What are your favorite officially released compilation EP/album/mixtape of leaks and leftovers?

This mixtape was the soundtrack to COVID 2020 for me.

Some of my favorite C3 era songs. Wish they included more of the leaks but sample clearance was probably an issue.

When I was first getting into Hip-Hop this was one of two Nas albums that people told me were must listens (besides Illmatic). For good reason.

Lesser known than the rest probably but I really like this mixtape. The early version of "Front Back" with an additional TI/Bun B back and forth verse in place of Pimp C, and the solo version of "Live In The Sky" were highlights for me. King is my favorite TI album and this tape was a great companion to that album. TI really handled the premature leak well in my opinion.

Lebron's greatest contribution to Hip-Hop, besides Forever.

What are some other notable Leftover/Leak compilations?

Untitled, Unmastered.

UU was so good man

Untitled Unmastered is a lowkey classic

UU better than a lot of rappers full fledged albums

Lost Tapes is prob top 3 Nas to me as well

not lowkey at all

It almost never gets brought up alongside GKMC, DAMN, and TPAB. Even here

I know because I'm the guy who brings it up

Blue Faces gets mentioned a lot

I got into hip-hop seriously, like a student of it, mid/late 2000's. back then it was unanimously his second best album from everyone I would talk to.

i don’t know if this counts but Lil Yachty’s B4 DA BOAT series on soundcloud was a special time

DLDT and the leak classics