Rolling Stone: Questlove's Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time

Rebel Without a Pause

Public Enemy (1988)

Rapper's Delight

Sugar Hill Gang (1995)

Fuck tha Police

N.W.A (2015)

Buddy (feat. Jungle Brothers & Q-Tip)

De La Soul (1989)

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1982)

My Adidas

Run-DMC (1986)

Hold It Now, Hit It

Beastie Boys (1986)

Fight the Power

Public Enemy (1990)

La-Di-da-Di

Doug E. Fresh (1986)

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five (2003)

Nuthin' But A "G" Thang

Dr. Dre (1992)

Rock Box

Run-DMC (1984)

My Mind Playin Tricks on Me

Geto Boys (1992)

I Need Love

LL COOL J (1986)

Protect Ya Neck

Wu-Tang Clan (2008)

Flava in Ya Ear (Remix) [feat. Rampage, Busta Rhymes, The Notorious B.I.G. & LL Cool J]

Craig Mack (1993)

The Humpty Dance

Digital Underground (1990)

Raw (Remix)

Big Daddy Kane (1988)

O.P.P

Naughty By Nature (1991)

The 900 Number (feat. Lakim Shabazz) [Lakim Shabazz Acapella]

The 45 King (1986)

I Used to Love H.E.R.

Common (1994)

Thuggish Ruggish Bone

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (1994)

The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)

Black Sheep (1991)

How I Could Just Kill a Man

Cypress Hill (1991)

Just a Friend

Biz Markie (1988)

They Want EFX

Das EFX (1992)

Welcome to the Terrordome

Public Enemy (1990)

Shook Ones, Part II

Mobb Deep (2000)

Top Billin (Acapella)

Audio Two (1987)

Passin' Me By

The Pharcyde (1992)

Roxanne, Roxanne

UTFO (1985)

Fuck Compton

Tim Dog (1999)

They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

Pete Rock

Ego Trippin' (12" Version)

Ultramagnetic MC's (2018)

You Gots To Chill

EPMD (1988)

Pump Me Up

Trouble Funk (1999)

Shut Em Down (Pete Rock remix)

Public Enemy (2003)

Dwyck (feat. Nice & Smooth)

Gang Starr (1994)

Bonita Applebum

A Tribe Called Quest (2015)

The Bridge Is Over

Boogie Down Productions (1987)

Amerikkka's Most Wanted

Ice Cube (2005)

Change the Style (feat. No Self Control and the Band)

Son of Bazerk (1991)