5. The Feds will come after you.
Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, is a real life capitalist. He hiked up the price of a pill used to treat AIDS from $13.50 to $750. He recently bought the only copy of Wu Tang’s album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin from RZA for $2 million. RZA was not aware that he sold this precious piece of art to such an unscrupulous person. Shkreli caught wind of this and while speaking with HipHopDX in an interview, he said, “This [Wu-Tang Clan] thing is starting to get pretty tense. You probably see that increasingly. I’m getting pretty frustrated by it. I bought the most expensive album in the history of mankind and fucking RZA is talking shit behind my back and online in plain sight. I’m just getting pissed off. That’s not the way I do business. If I hand you $2 million, fucking show me some respect. At least have the decency to say nothing or ‘no comment.’ The guy [told Bloomberg] ‘…before his business practices came to light.’ What the fuck does that mean? I fucking make money. That’s what I do. That’s why I can fucking afford a fucking $2 million album. What do you think I do, make cookies? No, motherfucker. I sell drugs. [Laughs] I felt insulted.” He also said he was buying up all of Tupac’s manuscripts and was going to bail Bobby Shmurda out of jail.
Well guess what, a day after all his slick talk Shkreli gets hauled in by the Feds for securities fraud. Now, I’m not saying it’s because of Wu Tang. I’m just saying, Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothing to f@#% with. Show some respect.
