Weekly Countdown: Five of Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs

Hip-hop has garnered its fair share of fickle hate from people everywhere, the oppressors of the genre claiming that it takes zero skill to spout off line after line of clever internal rhyme and create some of the most beautifully bleak urban imagery ever heard in music. Others will defend the genre's "golden age", and dismiss the more modern workings as pure garbage. I understand that music in itself is entirely subjective; you decide what you enjoy and what you don't, and if you don't like rap, that's your decision. But give the genre's finest a spin; maybe it'll change your mind.

5. Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke



4. Jay-Z - 99 Problems



3. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)



2. OutKast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)



1. Nas - N.Y. State of Mind