Hip hop lyricists

[H. Samy Alim]

Dear all,

I have received this link from dozens of people, but I just want to throws word of caution regarding the methodology of "counting words". We know how terrible that has been in the language gap mess. Even though on the surface this work appears to reverse these ideas, it's deeply flawed and problematic from both a linguistic anthropological (verbal arts) and Hip Hop cultural perspective. 

Writing this quickly from an airport. Just wanted to send a word of caution.

Sent from my iPhone

On May 6, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thinking of the language deprivation models out there and a way to combat them, here is a study of the vocabulary of current and past rap artists a number of whom had more extensive vocabularies than both Shakespeare and Melville.
> 
> http://rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Leila
> 
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> Leila Monaghan, PhD
> Department of Anthropology
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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