I'd say get Ready to Die and Life After Death and hear them in that order. In a way they're both concept albums, sort of a semi-autobiography that incorporates a lot of fiction and godfather like crime drama. Getting out of jail going from a nobody to a rap superstar, attemping to kill himself and then getting back to his old ways with his new rich and powerful status before getting assasinated. At least that's how I understood the loose narrative.
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