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May 06, 2014

Data visualization of the actual rap vocabulary used by Matt Daniels

Mapping the Largest Hip-Hop Vocabularies of Rappers, by 

New York-based designer Matt Daniels crunched the numbers on a list of 85 rappers to find which emcee has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. The dataset was culled from the first 35,000 lyrics of each musician’s catalog taken from the website Rap Genius, so as to the level the playing field between newer and older artists, a number that comes out to around three to five albums worth of music. For context, Daniels also included the famously verbose Moby-Dick and the works ofShakespeare as benchmarks.   continue reading
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