Music in Our Schools Month: Vocabulary: A Rapper's Delight!

Data scientist Matt Daniels examined the vocabulary of several rap artists' lyrical output and found them to be quite extensive, rivaling in size the vocabularies of some of the greatest authors who have ever written in English. Here is the list of the top 25 rappers, in descending order of vocabulary size (as demonstrated by their lyrics). Let's celebrate the ingenuity of the rappers highlighted with this list of 25 great turns of phrase which contain memorable vocabulary!

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