RZA Is Totally at Peace With the End of ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’

The last time I saw RZA in person, he was nursing a massive hangover: the result of a long night out in New York City, not to mention too much tequila. So when the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan—and, of course, the extended Wu multiverse—FaceTimes me from Los Angeles with his camera turned off, I joke that maybe he’s worse for wear again.

“Nah,” he reassures me. “During the pandemic I had a setup to do all the Zooms I have to do, with the right frame and all that crap like that. But [since] we go back, I called you from my phone, and if you don’t care, I’ll just say peace.”

And with that, RZA flips on his camera. Framed by the warm glow of the Cali sun, he looks just as he should: like an all-knowing hip-hop shaman. Our conversation precedes the third and final season of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, premiering Wednesday on Hulu on. If Season 1 was the origin story of the Wu-Tang Clan, and the second season was built around the explosion of creativity around the time of the Clan’s breakout 1993 album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, this third season digs into the trials and tribulations that childhood friends encounter when all their dreams finally come true.

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