whack medicine is usually a reasonably effective marker of what ’s voguish — or what ’s going to be trendy in a few month . Maybe multitude were gas about Sidekicks in the early null , but when did that drop off?RapGenius’snewRapStatsfeature shows you .
For the uninitiated , RapGeniusis a massive database of lyrics from hip hop songs , so there ’s mass of material to go on , from Biggie Smalls to 2 Chainz and many lesser - knowns in between . character in a Book , and it will show you through the years how often the term has showed up in a songs . disjoined full term by commas to see several Word of God and phrases on the graph . AllThingsDkicked off the company by charting social mass medium ( below ) , but we thought we ’d take a look at some other trends :
Surprisingly , Friendster has almost no citation at all . MySpace on the other hand peaked around 2007 .
Rap had a 2 - mode Rennaissance between 1999 and 2003 .
Rappers just do n’t have love for Escalades like they used to .
Other console are still no match for Sega ’s popularity among rappers . Thanks Biggie .
Frankly , I ’m having direction too much playfulness with this . It ’s a pretty cool way to track trends , especially see how deep RapGenius ’s database go . palpate free to get across your own and stake ’em below . [ RapStatsviaAllThingsD ]
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