I personally think most West Coast rap is overrated. Not to say all of it was bad, but it was the most popular back in the early/mid 90's and like any genre of music it was also the most mainstream. While many corny albums were being made about the same old shit, Biggie was making his cinematicesque autobiographical Ready to Die, Nas was making the second best rap album of all time, Illmatic, And not to mention Public Enemy's great art of samples combined wit htheir great raps. A Tribe Called Quest was also there making great albums like The Low End Theory and who could forget the Wu-Tang Clan around the same time. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, GZA's Liquid Swords, And especially Ghostface Killah's albums, my favorite being Fishscale. Ghostface Killah's probably one of the most underrated MC's around. Jay-Z is also one of the greats, especially for today, and some of that goes towards Kanye's credit as an excellent producer.