A new study has found that Eminem isn’t the rapper with the largest vocabulary.
As Hip Hop DX pointed out, and in 2014, digital analyst Matt Daniels ranked rappers by their vocabulary size simply called ‘The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop’. Daniels analysed rappers the first 35,000 words they use in their music and marked them by each ‘unique’ word.
In 2019, he returned to the project and gave the honour to Aesop Rock and Busdriver who used over 6,425 unique words. However, in his latest report, Daniels revealed the winner is Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship.
“To be recognized in Matt Daniels’ Hip Hop vocabulary chart is a high honor,” Myka 9 told HipHopDX. “I’ve been aware of Bus Driver, GZA and Aesop [Rock] as earlier recipients of such acknowledgment. I didn’t think my effort would be overlooked yet to be heralded by our peers in this collective is a crowning achievement. Maximum gratitude and utmost respect. It’s all love.”
After Aesop Rock’s win, he told the same publication: “It’s a lot of words [laughs]. I mean I knew I was wordy but when you see it in that context, you don’t expect to see that. It feels cool but it’s also strange. [It’s] a weird thing to see in front of you, you know?”
Listen to Myka 9 below.
