The Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret NFT

With its one-of-one album in 2014, the legendary hip-hop group created a non-fungible token years before anybody really knew what that was.

In early 2014, I received a cryptic email from an unpronounceable address that seemed scammy at best, but the body of the message was so bizarre I couldn’t help but respond. The sender claimed to be a Morocco-based producer who’d spent the past six years putting together a secret Wu-Tang Clan album called Once Upon A Time In Shaolin. The strangest part:…