Hip-Hop has always been political.

From the organization of community jams in the Bronx to the topicality of songs like "The Message" and "Problems Of the World," Hip-Hop's soul is forever tied to the kind of commentary that sprung from the streets.

In the late 1980s, the political Hip-Hop of artists like Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions served to reawaken the Black consciousness in mainstream American culture. The rise of Public Enemy announced a new generation of post-civil rights era Black voices, born of economic disenfranchisement and politicized policing of the Reagan era. That ethos has run throughout rap music and Hip-Hop culture in the decades since, and some of the greatest political songs of the past 35 years have come from Hip-Hop artists.

So here are the 25 Dopest political rap songs.

And yeah--you're probably thinking "Waitaminute, if this is supposed to be the TWENTY-FIVE Dopest Political Rap Songs, why are there TWENTY-SIX listed?"

Because we can do what the fuck we want. Fight the power.