Understand, Com Sense is my favorite MC, but this is my favorie album. I was like 13 or 14 when this dropped and prior to this album I payed little attention to what was said in a song. Lyrically, and for a debut, this is off the chain! It changed how I listen to hip-hop, "The Chronic" is the only other album that can really say that because before I got it I didn't listen to hip-hop. "Ressurection" and "One Day..." opened me up to a different style of hip-hop, though, I'll give it that, and it is a classic, but it isn't better than "Illmatic". <P>peace <P>"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"-Nasty Nas<P>"I got a rhyme and you got a rhyme/but my rhyme is better than yours"-Com Sense