>I felt like he got back on track with Public Enemy No. 1. Or
>at least it was a lot of enjoyable weirdness on there.

^^^^^^ Yeah, 'enjoyable weirdness' is a good way to put it. It was mostly absent from Killa Season but Public Enemy had lots of it.. Now I don't really check for him as the spark seems gone.

Ghostface is a similar one for me, in that the less weird quirks there are (replaced by gangster songs and more gangster songs!!) the less interesting they become. The unintentional (or intentional?) peculiarities of their character is part of what made them special..