The lone existing copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s album 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' was bought for $4 million by PleasrDAO, a group with a passion for buying digital collectibles honoring “anti-establishment rebels”. Their previous purchases include NFTs connected to Edward Snowden and the Russian band Pussy Riot, with Nadya from Pussy Riot now being a PleasrDAO member. PleasrDAO describe themselves as “a collective of artists, anons, crypto degens, cypherpunks, and visionaries”. Rolling Stone met the group.

The United States Government sold the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin', previously owned by the pharma executive Martin Shkreli, NPR reports. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud in 2018, and was ordered to forfeit the album along with several other assets in order to fulfill a $7.36 million forfeiture judgment. The forfeiture judgment has been fulfilled with the sale of the Wu-Tang Clan album, sold to an undisclosed buyer. Shkreli's lawyer believes anonymous buyer paid at least $2.2 million.

The auction for Wu-Tang Clan's seventh studio album 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' and its notorious aftermath is being turned into a Netflix film, Collider reports. The upcoming project - named after the album - is being helmed by 'Brittany Runs a Marathon' director Paul Downs Colaizzo, and the film aims to tell the true story behind pharma-villain Martin Shkreli's acquisition of the one and only copy of Wu-Tang Clan's 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'.

Wu-Tang Clan have joined the personal shout-out app Cameo and are now available for requests for congratulating birthdays, anniversaries, or even applaud the completion of a mixtape. It costs $360 to get a shout-out from RZA, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, and the others, Consequence of Sound reports. Ice Cube is also on disposal, for $500. There are from over 30,000 different celebrities on Cameo, including musicians like Kathleen Hanna, David Yow, Ariel Pink, Torres, Foxygen's Sam France, Dr Dog's Eric Slick, The Drums' Jonny Pierce, Giant Drag's Annie Hardy, Surfbort's Dani Miller, Brad Oberhofer, Girlpool's Harmony Tividad...

Wu-Tang Clan have launched “Protect Ya Hands”, a plant-based, vegan hand sanitizer with a citrus scent made in collaboration with skincare company JUSU. For every purchase of the hand sanitizer, another hand sanitizer will be donated to the Ottawa Mission Foundation along with other homeless shelters throughout Canada. Sanitizer is part of their new A Better Tomorrow Collection, which also includes a T-shirt and a reusable food bowl. Orders can be found here. Check out the hand sanitizer below.

"They’re one of the most important, influential, revolutionary hip hop groups of all time. They’re cross generational, and definitely get a big response when you say their name" a former nutritionist Lisa Roth told Variety about her 100th release - lullaby renditions of Wu-Tang Clan (out today). So far they've released lullaby covers of, obviously, 99 acts - Radiohead, Metallica, Elton John, Tool, The Beatles, AC/DC, Elvis Presley... - and the artists loved those - "Steven Tyler wrote liner notes to Aerosmith’s lullabies. Joe Elliot contributed liner notes to Def Leppard’s lullabies. Elton John has been nice to us, mentioning us in the press many times. Kirk Hammett from Metallica likes us. I’ve yet to hear anything angry or nasty", Roth says.

PopMatters chose 29 black music documentaries for Black History Month 2020, and today rounds up the first 10. They had, so far, the Wu-Tang Clan documentary 'Of Mics and Men', Motown docu 'Hitsville', Beyonce's Coachella film 'Homecoming', Bette Davis' 'They Say I'm Different' etc. The rest is coming by the end of the month.

Music period drama 'Wu-Tang: An American Saga' about the iconic New York rap collective, has been renewed for second season by Hulu. The series debuted in September to rave reviews. The series chronicles the history and formation behind the Wu-Tang Clan as they deal with the daily struggle of balancing their music career amidst the drug-induced early 90’s.

Longtime Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and spiritual mentor to the group, Popa Wu has died aged 63. Popa Wu was the older cousin of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and also related to GZA and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He played a crucial role in the group’s formation and would go on to serve as a spiritual advisor of sorts, preaching […]

Wu-Tang Clan headlined the final night of Desert Daze on Sunday (10/13), and as a surprise for the crowd they brought out Texas psych-funk Khruangbin, to back them on 'Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)', Stereogum reports. The trio is known to throw a medley tribute to ’90s hip hop into their sets. Turned up […]

At a ceremony on Saturday, Wu-Tang Clan were honored by having the Park Hill area of Staten Island officially renamed "The Wu-Tang Clan District". The rap stars, community leaders, special guests, were on hand for a renaming ceremony, as well as Councilwoman Debi Rose who said: “This is a great day where we have an […]