With Hip-Hop turning 50 years old this year, there have been no shortages of lists examining the genre from a multitude of perspectives. Today, Rolling Stone has rolled out what they determine to be their "100 Best East Coast Rap Songs."

The entire top 10 is marked by timeless Hip-Hop artists — except for the surprise addition of Bobby Schmurda's "Hot N*gga" — which came out in 2014, and sits in the tenth position.

That song is followed by Lauryn Hill's "Lost Ones," Mobb Deep's "Shook One's Part II," De La Soul's "Plug Tunin'," Jay-Z's "So Ghetto," Eric B & Rakim's "Eric B. Is President," Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five's "The Message," Biggie's "Juicy," Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause," and finally, Wu-Tang's "C.R.E.A.M."

On "C.R.E.A.M.": In this song, built from the piano trill of the Charmels’ “As Long As I’ve Got You,” Wu-Tang MVPs Raekwon and Inspectah Deck reminisce on hardscrabble childhoods as Method Man spits the instantly infectious hook spelling out the title’s acronym: “Cash rules everything around me, cream get the money, dollar dollar bill, y’all.” RZA first laid the foundation for “C.R.E.A.M.” in his Stapleton Houses apartment studio in Staten Island as an early demo. And its reverberations shockwaved throughout an early Nineties hip-hop culture then dominated by the G-funk sound of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Prior to the debut albums of Nas and the Notorious B.I.G. in 1994, Wu-Tang reclaimed “the crime side, The New York Times side” of NYC as a center of focal attention.

“Meth came up with the hook, but our dude named Raider Ruckus — this was like Meth’s homeboy back then, like they was real close — he came up with the phrase ‘cash rules everything around me’, ” Raekwon told Complex in 2011. The Wu-Tang wordsmiths’ minute details — fire escapes, ball courts, incarceration, smoking weed in staircases, depression — make this rap classic a microcosm of inner-city blues for the ages