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It took me around 18 years to find the song, It's a Rainy Day by Ice MC (YouTube link), which I rediscovered last year.
My older sister used to buy a lot of different compilation albums, think stuff like "Now That's What I Call Music! (Wikipedia link)". I started listening to a lot of them, when I was around 6-7 years old, and while Eurodance songs like Rhythm Is a Dancer by Snap!, Be My Lover by La Bouche, Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (YouTube links), and so on, were easy to track down throughout the years, there was always one song I couldn't find.
I couldn't even remember any lyrics, only that there was some rapping, where the dialect made it impossible for my child brain to absorb and retain any words. The only thing that I remembered was that there would be sentences ending with an "eh eh", and that's really not a lot to go on!
Until one day, when I was walking around a store and they started playing it over the sound system. I didn't even realize at first, but when that organ hit at 0:21, I literally snapped my head up towards the speakers, hahaha. Finding out that he was rapping in Jamaican Patois, it suddenly made a lot more sense why I hadn't retained any of the words.
Apparently they also used the song during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony (Wikipedia link), which is wild to find out.