| 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 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of 1984 (2014) | 37 |
| Shea Serrano (USA) - The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979 (2015) | No Order |
| 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) | 16 |
| Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999) | No Order |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 4 |