His first album still stands the test of time and is a classic he broke barriers for cacs and gave us many many many entertaining moments he has released alot of garbage along with great music but the entire scope of his career allows him to be called a legend in hip-hop he is highly respected by his peers and probably is still the only white boy to get played in the hood at a time where hood negroes opinions mattered musically. He is a extremely flawed human being and easily criticised but u cannot take away his hip-hop contributions