5. Public Enemy - "Bring The Noise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Jeyif7bB4 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back wasn't just the name of Public Enemy's sophomore album, it was a rallying cry for the rap group who felt that touchy music journalists and ignorant politicians were part of the "millions of motherf*ckers" stopping them from "getting what we need to get." Chuck D wasn't having that, and he responded with his group's defining anthem, "Bring the Noise." The song focused on the common attack that Public Enemy didn't make music, they just made noise. Talking to Rolling Stone about the song's importance, Chuck D said:
"If they're calling my music 'noise,' if they're saying that I'm really getting out of character being a black person in America, then fine - I'm bringing more noise."
Of course, anyone moderately versed in rap history knows that the calling Public Enemy, one of the most legendary groups of any genre, the ambassadors of "noise" is absurd. Fortunately those critics existed at the time though, because they unknowingly helped fuel one of the most influential acts of all time.