Mostly because of the trash he dropped to follow it up. I appreciate this album a lot more because there was barely any blatant attempt at radio friendly BS, and he just kept a pretty solid theme throughout.

Those that call it a "concept album" I still think are giving it a little too much credit, which is why I always trashed this album around here. But like I said, I've snice come around and now appreciate it for the solid effort that it is.

I wouldn't come anywhere close to calling it on par with Blueprint personally, Black Album either I don't think. But it is definitely a very solid album.