{"id":1267,"date":"2021-10-22T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/10\/22\/owner-of-exclusive-wu-tang-clan-album-revealed\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:30:00","slug":"owner-of-exclusive-wu-tang-clan-album-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2021\/2021\/10\/22\/owner-of-exclusive-wu-tang-clan-album-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Exclusive Wu Tang Clan Album Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The anonymous owners of the one-of-a-kind Wu Tang Clan<\/a> album have been revealed. Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> — formerly owned by disgraced hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli, before being convicted of securities fraud — was seized in 2018 and recently sold by the U.S. government as a part of a $7.4 million forfeiture judgement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Shkreli was forced to sell the album, the original buyers were kept hidden from the public, with the sale being handled by NYC based lawyer, Peter Coolidge, who revealed that he has been one of the very few to listen to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It didn\u2019t disappoint at all. It was pretty reminiscent of the \u201890s stuff. The first album was really good. All the first solo albums were good, like, Return to the 36 Chambers<\/em>, Liquid Swords<\/em>, Ironman<\/em>, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx<\/em>, whatever,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then they did some albums after that, that were perhaps not their best work. But this is like, up there with the best stuff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now, the new owners of the suis generis album have been revealed to be NFT<\/a> investment collective, PleasrDAO. The group revealed itself as the anonymous entity that purchased the album from the federal government in July for a reported $4 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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