Wu-Tang Taps Paddle8 Auction House To Sell Secret Album

Nearly ayear ago, the Wu-Tang Clan shocked the music world with an announcement too bizarre for fiction: the hip-hop collective had recorded a secret double album dubbed The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, and was planning to sell just one copy.

The album’s producer, Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh, invited meto hear a snippet of the lone LP in Marrakech last spring. He explained that Wu-Tang wanted to reverse the devaluation of music and help it regain the fine art status it enjoyed during the...