This track was an instrumental that was already regarded as a hip-hop classic by the time "Let Me Clear My Throat" was recorded.

The album is often hailed as a hip-hop classic by many fans.

Rhyme Related was released 1999, and is widely regarded as a hip-hop classic.

Rolling Stone awarded the album the highest position on their end of the year record list and hailed it as a "sweepingly generous, absurdly virtuosic hip-hop classic."

The occasion was the 10th anniversary of Jay-Z's debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," which is now widely - and properly - celebrated as a hip-hop classic.

That album, his fourth, is an unlikely hip-hop classic, full of oddball mixtape favorites and ludicrous not-quite-pop songs.

Austin Chronicle named the album "The first hip-hop classic of the new millennium."

The next song, "The Fix," recycles a keyboard effect from a hip-hop classic, "The Message."

The review also goes on to say that the album "is no hip-hop classic, but rather the breath of fresh air rap needs."

"Dear Hip Hop" by Dan-e-o is considered a Canadian hip-hop classic.