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*New York-based data scientist analysed 35,000 lyrics of 85 hip-hop artists to find the number of unique words
*He compared this to the number of unique words in the first 35,000 words of Shaksepeare's plays and Moby Dick
*William Shakespeare used 5,170 unique words putting his vocabulary alongside Beastie Boys and Outkast
*While Herman Melville scored 6,022 for his novel Moby Dick, only beaten by Kool Keith, GZA and Aesop Rock
*Aesop Rock came top with 7,392 unique words, while DMX sat at the other end of the scale with 3,214 unique word
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2621331/Wu-Tang-Clan-bigger-vocabulary-SHAKESPEARE-Infographic-ranks-rappers-use-English-language.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2621331/Wu-Tang-Clan-bigger-vocabulary-SHAKESPEARE-Infographic-ranks-rappers-use-English-language.html)
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Aesop Rock - the one with the most words. He's good.
http://aesoprock.com/
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