Actually it's not bait, it's true. Just that his classic, good, and great music is classic, good, and great as hell, so we can easily ignore his bullshit.

But yeah, since the 90's hit, he's been putting out a million albums, and most just has skippable filler. I'll put it this way...if all the music he made since the Symbol era was from a completely new artist, nobody would have cared about much of it. He has made a few great album cuts and some dope singles like Black Sweat and Musicology, but as a whole, a lot of that shit was completely disposable to his old AND young fans, period.

Why else is it that when you went to his concert series in Inglewood, 90% of the tracks were from the 80's??? Thing is, people didn't lose interest in him because of all the shit he put out...they still enjoyed his 80's shit as if it was new, so it never affected his legacy much.