Illmatic is great, maybe the best hiphop album of all time. It sucks to say but for that kind of rap, the rawness and street vibe it carries, it’s almost for the better that the artists are at a point in life where they are still struggling. You unfortunately can’t make an album like that when you have already made three big albums and live in a mansion in LA. It’s just a shame that people have to live through hell to be able to make it.