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Rappers sorted by size of vocabulary
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Elfforkusu
Member
So basically, what science is telling us is that Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck wit'.
triplestation
Member
storms coming
Gully State
Member
Someone buy DMX a thesaurus...
Devolution
Member
Better diversify your vocabulary.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Does aesop rock count when he mostly spouts random nonsense?
Enjoyable random nonsense, but still.
Enjoyable random nonsense, but still.
I don't like that its just one genre of music. I would love to see other genres thrown up there. Country, Blues..... fucking Pop... dear lord.
ComputerMKII
Banned
All those words are for nothing if I can't figure out what they're singing
UltraGunner
Banned
What's shocking to me is that Tupac go beaten by ICP of all things
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I wonder how much andre 3000 contributes to that outkast count.
ComputerMKII
Banned
35,000 words covers 3-5 studio albums and EPs. I included mixtapes if the artist was just short of the 35,000 words. Quite a few rappers dont have enough official material to be included (e.g., Biggie, Kendrick Lamar).
UltraGunner
Banned
Heart? Baby? Broken?
Tupac's lyrics were never the most important thing about him.
His strengths were his flow, good beats, emotion and his legendary voice.
Plus Tupac's rapping is kind of condensed into a small window of time.
5'000 of 7 works.
I'm pretty sure my favorite rapper has ghost-written for Puff at one point (Nas)
TheRedSnifit
Member
Y'all.
"What?!! GRRRRR. What?! GRRRRRR. Woof-Woof!! GRRRRRR." -DMX
The Faceless Master
Member
i wonder if any other genre would fare better
terrisus
Member
Alright, that makes more sense.
Still, restricting it to only 35,000 is extremely arbitrary.
If they want some sort of way to be able to compare across people with different quantities of work, just do a unique words per words used average or something.
TheRedSnifit
Member
If he went total words, it'd be skewed in favor of older artists.
5000 words for seven of his plays, totaling 35000.
probably "my"
terrisus
Member
He does bring up his original exclusion, and then inclusion, so yes.
It's not totally arbitrary though. He states that he choose it so that he could compare newer artists and older ones. I'm guessing there are a fair number of new artists he wanted to fit in where 35,000 words was just below their total output.
Also it is 35,000 for Shakespeare as well. He states " I used the first 5,000 words for 7 of Shakespeare's works: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, As You Like It, Winter's Tale, and Troilus and Cressida." So 5,000 X 7 = 35,000.
The Awesomest
Member
I want to see where this Chief Keef character falls on this list. All my middle schoolers are quoting him.
Tupac never rapped about magnets.
Tupac never rapped about magnets.
terrisus
Member
I'm shocked with disbelief.lol at DMX
He's there, between Shakespeare and Redman.
Yeah, I see your edit, but I really wanted to say "between Shakespeare and Redman" at least once in my life.
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
Wu Tang tho!
thefatness16
Banned
He's there. Sitting at over 5,000.
J_Macgrady
Member
Cool list, but having a good command of figurative language and raw emotion matters the most when it comes to making memorable lyrics.
ComputerMKII
Banned
David Foster Wallace had a huge vocabulary yet his prose was tedious and cold. It's not how many words you know that matter, it's how you use them.
Piercedveil
Member
Poor DMX.
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