I maintain that Andre 3k is largely overrated because New Yorkers decided they needed one non-east/west coast rapper to round out their top ten list and settled on him. Same way New Yorkers will blindly say The Score is a classic album when they either didn't heard it or can't name 3 songs from it. Solely because The Source told them it's a classic and he did a classic track with Jay/Kanye/Beans.
Ask these people to name an Andre verse they think it's top ten worthy. They can't. Hell the brilliance of the Kanye track is that it gave them the answer to that question. Now they get to say "oh man did you hear that verse on the Kanye record?" East coast frauds.