That's going to be hard to say . . . it's largely to do with your taste. As you'll see above this post someone picked
Rapper Gone Bad - because Mac Dre has three distinctive stylistic reinventions over the course of his 15 year career you'll find varying
For you I am going to suggest you go straight to the source of the material you're already pleased
The Genie of the Lamp from 2004, that very same day he also released
Ronald Dregan: Dreganomics - those albums go together like night and day - they represent the start of him coming into superstar mold
Then go back to 1993 for the release of the
Young Black Brotha album . . a completely different Mac Dre but it's a classic album in a more conventional hip-hop sense. There's great cuts on there
Getting into Mac Dre's catalog is like discovering the work of The Beatles for the first time. You might brush it off the first time you hear but once you get it into it . . .