Can Hip Hop actually make you…smarter? Even though it’s commonly assumed that all rap teaches kids is to how to rob and ask for a big booty ho for their birthday , new info from data analyst Matt Daniels has found that some of today’s hip hop artists actually use more words per rhyme than William Shakespeare — the writer cited by many academics to have the largest vocabulary of all time. Daniels took the first 5,000 words from 7 of Shakespeare’s works, then pit them against the first 35,000 rhymes by the most well-known hip hop artists (up to 2012). So how does your favorite measure up? Check the chart below: You can peep the full interactive version of the chart HERE . Are you surprised by any of the results?
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Dropping Knowledge: Which Of Your Favorite Rappers Have Vocabularies Larger Than Shakespeare’s??
