The album that made me fall in love with Hip-Hop

The first album that made me fall in love with hip-hop was Snoop Dogg's (back when he was Snoop Doggy Dogg) Doggystyle album. I wasn't a big fan of hip-hop prior to that album. I was heavy into reggae music because that's what I was raised on due to my Jamaican heritage. I used to walk to my cousin's house to watch hip-hop music videos because we didn't have cable. And down here in Miami they played alot of bass booty music so I used to dance to hip-hop and dance hip-hop music, but I wasn't hooked on it until my brother came home with some certified dope in the form of music.
I remember it was during a summer, and I was still too young to be out past the cutting on of the street light. My brother got a copy of Doggystyle made on cassette tape from a friend who's older brother had the album on CD. My brother played the album for about two weeks, and just put it down. He always used to just listen to the singles until he got tired of the album and not pay any attention to what else was on an album. He's long since broken away from that, but when I picked it up and popped it in, it was a rap. I, Sain't N.I.C became a hip-hop junkie!
I was caught up in the flow and the way Snoop did his thing on each of the records. The production was something I never heard anywhere else at the time. I couldn't get enough of that album. I bumbed that album until the tape popped. I patched that bitch up again and played it until it popped for the second and final time.
Since then, I've listened to everybody, and I mean everybody. I even went back and started listening to music before the "golden age" of hip-hop. I wanted to know who was bitting whose style. And I wanted to catch on to where styles became more sharper, and lyricsm became more complex. I wanted to see what images were being used, and also (now more recently) what business models have been used to launch the stars of then and even now.
Hip-Hop has changed a lot. Its a lot more image and attitude/swagger, than actual talent and ability. Hip-Hop is worldwide, but the audience and the corporations are asking and supplying sh*t that just doesn't have the same feeling as it did before. There's a handful of songs of the last five years that I got on my iPod, and those songs I only listen to when I need to get crunk for a workout at the gym or if I'm at the club. Rappers now-a-days may have their business game right, but on some real sh*t, its not helping to make Hip-Hop/Rap interesting or even actual. Get your money but at what expense?

Any way...What album made you fall in love with Hip-Hop?