 Bo Diddley's original "I'm a Man" is ranked number 369 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".In 2012, the song along with the self-named A-side song "Bo Diddley" was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings.In 2018, "I'm a Man" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording".