His earlier shit was fire. It's All on U Vol 1 and 2 as well as the original Chopper City were classics in my opinion.
His storytelling and content were better as well. You could tell he had seen and done a lot even as a teenager and he put it in his rhymes. When CMR blew up in the mainstream he started rapping more about material shit and changed up his style a bit they was probably trying to capitalize off the 400 Degreez success.
I wasn't feeling Checkmate as much it was obvious him and Baby was beefing by that point and he was on The outs with CMR.
As Gizzle got older his flow was slower and more lazy but still great storytelling imo. I wasn't feeling Living Legend as much though. Personally, I thought Life After Cash Money while not a classic was criminally underrated. That might have been the most slept on album of 2004.
The Heart of the Streetz albums weren't up to the level, I expect from him but they were gritty. They really didn't get hardly any promotion and it was apparently homie was struggling with a drug habit and being displaced from his home. They were released around the time Hurricane Katrina hit and I think he went and lived in Detroit for a time. Too Hood to Be Hollywood seemed thrown together and not a real B.G. project.
I also preferred his sound when he had those N.O. cats like Mannie Fresh while he was on CMR and KLC, C-Los, and Bass Heavy post CMR doing his production. They knew how to pick the right beat and ish to match his flow he lost some of that as he branched out.
Gizzle probably had the most potential of all the CMR cats in my opinion even more than Wayne and Juvie, but he didn't have the right people in his corner.