Eric B. & Rakim
Follow the Leader





Release Year: 1988

Rankings:
All-Time #1510 / 1980s #216 / 1988 #20

Genres: East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
Parent Genres: Hip Hop


Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update) 1-1001
Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) 57
Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017) 901-1000
Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002) No Order
NME (UK) - NME Rock Years, Single of the Year 1963-99 (2000) No Order
NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014) 151
Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006) No Order
Uncut (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles from the Post-Punk Era (2001) 69
Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999) 4
Neon (Germany) - Die 222 besten Songs aller Zeiten [The 222 Best Songs of All Time] (2008) No Order
Hervïŋ― Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012 No Order
Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) 33
End of Year Lists
Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year 9
Melody Maker (UK) - Singles of the Year 11
NME (UK) - Singles of the Year 13
Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year 3
Rock de Lux (Spain) - Songs of the Year 11