I get what you are saying...Cube's decline was really gradual. Nas went from IWW to the Firm albumWell yeah he made a comeback but th album isn't worthy of you attaching it to his prime run tbh.
Any of Cubes albums between 1988-1996 are better except Bow Down which is roughly equal.

That being said, we don't talk about Cube making a dramatic return to form.

His albums slowly declined. I guess you could say he got a little spark with Bow Down

But he hadn't dropped anything really bad before that. He was just inspired to shyt on the east coast

Then We Be Clubbing dropped and it was clear things had changed. We were in the Don Mega era

That's the reason that I call it a second peak for Nas...of course Stillmatic wasn't as good as Illmatic.
