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Naeleck
Naeleck is a French DJ and electronic music producer from Rennes who built his career in Tokyo, best known for "Boyz In Paris" and "Like A G6".
Naezy (नवेद शेख)
Naezy (नवेद शेख), real name Naved Shaikh, born 1993, is a Mumbai rapper from Kurla and a pioneer of gully rap, known for "Aafat" and "Mere Gully Mein" with Divine, and as an inspiration for the film Gully Boy.
Nailbomb
Nailbomb is an industrial metal side project formed in 1994 by Max Cavalera of Sepultura and Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel, who released one album, Point Blank.
Nails
Nails is an American powerviolence and deathgrind band from Oxnard, California, fronted by Todd Jones, formerly of Terror and Carry On, known for short, abrasive songs.
Name Festival
The Name Festival (Nord Art Musique Electronique) is an electronic-music festival in the Lille region of northern France, created in 2005 by Art Point M.
Namewee (黄明志)
Namewee (黄明志), born Wee Meng Chee in 1983 in Muar, Malaysia, is a Taiwan-based Malaysian rapper, filmmaker and actor known for multilingual satirical songs like 漂向北方 and 玻璃心, viral videos, and repeated official controversies.
Nancy Whang
Nancy Whang, Korean-American vocalist, keyboardist, and DJ of LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean; Portland native who joined the band in 2002 after 'Losing My Edge', later a guest vocalist across dance-punk.
Napalm Death
Napalm Death, Birmingham band formed around 1981, pioneers of grindcore fusing crust punk and death metal. Debut Scum (1987) defined the genre; "You Suffer" holds the Guinness shortest-song record at 1.316 seconds.
Napoleon (rapper)
Napoleon (Mutah Wassin Shabazz Beale), American rapper from Newark, New Jersey, member of Tupac Shakur's Outlawz; converted to Islam in 2002, left music, moved to Saudi Arabia, and founded a nonprofit building a masjid in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Narciss
Narciss is the alias of Nicolas Schmidt (born 1995), a German techno and trance DJ and producer based in Berlin known for a groove-driven Eurodance techno sound.
Nas
Nas (Nasir Jones), Queensbridge, New York rapper; debut Illmatic (1994) is widely called the greatest rap album; It Was Written hit No. 1; famous Jay-Z feud resolved in 2005; first Grammy 2021 for King's Disease.
Nastia
Nastia (Настя), born Anastasiia Topolska, is a Ukrainian techno DJ, producer, and label owner who became the first Ukrainian BBC Radio 1 resident in 2019 and co-founded Kyiv's Strichka festival.
Nasty C
Nasty C (Nsikayesizwe David Junior Ngcobo), South African rapper born 1997 in Durban, known for Bad Hair, Strings and Bling, Def Jam's Zulu Man with Some Power, and independent Tall Racks album Free.
Nasum
Nasum was a Swedish grindcore band formed in Örebro in 1992, credited with reviving international interest in grindcore until singer Mieszko Talarczyk died in the 2004 tsunami.
Nate Dogg
Nate Dogg (Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, 1969–2011), Long Beach singer and rapper, voice of West Coast G-funk; 'Regulate' with Warren G, 34 R&B chart titles, hooks for 50 Cent, Eminem, Ludacris.
Nattefrost
Nattefrost, born Roger Rasmussen in 1974 in Sandnes, Norway, is a black metal vocalist and songwriter who founded Carpathian Forest in 1992 and leads a solo project.
Nav (rapper)
NAV (Navraj Singh Goraya) is a Punjabi-Canadian rapper and producer from Toronto's Rexdale, known for "Beibs in the Trap," the Weeknd's XO label, and the Billboard 200 No. 1 album Bad Habits (2019).
Navigator
Navigator, also known as MC Navigator, is a British jungle and drum and bass MC from London who made his name on pirate station Kool FM.
Nayt
Nayt is the stage name of William Mezzanotte, born 1994 in Isernia and raised in Rome, an Italian rapper whose albums Lettera Q and io Individuo topped the Italian charts.
Ncrypta
Ncrypta is the raw hardstyle alias of German DJ and producer Markus Meyr, known for releases on Gearbox Digital and his own label Identity Records, founded in 2020.
Necro (rapper)
Necro (Ron Raphael Braunstein, born 1976, Brooklyn) is an American rapper, producer, and Psycho+Logical Records founder who coined "death rap," fusing death metal with ultraviolent hip hop; brother of Ill Bill, debut I Need Drugs (2000).
Necromantia
Necromantia was a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 1989 by The Magus and Baron Blood, part of the Greek scene's "Unholy Trinity" and active until 2021.
Negura Bunget
Negură Bunget is a Romanian black metal band formed in Timișoara in 1995, whose 2006 album Om brought international fame before founder Negru's death in 2017.
Neil Frances
Neil Frances is a Los Angeles electronic pop duo formed in 2016 by Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry, known for their Stardust cover, the albums There Is No Neil Frances (2022) and It's All a Bit Fuzzy (2023), and Nettwerk releases; distinct from musician Neal Francis.
Neil Landstrumm
Neil Landstrumm is a Scottish techno producer from Edinburgh who began releasing music in the early 1990s, made four albums for Berlin's Tresor label, and runs his own Scandinavia label.
Nekrogoblikon
Nekrogoblikon: Los Angeles melodic death metal band formed in 2006, self-described as goblin metal, fronted by mascot John Goblikon; albums Goblin Island (2007) through The Fundamental Slimes and Humours (2022) and 2026 EP The Boiling Sea.
Nelly
Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr., born 1974) is an American rapper from St. Louis whose 2000 debut Country Grammar made Midwest roots an asset in hip-hop; multi-platinum hits include Hot in Herre and Dilemma, with two Grammys and RIAA's fourth best-selling rap artist ranking. Distinct from Nelly Furtado, the Canadian singer.
Nemzzz
Nemzzz (Nemiah Emmanuel Simms, born 2004) is a Manchester rapper from Gorton whose TikTok-viral 2021 single "Elevate" led to chart-topping independent UK mixtapes Do Not Disturb, Rent's Due, and LOCKED IN.
Nene H
Nene H, real name Beste Aydin, is a Turkish-Azerbaijani experimental techno producer, DJ, and live artist based in Berlin, whose debut album Ali (2021) fuses techno with Turkish sounds.
Neophyte
Neophyte is the stage name of Jeroen Streunding, a Dutch gabber and hardcore DJ and producer active since the early 1990s who founded Neophyte Records in 1999.