Today I came across a very interesting read on Hip Hop DX. A self proclaimed "Data Scientist" supposedly started a project where he analyzed the song texts from various rappers gathered via "Rap Genius". In this research he was only counting the number of unique words that occur in the sampled rappers "first" 35.000 verses. His results are very interesting yet leave plenty of room for new questions, since this study only reveals the rapper using the most of the vocabulary available to him. Its actually pretty cool to see rappers being put on a scale with our worlds greatest poet Shakespeare.
After I read the article and being a scientist myself I first wonder what the definition of "unique word" is that the author throws around all to happily without defining. Unfortunately the writer did not see it necessary to give us a better idea of what this study actually means and leaves us wondering. "Is a word unique when nobody ever used it before?", if so then why are 90's artists on a scale with artists that came out much later and if there are unique words, then should not all words be unique? Like I said its not a conclusive research but its definitely entertaining.
Also interesting to see would be if there is a correlation to album sales, total number of words used by a rapper or even what rapper keeps using the same words.
After all I am just happy to see that WU-Tang Clan did alright and represent good Hip Hop! Check it out though!
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