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  • Summary: Not an official Wu-Tang Clan album (thus the shorten name), the release produced by Mathematics does feature many of its members with guest appearances by Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Hue Hef, Inspektah Deck, Mzee Jones, Killa Priest, Steven Latorre, Masta Killa, Method Man, R-Mean,Not an official Wu-Tang Clan album (thus the shorten name), the release produced by Mathematics does feature many of its members with guest appearances by Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Hue Hef, Inspektah Deck, Mzee Jones, Killa Priest, Steven Latorre, Masta Killa, Method Man, R-Mean, Raekwon, Redman, RZA, Sean Price, Streetlife, and Swnkah. Expand
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  1. Q Magazine
    Oct 24, 2017
    80
    The sound of an artistic slump coming to an end. [Dec 2017, p.107]
  2. Oct 18, 2017
    72
    The Saga Continues is not the home run that Wu-Tang Clan fans have been waiting for, but to keep the baseball analogy, it’s an RBI double. Mathematics does some much-needed course correction.
  3. Oct 16, 2017
    70
    As a Wu-Tang album, The Saga Continues is good but not great, but it's a fine calling card for Mathematics, and makes the case that he should be given an album of his own more often.
  4. Oct 23, 2017
    60
    Despite the excellent lyricism and genius flow, there are still hiccups. Most notably, these come from the Wu’s collaborators.
  5. Oct 16, 2017
    58
    While The Saga Continues engenders enough wistful reminiscences to satisfy the core, it provides shockingly little in the way of memorable moments.
  6. Dec 21, 2017
    50
    The Saga Continues is lacklustre. At times it ventures into sellout territory. It’s not a terrible album (maybe I’ll add a few tracks to my ‘Chill’ playlist) but it never breaks new ground and it never touches the magic of 36 Chambers. Instead, it settles in a slightly anaemic midpoint between nostalgia and commercial compromise.
  7. Oct 23, 2017
    45
    The Saga Continues is full of competent if forgettable rapping straight out of the Wu-Tang manuscripts, and each Wu rapper does a serviceable job mustering up shades of their primes, in function. The verses don’t do what they used to, but at a distance they move in the same ways.

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