why did you take the time to learn anything about tech 9? he's beyond contrived and has never had the ability to turn being able to spit into making good songs
He had that ability but he lost it somewhere around the turn of the century.
[video=youtube;xYpu9bKWR5g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYpu9bKWR5g[/video]
But for some strange reasons, there tracks are rarely talked aobut when how great Tech N9ne is is discussed when as you mostly correctly point out, after that he released very little listenable material.
Regarding Lil B, the trap tracks are indeed his best but that's because he has had such good beats for some of them and has combined them with so-bad-it's-almost-good raps that sound as a parody of the industry, that it somehow ends up being enjoyable. The Clams Casino beats also can have that effect but they have to be really good for it to work. Everything else is really boring and often outright annoying to listen to simply because, face it, dude would do well to put some actual effort into his raps.