Wu-Tang Clan jokingly enlists Comey to track down mystery album
Members of the influential rap group Wu-Tang Clan have jokingly enlisted former FBI Director James Comey to help them recover their one-of-a-kind album currently held by federal law enforcement.
Rapper Ghostface Killah, whose real name is Dennis Coles, posted an Instagram picture on Tuesday alongside Comey and his Wu-Tang bandmate Method Man, whose real name is Clifford Smith, before their appearances on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert.
In the post, he joked that the former FBI director would help them track down the lost record.
“Workin on getting that album back from the feds… wu Tang forever @comey,” Coles wrote in the caption.
The rap group is currently trying to recover the record “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” which was forfeited by former pharmaceutical CEO Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli to the Justice Department.
Shkreli, who purchased the one-of-a-kind album for $2 million in 2015, was sentenced to seven years in prison in March for defrauding investors.
The official confiscation notice in the seizure put Shkreli’s property under the control of the Justice Department.
In a comedy sketch on “The Late Show,” the Wu-Tang Clan rappers faced off against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who Colbert voiced and portrayed with an E.L. Fudge Elfwich cookie, to retake the album.
“Every minute I spend listening to your dope rhymes is a minute I’m not hearing Donald Trump callin’ me weak and disgraceful,” Colbert said as the Keebler Elfwich version of Sessions.
Comey appeared on the show as part of a publicity tour for his new book that takes aim at the Trump administration for his firing in May.
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