| 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) | 1002 |
| Blender (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Songs to Download Right Now! (2003) | No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 318 |
| Complex (USA) - The 100 Best Jay-Z Songs (2011) | 97 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 10 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 (+ 400 "See Also") Tracks of the 1990s (2010) | 157 |
| The Source (USA) - Top 151 Rap Songs of All Time (2003) | 44 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
| XXL (USA) - Top 250 Rap Songs of the '90s (2011) | 80 |
| Tsugi (France) - 100 Singles Cultes [100 Cult Singles] (2014) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Spin (USA) - Singles of the Year | 19 |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 75 |
