I'm the old-school Tech N9ne, fuck the industry They know what time it is like Public Enemy Same thing labels always thinkin' they can market Mainstream rappers and you gon' be the target Like a bearskin rug if I'm sleepin' on the carpet Internet thug 'til I creep in ya apartment I wish a nigga would like a genie in the forest I'm Raw like Eddy but we all act gritty likeĬome into America, you know I had the semi Leanin' out the window with a spark, that's witty Ya lady wanna give a nigga ballsack hickeys

Whip it in the kitchen like a callback, did he? I don't chase dreams my nigga, I chase nightmares Niggas not fuckin' with me, they ain't I swear I'm Doc Dre and Jack The Ripper, how gangsta's that? Nutbag, with a case of the Jason Voorhees Correlation don’t mean causation and linear regression ain’t about time travel.Everybody and they mama claim they know meĪll because of rumors and some made up storiesįuck that, I'm the nigga that'll straight up call me Yo yo yo ma’ data homies, don’t let nobody fool you, you gotta check the numbers man. Take inspiration from one of the pros, give it your best shot and let us know how you fare in the comments below: Here’s a chunk of text that Twista hypothetically could rap in 6 seconds flat (at 280 wpm, that’s 28 words). Joey Bada$$, who manages 180 wpm, is the best amateur of the bunch, followed by DyMe-A-DuZiN (179.7 wpm) and Shawn Chrystopher (174.2), but none comes close to Twista’s 280 wpm. How do they compare to the professionals? With a few special exceptions (such as Nas ), most of the site’s verified users are amateurs. Here, “top” indicates a user has a high Rap IQ (a number based on how much he contributes to the online rap community) and “verified” means the user has uploaded at least one song of his own. We expanded our search to look at top verified users on Rap Genius.

Our next question was whether the professionals were really the fastest in the game.

Check out the video below where he manages 183.4 wpm. And even when Twista’s not reaching those top speeds, he sounds pretty fast. Our clear winner is Twista, who puts away 1,287 words in 4 minutes 36 seconds in the song “Mista Tung Twista.” That’s an average of 280 words per minute (wpm), or four times faster than Jay Z. Rap Genius’s first-place choice, Twisted Insane, comes in ninth for us. (Using just the one song, and not factoring for musical or other interludes may affect the results here, but we can still get a quick take on how the rappers rank.) That means we judged only on speed, whereas Rap Genius also considered consistency and skill. We looked at each rappers’ most popular song on the website (excluding ones in which the artists were merely featured) and calculated how many words they managed to utter per minute. You’ll see that while the trends above may seem big, they actually represent less than 0.1 percent of all raps. That doesn’t bode well for Rap Genius research on artists’ rap speed.įiveThirtyEight is keen to develop accurate rap research, so we tested the 10 fastest rappers according to Rap Genius to see whether their rankings were justified. But here at FiveThirtyEight, it’s our job to spot axis labels.

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