The legendary rap group Wu Tang Clan presents their luxury encased rap album, The Wu–Once Upon a Time in Shaolin/i>. Limited to only one copy, this album is luxuriously encased in an engraved silver and nickel box.
Producer and member RZA told Forbes, "We're about to put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of [modern] music," the legendary rapper said. "We're making a single-sale collector's item. This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king."
The album will include 31 songs and gallery-goers will pay between $30-50 dollars to get acquainted with the record.
The royally inventive album packaging is engraved by British-Moroccan artist Yahha, and prior to being sold, it will tour within art galleries and museums; fitting to the artistic masterpiece that it embodies.
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