RZA Says Secret Wu-Tang Album Is "Rare as the Mona Lisa"

RZA recently spoke out about Wu-Tang's secret album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" with HipHopDX during an interview for his upcoming film, "Brick Mansions" (April 3), and defended only having one copy made. 

"I kept it a secret because I want it to be what I want it to be which was, 'Yo, this is a piece of art,'" he says. "It belongs in an art setting, venue, a museum, or a gallery. It's as rare as any Picasso, any Van Gogh. It's as rare—as I said in my article—as finding an Egyptian scepter. It's as rare as the Mona Lisa. It's rare, yo. It's only one. We commissioned a great artist to design the box around it. It looks like a holy book might be in that box. [Laughs] That's the idea, yo. This is art. It should be toured and looked upon as that. That's the first and primary thing."

Check out the full interview in the above slide.