Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
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Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
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#2This 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.
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#3Kool Keith should be exempt from this list. He's not from any of the 4 regions listed, but from Jupiter.
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#4This 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.
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#5"Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words"
So much for the modern Shakespeares on the list.
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#6I 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.
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#7"Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words" So much for the modern Shakespeares on the list.
As well as the old Shakespeare who was ranked according to the same rules.
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#8This 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.
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#9I would have been rather surprised not to see Aesop Rock fairly high up the list. I was reading the Rap Genius pages for a few of his tracks the other week and the sheer density of wordplay was fairly overwhelming.
It is rap for geeks though ;)
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