Enamored by the relationship between Shakespeare and hip-hop — and the Bard of Avon’s famously prolific vocabulary — designer and data scientist Matt Daniels recently took it upon himself to examine ...

For the uninitiated, the assumption is that rappers don’t exactly have extensive vocabularies. Sure, old fogeys might say, the average rapper might be equipped with a surprising armory of synonyms for ...

A few months ago, a designer, coder, and data analyst named Matt Daniels took on an interesting project: Ranking a number of rappers based on the vocabulary they’ve shown on records. He took the first ...

"I am not a data scientist at all. This would get an 'F' if you were at a data science school." Early this week, an infographic ranking 85 rappers by the size of their vocabulary went viral. The graph ...

Sample Effect: The vocal kicks Kanye straight into his own hook, while the crooning provides the backbone for one of his most memorable early hooks. Why The Song Is Dope: One of Kanye's very first ...