The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop

[Rake2204]

http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Obviously, the list is surely open to interpretation and arguably stands for little or nothing at all. I just found it interesting and thought I'd pass it forward.

Also, I'm glad the list was revised to include Aesop Rock. This type of rundown is tailor-made for a guy like him. I have enjoyed his work for some time.

[rezznor]

so they counted made up words? flawed analysis

[reppy]

so they counted made up words? flawed analysis

It's like when Mitch Hedberg says he can write 100WPM but it's in his own language.

[Pushxx]

DMX would be higher if they didn't count "ARF ARF ARF!" since word repetition counted against them.:lol

:oldlol: :roll: :lol

[Fawker]

Are big words the barometer of good lyrics?

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Wow.

Very very appalled to see that there is a STRONG STRONG correlation between overall quality of the rapper and verbal variety.

Had always thought that guys like Nas or Biggie or Ice Cube who illustrate a story with brevity and simple language were far more impactful than the loquacious and verbose wordplay types. But every rapper that's on the right end is AT LEAST a B+ in my book.

Did not expect taht seeing as how most peoplee (looking at u Russell Brand) who use huge words are pretentious as fukk.

I think RA the Rugged Man and Chino XL need to be up here and MF doom's verbal structure needs to be included lol


Oddly enough.. from what I've gathered this same barometer could be used in ish.

Dasher, DD59, Jtotheizzo, palytetris, starface, ridonks, redblackattack, macmac, rocsteady seem to be masters of lanaguage and are consistently adored

[Rake2204]

Are big words the barometer of good lyrics?I do not believe so, and I do not think that is what this data suggests. I believe word variance and complexity can enhance music, but there is not always a direct correlation between complexity and quality.

[Rake2204]

I think RA the Rugged Man and Chino XL need to be up here and MF doom's verbal structure needs to be included lolI would have liked to see where Del the Funky Homosapien ended up as well.

[ForeverHeat]

RZA is sick lyrically, I could of imagined he would be that high up.

[~primetime~]

RZA and GZA came to mind when I read the thread title...

My beats travel like a vortex, through your spine
to the top of your cerebrum cortex

[KobesFinger]

Lil Wayne sucks ass. 11 studio albums and 2 EPs and he's behind Gucci Mane and a lot of Wayne's words are his own nicknames

[D-FENS]

Couldn't ODB or Biggie on there. ODB has some filthy lyrics but always stuck to the same old shit

[~primetime~]

Lil Wayne sucks ass. 11 studio albums and 2 EPs and he's behind Gucci Mane and a lot of Wayne's words are his own nicknames
with the amount of work he has out that really is sad...:oldlol:

entire vocab:

"ngga"
"pssy"
"cash"
"money"

[The Iron Sheik]

Wow.

Very very appalled to see that there is a STRONG STRONG correlation between overall quality of the rapper and verbal variety.


except that there isn't. quite the opposite actually

[Rake2204]

Lil Wayne sucks ass. 11 studio albums and 2 EPs and he's behind Gucci Mane and a lot of Wayne's words are his own nicknamesI believe they only sampled each artist's first 35,000 lyrics to help maintain a standard relation.