Lean With It Rock With It is garbage, I agree, but their album is much better than their singles, and their first album was very solid too, of course both albums are good if you're lookin for some crunk shit, not for lyrics
BTW what's the difference between the goofy party raps from the 80s and snap and hyphy music? Besides the difference between the 80s and the 2000s? Of course we hear more about rimz and bitches now, but that's because shit got much more materialistic in general (and I don't mean just hip-hop, 20 years are a lot of time and the world and the way people think has changed a lot; so has music); other than that it's all the same type of party and club music and I'm sure most of y'all started listening to hip-hop because of that, not because of Mos Def. These guys are not the greatest lyricist, neither the greatest beatmakers we've ever heard, but their music has that feel that's lost in most of today's hip-hop or at least I can hear it in it and I can't hear it in Jedi Mind Tricks or whatever great lyrical group you claim is the shit.