NEW YORK (AP) — The only bodily copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is headed to Australia’s Museum of Previous and New Artwork.
Solely a handful of ears have listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s seventh studio album up to now. However subsequent month, fortunate MONA guests could possibly hear a part of it, too.
Along with placing the famed piece of music historical past on show, MONA mentioned it will host personal listening periods that includes choose tracks from the album between June 15 and June 24. Tickets, set to be launched Thursday, are free — however there’s solely a small quantity obtainable.
“Run don’t walk, bring da ruckus, etc.” MONA wrote on Instagram Tuesday. The album will probably be part of the Tasmania museum’s bigger “Namedropping” exhibition that opens subsequent month.
“Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” has been referred to as the world’s rarest album.
After spending six years creating the 31-track double album, the multiplatinum hip-hop group put the one copy up for public sale in 2015, on the situation that it not be put to business use.
On the time, Wu-Tang Clan member RZA mentioned he wished the album — packaged in a handmade silver and nickel case that features a 174-page e book wrapped in leather-based — to be seen as a bit of up to date artwork.
Entrepreneur Martin Shkreli purchased the album on the public sale for $2 million — however was later convicted of mendacity to buyers and dishonest them out of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in two failed hedge funds he operated.
“Once Upon a Time is Shaolin” was bought to fulfill a few of Shkreli’s courtroom money owed in 2021.
Authorities didn’t instantly launch details about the client or the value, however The New York Occasions reported that cryptocurrency collective PleasrDAO paid an middleman $4 million for the album.
Shkreli, who can also be identified for jacking up the value of a life-saving drug and his “Pharma Bro” persona, was launched from jail in 2022 after serving a lot of a seven-year sentence.
