First, I know not everyone feels that Illmatic is the greatest hip-hop album of all-time so please save your replies in which you tell me "Album "X" is better than Illmatic anyway".

This is a different post.

Illmatic is 10 tracks, 9 songs and 1 intro and one could make the case that it benefits from its length because it has less opportunity to get knocked off the rails with a less-than-stellar track.

So my question is, what album, if broken down to just 10 tracks (whether that's 10 songs or 9 tracks and an intro) do you feel would be better than Illmatic?

For example, are the best 10 tracks from an album like Cuban Linx better than Illmatic whereas maybe you feel the full album as it stand now isn't quite as good due to some joints that aren't straight A's?

We are obviously nitpicking here but post up what album you feel would be better and post the 10 tracks you would select.

GO!