{"id":12496,"date":"2017-10-26T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/26\/rza-martin-shkreli-sold-our-album-on-ebay-for-1-2m-he-could-have-got-more\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:55:42","slug":"rza-martin-shkreli-sold-our-album-on-ebay-for-1-2m-he-could-have-got-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12496","title":{"rendered":"RZA: &#039;Martin Shkreli sold our album on eBay for $1.2m \u2013 he could have got more&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer-director boasts 16 names and plays a mean game of chess \u2013 and he\u2019s had the last laugh over the disgraced \u2018pharma-bro\u2019 Hello, RZA! When members of the Wu-Tang Clan are together, do you call each other by your Wu names or your given names?Most of the time we\u2019re with each other, we\u2019ll call each other by one of our nicknames, and no telling which nickname is going to be used that day. For instance, I\u2019m hanging with Meth (1). He had some new friends with him, and they\u2019d known him for two years, maybe. And I\u2019m calling: \u201cHey, Johnny, everything good?\u201d \u201cAh, doin\u2019 good, Bobby (2).\u201d And they\u2019re: \u201cWhy you calling him Johnny?\u201d And I say: \u201cIt\u2019s Johnny Blaze, from the Cuban Linx album.\u201d And when I see Ghost, I call him Tony (3). When I see Raekwon, I call him Chef (4). They call me Abbot. Cos I\u2019m the Abbot. U-God had Golden Arms, call him Goldie (5). But whatever name you call one of us, we respond. I know when they say Steels, that\u2019s me.And you are variously RZA, Prince Rakeem, the RZArector, Bobby Steels, Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah, Prince Delight, Abbot, Bobby Digital or 9th Prince. Do they all express different facets of your personality?I would say so. A name is a description of an attribute. In the holy Qur\u2019an \u2013 this is not a sacrilegious analogy \u2013 there are 99 names of Allah. Plus one, and the one you will never know. I got 16. I\u2019m working my way up. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/oct\/26\/rza-martin-shkreli-sold-album-ebay-12m-wu-tang-clan\" target=\"_blank\">RZA: &#039;Martin Shkreli sold our album on eBay for .2m \u2013 he could have got more&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wu-Tang Clan rapper-producer-director boasts 16 names and plays a mean game of chess \u2013 and he\u2019s had the last laugh over the disgraced \u2018pharma-bro\u2019 Hello, RZA! When members of the Wu-Tang Clan are together, do you call each other by your Wu names or your given names?Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}