Pablo Torre

To buy Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the 31-track album that I need you to explain to me as a matter of it was conceived to be itself a commentary.

Like the whole premise of we're only making one of these things.

The only way to get it is to bid on it.

That itself is this larger statement.

I was going to ask, have you seen any residual checks from any of this?

I was wandering around New York City and someone invited me to one of these.

I didn't go, unfortunately.

I really regret it just because I wish I could tell you what your album is like.

yeah okay so you want to hear them i mean i don't have two million dollars but when we go off i'll play something for you it's just my verses though no one else's verses are on there three joints yeah i would love to hear that yeah yeah um because the only way to hear it otherwise is to go to one of these listening parties held by a digital art collective a a dow this is one of those again just like crypto era just like i don't even know what the this is but they own it and they're only they purchased it in july 2021 from the us government

Again, an incredible Mad Lib, which had seized it from Martin Shkreli.

This DAO, Pleaser DAO, is a collective of 74 members who collectively own the album via NFT, via non-fungible token.

And they bought it for $4 million.

Jesus.

And they're only allowed because the contract on the album was... 88 years.

88 years.

88 years.

Of course, the number 88.

So in 2103, you can hear it.

But until then, you got to go to like a listening party where they're playing it for people.

I'm thinking about like the ways in which you have responded to this bizarre future that has become the present.