I kept waiting, figuring that by election day, they’d be all over it. Wu-Tang’s legendary album was recorded in secret and published just once, on a CD secured in an engraved nickel and silver box. Though the group intended the bizarre trappings as a protest against the commodification of music, Shaolin later became the ultimate commodity. In 2015, Shkreli — already infamous as the man who intentionally spiked the price of crucial AIDS medications — bought it at auction for $2 million. Since then, the album has had a history almost as unusual as its release. By releasing only one copy of the album, the group wanted to "put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of [modern] music," Wu-Tang member Robert "RZA" Diggs told Forbes in 2014.

In digging through his old beats to find more tracks for 36 Chambers, maybe Ashton Sanders (RZA) will stumble upon on the already-made "C.R.E.A.M." beat, where we'll then hit a flashback about he brought the instrumental to life. RZA’s latest album keeps the innovation coming. "A Ballet Through Mud" is a classical music collaboration with the Colorado Symphony. The orchestral work debuted at Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall last year, in a performance accompanied by live ballet and break-dancing.

That’s why we called it "Only..." Because it wasn’t for the whole world. Itwas only for people that could relate to that lifestyle at that time. Like Ghost’s neighborhood, of course you got the old school cats out there that really, n----s is knockout artists, but they smoke dust and all that shit.

Despite Method Man’s absence, the Wu put on an excellent show; the group’s sound rugged but energised as they run through an arsenal of gritty rap classic alongside a few deep solo cuts. It feels appropriate when RZA when sprays bottles of champagne over the front rows. On the second viewing, I spent more time looking at the actual performance.

In the meantime, tensions flared over who was in control of the wu tang clan name generator original brand, mostly directed at their manager and RZA’s older brother Divine. The more popular members felt the money was being divided up unfairly, and not everyone was psyched about the affiliate crews like Killarmy that RZA was stamping with the Wu logo. These frustrations boiled over in frequent arguments and a diminishing trust in RZA’s iron-clad grip on the sound. In the summer of 1997, the wu tang name generator-Tang Clan were in the midst of their mafia movie montage—you know, when life is sweet and it seems like it’s always going to be that way. That summer, the nine Staten Island goons went on tour with one of the premier rock bands on Earth, Rage Against the Machine, blowing cash and sipping champagne on airplanes. They got a $960,000 budget for the special effects-ladened music video for "Triumph," the famous, reckless, hookless posse cut.