Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by hirundo » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 11:06 PM UTC

opulence wrote: post #9

Has someone tried quantifying those who create something maximally spectacular from the smallest number of words possible? This seems to be the theme in math: gargantuan universes out of minimal number of axioms.

Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by tvmalsv » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 11:18 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

I wish he would add mc chris[0] to this. I have no idea where mc chris would fall, but I suspect it would be to the right, simply because of his use of unique sci fi words. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Chris

I agree, and would also throw in Mac Lethal[1] :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Lethal

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by danielharan » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 11:20 PM UTC

Taken aback that there's an artist that passed MC Solaar - although in this source, they report him using 7691 words out of the first 30,000.

http://www.slate.fr/story/93477/rap-francais-infographie-mc-...

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by Karlax » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

As the author points out, song structure biases the results, so that artists with structured and repeated lyrics end up with a lower "vocabulary". Wouldn't it make sense to simply combine repeated lines before counting? So you'd be measuring vocabulary in first 35,000 non-structurally-repeating lyrics.

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by dagoat » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 2:52 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

I wish he would add mc chris[0] to this. I have no idea where mc chris would fall, but I suspect it would be to the right, simply because of his use of unique sci fi words. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Chris

Also a shame that Project Pat[0] is not included

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pat

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by Jach » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

I wish he would add mc chris[0] to this. I have no idea where mc chris would fall, but I suspect it would be to the right, simply because of his use of unique sci fi words. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Chris

Also have wished for Eyedea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyedea

Sadistik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadistik

Myka 9 (and the whole Freestyle Fellowship): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myka_9

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by oxide » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:42 AM UTC

dagoat wrote: post #15

jedberg wrote: post #2

I wish he would add mc chris[0] to this. I have no idea where mc chris would fall, but I suspect it would be to the right, simply because of his use of unique sci fi words. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Chris

Also a shame that Project Pat[0] is not included [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pat

He is likely a part of Three Six Mafia's entry in the list.

It is a pleasure, however, to see Canibus ranked among the top. That man is a true legend IMO.

Re: Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

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Post by nikk1 » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

danielsf wrote: post #10

iron0013 wrote: post #8

This has been posted several times, but it was updated with fresh and interesting data today--for the first time in several years. Is it possible to get that [dupe] flag removed?

author here, that'd be great!

Does using a large vocabulary correlate with positive critical reception? Does using a smaller vocabulary correlate with increased record sales?

It would be interesting to see another dimension to the data such as critical reception or record sales.

Another idea is to break down an artist's discography, and show these stats across different albums (would probably only work for artists with a large discography)