Historical clue formulations

• Nasty ___ (noted rap moniker) — 2026-09-18
• "N.Y. State of Mind" rapper — 2026-08-30
• "Illmatic" rapper — 2026-07-07
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2026-03-11
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2026-02-10
• Rapper whose father is the jazz musician Olu Dara — 2025-08-23
• Lil ___ X, "Old Town Road" rapper — 2025-07-14
• Rapper who won his first Grammy with "King's Disease" — 2025-07-04
• Rapper for whom Harvard's Hip-Hop Fellowship is named — 2025-03-13
• "Street Dreams" rapper — 2025-02-06
• "Illmatic" rapper — 2024-12-10
• "Hip Hop Is Dead" rapper — 2024-09-08
• Grammy winner for Best Rap Album in 2021 — 2024-08-28
• Rap's Lil ___ X — 2024-06-17
• "God's Son" rapper — 2024-04-27
• Lil ___ X — 2024-03-07
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2024-02-28
• Rap's Lil ___ X — 2023-11-08
• "Hip Hop Is Dead" musical artist — 2023-10-29
• Rapper with a Harvard hip-hop fellowship named in his honor — 2023-09-18
• Rapper with the 2012 #1 album "Life Is Good" — 2023-09-01
• Lil ___ X — 2023-06-04
• Music's Lil ___ X — 2023-05-22
• "Stillmatic" rapper — 2023-04-23
• Rapper behind the "King's Disease" trilogy — 2023-02-05
• "Illmatic" rapper — 2023-01-21
• Lil ___ X — 2023-01-19
• "Illmatic" rapper — 2022-09-12
• Rap's Lil ___ X — 2022-08-08
• Rapper with the 1999 #1 album "I Am …" — 2022-06-25
• Rapper with the platinum albums "Street's Disciple" and "God's Son" — 2022-04-10
• Music's Lil ___ X — 2022-02-14
• Lil ___ X — 2022-01-18
• Rapper dissed by Jay-Z in "Takeover" — 2021-12-05
• Mass Appeal Records co-founder — 2021-11-20
• Montero Lamar Hill a.k.a. Lil ___ X — 2021-11-08
• "The World Is Yours" rapper, 1994 — 2021-08-07
• Rap's Lil ___ X — 2021-07-25
• Rapper who co-founded Mass Appeal Records — 2021-06-06
• "Stillmatic" rapper — 2021-03-07
• Performer with the hit 2006 album "Hip Hop Is Dead" — 2021-01-21
• "Hate Me Now" rapper, 1999 — 2020-11-01
• "Life Is Good" rapper — 2020-09-28
• Rapper with the 2003 hit "I Can" — 2020-09-06
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2020-08-26
• "One Mic" rapper — 2020-08-23
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2020-04-19
• ___ in Nancy — 2020-04-09
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2019-10-06
• Rapper Lil ___ X — 2019-07-23