"Let Your Backbone Slide" is the debut single by Maestro Fresh-Wes, released in 1989 from his first album, Symphony in Effect.

[3] It remained the best-selling Canadian hip hop single of all time until 2008,[4] when it was eclipsed by Kardinal Offishall's "Dangerous".

In a 2000 poll conducted by the music magazine Chart, "Let Your Backbone Slide" was voted the 11th greatest Canadian song of all time.

[5] The song contains samples of "The Champ" by The Mohawks, "Funky Drummer" by James Brown, "Set It Off" by Strafe, "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick, "One, Two, Three" by The B-Boys and "Rebel Without a Pause" by Public Enemy.

The music video, directed by Joel Goldberg was shot in Toronto, with most of it taking place in a club.