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Re:Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary by Retric on Sunday May 04, 2014 @03:48PM (#7695500)
Repetition also seems like an huge issue given a 35,000 lyric limit. If someone repeats the same line 5-7 times it's hardly reasonable to count that when estimating vocabulary.

Edit: A quick check found 7 repetitions of the same 8 word phrase in a DMX song. Which I chose becase he was at the bottom of the list. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dmx/whatthesebitcheswant.html

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Re:Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary by danielsf on Monday May 05, 2014 @02:23AM (#7697148)
this is an issue that i was hoping would cancelled out, given the fact that I use the same analysis for every rapper. In short, it's an exact unique word count, but it's relationally accurate.
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