because generally speaking very few good top-to-bottom albums...
a ton of wasted production (don't get me started)...
not even many great songs to be quite honest...

but you hear people talk about them now like they were motown or death row records or some shit.

go compare paid in full ost to above the rim... i dare you.

paid in full probably doesn't even compare well to gridlock'd.

and people interviewing young guru in 2016?

young guru was such a shitty engineer people shouldn't even know who he is -- people only do because shawn knowles said his name on a few records.

and same goes for everything roc-a-fella being lauded in retrospect... association with somebody ultra rich who eclipsed his initial role 100x thus raising the profile of everything he was associated with before the new status.

it's like when a lead singer goes solo and people started talking about the band they recorded a few albums with 5 years earlier that nobody fucked with... billy idol for example.

anyway, please stop talking about 99-04 roc-a-fella in hushed tones.

it was really a lot of hot air and very very few great moments.

<- way before hashtags.