We can finally hear some of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album
Pablo Torre is playing the one-of-one album owned by Martin Shkreli, the feds, and now a crypto group called PleasrDAO.
Pablo Torre is playing the one-of-one album owned by Martin Shkreli, the feds, and now a crypto group called PleasrDAO.
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Jay Peters
Oct 16, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC
Jay Peters
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Wu-Tang’sOnce Upon A Time in Shaolinalbum has, for the most part, been extremely difficult to listen to, but you can now hear two snippets of the album thanks to the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, which just published an episodeall about the exclusive record.
Once Upon A Time in Shaolinhas a long history, which Pablo Torre Finds Out goes into in detail. Disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli bought the only copy of the album, which cannot be commercially released until 2103, in 2015 at auction. Shkreli had to forfeit the album to the US government, and the government sold itin 2021to the crypto art collective PleasrDAO, which has allowed it to be played atspecial exhibitions.
Pablo Torre Finds Out, working with PleasrDAO, hosted a listening party for the album where they played it for Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man, who had never heard it up until that point. The podcast recorded the event and Method Man’s reaction, and you can hear two snippets from the album at32:30and39:02during the show.
Method Man’s review? “I do not hate this album.”
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