I think its funny you listen to music from then, and even the mediocre to bad stuff shits on the stuff on the radio now. They played Lil Bow Wow on the throwback mix on the radio the other day and that crap is light years better then the wiz khalifa garbage they played ten minutes earlier.
I blame Nelly for these powder puffs like Drake, J-Cole, Big Sean, etc. They have a different sound of course but he was the one that really made that soft guy persona cool in rap music.