Every time I listen to 2Pac's Greatest Hits I'm amazed at how fucking unbelievable the double disc is. Between capturing all of his iconic songs and so many other well respected cuts, it also premiered songs that undoubtedly would have belonged on the compilation anyway (one of my pet peeves with greatest hits albums is they usually require at least a lead single to promote it and then a few other new tracks as well that end up not deserving to be near an artists "greatest" work).

Typically greatest hits albums are just a compilation of artists' singles which often times leaves off some of their best songs and leaves on songs that aren't really that great in quality, just popular. This hurts hip hop greatest hits compilations I feel since a lot of artists' best songs are really radio friendly and can't be singles.

This post was inspired by the Gang Starr discussion(s) today which led me to throwing on their greatest hits which I also love.

So besides 2Pac and Gang Starr what are some other greatest hits albums from hip hop acts that definitely do justice to the artist's catalog? OutKast got one right, that's where "The Whole World" came from, no?