>Interesting take...I love Pete and CL as a group, but I get
>it. I think a lot of what you speak to can be chalked up to
>that time period, which included many more, for lack of better
>term, playful type MC's who were just rhyming to rhyme slick
>words...cats like Das Efx, Nice and Smooth, and Lords of the
>Underground are some other examples...

serious all the time, his body language was from the Rakim school. So he was spitting playful raps, but his demeanor didn't match that at all.
And why the bounciest track on "Mecca and the Soul Brother" the Pete Rock solo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOIhdHp9yM

CL should have tried his hand at some of Pete's bouncier tracks. He'd be more memorable if all his verses didn't so damn similar.