After a discussion about the Fugees' The Score as a classic album, we started to consider what other albums released afterwards could be deemed as classics. So this is the first in a mini-series we are calling 'the last great hip hop album'.

When Mos Def and Talib Kweli first appeared on some early Rawkus releases, you could see the talent both held, but 'Fortified Live' and the freestyle on Soundbombing didn't compare with what was to come 29 September, 1998, when their eponymous first (and to this date, only) album dropped.