{"id":1156,"date":"2016-01-08T00:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/wu-tangs-rza-doesnt-regret-selling-album-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T00:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:20:58","slug":"wu-tangs-rza-doesnt-regret-selling-album-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/wu-tangs-rza-doesnt-regret-selling-album-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang&#039;s RZA doesn&#039;t regret selling album to pharma bro Martin Shkreli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shkreli_rza-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA3L2I4L3Noa3JlbGlfcnphLjY4MDIzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/5f021600\/c6e\/shkreli_rza-copy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Wu-Tang%27s+RZA+doesn%27t+regret+selling+album+to+pharma+bro+Martin+Shkreli&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F07%2Fwu-tang-rza-martin-shkreli%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F07%2Fwu-tang-rza-martin-shkreli%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There might be one person who doesn&#8217;t hate Martin Shkreli.<\/p>\n<p>RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan sat down with <em>Bloomberg<\/em> to chat about the despised pharma bro, who <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/09\/martin-shkreli-wu-tang\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">recently bought<\/a> the only copy of the rap group&#8217;s one-of-a-kind album <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> for $2 million. The rapper seems pretty diplomatic about the whole ordeal, saying it doesn&#8217;t bother him: &#8220;He bought it, he can do what he wants. Right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could never discriminate who appreciates art,&#8221; RZA says.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/23\/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-album-seizure\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The feds could still seize Martin Shkreli&#8217;s $2 million Wu Tang album after all<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shkreli, who still hasn&#8217;t listened to the album, apparently purchased it before the group became aware of his status as the most hated man in pharmaceuticals \u2014 which Shkreli earned after hiking up prices for an AIDS drug and recently getting arrested <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/17\/martin-shkreli-arrested\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">on other charges<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/07\/wu-tang-rza-martin-shkreli\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/startups\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Startups<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/wu-tang-clan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Wu Tang Clan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452182058' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452182058'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/jTxojNFIRTA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be one person who doesn&#8217;t hate Martin Shkreli. RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan sat down with Bloomberg to chat about the despised pharma bro, who recently bought the only copy of the rap group&#8217;s one-of-a-kind album Once Upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/wu-tangs-rza-doesnt-regret-selling-album-to-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,79,54,1,383,707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-music","category-other","category-startups","category-wu-tang-clan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}