I've never consired BE as a classic and I still don't.
I like that album very much, but I think this album is a new direction of common, but therefore I wouldn't call it a classic.
A (hip hop) classic, for me, is a album which reflects the position of hip hop in a very significant way (in my opinion).
Look at 36 Chambers, Illmatic, The Big Picture, Doggystyle, Eternal Reflection, Things Fall Apart...
As is said, Be is a very nice piece of common and I like it, but it does not reach these "standards".
If it was a classic, you would not have to ask the question, whether this album "still" is a classic or not. Classcis, stay classics.


(constructive critism??)