| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 5 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 101 |
| QuestLove (USA) - 50 Favorite Songs (2012) | 22 |
| The Source (USA) - The 100 Best Rap Singles of All Time (1998) | No Order |
| The Source (USA) - Top 151 Rap Songs of All Time (2003) | 43 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 33 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 50 |