Wu-Tang clap back, dissing Martin Shkreli on new track

The jailed businessman paid $2m for the sole copy of the rap group’s album, but earned their lyrical enmity for price-gouging patients over a life-saving drug

Dominic Rushe in New York
Friday 22 September 2017 18.02 BST

Martin Shkreli – the “Pharma bro” now in jail after putting a bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair – received more bad news on Friday: the Wu-Tang Clan released a new track that takes a swipe at their most controversial fan.

Shkreli rose to infamy as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals after hiking the price of a lifesaving drug, Daraprim, by 5,000%. His ruthless approach has now inspired the Clan: “Hater / Wouldn’t last a day in my shoes / You know very well / Bet he swell / You can tell he jeal’ / My price hikin’ like the pills Martin Shkreli sell,” the Clan rap on Lesson Learn’d from their forthcoming album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues, set for release on 13 October.

The rap band and the disgraced pharmaceutical boss have been locked in a war of words ever since Shkreli paid $2m for the sole copy of their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

After Shkreli bought the album, Clan rapper Ghostface Killah attacked Shkreli for the price hike and called him a “shithead” and “the Michael Jackson nose kid”. Shkreli retaliated by threatening Killah, calling him “an old man who has lost his relevance”.

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