Cool to see Canibus so high in the rankings.
It'd also be cool to add the members of AOTP to the analysis.
Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
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#32Kool Keith should be exempt from this list. He's not from any of the 4 regions listed, but from Jupiter.
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#33I find it hilarious that DMX is dead last. I've now got empirical evidence of what I always thought. I think DMX rhymes words with themselves more than any rapper I've ever heard.
Sampling bias.
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#34This is fascinating. I'm only a recent listener of hip-hop (primarily because of Earl Sweatshirt and Odd Future) and I'm in awe of the vernacular. And similarly, as a boredom exercise a few weeks ago I did some lexical analysis of the song Timber (the monstrosity was being constantly played on the radio at the time) and here's what I came out with: "83.1% of the words in the lyrics are five letters or less, 58.9% are…
You must be using big words in case someone does the analysis on HN comments. Definitions: Vernacular: ?? Lexical analysis (in this case): ratio of unique words to non unique words Lexical density: What persent of the words is unique?
The paragraph in quotes is copied and pasted from when I wrote that a few weeks ago, there's a definition in parentheses following lexical density. Analysis is a word that should not need a definition attached to it (you have used it yourself in your comment.)
Vernacular is commonly used in the United Kingdom. Google will provide you with a definition.
Re: Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
#35Incredibly, a list about rapper vocabulary is missing anyone associated with nerdcore. I'm interested to see where the likes of MC Frontalot, Wordburglar, YTCracker, etc. rank on that scale...
The author addresses the "Why is $RAPPER not on the list?" on the larger reddit threads: http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/24neym/rappers_... http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/24nw9p/rapp... My gut feeling is that the nerdcore guys would be decidedly middle-of-the-road, but I'd love to see the result!
author here: indeed. thanks for adding this to the thread.
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#36Awesome. This guy should definitely work for RapGenius.com.
author here: the data is straight from RP, so I have been working with them :)
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#37This is an interesting analysis. I love the fact that E-40 is about on par with Shakespeare. I'm sure he would take it as a compliment to be called the modern day Shakespeare.
author here: thanks!
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#38This might be the best-made infographic I've ever seen.
author here: oh man. flattered.
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#39author here: hit me up with questions you've got.
Re: Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
#40This looks at the first so many lyrics in each rapper's career. Aesop Rock came out with some weird stuff right off the bat. I wonder if some of these other rappers became more sophisticated over time. Maybe an average per song would be better, or average uniques per word, would be better.
The problem with average per song is that you "use up" words in every new song, so all things being equal each marginal song has progressively fewer new words.
Strange comment, you realise that's not an inherent truth of language? Unique words per song is trivial to calculate