but i feel like you're excluding numerous A/A+ albums from the rawkus catalogue
blackstar
internal affairs
hi-teknology 1
lyricist lounge 1
soundbombing 1

and theres not much from that early era that i wouldn't put in the A-/B range
brace 4 impak, big picture, home field adv,

maybe I'm being too generous with some of these, looking back on my backpack days with rose-colored glasses - i wouldn't dispute that without going back and giving a lot of this stuff a hard listen