Method Man Reacts to Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for First Time: “I Don’t Hate It”

Leave it to Pulitzer Prize winner Pablo Torre to give Method Man the first listen of his own group Wu-Tang Clan’s fabled 1-of-1 album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As documented in the latest episode of his Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, the journalist held a private Brooklyn listening party for the controversial project, which was initially owned by “pharmadouche” Martin Shkreli and is now held by digital arts collective PleasrDAO. Torre was only able to sneak snippets of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin into the episode, which mainly focuses on the extensive lore behind the album before revealing Meth’s reaction. The listening session came together after digital creator and NFT artist Emily Yang (aka pplpleasr) saw a previous episode of PTFO featuring Method Man, when Torre vowed to find a way for the rapper to hear the album. Yang, after whom PleasrDAO is named, reached out to Torre and connected him with the cryptocurrency collective. For context, producer Cilvaringz (aka Tarik Azzougarh) masterminded Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, essentially pasting together separately recorded verses from group members who had no idea what the project sounded like or how it would come together. In ...