this was amazing so I stumbled upon this website this week when I was browsing
stories for the show
and I felt like I had to share with you it's called the largest vocabulary
in hip hop in this is an interactive chart graphic done by a web developer
designer coder and data scientists
an undercurrent in New York City the guy's name is Matt Daniels and this is
an amazing project
so the whole idea this project is it about the vocabulary
up hip-hop artists and it was it's created to this really cool interactive
infographic
and I wanna share some other stuff with you because it's fascinating so
most people generally site that William Shakespeare had one of the greatest
vocabularies
in literatures history across the entire corpus he used 28,000 829 words
which suggests that be are based on linguistics and what people generally
know about vocabulary
that he knew over 100,000 words arguably have a large vocabulary ever
don't know about that but shakespeare's definitely up there
but this guy decided to compare the data point against the most prolific
artists and hip-hop he used each artist first 35,000 lyrics
that way prolific artist such as jay-z could be compared to your artist
such as Drake so the way that this works as he count out
so for a handful rap artist he compares it to some love
you know the most prominent literary people so shakespeare
and Dom Herman Melville in moby-dick specifically
so he used the first five thousand words for Shakespeare's works hamlet
Romeo and Juliet a fellow macbeth as you like it wears tell
in trial I think a Cydia for Herman Melville he is the first 35
thousand words up Moby Dick so
at the top end of the spectrum shakespeare with higher than the
majority
up the rappers in terms of vocabulary into tabulate the rapper's
book abs he used the first thirty five thousand-word
that they ever recorded I'm so we know whether that's the best sample
I don't nobody give the San me a unique insight into
these rappers and how how good they are actually sell
shakespeare over its first thirty five thousand words over seven books
had 5100 in seventy
unique words Herman Melville in moby-dick
you six thousand 22 and is interesting to know
that rappers ranked higher than that so at the top of the list
a soft rock 7300 in ninety-two
purges up from the wu-tang clan 6400 20 secs
way below that quirky 6,000 238
and below that we had cannabis the result slightly below Herman Melville
the wu-tang clan as a whole Ghostface Killah Killah Priest
and the roots so pearly
what we're learning is the wu-tang clan create some people with some great
vocabularies
and then a few notes down a little bit further about
$1000 worth last year if I have shakespeare with five thousand one
hundred seventy
and around that level a vocabulary we have outcast
you forty MF Doom not as the Beastie Boys
das a fax and a handful of other ones some more
wu-tang affiliated rappers and then of course if you're wondering who has the
worst vocabulary according to this
study in hip-hop its DMX he only used
3,000 214 unique word its first 35,000 lyrics
a stop rock beat operator person used almost
to plus times more than that also at the bottom
too short Drake fifty-cent Master P Bone Thugs
juvenile Lil Wayne Wiz Khalifa so it's an interesting study
check out all I will post the description last know what you think
about it in the comments below
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