If you were born in '85, then you were 6-7 years old when Reggie dropped WTA.
That album changed the landscape for Def Jam, and Hip Hop. The Source was credible in 1992. We know what happened to the magazine after '94. It wasn't seen the same way anymore, and most heads stopped taking it seriously after classics started getting mad low mics. Labels were literally buying mics in the mid-90's to help their albums sell. So we can't speak on classics and then refer to The Source anymore. We all know what was going on with it back then.
They would get mad at artists who didn't show up for interviews and then drop their albums a mic or two on some personal sh*t. Later on, writers admitted that this was going on because certain MC's snubbed them. So nah, The Source was done being respected for their reviews mad quick into their run. They got too gassed and f*cked it up.