The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

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Radio New Zealand

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As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are, analysing the catalogues of 85 rappers via the Rap Genius lyric website and plotting the results as an infographic. Daniels also tallied the word usage in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and the work of William Shakespeare as a yardstick to measure rappers by. He found that artists like Outkast's Andre...

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Date created

17 May 2014

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Radio NZ National Music

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2596303/the-largest-vocabulary-in-hi...

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