Never.
The 90s was just THAT decade. The 2000s was terrible to me. 9/11. Reality TV

Bush. Recession. the only thing that was good about it was the music and even that wasn't as good compared to the 90s.
In the 2000s I was just like "hip-hop is dead" I seriously went back and started listening to 90s hip-hop exclusively again starting in 2004-2005 cause I thought rap was just getting so bad with the south taking over and the ringtone rap and the snap muzik.
No offense to any of my southern posters here,..but as a east coast/northeastern born cat I was not feeling rap after 2003 when Lil Jon took over the airwaves.
The olderI got I appreciated...but 2004-2007 was like seriously the dark ages of rap.
If it wasn't pretentious nerd rap...or I'm too good to listen to mainstream underground rappers with that lyrical spiritual miracle BS talking about "bringing real hip-hop back"...it was these "I'm not a rapper, I;'m a hustler" D boys turned rappers, 50 cent imitations rapping over bhangra, and these myspace era dudes trying to pass out their mixtapes in times squre on burned CD-rs.