Last week some deadest legend graced the Internet with an unspeakably beautiful artistic rendering of the rap god himself, Eminem, painted flawlessly in [mom’s] spaghetti sauce.

The inspiration for this unprecedented achievement being, of course, the most iconic line (“His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy…”) from the most iconic pump-up track of the 21st century: ‘Lose Yourself’.

Immortalised on motivational playlists worldwide, blasted in locker rooms, and funneled via loudspeaker into sports arenas in those few tense minutes between play, the record from Eminem’s semi-autobiographical 8 Mile film has been with us a long, long time. 15 years out and there is still no denying its invulnerability as the crown jewel of that upper echelon of hype tracks, alongside the adrenaline surge of cuts like ‘Till I Collapse’ and Mike Shinoda’s epic ‘Remember The Name’.

But there’s more than ‘Lose Yourself’ in the world, which is why we’ve compiled a list of ten more songs to add to that tried and true pump-up playlist. To avoid the obvious classics and keep things fresh, we’ve limited this list to music released in the 2010s (yes, we know you downloaded Kanye West’s ‘Stronger’ back in 2007 – we did too).

Here are ten big ones to inspire greatness, make you feel like an absolute legend, maybe even just to make it through the Australian winter. Try ‘em on for size.

Travi$ Scott – Don’t Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhLccjeHYI

Long before Travi$ Scott was achieving heavy radio play with ‘Antidote’, people were catching wind of his production talents via ‘Don’t Play,’ a single that preceded Days Before Rodeo in July of 2014. If anyone doubted the Houston-born rapper’s prodigal production abilities before its release, the fact that he managed to incorporate a sample from English alt-rock band The 1975 into a high-energy club banger should have been enough to change their minds. Few tracks are able to deliver the expected intensity after such an extended intro, but ‘Don’t Play’, with its distant, distorted howls, seems ever-able to incite a crowd, all screaming along to the chorus as one big mob.

Logic – The End

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37EqjCYeBQ

‘The End’ is nothing short of cinematic. Nowhere else does the haunting piano of something like Adele’s ‘Skyfall’ give way to such a powerful verse as on this track. The intensity of Logic’s rapping takes you by surprise after the somber intro, but when the drum beat drops in it’s sure to send chills through the body. As the closing track to the last of the Maryland-raised rapper’s phenomenal Young Sinatra mixtape series, ‘The End’ sees Logic in peak form, channeling a lifetime worth of grinding into one pent-up burst of pure energy, flow, and a well-deserved ‘fuck you’ to anyone who doubted him along the way.

Joey Bada$$ – Survival Tactics (feat. Capital STEEZ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWAk8-leVA

Back in 2012, Brooklyn spitter Joey Bada$$ took the world by storm when he released 1999, a powerhouse of a mixtape that, as its name implies, harkens back to the so-called ‘Golden Age of Hip-Hop’. Though he was only 17 years old at the time, Joey’s flow – over a Styles of Beyond track of the same name – is not only clever and aggressive, but infectiously confident. As Tom Breihan articulated in Stereogum, Bada$$ is “cool with the assurance that he knows how to rap circles around his peers. That’s not a teenager’s approach to rapping, but he pulls it off absolutely.” Paired with a second verse that showcases godlike skill from the gone-before-his-time Pro Era co-founder Capital STEEZ, and you have a final product that’s as close to a perfect hip-hop track as you’re gonna get.

Rae Sremmurd – Unlock the Swag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoKQ-GYzfU

No doubt you initially dismissed ‘Unlock the Swag’ as juvenile, simplistic, maybe just downright silly. And yes, it is all of those things. But it also has about a dozen extra helpings of the frenetic, youthful energy that has made Rae Sremmurd, both in their songwriting and at their live shows, not just unique but endearing as well. They’re not afraid to be over-the-top, not afraid to cook up a ridiculously hyped song about simply unlocking swag, and you know for a fact they’re not afraid to enjoy every moment of that amped-up chorus on stage. It’s not really about lyrical ability here, not even so much about the creativity in Mike Will’s futuristic, laser fire-peppered beat and consuming bass drops, but more about all the little inflections in the brothers’ vocals: a hundred different squeals, squawks, yelps, shouts, and almost voice-cracks that let you know these kids are giving it their all in the rawest sense, going 110% with everything they do.

G-Eazy – Say So

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaU9-ELaGqs

Sometimes tracks that don’t make the album bring more fire than those that actually do. For any artist who’s made a habit of sporadically dropping singles between album cycles – as is the case with G-Eazy, the so-called “James Dean of rap” – this is almost inevitable. Released alongside two other untethered tracks in the months leading up to his sophomore album When It’s Dark Out, ‘Say So’ is the result of a collaboration with NYC-based producer Vinylz, whose eerie, creeping instrumental helps evoke the kind of vampire-esque imagery that the Oakland-raised rapper is so fond of associating himself with. The last few minutes aren’t even real verses, just a stream of self-assured aggression. With the beat still running, you can just picture Young Gerald getting fully into character in the booth as he conjures up a kind of horror movie villain laugh, before unleashing the taunts, the boasts, the sarcasm and mockery. Icing on the cake? The cut’s opening sample is from one of the greatest movies of all time, the classic Big Lebowski.

