| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 4 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 101 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| 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) | 18 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
