| 100% | FABOLOUS | 8 | Rapper with the 2003 hit "Can't Let You Go" whose name sounds wonderful |
| 48% | LUDACRIS | 8 | Rapper with the 2006 hit "Money Maker" whose name sounds laughable |
| 46% | NAS | 3 | Rapper with the 2003 hit "I Can" |
| 40% | DESIIGNER | 9 | Rapper with the 2015 #1 hit "Panda" whose name contains an unexpected double letter |
| 39% | LIZPHAIR | 8 | Female rocker with the 2003 hit "Why Can't I?" |
| 39% | GINUWINE | 8 | Singer with the 1996 hit "Pony" whose name sounds authentic |
| 38% | SNOOPDOGG | 9 | Rapper with the 2004 #1 hit "Drop It Like It's Hot" whose name contains an unexpected double letter: 2 wds. |
| 37% | NELLY | 5 | Rapper with the 2003 #1 hit "Shake Ya Tailfeather" |
| 37% | GLORILLA | 8 | Rapper with the 2022 breakout hit "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" with Hitkidd |
| 37% | TRAGEDY | 7 | 1979 #1 hit with the lyrics "When the feeling's gone and you can't go on" |
| 36% | LUDACRIS | 8 | Dirty South rapper with the 2003 No. 1 hit "Stand Up" |
| 36% | CLOSINGTIME | 11 | Semisonic hit with the lyrics "You don't have to go home / But you can't stay here" |
| 35% | MYSTIKAL | 8 | Rapper featured on the 2001 hit "Stutter" whose name sounds occult |
| 34% | RODDY | 5 | With 36-Across, rapper with the 2020 #1 hit "The Box" whose name contains an unexpected double letter |
| 34% | ENDOFTHEROAD | 12 | Boyz II Men 1992 hit with the line "Still I can't let go": 4 wds. |
| 34% | ENDOFTIME | 9 | 2012 Beyoncé hit with the repeated line "Say you'll never let me go" |
| 33% | PSY | 3 | Let's go to the 2010s! What will you see here? You will see this rapper performing the hit "Gangnam Style" in the year 2012 |
| 32% | MACH | 4 | Physicist Ernst whose name is associated with the speed of sound |
| 32% | ELLIMAN | 7 | Yvonne with the 1978 #1 hit "If I Can't Have You" |
| 32% | EVE | 3 | Rapper with the 2001 hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" |
| 32% | KCANDTHE | 8 | With 40-Across, group whose "Please Don't Go" was the first "Billboard" #1 hit of the 1980s (3 wds.) |
| 32% | LIZ | 3 | ___ Phair with the 2003 tune "Why Can't I?" |
| 31% | YIELD | 5 | Usually triangular sign that lets you know that the other driver can go first |
| 31% | WHAM | 4 | Duo with the 1984 hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" |
| 31% | ALBEN | 5 | Truman veep Barkley whose name sounds like a musical record if you change the last letter to an "m" |
| 31% | FANCY | 5 | Iggy Azalea song with the lyrics "Can't you taste this gold / Remember my name" |
| 31% | ROBOTMAN | 8 | DC Comics character with the simplest possible name you could imagine giving a cyborg superhero |
| 31% | LIZZO | 5 | One-named rapper/singer with the 2019 hit album "Cuz I Love You" |
| 31% | IMAMAN | 6 | 1967 hit with the repeated lyric "Yes I am / And I can't help / But love you so" |
| 31% | KEKEPALMER | 10 | "Turnt Up With the Taylors" star whose first name has a repeated "ee" sound: 2 wds. |