I think he might, or at least he made it seem that way. He straight up dissed Relapse on Recovery, saying that last Relapse cd was ehhhh, and my last cd's in the trash
but on Careful What You Wish For, before he had this revelation that the Relapse material was so bad, he stated that in a few years Encore would be Illmatic, so clearly he wasn't dissing Encore there.
Thoughts?