Playlist Upgrade 101

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Across
  1. 2. has sent more men in space than NASA
  2. 5. one of the most popular tracks: a common person's reaction to USA's current weather. Additionally, another top track: a place but as a medical diagnosis
  3. 7. hip hop legend, chipped tooth - mad story about that tooth (spoiler - he got his tooth chipped because he was shot 9 times) (read up)
  4. 9. a valedictorian smurf (Bayani)
  5. 13. Flawed prophet, champagne papi got demolished, destroyed, and went sobbing after his bars
  6. 14. Have you ever witnessed precipitation?
  7. 17. Doctor Doctor (this is the easiest hint)
  8. 21. Wasn't me
  9. 24. just to give you all a curve ball, this artist made a track specifically to market Call of Duty: Ghosts (one of the trashiest call of duty title)
  10. 25. The lady who went in wonderland in chains (I have made it too easy) (fun: Old call of duty trickshot montages were edited with songs by this band)
  11. 26. What happens during landslide? Also a famous magazine
  12. 28. My 2nd concert of 2026
  13. 30. ____ & The Silver Bullet Band (Easy Peasy)
  14. 31. Where fire trucks live
  15. 37. I miss the old ___, straight from the go _____ (same answer for both the blanks and the solution to this clue)
  16. 38. Enter Flint Marko (i think first appearance was The Amazing Spiderman #4, read if haven't)
  17. 39. outsiders turned blueprint, massive massive impact on hiphop
  18. 41. Rap God: product of? One of the most influential DJ/MC pairs
  19. 46. Cigarette on guitar, and a riff that is every guitarist's rite of passage by year 2 (for me it was year 2 so...), only Mark Knopfler can have this guy as the secondary guitarist
  20. 50. Hagrid's worst nightmare xD (prisoner of Azkaban), ALSO Halloween's tradition's worst nightmare, although it makes life easier if you are in mood for pumpkin pies
  21. 51. Marry metal bands and quite literally "FATALITY" from Mortal Kombat
  22. 52. Wonderful Steve Harrington (read this again and you'll crack it)
  23. 53. FM/AM above neck, as a puzzle enthusiast - a specific track really "falls into place" for me
  24. 55. coincidentally a famous Post Malone track (a rager track)
  25. 56. Most iconic word play on the name of a gym teacher. Think Alabama
Down
  1. 1. Soprano's S04E06 iconic track (watch this if not yet, absolute diamond of a show, also read about "Katz Deli")
  2. 3. 6ft isn't so far down
  3. 4. shoegaze legends (please look it up), leisurely plunge
  4. 6. prince of darkness
  5. 8. East coast confidence, He made New York sound rich, dangerous, and poetic at the same time
  6. 10. I draw this logo everywhere
  7. 11. The band survived chaos largely because one member refused to let go of the tape machine
  8. 12. West coast legend, Got shot too early. Ironical hint: death row records
  9. 15. There are two kinds of currents
  10. 16. >1 particular insect
  11. 18. Uncle Sam's favorite bird or A very descriptive review of a stay
  12. 19. Monsters of the fretboard, belting or more like "erupting" solos
  13. 20. Rock's most famous consumer electronics review
  14. 22. Frankie said "I did it my way"
  15. 23. Slash, Axl
  16. 27. A तेंदुआ who can't hear
  17. 29. I had the biggest laugh writing this clue - Nu-Metal band, imagine parle G dipped in tea for a second too long
  18. 32. Iconic friends track
  19. 33. Probable the shortest rapper from West coast but had the longest shadow
  20. 34. Africa
  21. 35. fast car quite literally (it is not tracy chapman)
  22. 36. Surfin' in USA (i am getting tired of writing obscure hints)
  23. 40. the far side? west coast group (hint: this is a wordplay)
  24. 42. Lord of the rings, Occult, Jack Black (from school of rock)
  25. 43. this starts with Fe(26), 666 (1982) (can not get more obvious than this, please read up)
  26. 44. the surname is close to one of the earliest casual online gaming portal (elite ball knowledge required)
  27. 45. what comes on the other side of Pink Floyd's most iconic logo
  28. 47. D1 berry
  29. 48. Most guitarists' first proper song - and more often than not the first contact with the golden era
  30. 49. Flacko
  31. 54. New York, Reebok