Shkreli claimed on a 2024 podcast that he had “burned the album and sent it to like, 50 different chicks”—and that this had been extremely good for his sex life.

I find that statement suspect.

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    17 days ago

    Seems like motivated reasoning to me. Making a statement while leaving most of the people who made you, poor folk who like your music, without the music but you with millions of Pharma Bro Dollars.

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      17 days ago

      From wikipedia

      “It’s an uncomfortable subject to most of the guys, so we don’t really discuss it too much. The process of the thing being made was never told to us. We were never told what it was. It was never supposed to be a Wu-Tang album. We were recording and being paid to do a certain amount of records by a guy whose name I don’t want to mention. He took all these verses—some of them were old verses—and put them altogether into a compilation of Wu-Tang songs and marketed it as a Wu-Tang album, and a single copy of a Wu-Tang album. We all had a problem with it because that’s not how it was described to us.”

      —Method Man in 2024 on recording Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

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      17 days ago

      I think it was RZA and some dude named Silvaringz or some shit that made the decision without the rest of wu-tang approving. And they were not happy.

      It was a money grab with an album that they all admit is shit. I can’t really be mad at them for openly grifting a piece of trash like Shkreli.