Lyrically? He's never fallen off with the lyrics.

He's never gotten better, but in terms of how he constructs his rhymes, he's never fallen lyrically. And this isn't to say that he can't make a bad song, choose a bad beat, or talk about some bullshit.

One of the keys to understanding an mc is realizing that he has a bunch of different jobs
- he has to come up with good song concepts and subjects
- he has to pick good beats - 1) that the crowd likes, 2) that he sounds good on
- has to come up with good hooks
- has to flow well
- and a lot of the good is based on context

And on top of that, the rhymes have to be tight. The syllables per line have to be right, the rhyme schemes themselves have to be interesting, the stresses on different parts of the lines have to be done well and sometimes have to emphasized and not emphasized...

There's a whole lot to being a good mc, just like there's a whole lot to making a good song.

And although this maybe a little tough to think about, as few folks here really want to think about hip hop, no one wants to break a sweat at all even, you can have good lyrical skills/good rhymes be a constant even in bad songs.

I get it that this concept of having well constructed lyrics might be some multi-variable calculus for y'all, but if you step away from the idea that skills in anyway equates to success or relevance, you can really start to appreciate hip hop on a higher level.