For starters, I have always seen Stillmatic and God's Son as "good" albums but not great.

With that said, I decided to take a look at Nas' output from that time frame a little closer.

Stillmatic was released December 2001 and God's Son was released December 2002 with The Lost Tapes in between.

Everyone knows that as great as Nas is, if he had a better Executive Producer throughout his career, his place at the top would be undeniable.

Let's look at this '01-'02 time frame and make this the double album that I Am should've been and Street's Disciple wasn't.

DISC ONE
1 Stillmatic (Intro)
2 Get Down
3 The Flyest (featuring AZ)
4 Made You Look
5 Purple
6 Got Ur Self A Gun
7 Revolutionary Warfare (featuring Lake)
8 Doo Rags
9 You're Da Man
10 Rewind
11 One Mic
12 No Idea's Original
DISC TWO
1 Thugz Mansion (featuring 2Pac)
2 My Way
3 2nd Childhood
4 Nothing Last Forever
5 Mastermind
6 Black Zombies
7 Warrior Song (featuring Alicia Keys)
8 Book Of Rhymes
9 U Gotta Love It
10 What Goes Around
11 Dance
12 Heaven

Do you realize how ill that album would have been. It maintains all of the classic Nas qualities while adding in the more original concepts like Rewind, One Mic, and Book of Rhymes as well as adding in the more musically interesting songs like Thugz Mansion, Warrior Song, and Dance. I believe he attempted to do both on Street's Disciple but took it a little too far out of his comfort zone.

I also left out Ether, Last Real N Alive and Everybody's Crazy on purpose to keep this separated from the infamous beef, outside of a few lines on You're Da Man. I don't think any of those 3 are good enough to make the cut anyway.

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The second point to this post is; when MCs started flooding the market with material every year, I believe the genre took a hit on the quality. It was always no less than 2 years in between releases back in the day.

So...we usually break double albums down to one, but are there other albums that were released within a year of each other that you feel could be turned into one complete classic?

And do you feel this would be a better option or are you cool with artists pumping out albums and mix tapes and taking the good with the bad?