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[UltraGunner]

Tupac never rapped about magnets.

You do have a point there.

 

[DrFunk]

Not surprised that Aesop Rock is at the top. Dude has a collegiate thesaurus when he raps

 

[Snuggles]

I wonder where Migos landed.

 

[Sol..]

No Del?

Del would ruin the scale.

 

[Rawr Its Ry]

If they translated DMX's barks into real words im sure he'd be at a higher placement.

 

[Golden Slumbers]

EAST COAST REPRESENT

 

[JohnTinker]

Seriously no Del?

 

[psylah]

Razor sharp, with the beats, with the rhymes, and he DJ.

Also, I should listen to some Aesop Rock.

With rapgenius open.

 

[cheststrongwell]

I was hoping Kool Keith was near the top.

http://hudsonhongo.com/joyce/

 

[The Adder]

Where's Lupe?

 

[TxdoHawk]

I was hoping Kool Keith was near the top.

The man is where he should be.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

The GZA really is just the genius apparently.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

"When I first published this analysis, I excluded Aesop Rock, figuring he was too obscure. The Reddit hip hop community was in uproar, claiming Aesop would absolutely be #1. Sure enough, Aesop Rock is well-above every artist in my dataset and I was obliged to add him to the chart. In fact, his datapoint is so far to the right that he should be off the chart (I'm lazy and didn't adjust the scale)."

lmao "obscure"


been around for over a decade

 

[Rawr Its Ry]

Where's Lupe?

Behind tyga lol

 

[kswiston]

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.

The Decemberists would be way up there if a similar list was done across music genres.

 

[ComputerMKII]

Is there an English equivalent to this? Dude makes rap songs with 50 words chosen by the Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv7ffsjmIH0

plénitude, litote, limbes, paradoxe, misogyne, espoir, hystérie, Fonzie, osmose, ecchymose, philanthrope, lycanthrope, vocalises, anarchie, sérigraphie, ubiquité, opiniâtre, échiquier, phlébite, ambidextre, acupuncture, onomatopée, démocratie, blasphème, répartie, animalerie, mélodrame, éthanol, suicide, digression, stigmate, barbarisme, perdition, inceste, palimpseste, étique, existence, apôtre, ignorance, beatbox, résiste, aphasie, antipode, moderne, factice, lexique, lapsus, firmament, asthénique, philharmonique

 

[Plywood]

This is neat.

 

[UltraGunner]

Where's Lupe?

Inbetween Lil' Kim and the Game

 

[Fusebox]

I freestyle better than your outdated, premeditated vocab. Send you back to rehab.

 

[RELAYER]

Seriously though, it's kind of a pointless comparison. The size of your vocabulary doesn't make you a notable lyricist.

For instance, take my favorite Tupac lyric -

Started as a seed from semen straight out of papa's nuts
Lusting for creamin bitches with big butts


You just can't top that.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Of course Aesop Rock is on top, Wu came out pretty high as a whole though.

 

[iavi]

They better have marked out all E40s goo goo gaga gouda bullshit before they added his total up.

 

[cheststrongwell]

"Ba-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum, ambulance, lightsbright paramedics fetish your legs with eggs chicken hatch."
-Kool Keith

 

[Pathos]

damn, I wanted to see where biggie would be on that list

 

[Zekes!]

I wanna see Del

 

[docbon]

Yeah, not at all surprised that Aesop Rock is at the top.

 

[Chichikov]

By the way, I'll bet Saul Williams would give Aesop Rock a run for his money.
He's also a much much better lyricist than him (though it's not the fairest of comparisons).

p.s.
I would like to see a Brother Ali there too.

 

[GQman2121]

It's alright DMX. White people still love you!

Up In Here! Up In Here!!

 

[Fusebox]

By the way, I'll bet Saul Williams would give Aesop Rock a run for his money.
He's also a much much better lyricist than him (though it's not the fairest of comparisons).

p.s.
I would like to see a Brother Ali there too.

Saul was ripping it up on Colbert he other night, his poetry beats most rap. He was talking up Tupacs lyrics a bit too much as being suited for for that 'Holler' play though when in really it's more like...

Started as a seed from semen straight out of papa's nuts
Lusting for creamin bitches with big butts

 

[Grakl]

yeah, del should definitely be on here

 

[ZangBa]

Lack of Del on that chart is strange, but seeing Lil B above people is killing me. All those mixtapes.

 

[hateradio]

I wonder who has the most unique words on gaf.

 

[Chichikov]

Saul was ripping it up on Colbert he other night, his poetry beats most rap. He was talking up Tupacs lyrics a bit too much as being suited for for that 'Holler' play though when in really it's more like...

Haven't seen it yet, but yeah, I generally think that the whole "street poet" stuff is a bit overstated in regard to 2pac.
Not sure why people even go that way, 2pac was a fucking awesome rapper and he wrote great hip-hop lyrics, but they don't really work as poems, and I don't know, claiming that always struck as somehow suggesting that poetry is somehow a superior art-form.
I personally think such ranking of art forms is silly, but if one must, hip hop has a much much much MUCH higher batting average than poetry.

 

[LocknessMobster]

Neat,figured Wutang would be up high on the chart.

 

[petszk2]

Maybe I just didn't seem them, but are Public Enemy on that chart?

 

[Fancy Clown]

DOOM isn't quite as high as I thought he might be, but still a good placement. Aesop Rock is no surprise as the most verbose haha

 

[Hunter S.]

I thought Blackalicious would be near the top and they are. One of they few groups I like that stood the test of time for me.

 

[JEKKI]

co-signing lack of Del.

also, Camp Lo.

if E-40 can make the list for making up words, Camp Lo should be on there too.

their whole gimmick is making up random vocabulary.

 

[Citizen Mane]

Maybe I just didn't seem them, but are Public Enemy on that chart?

Yeah, right in the bottom center next to Fat Joe.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

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.

Yeah, I think this would be a better metric and still acts to normalize all the works

 

[Sai-kun]

Better diversify your vocabulary.

i'm weak

 

[Byakuya769]

Wonder how jay from different eras would measure up. Bet RD is boosting stats a bit.

 

[Orayn]

I thought Blackalicious would be near the top and they are. One of they few groups I like that stood the test of time for me.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Alphabet Aerobics and Chemical Calisthenics are practically cheating when it comes to making progress in this list!

 

[EYEL1NER]

I'm surprised to see The Game as high as he is. I mean, I love The Game, but I coulda swore the only words he knew were "Dre," "chronic," and "'64."

Not at all surprised to see Aesop on top though.

 

[ZangBa]

I'd also like to see how Riff Raff would do on that chart, too.

 

[Esch]

Wonder how jay from different eras would measure up. Bet RD is boosting stats a bit.

Well, album Jay and pre-RD/unreleased cuts/features/mixtape Jay are different beasts. And there's only album Jay on there.

But they included that Moment of Clarity quote at the end. Either way, vocab doesn't make you deep or your music good. It just means you keep a thesaurus around you.

 

[Horseticuffs]

I wanna see Del

Del has transcended the need for quaint things like spoken language. He beams that shit right into your noodle.

 

[Onion_Relish]

If DMX got a double score for the word "nigga" or "nigger" he would probably be in another universe on this scale. Also "grrrrrr" or "bark"

 

[Kevtones]

I freestyle better than your outdated, premeditated vocab. Send you back to rehab.

Plebian, I'ma calm combo of caffeine and crack.
Simple and grounded, that'll grind you into decaf.
But step back, I'll soak your shit in half and half.
Cause your stench been spoiled, expiration passed.

 

[Ether_Snake]

French rappers blow all of them out of the water.