Johnell Xavier Young as Gary Grice/The Genius/GZA.TJ Atoms as Russell Jones/Ason Unique/Ol' Dirty Bastard.David 'Dave East' Brewster as Clifford Smith/Shotgun/Method Man.Marcus Callender as Oliver 'Power' Grant.Julian Elijah Martinez as Mitchell 'Divine' Diggs.Siddiq Saunderson as Dennis Coles/D-Love/Ghostface Killah.Shameik Moore as Corey Woods/Sha Raider/Raekwon.The group battles against the forces that hold them down and these include their own occasional impulse to give up the fight. The story depicts how it all came together for the clan as Diggs unites a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime. Seeking his own way out, Diggs turns to rap in order to carve a path to fame going against his older brother Divine (Martinez), who favored the drug trade as the means to giving their family a better life. It follows the Wu-Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA (Sanders), and rise amid the dangers and excesses that came with the epidemic. Wu-Tang: An American Saga is set in New York City during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.
