It's not hard to realize once you listen to his original Death Row era stuff and compare it to his more recent stuff. Before, his style was laid-back and more lyrical with multi-syllabic rhymes and pretty good metaphors and similes. Nowadays, his style is louder and kind of sloppy, and he tends to use the same word over and over, and Xxplosive tends to be the most accurate example. But he can still drop nice verses, and Against the Grain is a good example of that. He's still a long way from his original Death Row days, though.