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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip hop
Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.
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Very cool breakdown. Gotta listen to some more Aesop
Aesop's popularity probably just skyrocketted
Where's Lil Jon... I bet it would be like 500 words.
I count two. Whatttt & Yeahhhh.
I couldn't find eminem on here. He would probably be up there.
2Pac so low. I can't beleive that.