t/s: "life after death" vs "hardcore" vs "conspiracy"

Life After Death in a landslide for me, obvious answer or not. That is a good Kim album, I'll have to pull it out again to see how it measures up for me now but I remember it sounding very of-its-time whereas Biggie's geographical diversity seemed very adventurous (leisurely Too $hort, Zapp&Roger-style "Going Back to Cali", Puffy's New York big budget disco thing with "Mo Money Mo Problems" and "I Love The Dough" w/ Jay-Z pre-breakthrough {'cali' and 'dough' beats by Easy Mo Bee!}, Bone Thugs, peak-period Premier {for the inter-New York city disses}, even the throwback Schooly D cover.) and of course very very epic in a way that No Way Out (as good as it is) could never be - "Long Kiss Goodnight," (w/ RZA in ambitious super-symphonic mode), "You're Nobody Til Somebody Kills You," reflective "Sky's the Limit" with accompanying Spike Jonez vid, slow breezy carribean narration on "I Got a Story to Tell." Its one of my favorite rap albums ever.

"Conspiracy" has "Players Anthem" and "Get Money" which are classic but I can't imagine going back I'd discover too much else...prove me wrong Vahid?