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Lefty Gunplay

Lefty Gunplay (Franklin Holladay) is a Baldwin Park, San Gabriel Valley rapper signed to OTR Records who broke out via Kendrick Lamar's "tv off" (GNX, 2024), reaching number two on the Hot 100 and earning a 2026 Grammy nomination.

Leisan

Leisan, real name Leisan Valieva, is a Russian-born house and tech-house DJ and producer in Los Angeles who co-runs TRANQUILO Records and played Insomniac festivals like EDC Orlando 2025.

Len (rapper)

Len is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London, active in the UK underground since SoundCloud releases in 2017; known for DEAD END (2022), the CONGLOMERATE tape with Fimiguerrero and Lancey Foux (2024), and the genre-blending album Goldenboy. Distinct from the Canadian pop group Len.

Lena Willikens

Lena Willikens is a German DJ, producer, and radio broadcaster known for slow, genre-fluid sets built on industrial and EBM, and her long residency at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf.

Lenny Dee

Lenny Dee, born Leonardo Didesiderio in 1968, is an American hardcore techno DJ and producer from Brooklyn, New York, who founded the Industrial Strength Records label in 1991.

Leon Vynehall

Leon Vynehall is a British house producer and DJ from Pembury, England, known for the 2014 mini-LP Music For The Uninvited and the Ninja Tune album Nothing Is Still.

Leotrix

Leotrix, real name Ethan Wright, is an Australian dubstep producer from Sydney known for his "future riddim" style and releases on Never Say Die and Monstercat.

Leprous

Leprous is a Norwegian progressive rock/metal band from Notodden, formed in 2001 by Einar Solberg and Tor Oddmund Suhrke. Eight studio albums from Tall Poppy Syndrome (2009) to Melodies of Atonement (2024); former live backing band for Ihsahn.

Les Nuits Secrètes

Les Nuits Secrètes is a three-day music festival held each July in Aulnoye-Aymeries, northern France, since 2002, best known for its Parcours Secrets trips to secret venues with unannounced artists.

Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101

Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 is the 2005 major-label debut album of Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy, released by Def Jam and credited as trap music's commercial breakthrough.

Lev3l

Lev3l is an American bass music producer and DJ from Orange County, California, working in dubstep and deathstep since 2014 and playing festivals like Forbidden Kingdom and Rampage Open Air.

LEVT

LEVt is a German techno DJ and producer from Jena who moved into music from competitive football and plays peak-time and hard techno at major European festivals.

Lewis OfMan

Lewis OfMan is the stage name of Lewis Delhomme, a French record producer and vocalist from Paris whose music updates the classic French house lineage of Daft Punk and Cassius.

Lex Legion

Lex Legion is a Swedish heavy metal supergroup formed in 2026, reuniting four-fifths of King Diamond's late 1980s lineup (Mikkey Dee, Andy LaRocque, Pete Blakk, Hal Patino) with Pagan's Mind singer Nils K. Rue; their self-titled debut album arrived on MNRK Heavy in June 2026.

Lexii Alijai

Lexii Alijai (Alexis Alijai Lynch, 1998-2020) was a St. Paul, Minnesota rapper featured on Kehlani's "Jealous" and albums Joseph's Coat and Growing Pains; she died January 1, 2020 of an accidental fentanyl and alcohol overdose.

Lexy & K-Paul

Lexy & K-Paul (Lexy und K-Paul) are a German electro and techno duo formed in Berlin in 1999, whose hit "Freak" reached number 20 in 2000 and who won an Echo award in 2001.

Liam Howlett

Liam Paul Paris Howlett (born 1971, Essex) is the English producer and keyboardist who founded The Prodigy, writing and producing its studio output from the Roland W-30-era rave records to 2018's No Tourists.

Lick / Liquid Stranger

Liquid Stranger is the stage name of Martin Stääf, a Swedish-born electronic producer and DJ based in the United States who founded the WAKAAN label in 2015.

Lief Festival

Lief Festival is a one-day dance-music festival held each early September at the Recreatieplas Strijkviertel lake in Utrecht, the Netherlands, running since 2006 with house, techno, disco, and funk.

Life After Death

Life After Death is the second and final studio album by the Notorious B.I.G., released in 1997, sixteen days after his murder, and widely regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums.

Life of Agony

Life of Agony, Brooklyn alternative metal band of Keith Caputo, Joey Z., Alan Robert, and Sal Abruscato; debut River Runs Red (1993, Roadrunner) is a concept album about a troubled young man; over one million albums sold.

Light the Torch

Light the Torch is an American melodic metalcore band from Los Angeles, formerly Devil You Know, formed 2012, fronted by ex-Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones with Francesco Artusato and Ryan Wombacher; albums Revival (2018) and You Will Be the Death of Me (2021) on Nuclear Blast.

Lightning in a Bottle 2017

Lightning in a Bottle 2017 (LIB 2017) was the twelfth edition of the California transformational music and arts festival, held May 2017 at Lake San Antonio.

Lightning in a Bottle 2026

Lightning in a Bottle 2026 was the May 20–24, 2026 edition of the transformational music and arts festival in Southern California, which sold out its 30,000-person capacity.

LightSkinKeisha

LightSkinKeisha, real name Samantha Deshaun, is an American rapper and actress from Atlanta who went viral on social media and signed with Hitco Entertainment in 2018.

Like Mike (musician)

Like Mike, born Michael Thivaios, is a Belgian DJ of Greek origin, one half of the EDM duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike with his brother.

Lil B

Lil B (The BasedGod), born Brandon Christopher McCartney in 1989, is a Berkeley, California rapper, ex-member of the Pack, prolific mixtape artist, and originator of 'based' positivity slang and Based Freestyle cloud rap.

Lil Bibby

Lil Bibby (Brandon Dickinson, born 1994) is a Chicago rapper and executive behind the Free Crack mixtapes and Grade A Productions, the label that signed Juice WRLD and The Kid Laroi.

Lil Debbie

Lil Debbie (Jordan Capozzi, born 1990, Albany, California) is a Bay Area rapper, former White Girl Mob DJ, seen in Kreayshawn's 2011 "Gucci Gucci" video; independent artist on Lil Debbie Records with albums Debbie (2016) and In My Own Lane (2018).

Lil Dicky

Lil Dicky, stage name of David Andrew Burd (born 1988), is an American comedic rapper from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, known for the 2013 viral hit "Ex-Boyfriend," the chart-topping album Professional Rapper, the singles "Freaky Friday" and "Earth," and the FX series Dave.