We can finally hear some of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man, who got to hear the album for the first time thanks to Pablo Torre Finds Out. | Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/gettyimages-2298537487.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man, who got to hear the album for the first time thanks to Pablo Torre Finds Out. | Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wu-Tang's <em>Once Upon A Time in Shaolin</em> album has, for the most part, been extremely difficult to listen to, but you can now hear two snippets of the album thanks to the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, which just published an episode <a href="https://youtu.be/rVR8GmAK-8A?si=L2Kq-iXiynTzTVg9">all about the exclusive record</a>.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Once Upon A Time in Shaolin</em> has a long history, which Pablo Torre Finds Out goes into in detail. Disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli bought the only copy of the album, which cannot be commercially released until 2103, in 2015 at auction. Shkreli had to forfeit the album to the US government, and the government sold it <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596474/pharma-bro-martin-shkrelis-wu-tang-clan-album-sold-once-upon-time-shaolin">in 2021</a> to the crypto art collective PleasrDAO, whi …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1013277/wu-tang-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-pablo-torre-martin-shkreli">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>