think that the production for the most part was bad.
with the exception of rae and ghost as well as rza. the group seemed unfocused which it came out on the album. you can see that they were too comfortable and feeling themselves at that point where they lost their hunger. the energy and rawness on that first album was what made the group dope. forever, you can see that they lost that. they were just thrown in the studio and recorded that shyt without a plan. i think with the first string of wu albums, they were on a mission. they were unstoppable. i think the reason why they had such a run was because they really wanted to make a name for themselves. if rza, u god, deck and killa put out albums around that time between 36 and before forever was made, they would have forever change the direction of rap but guess it wasn't meant to be,

that flood and all. when that forever album came out, it was over. they fell off.