Just my .02. I like Wayne, have liked his music since get off the corner. I thought back then his music was a lot better, but that's just my opinion. His recent music which is the Carter series to me only has one classic album and that's the Carter 1. The Carter 2 was damn near great but had some weird songs on it. The Carter 3 was hot trash, nothing but radio shit on there, when he had T-Painintheears on that track which was like the second single I was already pissed.
Weezy has talent, but his substance is gone, mainly because dude from Philly stopped writing for him. I like his recent songs but nothing he's put out since the Carter 1 is something that I would play today, and that imho is what a classic is. Every top artist has atleast 1 classic album and the greats have more than one.
(Couple examples)
DMX-first 3 albums all fire
50-Guess who's back, Get Rich, massacre minue like 4 songs
Kanye-College Dropout, Late reg, Graduation
Jay Z-Everything up to blueprint 2, and then American Gangster
Weezy-Carter 1, some of 2
He's still young, and he's got that poison out of his system, you can even hear it when he talks before the song, his speech is faster and more understandable. Now even if he had ppl writing for him you gotta think some of that shit has to sink in and if it did, then he could be a monster.