You're a little bit behind 33...:sigh:...kidding (not really).
That album is a classic, back to the golden age. That's the era I grew up in, and why I am forever enamoured with hip hop.
Nowadays, you must put your ear to the street to get the real stuff. Everything on the radio and in the clubs, for the most part, is a bunch of fake gangsta, auto-tune nonsense. For making money, it's perfect, but for pushing the art of hip hop forward, it does nothing.
Lately I reach mostly for Roots Manuva, Das Racist, my Gangstarr collection (RIP Guru), Dizzee Rascal, Mos Def and a few others. Try out some of those names and you may be surprised when they actually have something real and intelligent to say to you.
Oh and BTW... just to bring you up to snuff, rap is a component of hip hop. Rapping is what you do and hip hop is the culture as a whole. OK Audi like 5 G's....peace.