Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
I completely agree, those uptempo NJS tracks on the 2 first albums are instant skips. By the time The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel dropped in 1995 NJS was no longer a thing and they found the perfect balance of slow jams with mid tempo grooves like "Bring On Da Funk" and "Get On Up". That album is a classic to me with no skipped tracks (except all those damn interludes and skits).
Yes.
There is...an understanding...that the first two albums are “classics”.
Albums can be “classics” without being “masterpieces”.
The third is the best album from top-to-bottom imo, though it somehow does not have
the classic status the first two have.

memories courtesy of that track