Not only on Dogg Food but he spit FLAMES up until, like, 1999, then like you said for some reason just started spitting complete, rambling garbage. He was basically rhyming the same 3 words over and over for like a solid 5 or 6 years.

He's had a little bit of a late career resurgence though, to be fair. His work on the DJ Quik collab album, Murs/9th's last album, and some of the random stuff I've heard him on in the last 2 or 3 years (that Pete Rock produced track comes to mind) have been pretty damn good and somewhat back to form. Still not as lethal and dominating as he once was, though.

He was literally the best doing it in the mid to late 90s IMO.