For hip-hop audiophiles, this release belongs alongside Illmatic (XX remaster), The Chronic (2001 remaster), and Enter the Wu-Tang (2013 remaster) as a lossless essential.
Hip-hop in the early 90s was built on the "dusty" aesthetic—saturated samples, heavy kicks, and crackling vinyl loops. While MP3s compress these sounds, stripping away the "air" around the instruments, a preserves every bit of data from the original studio master tapes. notorious big ready to die remaster flac