kinda depend on how you feel about 'bad' songs. With CDs before and iPods now, there's no reason to listen to 'bad' songs on albums like those...so, to me...it comes down to how good you feel about the songs you like.

Volume 1...good lord! The good songs are like Super Reasonable Doubt: Gold Edition.

Volume 2...slept on nowadays...it sold so much and the hits got played out. Sometimes that is enough to change opinions when history is being rewritten. The 98 Rough Riderism of the album didn't age amazingly, but there's still songs where he went in.

Volume 3...I wonder how this one would've come out had it not leaked. Half hits. Half 'let me rap' songs. It IS bad when songs fit in one bucket or the other and only a few can go in both.

Jimaveli