James Comey took a break from his promotional book tour this week to hang out with Wu-Tang’s Method Man and Ghostface Killah. No, really. There’s photographic evidence of this random/epic encounter.
On Tuesday, Ghostface shared a photo of himself and Method Man posing with the former FBI director, smiling ear to ear. The rapper captioned the Instagram post: “Me and my brother […] Workin on getting that album back from the feds.”
The project Ghostface is referring to is Once Upon a Time In Shaolin—Wu-Tang’s one-of-a-kind double album that was purchased for $2 million by notorious “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli in 2015.
In a 2016 interview with Vice, Shkreli said he was considering destroying the project or “installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen.” Thankfully, he didn't get the chance to do either.
Following his seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud last month, Shkreli was ordered to hand over more than $7.3 million in assets, including a Picasso painting, a share in Vyera Pharmaceuticals, his copy of Lil Wayne’s yet-to-be-released Tha Carter V, as well as Once Upon a Time In Shaolin. All of these assets are reportedly in the hands of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Wu-Tang's RZA recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the fabled album and how he was contractually prohibited from buying it back.
"I’ve actually tried to get it back,” he said. “I’ve lost fans, because they think I’ve done something that was out of the nature of what Wu-Tang is. I think they're wrong, but they will have their opinion, right? They felt that we tried to make music become something that only the elite can have, and that's far from the reality."
