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The Story Behind Martin Shkreli and That Wu- Tang Album. The saga of the Wu- Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album, which unfolded in 2. There was the outlandish conceit: The iconic rap group had recorded an entire new album, of which it was producing only a single copy. There was the over- the- top villain: pharma- industry gremlin Martin Shkreli, who, in what appeared to be a trolling act of conspicuous consumption, bought the copy of the album for a reported $2 million (the exact number has never been officially confirmed) in order to hoard it for himself. And there was the whiff of illicit high jinks: A rumored clause in the sale contract suggested that the Clan (or, weirdly, Bill Murray) could legitimately retrieve the album from Shkreli if they managed to nab it from him in a heist. Because of course there has to be a Bill Murray angle.) As with all too- good- to- be- true stories, this one turned out to be part truth, part rumor, part hoax, and all ridiculous. A year and a half later, a new book, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu- Tang Clan’s Million- Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No.

The book’s author, the Wu- Tang’s self- described “adviser” Cyrus Bozorgmehr, claims that the meticulously planned, cleverly orchestrated Shaolin experience was conceived as a publicity stunt — though his book, he says, is not. I can’t force anyone to believe what’s in the book,” Bozorgmehr says, recounting how he gained firsthand access to the project after meeting the rap producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh, who co- produced Shaolin. From our perspective, we thought the book needed to exist because there was a lot going on behind the scenes that we could only share after the project was over.”As recounted in the book, the genesis of the Shaolin project came, as tales of international intrigue so often do, from a meeting in Marrakech. It was there that the author ran into Cilvaringz at an art- world event. Eventually, the producer described how, during a mystical evening atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu with Wu- Tang mastermind RZA, the plan was hatched to create a work of art with lasting impact — more lasting than music tends to be in the current streaming era.

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Thus: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a double album of all- new, all- original Wu- Tang Clan material, which would exist as one lone copy, in a direct rebuke to the disposability and accessibility of contemporary music. Furthermore, the buyer would be contractually prohibited from sharing the music commercially in any public forum for 8.

The idea,” explains Bozorgmehr, “was to imbue the album with the importance of a painting by a Renaissance master.”Once the album was completed, and after the Clan realized that many of the group’s fans weren’t exactly pleased with the notion of new music being made available only to the buyer with the deepest pockets, the project began to butt up against the real world. We had a sense that some fans might be confused,” says Bozorgmehr. And no one on the Wu- Tang side had processed that there was a whole legal framework to selling something that a buyer might pay millions for. We didn’t consider that buyers would want to protect their investment by making sure we didn’t leak the album after the sale. There was no clear resolution to some of those problems, so we realized that we were going to have to trust that the buyer would act in good faith.”That is, if a millionaire buyer even materialized. One did — but he turned out to be someone to whom the notion of “good faith” is alien. Martin Shkreli, who would soon become the face of corporate greed after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, jacked up the price of an AIDS- related drug, is said to have paid $2 million for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

We did do some Googling about Martin,” Bozorgmehr admits, “but had no idea he was about to become the most evil man in America. He just seemed like a wealthy young guy who sincerely loved rap.”It was Shkreli’s purchase, first reported in December 2. Shaolin story from amusing music- world stunt to a global news event. Shkreli used the fact of his ownership to embellish his public role as a bad boy. He taunted RZA online after the latter expressed dismay at his business practices and promised he’d release the album for free if Donald Trump was elected president.

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He never did, though he posted snippets on You. Tube.) Most crudely, he claimed in an interview that he’d be willing to play the album for Taylor Swift in return for sexual favors. The Wu was not happy. Martin went nuts with his idea of public theater,” says Bozorgmehr. Watch Freerunner Dailymotion. He would get in touch with us privately and say, ‘I’ve just been abusive to RZA in an interview. Isn’t that great?’ And we’re going, ‘No!’ ”The issue was further confused when, in a wishful- thinking response to Shkreli’s antics, an interested observer online tweeted a (false) quote from a (falsified) contract that claimed to show the (entirely bogus) clause that allowed Wu- Tang Clan and/or Bill Murray — a real- life acquaintance of RZA’s — to steal the album back. As sometimes happens with false tweets about bogus clauses in falsified contracts, the media picked up the story and reported it as if it were real.

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I don’t think Bill was ever even aware of the album,” says Bozorgmehr. Eventually, the internet moved on. Watch Apple Of My Eye Putlocker. It helped a little that Shkreli got a comeuppance of sorts: He was booted off Twitter over a harassment incident, and his trial on charges of securities fraud began on June 2. Shkreli could not be reached for comment for this article.) As for the record — it’s real, and it’s still in Shkreli’s hands. We don’t even know if he’s ever listened to the album,” says Bozorgmehr. Sadly, not even Bill Murray can remedy this. Wu- Tang Clan found an anonymous buyer for their album in pharmaceuticals mogul Martin Shkreli.

In an excerpt from his book, Cyrus Bozorgmehr explains what happened next. We genuinely couldn’t see how breaking anonymity might be desirable for Martin [Shkreli], as it would just be used as a stick to beat him and raise all kinds of questions about where the money he was making from sick children was actually going. The glaring hole in our logic was that we were using our own empathy to guess his motives, and he didn’t think like most people … He didn’t care about bad press. Quite the contrary — he was thirsting after it like a crack- head frantically trying to score his next rock.

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