| 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 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005) | No Order |
| Complex (USA) - The 50 Best Notorious B.I.G. Songs (2014) | 25 |
| Consequence of Sound (USA) - Top 50 Songs of 1997 (2017) | 45 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 1 |
| The Source (USA) - Top 151 Rap Songs of All Time (2003) | 68 |
| 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) | 2 |
| Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 16 |
