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Dear Mama
Dear Mama is a 1995 Tupac Shakur song from Me Against the World honoring his mother Afeni Shakur; samples the Spinners' Sadie and Joe Sample, Grammy-nominated, National Recording Registry 2009.
Death (metal band)
Death (metal band), American death metal pioneers also called Mantas, founded by Chuck Schuldiner in Florida in 1983; seven albums 1987-1998, from Scream Bloody Gore to The Sound of Perseverance; Schuldiner died December 2001.
Death Angel
Death Angel is an American thrash metal band formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose debut The Ultra-Violence appeared in 1987 before a 2001 reunion.
Death Certificate (album)
Death Certificate is Ice Cube's second studio album, released October 29, 1991 on Priority/EMI; 20 tracks including Black Korea and the N.W.A. diss No Vaseline; condemned by Billboard, later ranked a rap essential.
Decadence Colorado
Decadence Colorado, also known as Decadence NYE, is an annual two-night New Year's Eve EDM festival held December 30–31 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Decadence New Year's Eve
Decadence New Year's Eve is a two-city American EDM festival held every December 30 and 31: Decadence Colorado in Denver and Decadence Arizona at Phoenix Raceway.
Decapitated (band)
Decapitated is a Polish death metal band formed in 1996 in Krosno by teenage brothers Wacław "Vogg" and Witold Kiełtyka, known for albums like Winds of Creation.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
The Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is an annual two-day festival pairing extreme metal bands with craft breweries, organized by Decibel Magazine in Philadelphia since 2017.
Dee Barnes
Dee Barnes (Denise Barnes) is an American TV host and hip-hop journalist who anchored Fox's "Pump It Up" and was assaulted by Dr. Dre in January 1991 at a Hollywood nightclub; her $22 million lawsuit was settled out of court.
Deep Dish
Deep Dish is an American electronic music duo of Iranian-born DJs and producers Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, formed in Washington, D.C. in 1992.
Deep End (music)
"Deep End" is a 2020 tech-house single by American DJ and producer John Summit, released on Defected Records on June 26, 2020, and the longest-running Beatport number one of 2020.
Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music, also called deep house, that emerged in Chicago and New York in the mid-1980s with Larry Heard; it runs about 110–125 BPM with jazz-influenced chords, warm sub-bass, and restrained, atmospheric arrangements.
Deep Tropics Music, Art, and Style Festival
Deep Tropics is a sustainability-focused electronic dance music festival in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2017 by twin brothers Blake and Joel Atchison, growing to 15,000 attendees by 2025.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard: English hard rock band formed 1977 in Sheffield within the NWOBHM, known for Pyromania (1983) and Hysteria (1987), over 110 million albums sold, 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
Defected Malta
Defected Malta is a house-music festival held each October in Malta, launched in 2022 by Defected Records as an island counterpart to its Defected Croatia festival, selling out over 5,500 tickets by 2025.
Defleshed
Defleshed is a Swedish thrash and death metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1991, whose trio of Gustaf Jorde, Lars Löfven, and Matte Modin reunited in 2021 and released Grind Over Matter in 2022.
Defqon.1 Festival
Defqon.1 is Q-dance's annual hardstyle and hardcore festival, first held in 2003 at Almere Strand and now staged at Biddinghuizen, Netherlands. Largest hardstyle festival worldwide; Australian and Chilean editions; 2026 edition cancelled by code red heat.
Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988, fronted by Chino Moreno and known for blending heavy riffs with ambient, shoegaze textures.
Deichbrand Festival
Deichbrand Festival, also known as Deichbrand, is a rock, pop, and electronic music festival held annually since 2005 on the German North Sea coast near Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony.
Deicide (band)
Deicide is an American death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 as Amon, renamed Deicide in 1989, and ranked second in death metal sales of the SoundScan era.
Dej Loaf
Dej Loaf (Deja Monét Trimble, born 1991) is a Detroit rapper and singer whose 2014 single "Try Me," produced by DDS, went viral after a Drake Instagram co-sign and led to a Columbia Records deal.
Del the Funky Homosapien
Del the Funky Homosapien (Teren Delvon Jones, b. 1972, Oakland), also Sir DZL and Deltron Zero, is an American rapper of Hieroglyphics and Deltron 3030, known for I Wish My Brother George Was Here and Gorillaz's "Clint Eastwood".
Delain
Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 in Zwolle by ex-Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt; female-fronted, seven studio albums including Dark Waters (2023), since 2026 a guest-vocalist collective.
Delano Smith
Delano Smith is an American house and techno DJ and producer from Detroit, one of the city's first house DJs and a defining figure of the Detroit Beatdown sound.
Delta Heavy (group)
Delta Heavy are a London drum and bass duo of Ben Hall and Simon James, signed to RAM Records in 2010 and known for the 2012 single "Get By".
Demdike Stare
Demdike Stare are a British electronic music duo from Manchester, England, formed by Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty, whose records combine dark ambient, dub techno, and jungle, released mainly on Modern Love.
Demi Riquísimo
Demi Riquísimo is a British DJ and music producer, born in Kent and raised in Detroit, known for acid and italo house and for running the Semi Delicious label.
Demon Hunter (band)
Demon Hunter is an American Christian metal band from Seattle formed in 2000 by brothers Ryan and Don Clark of Training for Utopia. Twelve albums on Solid State Records, Billboard 200 charting, and a 2026 trademark suit against Netflix over KPop Demon Hunters.
Dennis Ferrer
Dennis Ferrer is a New York house music producer and DJ active since the early 1990s, who co-founded the Sfere label and is known for "Sandcastles" and "Hey Hey".
Denzel Curry
Denzel Curry, American rapper from Carol City, Miami Gardens, Florida; ex-Raider Klan member; albums Nostalgic 64, Imperial, TA13OO, Zuu, Melt My Eyez See Your Future, King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2.