LOS ANGELES, Feb 12 — Hours before its official release yesterday, pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli made an apparent last-ditch attempt to buy Kanye West’s new album, The Life of Pablo.
In a series of bizarre tweets, Shkreli offered the rapper US$10 million (RM41.6 million) for the album.
After saying he was interested to buy the album “last minute,” Shkreli followed up with a legal letter that he says must legally be presented by Kanye and Co to the label’s board of directors.
aiyo @kanyewest last minute can i buy your album out so it dont get released publicly
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 11, 2016
Here is my initial offer for the album. @kanyewest Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your response pic.twitter.com/opJ7mlfraK
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 11, 2016
Kanye and his label are legally required to take my offer letter to their Board of Directors. This should delay the album by a few days.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 11, 2016
Last year, Shkreli famously bought Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album for US$2 million, bragging that he had bought it to “keep it from the people.”
The 32-year-old is also known for sparking outrage last year among patients, doctors and politicians after his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of the anti-parisitic infection drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 per cent.
