Best hip-hop/rap albums?

[React1oN]

Was wondering what everyone thought,

Nas - Illmatic
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star(got recently, pretty good).

opinions?

[UpstateNYAAonly]

capone and noreaga - the reunion
big L - the big picture
lost boyz - legal drug money
talib kweli - the beautiful struggle
mobb deep - infamous

[React1oN]

i'll check those out, keep em coming

[hra146]

Marilyn Manson - Cake and Sodomy

[Redskins5326]

Gangstarr- JFK2LAX
Prob gonna get a lot of disagreements here but The Game- Doctors Advocate
Biggie- Ready to die
Jay Z- Blueprint
Dre- Chronic

[g-p]

tupac - all eyez on me

[zombies kill]

two words-
DOCTOR OCTAGON

where else can you hear vivaldi flowing over a drum beat, scratching, and a black guy saying things like "nurse! theres a horse in the hospital!" and "you have bees flying around your rectum". simultaneously too.

and deltron 3030 obviously

[Curtrosity]

Lot of good stuff mentioned here and a good amount of garbage. Southern rap is pretty much terrible all around.

Zion I & The Grouch - Zion I & The Grouch are Heroes in the City of Dope
Jedi Mind Tricks - Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell
7L & Esoteric - DC2: Bars of Death
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe

[crzylgs]

I have no idea how Nickatina has built this rep as some sort of underrated underground rapper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjysHwZ_rs

SRSLY, LOL.

[Tiburon]

Ya, Nickatina Says does suck, I don't know why it's considered one of his best. But check out some of his other stuff, its good.