this video is sponsored by soundcore for the past few months if you wanted to see an expensive box that's had a bunch of rappers in it all you'd need to do is tune into an episode of the fresh and fit podcast but really for years many people in the rap game have been trying to get their hands on the most expensive box that hip-hop has ever seen and no i'm not talking about kim kardashian i'm talking about the mythical one-off two million dollar wu-tang clan album once upon a time in xiaolin the album that was painstakingly crafted in the slums of xiao lin by which i mean staten island and also morocco under the watchful eyes and productive fingers of the abba of the wu-tang clan thereza and of course wu-tang affiliate and mastermind of this very project silver rings who decided that rather than a traditional record release they would only make one solitary copy of this album selling it on as an exclusive high-end art piece and after a long painful battle trying to find a buyer for this ridiculous boombap holy grail they actually managed to find a sucker silly enough to blow a bag and make this cd their own but who on earth would be rich and belligerent enough to drop two million dollars on what is essentially two cds in a cute little box well it turns out that man was pharmaceutical bad boy martin shkreli who not long before his infamous purchase of this expensive wu-tang art piece had landed himself in a lot of headlines for massively pumping up the prices of a hiv aids drug and not long after buying the album he found himself in even more serious trouble catching a case and finding himself locked up in the beds let me get a big free shwelly from the trapdoor gang one time anywho for the longest time martin shkreli has been locked up in the feds with that mythical wu-tang clown album that he'd spent two million dollars on not long before seized and locked up in the feds too and for a few years that album has sat there in a vault along with a whole bunch of other forfeited assets from other criminals worth millions now there have been rumors circulating for quite some time that eventually this album would indeed be auctioned off to the highest bidder with many speculating as to if when and where this auction would take place and unfortunately for big papa shkreli the feds did eventually pull the trigger selling that album to the highest bidder and in some ways the new owner of this album makes perfect sense when you consider its exclusivity and one-off nature but in other ways the forfeiture of the most iconic hip-hop physical album in history from hip hop super villain martin shkreli to a bunch of boring tech dorks is kind of a tragedy for the rap scene i mean i personally would have liked to have seen shirley release from jail with that album being his sole remaining asset of value forcing him to tour the country with it playing it for anybody willing to spare a few bucks in exchange for a few old head jams all the while fighting off the rizza and his wu-tang henchman trying to get the album back in a permitted caper
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