100% His solo album was such a let down. After Dark and Oakland Blackouts on 3rd Eye Vision were so dope.

I think Hiero had the a very similar album trajectory as Wu-Tang (minus a Hiero group album to start things off a la 36 chambers). Those first few solo albums were amazing production wise: Souls, Extra Prolific, Casual and Del to Tical, Ironman, Cuban Linx and ODB. And then things definitely changed but were still great with 3rd Eye Vision and Wu-Tang Forever. After that things were much more inconsistent. I think Pep Love's album = Inspectah Deck's or U-God's first solo albums. I'm sure sample laws were one of the biggest reasons for this. Or maybe pro-tools giving producers too many options to sterilize the music.