The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

A group of NFT collectors have acquired the Wu-Tang Clan's unique album and want to share it

2021-10-23T13:41:21.738Z


The album "Once upon a time in Shaolin" has almost never been released and represents a sort of Grail for fans of the legendary band.


A work that feeds all fantasies.

A group of New York-based NFT collectors have announced that they have purchased for $ 4 million the only copy of a hardly ever released album by rappers from the Wu-Tang Clan, which fascinates their fans, with the hope of sharing it. one day.

At the end of July, American justice announced the auction of the album "Once upon a time in Shaolin" to settle the sentence of Martin Shkreli, the provocative and hated pharmaceutical entrepreneur who had offered himself before his fall.

The buyers, who remained secret at the time, finally came out of the woods.

https://t.co/mYCMSOZysb pic.twitter.com/q6UBVHxek3

- ✨ PleasrCLAN (@PleasrDAO) October 20, 2021

In a video uploaded on Wednesday, PleasrDAO, a group of collectors of NFT ("non-fungible token"), these theoretically unique and non-piratable digital objects thanks to blockchain technology, announced that they were offered this double album of 31 tracks, of which there is only one copy.

Purchase price: $ 4 million, according to several US media, whose articles were retweeted by PleasrDAO.

The group is known among collectors at NFT for having previously purchased digital works from American whistleblower Edward Snowden or Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot.

31 titles recorded between the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s

The video uploaded shows one of the leaders of PleasrDAO, Jamis Johnson, opening the precious silver box in which is the album and a handwritten booklet, then uncorking the champagne while listening to a track, headphones on the head. The only copy of this 31-track double album would have been recorded between the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s by the Wu-Tang Clan band, hip-hop legends known for their texts on the harshness of the neighborhoods. poor people of New York, especially in Staten Island, and their samples inspired by martial arts films.

At the time, they wanted to denounce the commodification of music and protected the work, now seen by some as a precursor of NFT, by a clause prohibiting the sale of the album before 88 years, that is 2103. But on its site, PleasrDAO hopes to share it before.

“While we are bound by the legal agreement that accompanies this work of art and may not be able to duplicate and share the music in digital form, we are confident that there are ways to share this musical masterpiece with the whole world ”, writes the collective.

Source: leparis

All life articles on 2021-10-23

You may like

Business 2024-01-31T09:30:48.348Z

Trends 24h

Life/Entertain 2024-03-28T17:17:20.523Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.