If you condense ‘Reasonable Doubt’ down to an ‘Illmatic’ size track list … what tracks would you take off and would it be better than Illmatic?

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RTD sold more first week than Illmatic? 🤔
Ready To Die went gold in two months and was already platinum by early 1995
Illmatic didn't go gold until January of 1996 and didn't go platinum until December of 2001
 

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RTD sold more first week than Illmatic? 🤔
Like I said, they both sold the same in their first week but RTD's hits kept its sales steady while Illmatic didn't have hits

Non-established artists always had low first week sales back then. Albums were growers
 

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Ready To Die went gold in two months and was already platinum by early 1995
Illmatic didn't go gold until January of 1996 and didn't go platinum until December of 2001

Answer the question I asked 😭
 

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Puff was just a very smart man leaning on sampling past hits. It is what it is.
 
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No cap, until this thread, I never realized illmatic moved more (60k) units than RTD (57k) first week.

RTD was obviously the more commercially successful album
 
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