| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Buy at Amazon | Sample | ||
| Yo! Bum Rush the Show | 1987 | 7 | 85 | 518 | |
Listen |
| It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 1988 | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
Listen |
| Fear of a Black Planet | 1990 | 1 | 20 | 143 | |
Listen |
| Apocalypse '91 - The Enemy Strikes Black | 1991 | 25 | 209 | 1124 | |
Listen |
| Year Rank |
Decade Rank | All Time Rank | Sample | |||
|
Rebel Without a Pause |
1987 | 9 | 56 | 372 | Listen | |
|
Bring the Noise |
1987 | 3 | 18 | 172 | Listen | |
|
Don't Believe the Hype |
1988 | 15 | 123 | 739 | Listen | |
|
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos |
1988 | 23 | 205 | 1208 | Listen | |
|
Fight the Power |
1989 | 1 | 11 | 95 | Listen | |
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Welcome to the Terrordome |
1990 | 15 | 128 | 1032 | Listen | |
|
911 Is a Joke |
1990 | 29 | 248 | 1838 | Listen | |
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Bring the Noise |
1991 | 43 | 413 | 2652 | Listen | |
|
Can't Truss It |
1991 | 27 | 262 | 1917 | Listen | |
|
Give It Up |
1994 | 57 | 411 | 2644 | | |
| Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
|
You're Gonna Get Yours | 1987 |
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| East Coast Rap |
| Golden Age |
| Hardcore Rap |
| Political Rap |