Designer Matt Daniels decided to compare Shakespeare’s vocabulary against the most famous artists in hip-hop. He used every rapper’s first 35,000 lyrics (this way newer artists could be compared to older (or passed away) ones).

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Click on a rapper’s head for the exact amount of unique words used.

Click here for the interactive version of the graph.
Click on a rapper’s head for the exact amount of unique words used.