Ready To Die.
1) I grew up with the other three albums and they are classics. I only heard Ready or Die later in my life. All the serious hip hop guys didn't really bump Biggie or his friends - we were more NAS/Wu Tang kind of guys and of course spent our earliest childhood with NWA and Ice Cube, so Chronic has to stay. I didn't hear R2D until I spent more time with my pop-centric sister and her friends. My friends were listening to Mos Def, GZA, the Roots, etc, and all my sister had for hip hop was this one biggie album and some bouncy pop rap shit - it was mixed in with Jessica Simpson, Monica, and Sugar Ray.
I liked it.
2) Puffy