I consider Nate top 10 MC.
It's a very contraversial opinion but I can't think of a song that he's on that I don't like.
Even when I don't really like the dude rhyming that much, if Nate's lacing it then I roll with it.
But look at Regulate. I would say he was definitely spitting. There was no hook.
He has more shyt like that where he does a verse (as well as the hook).
But he is DEFINITELY the king of the hooks.
And one of my favorite spitters period.