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