Music Forum / Someone did a chart of rappers, ranking them by vocabulary

http://i.imgur.com/49pf3Ip.png

not surpringly, east coast held down the fort and wu-tang did excellent, given the talents of GZA and RZA

i wondered how death grips/MC ride would be on this list, given his oscure references
 
http://www.reddit.co...abulary/cm7tr33

UPDATE: 'Officially' based on proportions of unique words MC Ride pips Aesop Rock by 0.59%

Having done some copy & paste and writing a little script to parse the words remove ellipsis, random punctuation etc (Didn't include some of the singles)

Unique words in Ex-Military: 1387 (Out of ~5650)
Unique words in The Money Store: 1344 (Out of ~4641)
Unique words in No Love Deep Web: 1273 (Out of ~4029)
Unique words in Niggas On The Moon: 692 (Out of ~2402)

Then after re-running the script with all the albums included in one text document:

Unique words in total over all the albums: 3274 (Out of ~15012)

Now the rankings on the chart are out of the first 35,000 lyric words for each artist. So Death Grips is 21.80% unique, Aesop Rock compares at 21.21% unique.

He ranks quite low in the overall amount of unique words, however this is due to Death Grips having a smaller release amount compared to the rest on that chart.

It's not about how many words you use it's about how you use them

It's not about how many words you use it's about how you use them

no shit, this isn't to justify that one rapper is better than another.

All rap is terrible regardless of vocabulary.

even if it's terrible it's still better than 99% of other music

That's bold. 

even if it's terrible it's still better than 99% of other music

 

That can't really be because Rock/Metal is more than 1% of music

Watching tim's stream yesterday made me disappointed in how much y'all like rap and hip-hop. 

My requests went from indie disco tot progressive metal and I didn't get any complaints.

You did get one. From everyone.

KAARSVET!!

I like hip hop. The problem is just that there is a lot, I repeat A LOT of horrible rap music.

are you all six years old 

I know coups is. 

 

Just kidding coups, I love you and your work please don't hate me!