The Slim Shady LP & The Eminem Show - Eminem

The Chronic - Dr. Dre
Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

Classics, paragons of 90s west coast

Illmatic - NAS
Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z

The ying to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's yang, these 4 albums are classics.

After those I would expand to...
3 Feet High & Rising - De La Soul
Marshall Mathers LP/Slim Shady LP - Eminem (cool in the way American Psycho is an awesome movie)
College Dropout - Kanye West (I hate who Kanye is, but his first album is great)
36 Chambers - Wu Tang
2001 - Dr. Dre

There are a lot of good rap albums, but those are without a doubt my favorite

A Piece Of Strange is fantastic.

Being a big-time Hip-Hop head AND from Atlanta, I can honestly say I've never listened to an entire Cunninlynguists album. I've heard a couple songs here and there, but nothing super amazing.
I guess I'll give A Piece of Strange a try.

No talk about SouthernUnderground? Some of the best CunninLynguists songs are on that record.

You wont be dissapointed i promise

I'm not so sure. The couple songs I've heard from them were kind of boring.

Kno's production

Kno's production on Dirty Acres is pretty awesome. Too bad he's the weak link when it comes to rappin.

GZA - Liquid Swords
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
Mos Def & Talib Kweli are... - Black Star
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Mr Lif - I Phantom/ Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst