A few comrades of mine suspect this was his big money album so that he could fund his real interests (i.e. more rap), which is fair enough. From his other work, you can see that his interest in making souly sounding music is cursory.
However, as with everything, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and just because it was squeezed out like a factory making sausages in an act of naked commercialism, it doesn't mean there are not some very strong tracks on it.