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Vocabulary of a Rapper

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Stack24, May 5, 2014.

  1. Stack24

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    #1 Stack24, May 5, 2014
  2. GanjaRocket

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    wuuuu tang wuuuu tang
     
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  3. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    But I'm not a rapper
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  4. BmwM3

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    Heard this song on the radio the other day. How it made it on the radio I will never know? :confused:


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  5. conquistador#11

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    great to see morey, under a pen name, writing about hip hop.

    vocabulary rules everything around me.
     
    #5 conquistador#11, May 5, 2014
  6. finalsbound

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    interested to know where earl sweatshirt and tyler the creator fall on the chart.
     
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  7. LonghornFan

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    lulz @ DMX.

    Where mah wurds at?
     
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  8. likestohypeguy

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    Awesome.

    I like how they included points of reference on the continuum, like how Shakespeare ranks right there between Das EFX & Outkast. Really puts in perspective just how sophisticated a command of language some of these guys have. Obviously not from just scanning rhyming dictionaries & thesauri, plucking random words that fit. It's deeper than that, personal meaning, experiences, feelings etc.
     
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  9. Yung-T

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    The true legends making the top of the list, nice.

    Also, surprised Tyga has more unique words than Em, Scarface, Royce, Pac, Lupe,... Guess this chart doesn't measure the quality of the words, just how rarely they are used.
     
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    Can't see too well on this phone but is that DMX on the far left ?
     
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  11. Rocket River

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    "I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars
    They criticized me for it, yet they all yell "holla"
    If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
    Lyrically Talib Kweli
    Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
    But I did 5 mil - I ain't been rhyming like Common since" - Jay-Z

    The literal explaination why hip hop is crap now

    Rocket River
     
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  12. RMGEEGEE

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    ASTERISK: Isn't the span of their careers.
     
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  13. dmc89

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    Gil Scott-Heron is one of my favorite rappers. I wish they could've compared his work and placed him somewhere on this chart. It doesn't surprise me that some of my other favorites place highly and the ones I dislike are at the bottom.

    Somewhere in the early 90s, mainstream rap became crap. You talk to the average African American about her favorite music or what she hears her social circle listen to, and it's the same trite artists spewing materialistic, misogynistic, and nihilist lyrics.
     
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  14. Houstunna

    Houstunna Mr Graphix
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    This

    Scarface doesn't use many words, but his rhymes are powerful. It's pimpish, say more in 5 minutes than somebody else does in 2 weeks.
     
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  15. Dave_78

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    Del would have been off the chart.
     
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  16. SC1211

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    Aesop Rock is really a solid rapper.

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