I love Life is Good, Stillmatic, and God's Son, too and I agree that those are the next 3 best in his catalogue after Illmatic and IWW. But even those three albums are far from perfect. There's at least a few duds on every one of them. A little bloated.


IWW was just ridiculous. It still is.
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>I don’t know....his second tier of Life Is Good, Stillmatic,
>God’s Son....shit I liked Untitled and Street’s Disciple
>quite a bit too. Plus Lost Tapes.
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>It’s too bad that I Am....got messed up. The original
>version would’ve given him 3 all timers IMO. Instead of one
>incredible album, it became a “decent” album that was a
>big step down, and then his worst album. Really killed his
>momentum and altered the perception of how many view his
>career.