| Salt-N-Pepa's music | 23 |
| Run-D.M.C.'s music | 22 |
| Punishment on the knuckles | 26 |
| Puff Daddy's music | 22 |
| Pitbull's specialty | 23 |
| Perform like Salt-N-Pepa | 24 |
| Perform like Puff Daddy | 23 |
| Perform for Def Jam records | 27 |
| Music genre in the 'hood | 28 |
| Music also called hip-hop | 25 |
| Mostly monotonic genre | 22 |
| Macklemore's genre | 22 |
| Lay down phat rhymez, perhaps | 29 |
| L.L. Cool J's music | 23 |
| L.L. Cool J's genre | 23 |
| Kool Moe Dee's genre | 24 |
| Kind of sheet for a felon | 25 |
| Kanye West's output | 23 |
| Ice-T and Jay-Z's genre | 27 |
| Grandmaster Flash's music | 29 |
| Grandmaster Flash's genre | 29 |
| Grammy genre since 1991 | 23 |
| Grammy genre since 1989 | 23 |
| Grammy genre for Jay-Z | 22 |
| Grammy category since 1989 | 26 |
| Grammy category since 1988 | 26 |
| Ghostface Killah's style | 28 |
| Genre for Notorious B.I.G. | 26 |
| Genre for N.W.A. or T.I. | 24 |
| Genre for Eazy-E and Heavy D | 28 |
| Genre for Coolio or Chuck D | 27 |
| Flavor Flav's genre | 23 |
| Emulate the Beastie Boys | 24 |
| Emulate Sister Souljah | 22 |
| Emulate Chuck D or Master P | 27 |
| Earl Sweatshirt's genre | 27 |
| Dr. Dre's specialty | 23 |
| Chamillionaire's field | 26 |
| Cash Money Records genre | 24 |
| Cam'ron's music | 23 |
| Busta Rhymes' rhymes | 24 |
| Bum ___ (unjust accusation) | 27 |
| Break dancing accompaniment | 27 |
| Big Daddy Kane's style | 26 |
| "Gangsta" music | 25 |
| "Gangsta" genre | 25 |
| ___ sheet (arrest record) | 25 |
| ___ Nui (Easter Island) | 23 |
| __ Nui (Easter Island) | 22 |
| French island in Oceania | 24 |
| _____ Nui (Easter Island) | 25 |
| Vatican Palace painter | 22 |
| Pope Julius II portraitist | 26 |
| Italian Renaissance painter | 27 |
| Word with transit or fire | 25 |
| Word with fire or transit | 25 |
| Word with growth or transit | 27 |
| Word before fire or transit | 27 |
| Like white-water current | 24 |
| Like a charging cheetah | 23 |
| Kind of fire or transit | 23 |
| Feller called ___ Robert | 24 |
| Describing a young Feller | 25 |
| Rappahannock tributary | 22 |
| Blue Ridge Mountains river | 26 |
| Mount Rushmore is near it | 25 |
| Hub of the Black Hills | 22 |
| How the express travels | 23 |
| Quick action in an emergency | 28 |
| Swift-moving part of a river | 28 |
| Fast part of a river ride | 25 |
| Canoeist's challenge | 24 |
| Whitewater part of a stream | 27 |
| What some adventurers shoot | 27 |
| They're shot in rafts | 25 |
| Stony ______, Saskatchewan | 26 |
| Place for current events | 24 |
| New Brunswick's Red _____ | 29 |
| Kayaker's challenge | 23 |
| Hazard for river boats | 22 |
| Commuter's alternative | 26 |
| Driver's alternative | 24 |
| Chicago 'L,' e.g. | 25 |
| Weapon for D'Artagnan | 25 |
| Cousin of an épée | 23 |
| Descend, in mountaineering | 26 |
| Mountaineer's descent | 25 |
| Descend, mountaineer-style | 26 |
| Mountaineer's manoeuvre | 27 |
| Mountaineer's maneuver | 26 |
| Mountain-climbing technique | 27 |
| Lower oneself with a rope | 25 |
| Go down a face, in a way | 24 |
| Descend, as from a mountain | 27 |
| Come down a mountain, maybe | 27 |
| Fast-talking performer | 22 |
| Harmonious relationship | 23 |
| Sympathetic connection | 22 |
| Public Enemy performances | 25 |
| Converses, '60s style | 25 |