X Ambassadors, Jamie N Commons – Jungle (Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCNY7ACzNk

A little over a week before the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Beats Electronics released one of the most hype-inspiring ads in recent memory, a ‘short film’ aptly named ‘The Game Before The Game’. Although the ad was in part revving up the world’s biggest sports event, most of its five minutes were actually closer to a music video, an advertisement for Beats headphones riding on the unmatched skill and devotion of soccer stars like Brazil’s Neymar, Spain’s Fabregas, and Uruguay’s Suarez. Neymar’s father delivers a kind of pre-game sermon before the booming drums of ‘Jungle’ – an epic, anthemic-sounding cut from the Brooklyn-based group X-Ambassadors – thunders into the picture. As if the original track wasn’t big enough already, Jay Z hopped on a remix to deliver a verse in signature HOV fashion. New god flow.

Theophilus London – Big Spender (feat. A$AP Rocky)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7y4a7Hdw5Y

Considering Trinidadian-born rapper/singer Theophilus London’s recent (and successful) foray into the smoother side of hip-hop and R&B, people tend to forget that back in 2012 he absolutely murdered two killer verses on this DJ Carnage-produced banger. The first thing about the track that hits you is the instrumental, which lands with a satisfying violence. There’s explosiveness in the snap of chopped up vocals and brass (sampled from a striptease number off the 1966 Broadway musical Sweet Charity) colliding with bass-heavy kick drums, 21st century snares and hi-hats. How the self-proclaimed leader of the Chipotle Gang dreamt up this combo in order to create this hard-hitting hip-hop beat, we may never know. Either way, we’re glad he did, because both Theo and Rocky body it – riffing on every conceivable rap stereotype all in one song and shouting out Australia in the process. Perfect for stuntin’.

Kendrick Lamar – Black Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xAWiV4drB4

Dominican-American producer Vinylz has made a name for himself in the last few years by crafting some of the most menacing, ominous beats in rap. With instrumentals this good, it’s no wonder King Kendrick took the opportunity this past November to jump on the background of J Cole’s ‘A Tale of 2 Citiez’ for the back-to-back Black Friday event. Although Cole acted as a counterpart for the dual release, spitting memorable verses over the beat originally for ‘Alright’, it was Vinylz’s signature haunted house-type sound that ultimately laid a better path for Kendrick’s uninterrupted ferocity.

As the world has come to expect from the Compton emcee, there are no wasted words here, no laziness, and no breaks. Every lyric on ‘Black Friday’ is characteristically impassioned, radiating sheer grit and aggression for four straight minutes without rest. The track is a veritable onslaught of pure fire, yet another testament to Kendrick’s crown.

Action Bronson – Actin’ Crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=debIyWS6Byc

Gotta shout out the big homie at least once. Given the surge in media attention toward the recent television debut (on Vice’s newly-christened Viceland channel) of Bronson’s food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, it’s sometimes unclear whether the unlikely rap star is more widely known to the public as a lyricist, a genuine musical artist, or a kind of off-kilter Anthony Bourdain, eminent for bringing New York City perspective to delicacies from cultures all over the world. To be fair, as long as Action Bronson is being introduced somehow, it probably doesn’t matter. The man is roughly three hundred and twenty pounds of pure mayhem, and his tracks are capable of bringing out the rowdiness and testosterone in all of us. ‘Actin’ Crazy’ is no exception. With visionary production from Omen and long time Drake-collaborator Noah ’40’ Shebib, plus an enlightened chorus hook of “Opportunity be knockin’, you gotta let a motherfucker in,” how could this not be a banger?

[Editor’s Guest Pick] Waka Flocka Flame – Hard In Da Paint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9gzp1AL88

When Waka Flocka Flame dropped Flockaveli back in 2010, it hit like a semi-trailer on steroids – abrasive raps backed by larger-than-life, vicious beats from Lex Luger. It’s no wonder that Luger became one of modern trap’s key producers, while Flocka was one rapper to take the Southern genre’s club-reliant sounds to EDM arenas and festivals. ‘Hard In Da Paint’ was the album’s lead single, solidifying Flocka’s place as rap’s most infectious ad-libber and perhaps the only guy to yell more than Lil Jon. Listening to this song will make you scream ‘Brick Squad’, get shirtless and acquire a facial tattoo – it’s hard as nails and equally as headbang-worthy than most thrash metal numbers. And if this track somehow doesn’t do it for you, then this Northside remix definitely will.