It is definitely considered a classic and was maybe their biggest album, but when cats talk about old school hiphop they always leave this classic out...for me, that album had just as much impact on my hiphop asthetic as any RUNDMC, LL, BDP, etc album...
I mean it had that R&Bish feel with the Full Force production, but UTFO ALWAYS came hard with the lyrics...Between "Lethal" and "Life Is..." (Too $hort) my 4th grade vocabulary was highly advanced...