he's a neither...
lyrically an above-average emcee, and sometimes will surprise you with a verse or two...
but again he's falling short in to many other categories to be considered a top 100 hip-hop act of all-time, the other members of Def Squad-Erick Sermon and Redman and of the Hit Squad-EPMD and Das EFX all surpass him...he's last IMO in both collectives, not including that dude Jamal....
neither easily for me!