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To Bill Murray, the RZA, the GZA, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah and the Method Man, plus Masta Killah, Cappadonna, and, for the sake of it, Redman:
Hey guys. Big fan of your work.
Bill, you may not remember me, but one time we sat a couple seats apart at a Mets-Cubs game early in the 1998 season. The game remains notable to me because of the drunk guy who sat a few rows in front of us and loudly harassed every Cubs player that waited on deck. I’m certain his repeated taunts of “Sammy So-So” inspired Sammy Sosa to hit a home run that day and 63 more times that season. The drunk guy called you out, and you subtly gave him the middle finger. It was hilarious.
The Wu-Tang Clan, we have never met, but one time I saw Method Man going into my favorite wing place in Brooklyn and it validated every decision I had made in my life to that point. About half of my iTunes music library is dedicated to Wu-Tang albums, offshoot projects, and your various solo efforts. I believe Inspectah Deck’s The Movement is a chronically underrated album. I hope I live long enough to hear Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and it is on behalf of that pursuit that I write you today.
Martin Shkreli (PHOTO: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
2015 studio album by Wu-Tang Clan
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is the seventh studio album by the American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Only one copy was created, with no ability to download or stream it. The only copy was purchased directly from the group in 2015 for $2 million, making it the most expensive work of music ever sold.
The album was recorded in secret over six years from 2007 to 2013. A single two-CD copy was pressed in 2014 and stored in a secured vault at the Royal Mansour Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then sold through auction house Paddle8 in 2015. A legal agreement with the purchaser stipulated that the album cannot be commercially exploited until 2103, although it can be played at listening parties.
The winning bidder was Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who paid a reported $2 million. In March 2018, following Shkreli's conviction for securities fraud, a federal court seized assets belonging to him, including Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. In July 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice sold it to the non-fungible token collectors PleasrDAO for $4 million to cover Shkreli's debts; PleasrDAO said they hoped to make it more widely accessible.
The first public exhibition of the album began in June 2024
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