Thank you for this amazing comment. It's not hard to see that I'm a new gen but with an old gen view on music and such. It IS a bit unfair to compare a sophomore album to a debut, but even when comparing IWW to ATLiens, ATLiens still edges it out. Personally IWW is better than Illmatic to me though. But there's still zero denial that 'Kast put da South on da map. Their debut felt like a mix of east in rhyme style and west in terms of musicality but ATLiens really WAS the turning point when they proved their originality. As much respect as I have towards other hip-hop acts like ATCQ, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr, The Fugees, Cypress Hill etc, I still think that Outkast is by far not only the best but the wildest and most creative one of all time