And neither Uncut Dope nor Greatest Hits are clear-cut first stops. Choosing where to go first with this group is a tough call: The Geto Boys is the group's best album, but going with that leaves one without some of the group's best material.

Furthermore, this disc has five more tracks and has better sound quality - naturally so since it was released ten years after Uncut Dope. Those three albums were more patchy than the ones that came before them - with the exception of Making Trouble - and none of the highlights from them are of the caliber of earlier tracks like 'Mind of a Lunatic,' 'My Mind Playing Tricks on Me,' and 'Trigga Happy Nigga.' So, going strictly by pound-for-pound quality, Uncut Dope is the better of the two, but it's not as if later tracks like 'Six Feet Deep,' 'The World Is a Geto,' and 'Gangsta (Put Me Down)' are entirely undeserving of anthology status. After low album sales, Rap-a-Lot Records founder J. Featuring founding members The Sire Jukebox, DJ Ready Red, Prince Johnny C, and Bushwick Bill, the group released its debut album, Making Trouble, in 1988. The first, Uncut Dope, covered the group through 1991's We Can't Be Stopped this opens it up to include tracks from 1993's Till Death Do Us Part, 1996's Resurrection, and 1998's Da Good da Bad & da Ugly. With their politically minded and often controversial songs, Houston gangsta-rap pioneers Geto Boys put Southern hip-hop on the map. This is a second and more inclusive package of the Geto Boys' best moments.

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