I don't know any of these songs you guys are mentioning
Another few for me: Ride with me by Nelly (I'm listening to it now), most all of the gangster rap I used to listen to as a teenager, Beds are burning by midnight oil
I like The Ballad of Billy the Kid by Billy Joel, but only because he says "from a town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island" toward the end of the song, and that's where I was born.