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By adopting a 400-year-old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity and allowing it to take a similar trajectory from creation to exhibition to sale. Contemporary art is worth millions by virtue of its exclusivity. The intrinsic value of music has been reduced to zero. Wu-Tang's once Upon a Time in Shaolin, before it was auctioned off. It took them almost 6 years to complete, recorded mostly in Marrakech, Morocco, where it was locked away in a vault in its jewel encrusted, Wu-Tang imprinted case for almost a year before it was auctioned off in 2015. Inspired by a Renaissance-style approach to art, the infamous rap group decided that they were going to return value to music by creating something priceless: a single, uncopied, ultra-exclusive album. Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is, without question, the rarest hip-hop album ever released and the most expensive and valuable album in all of music history. The only copy ever made was released in 2015 and it probably won’t see the light of day until at least the year 2103 (and perhaps never)… Wu-Tang is for any- and everybody who has an appreciation for hip-hop, music and generally fine-ass art.Īnd they’ve got a 110-minute double-album out there that’s never been circulated publicly.
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1 greatest hip hop artist of all time,” they’ve won numerous Grammy Awards, produced hip hop classic after hip hop classic and gathered a hardcore cult-following. Their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang is considered one of the most important hip hop albums in history.