the 7.4 million forfeiture judgment against Shkreli for his 2018 conviction on securities. The album was pressed in a single copy by the Staten Island rap group, and housed in an ornate silver box, before being auctioned by the company Paddle8. In a recent twist of news, the Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, has been sold by the U.S. ![]()
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