Whew, this is tough. I've got lots of choices....but this one from 1988 is probably the most significant. No, it's not the best, but it's one that made an IMPACT the first time I heard it, and has done so over and over again throughout my life.
Bass! How low can you go?
Death row. What a brother knows.
Once again back is the incredible
the thyme animal
the incredible, D, Public Enemy Number One
"Five O" said "Freeze!" and I got numb
Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun
Now they got me in a cell 'cause my records they sell
'Cause a brother like me said "Well...
...Frarrakhan's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to
what he can say to you, what you ought to do."
Follow for now, power of the people, say,
"Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical"
Black is back, all in, we're gonna win
Check it out, yeah y'all, here we go again
Chuck D of Public Enemy
"Bring The Noise" from
"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"