Most Influential Recording Artist of the last 30 years

You can make a solid case for Daft Punk as the figureheads of the reinjection of disco and electro into pop from circa 1996-now.

They lack an iconic death, but arguably Green Day/Offspring have had the most solid musical legacy within rock over the past 30 years - after the grunge boom petered out not that many bands really sounded like Nirvana, but pop-punk remained huge.

As far as producers go, you can make a good case for the obvious ones: Max Martin, Dre, Timbaland, Neptunes, Kanye. NWA, Snoop, Tupac?

As far as the continued omnipresence throughout the past decades of shaggy haired white dudes singing their heart out to acoustic guitar strumming, is there any single name responsible?

thinking Nile to you means something v different than Nile to me lol

Yes, thank you Siegbran, Shaggy it is! Lock thread.

^^ So. Much. This.

Haha yes I can see a case for Neanderthal Nile for sure.

In a similar vein, I vote Seige.

Who’s this other Nile, lol?

it's not just a river in Egypt