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Sorry, Wu-Tang Clan fans. Famed actor Bill Murray will not “Bring Da Ruckus.”
RZA, the leader of the legendary rap group, said there’s no contractual clause that allows the funnyman to steal back the only copy of the group’s album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” from hated drug exec Martin Shkreli.
In an interview with Bloomberg, RZA said: “Bill Murray’s not in the contract.”
Shkreli paid $2 million to buy the one-of-a-kind record at auction in the spring before he was arrested for securities fraud in December. Adding insult to injury for Wu-Tang fans, the “pharma bro” CEO said he hadn’t even bothered to listen to the almost mythical album.
After his arrest, a fake sale contract made the rounds on the Internet that claimed Murray — who had appeared in the 2003 movie “Coffee and Cigarettes” with RZA and GZA — could attempt a heist of the album.
The contract was meant to be a joke, but some news outlets reported it as fact.
Prosecutors also piled on at a press conference on the day of Shkreli’s arrest, when they declined to comment on whether the album would be seized in an effort to repay Shkreli’s investors.
GZA (right) and RZA (left) of Wu-Tang Clan perform on stage in Toronto.Film MagicShkreli, who stepped down as the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, is accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme as a former hedge fund manager involving another drug company.
RZA, who has said previously that the group would donate the proceeds from the album’s sale, told Bloomberg that a middleman negotiated the album’s sale to Shkreli.
However, the frontman of the Wu-Tang Clan, known for hits like “Bring Da Ruckus” and “C.R.E.A.M,” said he did sit down with Shkreli before agreeing to the sale, which he said he doesn’t regret.
“I met him, we had a brief lunch, and he did mention his love of hip-hop,” he told Bloomberg.



