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The untold story behind one of the most controversial album
releases in modern music history, for fans of the Wu-Tang Clan,
hip-hop music, and all those interested in the music industry. Take
a kid with a dream. A legendary hip hop group. 6 years of secret
recordings. A casing worthy of a king. A single artifact. Hallowed
establishment institutions. An iconoclastic auction house. The
world's foremost museum of modern art. A bidding war. Endless
crises of conscience. An angry mob. A furious beef. A sale. A
villain of Lex Luthor-like proportions. Bill Murray. The FBI. The
internet gone wild. In 2007, the innovative Wu-Tang producer,
Cilvaringz, feeling that digitisation increasingly supported the
perception of music as disposable, took an incendiary idea to his
mentor, hip hop legend, RZA: create a unique physical copy of a
secret Wu-Tang album, to be encased in silver and sold through
auction as a work of contemporary art. The plan raised a number of
complex questions: Would selling one album for millions be the
ultimate betrayal of music? How would fans react to an album that's
sold on condition it could not be commercialised? And could anyone
justify the ultimate sale of the album to the infamous
pharmaceutical mogul Martin Shkreli? "An epic battle between
colorful, creative maniacal heroes and one of the blandest
beta-villains of our time. Couldn't put it down."Patton Oswalt,
comedian and bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend
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