From the snippets it seems like they all stepped their bars up. Guys like deck and mk sound so flat on their solo joints but wenever their with the wu they come to life. To me the wu is the greatest collective of emcees and i think they could make any instrumental sound good when their in their zone. Some of these beats and the beats of the full songs they've put out so far sound good but none of them stand out. I would have loved to have seen raes idea of the shoalin vs wu tang album become a reality, where it was everyone minus the abbot cus i know they still have the ability to create classics. Rza is like a weight at this point.
There is no Wu-Tang without RZA. Literally and figuratively I don't understand why people think you could actually have a Wu-Tang album without RZA, for better or for worse the Wu as a group are spearheaded by The Abbot....