"Illmatic" artist

The answer

NAS

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAS answer page.

Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NAS

Every other clue in this collection answered by NAS, most used first.

• "Illmatic" rapper - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Lil ___ X - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• "If I Ruled the World" rapper - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Rapper Lil ___ X - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "Hip Hop Is Dead" rapper - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "Stillmatic" rapper - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• "Street Dreams" rapper - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• "One Mic" rapper - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Life Is Good" rapper - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Old Town Road" rapper Lil ___ X - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• __ in November - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "It Was Written" rapper - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "N.Y. State of Mind" rapper - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• TV's "Emerald Point ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Grammy winner Lil ___ X - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "Emerald Point __" - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• "I Can" rapper - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ in "Nancy" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• "Panini" rapper Lil ___ X - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Cherry Wine" rapper - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Daughters" rapper - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Illmatic" and "Stillmatic" rapper - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Initials at Pensacola - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "King's Disease" rapper - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Nose: Prefix - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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