And since when does an album have to have no skips in order to be a classic?
All Eyez On Me and Ready To Die both have a skip or two
Don't ya'll change the criteria for Nas
Yup, or even Stillmatic. I consider it a 4.5 mic classic. Same for the Blueprint.
They're not strong enough to get the original Source 5 mic rating, but they are classics nonetheless, they represent a moment in Hip-hop and they've got a lot of classic tracks on it, despite the filler.
RTD is a 5 mic classic to me though. The Source didnt have to give the 5 mics to sooooo many albums when they revisited their ratings, but RTD, The Chronic and Doggystyle deserved 5 mics back when they were released. The reviewers just didn't expect these albums impacts when they wrote their reviews.