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| Wu-Tang clap back, dissing Martin Shkreli on new track | Wu-Tang clap back, dissing Martin Shkreli on new track |
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| The jailed businessman paid $2m for the sole copy of the rap group’s album, but earned their lyrical enmity for price-gouging patients over a life-saving drug | |
| Dominic Rushe in New York | |
| Fri 22 Sep 2017 18.02 BST | |
| Last modified on Fri 22 Sep 2017 18.14 BST | |
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| Martin Shkreli – the “Pharma bro” now in jail after putting a bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair – received more bad news on Friday: the Wu-Tang Clan released a new track that takes a swipe at their most controversial fan. | Martin Shkreli – the “Pharma bro” now in jail after putting a bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair – received more bad news on Friday: the Wu-Tang Clan released a new track that takes a swipe at their most controversial fan. |
| Shkreli rose to infamy as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals after hiking the price of a lifesaving drug, Daraprim, by 5,000%. His ruthless approach has now inspired the Clan: “Hater / Wouldn’t last a day in my shoes / You know very well / Bet he swell / You can tell he jeal’ / My price hikin’ like the pills Martin Shkreli sell,” the Clan rap on Lesson Learn’d from their forthcoming album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues, set for release on 13 October. | Shkreli rose to infamy as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals after hiking the price of a lifesaving drug, Daraprim, by 5,000%. His ruthless approach has now inspired the Clan: “Hater / Wouldn’t last a day in my shoes / You know very well / Bet he swell / You can tell he jeal’ / My price hikin’ like the pills Martin Shkreli sell,” the Clan rap on Lesson Learn’d from their forthcoming album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues, set for release on 13 October. |
| The rap band and the disgraced pharmaceutical boss have been locked in a war of words ever since Shkreli paid $2m for the sole copy of their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. | The rap band and the disgraced pharmaceutical boss have been locked in a war of words ever since Shkreli paid $2m for the sole copy of their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. |
| After Shkreli bought the album, Clan rapper Ghostface Killah attacked Shkreli for the price hike and called him a “shithead” and “the Michael Jackson nose kid”. Shkreli retaliated by threatening Killah, calling him “an old man who has lost his relevance”. | After Shkreli bought the album, Clan rapper Ghostface Killah attacked Shkreli for the price hike and called him a “shithead” and “the Michael Jackson nose kid”. Shkreli retaliated by threatening Killah, calling him “an old man who has lost his relevance”. |
| Clan members have since claimed the album was not an official release, while Shkreli has sold the 31-track double CD, which comes in an ornate, hand-carved box, on eBay for $1m. | Clan members have since claimed the album was not an official release, while Shkreli has sold the 31-track double CD, which comes in an ornate, hand-carved box, on eBay for $1m. |
| Shkreli is currently awaiting sentencing on fraud charges, and has been released on $5m bail. But earlier this month he was jailed after offering a bounty to anyone who grabbed a strand of Clinton’s hair while she was in New York promoting her new memoir. | Shkreli is currently awaiting sentencing on fraud charges, and has been released on $5m bail. But earlier this month he was jailed after offering a bounty to anyone who grabbed a strand of Clinton’s hair while she was in New York promoting her new memoir. |
| “On HRC’s book tour, try to grab a hair from her,” he wrote on Facebook, in a now deleted post. “Will pay $5,000 per hair obtained from Hillary Clinton.” | “On HRC’s book tour, try to grab a hair from her,” he wrote on Facebook, in a now deleted post. “Will pay $5,000 per hair obtained from Hillary Clinton.” |
| Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said that Shkreli’s Facebook post was “a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the first amendment”. | Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said that Shkreli’s Facebook post was “a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the first amendment”. |
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