I've wanted to see a version that segmented rappers by topic clusters of what they rap about, with fine enough details that you could take something like "drugs" and drill down or aggregate specific ones, and even have some sentiment data as well like pot good/X bad. It'd be fun to see who has the most unique general topics and topics only covered by one rapper. I can see how that might be biased in favor of total lifetime output, but perhaps not. My favorite dead rapper is Eyedea, his album output didn't exceed the 35k word minimum for the vocab list but his topic breadth was pretty wide. I've thought LLMs might be good enough to do that for a lot of songs now, if they don't have a panic attack over the language anyway, but I haven't experimented. Maybe someone else can be sniped into doing it~

▲ defrost a day ago | parent [-]

I too have always been curious about the volumetric comparison of rap lyrics about Edgar Allan Poe Vs those about the people in the front row.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqCyTM1bF6Q

▲ Rendello a day ago | parent [-]

Aesop Rock's first on that graph, I think his track about going to the drive-through is pretty poetic:

https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-time-moves-differently-here-ly...

▲ defrost a day ago | parent [-]

Moving forward to the B's there are lyrics that are poetic, specific, expand the vocabulary breadth of rap and don't see much in the way of overlap:

  Brother boys, Yolŋu boys, all the way from Arnhem Land
  räwakpuy yindi djäl napurr dhuwal giritjinyaraw
  Yolŋu balanda buŋgul go
  dhumurr'yurra ŋanya marrtji go
  napurr ga djälthirr
  napurr dhu wiripukum walalaŋ maŋutji
  marr ga manapanmirr wiripu wiripu miṯtji go
  babu'yurrnha ŋanya marrtji go