All tracks (reputedly) recorded between 2007-2013.

Full release date: Unclear - possibly never.

Partial release date: June 15–24, 2024 at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia.

Date that any of that material will become available to stream or will appear on YouTube: Unknown.

This thread is created in hope rather than expectation.





UNOFFICIAL PLAYLIST

CD1 "Shaolin School"

1. Enter…
2. The Magnificent Butchers
3. Staple Town – Part I
4. Stone Him!
5. Kareem
6. Staple Town – Part II
7. 99 Cycling Swords / 99 Supreme
8. Stone Finger
9. The Weeping Tiger
10. Brother Jozef
11. The Ninja
12. Swine
13. Dirt Bomb Niggaz Know My Uzi Weigh A Ton
14. Staple Town – Part III
15. Hail, Snow & Earthquakes / Rainy Dayz II

CD2 "Allah School"

1. Nourishment
2. Winter Windz (Lions) / The Manual
3. The Eighty Eight Soul Babies
4. March Of The Wooden Soliders (Guards) – The 19th Chamber
5. Park Hillians
6. Bamboo
7. Flowers Blossoming
8. The Iron Butterfly / Revenge Of The Ferocious Camay
9. Once Upon A Time In Shaolin…
10. God Degree
11. Swords Stained With Royal Blood / The Fatal Flying Guillotines
12. Piranha
13. Diary Of A Mad Woman
14. Slain By Swords
15. Godspeed / Exit
16. Shaolin Soul…

Running time: 110 minutes.

Potentially available running time: Unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin
https://www.discogs.com/release/8058591-Wu-Tang-Clan-Once-Upon-A-Time-In-Shaolin

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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is the seventh studio album by the American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

Only one physical copy of the album was created, with no ability to download or stream it digitally.

Purchased directly from the Wu-Tang Clan in 2015, it became the most expensive work of music ever sold.

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The album was recorded in secret over six years.

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A single two-CD copy was pressed in 2014 and stored in a secured vault at the Royal Mansour Hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, then auctioned through [an] auction house.

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The auction gained significant public attention, and an unfounded rumour spread virally online that the purchase agreement stipulated that members of the Wu-Tang Clan, or actor Bill Murray, would be allowed one attempt at stealing the record back in a heist.

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The winning bidder was Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who paid a reported $2 million.

In March 2018, following Shkreli's conviction for securities fraud, a federal court seized assets belonging to him, including Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

In July 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice sold it to non-fungible token collectors PleasrDAO for $4 million to cover Shkreli's debts.

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The group hope to make the album more widely available, but are bound by the restrictions forbidding its release to the general public [and] suggested it could be played at listening parties or exhibitions.

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The first such public exhibition was scheduled by the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2024.

Watch this space.

And for those of you who are hard of seeing - LOOK!!