No two people rank the Volumes the same only a blessed few seem to recognize that Life and Times of S. Even the top spot is so hotly debated that we had our own debate to try and settle it. Is Kingdom Come really dead last? Not if you're counting Unfinished Business. Even the obvious choices don't seem so easy when you really get down to it. It applies just as much when trying to sort that sprawling discography. "Every album's a color." Jay-Z famously compared his catalog to a Rubik's Cube, specifically in how trying to complete a new side inevitably "fucks up the other color." Since then, as his career morphed into distinct retirement and negated retirement phases, collaborative albums with everyone from Linkin Park to Kanye, concept albums and album sequels, that observation has only gotten more apt.
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